Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council protecting against the effects of the extra-territorial application of legislation adopted by a third country and actions based thereon or resulting therefrom (recast)

In the context of a people’s Europe, the Commission attaches great importance to simplifying and clarifying the law of the Union so as to make it clearer and more accessible to citizens, thus giving them new opportunities and the chance to make use of the specific rights it gives them.

This aim cannot be achieved so long as numerous provisions that have been amended several times, often quite substantially, remain scattered, so that they must be sought partly in the original instrument and partly in later amending ones. Considerable research work, comparing many different instruments, is thus needed to identify the current rules. For this reason a codification of rules that have frequently been amended is also essential if the law is to be clear and transparent.

The purpose of this proposal is to undertake a codification of Council Regulation (EC) No 2271/96 of 22 November 1996 protecting against the effects of the extra-territorial application of legislation adopted by a third country, and actions based thereon or resulting therefrom. The new Regulation will supersede the various acts incorporated in it, fully preserving the content of the acts being codified.

At the same time, it is also appropriate to make certain substantive amendments to Articles 5 and 12 of Regulation (EC) No 2271/96, with a view to delegating powers to the Commission for establishing the criteria for the application of a provision contained in the second paragraph of Article 5 of that Regulation. Therefore, the proposal is being presented in the form of a recast.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2015)48: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2015:048:FIN

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