Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 on protection of the Community's forests against fire
Date: 2001-11-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fire protection, forest conservation

26.2.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 51 E/343

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council
Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 on protection of the Community’s forests against fire

(2002/C 51 E/21)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(2001) 634 final (cid:151) 2001/0268(COD)

(Submitted by the Commission on 7 November 2001)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 175(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions,

the

scheme, which constitutes

tation of
the prime
reference for the budgetary authority within the meaning
of point 33 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May
1999 between the European Parliament, the Council and
the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement
of
the budgetary procedure. That allocation should be
adjusted in line with the amount entered in the preliminary
draft budget for 2002.

(6) Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 should therefore be

amended,

Acting in accordance with Article 251 of the Treaty,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

(1) The period of application of

the Community scheme
referred to in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 (1) is
due to expire on 31 December 2001.

(2) Under Article 10(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92, the
Commission is required to submit a revision proposal to
end of
Parliament and the Council before
the
the
application period, covering in particular
the environ-
mental, economic and social aspects and the results of a
cost-benefit analysis.

the proposal

can therefore be presented at

is still under way and no
(3) Preparation of
stage.
proposal
Parliament and the Council are consequently not
in a
position to adopt any new arrangements for continuing
the Community scheme for
forests
against fire before it reaches the end of
its application
period.

the protection of

this

Article 1

In Article 10, paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be replaced by the
following:

The scheme shall run for 11 years from 1 January

(cid:145)1.
1992.

2.
The financial allocation for the implementation of the
scheme shall be EUR 58,75 million for the period 1997 to
2002.

The annual appropriations
budgetary authority within the limits of
perspective.(cid:146)

shall be authorised by the
the financial

Article 2

(4) A transitional measure is

therefore needed to extend
application of the Regulation for a further year so that
the scheme can continue in 2002.

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

(5) Article 10(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 fixes at
EUR 49,4 million the financial allocation for implemen-

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

(1) OJ L 217, 31.7.1992, p. 3. Regulation last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1485/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 196, 20.7.2001, p. 4).