PURPOSE: to repeal certain obsolete Council acts in the field of the common agricultural policy.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Council Regulation (EE) No 1128/2009 repealing certain obsolete Council acts in the field of the common agricultural policy.

CONTENT: improving the transparency of Community law is an essential element of the better lawmaking strategy that Community institutions are implementing. In that context it is appropriate to remove from legislation in force those acts which no longer have real effect.

As a result, this Regulation seeks to repeal:

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2602/69 of 18 December 1969 on retaining the Management Committee procedure (this Regulation has exhausted its effects since its content has been taken up by successive acts); Council Decision 85/360/EEC of 16 July 1985 on the restructuring of the system of agricultural surveys in Greece (the Decision covered the period between 1986 and 1996 and has therefore exhausted its effects); Council Regulation (EEC) No 3570/90 of 4 December 1990 on derogations in respect of agricultural statistical surveys in Germany in connection with the unification of Germany (this Regulation was intended for application during the transitional period following German unification and has therefore exhausted its effects); Council Regulation (EC) No 2611/95 of 25 October 1995 establishing the possibility of national aid being granted in compensation for losses of agricultural income caused by monetary movements in other Member States (this Regulation concerned the possibility of granting a three-year aid to be notified before 30 June 1996 and has therefore exhausted its effects); Council Regulation (EC) No 1107/2007 of 26 September 2007 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, as regards set-aside for the year 2008 (this Regulation only covered the year 2008 and has therefore exhausted its effects).

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 28/11/2009.

The European Parliament adopted by 542 votes to 1, with no abstentions, a legislative resolution approving unamended, under the consultation procedure, the proposal for a Council regulation repealing certain obsolete Council acts in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy.

The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted the report drawn up by Paolo DE CASTRO (S-D, IT) approving unamended, under the consultation procedure, the proposal for a Council regulation repealing certain obsolete Council acts in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy.

PURPOSE: to repeal certain obsolete Council acts in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy.

PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.

CONTENT: the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission agreed in their inter-institutional agreement on better law making that Community law should be updated and condensed by repealing acts which are no longer applied. Most recently, the Commission declared some 250 agricultural acts obsolete. In its Communication " A simplified CAP for Europe - a success for all " of 18 March 2009, the Commission confirmed its intention to clean up agricultural rules. The Commission has identified a number of Council acts related to the Common Agricultural Policy, which have exhausted all practical effects. It is not within the Commission's powers to declare Council acts obsolete. In the interest of legal certainty, the Commission suggests that the acts listed in this proposal shall be repealed by the Council.

The following Regulations and Decision relating to the Common Agricultural Policy have become obsolete, even though formally they are still in force:

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2602/69 on retaining the Management Committee procedure; Council Regulation (EEC) No 922/72 laying down general rules for granting aid in respect of silkworms for the 1972/73 rearing year; Council Regulation (EEC) No 3570/90 on derogations in respect of agricultural statistical surveys in Germany in connection with the unification of Germany; Council Regulation (EC) No 2611/95 establishing the possibility of national aid being granted in compensation for losses of agricultural income caused by monetary movements in other Member States; Council Regulation (EC) No 1107/2007 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, as regards set-aside for the year 2008; Council Decision 85/360/EEC on the restructuring of the system of agricultural surveys in Greece.

The present proposal is foreseen in the Simplification Rolling Programme adopted in the framework of the implementation of the Commission's strategy for simplification of the regulatory environment, as updated recently - document COM (2008) 712 Annex 2 to the 2009 Commission's Legislative and Work Programme".

PURPOSE: to repeal certain obsolete Council acts in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy.

PROPOSED ACT: Council Regulation.

CONTENT: the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission agreed in their inter-institutional agreement on better law making that Community law should be updated and condensed by repealing acts which are no longer applied. Most recently, the Commission declared some 250 agricultural acts obsolete. In its Communication " A simplified CAP for Europe - a success for all " of 18 March 2009, the Commission confirmed its intention to clean up agricultural rules. The Commission has identified a number of Council acts related to the Common Agricultural Policy, which have exhausted all practical effects. It is not within the Commission's powers to declare Council acts obsolete. In the interest of legal certainty, the Commission suggests that the acts listed in this proposal shall be repealed by the Council.

The following Regulations and Decision relating to the Common Agricultural Policy have become obsolete, even though formally they are still in force:

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2602/69 on retaining the Management Committee procedure; Council Regulation (EEC) No 922/72 laying down general rules for granting aid in respect of silkworms for the 1972/73 rearing year; Council Regulation (EEC) No 3570/90 on derogations in respect of agricultural statistical surveys in Germany in connection with the unification of Germany; Council Regulation (EC) No 2611/95 establishing the possibility of national aid being granted in compensation for losses of agricultural income caused by monetary movements in other Member States; Council Regulation (EC) No 1107/2007 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, as regards set-aside for the year 2008; Council Decision 85/360/EEC on the restructuring of the system of agricultural surveys in Greece.

The present proposal is foreseen in the Simplification Rolling Programme adopted in the framework of the implementation of the Commission's strategy for simplification of the regulatory environment, as updated recently - document COM (2008) 712 Annex 2 to the 2009 Commission's Legislative and Work Programme".