Developing countries: integrate the environment in the development process, sustainable development
1999/0020(COD)
The Commission was able to accept 28 EP amendments in full or in part, in some cases subject to some rewording or insertion in a different part of the regulation text than initially proposed. Some amendments became redundant after other clarifications to the text were made.
The amendments or important parts of the amendments that the Commission was unable to accept can be grouped under one or several of the following categories:
- the provision of details, concerning themes and activities, which were already addressed in other parts of the regulation and/or which were considered to burden the structure and equilibrium of the regulation without adding to its completeness;
- other amendments that were considered already to be covered in the original version of the proposed regulation;
- quotes or provision details relating to various applicable policy documents and legal acts which were considered redundant for the purpose of the regulation;
- amendments relating to the interpretation of the scope of the regulation which were considered either too broad or too limiting;
- management issues which are of the competence of the Commission;
- amendments that were not in accordance with standard formulation or similar regulations;
- amendments that were insufficiently clear, redundant, unworkable or too limiting.