PURPOSE: to repeal Council Directive 76/621/EEC
relating to the fixing of the maximum level of erucic acid in oils
and fats and Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 establishing a
temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar
industry.
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.
BACKGROUND: the European Parliament, the Council and
the Commission agreed in their inter-institutional agreement on
better law making that Community law should be updated and
condensed by repealing acts which are no longer applied. Improve
transparency and certainty of Union law is the main aim of this
Agreement.
The Commission has carried out several exercises to
remove obsolete legislation from the acquis, partly through the
traditional repeal procedure, partly by declaring the relevant
Commission acts obsolete.
The Commission identified two Council acts related to
the Common Agricultural Policy, which are based upon Article 42 and
43 of the Treaty (former Articles 36 and 37), which have exhausted
all practical effects, but are formally still in force.
CONTENT: for reasons of legal security and clarity,
the Commission proposes to repeal two legal acts relating to the
common agricultural policy which have become obsolete, even though
formally they are still in force:
- Council Directive 76/621/EEC. The content of that Directive has been taken up by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1881/20063;
- Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006. The temporary scheme established by that Regulation
was applicable only until the marketing year 2009/2010.