REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission - Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny

9.10.2008 - (COM(2007)0776 – C6‑0452/2007 – 2007/0272(COD)) - ***I

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Rapporteur: Pervenche Berès

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council . amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the Community as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission - Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny

(COM(2007)0776 – C6‑0452/2007 – 2007/0272(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

–   having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council (COM(2007)0776),

–   having regard to Article 251(2) and Article 285(1) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6‑0452/2007),

–   having regard to Rule 51 of its Rules of Procedure,

–   having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (A6‑0376/2008),

1.  Approves the Commission proposal;

2.  Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend its proposal substantially or replace it with another text;

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

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Following the revision of the Council decision 1999/468/EC in July 2006 a new comitology procedure, the regulatory procedure with scrutiny, has been introduced.

The regulatory procedure with scrutiny significantly increases the European Parliament's rights of oversight of implementing measures and gives the European Parliament the right not only to exercise scrutiny of a draft implementing measure, but it also extends the grounds on the basis of which the European Parliament may oppose a draft measure or may propose amendments to a draft implementing measure.

In order to reflect amendments to the Council decision 1999/468/EC, the European Parliament has drafted a list of priority acts to be aligned with the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny. This priority alignment was completed in the European Parliament in November 2007.

The present amending regulation is part of the general alignment that the European Commission is currently running.

PROCEDURE

Title	European system of national and regional accounts in the Community
References	COM(2007)0776 – C6-0452/2007 – 2007/0272(COD)
Date submitted to Parliament	6.12.2007
Committee responsible        Date announced in plenary	ECON 19.2.2008
Committee(s) asked for opinion(s)        Date announced in plenary	JURI 19.2.2008
Not delivering opinions        Date of decision	JURI 8.4.2008
Rapporteur(s)        Date appointed	Pervenche Berès 18.2.2008
Discussed in committee	9.9.2008
Date adopted	7.10.2008
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	19 0 0
Members present for the final vote	Mariela Velichkova Baeva, Pervenche Berès, Sharon Bowles, Udo Bullmann, Jonathan Evans, Elisa Ferreira, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt, Sophia in ‘t Veld, Wolf Klinz, Astrid Lulling, John Purvis, Alexander Radwan, Bernhard Rapkay, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Ivo Strejček
Substitute(s) present for the final vote	Katerina Batzeli, Bilyana Ilieva Raeva