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1997/2243(COS) Amsterdam Treaty: increased cooperation

Role	Committee	Rapporteur	Shadows
Lead	INST	FRISCHENSCHLAGER Friedhelm (ELDR)
Opinion	LIBE	GOERENS Charles (ELDR)

Lead committee dossier: INST/4/09415
Legal Basis RoP 132

Subjects

8.40.10 Interinstitutional relations, democratic deficit, subsidiarity, comitology

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1998/09/21 Final act published in Official Journal
1998/07/16 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
- T4-0437/1998 summary
  
  Adopting the report by Mr Friedhelm Frischenschlager (ELDR, A) by 372 votes to 75 with 33 abstentions, Parliament wished this closer cooperation to be 'exceptional and temporary' for the sake of the coherence of EU policies. It stressed compliance with the conditions for recourse to the provisions on closer cooperation, in particular: respect for the acquis communautaire and the single institutional framework, use only as a last resort, respect for the rights and interests of non- participating Member States and neutrality with respect to conditions of competition between Member States. Parliament considered that closer cooperation might lend itself better to implementing action programmes in areas such as police and judicial cooperation, industrial policy, research, education, vocational training or the environment, than to enactment of legislation and warned against the option provided by the Amsterdam Treaty for Member States to oppose recourse to the provisions on closer cooperation for important reasons of national policy, considering that this could only be an exceptional option of last resort in cases of political emergency. The plenary rejected Paragraph 12 of the report calling on the Commission to propose deleting this quasi-veto in its report on a reform of all the Treaties. The process of engaging in any closer cooperation would have to be subject to democratic scrutiny by Parliament. In first pillar matters, the Commission must undertake to withdraw any proposal for closer cooperation where Parliament delivered a negative opinion. Where close cooperation took place, the principle of the unity of the budget must be adhered to. Parliament also considered that it would be unrealistic to expect that closer cooperation could provide a suitable institutional framework for meeting the main challenges that lay head for European integration (enlargement and deepening the economic aspects of EMU). Consequently, it called on the Commission to make a study of the potential applications of closer cooperation with a view to entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty. �
1998/07/15 Debate in Parliament
1998/06/24 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
- A4-0257/1998
1997/11/05 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
1997/10/02 Non-legislative basic document published
- AMSTERDAM summary
  
  At its meeting of 3 and 4 September 1997, the Committee on Institutional Affairs, on the basis of its latest deliberations, drew up a list of subjects to facilitate the implementation of the Treaty of Amsterdam after its ratification. With regard to the procedure under Article 189b, the revision of the 1993 Interinstitutional Agreement should be carried out in the light of major amendments put forward in Amsterdam.�

Documents

Non-legislative basic document published: AMSTERDAM
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A4-0257/1998
Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0437/1998

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At its meeting of 3 and 4 September 1997, the Committee on Institutional Affairs, on the basis of its latest deliberations, drew up a list of subjects to facilitate the implementation of the Treaty of Amsterdam after its ratification. With regard to the procedure under Article 189b, the revision of the 1993 Interinstitutional Agreement should be carried out in the light of major amendments put forward in Amsterdam.�

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At its meeting on 3-4 September 1997, the Committee on Institutional Affairs finalized the list of subjects based on its current analysis which should, within the framework of the Amsterdam Treaty, facilitate the implementation of the Treaty once it is ratified. As regards the declaration on comitology to be included in the final act, the Conference called on the Commission to present Council with a proposal by the end of 1998, amending the Council decision of 13 July 1987. The European Parliament may ask the Commission to submit a suitable legislative proposal in accordance with Article 138 B, paragraph 2 of the EC Treaty and Article 50 of the Rules of Procedure.

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