§ Mr. FlightTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many(a) European Council and (b) European Commission (i) directives, (ii) regulations and (iii) decisions there were in 1997. [41956]
§ Mr. Doug HendersonAccording to information from the Commission Annual Report for 1997, in 1997 the Council, either alone or acting jointly with European Parliament, enacted 34 Directives, 209 Regulations and 164 Decisions. The Commission enacted 35 Directives, 760 Regulations and 635 Decisions. A lot of these were implementing measures enacted under secondary legislation powers.
These figures exclude instruments not published in the Official Journal and routine management instruments valid for a limited period.
The Report also notes that, in the same period, more than 700 Commission instruments, and over 350 Council or Council and EP instruments, either expired or were repealed.