CELEX: 32006H0715
Language: en
Date: 2006-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Recommendation of 23 October 2006 adapting Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom on the application of Article 36 of the Euratom Treaty concerning the monitoring of the levels of radioactivity in the environment for the purpose of assessing the exposure of the population as a whole, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania (notified under document number C(2006) 4931)

24.10.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 293/17
            
         
      COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION
   
   of 23 October 2006
   adapting Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom on the application of Article 36 of the Euratom Treaty concerning the monitoring of the levels of radioactivity in the environment for the purpose of assessing the exposure of the population as a whole, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania
   (notified under document number C(2006) 4931)
   (2006/715/Euratom)
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
   Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania, and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,
   Having regard to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania, and in particular Article 56 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Pursuant to Article 56 of the Act of Accession, where acts which remain valid beyond 1 January 2007 require adaptation by reason of accession, and the necessary adaptations have not been provided for in the Act of Accession or its Annexes, the necessary adaptations are to be adopted by the Commission in all cases where the Commission adopted the original act.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               The Final Act of the Conference which drew up the Treaty of Accession indicated that the High Contracting Parties had reached political agreement on a set of adaptations to acts adopted by the Institutions required by reason of accession and invited the Council and the Commission to adopt these adaptations before accession, completed and updated where necessary to take account of the evolution of the law of the Union.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Commission Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom of 8 June 2000 on the application of Article 36 of the Euratom Treaty concerning the monitoring of the levels of radioactivity in the environment for the purpose of assessing the exposure of the population as a whole (1) should therefore be amended accordingly,
            
         HEREBY RECOMMENDS:
   
               1.
            
            
               Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom is amended as set out in the Annex.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               This Recommendation shall enter into force subject to, and on the date of, the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               This Recommendation is addressed to the Member States.
            
         
      Done at Brussels, 23 October 2006.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Olli REHN
         
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 191, 27.7.2000, p. 37. Recommendation as amended by the 2003 Act of Accession.
   
      ANNEX
      ENVIRONMENT
      RADIATION PROTECTION
      32000 H 0473: Commission Recommendation 2000/473/Euratom of 8 June 2000 on the application of Article 36 of the Euratom Treaty concerning the monitoring of the levels of radioactivity in the environment for the purpose of assessing the exposure of the population as a whole (OJ L 191, 27.7.2000, p. 37), as amended by:
      
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                  12003 T: Act concerning the conditions of accession and the adjustments to the Treaties — Accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic (OJ L 236, 23.9.2003, p. 33).
               
            In Annex II, the following is added to the table:
      
         
                     ‘BG
                  
                  
                     Bulgaria
                  
                  
                      
                  
               
                     RO
                  
                  
                     Romania’
                  
                  
                      
                  
               
      and the map is replaced by the following:
      
         ‘Definition of the geographical regions
         
            ’.