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2005/0166(COD) European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). Recast

Progress: Procedure completed

RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead LIBE BREPOELS Frieda (icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE)
Committee Opinion ENVI
Committee Opinion JURI
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
EC Treaty (after Amsterdam) EC 152

Events

2006/12/27
   Final act published in Official Journal
Details

PURPOSE: to recast the Regulation setting up the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation 1920/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addition (recast).

BACKGROUND: the European Drugs Monitoring Centre was established by Council Regulation 302/1993/EEC. Since its approval, however, the Regulation has been substantially amended. In the interest of clarity, it has been decided to recast the Regulation; the purpose of this present Regulation. As well as recasting the Regulation new, needed, elements have been incorporated into the recast legislative act.

CONTENT: this Regulation provides for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction which is to be based in Lisbon. Its objectives are: to provide the Community and its Member States with factual, objective, reliable and comparable information on drugs, drug addiction and the consequences of drugs on European society. The data thus collected will help the Community gain an overall view of the drug and drug addiction situation. The Centre may not go beyond the sphere of collecting information specified in the Regulation’s provisions. Further, the Centre will not be allowed to collect any data which may make it possible to identify individuals or small groups of individuals and it must refrain from transmitting information relating to specific named cases.

In order to achieve its stated objectives the Centre will be given the following tasks:

- to collect and analyse existing data;

- to improve upon data-comparison methods;

- to disseminate the data received;

- to co-operate with European and international bodies and organisations as well as with third countries; and

- to inform the national authorities of any new developments and changing trends that it has identified.

The Centre will need to focus on the following priorities:

- monitoring the state of the drugs problem;

- monitoring emerging trends;

- monitoring the solutions applied to drug related problems;

- providing information on Member State best practices;

- assessing the risk of new psychoactive substances and to maintain a rapid information system with regard to their use;

- maintaining a rapid information system regarding the new methods used for existing psychoactive substances; and

- developing the tools and instruments needed to help the Member States monitor and evaluate their national policies.

At the Centre’s disposal will be a network entitled the “European Information Network on Drugs and Drug Addiction” (Reitox). This network will consist of one focal point for each Member State and each country which has concluded an agreement with the Commission. They are to act as the interface between the participating countries and the Centre.

The Centre will be made up of: a Management Board, an Executive Committee, a Director and a Scientific Committee. The Regulation requires that the Centre seek active co-operation with other international bodies and NGO’s involved in the drug’s sector. It will be open to the participation of any third country that shares similar interests to that of the Community and its Member States.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 16 January 2007.

REPEALED: Regulation 302/1993/EEC.

2006/12/12
   CSL - Draft final act
Documents
2006/12/12
   CSL - Final act signed
2006/12/12
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2006/11/30
   EP/CSL - Act adopted by Council after Parliament's 1st reading
2006/11/30
   CSL - Council Meeting
2006/07/12
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
2006/06/14
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2006/06/14
   EP - Decision by Parliament, 1st reading
Details

The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Frieda BREPOELS (EPP-ED, BE) and made some amendments to the Commission’s proposal:

- It should be one of the Centre's tasks to provide information on best practices and guidelines in the Member States and to facilitate the exchange of such practices among them.

- The way in which the Centre is organised and its working methods should be consistent with the objective nature of the results sought, namely the comparability and compatibility of sources and methods in connection with drug information.

- Account shall be taken of further WHO and UN data available worldwide.

- The Centre should cooperate actively with Europol "to attain maximum efficiency in monitoring the drugs problem".

- In principle, the Centre shall, if it identifies new developments and changing trends, inform the competent authorities of the Member States thereof.

- The national focal points should draw on the experiences of different sectors - health, justice and law enforcement - in cooperation with experts and national organisations active in the field of drugs policy;

- Data on drugs and drug addiction provided to or by the Centre may be published subject to compliance with Community and national rules on the dissemination and confidentiality of information. Personal data may not be published or made accessible to the public. Member States and the national focal points shall be under no obligation to provide information classified as confidential under their national law.

