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Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network (Codified version)
Brussels, 31.10.2007
on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network (Codified version)
4. The purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 of 7 May 1990 on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European environment information and observation network[3]. The new Regulation will supersede the various acts incorporated in it[4]; this proposal fully preserves the content of the acts being codified and hence does no more than bring them together with only such formal amendments as are required by the codification exercise itself.
5. The codification proposal was drawn up on the basis of a preliminary consolidation , in all official languages, of Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 and the instruments amending it, carried out by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, by means of a data-processing system . Where the Articles have been given new numbers, the correlation between the old and the new numbers is shown in a table set out in Annex III to the codified Regulation.
ê 1210/90 (adapted)
on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article Ö 175 Õ thereof,
1. Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 of 7 May 1990 on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network[8] has been substantially amended several times[9]. In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Regulation should be codified.
ê 1210/90 Recital 1
2. The Treaty provides for the development and implementation of a Community policy on the environment, and lays down the objectives and principles which should govern such policy.
ê 1210/90 Recital 2
3. Environmental protection requirements are to be a component of the Community's other policies.
ê 1210/90 Recital 3 (adapted)
4. According to Article Ö 174 Õ of the Treaty, in preparing its action relating to the environment the Community is to take account, inter alia, of the available scientific and technical data.
ê 1210/90 Recital 5
5. Collection, processing and analysis of environmental data at European level are necessary in order to provide objective, reliable and comparable information which will enable the Community and the Member States to take the requisite measures to protect the environment, to assess the results of such measures and to ensure that the public is properly informed about the state of the environment.
ê 1210/90 Recital 6
6. There already exist in the Community and the Member States facilities providing such information and services.
ê 1210/90 Recital 7 (adapted)
7. They should form the basis for Ö the Õ European Environment Information and Observation NetworkÖ to be Õ coordinated at Community level by Ö the Õ European Environment Agency.
ê 1641/2003 recital 2
8. The general principles and limits governing the exercise of the right of access to documents, provided for in Article 255 of the Treaty, have been laid down by Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents[10].
ê 1210/90 Recital 8
9. The Agency should cooperate with existing structures at Community level to enable the Commission to ensure full application of Community legislation on the environment.
ê 1210/90 Recital 9
10. The status and structure of the Agency should correspond to the objective character of the results it is intended to produce and allow it to carry out its functions in close cooperation with the existing national and international facilities.
ê 1210/90 Recital 10
11. The Agency should be granted legal autonomy while maintaining close links with the Community institutions and the Member States.
ê 1210/90 Recital 11
12. It is desirable to provide for the Agency to be open to other countries which share the concern of the Community and the Member States for the objectives of the Agency under agreements to be concluded between them and the Community,
1. This Regulation establishes the European Environment Agency, hereinafter referred to as “the Agency”, and aims at the setting-up of a European environment information and observation network.
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 1 (adapted)
2. To achieve the aims of environmental protection and improvement laid down by the Treaty and by successive Community action programmes on the environment, as well as of sustainable development, the objective Ö of the Agency and of the European Environment Information and Observation Network Õ shall be to provide the Community and the Member States with:
(a) objective, reliable and comparable information at European level enabling them to take the requisite measures to protect the environment, to assess the results of such measures and to ensure that the public is properly informed about the state of the environment Ö , and Õ to that end,
(b) the necessary technical and scientific support.
