CELEX: 51995PC0537
Language: en
Date: 1995-10-27
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) AMENDING COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) NO 2965/94 OF 28 NOVEMBER 1994 SETTING UP A TRANSLATION CENTRE FOR BODIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

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                                                 COM(95) 537 final
                                                 95/0099 (CNS)
                               Amended proposal for a
                          COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
                                  AMENDING
 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) NO 2965/94 OF 28 NOVEMBER 1994
      SETTING UP A TRANSLATION CENTRE FOR BODIES OF THE
                               EUROPEAN UNION
             (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 189 a (2)
                                 of the EC-Treaty)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---      AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION AMENDING
       COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) NO 2965/94 OF 28 NOVEMBER 1994
        SETTING UP A TRANSLATION CENTRE FOR BODIES OF THE
                                  EUROPEAN UNION
                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Following the opinion éeliv«@d by the Europ®an Parliament on 20 September 1995 the
Commission hereby suferaks to the Council an amended proposal which incorporates all
amendments presented by Parliament.
Amendment n° 1, which aims at avoiding a parallel structure of coordination and at using
the Translation Centre for interinstitutionnal collaboration in the medium term in areas
on which all the bodies concerned are agreed, is accepted as a logical and useful
expansion of the Commission proposal.
Amendments n° 2 and 3 logically follow from amendment n° 1, and amendments ne 4 and
6 take account of the fact that if the Centre k to perform work for the institutions the
latter must be in a position to contribute to the revenue of the Centre. The Commission
therefore accepts these amendments as well.
Amendment n° 5 is accepted as it has proved éifffoult ill practice to apply the percentage
approach enshrined in the original Regulation. It therefore makes sense to provide thai
the contributing bodies should contribute a lump sum from their budgets at the start of
the financial year.
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 ---pagebreak--- Proposal for a Council Regulation                   Amended proposal following the opinio , <:
amending Council Regulation (EC) No                the European Parliament"
2965/94 of 28 November 1994 setting up a
Translation Centre for bodies of the
European Union'
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                        unchanged
UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the       unchanged
European Community, and in particular
Article 235 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the             unchanged
Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European       unchanged
Parliament,
Whereas it is necessary to strengthen the          unchanged
administrative collaboration between the
institutions and bodies of the Union with a view
to rationalising working methods and making
overall savings;
Whereas translation constitutes one of the         unchanged
sectors of activity where such interinstitutional
collaboration can be strengthened;
Whereas the Translation Centre set up by           Whereas the Translation Centre set up by
Council Regulation (EC) No 2965/943 should         Council Regulation (EC) No 2965/944 should
form an integral part of such interinstitutional   form an integral part of such interinstitutional
collaboration in the translation domain;           collaboration in the translation domain;
                                                   whereas one of the aims of such integration
                                                   shall be to avoid the development of a parallel
                                                   structure for collaboration between the
                                                   translation services, and in the medium term to
                                                   use the Centre for such activities;
                OJ C143, 9 June 1995, p. 25
                EP 193.732
                OJ L 314, 7 December 1994, p. 1
                OJ L 3 1 4 ,    7 December        1994,      p.   1
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 ---pagebreak---  Whereas it is therefore necessary to extend the    unchanged
 scope of the services provided by the Centre to
 enable those institutions and bodies of the
  Union which already have a translation service
  to have access to the Centre's services;
  Whereas, in order to avoid any confusion over     unchanged
  the broader scope of the Regulation, it is
  necessary to replace, in the earlier text of the
  Regulation, the word "bodies" by the term
  "agencies and offices" wherever necessary;
  Whereas the Treaty does not provide specific      unchanged
  powers of action for the adoption of this
  Regulation, other than those contained in
  Article 235,
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                   CHAPTER ONE
  Amendment to Council Regulation (EC) No           unchanged
  2965/94 of 28 November 1994 setting up a
  Translation Centre for the bodies of the
  European Union
  Article 1
   1 .Article 2(1) is amended as follows:
   l.The Centre shall provide the necessary         unchanged
  translation services for the operation of the
   following agencies and offices:
   -the European Environment Agency;
   -the European Training Foundation;
   -the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs
   and Drug Addiction;
   -the European Agency for the Evaluation of
   Medical Products;
   -the Agency for Health and Safety at Work;
   -the Office for Harmonization in the Internal
   Market (trademarks, designs and models);
   -the European Police Office (Europol) and the
   European Drugs Unit.
j The Centre and each of the agencies and offices
   mentioned above shall make arrangements
   covering the ways in which they will cooperate.
| 2.Article 2(2) is amended as follows:
] 2. Agencies and offices set up by the Council      unchanged
   other than those referred to in paragraph 1 may
   have access to the services of the Centre on the
   basis of arrangements to be agreed with the
   Centre.
