Considerations on COM(2007)720 - Adaptation of Recommendation 98/376/EC on a parking card for people with disabilities, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia

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dossier COM(2007)720 - Adaptation of Recommendation 98/376/EC on a parking card for people with disabilities, by reason of the accession of ...
document COM(2007)720 EN
date March  3, 2008
 
table>(1)For certain acts which remain valid beyond 1 January 2007 and require adaptation by reason of accession, the necessary adaptations were not provided for in the Acts of Accession.
(2)Pursuant to Article 57 of the Act of Accession of 2003 and Article 56 of the Act of Accession of 2005 such adaptations are to be adopted by the Council in all cases where the Council adopted the original act.

(3)Council Recommendation 98/376/EC of 4 June 1998 on a parking card for people with disabilities (1) should therefore be amended accordingly,

HEREBY RECOMMENDS:

Recommendation 98/376/EC is amended as set out in the Annex.

Done at Brussels, 3 March 2008.

For the Council

The President

J. PODOBNIK


(1) OJ L 167, 12.6.1998, p. 25.


ANNEX

Recommendation 98/376/EC is amended as follows:

1.under the seventh indent of point D of the Annex, the list of distinguishing codes is replaced by the following:

‘B:Belgium
BG:Bulgaria
CZ:Czech Republic
DK:Denmark
D:Germany
EST:Estonia
IRL:Ireland
EL:Greece
E:Spain
F:France
I:Italy
CY:Cyprus
LV:Latvia
LT:Lithuania
L:Luxembourg
H:Hungary
M:Malta
NL:Netherlands
A:Austria
PL:Poland
P:Portugal
RO:Romania
SLO:Slovenia
SK:Slovakia
FIN:Finland
S:Sweden
UK:United Kingdom’;

2.under point E of the Annex, the second paragraph is replaced by the following:

‘If a Member State wishes to make the entries in a national language other than one of the following: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish or Swedish, it shall draw up a bilingual version of the card using one of the aforementioned languages, without prejudice to the other provisions of this Annex.’.