(a) to establish, in cooperation with the Member States, and coordinate the network referred to in Article 4; in this context, the Agency shall be responsible for the collection, processing and analysis of data, in particular in the fields referred to in Article 3;;
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 2(a)
(b) to provide the Community and the Member States with the objective information necessary for framing and implementing sound and effective environmental policies; to that end, in particular to provide the Commission with the information that it needs to be able to carry out successfully its tasks of identifying, preparing and evaluating measures and legislation in the field of the environment;
(c) to assist the monitoring of environmental measures through appropriate support for reporting requirements (including through involvement in the development of questionnaires, the processing of reports from Member States and the distribution of results), in accordance with its multiannual work-programme and with the aim of coordinating reporting;
(d) to advise individual Member States, upon their request and where this is consistent with the Agency's annual work-programme, on the development, establishment and expansion of their systems for the monitoring of environmental measures, provided such activities do not endanger the fulfilment of the other tasks established by this Article; such advice may also include peer reviews by experts at the specific request of Member States;
(e) to record, collate and assess data on the state of the environment, to draw up expert reports on the quality, sensitivity and pressures on the environment within the territory of the Community, to provide uniform assessment criteria for environmental data to be applied in all Member States, to develop further and maintain a reference centre of information on the environment; the Commission shall use this information in its task of ensuring the implementation of Community legislation on the environment;
(f) to help ensure that environmental data at European level are comparable and, if necessary, to encourage by appropriate means improved harmonisation of methods of measurement;
(g) to promote the incorporation of European environmental information into international environment monitoring programmes such as those established by the United Nations and its specialised agencies;
(h) to publish a report on the state of, trends in and prospects for the environment every five years, supplemented by indicator reports focusing upon specific issues;
(i) to stimulate the development and application of environmental forecasting techniques so that adequate preventive measures can be taken in good time;
(j) to stimulate the development of methods of assessing the cost of damage to the environment and the costs of environmental preventive, protection and restoration policies;
(k) to stimulate the exchange of information on the best technologies available for preventing or reducing damage to the environment;
(l) to cooperate with the bodies and programmes referred to in Article 15;
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 2(b)
(m) to ensure the broad dissemination of reliable and comparable environmental information, in particular on the state of the environment, to the general public and, to this end, to promote the use of new telematics technology for this purpose;
(n) to support the Commission in the process of exchange of information on the development of Environmental Assessment Methodologies and best practice;
(o) to assist the Commission in the diffusion of information on the results of relevant environmental research and in a form which can best assist policy development.
(a) the quality of the environment;
(b) the pressures on the environment;
(c) the sensitivity of the environment;
è1 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 3(a)
è1 including placing these in the context of sustainable development. ç
Priority Ö shall Õ be given to the following areas of work:
(a) air quality and atmospheric emissions;
(b) water quality, pollutants and water resources;
(c) the state of the soil, of the fauna and flora, and of biotopes;
(d) land use and natural resources;
(e) waste management;
(f) noise emissions;
(g) chemical substances which are hazardous for the environment;
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 3(b)
(h) coastal and marine protection.
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 3(c) (adapted)
3. The Agency may also cooperate in the exchange of information with other bodies, including with the Ö European Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law Õ (IMPEL network).
(a) the main component elements of the national information networks;
(b) the national focal points;
(c) the topic centres.
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 4(a) and 1210/90 Art. 4(2), first subparagraph (adapted)
2. Member States shall keep the Agency informed of the main component elements of their national environment information networks Ö , especially in the priority areas referred to in Article 3(2), including any institution which in their judgement could contribute to the work of the Agency, taking into account the need to ensure the fullest possible geographical coverage of their territory. Õ
3. Member States may in particular designate from among the institutions referred to in paragraph 2 or other organisations established in their territory a ‘national focal point’ for coordinating and/or transmitting the information to be supplied at national level to the Agency and to the institutions or bodies forming part of the network including the topic centres referred to in paragraph 4.
4. Member States may also identify the institutions or other organisations established in their territory which could be specifically entrusted with the task of cooperating with the Agency as regards certain topics of particular interest.
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 4(c)
6. The allocation of specific tasks to the topic centres shall appear in the Agency's multiannual work programme mentioned in Article 8(4).
ê 1641/2003 (adapted)
2. Decisions taken by the Agency pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 may form the subject of a complaint to the Ombudsman or of an action before the Court of Justice of the European Communities, under the conditions laid down in Articles 195 and 230 of the Treaty respectively.
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 5(a)
In addition, the European Parliament shall designate, as members of the management board, two scientific personalities particularly qualified in the field of environmental protection, who shall be chosen on the basis of the personal contribution they are likely to make to the Agency's work.
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 5(b)
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 5(c)
4. The management board shall adopt a multiannual work-programme based on the priority areas referred to in Article 3(2), using as its basis a draft submitted by the Executive Director referred to in Article 9, after consulting the scientific committee, referred to in Article 10, and receiving the Commission's opinion. The multiannual work-programme shall, without prejudice to the annual Community budgetary procedure, include a multiannual budget estimate.
