Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) completing Regulation (EEC) n° 302/93 establishing a European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
Date: 1999-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Central and Eastern European countries, EU programme, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, information network, information system

30.11.1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 342 E/43

Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) completing Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 establishing a
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)

(1999/C 342 E/06)

COM(1999) 430 final (cid:151) 1999/0187(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 9 September 1999)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community and,
in particular, Article 308 (ex Article 235)
thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

(1) Whereas, on 8 February 1993, the Council adopted Regu-
lation (EEC) No 302/93 (1) establishing a European Moni-
toring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA),

(2) Whereas the EMCDDA is responsible for establishing and
in cooperation with the Member States, a
and Drug Addiction

coordinating,
European Network on Drugs
(REITOX),

(3) Whereas the European Parliament

in its Resolution of
the
September 1998 on the 1997 Annual Report of
European Monitoring Centre
and Drug
Addiction on the state of the drugs problem in the EU
indicated that it regards it as essential that the EMCDDA
should make a start on incorporating the applicant
countries from central and eastern Europe and Cyprus
into the REITOX network and taking account of data
from those countries in its reports and analyses,

for Drugs

(4) Whereas there is the need to progressively organise the
the
eastern European
central
participation of
countries
in the EMCDDA activities and the
REITOX core tasks, as foreseen in the EMCDDA Work
Programme for 1998-2000,

(CEECs)

and

(5) Whereas the PHARE Multi-Beneficiary Drugs Programme
aims,
in particular, at providing assistance to the central
and eastern European countries for the development and
information systems and networks for
strengthening of
collecting, processing and distributing data concerning
drugs and drug addiction in the CEECs,

(7) Whereas it is necessary for the EMCDDA to cover in its
the
approach all PHARE countries which are part of
PHARE Multi-Beneficiary Drugs Programme,
including
therefore Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

(8) Whereas the structural assistance projects to be imple-
mented by the EMCDDA in applicant countries and
countries eligible for the PHARE programme include in
particular activities related to coordination and exchange
of information, transfer of know-how, creation and rein-
forcement of structural links with the REITOX network and
setting up and consolidation of national focal points.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following modifies Article 1(4) of Regulation (EEC) No
302/93:

(cid:145)4. Without prejudice to Article 2 (D) 14., the Centre may not
take any measure which in any way goes beyond the
sphere of information and the processing thereof.(cid:146)

Article 2

The following completes Article 2 (D) of Regulation (EEC) No
302/93:

(cid:145)14.

at

the

request of

the European
It may provide,
Commission, structural technical assistance in the field
of drugs information systems for applicant countries
and countries eligible for the PHARE programme with a
view to involving them into the activities of the EMCDDA
links with the REITOX
and establishing structural
network.(cid:146)

(6) Whereas it is desirable to directly entrust the EMCDDA
with the implementation of structural technical assistance
projects
the
applicant
central and eastern European
countries and other applicant countries with a view to
involving them into the activities of
the EMCDDA and
establishing structural links with the REITOX network,

in the field of
countries of

information systems

for

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States.

(1) OJ L 36, 12.2.1993.