Activites

• 1994/12/31 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 1994/998
  • OJ L 380 31.12.1994, p. 0001
• #1817
• 1994/12/15 Council Meeting
• 1994/12/15 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1994/12/15 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1994/12/13 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0173/1994 summary

    Parliament approved the Commission proposal without amendments. �

• 1994/12/12 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1994/11/30 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0092/1994
• #1807
• 1994/11/29 Council Meeting
  • 1807 summary

    The Energy Council of 29 November decided to sign the Treaty and associated texts on behalf of the Community subject to its acceptance. It decided to wait before making a decision on its provisional application by the EU and Euratom in the hope that the EP would have expressed its opinion in time to enable the Council to examine it during a special sitting in Lisbon at the latest.

• 1994/11/28 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(1994)0557 summary

    The Commission's amended proposal aimed to adapt the legal basis of the proposals concerning the Community's signature of the European Energy Charter Treaty and its provisional application by the Union. - With regard to the proposal for a Council decision concerning the signature of the European Energy Charter Treaty and its provisional application by the EC: the Commission had initially proposed taking as a basis Articles 73c(2), 113 and 235 of the Treaty on European Union, in conjunction with the second sentence of Article 228(2) and the first subparagraph of Article 228(3) thereof. In the meantime, the Court of Justice of the Communities issued an opinion (opinion 1/94 of 15 November 1994 of the European Court of Justice) which required an amendment to the legal basis of this proposal and the corresponding draft Council and Commission decision. As a result, the Commission proposed supplementing the legal bases indicated with new articles, namely Articles 54(2), the last sentence of 57(2), 66 and 100a, having regard in particular to the reciprocal clauses included in Community legislation applicable in the fields covered by these articles. - With regard to the draft Council, Commission, ECSC and Euratom decision, which was initially based on the first subparagraph of Article 95 of the ECSC Treaty and the second subparagraph of Article 101 of the Euratom Treaty, the Court ruling meant that the draft should only cover nuclear products and materials, since coal was covered by the EC draft decision. As a result, the first version of the draft decision referring to the ECSC should be done away with as well as all other references to the ECSC (title and provisions of the draft). The draft decision should also be adapted to the specific provisions of the Euratom Treaty. �

• 1994/10/24 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1994/09/21 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1994)0405 summary

    The Commission proposed to the Council that it should sign and provisionally implement the European Energy Charter Treaty and to this end it submitted a proposal for a decision within the framework of the EC Treaty. The Commission felt that it would be in the Union's interests to sign this Treaty, taking into account both its growing dependence with regard to the supply of energy products, due in particular to the fall in coal production in Europe and the decrease in investments in the nuclear sector, and the need for economic cooperation between the Union and the countries of Eastern Europe. The European Energy Charter was approved by the representatives of 48 states and the EC on 17 December 1991 and its objectives included: improving security of supply, optimising the efficiency of energy production, processing, transport, distribution and use, improving safety and minimising environmental problems. �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0405
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0557
• Debate in Council: 1807
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0092/1994
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0173/1994
• : Decision 1994/998
• : OJ L 380 31.12.1994, p. 0001

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)