PURPOSE: to recast Directive 71/316/EEC in order to make adjustments for the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.
PROPOSED ACT: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council.
CONTENT: the codification of Directive 71/316/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to common provisions for both measuring instruments and methods of metrological control 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 The new Directive was to have superseded the various acts incorporated in it.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 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 procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty, including by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument by the addition of new non-essential elements.
The Commission proposes to transform the codification of Directive 71/316/EEC into a recast in order to incorporate the amendments necessary for the adjustment to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.