Commission work programme for 1999 - New legislative initiatives
Date: 1998-10-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European Commission, legislative programme (EU), proposal (EU)

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NEW  LEGISLATIVE  INITIATIVES

COM(1998)  609  final

(98/C  366/02)

The  measures  set  out  below  for  the  Commission’s  1999  work  programme  correspond  to  the
new legislative proposals which it plans to present. These are all new measures: adaptations or
amendments of existing legislation are not included. Proposals already programmed in previous
years  do  not  appear  here.

ADMINISTRATION  AND  BUDGET

1.  Proposal  to  recast  the  Financial  Regulation

AGRICULTURE  AND  FISHERIES

2.  Proposal  for  a  regulation  on  the  reform  of  the  common  organisation  of  the  cotton

market

3.  Proposal  for  a  regulation  on  the  reform  of  the  common  organisation  of  the  market  in

fishery  and  aquaculture  products

COMPETITION

4.  Proposal  for  the  amendment  of  the  first  regulation  implementing  Articles  85  and  86

5.  Proposal  for  regulation  on  exemptions  (vertical  restraints)

6.  Proposal  for  regulation  on  exemptions  (small  businesses)

7.  Proposal  for  regulation  on  exemptions  (training)

ECONOMY  AND  FINANCE

8.  Proposal  for  instrument  on  protecting  the  euro  against  counterfeiting

EMPLOYMENT/SOCIAL  AFFAIRS

9.  Proposal  for  decision  on  job-creating  measures

10.  Legislative  proposals  for  action  against  discrimination

11.  Proposal  for  decision  on  incentive  measures  for  social  inclusion

12.  Proposal  for  decision  on  a  Community  action  programme  in  the  field  of  health

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ENVIRONMENT

13.  Proposals for directives on the environmental specifications for heavy vehicles, motorcycles

and  fuels

JUSTICE  AND  HOME  AFFAIRS

14.  Legislative proposals on the application of the new provisions of the Treaty of Amsterdam
on  the  fields  of  immigration,  asylum,  crossing  of  external  frontiers  and  judicial
cooperation

INTERNAL  MARKET

15.  Proposal  for  amendment  of  the  money-laundering  directive

16.  Proposal  for  a  directive  on  venture  capital  funds

17.  Proposal for a directive on the movement of third-country nationals in connection with the

provision  of  services

18.  Proposal  for  a  regulation  to  create  a  Community  patent

19.  Proposal  for  a  directive  on  the  harmonisation  of  criteria  for  patentability  of  computer

programs

20.  Proposal  for  a  directive  on  the  tax  treatment  of  the  supplementary  pensions  rights  of

employed  and  self-employed  people  moving  within  the  EC

21.  Proposal  for  a  directive  on  determining  a  single  place  of  VAT  taxation

INSTITUTIONAL  QUESTIONS

22.  Proposal  for  a  regulation  on  access  to  Parliament,  Council  and  Commission  documents

EXTERNAL  RELATIONS

23.  Proposal  for  a  regulation  on  anti-personnel  mines

24.  Proposal  for  a  regulation  on  the  reconstruction  of  former  Yugoslavia

TRANSPORT

25.  Legislative  proposals  on  the  conditions  of  access  to  markets  in  port  services

26.  Proposal  for  a  directive  on  the  loading  and  unloading  of  bulk  carriers  in  ports