Re-examined proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) on the statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States
Date: 1991-11-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: statistics, trading operation

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Re-examined  proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION (EEC) 

on  the statistics  relating  to the trading of goods 

between  Member  States 

(presented  by the Commission  pursuant  to Article  149(2)(d) 

of  the EEC Treaty) 

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Explanatory  Memorandum 

1.  On 9 October  1991(*) the European Parliament  approved  the common 
position taken up by the Council on 8 July1991(?) with a view to-
the adoption of a regulation on the statistics relating to the 
trading of goods between Member States.  However, its approval was 
subject to five amendments, which were accepted by the Commission 
at the same plenary  sitting. 

2.  The first amendment  lays down, in the fourteenth recital, the main 
aim of fixing statistical thresholds, namely to relieve the burden 
on parties responsible for providing the statistical  information. 

3.  The other  four amendments expressly  incorporate, in the regulation 
proper, recourse to the cooperation procedure with the European 
Parliament  for acts governing the compilation of  additional 
statistics, the simplification of statistics on the trading  o fc 
goods between Member States or the criteria to be applied to data 
liable to be declared  confidential. 

4.  Since all these amendments are in accordance with the general 

approach of the amended Commission proposal of 24 September 
1990(3), the Commission has re-examined  its proposal. 

(1)  Doc. PE 156563 - PV 32 II/9.10.91, p. 4 

(2)  Council Doc. 6869/91, 24.7.1991. 

(3)  OJ No C 254, 9.10.1990, p. 9. 

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Re-examined  proposal  for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION  (EEC) 

on the statistics  relating  to the trading of goods 

between Member  States 

On 24 September  1990, the Commission presented  to the Council a 
modified proposal  for a regulation on the statistics relating to the 
trading of goods between Member  States^1).  On 8 July  1991, the 
Council took up a common position with a view to the adoption of this 
regulation.  On 9 October  1991, the European Parliament  decided  to 
modify this common position by introducing  five amendments.  In view of 
this decision, the Commission, which has accepted these amendments, has 
re-examined  its proposal as follows: 

1)  the following text  is added to the end of the fourteenth  recital 
(formerly the  fifteenth  recital):  "in order to relieve  small and 
medium-sized  undertakings of burdens that bear no relation to the 
volume of business  conducted"; 

2)  the words  "in cooperation with Parliament" are added: 

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to Article 4  (1) (d), following the words  "the Council"; 
to Article 27, following the words  "shall be adopted  by the 
Council"; 
to Article 31, (formerly Article  57), following the words 
"the Council"; 
to Article 32  (formerly Article  58), following the words 
"the Council". 

Done at Brussels, 

For the Council 
The President 

(1)  OJ No c 254, 9.10.1990, p. 9, 

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