 ---pagebreak--- 3. A new Article 2(3) is inserted as follows:
3. The institutions and bodies of the Union      unchanged
which already have their own translation service
may have access to the services of the Centre
on a reciprocal basis, to be determined in
accordance with arrangements to be agreed
between the parties.
                                                  New Article 2(4)
                                                 The Centre shall participate as a full member in
                                                 the work of the interinstitutional committee for
                                                 translation in all areas covered by the
                                                 collaboration. This collaboration shall also seek
                                                 to have the activities whose amalgamation has
                                                 been agreed between the institutions, offices
                                                 and agencies carried out in the medium term
                                                 via the Centre.
                     Article 2
1. Article 4(1) is amended as follows:
1. The Centre shall have a Management Board      unchanged
consisting of:
(a)   a representative from each of the agencies unchanged
      and offices listed in Article 2(1); any
      arrangement referred to in Article 2(2)
      may envisage a representation of the
      agency or office party to that
      arrangement;
(b)   a representative from each of the Member   (b)    a representative from each of the
       States of the European Union;                    Member States of the European Union;
and
(c)    two representatives from the              (c)    two representatives from the Commission
       Commission.
                                                 and
                                                 d)        one representative each from the
                                                           institutions, agencies and offices
                                                           which have their own translation
                                                           services but have concluded
                                                           agreements with the Centre for
                                                           collaboration on a reciprocal basis.
 ---pagebreak---                       Article 3
1. Article 10(2) is amended as follows:
2.(a) The revenue and expenditure shown in        unchanged
        the Centre's budget shall be in balance.
  (b) Subject to the provision set out in         (b) Subject to the provision set out in
        subparagraph (c) concerning the start-up      subparagraph (c) concerning the start-up
        period, the revenue shall come from the       period, the revenue shall come from the
        payments made by the agencies and             payments made by the agencies and offices
        offices serviced by the Centre in return      serviced by the Centre and the institutions
        for work performed by it.                     with which collaboration has been agreed in
                                                      return for work performed by it.
  (c) In the start-up period, which shall not     (c) In the start-up period, which shall not
        exceed three budgetary exercises:             exceed three financial years:
        -   the offices and agencies serviced by      - the offices, agencies and institutions
            the Centre shall contribute a lump           serviced by the Centre shall at the start
            sum contribution which will be a             of a financial year make a lump sum
            percentage of their budget, based on         contribution from their budgets, based
            the best possible information, and           on the best possible information, and
            which will be adapted in the light of        which will be adapted in the light of the
            the actual work performed;                   actual work performed;
        -   a contribution may be made from the       - a contribution may be made from the
            general budget of the European               general budget of the European
            Communities to the Centre to ensure          Communities to the Centre to ensure its
            its operation.                               operation.
                       Article 4
1. Article 11(1) is amended as follows:
1. Before the review provided for in Article 19,  unchanged
any agency or office referred to in Article 2(1)
which is experiencing particular difficulties in
connection with the provision of services by the
Centre may approach the Centre in order to
seek the most appropriate solutions to those
difficulties.
2. Article 11(2) is amended as follows:
2. If it proves impossible to arrive at such      unchanged
solutions within three months, the agency or
office in question may send a duly substantiated
communication to the Commission, so that the
Commission can take the necessary measures
and, if appropriate, organize, under the
auspices of the Centre and with its assistance,
more systematic recourse to third parties for
translation of the documents concerned.
 ---pagebreak---                      Article 5
1. Article 13(2) is amended as follows:
2. The Management Board shall adopt the             unchanged
statement of estimates accompanied by the
establishment plan and shall transmit them
immediately to the Commission, which on that
basis shall establish the estimates corresponding
to the subsidies granted to the agencies and
offices listed in Article 2 in the preliminary
draft budget which it places before the Council
pursuant to Article 203 of the Treaty.
2. Article 13(3) is amended as follows:
3. The Management Board shall adopt the             3. The Management Board shall adopt the
Centre's budget before the beginning of the         Centre's budget before the beginning of the
financial year, adjusting it where necessary to     financial year, adjusting it where necessary to
the payments made by the agencies and offices       the payments made by the agencies, offices and
mentioned in Article 2.                             institutions mentioned in Article 2.
                   CHAPTER II                       unchanged
                 Final provisions
Article 6
This Regulation shall enter into force on the
seventh day following its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety
and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels
                            For the Council
                            The President
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