A4-0118/95

Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Regulation concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (COM(94)0579 - C4-0272/94 - 94/0285(COD))

The proposal was approved with the following amendments:

(Amendment 1)

Recital -1 (new)

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(-1) Whereas research into plant protection products contributes to the continuing improvement in the production and procurement of plentiful food of good quality at affordable prices;

(Amendment 2)

Recital 2

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(2) Whereas plant protection products, especially those that are the result of long, costly research, will not continue to be developed in the Community and in Europe unless they are covered by favourable rules that provide for sufficient protection to encourage such research;

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(2) Whereas plant protection products, especially those that are the result of long, costly research, will continue to be developed in the Community and in Europe if they are covered by favourable rules that provide for sufficient protection to encourage such research;

(Amendment 3)

Recital 2a (new)

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(2a) Whereas, by its very nature, the competitiveness of the plant protection sector calls for the same protection to be afforded to innovation as that granted to medicinal products pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No. 1768/921, which provides for a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products;

1 OJ L 182, 2.7.1992, p. 1.

(Amendment 4)

Recital 4a (new)

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(4a) Whereas the true purpose of the supplementary protection certificate is to place European industry on the same competitive footing as the American and Japanese industries;

Legislative resolution embodying Parliament's opinion on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Regulation concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (COM(94)0579 - C4-0272/94 - 94/0285(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

- having regard to the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council, COM(94)0579 - 94/0285(COD) ((OJ C 390, 31.12.1994, p. 21.)),

- having regard to Article 189b(2) and Article 100a of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C4-0272/94),

- having regard to Rule 58 of its Rules of Procedure,

- having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens' Rights and the opinions of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy, the Committee on Research, Technological Development and Energy and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection (A4- 0118/95),

1. Approves the Commission proposal, subject to Parliament's amendments;

2. Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 189a(2) of the EC Treaty;

3. Calls on the Council to incorporate Parliament's amendments in the common position that it adopts in accordance with Article 189b(2) of the EC Treaty;

4. Should the Council intend to depart from the text approved by Parliament, calls on the Council to notify Parliament and requests that the conciliation procedure be initiated;

5. Points out that the Commission is required to submit to Parliament any modification it may intend to make to its proposal as amended by Parliament;

6. Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission.