91999E1800

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1800/99

by Helena Torres Marques (PSE) to the Council

(13 October 1999)

Subject: Proposals for directives awaiting a Council decision

At the 23 September 1999 meeting of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, the President-in-Office of the Transport Ministers' Council confirmed that the Council holds a large number of proposals for directives on which it has yet to take a decision, despite the fact that some of those proposals have been awaiting such action for a number of years.

Could the Council say which proposals are affected by this state of affairs?

Reply

(17 December 1999)

The proposals for directives to which the Honourable Member is referring concern, inter alia, those covered by the Resolution adopted by the European Parliament at its sitting on 16 September 1999

(see PE 279.943). In that Resolution the European Parliament confirmed, as first readings under the co-decision procedure following the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty, a whole series of texts voted under the previous Parliament.

Following that European Parliament Resolution, the Council will strive henceforth to make progress on the files concerned.