Agricultural and fishery statistics: aligning certain legislative acts with the TFEU (Commission delegated and implementing powers)

The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted the report by Paolo DE CASTRO (S&D, IT) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending certain legislative acts in the domain of agricultural and fishery statistics.

The committee recommends that the position of the European Parliament adopted in first reading following the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the Commission proposal. The aim of the Commission proposal is to modify nine legislative acts in the sphere of agricultural and fishery statistics in order to align them to the new institutional context following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

The Committee suggests nine identical amendments (one for each modified act). It proposes to limit the delegation of power conferred on the Commission to a period of five years, tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than 3 months before the end of each period. Members add to the amended wording the standard phrase according to which the Commission will draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period.