Commenting on the Councils Common Position reached by qualified majority on 8 December 2003 the Commission sent a Communication to the European Parliament Commenting on the changes to the original proposal.
The Commission considers that the Common Position meets the main concerns of the European Parliament and follows some of the key elements of the Parliament’s amendments achieving a good balance. The Commission therefore recommends this Common Position to the European Parliament.
As the Communication lines out in detail, the common position takes account of an important number of amendments proposed by the European Parliament. Some of them have been directly incorporated, whereas the majority of the European Parliament's amendments included in the common position have been reformulated or included in other parts of the text for reasons of internal coherence or for reasons linked to legislative drafting rules.
The changes introduced define and clarify more precisely the system proposed by the Commission. Some of them have been inspired by the relevant European Parliament's amendments adopted at the first reading which were accepted by the Commission.
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