CELEX: 51986PC0659
Language: en
Date: 1986-11-14
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION RELATING TO THE ZOOTECHNICAL STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO BREEDING ANIMALS OF THE PORCINE SPECIES ( SUBMITTED TO THE COUNCIL BY THE COMMISSION PURSUANT TO THE SECOND PARAGRAPH OF ARTICLE 149 OF THE EEC TREATY )

No C 2/4                            Official Journal of the European Communities                        6.1.87
                                                           II
                                                   (Preparatory Acts)
                                              COMMISSION
         Amendment to the Proposal for a Council Directive on animal health problems affecting intra-
         Community trade and imports from third countries of semen of domestic animals of the bovine
                                                 and porcine species (')
                                                  COM(86) 657final
         {Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of
                                        the EEC Treaty on 14 November 1986)
                                                      (87/C 2/04)
         The proposal for a Council Directive set out in Document COM(83) 512 final of 20 September
         1983 is hereby amended as follows:
         1. The words "by means of the procedure of the Standing Veterinary Committee" in the fifth
             recital are deleted.
         2. Article 9 (1) is replaced by the following:
             'In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19, the Commission shall draw up
             one or more lists of semen collection centres from which Member States may authorize the
             importation of semen originating in third countries. The list or lists may amended or
             supplemented in accordance with that procedure.'
         3. The words 'save where the Council has decided by a simple majority against those measures'
             in the second subparagraphs of Articles 17 (4) and 18 (4) are deleted.
         4. The following Article is inserted:
              'Article 19
             Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be used, the Committee shall discuss
             matters on which the Commission has requested an opinion. When seeking the opinion of
             the Committee, the Commission may set a time limit within which such opinion must be
             delivered.
             No vote shall be taken. However, any member of the Committee may demand that his views
             be set down in the minutes.'
         5. Articles 19, 20 and 21 become Articles 20, 21 and 22 respectively.
         (') OJ No C 267, 6. 10. 1983, p. 5.