Division 9.7 Directive 2002/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 February 2002 on reporting formalities for ships arriving in and/or departing from ports of the Member States of the Community

As regards Directive 2002/6/EC, the Commission should be empowered to amend the lists of reporting formalities in respect of ships, signatories, technical specifications and models of IMO FAL forms. The Commission should also be empowered to adapt references to IMO instruments in order to bring Directive 2002/6/EC into line with Community or IMO measures. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 2002/6/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 2002/6/EC is hereby amended as follows:

1. 1..

   Article 5 shall be replaced by the following:

   ‘Amendment procedure

   Article 5

   Measures adapting Annexes I and II to this Directive and references to IMO instruments in order to bring them into line with Community or IMO measures which have entered into force shall be adopted by the Commission, in so far as such amendments do not broaden the scope of 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 6(2).’;

2. 2..

   Article 6 shall be replaced by the following:

   ‘Committee procedure

   Article 6

   1.

   The Commission shall be assisted by the Committee on Safe Seas and the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (COSS) set up by Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2099/2002^f2

   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.’.