Interinstitutional agreement on the official codification of Community legislation

The Committee on Legal Affairs adopted the report on an interinstitutional agreement concerning the official codification of Community legislation. It called on the European Parliament to approve the draft agreement drawn up by the legal services of the three institutions with the inclusion, however, of an interpretative statement following Article 5: "Parliament feels that, particularly where there is a change to the legal base or to the procedure for adopting the text concerned, it should reserve its assessment on the codification procedure, taking account of the necessary respect for the 'normal legislative process' in the sense of paragraph 5 of the agreement". �