Activites

• 1999/01/23 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Directive 1998/97
  • OJ L 018 23.01.1999, p. 0060
• 1998/12/22 Final act signed
• 1998/12/22 End of procedure in Parliament
• #2151
• 1998/12/14 Council Meeting
• 1998/12/03 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T4-0701/1998 summary

    Parliament adopted the recommendation for second reading drawn up in the form of a letter on the approximation of the laws of the Member States on fertilizers containing cadmium. It thus approved the Council's common position and called on it finally to adopt the legislative act as soon as possible. �

• 1998/11/25 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
• 1998/11/05 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• #2123
• 1998/10/13 Council Meeting
  • 11156/1/1998 summary

    In its common position on the extension to 31.12.2001 of the decision to allow Austria, Finland and Sweden to prohibit the marketing within their territory of fertilizers containing cadmium, the Council adopted the Commission proposal as it stood. It did not, therefore, incorporate Parliament's sole amendment, which called for effective measures to solve the problem of cadmium in fertilizers for the whole Community by 31.12.2001. In a statement annexed to the text of the common position, the Commission announced its firm intention of identifying at Union level any risks to health and the environment from cadmium in fertilizers and making any appropriate proposals to manage these risks before 31.12.2001. It announced, in particular, that it would, with all due vigour, promote the progress of this study, the first results of which should be available by the end of the year 2000.�

• #2117
• 1998/09/24 Council Meeting
• 1998/07/16 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0431/1998 summary

    In adopting the report by Mrs Heidi HAUTALA (Greens, FIN) on the marketing in Austria, Finland and Sweden of fertilizers containing cadmium, Parliament approved the proposal for a directive while specifying, however, that everything possible should be done to amend this directive by 31 December 2001 in order to establish provisions at European level concerning cadmium. �

• 1998/07/15 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1998/06/25 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0254/1998
• 1998/02/20 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1998/02/11 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1998)0044 summary

    OBJECTIVE : to authorize Austria, Sweden and Finland to continue to restrict the marketing of fertilizers containing cadmium until 31/12/2001. SUBSTANCE : Directive 76/116/EEC, the mother directive on fertilizers, authorizes the marketing of fertilizers termed 'EC-fertilizers' in accordance with its provisions. Specifically, Member States may not prohibit the marketing of fertilizers because of their cadmium content, since a cadmium limit is not specified in the directive and annexes thereto. Austria, Finland and Sweden, which ban this type of fertilizer on their territories, on acceding to the EU negotiated concessions enabling them to continue to ban fertilizers containing cadmium until 01/01/1999. The Commission takes the view that there is insufficient data available to ban fertilizers containing cadmium throughout the Community. Pending further analyses, it proposes that a derogation be provided for the three new Member States to allow them to continue to benefit from an exemption to Directive 76/113/EEC until 31/12/2001 by which date the Commission will have reviewed the situation with regard to cadmium and the risks of this substance for the environment and public health throughout the Community. �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1998)0044
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0254/1998
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0431/1998
• Council position published: 11156/1/1998
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T4-0701/1998
• : Directive 1998/97
• : OJ L 018 23.01.1999, p. 0060

History

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