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  "legislation": "eudr/2008/21",
  "legislation_title": "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",
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  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Directive 2008/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council\nof 11 March 2008\namending Council Directive 91/675/EEC setting up a European insurance and occupational pensions committee, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission\nTHE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 47(2) thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal of the Commission,\nHaving regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee,\nActing in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCouncil Directive 91/675/EEC 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 Commission.\n(2)\nDecision 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.\n(3)\nIn accordance with the statement by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission 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.\n(4)\nThe 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.\n(5)\nDirective 91/675/EEC should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(6)\nSince 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,\nHAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ C 161, 13.7.2007, p. 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Opinion of the European Parliament of 14 November 2007 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 3 March 2008."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 374, 31.12.1991, p. 32. Directive as last amended by Directive 2005/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 79, 24.3.2005, p. 9)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, p. 11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ C 255, 21.10.2006, p. 1."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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