Statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea. Recast

2007/0288(COD)

PURPOSE: recast of Council Directive 95/64/EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (adaption to the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Directive 2009/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea (recast).

CONTENT: following a first reading agreement with the Parliament, the Council adopted this Regulation which recasts legislation on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea.  The codification of Council Directive 95/64/EC on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea 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 95/64/EC was transformed into a recast in order to incorporate the amendments necessary for the adjustment to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.

The new elements introduced into this Directive only concern the committee procedures. They therefore do not need to be transposed by the Member States.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 26/06/2009.