RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council regulation concerning the extension of the scope of Regulation (EU) No .../... of the European Parliament and of the Councilon the professional cross-border transport of euro cash by road between euroarea Member States

22.3.2011 - (17787/2010 – C7‑0025/2011– 2010/0206(APP)) - ***

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Rapporteur: Sophie Auconie

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

on the draft Council regulation concerning the extension of the scope of Regulation (EU) No .../... of the European Parliament and of the Council on the professional cross-border transport of euro cash by road between euro area Member States

(17787/2010 – C7‑0025/2011– 2010/0206(APP))

(Special legislative procedure – consent)

The European Parliament,

–   having regard to the draft Council regulation (17787/2010),

–   having regard to the request for consent submitted by the Council in accordance with Article 352 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (C7-0025/2011),

–   having regard to Rule 81(1) of its Rules of Procedure,

–   having regard to the recommendation of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (A7-0077/2011),

1.  Consents to the draft Council regulation;

2.  Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Purpose of the proposal for a regulation:

The purpose of the present proposal is to extend the scope of the Proposal for a Regulation on the cross-border transportation of euro cash by road between euro-area Member States (the main proposal) to the territory of Member States that are about to introduce the euro, since there is normally an increased need for euro cash transportation in the run-up to the changeover.

Position of the rapporteur

The rapporteur, who is also the rapporteur for the main proposal, welcomes this extension of the latter’s scope. She stresses that the legal basis here is Article 352 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which means that Parliament merely has the power of consent.

RESULT OF FINAL VOTE IN COMMITTEE

Date adopted	16.3.2011
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	35 0 0
Members present for the final vote	Burkhard Balz, Sharon Bowles, Udo Bullmann, Pascal Canfin, Nikolaos Chountis, George Sabin Cutaş, Rachida Dati, Leonardo Domenici, Derk Jan Eppink, Diogo Feio, Vicky Ford, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Sven Giegold, Sylvie Goulard, Liem Hoang Ngoc, Wolf Klinz, Philippe Lamberts, Astrid Lulling, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Ivari Padar, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Edward Scicluna, Peter Simon, Peter Skinner, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Ivo Strejček, Marianne Thyssen, Corien Wortmann-Kool
Substitute(s) present for the final vote	Sophie Auconie, Elena Băsescu, Saïd El Khadraoui, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Olle Ludvigsson, Thomas Mann, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Catherine Stihler