Resolution of the European Parliament on the supplementary estimates to Parliament's budget estimates for 2000
Date: 1999-12-15
Institutions: Committee on Budgets, European Parliament
Subjects: Community budget, European Parliament, budget estimate, financial year

C 296/100

Official Journal of the European Communities

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18.10.2000

Wednesday 15 December 1999

GOODWILL Robert
GREEN Pauline
HANNAN Daniel J.
HARBOUR Malcolm
HEATON-HARRIS Christopher
HELMER Roger
HOLMES Michael John
HOWITT Richard
HUDGHTON Ian Stewart
HUGHES Stephen
HUHNE Christopher
HUME John
Lord INGLEWOOD
JACKSON Caroline F.
KHANBHAI Bashir
KINNOCK Glenys
KIRKHOPE Timothy
LAMBERT Jean
LUCAS Caroline
LUDFORD Baroness Sarah
LYNNE Elizabeth
McAVAN Linda
McCARTHY Arlene
MacCORMICK Neil
McMILLAN-SCOTT Edward H.C.
McNALLY Eryl Margaret
MARTIN David W.
MILLER Bill
MORAES Claude
MORGAN Eluned

MURPHY Simon Francis
NEWTON DUNN William Francis
NICHOLSON James
Baroness NICHOLSON OF WINTERBOURNE
O’TOOLE Barbara
PAISLEY Ian R.K.
PARISH Neil
PERRY Roy
PROVAN James L.C.
PURVIS John
READ Imelda Mary
SIMPSON Brian
SKINNER Peter William
STEVENSON Struan
Earl of STOCKTON
STURDY Robert William
SUMBERG David
TANNOCK Charles
TAYLOR Catherine
TITFORD Jeffrey William
TITLEY Gary
VAN ORDEN Geoffrey
VILLIERS Theresa
WALLIS Diana
WATSON Graham R.
WATTS Mark Francis
WHITEHEAD Phillip
WYN Eurig
WYNN Terence

14. Supplementary estimates

A5-0100/1999

Resolution of the European Parliament on the supplementary estimates to Parliament’s budget
estimates for 2000

The European Parliament,

2 having regard to Article 272 of the EC Treaty,

2 having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament,
the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary pro-
cedure (1),

2 having regard to its resolution of 23 March 1999 on the guidelines for the 2000 budgetary procedure:
Section I 2 European Parliament, Ombudsman Annex; Section II 2 Council; Section IV 2 Court of
Justice; Section V 2 Court of Auditors; Section VI 2 Economic and Social Committee and Committee
of the Regions (2),

2 having regard to its resolution of 5 May 1999 on the estimates of revenue and expenditure of the
European Parliament and the estimates of revenue and expenditure of the Ombudsman for the finan-
cial year 2000 (3),

2 having regard to the preliminary draft budget for the financial year 2000 (COM(1999) 200),

2 having regard to the draft general budget for the financial year 2000 established by the Council

(C5-0300/1999),

2 having regard to Article 199 of the EC Treaty, Article 25 of the ECSC Treaty and Article 112 of the

EAEC Treaty,

2 having regard to Rule 183 of and Annex VI(II) to its Rules of Procedure,

2 having regard to the preliminary draft supplementary estimates for the 2000 budget adopted by its

Bureau on 2 December 1999,

2 having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A5-0100/1999),

(1) OJ C 172, 18.6.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ C 177, 22.6.1999, p. 44.
(3) OJ C 279, 1.10.1999, p. 227.

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Wednesday 15 December 1999

1.

Adopts unamended its supplementary estimates;

2.
Stresses, however, that in the event that the final decision of the Court of First Instance in Case
T-222/99 cancels the Court’s decision of 25 November 1999 the posts will become vacant, and then
remain so, and the upgrading will be cancelled;

3.

Instructs its President to forward the supplementary estimates to the Commission and the Council.

15. Civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles ***II

A5-0086/1999

European Parliament legislative resolution on the common position adopted by the Council with a
view to adopting a European Parliament and Council directive on the approximation of the laws
of the Member States relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor
vehicles and amending Directives 73/239/EEC and 88/357/EEC (Fourth Motor Insurance Directive)
(14247/1/1999 3 C5-0027/1999 3 1997/0264(COD))

(Codecision procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

2 having regard to the Council common position (14247/1/1999 2 C5-0027/1999) (1),

2 having regard to its position at first reading (2) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the

Council (COM(1997) 510) (3),

2 having regard to the Commission’s amended proposal (COM(1999) 147) (4),

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

2 having regard to Rule 80 of its Rules of Procedure,

2 having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the

Internal Market (A5-0086/1999),

1.

2.

Amends the common position as follows;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

COMMON POSITION
OF THE COUNCILl

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 1)
Recital 8

is in fact appropriate to supplement

(8) Whereas it
the
arrangements established by Directives 72/166/EEC, 84/5/EEC
and 90/232/EEC in order to guarantee injured parties suffering
loss or injury as a result of a motor vehicle accident compar-
able treatment irrespective of where in the Community acci-
dents occur; whereas,
for accidents occurring in a Member
State other than that of the injured party’s residence, there are
gaps with regard to the settlement of injured parties’ claims;

is in fact appropriate to supplement

(8) Whereas it
the
arrangements established by Directives 72/166/EEC, 84/5/EEC
and 90/232/EEC in order to guarantee injured parties suffering
loss or injury as a result of a motor vehicle accident compar-
able treatment irrespective of where in the Community acci-
dents occur; whereas, for accidents occurring in a State other
than that of the injured party’s residence, there are gaps with
regard to the settlement of injured parties’ claims;

(1) OJ C 232, 13.8.1999, p. 8.
(2) OJ C 292, 21.9.1998, p. 123.
(3) OJ C 343, 13.11.1997, p. 11.
(4) OJ C 171, 18.6.1999, p. 4.