Checks on the transport of dangerous goods by road: Commission implementing powers

PURPOSE: to amend Council Directive 95/50/EC on uniform procedures for checks on the transport of dangerous goods by road by introducing a reference to the new regulatory procedure with scrutiny (comitology).

LEGISLATIVE ACT: Directive 2008/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 95/50/EC on uniform procedures for checks on the transport of dangerous goods by road, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission

CONTENT: Decision 2006/512/EC (CNS/2002/0298), 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 laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty, inter alia, by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument with new non-essential elements.

This Directive provides that the Commission, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny, is empowered to adapt the Annexes to Directive 95/50/EC to scientific and technical progress.

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 10/04/2008.