5. Under the multiannual programme, the management board shall each year adopt the Agency's work programme on the basis of a draft submitted by the Executive Director after consulting the scientific committee and receiving the Commission's opinion. The programme may be adjusted in the course of the year by the same procedure.
6. The Management Board shall adopt the annual report on the Agency's activities and forward it by 15 June at the latest to the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Court of Auditors and the Member States.
(a) for the proper preparation and execution of the decisions and programmes adopted by the management board;
(b) for the day-to-day administration of the Agency;
(c) for the performance of the tasks defined in Articles 12 and 13;
(d) for the preparation and publication of the reports specified in Article 2 (h);
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 6(a)
(e) for all staff matters, for the performance of the tasks referred to in Article 8(4) and (5).
He shall obtain the opinion of the scientific committee, referred to in Article 10, for the purposes of recruitment of the Agency's scientific staff.
1. The management board and the Executive Director shall be assisted by a scientific committee which shall deliver an opinion where provided for in this Regulation and on any scientific matter concerning the Agency's activity which the management board or the Executive Director may submit to it.
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 7
2. By 1 March at the latest following each financial year, the Agency's accounting officer shall communicate the provisional accounts to the Commission's accounting officer together with a report on the budgetary and financial management for that financial year. The Commission's accounting officer shall consolidate the provisional accounts of the institutions and decentralised bodies in accordance with Article 128 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002[11].
4. On receipt of the Court of Auditors' observations on the Agency's provisional accounts under Article 129 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002, the Executive Director shall draw up the Agency's final accounts under his own responsibility and submit them to the Management Board for an opinion.
9. The Executive Director shall submit to the European Parliament, at the latter's request, all information necessary for the smooth application of the discharge procedure for the financial year in question, as laid down in Article 146(3) of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002.
The financial rules applicable to the Agency shall be adopted by the Management Board after the Commission has been consulted. They may not depart from Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002[12] unless such departure is specifically required for the Agency's operation and the Commission has given its prior consent.
1. The Agency shall actively seek the cooperation of other Community bodies and programmes, and notably the Joint Research Centre, the Statistical Office Ö of the European Communities (Eurostat) Õ and the Community's environmental research and development programmes. In particular:
(a) cooperation with the Joint Research Centre shall include the tasks set out in Annex I under A;
(b) coordination with Eurostat and the statistical programme of the European Communities Ö shall Õ follow the guidelines outlined in Annex I under B.
2. The Agency shall also cooperate actively with other bodies such as the European Space Agency, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Council of Europe and the International Energy Agency as well as the United Nations and its specialised agencies, particularly the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Meteorological Organization and the International Atomic Energy Authority.
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 8(a)
3. The Agency may cooperate in areas of common interest with those institutions in countries which are not members of the Community which can provide data, information and expertise, methodologies of data collection, analysis and assessment which are of mutual interest and which are necessary for the successful completion of the Agency's work.
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 8(b)
Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 is repealed.
ê 1210/90 Annex (adapted)
A. COOPERATION WITH THE JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE
- Harmonisation of environmental measurement methods[13].
- Intercalibration of instruments1.
- Standardisation of data formats.
- Development of new environmental measurement methods and instruments.
- Other tasks as agreed between the Executive Director of the Agency and the Director-General of the Joint Research Centre.
B. COOPERATION WITH EUROSTAT
ê 933/1999 Art.1 pt. 10 (adapted)
1. The Agency Ö shall Õ use, as far as possible, information collected via the official Community statistical services. That results from the work of Eurostat and the national statistical services in collecting, validating and disseminating social and economic statistics, including national accounts and related information.
2. The statistical programme in the field of the environment Ö shall Õ be agreed between the Executive Director of the Agency and the Director-General of Eurostat and Ö shall Õ be submitted for approval to the management board of the Agency and the Statistical Programme Committee.
3. The statistical programme shall be conceived and implemented within the framework established by the international statistical bodies, such as the UN Statistical Commission, the Conference of European Statisticians and the OECD.
