European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council directive on laying down animal health rules for the importation into the Community of certain live ungulate animals, and amending Directives 90/426/EEC and 92/65/EEC (COM(2003) 570 — C5-0483/2003 — 2003/0224(CNS))
Date: 2004-03-30
Institutions: Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety, European Parliament
Subjects: animal disease, equidae, health certificate, health control, import (EU), live animal, surveillance concerning imports, veterinary inspection

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P5_TA(2004)0206

Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance governing the language of pro-
ceedings *

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision amending Arti-
cle 35 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance with regard to the language of
proceedings, with a view to the new division of jurisdiction in direct actions and the enlargement
of the Union (15738/2003 (cid:1) C5-0625/2003 (cid:1) 2003/0825(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

(cid:1) having regard to the proposal for a Council decision (15738/2003) (1),

(cid:1) having regard to the Commission’s opinion under the second paragraph of Article 245 of the EC
Treaty on the requests for amendment of Article 29 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice
and Article 35 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, presented by the Court of
Justice and the Court of First Instance in accordance with Article 64 of the Statute of the Court of
Justice (SEC(2004) 223),

(cid:1) having regard to Article 245(2) of the EC Treaty and Article 160(2) of the EAEC Treaty, pursuant to

which the Council consulted Parliament (C5-0625/2003),

(cid:1) having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:1) having regard to the report of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (A5-0126/

2004),

1.

2.

Approves the proposal for a Council decision;

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

Calls for initiation of the conciliation procedure under the Joint Declaration of 4 March 1975 if the

3.
Council intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

4.

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

(1) Not yet published in the OJ.

P5_TA(2004)0207

Imports of live ungulate animals *

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council directive on laying down
animal health rules for the importation into the Community of certain live ungulate animals, and
amending Directives 90/426/EEC and 92/65/EEC (COM(2003) 570 (cid:1) C5-0483/2003 (cid:1) 2003/
0224(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

(cid:1) having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2003) 570) (1),

(cid:1) having regard to Article 37 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament

(C5-0483/2003),

(1) Not yet published in the OJ.

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(cid:1) having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:1) having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy

(A5-0186/2004),

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC

2.
Treaty;

3.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal sub-

4.
stantially;

5.

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

TEXT PROPOSED
BY THE COMMISSION

AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

Amendment 1
ARTICLE 1

This Directive lays down the animal health requirements for
the importation into the Community of live ungulate animals
of the species listed in Annex I.

This Directive lays down the animal health requirements for
the importation into or transit through the Community of
live ungulate animals of the species listed in Annex I

(This amendment applies throughout the text.)

(e) accompany their owners as pet animals or;

Amendment 2
ARTICLE 2, POINT (ca) (new)

(ca)

‘ungulates’: means those animals listed in Annex I.

Amendment 3
ARTICLE 8, POINT (e)

(e) accompany their owners as pet animals notwithstanding
their absence from the animal health requirements of
Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parlia-
ment and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the animal
health requirements applicable to the non-commercial
movement of pet animals and amending Council Direc-
tive 92/65/EEC (1), if they are listed in this Directive as
ungulates acceptable as pets or;

(1) OJ L 146, 13.6.2003, p. 1.

Amendment 4
ARTICLE 9

By way of derogation from Article 7(a), and in accordance with
the procedure referred to in Article 14(2), conditions may be
established for the importation of live ungulate animals into
the Community from an authorised third country where cer-
tain diseases listed in Annex II are present and/or vaccinations
against those diseases are carried out;

By way of derogation from Article 7 (a), and in accordance
with the procedure referred to in Article 14 (2), conditions
may be established for the importation of live ungulate animals
into the Community from an authorised third country where
certain diseases listed in Annex II are present and/or vacci-
nations against
those diseases are carried out. Derogations
shall be made on a case-by-case basis.

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BY THE COMMISSION

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AMENDMENTS
BY PARLIAMENT

Amendment 5
ARTICLE 17, POINT 1a (NEW)
Article 19, point (iiia) (new) (Directive 90/426/EEC)

1a. In Article 19 the following point is added:

(iiia) may designate a Community Reference Labor-
atory for one or more of the equine diseases men-
tioned in Annex A and establish the functions,
duties and the procedures for collaboration with lab-
oratories in charge of diagnosing equine infectious
diseases in Member States.

P5_TA(2004)0208

Data on the quarterly government debt *

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council regulation on the com-
pilation and transmission of data on the quarterly government debt (COM(2003) 761 (cid:1) C5-0649/
2003 (cid:1) 2003/0295(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

(cid:1) having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2003) 761) (1),

(cid:1) having regard to Article 104 of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament

(C5-0649/2003),

(cid:1) having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,

(cid:1) having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (A5-0170/2004),

1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC

2.
Treaty;

3.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

Calls for initiation of the conciliation procedure under the Joint Declaration of 4 March 1975 if the

4.
Council intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal sub-

5.
stantially;

6.

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

(1) Not yet published in OJ.