Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

2:25 pm

Photo of Michael McCarthyMichael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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We will continue scrutiny of the following EU legislative proposals - Schedule A: COM(2013)480; COM(2013)768; COM(2013) 769; Schedule B: COM(2013)743. COM(2013) 480 is a proposal for regulation of the European Parliament and the EU Council of the monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emissions from maritime transport and amending Regulation (EU) No. 525/2013, text with EEA relevance; SWD(2013) 237 final; SWD(2013) 236 final. It is proposed that this proposal does not warrant further scrutiny. Is this agreed? Agreed.

COM (2013) 768 is ratification of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the joint fulfilment of commitments thereunder. It is proposed that this proposal does not warrant further scrutiny. Is this agreed? Agreed.

COM (2013) 769 is a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 552/2013 as regards the technical implementation of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It is proposed that this proposal does not warrant further scrutiny. Is this agreed? Agreed.

COM (2013) 743 is a proposal for a Council Decision on establishing the position to be taken at the 18th ordinary meeting of the contracting parties of the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean, with regard to the proposal for amending annexes II and III to the protocol concerning the special protected areas and biological biodiversity in the Mediterranean and with regard to the proposal for adoption of a regional action plan on marine litter. It is proposed that this proposal does not warrant further scrutiny. Is this agreed? Agreed.