-The report put forward a number of amendments to the rules governing the Management Board and Executive Committee as well as the procedure for the appointment of the Director. Moreover, in addition to the requirement for the Director of the Centre to appear at a hearing before Parliament, MEPs also wanted to hold a hearing of the Chairperson of the Management Board.

- The Scientific Committee (which assists the Management Board and the Director of the Centre) should not have more than 15 members, who should be selected on the basis of their expertise, by means of an open procedure. MEPs felt that a Scientific Committee consisting of one representative from each Member State would be too unwieldy and would be unable to function independently and efficiently.

Documents
2006/06/13
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2006/04/03
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
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2006/04/03
   EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading
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2006/03/23
   EP - Vote in committee, 1st reading
Details

The committee adopted the report by Frieda BREPOELS (EPP-ED, BE) broadly approving the proposed regulation on the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, subject to a number of amendments under the 1st reading of the codecision procedure:

- MEPs wanted to reinstate a provision from the old regulation as a new recital stressing that the information collected by the Centre needs to be comparable and compatible;

- the tasks of the Centre should include providing information on and fostering the exchange of best practices;

- the Centre should cooperate actively with Europol "to attain maximum efficiency in monitoring the drugs problem";

- the national focal points should draw on the experiences of different sectors - health, justice and law enforcement - in cooperation with experts and national organisations active in the field of drugs policy;

- the committee reinstated two paragraphs from the old regulation stipulating that data on drugs and drug addiction may be published "subject to compliance with Community and national rules on the dissemination and confidentiality of information", and that personal data may not be published or made accessible to the public. Moreover, Member States shall be under no obligation to provide information classified as confidential under their national law;

- the European Parliament should be consulted before the adoption of the Centre's work programme;

- the Scientific Committee (which assists the Management Board and the Director of the Centre) should not have more than 15 members, who should be selected on the basis of their expertise, by means of an open procedure. MEPs felt that a Scientific Committee consisting of one representative from each Member State would be too unwieldy and would be unable to function independently and efficiently.

The report also put forward a number of amendments to the rules governing the Management Board and Executive Committee as well as the procedure for the appointment of the Director. Moreover, in addition to the requirement for the Director of the Centre to appear at a hearing before Parliament, MEPs also wanted to hold a hearing of the Chairperson of the Management Board.

2006/03/02
   EP - Amendments tabled in committee
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2006/02/23
   EP - Committee opinion
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2006/02/13
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2006/01/18
   ESC - Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report
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2005/09/14
   EP - BREPOELS Frieda (PPE-DE) appointed as rapporteur in LIBE
2005/09/06
   EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading
2005/08/31
   EC - Legislative proposal
Details

PURPOSE: To recast the legislation governing the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

PROPPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council

CONTENT: Since its inception the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has been amended three times. In addition, recent trends in drug use involving the combination of licit and illicit psychoactive substances requires that the role and scope of the Monitoring Centre needs to be extended and revised yet again. Given the frequent changes to the 1993 Regulation establishing the Centre, combined with the need to make further changes, the Commission proposes, in the interest of clarity, to recast the Regulation.

In 2003 the Commission presented a similar recast proposal (COD/2003/0311). Following a consultation process, however, it was decided to re-propose the Regulation under article 152, which requires the co-decision procedure. This present proposal, therefore, cancels and replaces the former Commission proposal.

Specifically speaking, the proposed amendments can be summarised as follows:

- Those, which have been designed to boost the Centre’s role, in particular to take account of new drug patterns. Additional amendments are proposed, which improve upon the instruments helping both the Member States and the Commission to monitor and evaluate their respective drugs policies and strategies.

- Those, which have been designed to adapt the operation of the EMCDDA bodies in order to take account of enlargement. The Regulation sets up an Executive Committee to assist the Management Board.

- Those, which have been designed to bring the EMCDDA in line with the Commission’s draft inter-institutional agreement in the framework for European regulatory agencies.

- Those, which codify the three amendments to the basic Regulation already adopted by the Council.

- Those, which have been designed to remove a number of uncertainties arising when the initial Regulation was applied – this refers in particular to the Recitox focal points, instead of the specialised centres.

