Legislative resolution confirming Parliament's opinion on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive concerning the organisation of working time for mobile workers performing road transport activities and for self-employed drivers (COM(98)0662 C4-0716/98 98/0319(COD) - former 98/0319(SYN)) (Codecision procedure: confirmation of first reading)
Date: 1999-05-06
Institutions: Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, European Parliament
Subjects: arrangement of working time, collective agreement, drivers, occupational safety, working time

C 279/270

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

1.10.1999

Thursday 6 May 1999

Confirms  as  its  first  reading  under  the  codecision  procedure  its  vote  of  14  April  1999 (1)  on  the
1.
proposal  for  a  European  Parliament  and  Council  Directive  amending  Directive  93/104/EC  concerning
certain  aspects  of  the  organisation  of  working  time  in  the  sectors  and  activities  excluded  from  that
Directive (COM(98)0662 − C4-0715/98 − 98/0318(COD);

Calls  on  the  Commission  to  alter  its  proposal  accordingly  pursuant  to  Article  250(2)  of  the  EC

2.
Treaty;

Calls  on  the  Council  to  approve  all  Parliament’s  amendments  and  definitively  adopt  the  act  as

3.
amended;

Points out that the Commission is requested to submit to Parliament any modification it may intend

4.
to make to its proposal as amended by Parliament;

5.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Minutes of that sitting, Part II, Item 29(a).

6.  Working time for mobile workers

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Legislative resolution confirming Parliament’s opinion on the proposal for a European Parliament
and Council Directive relating to the organisation of working time for mobile workers performing
road transport activities and for self-employed drivers (COM(98) 0662-C4-0716/98 − 98/0319(COD)
− former 98/0319(SYN))

(Codecision procedure: confirmation of first reading)

The European Parliament,

−  having regard to the list of Commission proposals pending as at 1 May 1999 for which the entry into

force of the Treaty of Amsterdam necessitates a change in legal basis and/or procedure,

−  having regard to its resolution of 4 May 1999 on the implications of the entry into force of the Treaty
of Amsterdam (list of proposals pending as at 1 May 1999 indicating new legal bases and any changes
in legislative procedure following the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam) (1),

−  having  regard  to  the  Proposal  for  a  European  Parliament  and  Council  Directive  relating  to  the
organisation  of  working  time  for  mobile  workers  performing  road  transport  activities  and  for
self-employed drivers (COM(98)0662 − C4-0716/98 − 98/0319(COD), confirmed by the Commis-
sion on 3 May 1999,

−  having regard to Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty,

Confirms  as  its  first  reading  under  the  codecision  procedure  its  vote  of  14  April  1999 (2)  on  the
1.
proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive relating to the organisation of working time for
mobile  workers  performing  road  transport  activities  and  for  self-employed  drivers  (COM(98)0662  −
C4-0716/98 − 98/0319(COD);

Calls  on  the  Commission  to  alter  its  proposal  accordingly,  pursuant  to  Article  250(2)  of  the  EC

2.
Treaty;

Calls  on  the  Council  to  approve  all  Parliament’s  amendments  and  definitively  adopt  the  act  as

3.
amended;

Points out that the Commission is requested to submit to Parliament any modification it may intend

4.
to make to its proposal as amended by Parliament;

5.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission.

(1)  Minutes of that sitting, Part II, Item 7.
(2)  Minutes of that sitting, Part II, Item 29(b)I.