Activites

• 1995/12/30 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 1995/3052
  • OJ L 321 30.12.1995, p. 0001
• 1995/12/13 Final act signed
• 1995/12/13 End of procedure in Parliament
• #1886
• 1995/11/23 Council Meeting
• 1995/10/26 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T4-0510/1995 summary

    In adopting the report by Mr GLANTE (PSE, D), the European Parliament approved the Council's common position without amendments. �

• 1995/10/25 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament summary

    Commissioner PAPOUTSIS expressed his satisfaction with the convergence between Parliament and the Commission, which was reflected in the text of the amended proposal. He also noted that the proposal sought to establish a procedure requiring the Member States to notify the Commission of the introduction of national measures derogating from the principle of the free movement of goods in the Union. This procedure would make it possible to ensure that the cases of non-application of mutual recognition in the areas not harmonised at Community level were limited to a small number of situations. Mr PAPOUTSIS confirmed that the Commission was in the process of examining the specific problems affecting small and medium-sized enterprises in this respect with a view to finding adequate solutions.

• 1995/10/09 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A4-0241/1995
• 1995/07/14 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• #1862
• 1995/06/29 Council Meeting
  • 07825/1/1995 summary

    The Council's common position incorporated all of the amendments tabled by the European Parliament that had been taken over in the Commission's amended proposal. The Council also included new provisions aimed at: - clarifying the situations under which the notification procedure established by the decision was to be applied; - defining the terms "judicial decision", in the strict sense, and "measures", in the broad sense; - defining in more detail the measures that should be notified and those that fell outside the scope of the decision: exclusion of measures relating solely to the protection of public morality or public order and exclusion of second-hand goods which, with time or use, had become unsuitable for being placed or kept on the market; - increasing from 30 to 45 days the period of time granted to the competent authorities to notify the information set out in the decision, with a view to taking account of the technical constraints involved in the administration; - clarifying that, in certain cases, the communication of certain information was subject to authorisation by the competent judicial authority; - providing for assistance from the Standing Committee set up by Directive 81/139/EEC and, where appropriate, information for the sectoral committees; - ensuring that the decision was implemented from 1 January 1997 by allowing the Member States six months from its entry into force to communicate to the Commission the measures it had taken to implement the decision. �

• #1851
• 1995/06/06 Council Meeting
• #1815
• 1994/12/08 Council Meeting
  • 1815
• 1994/06/15 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(1994)0250 summary

    The amended proposal took over nine amendments adopted by the European Parliament, which aimed to: - underline the objectives of transparency resulting from the procedure on the exchange of information: the Member States and/or the Commission should have the possibility of reacting to the national measures derogating from the principle of the free movement of goods within the Community; - highlight the need to coordinate similar procedures for notification or information laid down by various Community rules; - point out that companies, consumers and other parties involved should know who to contact within the Commission and the administrations of the Member States when a problem arose in relation to the free movement of goods; - stipulate that the proposal for a decision should not lead to the creation of excessive bureaucratic structures; - mention the need to promote transparency by providing all the parties involved with complete and updated information on the application of the procedure; - point out that the information forwarded under the procedure should be detailed, clear and easy to understand; - stipulate that the Member States should make all efforts to guarantee that a point of contact or network of points of contact was established to act as a point of reference for all inquiries to establish why other national regulations were not recognised; - introduce an article calling on the Commission to improve coordination on all issues connected to the application of the decision, complaints relating to specific obstacles to the free movement of goods and general problems of mutual recognition; - stipulate that the Commission report on the functioning of the decision should examine whether or not the notifications made were coordinated with the notifications made under other Community instruments; However, the Commission did not accept the amendments which aimed to: - ensure that if the Commission or a Member State indicated that a notified national measure was likely to create unjustified obstacles to the free movement of goods, the Commission could propose appropriate measures, after having consulted the relevant committee and the European Parliament; - introduce a reference to Directive 83/189/EEC laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations; to Directive 92/59/EEC on general product safety; and to the various directives on the internal market containing safeguard clauses. �

• 1994/04/20 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T3-0237/1994 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report by Mr de la CAMARA MARTINEZ on the national measures derogating from the principle of the free movement of goods within the Community. �

• 1994/04/18 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1994/03/29 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A3-0189/1994
• 1994/01/17 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1993/12/15 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1993)0670 summary

    The purpose of the draft decision was to establish a simple procedure whereby the Member States and the Commission would exchange information in order to enable the Community to administer in a transparent and pragmatic manner the mutual recognition of national legislation which had not been the subject of Community harmonisation. The proposed procedure concerned four categories of decision: - general prohibition of a design or type of product; - refusal of marketing authorisation; - modification of a contested design or type of product with a view to making it marketable; - withdrawal from the market. The procedure for exchanging information would only relate to the final decision taken on the product in question and not to previous measures taken for the sole purpose of formulating the final decision (precautionary and investigative measures). In addition, the procedure would only cover cases that were not already covered by the existing notification procedures for which Community legislation provided. �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1993)0670
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A3-0189/1994
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T3-0237/1994
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0250
• Debate in Council: 1815
• Council position published: 07825/1/1995
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A4-0241/1995
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T4-0510/1995
• : Decision 1995/3052
• : OJ L 321 30.12.1995, p. 0001

History

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