Regulation 2008/1137 - Adaptation of a number of instruments subject to the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part One - Main contents

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Legal instrument	Regulation
Number legal act	Regulation 2008/1137
Original proposal	COM(2007)741
CELEX number i	32008R1137

REGULATION (EC) No 1137/2008 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 22 October 2008

adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny

Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part One

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles 40, 47(1) and (2), first and third sentences, 55, 71, 80(2), 95, 100, 137(2), 156, 175(1) and 285 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Central Bank (2),

After consulting the Committee of the Regions,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (3),

Whereas:

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The instruments listed in the Annex are hereby adapted, in accordance with that Annex, to Decision 1999/468/EC, as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC.

Article 2

References to provisions of the instruments listed in the Annex shall be understood to be references to those provisions as adapted by this Regulation.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Strasbourg, 22 October 2008.

For the European Parliament

The President

H.-G. PÖTTERING

For the Council

The President

J.-P. JOUYET

• (1) 

  OJ C 224, 30.8.2008, p. 35.

• (2) 

  OJ C 117, 14.5.2008, p. 1.

• (3) 

  Opinion of the European Parliament of 18 June 2008 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 25 September 2008.

• (4) 

  OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

• (5) 

  OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11.

• (6) 

  OJ C 255, 21.10.2006, p. 1.

ANNEX

• 1. 

  AGRICULTURE

1.1.   Directive 1999/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 February 1999 relating to coffee extracts and chicory extracts  (1)

As regards Directive 1999/4/EC, the Commission should be empowered to bring it into line with the general Community provisions applicable to foodstuffs. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 1999/4/EC, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision...

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