http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/eudr/2008/21

Directive 2008/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

of 11 March 2008

amending Council Directive 91/675/EEC setting up a European insurance and occupational pensions committee, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 47(2) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal of the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee1,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty2,

Whereas:

(1)

Council Directive 91/675/EEC3 provides that certain measures are to be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission4.

(2)

Decision 1999/468/EC has been amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced the regulatory procedure with scrutiny for the adoption of measures of general scope and designed to amend non-essential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty, inter alia by deleting some of those elements or by supplementing the instrument with new non-essential elements.

(3)

In accordance with the statement by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission5 concerning Decision 2006/512/EC, for the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to be applicable to instruments adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty which are already in force, those instruments must be adjusted in accordance with the applicable procedures.

(4)

The measures necessary for the implementation of directives in the field of direct non-life insurance and direct life insurance, reinsurance and occupational pensions should be adopted in accordance with Decision 1999/468/EC. When those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of such directives, inter alia by supplementing them with new non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.

(5)

Directive 91/675/EEC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6)

Since the amendments made to Directive 91/675/EEC by this Directive are technical in nature and concern committee procedure only, they do not need to be transposed by the Member States. It is therefore not necessary to lay down provisions to that effect,

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