Statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea. Recast

2007/0288(COD)

PURPOSE: recast of Council Directive 95/64/EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (adapted to the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny.

PROPOSED ACT: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council

CONTENT: the codification of Council Directive 95/64/EC of 8 December 1995 on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea has been initiated by the Commission. The new Directive was to have superseded the various acts incorporated in it.

In the meantime Council Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (comitology) has been amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced a regulatory procedure with scrutiny for measures of general scope designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure.

In accordance with the joint statement of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on Decision 2006/512/EC, for this new procedure to be applicable to instruments adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure, those instruments must be adjusted in accordance with the applicable procedures.

It is therefore proposed to transform the codification of Directive 95/64/EC into a recast in order to incorporate the amendments necessary for the adjustment to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.