1996/2217(COS) | [ParlTrack]

1996/2217(COS) Environment: implementation of the Community law

Progress: Procedure completed

Role	Committee	Rapporteur	Shadows
Lead	ENVI	COLLINS Kenneth D. ( PES)
Committee Opinion	JURI	GEBHARDT Evelyne ( PES)

Lead committee dossier:

ENVI/4/08372

Legal Basis:

RoP 142

Subjects

3.70 Environmental policy

Events

2005/08/17

EC - Follow-up document

Details

This is the European Commission’s sixth Annual Survey on the Implementation and Enforcement of Community Environmental Law and applies to the year 2004. The purpose of the sixth Annual Survey is to inform the public about the state of the EU’s environmental implementation and to prepare a comparative compliance record of all of the Member States.

The Report notes that the EU Treaties oblige the Commission to ensure that EU law is properly applied in the Member States. Implementation of EU environmental law by the Member States has improved in recent years as is reflected in the much lower number of new complaints and infringement cases opened by the Commission in 2004. For that year, the environment accounted for slightly less than a third of all complaints and infringement cases concerning non-compliance with Community law and investigated by the Commission.

In concrete terms, 336 complaints alleging breaches of Community environmental law were lodged, with a number of them concerning the new Member States. 101 reasoned opinions, on the basis of Article 226 of the EC Treaty, were issued by the Commission and 45 cases against the Member States were brought to the European Court of Justice. In addition, the Commission issued 14 letters of formal notice and 6 reasoned opinions under Article 228 of the EC Treaty to Member States for non-communication, non-conformity or incorrect application. Lastly, letters of formal notice were sent to eight new Member States in December 2004, for their failure to communicate what implementing measures they were undertaking for certain Directives. (When they became Members of the EU in May 2004 they were obliged to adopt and implement more than 100 environmental Directives).

The Commission points out that it seeks to encourage implementation through positive measures and complementary approaches and not only rely on infringement proceedings. Positive initiatives include, for example, the preparation of guidelines and interpretive texts to offer help to the Member States on how they should implement certain provisions on the ground. Other measures include multilateral discussions in technical committees, contributions to expert seminars and bilateral contacts between the Commission and the Member States.

Further, the Commission is trying to be as systematic as possible in checking compliance and prepares reports to that effect – such as on bathing water quality. Major studies have been launched to check the completeness and accuracy of national implementing legislation. This was extended to the ten new EU Member Sates throughout 2004.

Lastly, in cases where problems have been identified the Commission has sought to be as strategic and co-ordinated in its interventions as possible. The Commission also points out that it favours constructive engagement with the Member States where they are willing to take steps to resolve certain problems.

To conclude, the Commission recognises the need to make environmental implementation issues more transparent. To this end, the Report includes a Scoreboard detailing the comparative implementation record of each Member State covering each environmental sector.

