PURPOSE: to adapt a number of instruments subject to the co-decision procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (‘omnibus’ Regulation – Part One) to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part One.

CONTENT: having reached agreement with the Parliament at first reading, the aim of this Regulation is to amend a number of instruments in force that must be adapted to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny, introduced by Decision 2006/512/EC.

The Regulation brings together 59 legislative acts concerning various areas of Community policy (the list of acts can be found in the annex to the Regulation).

Decision 2006/512/EC amended Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission. It introduced the new procedure for measures of general scope designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 11/12/2008.

The European Parliament adopted by 629 votes to 11, with 8 abstentions, a legislative resolution amending the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part One.

The report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by József SZAJER (EPP-ED, HU) on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs.

The legislative resolution contains a small number of technical amendments aimed at adapting a number of instruments subject to the codecision procedure, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny. These amendments were the result of a compromise between the European Parliament and the Council.

The Committee on Legal Affairs adopted the report by József SZAJER (EPP-ED, HU) amending, under 1 st reading of the codecision procedure, the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting Council Decision 1999/468/EC, as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part One.

The report contains a limited number of amendments that were suggested by other committees in their opinions, received in form of letters. One amendment is of a technical character, aiming at deletion of a superfluous Article in one of the regulations.

PURPOSE: adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny of a number of instruments subject to the co-decision procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty (“Omnibus” Regulation – Part 1).

PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.

CONTENT: Council decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (comitology) was amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced the regulatory procedure with scrutiny for measures of general scope designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure, inter alia by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument by the addition of new non-essential elements.

In accordance with the joint statement of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on Decision 2006/512/EC, for this new procedure to be applicable to instruments adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure which are already in force, those instruments must be adapted in accordance with the applicable procedures.

The current proposal covers 59 legislative instruments to be adapted to the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny (the list of instruments can be found in the annex of the proposal). The amendments that need to be made to instruments for this purpose concern only the committee procedures and so, in the case of Directives, do not require transposition by the Member States.

PURPOSE: adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny of a number of instruments subject to the co-decision procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty (“Omnibus” Regulation – Part 1).

PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.

CONTENT: Council decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (comitology) was amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced the regulatory procedure with scrutiny for measures of general scope designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure, inter alia by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument by the addition of new non-essential elements.

In accordance with the joint statement of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on Decision 2006/512/EC, for this new procedure to be applicable to instruments adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure which are already in force, those instruments must be adapted in accordance with the applicable procedures.

The current proposal covers 59 legislative instruments to be adapted to the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny (the list of instruments can be found in the annex of the proposal). The amendments that need to be made to instruments for this purpose concern only the committee procedures and so, in the case of Directives, do not require transposition by the Member States.