CELEX: 51992PC0595
Language: en
Date: 1992-12-17
Title: Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on transit statistics and storage statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                         C0M(92) 595 final SYN 407
                                         Brussels, 17 December 1992
   Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on transit
       statistics and storage statistics relating to the trading of
                      goods between Member States(1)
 ---pagebreak---                         Explanatory memorandum
1. The European Parliament has examined in first reading the proposal
   for a Council Regulation (EEC) on transit statistics and storage
   statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States.
2. Of the two amendments adopted by the European Parliament, the
   Commission can accept the one inserting an additional recital in
   the preamble, since the recital in question highlights the fact
   that the Member States need a basis of Community legislation for
   the purposes of the above-mentioned statistics.
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  Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on transit
      statistics and storage statistics relating to the trading of
                     goods between Member States ( •*••)
(Presented by the Commission on                  under Article 149(3)of
the EEC Treaty)
On 31 March 1992 the,Commission presented the above-mentioned proposal
to the Council. In view of the opinion delivered by the European
Parliament at its sitting of 19 November 1992, this proposal is amended
as follows:
-    the following recital is to be inserted after the second recital:
"Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 of 7 November 1991
prohibits the Member States from introducing or maintaining compulsory
formalities for the purpose of keeping statistics on transit and
storage; whereas it is necessary to provide the Member States with a
basis of Community legislation on this matter;"
(1) OJ No C 107, 28.4.1992, p. 16.
 ---pagebreak---    Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on transit statistics and
           storage statistics relating to the trading of goods
                          between Member States
                       Statement of reasons for the
                      rejection of Amendment No   2^)
The second paragraph of Article 16 of the proposal states:
        "[This Regulation] shall be applicable from the date given in
        the second paragraph of Article 35 of Regulation (EEC) No
        3330/91."
Amendment No 2 proposes the addition of the following:
        "....and will remain in force until 31 December 1994. Three
        months before this date at the latest, the Commission will
        present a report on the application of this Regulation and, if
        necessary, will put forward a proposal."
With this amendment, this paragraph would, on the one hand, duplicate
Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 of 7 November 1991 on the
statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States(2).
         "The Commission shall report to the European Parliament and the
        Council in good time on the operation of the Intrastat system
        for each category of statistics relating to the trading of
        goods between Member States covered by the Intrastat system,
        with a view to possible adaptation of the system at the end of
        the transitional period (...)."
On the other hand, it would be too restrictive, since an observation
period of less than two years would not be long enough to judge the
operation of a system involving a great many innovations.
(1) PE 202.283/fin., 4.11.1992
(2) OJ No L 316, 16.11.1991, p. 1.
 ---pagebreak---                   SME and employment impact statement
The impact statement attached to the initial proposal remains valid.
The amendment of the proposal does not call for any further comment in
this context.
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