CELEX: 51991PC0439
Language: en
Date: 1991-11-08
Title: Re-examined proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) on the statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States

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                             Re-examined proposal for a
                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
                 on the statistics relating to the trading of goods
                                between Member States
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             (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(2)(d)
                                  of the EEC Treaty)
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                         Explanatory Memorandum
1.  On 9 October 1991(*) the European Parliament approved the common
    position taken up by the Council on 8 July1991(?) with a view to-
    the adoption of a regulation on the statistics relating to the
    trading of goods between Member States. However, its approval was
    subject to five amendments, which were accepted by the Commission
    at the same plenary sitting.
2.  The first amendment lays down, in the fourteenth recital, the main
    aim of fixing statistical thresholds, namely to relieve the burden
    on parties responsible for providing the statistical information.
3.  The other four amendments expressly incorporate, in the regulation
    proper, recourse to the cooperation procedure with the European
    Parliament for acts governing the compilation of additional
    statistics, the simplification of statistics on the trading o f c
    goods between Member States or the criteria to be applied to data
    liable to be declared confidential.
4.  Since all these amendments are in accordance with the general
    approach of the amended Commission proposal of 24 September
    1990(3), the Commission has re-examined its proposal.
(1)   Doc. PE 156563 - PV 32 II/9.10.91, p. 4
(2)   Council Doc. 6869/91, 24.7.1991.
(3)   OJ No C 254, 9.10.1990, p. 9.
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                       Re-examined proposal for a
                        COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
          on the statistics relating to the trading of goods
                          between Member States
On 24 September 1990, the Commission presented to the Council a
modified proposal for a regulation on the statistics relating to the
trading of goods between Member States^ 1 ). On 8 July 1991, the
Council took up a common position with a view to the adoption of this
regulation. On 9 October 1991, the European Parliament decided to
modify this common position by introducing five amendments. In view of
this decision, the Commission, which has accepted these amendments, has
re-examined its proposal as follows:
1)   the following text is added to the end of the fourteenth recital
     (formerly the fifteenth recital): "in order to relieve small and
     medium-sized undertakings of burdens that bear no relation to the
     volume of business conducted";
2)   the words "in cooperation with Parliament" are added:
          -   to Article 4 (1) (d), following the words "the Council";
              to Article 27, following the words "shall be adopted by the
              Council";
          -   to Article 31, (formerly Article 57), following the words
              "the Council";
              to Article 32 (formerly Article 58), following the words
              "the Council".
Done at Brussels,                                           For the Council
                                                             The President
 (1)  O J No c 254, 9.10.1990, p. 9,
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