PURPOSE: to adapt Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EC) No 399/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission.
CONTENT: following a first reading agreement with the Parliament, the Council adopted this Regulation which recasts legislation on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road. Implementing powers conferred on the Commission will be exercised in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC as amended by Council Decision 2006/512/EC which introduced the regulatory procedure with scrutiny for the adoption of measures of general scope and designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the codecision procedure. Accordingly, the Commission will adopt certain implementing measures in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.
The Commission is here empowered to adapt the data collection characteristics and the contents of the Annexes and to lay down the minimum precision requirements for the statistical returns transmitted by the Member States and the implementing procedures for that Regulation, including measures for adapting it to economic and technical progress. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of that Regulation they will be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 10/06/2009.