CELEX: 51977PC0709
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-02
Title: Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 76/135/EEC on reciprocal recognition of navigability licences for inland waterway vessels (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                              • COM(77)709 final.
                                                                Brussels , 2 January 197^
                         Proposal for . a Council Directive amending
                         Directive 76/1 35/EEC on reciprocal
                         recognition of navigability licences for ,
                         inland waterway vessels
                           ( submitted to the Council by the Commission )
                                                            ν
C 01' ( 77 ) 7Ci final .
 ---pagebreak--- TOTPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Article 7 of Council Directive 76/135/ ESC of 20 January 1 97 6 stat
that the Directive shall be valid until 31 December 1 978 but that
if need be its validity may be extended by the Council until the
common provisions establishing teohnical requirements come into
force .                              '
The common list of these technical requirements iB in preparation
but even now it is foreseeable that - owing to difficulties with
the preparatory work - it cannot be adopted by the Council "not
later than 1 January 1978 ", the date specified in Article 5 of
Directive 76/135 /EEC .  What is more , a period of time will very
probably be necessary between the date when the list is adopted
and the date on which the measures adopted come into force .
Having regard to the foregoing , the Commission hereby proposes :
( 1 ) extension of Directive 76/135/ESC until the Council has
      adopted common provisions relating to technical requirements
      for inland waterway vessels ;
( 2)  a change of the time limit in Artiole 5 of the Direotive
      for the adoption of these provisions by the Counoil .
 ---pagebreak---                     Proposal for a Council Directive amending
                    Directive T 6/1 35/1  on reciprocal
                    recognition of navigability licences for
                    inland waterway vessels
The Council of the European Communities ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economio
Community, and in particular Article 7-5 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament ,
Having regard to the Opinion of the Eoonomic and Social Committee ,
Whereas Article 5      Council Direotive 7 6/1 35/ESX3 of
20 January 1976 on reciprocal recognition of navigability licences ,
for inland waterway vessels provides that as soon as possible,
and not later than 1 January 1978, the Council shall , on a.
proposal from the Commission, adopt common provisions establishing
technioal requirements for inland waterway vessels ;      whereas owing
to the complexity of the matter it will not be possible to observe
this time limit ;   whereas in these circumstances it is advisable to
extend the deadline to 1 January 1980 ;
Whereas Article 7 of the Directive lays down that it shall be valid
until 31 December 1978 and that , if need be, its validity may be
extended by the Counoil on a proposal from the Commission until
the provisions referred to in Article 5 enter into force ;      whereas
for the reasons set out above Artiole 7 must be amended in such a
way that the Directive will be valid until the effeotive entry into
force of common provisions establishing teohnical requirements for
inland waterway vessels ,
H AS ADOr-TEB THIS DIRECTIVE:
                                  Article 1
Council Directive 76/135/ EEC is hereby amended as follows :
 0J Ho L 21 , 29.1.1976 » P. 10
 ---pagebreak--- In Article 5 » M1 January 1978" shall be replaced by "1 January 1980"
Article 7 shall be replaced by the following;
''This Directive shall be valid until the effective entry into force
of the provisions referred to in Article
                               Article 2
This Directive is addressed to the Member States .