Explanatory Memorandum to COM(2007)93 - Amendment of Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission

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dossier COM(2007)93 - Amendment of Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators, as regards the ...
source COM(2007)93 EN
date 09-03-2007
Adjustment of Directive 2006/66/EC to Council Decision 2006/512/EC (new regulatory procedure with scrutiny)

Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission i, has been amended by Council Decision 2006/512/EC of 17 July 2006 i.

Article 5a of the amended Decision introduces a new regulatory procedure with scrutiny to be used for measures of general scope which seek to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument, adopted under co-decision, including by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument by the addition of new non-essential elements.

Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC was subject to third reading agreement by the co-legislators just prior to the entry into force of the new comitology decision.[3] The Directive entered into force following publication in the Official Journal on 26 September 2006 i and needs therefore now to be adjusted so as to include, when appropriate, references to the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny.