REPORT on the proposal for a Council directive concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade (codified version)

9.6.2008 - (COM(2008)0099 – C6-0135/2008 – 2008/0037(CNS)) - *

Committee on Legal Affairs
Rapporteur: Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg
(Codification – Rule 80 of the Rules of Procedure)

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

on the proposal for a Council directive concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade (codified version)

(COM(2008)0099 – C6-0135/2008 – 2008/0037(CNS))

(Consultation procedure - codification)

The European Parliament,

–   having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2008)0099),

–   having regard to Article 37 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C6-0135/2008),

–   having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 20 December 1994 – Accelerated working method for official codification of legislative texts[1]

–   having regard to Rules 80 and 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

–   having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs (A6-0243/2008),

A. whereas, according to the Consultative Working Party of the Legal Services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, the proposal in question contains a straightforward codification of the existing texts without any change in their substance,

1.  Approves the Commission proposal as adapted to the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the Legal Services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission;

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

• [1]  OJ C 102, 4.4.1996, p. 2.

ANNEX: OPINION OF THE CONSULTATIVE WORKING PARTY OF THE LEGAL SERVICES OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMISSION

                                                                             Brussels, April 7, 2008

OPINION

FOR THE ATTENTION OF           THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

                                                       THE COUNCIL

                                                       THE COMMISSION

Proposal for a Council directive concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade

COM(2008)0099 of 22.2.2008 - 2008/0037(CNS)

Having regard to the Inter-institutional Agreement of 20 December 1994 on an accelerated working method for official codification of legislative texts, and in particular to point 4 thereof, the Consultative Working Party, consisting of the respective legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, met on 3 Mars 2008 for the purpose of examining, among others, the aforementioned proposal submitted by the Commission.

At that meeting[1], an examination of the proposal for a Council directive codifying Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market resulted in the Consultative Working Party’s establishing, by common accord, that the proposal constitutes a straightforward codification of existing texts, without any change in their substance.

C. PENNERA                                  J.-C. PIRIS                           C.-F.DURAND

Jurisconsult                                       Jurisconsult                            actg. Director General

• [1]  The Consultative Working Party had at its disposal 22 language versions of the proposal and worked on the basis of the English version, being the master-copy language version of the text under discussion.

PROCEDURE

Title	Veterinary checks in intra-Community trade (codified version)
References	COM(2008)0099 – C6-0135/2008 – 2008/0037(CNS)
Date of consulting Parliament	7.3.2008
Committee responsible        Date announced in plenary	JURI 13.3.2008
Rapporteur(s)        Date appointed	Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg 19.12.2007
Date adopted	29.5.2008
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	20 0 0