CELEX: 52001DP0346
Language: en
Date: 2001-11-13 00:00:00
Title: European Parliament decision amending its Rules of Procedure as regards the setting-up of interparliamentary delegations and joint parliamentary committees (1999/2196(REG))

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Tuesday 13 November 2001
             European Parliament decision adapting its Rules of Procedure to the provisions of European Par-
             liament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 on public access to Parliament, Council and
                                             Commission documents (2001/2135(REG))
             The European Parliament,
                having regard to the letter of 29 June 2001 from its President,
                having regard to Article 255 of the EC Treaty, Articles 28(1) and 41(1) of the EU Treaty and Arti-
                 cles 42 and 52(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
                having regard to Rule 181 of its Rules of Procedure,
                having regard to the report of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the opinion of the Com-
                 mittee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (A5-0349/2001),
             1.   Decides to amend its Rules of Procedure as indicated above;
             2.   Decides to revoke the Bureau decisions of 10 July 1997 on public access to Parliament documents
             and of 17 April 1998 on fees to be paid for delivery of very large documents;
             3.   Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and Commission, for information.
             5. Amendment to the Rules of Procedure: Setting-up of interparliamentary
                  delegations and joint parliamentary committees
             A5-0346/2000
                                                   Parliament’s Rules of Procedure
                        FORMER TEXT                                                               NEW TEXT
                                                              Amendment 2
                                                  Rule 170, paragraph 3, subparagraph 2
The European Parliament shall appoint its representatives in            Deleted
accordance with Rule 168.
                                                              Amendment 3
                                                          Rule 170, paragraph 5
5.    The composition of European Parliament delegations to             5. The election of the Members of European Parliament del-
joint parliamentary committees shall be established at the              egations to joint parliamentary committees and the constitu-
same time and under the same conditions as for standing                 tion of the bureaux of these delegations shall take place in
committees.                                                             accordance with the procedure laid down for interparliamen-
                                                                        tary delegations.
             European Parliament decision amending its Rules of Procedure as regards the setting-up of inter-
                       parliamentary delegations and joint parliamentary committees (1999/2196(REG))
             The European Parliament,
                having regard to the letter of 21 October 1999 from its President,
                having regard to Rules 180 and 181 of its Rules of Procedure,
                having regard to the report of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (A5-0346/2000),
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              1.   Decides to amend its Rules of Procedure as indicated above;
              2.   Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and Commission, for information.
              6. Electronic communications ***I
              A5-0374/2001
              Proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive concerning the processing of personal
              data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (COM(2000) 385 5
                                                  C5-0439/2000 5 2000/0189(COD))
              The proposal was amended as follows:
                        TEXT PROPOSED                                                               AMENDMENTS
                    BY THE COMMISSION (1)                                                          BY PARLIAMENT
                                                               Amendment 1
                                                               Recital 1a (new)
                                                                           (1a) Articles 7 and 8 of the European Union Charter of
                                                                           Fundamental Rights, proclaimed in Nice on 7 December
                                                                           2000, seek to guarantee respect for private life and communi-
                                                                           cations, including personal data.
                                                               Amendment 2
                                                               Recital 5a (new)
                                                                           (5a) Information that is part of a broadcasting service pro-
                                                                           vided over a public communications network is intended for a
                                                                           potentially unlimited audience and does not constitute a com-
                                                                           munication within the meaning of this Directive. However, if
                                                                           it is possible to identify the individual subscriber or user
                                                                           receiving such information, for example with video-on-
                                                                           demand services, the information conveyed is covered within
                                                                           the meaning of a communication for the purposes of this
                                                                           Directive.
                                                               Amendment 3
                                                                  Recital 8
(8) The Member States, providers and users concerned,                      (8) The Member States, providers and users concerned,
together with the competent Community bodies, should coop-                 together with the competent Community bodies, should ensure
erate in introducing and developing the relevant technologies              that the processing of personal data is limited to a minimum
where this is necessary to apply the guarantees provided for               and that anonymous or pseudonymous data are used
by this Directive and taking particular account of the objec-              wherever possible, and should cooperate in introducing and
tives of minimising the processing of personal data and of                 developing the relevant technologies where this is necessary to
using anonymous or pseudonymous data where possible.                       apply the guarantees provided for by this Directive.
(1) OJ C 365 E, 19.12.2000, p. 223.