EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
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1998/0324(COD)  .
16 November 1999
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DRAFT REPORT
on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive amending
Council Directive 91/68/EEC as regards scrapie
(COM(1998) 623 – C4-0026/1999 – 1998/0324(COD))
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Rapporteur: Reimer Böge
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Symbols for procedures
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Consultation procedure
majority of the votes cast
Cooperation procedure (first reading)
majority of the votes cast
Cooperation procedure (second reading)
majority of the votes cast, to approve the
common position
majority of Parliament’s component Members,
to reject or amend the common position
Assent procedure
majority of Parliament’s component Members
except in cases covered by Articles 105, 107,
161 and 300 of the EC Treaty and Article 7 of
the EU Treaty
Codecision procedure (first reading)
majority of the votes cast
Codecision procedure (second reading)
majority of the votes cast, to approve the
common position
majority of Parliament’s component Members,
to reject or amend the common position
Codecision procedure (third reading)
majority of the votes cast, to approve the joint
text
Abbreviations for committees
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III.
IV.
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VII.
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(The type of procedure depends on the legal basis
proposed by the Commission)
XVII.
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AFET Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights,
Common Security and Defence Policy
BUDG Committee on Budgets
CONT Committee on Budgetary Control
LIBE Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights,
Justice and Home Affairs
ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
JURI Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal
Market
INDU Committee on Industry, External Trade,
Research and Energy
EMPL Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
ENVI Committee on the Environment, Public Health
and Consumer Policy
AGRI Committee on Agriculture and Rural
Development
PECH Committee on Fisheries
REGI Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and
Tourism
CULT Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the
Media and Sport
DEVE Committee on Development and Cooperation
AFCO Committee on Constitutional Affairs
FEMM Committee on Women's Rights and Equal
Opportunities
PETI Committee on Petitions
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CONTENTS
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Procedural page .......................................................................................................................... 4
LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL ..................................................................................................... 5
DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION .................................................................................. 5
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT ................................................................................................
Opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy ................
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Procedural page
By letter of 7 January 1999 the Commission forwarded to Parliament, pursuant to Article 251(2)
of the EC Treaty, the proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive amending Council
Directive 91/68/EEC as regards scrapie.
At the sitting of 28 January 1999 the President of Parliament announced that he had referred this
proposal to the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development as the committee responsible
and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy for its opinion.
At its meeting of 26 January 1999 the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development had
appointed Mr Reimer Böge rapporteur.
It considered the Commission proposal and the draft report at its meetings of 18 February, 30
March and 31 August 1999.
At the last meeting it adopted the draft legislative resolution by …
The following took part in the vote:
The report was tabled on …
The deadline for tabling amendments will be indicated in the draft agenda for the relevant
part-session.
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LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL
Proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive amending Council Directive
91/68/EEC as regards scrapie (COM(1998) 623 – C5-0026/1999 – 1998/0324(COD))
The proposal is approved.
DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION
Legislative resolution of the European Parliament on the proposal for a European
Parliament and Council directive amending Council Directive 91/68/EEC as regards
scrapie (COM(1998) 623 – C5-0026/1999 – 1998/0324(COD))
(Codecision procedure: first reading)
The European Parliament,
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having regard to the Commission proposal to the European Parliament and the Council
(COM(1998) 6231),
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having regard to Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission
submitted the proposal to Parliament (C5-0026/1999),
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having regard to Rule 67 of its Rules of Procedure,
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having regard to the report of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and
the opinion of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy
(A5-0000/1999),
1. Approves the Commission proposal;
2. Asks to be consulted again should the Commission intend to amend its proposal
substantially or replace it with another text;
3. Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.
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OJ C 45, 19.2.1999, p. 33.
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EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
The purpose of this proposal is to delete provisions relating to scrapie in sheep from Council
Directive 91/68/EEC of 28 January 1991 on animal health conditions governing intraCommunity trade in ovine and caprine animals2 and from the annexes thereto.
The proposal may be endorsed.
With its proposal for a European Parliament and Council Regulation laying down rules for the
prevention and control of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies3, the
Commission has now presented detailed rules on preventing and controlling animal TSEs
which also contain provisions governing the production and placing on the market of live
animals and products of animal origin with regard to scrapie and, furthermore, for the first
time, Community provisions concerning the detection and control of TSEs in sheep.
This is in line with Parliament's call, in the context of further action on the BSE crisis and of
the BSE follow-up report, for the Commission to submit Community rules for the control of
scrapie. The merit of this new proposal lies specifically in the fact that, with regard to scrapie,
it not only contains Community rules on transport and placing on the market, but also creates
a legal basis for Community rules on the control of scrapie. This is a welcome development.
The two proposals are interlinked and should in particular be considered in the light of the fact
that the experimental infection of sheep by feeding them BSE-contaminated feed has
produced a clinical expression of the disease which is indistinguishable from scrapie, and of
the hypothesis that scrapie could have evolved into BSE and thus caused the BSE epidemic.
This proposal should therefore be viewed in the context of Parliament's fundamental position
on the BSE problem.
The wording of the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Regulation laying down
rules for the prevention and control of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
needs to be made more precise and tightened up with regard to scrapie (the presence of TSEs
in sheep) and in particular the detection and control thereof (cf. the corresponding report of
the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy and opinion of the
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development). It does, however, represent a clear
improvement on the provisions of Council Directive 91/68/EEC on animal health conditions
governing intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals and, as stated above, complies
with Parliament's demands.
2
OJ L 46, 19.2.1991, p. 19 (as last amended by Commission Decision 94/68/EEC - OJ L 371,
31.12.1994, p. 14).
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OJ C 45, 19.2.1999, p. 1.
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