Activites

• 2000/11/01 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Directive 2000/62
  • OJ L 279 01.11.2000, p. 0044
• 2000/10/10 Final act signed
• 2000/10/10 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2000/09/21 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T5-0391/2000 summary

    The European Parliament approved the Council's common position.�

• 2000/09/12 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A5-0229/2000
• 2000/07/06 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• 2000/06/27 Council position published
  • 07456/1/2000 summary

    The Council's common position is broadly in line with the Commission's proposal. The European Parliament approved the Commission proposal without amendments. The first three changes made by common position to the proposal draw on the amendments proposed by the European Parliament to the Commission proposal amending Directive 94/55/EC, these aim in particular: - to bring the text of the Directive into line with Council Decision 1999/468/EC on committee procedure; - to ensure a consistency between the wording and a similar provision concerning the operating temperature of materials used for plastic packaging, tanks and their equipment, as contained in the Council's common position on the proposal on transport by road; - avoid discrimination between rail wagons and tanks constructed before or after 1 June 1997 and conforming to legislation in force on the date of construction, and to ensure consistency between the Directive and the common position on transport and road. In addition, a further amendment is included which is designed to enable Member States to authorise derogations for the transport of small quantities of certain dangerous goods within their territory, subject to advance notification of those derogations to the Commission.�

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• 2000/06/26 Council Meeting
• 1999/10/29 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0086/1999 summary

    The European Parliament, in its first reading, approved the Commission proposal for a Directive to amend Directive 96/49/EC regarding transport of dangerous goods by rail without amendment. Parliament's Rapporteur was Mr. Konstantinos Hatzidakis (EPP, Greece).�

• 1999/10/28 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1999/10/13 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0027/1999
• 1999/07/23 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1999/05/17 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1999)0157 summary

    PURPOSE: proposal to amend Directive 96/49/EC regarding the transport of dangerous goods by rail with the purpose of solving problems that will arise after 01/01/1999 concerning the application of certain transitional measures. CONTENT: Directive 96/49/EC on the transport of dangerous goods by rail came into force on 01/01/1997. The Directive provides for certain transitional measures valid until 01/01/1999, so as to permit the finalisation of certain standardisation work by CEN (European Committee for Standardisation). Given the delay in this work, the deadline laid down in Directive 96/49/EC is no longer consistent with the current situation, giving rise to short-term problems of application. These problems concern measures relating to receptacles for transporting Class 2 gases and on tanks. The objective of the modification of Directive 94/55 is to avoid the amendment of national laws for a very short period : amending Community legislation is more efficient than amending national legislations for a very brief period. It is therefore proposed to: - replace the deadlines as specified by 30 June 2001 and 1 July 2001 respectively by allowing the Committee under Art. 9 to postpone those deadlines in respect of certain equipment; - amend the procedure for the acceptance of derogations; - specify the conditions on whioch a transport operation can be considered an ad hoc transport operation.�

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1999)0157
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0027/1999
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0086/1999
• Council position published: 07456/1/2000
• Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A5-0229/2000
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T5-0391/2000
• : Directive 2000/62
• : OJ L 279 01.11.2000, p. 0044

History

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