Exploitation and marketing of natural mineral waters: adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny. Recast

PURPOSE: recast of Council Directive 80/777/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the exploitation and marketing of natural mineral waters.

PROPOSED ACT: Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council

CONTENT: the codification of Council Directive 80/777/EEC of 15 July 1980 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the exploitation and marketing of natural mineral waters has been initiated by the Commission. The new Directive was to have superseded the various acts incorporated in it.

In the meantime Council Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (comitology) has been amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced a regulatory procedure with scrutiny for measures of general scope designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure.

In accordance with the joint statement of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on Decision 2006/512/EC, for this new procedure to be applicable to instruments adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure, those instruments must be adjusted in accordance with the applicable procedures.

It is therefore proposed to transform the codification of Directive 80/777/EEC into a recast in order to incorporate the amendments necessary for the adjustment to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.