{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-219/annex/division-4/division-4.5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/219",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to 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 Two",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-219",
  "path": "annex/division/4/division/4.5",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4.5",
  "heading": "Regulation (EC) No 437/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 2003 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of passengers, freight and mail by air",
  "text": "As regards Regulation (EC) No 437/2003, the Commission should be empowered to establish standards of accuracy, specify data files and adopt certain implementing measures. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Regulation (EC) No 437/2003, inter alia, by supplementing it 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.\nAccordingly, Regulation (EC) No 437/2003 is hereby amended as follows:\n1.. Article 5 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘Accuracy of statistics\nArticle 5 The collection of data shall be based on complete returns, unless other standards of accuracy are established by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 11(3).’;\n2.. Article 7(2) shall be replaced by the following:\n‘2. The results shall be transmitted according to the data files shown in Annex I. The files shall be specified by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 11(3).\nThe medium to be used for transmission shall be specified by the Commission in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 11(2).’;\n3.. Article 10 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘Implementing measures\nArticle 10 1. The following implementing measures shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 11(2):\nthe list of Community airports covered by Article 3(2),\ndescription of the data codes and the medium to be used for transmission of results to the Commission (Article 7),\ndissemination of statistical results (Article 8),\n2. The Commission shall adopt the following implementing measures:\nadaptation of the specifications in the Annexes to this Regulation,\nadaptation of the data collection characteristics (Article 3),\naccuracy of statistics (Article 5),\ndescription of the data files (Article 7),\nThose measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 11(3).’;\n4.. Article 11 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘Committee procedure\nArticle 11 1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Statistical Programme Committee established by Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom.\n2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.\nThe time limit laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.\n3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and (5)(a) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 66, 11.3.2003, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}