17. Calls upon the Commission to inform Parliament as to which Member States have implemented and
properly enforced EU legislation concerning the ban on meat-and-bone meal in feedingstuffs intended for
ruminants and the heat/pressure method for producing meat-and-bone meal;
18. Calls upon the Commission to prepare a proposal obliging Member States to report annually to the
Commission and Parliament the outcome of enforcement of all relevant EU legislation concerning the beef
sector and animal nutrition and inspection, especially the total number, frequency and place of hygiene
inspections in feedingstuff production and the beef sector;
19. Underlines its call for an emergency system (using temporary injunctions) which would enable the
Commission to take immediate action when Community standards are not properly implemented or their
implementation monitored in the Member States, as the infringement proceedings pursuant to Article 226of the Treaty take too much time to ensure consumer protection against immediate risks;
20. Points out that, at present, no common provisions exist to combat scrapie and, therefore, calls on
the Council to examine, at last, the TSE Regulation;
21. Underlines that the open declaration of all ingredients which form part of any animal feed produced
and marketed in the EU needs to be delivered by the animal feed industry;
22. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the govern-
ments and parliaments of the Member States.
2. Incineration of waste ***III
A5-0321/2000
European Parliament legislative resolution on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Commit-
tee for a European Parliament and Council directive on the incineration of waste (C5-0371/2000 6dash
1998/0289(COD))
(Codecision procedure: third reading)
The European Parliament,
xdash having regard to the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee (C5-0371/2000),
xdash having regard to its position at first reading (1) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the
Council (COM(1998) 558 (2)),
xdash having regard to the amended Commission proposal (COM(1999) 330) (3),
xdash having regard to its position at second reading (4) on the Council common position,
xdash having regard to the Commission’s opinion on Parliament’s amendments to the common position
(COM(2000) 280 xdash C5-0364/2000),
xdash having regard to Article 251(5) of the EC Treaty,xdash having regard to Rule 83 of its Rules of Procedure,xdash having regard to the report of its delegation to the Conciliation Committee (A5-0321/2000),
1. Approves the joint text;
2. Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council pursuant to Article 254(1) of
the EC Treaty;
(1) OJ C 219, 30.7.1999, p. 249 and OJ C 279, 1.10.1999, p. 274.
(2) OJ C 372, 2.12.1998, p. 11.
(3) OJ C 150 E, 30.5.2000, p. 1.
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3. Instructs its Secretary-General duly to sign the act and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of
the Council, to have it published in the Official Journal of the European Communities;
4. Instructs its President to forward this legislative resolution to the Council and Commission.
3. Combating social exclusion ***I
A5-0307/2000
Proposal for a European Parliament and Council decision establishing a programme of Community
action to encourage cooperation between Member States to combat social exclusion
(COM(2000) 368 6dash C5-0317/2000 6dash 2000/0157(COD))
The proposal was amended as follows:
TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE COMMISSIONAMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT
(Amendment 1)
Title
Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the
Council establishing a programme of Community action to
encourage cooperation between Member States to combat
social exclusionProposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the
Council establishing a programme of Community action to
encourage cooperation between Member States to combat pov-
erty and social exclusion
(Amendment 2)
Recital 1
(1) Pursuant to Article 2 of the Treaty, the Community shall
have as one of its tasks to promote the raising of the standard
of living and quality of life throughout the Community.(1) Pursuant to Article 2 of the ECTreaty, the Community
shall have as one of its tasks to promote a high level of
employment and of social protection and the raising of the
standard of living and quality of life throughout the Commu-nityand solidarity among Member States .
(Amendment 3)
Recital 2a (new)
(2a) Account should be taken of the revised Social Char-
ter of the Council of Europe (1996), and in particular Arti-cle 30 thereof on the right to protection against povertyand social exclusion.
(Amendment 4)
Recital 2b (new)
(2b) Council Recommendation 92/441/EEC of 24 June
1992 on common criteria concerning sufficient resourcesand social assistance in social protection systems (
1)
recommends that Member States recognise the basic rightof a person to sufficient resources and social assistance tolive in a manner compatible with human dignity; Councilrecommendation 92/442/EEC of 27 July 1992 on the con-vergence of social protection objectives and policies (
2)
recommends that Member States guarantee a level of
resources in keeping with human dignity; in its conclu-
sions of 17 December 1999 on the strengthening of coop-eration for modernising and improving social protec-tion (
3), the Council endorses the promotion of social
inclusion as an objective.
(1) OJ L 245, 26.8.1992, p. 46.
(2) OJ L 245, 26.8.1992, p. 49.
(3) OJ C 8, 12.1.2000, p. 7.C 223/284 EN 8.8.2001 Official Journal of the European Communities
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