The more technical modifications to the recast Regulation include:

- Extending the list of tasks the EMCDDA is expected to undertake. For example, in future, the EMCDDA will be responsible for collecting and analysing work on emerging trends in poly drug use, such as the combined use of licit and illicit psychoactive substances. It also requires improved synergies in the methodology for data collection and monitoring and it also extends the scope of the Centre’s technical assistance to all countries authorised by the European Council to take part in Community programmes and agencies.

- The Priority Activities of the EMCDDA are adapted in accordance with the new revised tasks outlined above.

- The European Information Network on Drugs and Drug Addiction, Recitox, is amended in order to give it national legal status as well as clarifying their exact functions.

- The legal status of the Centre has been adapted in view of the fact that it has a seat.

- Changes to the Management Board are outlined, including its composition. For example, a new vice chairperson is created and the non voting status of the Management Board members are specified. In addition a new article proposes the creation of an Executive Committee, whose main role is to prepare the decisions of the Management Board.

- A new Article has been introduced relating to fraud. It stipulates that investigations conducted by OLAF will apply the EMCDDA.

- The EMCDDA will be subject, every six years, to external evaluation. On the basis of this evaluation, the Commission may, if appropriate, present proposals amending the EMCDDA Regulation.

This proposal has no budgetary implications.

2005/08/30
   EC - Legislative proposal published
Details

PURPOSE: To recast the legislation governing the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

PROPPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council

CONTENT: Since its inception the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has been amended three times. In addition, recent trends in drug use involving the combination of licit and illicit psychoactive substances requires that the role and scope of the Monitoring Centre needs to be extended and revised yet again. Given the frequent changes to the 1993 Regulation establishing the Centre, combined with the need to make further changes, the Commission proposes, in the interest of clarity, to recast the Regulation.

In 2003 the Commission presented a similar recast proposal (COD/2003/0311). Following a consultation process, however, it was decided to re-propose the Regulation under article 152, which requires the co-decision procedure. This present proposal, therefore, cancels and replaces the former Commission proposal.

Specifically speaking, the proposed amendments can be summarised as follows:

- Those, which have been designed to boost the Centre’s role, in particular to take account of new drug patterns. Additional amendments are proposed, which improve upon the instruments helping both the Member States and the Commission to monitor and evaluate their respective drugs policies and strategies.

- Those, which have been designed to adapt the operation of the EMCDDA bodies in order to take account of enlargement. The Regulation sets up an Executive Committee to assist the Management Board.

- Those, which have been designed to bring the EMCDDA in line with the Commission’s draft inter-institutional agreement in the framework for European regulatory agencies.

- Those, which codify the three amendments to the basic Regulation already adopted by the Council.

- Those, which have been designed to remove a number of uncertainties arising when the initial Regulation was applied – this refers in particular to the Recitox focal points, instead of the specialised centres.

The more technical modifications to the recast Regulation include:

- Extending the list of tasks the EMCDDA is expected to undertake. For example, in future, the EMCDDA will be responsible for collecting and analysing work on emerging trends in poly drug use, such as the combined use of licit and illicit psychoactive substances. It also requires improved synergies in the methodology for data collection and monitoring and it also extends the scope of the Centre’s technical assistance to all countries authorised by the European Council to take part in Community programmes and agencies.

- The Priority Activities of the EMCDDA are adapted in accordance with the new revised tasks outlined above.

- The European Information Network on Drugs and Drug Addiction, Recitox, is amended in order to give it national legal status as well as clarifying their exact functions.

- The legal status of the Centre has been adapted in view of the fact that it has a seat.

- Changes to the Management Board are outlined, including its composition. For example, a new vice chairperson is created and the non voting status of the Management Board members are specified. In addition a new article proposes the creation of an Executive Committee, whose main role is to prepare the decisions of the Management Board.

- A new Article has been introduced relating to fraud. It stipulates that investigations conducted by OLAF will apply the EMCDDA.

- The EMCDDA will be subject, every six years, to external evaluation. On the basis of this evaluation, the Commission may, if appropriate, present proposals amending the EMCDDA Regulation.

This proposal has no budgetary implications.

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  • date: 2006-02-13T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE367.675 title: PE367.675 type: Committee draft report body: EP
  • date: 2006-02-23T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE367.656 title: PE367.656 committee: ENVI type: Committee opinion body: EP
  • date: 2006-03-02T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE370.213 title: PE370.213 type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP
  • date: 2006-04-03T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2006-124&language=EN title: A6-0124/2006 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2006-07-12T00:00:00 docs: url: /oeil/spdoc.do?i=4746&j=0&l=en title: SP(2006)3310 type: Commission response to text adopted in plenary
  • date: 2006-12-12T00:00:00 docs: url: http://register.consilium.europa.eu/content/out?lang=EN&typ=SET&i=ADV&RESULTSET=1&DOC_ID=3648%2F06&DOC_LANCD=EN&ROWSPP=25&NRROWS=500&ORDERBY=DOC_DATE+DESC title: 03648/1/2006 type: Draft final act body: CSL
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  • date: 2005-08-31T00:00:00 type: Legislative proposal published body: EC docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2005/0399/COM_COM(2005)0399_EN.pdf title: COM(2005)0399 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=COMfinal&an_doc=2005&nu_doc=399 title: EUR-Lex summary: PURPOSE: To recast the legislation governing the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. PROPPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council CONTENT: Since its inception the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has been amended three times. In addition, recent trends in drug use involving the combination of licit and illicit psychoactive substances requires that the role and scope of the Monitoring Centre needs to be extended and revised yet again. Given the frequent changes to the 1993 Regulation establishing the Centre, combined with the need to make further changes, the Commission proposes, in the interest of clarity, to recast the Regulation. In 2003 the Commission presented a similar recast proposal (COD/2003/0311). Following a consultation process, however, it was decided to re-propose the Regulation under article 152, which requires the co-decision procedure. This present proposal, therefore, cancels and replaces the former Commission proposal. Specifically speaking, the proposed amendments can be summarised as follows: - Those, which have been designed to boost the Centre’s role, in particular to take account of new drug patterns. Additional amendments are proposed, which improve upon the instruments helping both the Member States and the Commission to monitor and evaluate their respective drugs policies and strategies. - Those, which have been designed to adapt the operation of the EMCDDA bodies in order to take account of enlargement. The Regulation sets up an Executive Committee to assist the Management Board. - Those, which have been designed to bring the EMCDDA in line with the Commission’s draft inter-institutional agreement in the framework for European regulatory agencies. - Those, which codify the three amendments to the basic Regulation already adopted by the Council. - Those, which have been designed to remove a number of uncertainties arising when the initial Regulation was applied – this refers in particular to the Recitox focal points, instead of the specialised centres. The more technical modifications to the recast Regulation include: - Extending the list of tasks the EMCDDA is expected to undertake. For example, in future, the EMCDDA will be responsible for collecting and analysing work on emerging trends in poly drug use, such as the combined use of licit and illicit psychoactive substances. It also requires improved synergies in the methodology for data collection and monitoring and it also extends the scope of the Centre’s technical assistance to all countries authorised by the European Council to take part in Community programmes and agencies. - The Priority Activities of the EMCDDA are adapted in accordance with the new revised tasks outlined above. - The European Information Network on Drugs and Drug Addiction, Recitox, is amended in order to give it national legal status as well as clarifying their exact functions. - The legal status of the Centre has been adapted in view of the fact that it has a seat. - Changes to the Management Board are outlined, including its composition. For example, a new vice chairperson is created and the non voting status of the Management Board members are specified. In addition a new article proposes the creation of an Executive Committee, whose main role is to prepare the decisions of the Management Board. - A new Article has been introduced relating to fraud. It stipulates that investigations conducted by OLAF will apply the EMCDDA. - The EMCDDA will be subject, every six years, to external evaluation. On the basis of this evaluation, the Commission may, if appropriate, present proposals amending the EMCDDA Regulation. This proposal has no budgetary implications.
  • date: 2005-09-06T00:00:00 type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP
  • date: 2006-03-23T00:00:00 type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading body: EP summary: The committee adopted the report by Frieda BREPOELS (EPP-ED, BE) broadly approving the proposed regulation on the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, subject to a number of amendments under the 1st reading of the codecision procedure: - MEPs wanted to reinstate a provision from the old regulation as a new recital stressing that the information collected by the Centre needs to be comparable and compatible; - the tasks of the Centre should include providing information on and fostering the exchange of best practices; - the Centre should cooperate actively with Europol "to attain maximum efficiency in monitoring the drugs problem"; - the national focal points should draw on the experiences of different sectors - health, justice and law enforcement - in cooperation with experts and national organisations active in the field of drugs policy; - the committee reinstated two paragraphs from the old regulation stipulating that data on drugs and drug addiction may be published "subject to compliance with Community and national rules on the dissemination and confidentiality of information", and that personal data may not be published or made accessible to the public. Moreover, Member States shall be under no obligation to provide information classified as confidential under their national law; - the European Parliament should be consulted before the adoption of the Centre's work programme; - the Scientific Committee (which assists the Management Board and the Director of the Centre) should not have more than 15 members, who should be selected on the basis of their expertise, by means of an open procedure. MEPs felt that a Scientific Committee consisting of one representative from each Member State would be too unwieldy and would be unable to function independently and efficiently. The report also put forward a number of amendments to the rules governing the Management Board and Executive Committee as well as the procedure for the appointment of the Director. Moreover, in addition to the requirement for the Director of the Centre to appear at a hearing before Parliament, MEPs also wanted to hold a hearing of the Chairperson of the Management Board.
  • date: 2006-04-03T00:00:00 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2006-124&language=EN title: A6-0124/2006
  • date: 2006-06-13T00:00:00 type: Debate in Parliament body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20060613&type=CRE title: Debate in Parliament
  • date: 2006-06-14T00:00:00 type: Results of vote in Parliament body: EP docs: url: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/sda.do?id=4746&l=en title: Results of vote in Parliament
  • date: 2006-06-14T00:00:00 type: Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading body: EP docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P6-TA-2006-257 title: T6-0257/2006 summary: The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Frieda BREPOELS (EPP-ED, BE) and made some amendments to the Commission’s proposal: - It should be one of the Centre's tasks to provide information on best practices and guidelines in the Member States and to facilitate the exchange of such practices among them. - The way in which the Centre is organised and its working methods should be consistent with the objective nature of the results sought, namely the comparability and compatibility of sources and methods in connection with drug information. - Account shall be taken of further WHO and UN data available worldwide. - The Centre should cooperate actively with Europol "to attain maximum efficiency in monitoring the drugs problem". - In principle, the Centre shall, if it identifies new developments and changing trends, inform the competent authorities of the Member States thereof. - The national focal points should draw on the experiences of different sectors - health, justice and law enforcement - in cooperation with experts and national organisations active in the field of drugs policy; - Data on drugs and drug addiction provided to or by the Centre may be published subject to compliance with Community and national rules on the dissemination and confidentiality of information. Personal data may not be published or made accessible to the public. Member States and the national focal points shall be under no obligation to provide information classified as confidential under their national law. -The report put forward a number of amendments to the rules governing the Management Board and Executive Committee as well as the procedure for the appointment of the Director. Moreover, in addition to the requirement for the Director of the Centre to appear at a hearing before Parliament, MEPs also wanted to hold a hearing of the Chairperson of the Management Board. - The Scientific Committee (which assists the Management Board and the Director of the Centre) should not have more than 15 members, who should be selected on the basis of their expertise, by means of an open procedure. MEPs felt that a Scientific Committee consisting of one representative from each Member State would be too unwieldy and would be unable to function independently and efficiently.
  • date: 2006-11-30T00:00:00 type: Act adopted by Council after Parliament's 1st reading body: EP/CSL
  • date: 2006-12-12T00:00:00 type: Final act signed body: CSL
  • date: 2006-12-12T00:00:00 type: End of procedure in Parliament body: EP
