Activites

• 2015/05/19 Final act published in Official Journal
• 2015/04/29 Final act signed
• 2015/04/29 End of procedure in Parliament
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• 2015/04/20 Council Meeting
• 2015/04/20 Act adopted by Council after Parliament's 1st reading
• 2015/03/11 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T8-0053/2015 summary

    The European Parliament adopted by 643 votes to 32, with 30 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules for imports from certain third countries (recast). Parliament adopted its position at first reading following the ordinary legislative procedure, without amending the Commission proposal. The proposal to recast Council Regulation (EC) No 625/2009 lays down surveillance and safeguard measures applicable to specific imports, such as coal and steel products, with the exception of textile products which is subject to a separate regulation. This Regulation applies to imports of products originating in a restricted number of third countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). The main change resulting from the recast concerns updating the annex to remove countries which have now become members of the World Trade Organisation, namely Armenia, Russia, Tajikistan and Vietnam.

• 2015/01/28 Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading
  • A8-0014/2015 summary

    The Committee on International Trade adopted the report by Jarosław WAŁĘSA (EPP, PL) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules for imports from certain third countries (recast). The committee recommended the European Parliament to adopt its position at first reading, taking over the Commission proposal and taking account of the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. According to the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, the Commission proposal does not include any substantive amendments other than those identified as such in the proposal. The Commission considered that in order to incorporate some substantive amendments, it was deemed necessary to transform the codification into a recast.  As regards the substance of these proposals, they are largely technical corrections. The main change resulting from the recast concerns updating the annex to remove countries which have now become members of the World Trade Organisation, namely Armenia, Russia, Tajikistan and Vietnam.

• 2015/01/22 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 2014/09/15 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2014/05/28 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2014)0323 summary

    PURPOSE: codification of Council Regulation (EC) No 625/2009 of 7 July 2009 on common rules for imports from certain third countries. 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 625/2009 on common rules for imports from certain third countries. Council Regulation (EC) No 625/2009 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'}, JUNCKER Jean-Claude

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2014)0323
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A8-0014/2015
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0053/2015

History

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