Activites

• 2009/06/09 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Regulation 2009/472
  • OJ L 144 09.06.2009, p. 0001
• #2944
• 2009/05/25 Council Meeting
• 2009/05/25 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2009/05/25 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 2009/04/22 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0229/2009 summary

    The European Parliament adopted by 592 votes to 48 with 32 abstentions, a legislative resolution amending, under the consultation procedure, the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 as regards the national restructuring programmes for the cotton sector.The only amendment aims to clarify the true cause of the crisis facing this sector. It stresses that the reform that entered into force on 1 January 2006 led to a drastic fall in cotton production in Spain that has seriously jeopardised the sector's survival, resulting in the immediate restructuring of the ginning industry.

• 2009/04/02 Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • A6-0200/2009
• 2009/03/31 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2009/02/19 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2009/02/02 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2009)0037 summary

    PURPOSE: to extend the programming period of restructuring programmes in the cotton sector and amending Regulation (EC) No 637/2008.PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.BACKGROUND: in its conclusions of 20 November 2008, the Council invited the Commission to propose modification of the Regulation (EC) No 637/2008, in order to extend the programming period of restructuring programmes in the cotton sector. The national restructuring programmes aim to aid the European cotton sector in view of the difficulties posed by the changed legal and market context. Specifically, the cotton ginning industry in some production areas is faced with considerably overcapacity.CONTENT: Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 envisages 4-year restructuring programmes. However, in view of the substantial difficulties the sector is facing, Member States should be given the possibility of submitting an 8-year programme instead. An 8 year period would provide the possibility of launching a larger number of measures without increasing the annual budgetary envelopes.Ginning factories not operated by their owners in the reference marketing year are excluded as beneficiaries from the measures provided in Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008. The proposed technical modification ensures all ginning factories that operated in the reference period could be eligible.FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS: the proposal does not increase the annual budgetary envelope available to the Member States for the restructuring programmes, but it does provide Member States with the possibility of submitting a programme for a duration of 8 years, i.e. for the period 2010 to 2017. The level of the annual support to the restructuring programme was already fixed in Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and remains unchanged. If Member States choose to submit an 8 year programme, their annual budgetary envelope will be automatically transferred to their national ceiling for direct payments, as determined in Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, in 2018.

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2009)0037
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A6-0200/2009
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0229/2009
• : Regulation 2009/472
• : OJ L 144 09.06.2009, p. 0001

History

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