PURPOSE: to codify Council Regulation (EC) No 140/2008
on certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and
Association Agreement between the European Communities and their
Member States, of the one part, and Montenegro, of the other part,
and for applying the Interim Agreement between the European
Community, of the one part, and Montenegro, of the other
part.
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 rationality,
the purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of
Council Regulation (EC) No 140/2008 of 19 November 2007 on
certain procedures for applying the Stabilisation and Association
Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States,
of the one part, and Montenegro, of the other part, and for
applying the Interim Agreement between the European Community, of
the one part, and Montenegro, of the other part.
Council Regulation (EC) No 140/2008 has been
substantially amended. It is recalled that on 1 April 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 Conclusions of the Presidency of the December 1992
Edinburgh European Council confirmed this, stressing the importance
of codification.
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 proposed Regulation will supersede the various
acts incorporated in it; this
proposal 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.