European Parliament legislative resolution on the Council common position for adopting a European Parliament and Council directive on action to be taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants by engines intended to power agricultural or forestry tractors and amending Council Directive 74/150/EEC (10323/1/1999 - C5-0225/1999 - 1998/0247(COD))
Date: 2000-04-12
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: Community certification, EU environmental policy, greenhouse gas, motor vehicle pollution, pollution control measures, tractor

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3. Transport of dangerous goods by road ***I (procedure without report)

Wednesday 12 April 2000

C5-0129/2000

Proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive amending Directive 95/50/EC on uni-
form procedures for checks on the transport of dangerous goods by road (COM(2000) 106 +
C5-0129/2000 + 2000/0044(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The proposal was approved.

4. EUR-OP (procedure without report)

C5-0080/2000

Proposal for a decision of the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Court of
Justice, the Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the
Regions on the organisation and operation of the Office for Official Publications of the European
Communities (EC, ECSC, Euratom) (C5-0080/2000 + 2000/2043(ACI))

The proposal was approved.

5. Emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants ***II (procedure without debate)

A5-0071/2000

European Parliament legislative resolution on the Council common position for adopting a Euro-
pean Parliament and Council directive on action to be taken against the emission of gaseous and
particulate pollutants by engines intended to power agricultural or forestry tractors and amending
Council Directive 74/150/EEC (10323/1/1999 + C5-0225/1999 + 1998/0247(COD))

(Codecision procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

(cid:26) having regard to the Council common position (10323/1/1999 (cid:26) C5-0225/1999) (1),

(cid:26) having regard to its position at first reading (2) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the

Council (COM(1998) 472) (3),

(cid:26) having regard to the Commission’s amended proposal (COM(1999) 386),

(cid:26) having regard to Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty,

(cid:26) having regard to Rule 78 of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:26) having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on the Environment,

Public Health and Consumer Policy (A5-0071/2000),

(1) OJ C 17, 20.1.2000, p. 13.
(2) OJ C 279, 1.10.1999, p. 208.
(3) OJ C 303, 2.10.1998, p. 9.

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1.

2.

Approves the common position;

Notes that the act is adopted in accordance with the common position;

Instructs its President to sign the act with the President of the Council pursuant to Article 254(1) of

3.
the EC Treaty;

Instructs its Secretary-General duly to sign the act and, in agreement with the Secretary-General of

4.
the Council, to have it published in the Official Journal of the European Communities;

5.

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

6. Exchange of financial information between Member States * (procedure with-

out debate)

A5-0102/2000

Initiative of the Republic of Finland with a view to adopting a Council decision concerning
arrangements for cooperation between financial intelligence units of the Member States in respect
of exchanging information (11636/1999 + C5-0330/1999 + 1999/0824(CNS))

The initiative was amended as follows:

TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND (1)

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 1)
Recital 7a (new)

(7a)
in the event of fraud, corruption or other illegal
activities affecting the European Union’s financial interests
the Commission and the authorities responsible for com-
bating money laundering must cooperate and exchange
useful information;

(Amendment 3)
Recital 7b (new)

the Member States must organise the FIUs in such a
(7b)
way as to ensure that information and documents are sub-
mitted within a reasonable space of time,

(Amendment 4)
Article 1(1)

1. Member States shall ensure that Financial Intelligence Units
(FIUs), set up or designated to receive disclosures of financial
information for the purpose of combating money laundering
shall cooperate to assemble, analyse and investigate relevant
information.

shall designate Financial

1. Member States
Intelligence
Units (FIUs), set up to receive disclosures of financial informa-
tion for the sole purpose of combating money laundering as
defined by Directive 91/308/EEC, and shall ensure that
they cooperate to assemble, analyse and investigate relevant
information. In the event of fraud, corruption or other ille-
gal activities that may affect the European Union’s finan-
cial interests the FIUs shall also cooperate with the Com-
mission. Information exchanged may not be used for any
purpose other than combating money laundering.

(1) OJ C 362, 16.12.1999, p. 6.