Documents

SEC(2005)1055
EUR-Lex

2004/07/27

EC - Follow-up document

Documents

SEC(2004)1025
EUR-Lex

2003/07/07

EC - Follow-up document

Documents

EUR-Lex
SEC(2003)0804

2002/10/01

EC - Follow-up document

Documents

EUR-Lex
SEC(2002)1041

2000/07/13

EC - Follow-up document

Documents

EUR-Lex
SEC(2000)1219

1999/04/27

EC - Follow-up document

Documents

EUR-Lex
SEC(1999)0592

1997/10/07

CSL - Resolution/conclusions adopted by Council

1997/10/07

CSL - Council Meeting

1997/06/19

CSL - Resolution/conclusions adopted by Council

1997/06/19

CSL - Council Meeting

1997/06/11

CofR - Committee of the Regions: opinion

Documents

CDR0437/1996
OJ C 244 11.08.1997, p. 0043

1997/06/02

Final act published in Official Journal

1997/05/14

EP - Text adopted by Parliament, single reading

Documents

OJ C 167 02.06.1997, p. 0046-0092
T4-0232/1997

1997/05/14

EP - Decision by Parliament

Documents

T4-0232/1997

1997/05/14

EP - End of procedure in Parliament

1997/05/13

EP - Debate in Parliament

Documents

Debate in Parliament

1997/04/23

ESC - Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report

Documents

CES0455/1997
OJ C 206 07.07.1997, p. 0007

1997/03/20

EP - Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading

Documents

A4-0109/1997
OJ C 132 28.04.1997, p. 0006

1997/03/20

EP - Vote in committee

1997/03/19

EP - Committee report tabled for plenary

Documents

A4-0109/1997

1997/03/03

CSL - Debate in Council

Documents

1990

1997/03/03

CSL - Council Meeting

1996/12/19

EP - GEBHARDT Evelyne (PES) appointed as rapporteur in JURI

1996/11/15

EP - Committee referral announced in Parliament

1996/10/22

EC - Non-legislative basic document

Documents

EUR-Lex
COM(1996)0500

1996/10/21

EC - Non-legislative basic document published

Documents

EUR-Lex
COM(1996)0500

1996/01/09

EP - COLLINS Kenneth D. (PES) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI

Documents

Follow-up document: SEC(2005)1055
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex
Follow-up document: SEC(2004)1025
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex
Follow-up document: SEC(2003)0804
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex
Follow-up document: SEC(2002)1041
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex
Follow-up document: SEC(2000)1219
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex
Follow-up document: SEC(1999)0592
Committee of the Regions: opinion: CDR0437/1996
Committee of the Regions: opinion: OJ C 244 11.08.1997, p. 0043
Text adopted by Parliament, single reading: OJ C 167 02.06.1997, p. 0046-0092
Text adopted by Parliament, single reading: T4-0232/1997
Decision by Parliament: T4-0232/1997
Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES0455/1997
Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: OJ C 206 07.07.1997, p. 0007
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A4-0109/1997
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: OJ C 132 28.04.1997, p. 0006
Committee report tabled for plenary: A4-0109/1997
Debate in Council: 1990
Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex
Non-legislative basic document: COM(1996)0500
Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
Non-legislative basic document published: COM(1996)0500
Non-legislative basic document: EUR-Lex COM(1996)0500
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A4-0109/1997 OJ C 132 28.04.1997, p. 0006
Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES0455/1997 OJ C 206 07.07.1997, p. 0007
Text adopted by Parliament, single reading: OJ C 167 02.06.1997, p. 0046-0092 T4-0232/1997
Committee of the Regions: opinion: CDR0437/1996 OJ C 244 11.08.1997, p. 0043
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex SEC(1999)0592
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex SEC(2000)1219
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex SEC(2002)1041
Follow-up document: EUR-Lex SEC(2003)0804
Follow-up document: SEC(2004)1025 EUR-Lex
Follow-up document: SEC(2005)1055 EUR-Lex

