The Committee on Legal Affairs adopted the report by Lidia Joanna GERINGER DE OEDENBERG (PES, PL) approving, under the consultation procedure, the proposal for a Council directive on the identification and registration of pigs (codified version).
Although no “formal” amendments were made to the proposal, the committee took note of the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, Council and Commission, which made a number of technical comments on the text of the codified proposal.
The only change made by the Consultative Working Party concerned Article 4(2)(b), second subparagraph of the proposal: the expression “paragraph 1” was adapted so as to read “paragraph 1, third subparagraph”.
Excluding this element, the proposal represents a pure and simple codification of existing texts, without amendments to their substance.