Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending certain Directives in the fields of environment, agriculture, social policy and public health by reason of the change of status of Mayotte with regard to the Union

By Decision 2012/419/EU, the European Council amended the status of Mayotte with regard to the Union with effect from 1 January 2014. Therefore, from that date Mayotte will cease to be an overseas territory to become an outermost region within the meaning of Articles 349 and 355(1) TFEU. Union law will apply to Mayotte from 1 January 2014.

The present proposal follows the examination of requests made by the French authorities to have the Union acquis amended through derogations and/or transitional periods applicable to Mayotte in different areas, such as environment, agriculture, social policy and public health.

The examination has revealed that France needs additional time to comply with the Union acquis with regard to Mayotte in the fields of environment, agriculture, social policy and public health. It is therefore appropriate to provide for corresponding measures, limited to reflecting the particular situation of Mayotte, without affecting Union law otherwise.

In the interest of simplicity and speediness, it has been considered expedient not to resort to individual proposals for each of the acts concerned but, where legally possible, to bundle the amendments to several acts in a single proposal. The amendments proposed in the present document relate all to Directives and fall under the ordinary legislative procedure (Articles 289(1) and 294 TFEU).

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)418: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:418:FIN

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