PURPOSE: to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European environment information and observation network.

LEGISLATIVE ACT : Regulation (EC) No 401/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network (Codified version).

CONTENT: the purpose of this Regulation is to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90. The Regulation supersedes the various acts incorporated in it. It 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.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 10/06/2009.

The European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution based on the report drafted by Francesco Enrico SPERONI (UEN, IT) approving, under the first reading of the codecision procedure, the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network (codified version).

The Committee on Legal Affairs adopted the report drafted by Mr Francesco Enrico SPERONI (UEN, IT) approving, under the first reading of the codecision procedure, the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network (codified version).

Although the proposal was not the subject to any ‘formal’ amendments by the committee, it incorporates the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of Parliament, the Council and the Commission who made a certain number of technical remarks regarding the text of the codified proposal.

The only modifications made to the draft codification text are as follows:

in the title of the act, the words "the establishment of" should be removed. As a consequence of such an adaptation, the title would read "Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network"; in Article 1(1), the word "establishes" should be replaced by the words "provides for"; in Article 4(4), between the words " Member States may also " and " identify the institutions ", the wording " by 30 April 1994 " should be inserted (the wording should appear between two commas).

Apart from these aspects, the proposal is a straightforward codification of existing texts, without any change in their substance.

PURPOSE: to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European environment information and observation network.

PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.

CONTENT: the purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90. The new Regulation will supersede the various acts incorporated in it. 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.

PURPOSE: to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90 on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European environment information and observation network.

PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.

CONTENT: the purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90. The new Regulation will supersede the various acts incorporated in it. 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.