Activites

• 1994/12/31 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 1994/3287
  • OJ L 349 31.12.1994, p. 0079
• #1823
• 1994/12/22 Council Meeting
• 1994/12/22 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1994/12/22 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• #1820
• 1994/12/19 Council Meeting
• 1994/12/14 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
  • T4-0180/1994 summary

    Parliament approved the Commission's proposal subject to the three amendments it had introduced. These amendments: - called for the activities carried out by the pre-shipment inspection entities, which are the subject of the Directive, to include exchange-rate controls, financial conditions and customs classification; - called on the Commission and the Council to notify Parliament annually, on the basis of updated statistics, of the measures and modifications applied, together with the associated administrative costs. �

• 1994/12/12 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0108/1994
• 1994/11/14 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1994/10/05 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1994)0414 summary

    This proposal for a directive related to pre-shipment inspections for exports from the Community. The directive was in response to an agreement reached at the Uruguay Round negotiations, to which the Community was committed. Indeed, a certain number of developing countries, which had no adequate customs infrastructure of their own, had entrusted private companies with the task of inspecting goods intended for export to the territory of these countries, this to include a check on price, quality and quantity. This practice ("pre-shipment inspection") had not been previously regulated by Community legislation. The directive therefore provided for a certain number of principles to be applied to the practices of inspection companies, such as non-discrimination and the need for transparency (based on a procedure for prior notification of the competent authorities in the Member States and exporters). It defined in precise terms the criteria to be applied to all aspects of the inspection activity prior to shipment and a dual system was established for settling disputes between private persons, of the one part, and governments which were members of GATT, of the other part. With regard to private persons, differences between inspection companies and exporters were to be resolved by binding arbitration. As regards the national governments' compliance with the provisions of the Agreement on pre-shipment inspections, the GATT procedure for the multilateral settlement of disputes would apply in full. �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0414
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0108/1994
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0180/1994
• : Regulation 1994/3287
• : OJ L 349 31.12.1994, p. 0079

History

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