Legislative resolution embodying Parliament's opinion on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive on action to be taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants by engines intended to power agricultural or forestry tractors and amending Council Directive 74/150/EEC (COM(98)0472 C4-0512/98 98/ 0247(COD))(Codecision procedure: first reading)
1. 10. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 279/209 Wednesday 5 May 1999 TEXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION AMENDMENTS BY PARLIAMENT (Amendment 4) ARTICLE 8, 2nd paragraph (new) Article 13(2) and (3) (Directive 74/150/EEC) In Article 13, paragraphs 2 and 3 are replaced by the following: ‘2. The representative of the Commission shall sub- mit to the Committee a draft of the measures to be adopted. The Committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft within a time limit set by the Chairman having regard to the urgency of the matter, if necessary by taking a vote. The opinion shall be recorded in the minutes; in 3. addition, each Member State shall have the right to ask to have its position recorded in the minutes. 3a. The Commission shall take the utmost account of the opinion delivered by the Committee. It shall inform the Committee of the manner in which its opinion has been taken into account. ’ Legislative resolution embodying Parliament’s opinion on the proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive on action to be taken against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants by engines intended to power agricultural or forestry tractors and amending Council Directive 74/150/EEC (COM(98)0472 − C4-0512/98 − 98/0247(COD)) (Codecision procedure: first reading) The European Parliament, − having regard to the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council, COM(98)0472 − 98/0247(COD) (1), − having regard to Articles 189b (now 251)(2) and 100a (now 95) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C4-0512/98), − having regard to Rule 58 of its Rules of Procedure, − having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection (A4-0128/99), 1. Approves the Commission proposal, subject to Parliament’s amendments; Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC 2. Treaty; Calls on the Council to approve all Parliament’s amendments and definitively adopt the act thus 3. amended; Points out that the Commission is required to submit to Parliament any modification it may intend to 4. make to its proposal as amended by Parliament; 5. Instructs its President to forward this opinion to the Council and Commission. (1) OJ C 303, 2. 10. 1998, p. 9