History

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docs/10	date 2004-07-27T00:00:00 docs url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/sec/2004/1025/COM_SEC(2004)1025_EN.pdf title: SEC(2004)1025 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=2004&nu_doc=1025 title: EUR-Lex type Follow-up document body EC
docs/10	date 2005-08-17T00:00:00 docs url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/sec/2005/1055/COM_SEC(2005)1055_EN.pdf title: SEC(2005)1055 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=2005&nu_doc=1055 title: EUR-Lex summary This is the European Commission’s sixth Annual Survey on the Implementation and Enforcement of Community Environmental Law and applies to the year 2004. The purpose of the sixth Annual Survey is to inform the public about the state of the EU’s environmental implementation and to prepare a comparative compliance record of all of the Member States. The Report notes that the EU Treaties oblige the Commission to ensure that EU law is properly applied in the Member States. Implementation of EU environmental law by the Member States has improved in recent years as is reflected in the much lower number of new complaints and infringement cases opened by the Commission in 2004. For that year, the environment accounted for slightly less than a third of all complaints and infringement cases concerning non-compliance with Community law and investigated by the Commission. In concrete terms, 336 complaints alleging breaches of Community environmental law were lodged, with a number of them concerning the new Member States. 101 reasoned opinions, on the basis of Article 226 of the EC Treaty, were issued by the Commission and 45 cases against the Member States were brought to the European Court of Justice. In addition, the Commission issued 14 letters of formal notice and 6 reasoned opinions under Article 228 of the EC Treaty to Member States for non-communication, non-conformity or incorrect application. Lastly, letters of formal notice were sent to eight new Member States in December 2004, for their failure to communicate what implementing measures they were undertaking for certain Directives. (When they became Members of the EU in May 2004 they were obliged to adopt and implement more than 100 environmental Directives). The Commission points out that it seeks to encourage implementation through positive measures and complementary approaches and not only rely on infringement proceedings. Positive initiatives include, for example, the preparation of guidelines and interpretive texts to offer help to the Member States on how they should implement certain provisions on the ground. Other measures include multilateral discussions in technical committees, contributions to expert seminars and bilateral contacts between the Commission and the Member States. Further, the Commission is trying to be as systematic as possible in checking compliance and prepares reports to that effect – such as on bathing water quality. Major studies have been launched to check the completeness and accuracy of national implementing legislation. This was extended to the ten new EU Member Sates throughout 2004. Lastly, in cases where problems have been identified the Commission has sought to be as strategic and co-ordinated in its interventions as possible. The Commission also points out that it favours constructive engagement with the Member States where they are willing to take steps to resolve certain problems. To conclude, the Commission recognises the need to make environmental implementation issues more transparent. To this end, the Report includes a Scoreboard detailing the comparative implementation record of each Member State covering each environmental sector. type Follow-up document body EC
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docs/11	date 2005-08-17T00:00:00 docs url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/sec/2005/1055/COM_SEC(2005)1055_EN.pdf title: SEC(2005)1055 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=2005&nu_doc=1055 title: EUR-Lex summary This is the European Commission’s sixth Annual Survey on the Implementation and Enforcement of Community Environmental Law and applies to the year 2004. The purpose of the sixth Annual Survey is to inform the public about the state of the EU’s environmental implementation and to prepare a comparative compliance record of all of the Member States. The Report notes that the EU Treaties oblige the Commission to ensure that EU law is properly applied in the Member States. Implementation of EU environmental law by the Member States has improved in recent years as is reflected in the much lower number of new complaints and infringement cases opened by the Commission in 2004. For that year, the environment accounted for slightly less than a third of all complaints and infringement cases concerning non-compliance with Community law and investigated by the Commission. In concrete terms, 336 complaints alleging breaches of Community environmental law were lodged, with a number of them concerning the new Member States. 101 reasoned opinions, on the basis of Article 226 of the EC Treaty, were issued by the Commission and 45 cases against the Member States were brought to the European Court of Justice. In addition, the Commission issued 14 letters of formal notice and 6 reasoned opinions under Article 228 of the EC Treaty to Member States for non-communication, non-conformity or incorrect application. Lastly, letters of formal notice were sent to eight new Member States in December 2004, for their failure to communicate what implementing measures they were undertaking for certain Directives. (When they became Members of the EU in May 2004 they were obliged to adopt and implement more than 100 environmental Directives). The Commission points out that it seeks to encourage implementation through positive measures and complementary approaches and not only rely on infringement proceedings. Positive initiatives include, for example, the preparation of guidelines and interpretive texts to offer help to the Member States on how they should implement certain provisions on the ground. Other measures include multilateral discussions in technical committees, contributions to expert seminars and bilateral contacts between the Commission and the Member States. Further, the Commission is trying to be as systematic as possible in checking compliance and prepares reports to that effect – such as on bathing water quality. Major studies have been launched to check the completeness and accuracy of national implementing legislation. This was extended to the ten new EU Member Sates throughout 2004. Lastly, in cases where problems have been identified the Commission has sought to be as strategic and co-ordinated in its interventions as possible. The Commission also points out that it favours constructive engagement with the Member States where they are willing to take steps to resolve certain problems. To conclude, the Commission recognises the need to make environmental implementation issues more transparent. To this end, the Report includes a Scoreboard detailing the comparative implementation record of each Member State covering each environmental sector. type Follow-up document body EC
