2009
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Amendment to Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 on fertilizers
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Revision
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It is intended to amend Annex IV of Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 in order to ensure that CEN Standards can be considered as official methods of analysis to be used as reference for official controls. Their updated version delivered by CEN will no longer be included in the legal act but will exist in the form of separate standards to which the Community law will refer – the detailed description of test methods currently contained in the Annex will be deleted.
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Repeal of 24 Directives on agricultural and forestry tractors
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Repeal
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The proposal will simplify EC legislation on agricultural and forestry tractors by replacing existing legislation (including the present Framework Directive and the separate Directives) by one main Regulation. It will introduce improved requirements for tractor brakes as well.
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Simplification of Directives concerning medical devices, active implantable medical devices, blood and plasma
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Recast
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The objective is to simplify and strengthen the rules in order to ensure a high level of health protection while at the same time ensuring a smooth functioning of the internal market.
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Repeal of 14 Directives on two and three wheelers
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Repeal
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The proposal will simplify EC legislation on 2 and 3-wheel motor vehicles by replacing existing legislation (including the present Framework Directive and the separate Directives) by one main Regulation.. It will introduce a) modern emissions legislation b) ABS and c) Automatic emergency braking for 2 and 3-wheelers.
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Mutual acceptance of personnel licences and harmonisation of technical requirements in civil aviation
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Repeal
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Repeal of Council Directive 91/670 on mutual acceptance of personnel licences for the exercise of functions in civil aviation and Council Regulation 3922/91 on the harmonisation of technical requirements and administrative procedures in the field of civil aviation.
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Recast of Regulation (EC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport
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Recast
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Enhancing road safety, fair competition and adequate working conditions for professional drivers. More specifically:
- improve the capacity of the system to resist to attempts to tamper with or alter the data on driving time and speed.
- reduce administrative costs for undertakings which use the tachograph on their fleets and for control officers carrying out checks. The Regulation were amended 11 times and have to be simplified.
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Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 77/388/EEC as regards the VAT treatment of public authorities and the exemptions for certain activities in the public interest
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Review
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The proposal aims at ensuring a more harmonised and neutral VAT system.
Harmonisation: due to certain options and vague definitions, the practical application of the provisions related to public authorities varies widely among Member States creating differences in the VAT treatment of public authorities between Member States.
Neutrality: distortions of competition between the public and the private sector and several economic inefficiencies as well as tax avoidance schemes are the main disadvantages of the current rules.
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Proposal for a Council Directive replacing Directive 92/12/EEC on the general arrangements for products subject to excise duty and on the holding, movement and monitoring of such products.
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Review
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The proposal will modernise and simplify the provisions of the Directive, integrate judgements of the ECJ, as well as guidelines of the excise committee and adapt the Directive to support the computerisation of the procedures for the movement of excise products under suspension of excise duty.
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Recast of Council Directive 2003/49/EC on a common system of taxation applicable to interest and royalty payments made between associated companies of different Member States as amended.
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Recast
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Consolidation of the legal text and adoption of simplified procedures relating to exemption from withholding tax.
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