Progress: Procedure completed
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | ENVI | POLLACK Anita Jean ( PES) | |
Former Responsible Committee | ENVI | POLLACK Anita Jean ( PES) |
Lead committee dossier:
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EC before Amsterdam E 130S-p1
Legal Basis:
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Stating that the proposal concerned the mutual exchange of data relating to 34 pollutants measured in the Member States, the rapporteur, Mrs Pollack (PSE, UK), said that it was important to give the public access to this information; in order to do this the data in question had to be published in a clear and comprehensible manner; she also insisted on the introduction of a stricter review procedure in order to improve the quality of the data transmitted to the Commission. Commissioner Bjerregaard stated that he supported those amendments that were aimed at simplifying the title of the proposal and at facilitating the disclosure of the data. The Commission, on the other hand, indicated that it was not in a position to accept the request, which consisted of bringing forward the deadline for submitting the report from five years to three.
The ESC endorsed this proposal in that it represented an important step both in establishing effective and comparable checks on ambient air quality and in making more information available to the EU citizen. It would, however, like to make a number of observations intended to improve the drafting of the proposal for a decision. Firstly, the list of pollutants in Annex 1 was far longer than that in the proposed directive on air quality, which covered only 14 of these 34 pollutants. Furthermore, the sheer quantity of exchangeable data, especially in those Member States with a dense network of air quality measurement stations, could be enormous and make this exchange unworkable. Consequently, the Member States should operate a ‘pyramidal’ selection of measuring stations so that the exchange and assessment would be carried out first at local and regional level prior to the Community dimension. On this basis the Member States should facilitate the exchange of data between a sufficient number of stations that were representative of the different geographical situations and regions in that Member State; this would be the most cost-effective way to achieve the objective. By the same token the ESC considered it more advisable to draw up separate annexes. The first would set out those substances that had to be measured under Community Directives; the second the rest of the pollutants not covered by Community Directives on air quality. The ESC considered that the technical committee set up under the Directive on ambient air quality assessment and management should be responsible for approving, jointly with the Commission, the adaptation of the present decision to scientific and technical progress. The European Environment Agency, as part of its remit, would have to assist the Commission in formulating the proposals to be submitted to the technical committee. Finally, the ESC considered that, in the sectoral programmes for 1993-1997 of the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, in the section ‘measuring and testing’ (1.1.1.), with a budget of ECU 105 million, and in the actual sectoral programme ‘Standardisation, measurement and testing’, a specific budget line should be established for improving and standardising the measuring and testing methods for some of those pollutants contained in Annex 1, the measurement of which at the moment was very expensive and in some cases not sufficiently reliable.
Documents
- Final act published in Official Journal: Decision 1997/101
- Final act published in Official Journal: OJ L 035 05.02.1997, p. 0014
- Modified legislative proposal: EUR-Lex
- Modified legislative proposal: COM(1996)0534
- Modified legislative proposal published: EUR-Lex
- Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1996)0534
- Text adopted by Parliament, 2nd reading: OJ C 320 28.10.1996, p. 0064-0074
- Text adopted by Parliament, 2nd reading: T4-0457/1996
- Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T4-0457/1996
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A4-0267/1996
- Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: OJ C 320 28.10.1996, p. 0004
- Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A4-0267/1996
- Commission communication on Council's position: EUR-Lex
- Commission communication on Council's position: SEC(1996)0391
- Council position: 12122/2/1995
- Council position: OJ C 219 27.07.1996, p. 0001
- Council position published: 12122/2/1995
- Modified legislative proposal: EUR-Lex
- Modified legislative proposal: OJ C 030 03.02.1996, p. 0008
- Modified legislative proposal: COM(1995)0468
- Modified legislative proposal published: EUR-Lex
- Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1995)0468
- Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: OJ C 166 03.07.1995, p. 0161-0167
- Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0318/1995
- Decision by Parliament: T4-0318/1995
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0117/1995
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: OJ C 166 03.07.1995, p. 0003
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0117/1995
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES0184/1995
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: OJ C 110 02.05.1995, p. 0003
- Legislative proposal: EUR-Lex
- Legislative proposal: OJ C 281 07.10.1994, p. 0009
- Legislative proposal: COM(1994)0345
- Legislative proposal published: EUR-Lex
- Legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0345
- Legislative proposal: EUR-Lex OJ C 281 07.10.1994, p. 0009 COM(1994)0345
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES0184/1995 OJ C 110 02.05.1995, p. 0003
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0117/1995 OJ C 166 03.07.1995, p. 0003
- Text adopted by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: OJ C 166 03.07.1995, p. 0161-0167 T4-0318/1995
- Modified legislative proposal: EUR-Lex OJ C 030 03.02.1996, p. 0008 COM(1995)0468
- Council position: 12122/2/1995 OJ C 219 27.07.1996, p. 0001
- Commission communication on Council's position: EUR-Lex SEC(1996)0391
- Committee recommendation tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A4-0267/1996 OJ C 320 28.10.1996, p. 0004
- Text adopted by Parliament, 2nd reading: OJ C 320 28.10.1996, p. 0064-0074 T4-0457/1996
- Modified legislative proposal: EUR-Lex COM(1996)0534
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