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docs	date: 1997-02-14T00:00:00 docs: title: PE221.176 type: Committee draft report body: EP date: 1997-03-12T00:00:00 docs: title: PE221.176/AM type: Amendments tabled in committee body: EP date: 1997-03-20T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A4-1997-109&language=EN title: A4-0109/1997 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:1997:132:TOC title: OJ C 132 28.04.1997, p. 0006 type: Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading body: EP date: 1997-04-23T00:00:00 docs: url: https://dm.eesc.europa.eu/EESCDocumentSearch/Pages/redresults.aspx?k=(documenttype:AC)(documentnumber:0455)(documentyear:1997)(documentlanguage:EN) title: CES0455/1997 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:1997:206:TOC title: OJ C 206 07.07.1997, p. 0007 summary: type: Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report body: ESC date: 1997-05-14T00:00:00 docs: url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:1997:167:TOC title: OJ C 167 02.06.1997, p. 0046-0092 title: T4-0232/1997 summary: type: Text adopted by Parliament, single reading body: EP date: 1997-06-11T00:00:00 docs: url: https://dm.cor.europa.eu/CORDocumentSearch/Pages/redresults.aspx?k=(documenttype:AC)(documentnumber:0437)(documentyear:1996)(documentlanguage:EN) title: CDR0437/1996 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:1997:244:TOC title: OJ C 244 11.08.1997, p. 0043 type: Committee of the Regions: opinion body: CofR date: 1999-04-27T00:00:00 docs: url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=1999&nu_doc=592 title: EUR-Lex title: SEC(1999)0592 summary: type: Follow-up document body: EC date: 2000-07-13T00:00:00 docs: url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=2000&nu_doc=1219 title: EUR-Lex title: SEC(2000)1219 type: Follow-up document body: EC date: 2002-10-01T00:00:00 docs: url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=2002&nu_doc=1041 title: EUR-Lex title: SEC(2002)1041 summary: type: Follow-up document body: EC date: 2003-07-07T00:00:00 docs: url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=2003&nu_doc=804 title: EUR-Lex title: SEC(2003)0804 summary: type: Follow-up document body: EC date: 2004-07-27T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/sec/2004/1025/COM_SEC(2004)1025_EN.pdf title: SEC(2004)1025 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=2004&nu_doc=1025 title: EUR-Lex type: Follow-up document body: EC date: 2005-08-17T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/registre/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/sec/2005/1055/COM_SEC(2005)1055_EN.pdf title: SEC(2005)1055 url: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!DocNumber&lg=EN&type_doc=SECfinal&an_doc=2005&nu_doc=1055 title: EUR-Lex summary: This is the European Commission’s sixth Annual Survey on the Implementation and Enforcement of Community Environmental Law and applies to the year 2004. The purpose of the sixth Annual Survey is to inform the public about the state of the EU’s environmental implementation and to prepare a comparative compliance record of all of the Member States. The Report notes that the EU Treaties oblige the Commission to ensure that EU law is properly applied in the Member States. Implementation of EU environmental law by the Member States has improved in recent years as is reflected in the much lower number of new complaints and infringement cases opened by the Commission in 2004. For that year, the environment accounted for slightly less than a third of all complaints and infringement cases concerning non-compliance with Community law and investigated by the Commission. In concrete terms, 336 complaints alleging breaches of Community environmental law were lodged, with a number of them concerning the new Member States. 101 reasoned opinions, on the basis of Article 226 of the EC Treaty, were issued by the Commission and 45 cases against the Member States were brought to the European Court of Justice. In addition, the Commission issued 14 letters of formal notice and 6 reasoned opinions under Article 228 of the EC Treaty to Member States for non-communication, non-conformity or incorrect application. Lastly, letters of formal notice were sent to eight new Member States in December 2004, for their failure to communicate what implementing measures they were undertaking for certain Directives. (When they became Members of the EU in May 2004 they were obliged to adopt and implement more than 100 environmental Directives). The Commission points out that it seeks to encourage implementation through positive measures and complementary approaches and not only rely on infringement proceedings. Positive initiatives include, for example, the preparation of guidelines and interpretive texts to offer help to the Member States on how they should implement certain provisions on the ground. Other measures include multilateral discussions in technical committees, contributions to expert seminars and bilateral contacts between the Commission and the Member States. Further, the Commission is trying to be as systematic as possible in checking compliance and prepares reports to that effect – such as on bathing water quality. Major studies have been launched to check the completeness and accuracy of national implementing legislation. This was extended to the ten new EU Member Sates throughout 2004. Lastly, in cases where problems have been identified the Commission has sought to be as strategic and co-ordinated in its interventions as possible. The Commission also points out that it favours constructive engagement with the Member States where they are willing to take steps to resolve certain problems. To conclude, the Commission recognises the need to make environmental implementation issues more transparent. To this end, the Report includes a Scoreboard detailing the comparative implementation record of each Member State covering each environmental sector. type: Follow-up document body: EC
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