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"B COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2220/2000
of 28 September 2000
amending Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 on the establishment of a European Monitoring Centre for Drugs
and Drug Addiction
(OJ L 253, 7.10.2000, p. 1)
Corrected by:
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2220/2000
of 28 September 2000
amending Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 on the establishment of a
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community and, in
particular, Article 308 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Whereas:
(1) On 8 February 1993, the Council adopted Regulation (EEC) No
302/93 (3).
(2) The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
(EMCDDA), (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Observatory’), isresponsible for establishing and coordinating, in cooperation with
the Member States, a European Network on Drugs and Drug Addiction
(Reitox).
(3) The European Parliament in its resolution of September 1998 on the
1997 Annual Report of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs andDrug Addiction on the state of the drugs problem in the EU indicated
that it regards it as essential that the Observatory should make a start
on incorporating the applicant countries from central and easternEurope and Cyprus into the Reitox network and taking account of datafrom those countries in its reports and analyses.
(4) There is the need to progressively organise the participation of the
applicant countries in the Observatory activities and the Reitox core
tasks.
(5) The PHARE Multi-Beneficiary Drugs Programme aims, in particular,
at providing assistance to the central and eastern European countriesfor the development and strengthening of information systems and
networks for collecting, processing and distributing data concerning
drugs and drug addiction in these countries.
(6) It is desirable directly to entrust the Observatory with the
implementation of structural technical assistance projects in the fieldof information systems for the applicant countries of the central and
eastern European countries and other applicant countries with a view
to involving them with the activities of the Observatory andestablishing structural links with the Reitox network.
(7) It is necessary for the Observatory to cover in its approach all PHARE
countries which are part of the PHARE Multi-Beneficiary Drugs
Programme, including therefore Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and theFormer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
(8) The structural assistance projects to be implemented by the Observ-
atory in applicant countries and countries eligible for the PHARE
programme include in particular activities related to coordination and
exchange of information, transfer of know how, creation andreinforcement of structural links with the Reitox network and settingup and consolidation of national focal points,!B
(1) OJ C 342 E, 30.11.1999, p. 43.
(2) Opinion delivered on 16 June 2000 (not yet published in the Official Journal).
(3) OJ L 36, 12.2.1993, p. 1. Regulation amended by Regulation (EC) No 3294/94 (OJ
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 is hereby amended as follows:
1. Article 1(4) shall be replaced by the following:
‘4. Without prejudice to Article 2(D)14, the Centre may not take any
measure which in any way goes beyond the sphere of information and the
processing thereof.’;
2. the following point shall be added to Article 2(D):
‘14. It may transfer in applicant countries and in countries eligible for the
PHARE programme, at the request of the Commission of the
European Communities, its know-how and assist in the creation andreinforcement of structural links with the Reitox network and thesetting up and the consolidation of the national focal points.’
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States.!B
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