Explanatory Memorandum to COM(2008)358 - Expenditure in the veterinary field (Codified version)

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dossier COM(2008)358 - Expenditure in the veterinary field (Codified version).
source COM(2008)358 EN
date 16-06-2008
1. In the context of a people’s Europe, the Commission attaches great importance to simplifying and clarifying Community law so as to make it clearer and more accessible to the ordinary citizen, thus giving him new opportunities and the chance to make use of the specific rights it gives him.

This aim cannot be achieved so long as numerous provisions that have been amended several times, often quite substantially, remain scattered, so that they must be sought partly in the original instrument and partly in later amending ones. Considerable research work, comparing many different instruments, is thus needed to identify the current rules.

For this reason a codification of rules that have frequently been amended is also essential if Community law is to be clear and transparent.

2. On 1 April 1987 the Commission therefore decided1 to instruct its staff that all legislative acts should be codified after no more than ten amendments, stressing that this is a minimum requirement and that departments should endeavour to codify at even shorter intervals the texts for which they are responsible, to ensure that the Community rules are clear and readily understandable.

3. The Conclusions of the Presidency of the Edinburgh European Council (December 1992) confirmed this2, stressing the importance of codification as it offers certainty as to the law applicable to a given matter at a given time.

Codification must be undertaken in full compliance with the normal Community legislative procedure.

Given that no changes of substance may be made to the instruments affected by codification , the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have agreed, by an interinstitutional agreement dated 20 December 1994, that an accelerated procedure may be used for the fast-track adoption of codification instruments.

4. The purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June 1990 on expenditure in the veterinary field3. The new Decision will supersede the various acts incorporated in it4; 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 Decision 90/424/EEC 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 Decision.

ê 90/424/EEC
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    COM(87) 868 PV.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
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    OJ C
     
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    OJ C
     
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    OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19. Decision as last amended by Decision 2006/965/EC (OJ L 397, 30.12.2006, p. 22).

     
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    See Annex II.

     
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    OJ L 328, 24.11.2006, p. 14.

     
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    OJ L 145, 13.6.1977, p. 44. Directive as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.

     
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    OJ L 173, 19.6.1982, p. 18. Directive as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 (OJ L 362, 31.12.1985, p. 8).

     
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    OJ L 382, 31.12.1986, p. 5. Decision as amended by Decision 89/577/EEC (OJ L 322, 7.11.1989, p. 21).

     
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    OJ L 223, 2.8.1989, p. 19.

     
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    OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11).

     
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    OJ L 210, 31.7.2006, p. 25.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
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    OJ C
     
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    OJ L 10, 14.1.2006, p. 16.

     
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    OJ L 223, 15.8.2006, p. 1.

     
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    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
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    OJ C
     
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    OJ C
     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    OJ L 325, 12.12.2003, p. 31.

     
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    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    COM(87) 868 PV.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    OJ L 378, 31.12.1982, p. 58.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
  • 63. 
    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
  • 64. 
    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    OJ L 368, 31.12.1991, p. 21.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    OJ L 140, 1.6.1990, p. 123.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
  • 77. 
    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1; corrected version in OJ L 191, 28.5.2004, p. 1.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.

     
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    OJ C
     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    OJ C
     
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    OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 19. Decision as last amended by Decision 2006/965/EC (OJ L 397, 30.12.2006, p. 22).

     
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    OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56.

     
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    OJ L 24, 30.1.1978, p. 9.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    OJ L 173, 19.6.1982, p. 18. Directive as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 (OJ L 362, 31.12.1985, p. 8).

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
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    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
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    OJ C
     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.

     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    Carried out pursuant to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council
     
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    See Annex II to this proposal.

     
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    See Annex 3 to Part A of the Conclusions.