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Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Four · European Union

As regards Directive 2001/37/EC, the Commission should be empowered in particular to adopt rules for the use of colour photographs or the illustrations on tobacco products and to adapt the provisions on the measurement methods and on the health warnings to scientific and technical progress. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 2001/37/EC, inter alia, by supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.

← 5.7. Directive 2001/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products OJ L 194, 18.7.2001, p. 26. · All articles · anx_ANNEX__cpt_5__cpt_7__text_2 →

Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-21 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.