  • date: 2006-12-27T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal summary: PURPOSE: to recast the Regulation setting up the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation 1920/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addition (recast). BACKGROUND: the European Drugs Monitoring Centre was established by Council Regulation 302/1993/EEC. Since its approval, however, the Regulation has been substantially amended. In the interest of clarity, it has been decided to recast the Regulation; the purpose of this present Regulation. As well as recasting the Regulation new, needed, elements have been incorporated into the recast legislative act. CONTENT: this Regulation provides for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction which is to be based in Lisbon. Its objectives are: to provide the Community and its Member States with factual, objective, reliable and comparable information on drugs, drug addiction and the consequences of drugs on European society. The data thus collected will help the Community gain an overall view of the drug and drug addiction situation. The Centre may not go beyond the sphere of collecting information specified in the Regulation’s provisions. Further, the Centre will not be allowed to collect any data which may make it possible to identify individuals or small groups of individuals and it must refrain from transmitting information relating to specific named cases. In order to achieve its stated objectives the Centre will be given the following tasks: - to collect and analyse existing data; - to improve upon data-comparison methods; - to disseminate the data received; - to co-operate with European and international bodies and organisations as well as with third countries; and - to inform the national authorities of any new developments and changing trends that it has identified. The Centre will need to focus on the following priorities: - monitoring the state of the drugs problem; - monitoring emerging trends; - monitoring the solutions applied to drug related problems; - providing information on Member State best practices; - assessing the risk of new psychoactive substances and to maintain a rapid information system with regard to their use; - maintaining a rapid information system regarding the new methods used for existing psychoactive substances; and - developing the tools and instruments needed to help the Member States monitor and evaluate their national policies. At the Centre’s disposal will be a network entitled the “European Information Network on Drugs and Drug Addiction” (Reitox). This network will consist of one focal point for each Member State and each country which has concluded an agreement with the Commission. They are to act as the interface between the participating countries and the Centre. The Centre will be made up of: a Management Board, an Executive Committee, a Director and a Scientific Committee. The Regulation requires that the Centre seek active co-operation with other international bodies and NGO’s involved in the drug’s sector. It will be open to the participation of any third country that shares similar interests to that of the Community and its Member States. ENTRY INTO FORCE: 16 January 2007. REPEALED: Regulation 302/1993/EEC. docs: title: Regulation 2006/1920 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32006R1920 title: OJ L 376 27.12.2006, p. 0001-0013 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2006:376:TOC
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  • date: 2005-08-31T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2005/0399/COM_COM(2005)0399_EN.pdf celexid: CELEX:52005PC0399:EN type: Legislative proposal published title: COM(2005)0399 type: Legislative proposal published body: EC commission: DG: url: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/ title: Justice Commissioner: FRATTINI Franco
  • date: 2005-09-06T00:00:00 body: EP type: Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading committees: body: EP responsible: False committee: ENVI date: 2005-09-22T00:00:00 committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety rapporteur: group: GUE/NGL name: MAŠTÁLKA Jiří body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Legal Affairs committee: JURI body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2005-09-14T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: BREPOELS Frieda
  • date: 2006-03-23T00:00:00 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: False committee: ENVI date: 2005-09-22T00:00:00 committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety rapporteur: group: GUE/NGL name: MAŠTÁLKA Jiří body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Legal Affairs committee: JURI body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2005-09-14T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: BREPOELS Frieda type: Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2006-04-03T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2006-124&language=EN type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading title: A6-0124/2006 body: EP committees: body: EP responsible: False committee: ENVI date: 2005-09-22T00:00:00 committee_full: Environment, Public Health and Food Safety rapporteur: group: GUE/NGL name: MAŠTÁLKA Jiří body: EP responsible: False committee_full: Legal Affairs committee: JURI body: EP responsible: True committee: LIBE date: 2005-09-14T00:00:00 committee_full: Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs rapporteur: group: PPE-DE name: BREPOELS Frieda type: Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • date: 2006-06-13T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?secondRef=TOC&language=EN&reference=20060613&type=CRE type: Debate in Parliament title: Debate in Parliament body: EP type: Debate in Parliament
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  • date: 2006-12-12T00:00:00 body: EP type: End of procedure in Parliament
  • date: 2006-12-27T00:00:00 type: Final act published in Official Journal docs: url: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=32006R1920 title: Regulation 2006/1920 url: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2006:376:TOC title: OJ L 376 27.12.2006, p. 0001-0013
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