Considerations on COM(2007)777 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 on waste statistics, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission - Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny

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table>(1)Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 (2) provides that certain measures are to be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (3).
(2)Decision 1999/468/EC has been amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (4), which introduced the regulatory procedure with scrutiny for the adoption of measures of general scope and designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty, inter alia by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument with new non-essential elements.

(3)In accordance with the statement by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission (5) on Decision 2006/512/EC, for the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to be applicable to instruments adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty which are already in force, those instruments must be adjusted in accordance with the applicable procedures.

(4)The Commission should be empowered to define the proper quality evaluation criteria and the contents of the quality reports, to implement the results of the pilot studies and to adapt the contents of the annexes. Since those measures are of general scope and seek to amend non-essential elements of Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002, inter alia by supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.

(5)Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 should therefore be amended accordingly,