Aligning a number of legal acts in the area of Justice with the TFEU (Article 290, Commission delegated powers)

The European Parliament adopted by 466 votes to 50 with 13 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting to Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union a number of legal acts in the area of justice providing for the use of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny (RPS).

To recall, the Commission committed itself to assessing by the end of 2012 how many legislative acts containing references to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny remained in force, in order to prepare the appropriate legislative initiatives and thus complete the adaptation to the new legal framework. The stated objective was that, by the end of the seventh term of Parliament, all provisions referring to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny would have been removed from all legislative instruments.

The Commission put forward three proposals fulfilling this commitment (Please see 2013/0218(COD) and 2013/0365(COD)).

This resolution is related to a proposal covering five legislative acts in the area of Justice that still refer to the RPS.

Parliament adopted its position in first reading following the ordinary legislative procedure amended the proposal. It does not contain amendments to the Commission’s proposal.