PURPOSE: to recast Council Directive 96/96/EC on roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Directive 2009/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers (recast).
CONTENT: following a first reading agreement with the Parliament, the Council adopted this directive which recasts legislation on roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers. The codification of Council Directive 96/96/EC on roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers was initiated by the Commission, when Council Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (comitology) was 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.
Accordingly, the codification of Directive 96/96/EC was transformed into a recast in order to incorporate the amendments necessary for the adjustment to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 26/06/2009.