Activites

• 2003/03/06 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2003/106
  • OJ L 063 06.03.2003, p. 0027-0047
• #2477
• 2002/12/19 Council Meeting
• 2002/12/19 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2002/12/19 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 2002/10/24 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0517/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Hans BLOKLAND (EDD, NL) requesting a change of legal basis, so that the codecision procedure would apply. (Please refer to the document dated 10/09/02.)�

• 2002/10/23 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• #2457
• 2002/10/17 Council Meeting
  • 2457
• 2002/09/10 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0290/2002
• #2439
• 2002/06/25 Council Meeting
  • 2439 summary

    The Council noted the progress of proceedings on: - the proposal for a Decision approving, on behalf of the European Community, the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade; - the proposal for a Regulation aimed at replacing the voluntary PIC established by Regulation No 2455/92, in accordance with the Rotterdam Convention. Examination of the dossier at this stage has focused on the Member States' role in implementing the Convention and on the application of the Regulation to countries which are not Parties to the Convention. The Permanent Representatives Committee moreover spoke unanimously in favour of the use of Article 175 (environment) of the Treaty as the legal basis for both texts instead of Article 133 (common commercial policy) as originally proposed. The European Parliament must therefore also be consulted on these texts, and the codecision procedure becomes applicable for the Regulation. The Rotterdam Convention of September 1998 aims to replace the PIC established on a voluntary basis by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in which over 160 countries participate; both proposals are intended to apply and implement the Convention within the Community. The new Convention, signed by 73 Parties including the Community and all the Member States except Ireland, has already been the subject of 22 out of the 50 ratifications required for its entry into force. The Rotterdam Convention provides in particular that: the Parties would have the right to refuse the import of hazardous chemicals: the export of certain chemicals (currently 26 pesticides and 5 industrial chemicals) could take place only after prior consent by the importing country; Parties must inform other Parties of national restrictions on the use of hazardous chemicals; and a Party that plans to export a hazardous chemical must inform the importing Party. In addition to applying the principles established by the Convention, the proposal for a Regulation provides in particular for: extending the scope of export notification to a wider range of chemicals, extension of the PIC to chemicals that are banned or severely regulated in the Community, the possibility of banning the export of certain chemical products banned in the Community, and appropriate labelling of all chemicals exported from the Community.�

• 2002/03/11 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2002/01/24 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2001)0802 summary

    PURPOSE : to present a Council Decision to approve the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade. CONTENT : under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), negotiations for a Convention for the application of the Prior Informed Consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade were concluded in March 1998. The Convention was opened for signature at a Ministerial Diplomatic Conference held in September 1998 in Rotterdam. It was signed by the Community, which together with its Member States had participated actively in the negotiations, on 11 September 1998. The Convention represents a major set forward in the international regulation of certain hazardous chemicals, inlcuding pesticies. Its objective is to promote shared responsibility and co-operative efforts among the Parties in the international trade of such chemicals in order to protect human health and the environment from potential harm and to contribute to their environmentally sound use. In parallel to this proposed decision, the Commission has put forward a proposal for a Council Regulation to implement the Convention's provisions.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/environment/', 'title': 'Environment'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2001)0802
• Debate in Council: 2439
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0290/2002
• Debate in Council: 2457
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0517/2002
• : Decision 2003/106
• : OJ L 063 06.03.2003, p. 0027-0047

History

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