PURPOSE: adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny of a number of instruments subject to the co-decision procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty (“Omnibus” Regulation – Part 2).
PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.
CONTENT: Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (comitology) was amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced 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 co-decision procedure, inter alia by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument by the addition of new non-essential elements.
In accordance with the joint statement of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on Decision 2006/512/EC, for this new procedure to be applicable to instruments adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure which are already in force, those instruments must be adapted in accordance with the applicable procedures.
The current proposal covers 47 legislative instruments to be adapted to the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny (the list of instruments can be found in the annex of the proposal). The amendments that need to be made to instruments for this purpose concern only the committee procedures and so, in the case of Directives, do not require transposition by the Member States.