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As regards Directive 2000/14/EC, the Commission should be empowered to adopt implementing measures for the adaptation to technical progress of Annex III. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 2000/14/EC, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.
Accordingly, Directive 2000/14/EC is hereby amended as follows:
Article 18 shall be amended as follows:
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.’;
paragraph 3 shall be deleted;
the following Article shall be inserted:
The Commission shall adopt implementing measures for the adaptation to technical progress of Annex III, provided they do not have any direct impact on the measured sound power level of equipment listed in Article 12, in particular through the inclusion of references to relevant European standards.
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 18(2).’;
in Article 19, point (b) shall be replaced by the following:
assist the Commission in the adaptation to technical progress of Annex III.’