Environment European Agency: implementation of certain activities

The European Parliament adopted the report by Mr Kenneth COLLINS (PSE, UK) on the proposed resolution on the development and implementation of the European Environment Agency. An introductory paragraph reminded the Commission and the Council that, under the terms of Article 20 of the regulation establishing the Agency, the Commission report should include any proposals needed to allow the Council to rule, following consultation with Parliament and that, as a legal act, the regulation could only be amended by the same type of act and not under a Council resolution or other document on which Parliament was not consulted. It therefore called on the Council to subscribe to this resolution in a spirit of equitable cooperation between the Community institutions. Furthermore, although it did not consider the proposal to postpone revision of Article 20 for two years satisfactory, Parliament felt that it was realistic to accept the report.