Committee Reports > List of Committees > Joint > 1978 > Committee on the Secondary Legislation of the European Communities > Report No. 28 - Control of Concentrations between Undertakings

IMEACHTAÍ AN CHOMHCHOISTE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE

Dé Céadaoin, 28 Meitheamh, 1978

Wednesday, 28th June, 1978

1. The Joint Committee met at 4 p.m.

2. Members Present.

The following members were present:

Senator Eoin Ryan (in the Chair), Deputies Daly, Síle de Valera, Flanagan, Leonard, McCreevy, Noonan, O’Keeffe, and Woods; Senators FitzGerald, Harney, Hussey, Hyland, Molony, Mulcahy and Robinson.

9. Draft Report on Proposals relating to Micro-Pollutants in Water, Atmospheric Pollutants, Pollution of Groundwater, Sulphurous Emissions from Fuel Oils and Protection for Electrical Equipment.

Senator Robinson brought forward a Draft Report which was read as follows:—

(i) Paragraphs 1 to 15 inclusive, agreed to.

(ii) Paragraph 16.

Amendment proposed (Senator Mulcahy):

“In page 8, line 5, to delete ‘In the circumstances the Joint Committee agrees with its predecessor that the proposal must be resisted as far as Ireland is concerned’ and substitute the following:

‘However while the Joint Committee agrees with its predecessor that the proposal to make the use of low sulphur fuel oil obligatory must be resisted, it feels that the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards might be invited to make periodic measuring on an audit basis so as to ensure that there is some check on the atmospheric concentration of suplhur dioxide’.”

Amendment agreed to.

Paragraph, as amended, agreed to.

(iii) Paragraphs 17 to 20, inclusive, agreed to.

Draft Report, as amended, agreed to.

Ordered: To report accordingly.

11. Adjournment.

The Joint Committee adjourned at 6.45 p.m.