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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-596/annex/division-6/division-6.3",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/596",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 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 Four",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-596",
  "path": "annex/division/6/division/6.3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "6.3",
  "heading": "Directive 2003/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2003 on occurrence reporting in civil aviation",
  "text": "As regards Directive 2003/42/EC, the Commission should be empowered in particular to amend the Annexes in order to expand upon, or change, the examples, to facilitate the exchange of information and to adopt measures for the dissemination to interested parties of the information. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 2003/42/EC, 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, Directive 2003/42/EC is hereby amended as follows:\n1.. Article 3(2) shall be replaced by the following:\n‘2. The Commission may decide to amend the Annexes in order to expand upon, or change, the examples. 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 10(3).’;\n2.. Article 7(2) shall be replaced by the following:\n‘2. Without prejudice to the public’s right of access to the Commission’s documents as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and the Council, the Commission shall adopt on its own initiative measures for the dissemination to interested parties of the information referred to in paragraph 1 and the associated conditions. Those measures, which may be general or individual, shall be based on the need:\nto provide persons and organisations with the information they need to improve civil aviation safety,\nto limit the dissemination of information to what is strictly required for the purpose of its users, in order to ensure appropriate confidentiality of that information,\nThe individual measures shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 10(2).\nThe general measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 10(3).\nThe decision to disseminate information under this paragraph shall be limited to what is strictly required for the purpose of its user, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 8.’;\n3.. Article 10 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘Article 10 1. The Commission shall be assisted by the committee established by Article 12 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3922/91 of 16 December 1991 on the harmonisation of technical requirements and administrative procedures in the field of civil aviation.\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 period provided for 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 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 167, 4.7.2003, p. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43.’;"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 373, 31.12.1991, p. 4.’."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "implicit repeal",
      "affecting": "eur/2015/2283",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on novel foods, amending Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1852/2001 (Text with EEA relevance)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/596/annex/division/6/division/6.3",
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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."
}