Activites

• 2014/12/16 Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading
• 2014/11/11 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2014/05/28 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2014)0319 summary

    PURPOSE: codification of Council Regulation (EC) No 953/2003 of 26 May 2003 to avoid trade diversion into the European Union of certain key medicines. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. CONTENT: in the interests of clarity and transparency of Union law, the purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EC) No 953/2003 to avoid trade diversion into the European Union of certain key medicines. Council Regulation (EC) No 953/2003 has been substantially amended several times. It is recalled that in 1987, the Commission decided to instruct its staff that all acts should be codified after no more than ten amendments, stressing that this is a minimum requirement. The Edinburgh European Council in December 1992 confirmed the importance of codification as it offers certainty as to the law applicable to a given matter at a given time. The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission agreed, by an interinstitutional agreement dated 20 December 1994, that an accelerated procedure may be used for the fast-track adoption of codification instruments. The new Regulation will supersede the various acts incorporated in it; it fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.

  • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/legal_service/', 'title': 'Legal Service'}, BARROSO José Manuel

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2014)0319

History

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