European Parliament legislative resolution on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee for a European Parliament and Council directive on the incineration of waste (C5-0371/2000 - 1998/0289(COD))
Date: 2000-11-16
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: air quality, dangerous substance, prevention of pollution, waste incineration, waste management

8.8.2001

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Official Journal of the European Communities

C 223/283

Thursday 16 November 2000

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Calls upon the Commission to inform Parliament as to which Member States have implemented and
properly enforced EU legislation concerning the ban on meat-and-bone meal in feedingstuffs intended for
ruminants and the heat/pressure method for producing meat-and-bone meal;

Calls upon the Commission to prepare a proposal obliging Member States to report annually to the
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Commission and Parliament the outcome of enforcement of all relevant EU legislation concerning the beef
sector and animal nutrition and inspection, especially the total number, frequency and place of hygiene
inspections in feedingstuff production and the beef sector;

Underlines its call for an emergency system (using temporary injunctions) which would enable the
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Commission to take immediate action when Community standards are not properly implemented or their
implementation monitored in the Member States, as the infringement proceedings pursuant to Article 226
of the Treaty take too much time to ensure consumer protection against immediate risks;

Points out that, at present, no common provisions exist to combat scrapie and, therefore, calls on

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the Council to examine, at last, the TSE Regulation;

Underlines that the open declaration of all ingredients which form part of any animal feed produced

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and marketed in the EU needs to be delivered by the animal feed industry;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the govern-

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ments and parliaments of the Member States.

2.

Incineration of waste ***III

A5-0321/2000

European Parliament legislative resolution on the joint text approved by the Conciliation Commit-
tee for a European Parliament and Council directive on the incineration of waste (C5-0371/2000 (
1998/0289(COD))

(Codecision procedure: third reading)

The European Parliament,

3 having regard to the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee (C5-0371/2000),

3 having regard to its position at first reading (1) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the

Council (COM(1998) 558 (2)),

3 having regard to the amended Commission proposal (COM(1999) 330) (3),

3 having regard to its position at second reading (4) on the Council common position,

3 having regard to the Commission’s opinion on Parliament’s amendments to the common position

(COM(2000) 280 3 C5-0364/2000),

3 having regard to Article 251(5) of the EC Treaty,

3 having regard to Rule 83 of its Rules of Procedure,

3 having regard to the report of its delegation to the Conciliation Committee (A5-0321/2000),

1.

Approves the joint text;

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

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the EC Treaty;

(1) OJ C 219, 30.7.1999, p. 249 and OJ C 279, 1.10.1999, p. 274.
(2) OJ C 372, 2.12.1998, p. 11.
(3) OJ C 150 E, 30.5.2000, p. 1.
(4) OJ C 25, 28.1.2000, p. 17.

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

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

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

3. Combating social exclusion ***I

A5-0307/2000

Proposal for a European Parliament and Council decision establishing a programme of Community
exclusion
action to encourage

cooperation between Member States

to combat

social

(COM(2000) 368 ( C5-0317/2000 ( 2000/0157(COD))

The proposal was amended as follows:

TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE COMMISSION

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

(Amendment 1)
Title

Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the
Council establishing a programme of Community action to
encourage cooperation between Member States to combat
social exclusion

Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the
Council establishing a programme of Community action to
encourage cooperation between Member States to combat pov-
erty and social exclusion

(Amendment 2)
Recital 1

(1)
Pursuant to Article 2 of the Treaty, the Community shall
have as one of its tasks to promote the raising of the standard
of living and quality of life throughout the Community.

(1)
Pursuant to Article 2 of the EC Treaty, the Community
shall have as one of its tasks to promote a high level of
employment and of social protection and the raising of the
standard of living and quality of life throughout the Commu-
nity and solidarity among Member States.

(Amendment 3)
Recital 2a (new)

(2a) Account should be taken of the revised Social Char-
ter of the Council of Europe (1996), and in particular Arti-
cle 30 thereof on the right to protection against poverty
and social exclusion.

(Amendment 4)
Recital 2b (new)

(2b) Council Recommendation 92/441/EEC of 24 June
1992 on common criteria concerning sufficient resources
and social assistance in social protection systems (1)
recommends that Member States recognise the basic right
of a person to sufficient resources and social assistance to
live in a manner compatible with human dignity; Council
recommendation 92/442/EEC of 27 July 1992 on the con-
vergence of social protection objectives and policies (2)
recommends that Member States guarantee a level of
resources in keeping with human dignity; in its conclu-
sions of 17 December 1999 on the strengthening of coop-
eration for modernising and improving social protec-
tion (3), the Council endorses the promotion of social
inclusion as an objective.

(1) OJ L 245, 26.8.1992, p. 46.
(2) OJ L 245, 26.8.1992, p. 49.
(3) OJ C 8, 12.1.2000, p. 7.