The European Parliament adopted by 604 votes to 24 with 10 abstentions, a legislative resolution amending the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny - Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny - Part Four.
The report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by József SZAJER (EPP-ED, HU), on behalf of the Committee on Legal Affairs.
The amendments were the result of a compromise between the Council and the Parliament.
It is recalled that 42 instruments are covered by this proposal which seeks to adapt these instruments to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny. The compromise text has extended in a few cases those transitional measures of general scope and implementing measures that must be adopted using the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.
In one or two cases, the time-limits within which the European Parliament and the Council may oppose a draft measure, have been curtailed in some provisions of the basic acts.