CELEX: 51993PC0131
Language: en
Date: 1993-03-30
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the Community, of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                               C0M(93) 131 final
                                               Brussels, 30 March 1993
                      Amended proposal for a
                         COUNCIL DEC I S I ONI
      concerning the conclusion, on behalf of *H- ^
       or «h. ConvenUon on    ^ j r l ^ l \ \ ^ T ^ ^
                    In a Transboundary Context
     (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(3)
                       of the EEC-Treaty)
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                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
In response to the opinion adopted by the European Parliament at its
plenary sitting on 27 January 1993, the Commission Is submitting an
amended proposal for a Decision.
The only change Is the addition of one new recital
This will be Inserted before the first recital to emphasize the need for
worldwide action to protect the environment.
The Commission shares this view which is in line with the approach
advocated In the Fifth Community Action Programme on the Environment.
However, the Commission Is unable to accept the other amendments
proposed by Parliament, since some raise legal problems and others
conflict with the standard wording employed        in decisions on the
rat ificatIon of international conventions.
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New recital to be inserted before the first recital
                                   Having regard to the transversal and
                                   transboundary nature of environmental
                                   problems. as demonstrated t>y_ IM
                                   malor international conventions which
                                   have bjoei) signas! on biodiversity,
                                   climate    etanga-   mx    pollution,
                                   etc.:
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