The committee adopted the report by Enrico LETTA (ADLE, IT) amending the report under the 1st reading of the codecision procedure:
- a number of amendments sought to ensure full call-back rights for the European Parliament in line with BASEL II;
- the Regulation must be implemented in such a way as to
ensure that the benefits of the measures outweigh the costs and that any
additional financial burden on
- separate categories should be created for goods and services as this would make it easier for the data to be compared with data published by the EU's main trading partners;
- pilot studies should be carried out on a mandatory, and not a voluntary, basis, and cost-benefit aspects should be borne in mind.