Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part One (c. 1137)

ANNEX

4. ENVIRONMENT

4.1. Council Directive 76/160/EEC of 8 December 1975 concerning the quality of bathing water(1)

As regards Directive 76/160/EEC, the Commission should be empowered to adapt to technical progress the G and I values for the parameters and the methods of analysis set out in the Annex thereto. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 76/160/EEC, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.

Accordingly, Directive 76/160/EEC is hereby amended as follows:

1.

Article 9 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 9

The Commission shall adopt such amendments as are necessary to adapt to technical progress the G and I values for the parameters and the methods of analysis set out in the Annex to this Directive.

Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 11(2).’;

2.

Article 11 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following:

‘2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’;

(b)

paragraph 3 shall be deleted.

(1)

OJ L 31, 5.2.1976, p. 1.