Comitology: exercise of implementing powers conferred to the Commission

PURPOSE : to present an amended proposal for a Council Decision of amending Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission.

CONTENT : the Council adopted Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission; that Decision has provided for a limited number of procedures for the exercise of such powers.

It is proposed to amend that Decision in order to introduce a new type of procedure for the exercise of those powers, the regulatory procedure with scrutiny, which allows the legislator to oppose the adoption of draft measures where it indicates that the draft exceeds the implementing powers provided for in the basic instrument, or that it is incompatible with the aim or the content of that instrument or fails to respect the principles of subsidiarity or proportionality.

It is necessary to follow the regulatory procedure with scrutiny for measures of general scope designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 TEC, including by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument by the addition of new non-essential elements.

In this same framework, it should be ensured that the European Parliament receives better information on the work of committees,

This draft of the final compromise text for a new procedure results from the meeting of the Permanent Representatives Committee on 8 June 2006.