PURPOSE : to codify Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control.
PROPOSED ACT : Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council.
CONTENT : on 1 April 1987, the Commission decided to instruct its staff that all legislative acts should be codified after no more than ten amendments, stressing that this is a minimum requirement.
The purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control. The new Directive will supersede the various acts incorporated in it; this proposal fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself. The codification proposal was drawn up on the basis of a preliminary consolidation, in all official languages, of Directive 96/61/EC and the instruments amending it, carried out by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, by means of a data-processing system. Where the Articles have been given new numbers, the correlation between the old and the new numbers is shown in a table contained in Annex VII to the codified Directive.