CELEX: 51990PC0103
Language: en
Date: 1990-03-16
Title: AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION AMENDING DECISION NO 85/338/EEC IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE COMMISSION WORK PROGRAMME CONCERNING AN EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT FOR GATHERING, COORDINATING AND ENSURING THE CONSISTENCY OF INFORMATION ON THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE COMMUNITY

No C 101/10                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                               21. 4. 90
              Amended proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 85/338/EEC in order to provide
              for the continuation of the Commission work programme concerning an experimental project
              for gathering, coordinating and ensuring the consistency of information on the state of the
                                  environment and natural resources in the Community (')
                                                     COM(90) 103 final
              (Submitted by the Commission on 19 March 1990 pursuant to Article 149 (3) of the EEC Treaty)
                                                        (90/C 101/15)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         proposal provides that the said Agency shall inter alia be
                                                                 entrusted with and be responsible for continuing, as
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           appropriate, the w o r k u n d e r t a k e n by the Commission
 Economic Community and, in particular, Article 130              pursuant to Council Decision 8 5 / 3 3 8 / E E C ; w h e r e a s , in
thereof,                                                         the future, the C o r i n e p r o g r a m m e should therefore
                                                                 o p e r a t e within the ambit of the said agency;
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard       to  the  opinion    of   the  European       W h e r e a s , however, it is necessary and expedient to m a k e
Parliament,                                                      provision that the w o r k p r o g r a m m e u n d e r t a k e n p u r s u a n t
                                                                 to Decision 8 5 / 3 3 8 / E E C be continued for a transitional
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                 period of t w o years p e n d i n g the envisaged integration of
Social Committee (2),                                            C o r i n e and the p r o p o s e d E u r o p e a n         Environment
                                                                 Agency, and to a m e n d accordingly by the estimated
Whereas, by Decision 85/338/EEC of 27 June 1985 (3),             a m o u n t necessary for the implementation of the
the Council adopted the Commission work programme                programme;
concerning an experimental project for gathering, coor-
dinating and ensuring the consistency of information on          W h e r e a s the financing of the p r o g r a m m e of environ-
the state of the environment and natural resources in the        mental statistics laid d o w n in the 'statistical p r o g r a m m e
Community (hereinafter referred to as 'Corine');                 of the E u r o p e a n C o m m u n i t i e s , 1989 to 1992' ( 6 ), which
                                                                 is c o m p l e m e n t a r y to C o r i n e , will be covered by a
Whereas the period of time provided for Corine in
                                                                 separate Council Decision,
Article 1 of the said Decision was four years with effect
from 1 January 1985 and the amount of funds estimated
to be necessary for its implementation, indicated in             HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 2 of the said Decision was ECU 4 million;
                                                                                                 Article 1
Whereas, in accordance with Article 3 of the said
Decision, the Commission has furnished a communi-                Council Decision 85/338/EEC is hereby amended as
cation to the Council and the European Parliament indi-          follows:
cating the intermediate results and future guidelines as at
the halfway stage of the said programme ( 4 ); whereas the       (a) the reference 'four years' in the first paragraph of
said report indicated the importance and usefulness of                 Article 1 is replaced by 'six years at the most';
the data generated and of the overall Corine                     (b) the reference 'ECU 4 million' in Article 2 is replaced
programme;                                                             by 'ECU 11,5 million';
Wheres the Commission has proposed a Council Regu-               (c) the following paragraph is added to Article 2:
lation for the establishment of a European Environment
                                                                       'The budget authority shall determine the appropri-
Agency and a European Environment Monitoring and
                                                                       ations available for each financial year.'
Information Network (5); whereas Article 4 of the said
                                                                                                 Article 2
(') OJ No C 269, 21. 10. 1989, p. 7.
(2) CES No 1244 1 89, 15 July 1985.                              This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
O OJ No 176, 6. 7. 1985.
(4) COM(88) 420 final.
(5) COM(89) 303 final (OJ No C 217, 23. 8. 1989).                (') OJ No C 161, 28. 6. 1989.