Narcotics and psychotropic drugs: substances used in the illicit manufacture of drugs

The Commission's amended proposal takes up three of the five amendments adopted by the Parliament in its first reading. These are as follow: - amendments of a semantic or linguistic nature; - amendments seeking to strengthen safety measures against the production of psychotrophic substances; - the modification of the date for the transposition of the Directive. On the other hand, the Commission did not accept the amendment that sought to oblige it to present, each year, a report on the results of monitoring measures on classified and non-classified substances, because this report would duplicate that which would be drawn up for the attention of the International Narcotics Control Board. The Commission also rejected a part of another amendment aimed at not making accessible to the public the lists of products to be monitored drawn up by the Committee on Drug Precursors (because the work of the Commitee is, in any event, confidential).