CELEX: 51988PC0226
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Date: 1988-04-15
Title: Re-examined proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 74/150/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (presented by the Commission on the basis of Article 149 (2), (d) of the Treaty)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                 COM ( 88 ) 226 final - SYN 81
                                                 Brussels , 15 April 1988
                     Re-examined proposai for
          a Council Directive amending Directive 74 / 150 / EEC
          on the approximation of the laws of the Member
          States relating to the type-approval of wheeled
          agricultural or forestry tractors
            ( presented by the Commission on the basis of
          Article 149 ( 2 ), ( d ) of the Treaty )
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 ---pagebreak---                                    EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1 . AIM OF THE PROPOSAL
    This re-examined proposal is a follow-up to the decision of the European
    Parliament of 9 March 1988 ( cooperation procedure , second reading ) in
    accordance with the provisions of Article 149 ( 2 ) ( d ) of the Treaty .
2 . BACKGROUND
    a ) - The Commission sent its proposal for an amendment to Directive
           74 / 150 / EEC to the Council in January 1987 ( C0MC86 ) 777 final ).
           This proposal has two basic objectives :
           - to replace the regulatory committee procedure with the advisory
              committee procedure in Article 13 of the framework directive of
              4 March 1974 ;
           - to introduce a simplified procedure for checking conformity of
              tractor parts or characteristics , without recourse to further
              harmonization directives .
    b ) - In its opinion on the proposal delivered on 15 May 1987 , Parliament
           approved the Commission 's proposal without amendment .
     c ) - The Council , in its common position adopted on 30 November 1987 ,
           unanimously considered that the regulatory committee procedure now in
            force operates satisfactorily in the sector concerned and that there
            were therefore no grounds for altering it .
            In the discussion with the Council , the Commission opposed the Council
            position and had a statement entered in the minutes to the effect that
            the procedure of the Regulatory Committee did not abide by the
            guidelines laid down by the Single European Act .
            It referred to that approach in its statement of views on the common
            position of the Council , which it notified to Council and European
            Par l i ament .
 ---pagebreak--- d ) - During the second reading the European Parliament examined the
      Council 's joint position on the Commission 's proposal and decided to
      tend its support to that proposal , which is aimed at the amendment of
      Article 13 of Directive 74 / 150 / EEC in such a way as to replace the
      Regulatory Committee procedure by that of the Advisory Committee .
      However , while following the general lines hoped for by the
      Commission , the text put forward by the European Parliament does not
      exactly reproduce the text for procedure I as set out in Article 2 of
      the Council Decision of 13 July 1987 in respect of " comitology " and
      refers to the Advisory Committee procedure .
      While in principle accepting this amendment , the Commission felt it
      more appropriate to adopt for this Article the Advisory Committee
      version decided upon by the Council .
      The text set out in the decision of the European Parliament has
      therefore not been adopted by the Commission , which proposes to align
      the text that it had originally proposed with that adopted by the
      Council on 13 July 1987 for all Advisory Committees .
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 ---pagebreak---                             PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
 Re-examined proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 74 / 150 / EEC on
    the approximation of the Laws of the Member States relating to the type-
    approval of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors ( put forward by the
                  Commission under Article 149 ( 2 ) ( d ) of the Treaty )
The following amendment shall be made by the Commission to Article 1 of this
proposal :
                                       " Article 1
1 . The wording of Article 13 of Directive 74 / 150 / EEC shall be replaced by the
    following :
     'The Commission shall be assisted by a committee that is advisory in nature
      and consists of representatives of the Member States , and shall be chaired
      by the representative of the Commission .
      The representative of the Commission shall submit to the Committee a draft
      of the measures to be taken .    The Committee shall deliver its opinion on
      this draft by a deadline which the Chairman may set in the light of the
      urgency of the matter at issue , where appropriate , by conducting a vote .
      This opinion shall be entered in the record ; moreover , each Member State
      has the right to ask that its own opinion be included in that record .
      The Commission shall take maximum account of the opinion delivered by the
      Committee .    It shall inform the Committee of the manner in which it has
      taken that opinion into account .
2 . In Annex II , headings 7.3.4 , 7.5 and 7.6.3, of Directive 74 / 150 / EEC , " SD"
     shall be replaced by " CONF".' "
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