REPORT on amendment of Rule 81 of Parliament's Rules of Procedure

3.4.2008 - (2008/2027(REG))

Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Rapporteur: Monica Frassoni

Procedure : 2008/2027(REG)
Document stages in plenary
Document selected :  
A6-0108/2008
Texts tabled :
A6-0108/2008
Debates :
Texts adopted :

PROPOSAL FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DECISION

on amendment of Rule 81 of Parliament's Rules of Procedure

(2008/2027(REG))

The European Parliament,

–   having regard to the letter from its President of 27 March 2008 transmitting the interinstitutional agreement as approved by the Conference of Presidents on 12 December 2007,

–   having regard to the interinstitutional agreement between the European Parliament and the Commission on procedures for implementing Council Decision 1999/468/EC, , laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission, as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC,

–   having regard to Rules 120(2), 201 and 202 of its Rules of Procedure,

–   having regard to the report of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (A6‑0108/2008),

1.  Decides to amend its Rules of Procedure as shown below;

2.  Points out that the amendment will enter into force on the first day of the next part-session;

3.  Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and Commission, for information.

Amendment   1

Parliament's Rules of Procedure

Rule 81 – paragraph 4 – point (a)

Present text

Amendment

4. If the implementing measures envisaged by the Commission fall under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny, paragraph 3 shall not apply and paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be supplemented as follows:

4. If the implementing measures envisaged by the Commission fall under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny, paragraph 3 shall not apply and paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be supplemented as follows:

(a) the time for scrutiny shall start to run when the draft of measures has been submitted to Parliament in all official languages;

(a) the time for scrutiny shall start to run when the draft of measures has been submitted to Parliament in all official languages. Where shorter time limits apply (Article 5a(5)(b) of Decision 1999/468/EC) and, in cases of urgency, (Article 5a(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC), unless the Chair of the parliamentary committee objects, the time for scrutiny shall start to run from the date of receipt by Parliament of the final draft implementing measures in the language versions submitted to the members of the committee established in accordance with Decision 1999/468/EC. Rule 138 shall not apply in this case.

Justification

The amendment adapts the Rules of Procedure to the Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament and the Commission on procedures for implementing Council Decision 1999/468 EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission, namely its paragraph 16., where for the Regulatory procedure with scrutiny it is foreseen that the time-limit for scrutiny by the two branches of the legislature exceptionally starts to run when Parliament receives the final draft implementing measures in the language versions submitted to the members of the comitology- committee and not in all official languages. By virtue of the Council decision 1999/468, such abbreviations of time-limits are exceptionally admissible when they are foreseen in the basic act adopted in codecision by Parliament and Council and justified on grounds of efficiency or on imperative grounds of urgency. Where these conditions are not fulfilled, the Chair of the parliamentary committee concerned can object and thus return to the normal procedure.

RESULT OF FINAL VOTE IN COMMITTEE

Date adopted

1.4.2008

 

 

 

Result of final vote

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19

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Members present for the final vote

Enrique Barón Crespo, Bastiaan Belder, Richard Corbett, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Andrew Duff, Ingo Friedrich, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Jo Leinen, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Rihards Pīks, Riccardo Ventre, Johannes Voggenhuber, Dushana Zdravkova

Substitute(s) present for the final vote

Graham Booth, Costas Botopoulos, Elmar Brok, Monica Frassoni, Gérard Onesta, Georgios Papastamkos, Reinhard Rack, Kathy Sinnott, Mauro Zani