Activites

• 2004/03/02 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2004/201
  • OJ L 064 02.03.2004, p. 0045-0047
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• 2004/02/19 Council Meeting
• 2004/02/19 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2004/02/19 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 2003/09/23 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0391/2003 summary

    The European Parliament adopted by 369 votes in favour, 48 against and 39 abstentions a resolution on the two procedures for amending the Sirene Manual. (Please see also CNS/2003/0807.) The rapporteur was Carlos COELHO (EPP-ED, Portugal.) Concerning this Decision, Parliament deleted the Commission's provisions on comitology and stated that the Commission will be assisted by a Regulatory Committee, which will adopt its own rules of procedure. Certain parts of the manual may not be amended by committee. (Please refer to the previous document.) Parliament also inserted new recitals pointing out that the Sirene manual has stayed in the third pillar without a specific legal basis. This Decision constitutes also the decision on the legal basis of the manual.�

• 2003/09/01 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0288/2003
• 2003/04/10 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2003/03/24 Legislative proposal published
  • 07180/2003 summary

    PURPOSE : to present a draft Council Decision on procedures for amending the Sirene manual. CONTENT : in the context of the Schengen Information System (SIS) and the exchange of data between the national sections of the Member States, the Sirene manual is a set of instructions to operators in the Sirene offices of each of the Member States which describes in detail the rules and procedures governing the bilateral or multilateral exchange of such supplementary information which is required for implementing certain provisions of the Schengen Convention correctly. It is necessary to establish a procedure for amending the Sirene Manual in accordance with the relevant provisions of the various Treaties. The legislative basis consists of 2 parts : 1) this Decision based on Articles 30(1)(a) and (b), 31(a) and (b) and 34 (2) (c) of the Treaty on European Union and 2) a Council Regulation based on Article 66 of the Treaty establishing the European Community (refer to CNS/2003/0807). The reason for this is that, as set out in Article 92 of the Schengen Convention, the SIS is to enable the authorities designated by the Member States, by means of an automated search procedure, to have access to alerts on persons and property for the purposes of border checks and other police and customs checks carried out within the country in accordance with national law, as well as for the purposes of issuing visas, residence permits and the administration of legislation on aliens in the context of the application of the provisions of the Schengen acquis relating to the movement of persons. The exchange of supplementary information required for the implementing of the provisions of the Schengen Convention carried out by the Sirene offices of each Member State, also serves these purposes, as well as assisting with police co-operation generally. It is stressed that although the legislative basis consists of 2 separate instruments, this does not affect the principle that the SIS constitutes and should continue to constitute, one single, integrated, information system and that the Sirene offices should continue to carry out their task in an integrated manner. The proposed Decision sets out procedures for the taking of measures necessary for its implementation which mirror the relevant provisions in the proposed Regulation so as to ensure that there will be one single implementing process for the amendment of the Siren Manual as a whole. Lastly, territorial provisions are also provided concerning the participation of Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom.�

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: 07180/2003
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0288/2003
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0391/2003
• : Decision 2004/201
• : OJ L 064 02.03.2004, p. 0045-0047

History

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