Council Regulation (EC) No 2220/2000 of 28 September 2000 amending Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 on the establishment of a European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Date: 2000-09-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU programme, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, drug traffic, information network, narcotic, research body

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2220/2000

of 28 September 2000

amending Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 on the establishment of a European Monitoring Centre for
Drugs and Drug Addiction

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community and,

in particular, Article 308 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

On 8 February 1993, the Council adopted Regulation
(EEC) No 302/93 (3).

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug
(hereinafter referred to as the
Addiction (EMCDDA),
‘Observatory’), is responsible for establishing and coordi-
nating, in cooperation with the Member States, a Euro-
pean Network on Drugs and Drug Addiction (Reitox).

The European Parliament in its resolution of September
1998 on the 1997 Annual Report of the European
Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction on the
state of the drugs problem in the EU indicated that it
regards it as essential that the Observatory 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 coun-
tries in its reports and analyses.

There is the need to progressively organise the participa-
tion of the applicant countries in the Observatory activi-
ties and the Reitox core tasks.

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

It is desirable directly to entrust the Observatory with
the implementation of structural
technical assistance
projects in the field of information systems for the appli-

(7)

(8)

cant countries of the central and eastern European coun-
tries and other applicant countries with a view to
involving them with the activities of the Observatory
and establishing structural
links with the Reitox
network.

It
is necessary for the Observatory to cover in its
approach all PHARE countries which are part of the
PHARE Multi-Beneficiary Drugs Programme,
including
therefore Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

The structural assistance projects to be implemented by
the Observatory in applicant countries and countries
eligible for the PHARE programme include in particular
activities related to coordination and exchange of infor-
mation, transfer of know how, creation and reinforce-
ment of structural links with the Reitox network and
setting up and consolidation of national focal points,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 302/93 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 1(4) shall be replaced by the following:

‘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.’;

2. the following point shall be added to Article 2(D):

‘14. It may transfer in applicant countries eligible for the
PHARE programme, at the request of the Commission
of the European Communities, its know-how and assist
in the creation and reinforcement of structural
links
with the Reitox network and the setting up and the
consolidation of the national focal points.’

(1) OJ C 342 E, 30.11.1999, p. 43.
(2) Opinion delivered on 16 June 2000 (not yet published in the Offi-

cial Journal).

(3) OJ L 36, 12.2.1993, p. 1. Regulation amended by Regulation (EC)

No 3294/94 (OJ L 341, 30.12.1994, p. 7).

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 September 2000.

For the Council

The President

D. VAILLANT