Resolution of the European Parliament on the supplementary estimates to Parliament's budget estimates for 2000
C 296/100 Official Journal of the European Communities EN 18. 10. 2000 Wednesday 15 December 1999 GOODWILL Robert GREEN Pauline HANNAN Daniel J. HARBOUR Malcolm HEATON-HARRIS Christopher HELMER Roger HOLMES Michael John HOWITT Richard HUDGHTON Ian Stewart HUGHES Stephen HUHNE Christopher HUME John Lord INGLEWOOD JACKSON Caroline F. KHANBHAI Bashir KINNOCK Glenys KIRKHOPE Timothy LAMBERT Jean LUCAS Caroline LUDFORD Baroness Sarah LYNNE Elizabeth McAVAN Linda McCARTHY Arlene MacCORMICK Neil McMILLAN-SCOTT Edward H. C. McNALLY Eryl Margaret MARTIN David W. MILLER Bill MORAES Claude MORGAN Eluned MURPHY Simon Francis NEWTON DUNN William Francis NICHOLSON James Baroness NICHOLSON OF WINTERBOURNE O’TOOLE Barbara PAISLEY Ian R. K. PARISH Neil PERRY Roy PROVAN James L. C. PURVIS John READ Imelda Mary SIMPSON Brian SKINNER Peter William STEVENSON Struan Earl of STOCKTON STURDY Robert William SUMBERG David TANNOCK Charles TAYLOR Catherine TITFORD Jeffrey William TITLEY Gary VAN ORDEN Geoffrey VILLIERS Theresa WALLIS Diana WATSON Graham R. WATTS Mark Francis WHITEHEAD Phillip WYN Eurig WYNN Terence 14. Supplementary estimates A5-0100/1999 Resolution of the European Parliament on the supplementary estimates to Parliament’s budget estimates for 2000 The European Parliament, 2 having regard to Article 272 of the EC Treaty, 2 having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary pro- cedure (1), 2 having regard to its resolution of 23 March 1999 on the guidelines for the 2000 budgetary procedure: Section I 2 European Parliament, Ombudsman Annex; Section II 2 Council; Section IV 2 Court of Justice; Section V 2 Court of Auditors; Section VI 2 Economic and Social Committee and Committee of the Regions (2), 2 having regard to its resolution of 5 May 1999 on the estimates of revenue and expenditure of the European Parliament and the estimates of revenue and expenditure of the Ombudsman for the finan- cial year 2000 (3), 2 having regard to the preliminary draft budget for the financial year 2000 (COM(1999) 200), 2 having regard to the draft general budget for the financial year 2000 established by the Council (C5-0300/1999), 2 having regard to Article 199 of the EC Treaty, Article 25 of the ECSC Treaty and Article 112 of the EAEC Treaty, 2 having regard to Rule 183 of and Annex VI(II) to its Rules of Procedure, 2 having regard to the preliminary draft supplementary estimates for the 2000 budget adopted by its Bureau on 2 December 1999, 2 having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A5-0100/1999), (1) OJ C 172, 18. 6. 1999, p. 1. (2) OJ C 177, 22. 6. 1999, p. 44. (3) OJ C 279, 1. 10. 1999, p. 227. 18. 10. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 296/101 Wednesday 15 December 1999 1. Adopts unamended its supplementary estimates; 2. Stresses, however, that in the event that the final decision of the Court of First Instance in Case T-222/99 cancels the Court’s decision of 25 November 1999 the posts will become vacant, and then remain so, and the upgrading will be cancelled; 3. Instructs its President to forward the supplementary estimates to the Commission and the Council. 15. Civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles ***II A5-0086/1999 European Parliament legislative resolution on the common position adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a European Parliament and Council directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles and amending Directives 73/239/EEC and 88/357/EEC (Fourth Motor Insurance Directive) (14247/1/1999 3 C5-0027/1999 3 1997/0264(COD)) (Codecision procedure: second reading) The European Parliament, 2 having regard to the Council common position (14247/1/1999 2 C5-0027/1999) (1), 2 having regard to its position at first reading (2) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(1997) 510) (3), 2 having regard to the Commission’s amended proposal (COM(1999) 147) (4), 2 having regard to Article 251(2) of the EC Treaty, 2 having regard to Rule 80 of its Rules of Procedure, 2 having regard to the recommendation for second reading of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (A5-0086/1999), 1. 2. Amends the common position as follows; Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission. COMMON POSITION OF THE COUNCILl AMENDMENTS BY PARLIAMENT (Amendment 1) Recital 8 is in fact appropriate to supplement (8) Whereas it the arrangements established by Directives 72/166/EEC, 84/5/EEC and 90/232/EEC in order to guarantee injured parties suffering loss or injury as a result of a motor vehicle accident compar- able treatment irrespective of where in the Community acci- dents occur; whereas, for accidents occurring in a Member State other than that of the injured party’s residence, there are gaps with regard to the settlement of injured parties’ claims; is in fact appropriate to supplement (8) Whereas it the arrangements established by Directives 72/166/EEC, 84/5/EEC and 90/232/EEC in order to guarantee injured parties suffering loss or injury as a result of a motor vehicle accident compar- able treatment irrespective of where in the Community acci- dents occur; whereas, for accidents occurring in a State other than that of the injured party’s residence, there are gaps with regard to the settlement of injured parties’ claims; (1) OJ C 232, 13. 8. 1999, p. 8. (2) OJ C 292, 21. 9. 1998, p. 123. (3) OJ C 343, 13. 11. 1997, p. 11. (4) OJ C 171, 18. 6. 1999, p. 4