Select Committee on European Legislation Twelfth Report




12. We consider that the following do not raise questions of legal or political importance:-




MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD

(17840) 5215/97 COM(96)706 Draft Regulation amending Regulation No. 1442/88 on the granting, for the 1988/89 wine years, of permanent abandonment premiums in respect of wine-growing areas.

(17842) 5339/97 COM(96)705 Draft Regulation amending Regulation No. 1981/94 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain products originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Tunisia and Turkey, and providing detailed rules for extending and adapting these tariff quotas, and amending Regulation No. 934/95 establishing tariff ceilings and a Community statistical surveillance in the framework of reference quanitities for a certain number of products originating in Cyprus, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Tunisia, Syria, Malta, Morocco and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

(17856) 5340/97 COM(96)709 Draft Regulation on the conclusion of an Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Community and Cyprus on the adjustment of the régime for imports into the European Community of oranges originating in Cyprus and amending Regulation No. 1981/94.

(17861) Draft Decision concerning the conclusion of the protocol for the adaptation of trade aspects of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States of the one part, and the Slovak Republic, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Austria, of the Republic of Finland and of the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and of the results of agricultural negotiations of the Uruguay Round, including the improvements offered there by the Community. We do not have the official text of the document, but clear it on the basis of supporting documents provided by the Government.

(17862) Draft Decision concerning the conclusion of the protocol for the adaptation of trade aspects of the Europe Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States of the one part, and the Czech Republic, of the other part, to take account of the accession of the Republic of Austria, of the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the European Union and of the results of the agricultural negotiations of the Uruguay Round, including the improvements offered there by the Community. We do not have the official text of the document, but clear it on the basis of supporting documents provided by the Government.

H M CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

(17809) 12810/96 COM(96)687 Draft Directive authorising the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic to apply a measure derogating from Article 3 of the Sixth Council Directive (77/388/EEC) of 19 May 1977 on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes.

DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY

(17797) 12999/96 SEC(96)563

The 1996 Single Market Review: background information for the report.
(17798) 12958/96 COM(96)667

Draft Regulation on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to machinery (codified version).
(17803) 12893/96 COM(96)563 Draft Regulation providing for duty free treatment for specified pharmaceutical active ingredients bearing an "international non-proprietary name" (INN) from the World Health Organisation and specified products used for the manufacture of finished pharmaceuticals and withdrawing duty free treatment as pharmaceutical products from certain INNs whose predominate use is not pharmaceutical.

(17806) 12959/96 COM(96)642

Draft Directive laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (codified version).
(17811) 12942/96 COM(96)710 Commission Opinion pursuant to Article 189(2)(a) of the EC Treaty on the European Parliament's second reading of the Council's common position for a European Parliament and Council Directive concerning common rules for the international market in electricity.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

(17661) 11577/96 COM(96)556 Draft Directive amending Directive 91/439/EEC on driving licences.

(17781) 12920/96 COM(96)555 Draft Directive relating to motor vehicles and their trailers with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by road and amending Directive 70/156/EEC in respect of the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers.

(17829) 12090/96 COM(96)673 Commission Opinion on the amendments proposed by the European Parliament to the Council's Common Position on the proposal for a Council Directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers.

H M TREASURY

(17800) 13035/96 COM(96)631

Commission Report on guarantees covered by the general budget at 30 June 1996.
(17810) 13023/96 COM(96)653

Commission Report on the European Economic Area financial mechanism.
(17821) 12572/96 SEC(96)2255

Commission Request for transfer of appropriations between Chapters of the 1996 Budget No. 49/96 (arable crops).



 


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