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 | (OJ L 120, 11.5.1990, p. 1) |
Council Regulation (EC) No 933/1999 | (OJ L 117, 5.5.1999, p. 1) |
Regulation (EC) No 1641/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council | (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 1) |
Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 | This Regulation |
Article 1(2), introductory phrase | Article 1(2), introductory phrase |
Article 2(i) | Article 2(a) |
Article 2(ii) first indent | Article 2(b) |
Article 2(ii) second indent | Article 2(c) |
Article 2(ii) third indent | Article 2(d) |
Article 2(iii) | Article 2(e) |
Article 2(iv) | Article 2(f) |
Article 2(v) | Article 2(g) |
Article 2(vi) | Article 2(h) |
Article 2(vii) | Article 2(i) |
Article 2(viii) | Article 2(j) |
Article 2(ix) | Article 2(k) |
Article 2(x) | Article 2(l) |
Article 2(xi) | Article 2(m) |
Article 2(xii) | Article 2(n) |
Article 2(xiii) | Article 2(o) |
Article 3(1), introductory words | Article 3(1), introductory words |
Article 3(1)(i) | Article 3(1)(a) |
Article 3(1)(ii) | Article 3(1)(b) |
Article 3(1)(iii) | Article 3(1)(c) |
Article 3(1), final wording | Article 3(1), final wording |
Article 3(2), first subparagraph | Article 3(2), first subparagraph |
Article 3(2), second subparagraph, introductory words | Article 3(2), second subparagraph, introductory words |
Article 3(2), second subparagraph, first indent | Article 3(2), second subparagraph, (a) |
Article 3(2), second subparagraph, second indent | Article 3(2), second subparagraph, (b) |
Article 3(2), second subparagraph, third indent | Article 3(2), second subparagraph, (c) |
Article 3(2), second subparagraph, fourth indent | Article 3(2), second subparagraph, (d) |
Article 3(2), second subparagraph, fifth indent | Article 3(2), second subparagraph, (e) |
Article 3(2), second subparagraph, sixth indent | Article 3(2), second subparagraph, (f) |
Article 3(2), second subparagraph, seventh indent | Article 3(2), second subparagraph, (g) |
Article 3(2), second subparagraph, eighth indent | Article 3(2), second subparagraph, (h) |
Article 3(2), third subparagraph | Article 3(2), third subparagraph |
Article 3(2), fourth subparagraph | Article 3(2), fourth subparagraph |
Article 4(1), introductory words | Article 4(1), introductory words |
Article 4(1), first indent | Article 4(1)(a) |
Article 4(1), second indent | Article 4(1)(b) |
Article 4(1), third indent | Article 4(1)(c) |
Article 4(2), first subparagraph, from “to” to “networks” | – |
Article 4(2), first subparagraph, from “especially” to “territory” | Article 4(2), first subparagraph, final wording |
Article 4(2), second subparagraph | Article 4(2), first, second and third subparagraphs |
Article 4(4) | Article 4(4), first, second and third subparagraphs |
Article 4(5), first subparagraph | – |
Article 4(5), second subparagraph | Article 4(5) |
Article 4(6) and (7) | Article 4(6) and (7) |
Article 5 | Article 5, first and second subparagraphs |
Article 6(2) | – |
Article 9(1), first subparagraph, first sentence | Article 9(1), first subparagraph |
Article 9(1), first subparagraph, second sentence | Article 9(1), second subparagraph |
Article 9(1), first subparagraph, introductory wording | Article 9(1), third subparagraph, introductory wording |
Article 9(1), first subparagraph, first indent | Article 9(1), third subparagraph, point (a) |
Article 9(1), first subparagraph, second indent | Article 9(1), third subparagraph, point (b) |
Article 9(1), first subparagraph, third indent | Article 9(1), third subparagraph point, (c) |
Article 9(1), first subparagraph, fourth indent | Article 9(1), third subparagraph, point (d) |
Article 9(1), first subparagraph, fifth indent | Article 9(1), third subparagraph, point (e) |
Article 9(1), second subparagraph | Article 9(1), fourth subparagraph |
Article 15(1), introductory wording | Article 15(1), introductory wording |
Article 15(1), first indent | Article 15(1)(a) |
Article 15(1), second indent | Article 15(1)(b) |
Article 15(2) | Article 15(2) |
Article 15(2a) | Article 15(3) |
Article 15(3) | Article 15(4) |
Article 20 | – |
– | Article 20 |
– | Annex III |
[8] OJ L 120, 11.5.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1641/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 1).
[9] See Annex II.
[13] Cooperation in these areas shall also take account of the work carried out by the Ö Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements. Õ