Article 5 Amendments to Directive 2009/147/EC

Directive 2009/147/EC is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   Article 12 is amended as follows:

   1. (a)

      paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

      ‘1.

      Member States shall forward to the Commission every six years, in the same year as the report drawn up pursuant to Article 17(1) of Council Directive 92/43/EEC^f1, a report on the implementation of the measures taken under this Directive and the main impacts of these measures. That report shall be made accessible to the public and shall include in particular information concerning the status and trends of wild bird species protected by this Directive, the threats and pressures on them, the conservation measures taken for them and the contribution of the network of Special Protection Areas to the objectives laid out in Article 2 of this Directive.

      The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish the format of the report referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph. The format of that report shall be aligned with the format of the report referred to in Article 17(1) of Directive 92/43/EEC. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 16a(2) of this Directive.’;

   2. (b)

      in paragraph 2, the first sentence is replaced by the following:

      ‘2.

      The Commission, assisted by the European Environment Agency, shall prepare and publish, every six years, a composite report based on the information referred to in paragraph 1.’;

2. (2)

   the following Article is inserted:

   ‘Committee procedure

   Article 16a

   1.

   The Commission shall be assisted by a committee. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f2.

   2.

   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.

   Where the committee delivers no opinion, the Commission shall not adopt the draft implementing act and the third subparagraph of Article 5(4) of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.’