asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if, in respect of the 1992 European project and the completion of the internal market and in respect of the 279 directives which together comprise the legislative task necessary to give legal effect towards the completion of the internal market, he will give the following information in so far as it impacts upon his Department: (i) the number of directives that have been passed and the title of each directive so categorised (ii) the number of directives which remain to be passed and the title of each directive so categorised and (iii) the number of directives which have been passed, delayed or otherwise held up as a consequence of reservations entered by his Department; if, in respect of such delays or reservations he will give details of the Irish position; the action, if any, he proposes to take in order to ensure that the 1992 project is achieved and Ireland's interests are safeguarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers. - EC Directives on Internal Market.
The information requested, in so far as my Department are concerned, is as follows:
(i) Directives that have been passed
(a) No: 38.
(b) Titles:
1. Legal Protection of Micro Circuits. (Dir. 87/54).
2. Trade Marks: first directive. (Dir. 89/104).
3. Products which, appearing to be other than they are, endanger the health or safety of consumers. (Dir. 87/357).
4. Extension of Information Procedures on Standards and Technical Rules. (Dir. 88/378).
5. Safety of Toys. (Dir. 88/378).
6. Simple Pressure Vessels. (Dir. 87/404).
7. Tower Cranes: permissible sound levels. (Dir. 87/405).
8. Hydraulic Diggers (noise). (Dir. 86/662).
9. Lawnmower Noise. (Dirs. 88/180 & 80/181).
10. Collective investment undertakings for transferable securities. (Dir. 85/611).
11. UCITS Directive: special measures concerning certain investments. (Dir. 88/220).
12. Type approval of motor vehicles and their trailers. (Dir. 87/358).
13. Gaseous emissions, passenger cars. (Dir. 88/76).
14. Gaseous emissions, commercial vehicles. (Dir. 88/77).
15. Diesel particulates. (Dir. 88/436).
16. Motor cycle replacement exhaust systems. (Dir. 89/235).
17. Motor vehicles — lateral protection. (Dir. 89/297).
18. Revision of limit values for gaseous emissions of cars below 1400cc. (Dir. 89/458).
19. Machine Safety. (Dir. 89/392).
20. Personal Protective Devices.
21. Materials in Contact with Foodstuffs. (Dir. 89/109).
22. Simulants (plastic materials in contact with foodstuffs). (Dir. 85/572).
23. Co-ordination of laws relating to commercial agents. (Dir. 86/653).
24. Co-ordination of laws relating to legal expenses insurance. (Dir. 87/344).
25. Credit Insurance. (Dir. 87/343).
26. Non-Life Insurance. (Dir. 88/357).
27. Tyre Pressure Gauges. (Dir. 86/217).
28. Obligation to Indicate Ingredients and Alcoholic Strength (partially adopted). (Dir. 86/197).
29. Food Labelling (Amendment). (Dir. 89/395).
30. Electromagnetic Compatibility. (Dir. 89/336).
31. Household Appliances: air borne noise. (Dir. 86/594).
32. Indication of Prices of Foodstuffs. (Dir. 88/315).
33. Indication of Prices for Non-foodstuffs. (Dir. 88/314).
34. Regulation for a European Economic Interest Grouping. (Reg. 85/2137).
35. Information to be published when major holdings are acquired or disposed of. (Dir. 88/627).
36. Prospectus to be published when securities offered for sale to the public. (Dir. 89/298).
37. Good Laboratory Practices: nonclinical testing of chemicals. (Dir. 88/320).
38. Establishment at Community level of a policy and plan of priority action for the development of an information services market. (Dec. 88/524).
(ii) Directives which remain to be passed
(a) No.: 31.
(b) Titles:
1. Gas Appliances.
2. Electro-medical Implantables.
3. Safety glass for use in motor vehicles.
4. Approximation of laws relating to tyres for motor vehicles and their trailers.
5. Approximation of laws relating to weights and dimensions of certain motor vehicles.
6. Mobile Machines.
7. Lifting and Loading Equipment.
8. Metrology: Non-Automatic Weighing Instruments.
9. Annual accounts — insurance undertakings.
10. Winding-up of insurance undertakings.
11. Insurance contracts.
12. Life assurance: freedom to supply services.
13. Motor Liability Insurance.
14. Insider Trading.
15. Structure of public limited companies.
16. Cross-border mergers.
17. Dispensation for branches of certain types of companies from publishing separate accounts.
18. Take-over Bids.
19. Amendment of the Fourth and Seventh Company Law Directives.
20. Investment Services.
21. Relationship of undertakings in a group.
22. Statute for a European Company.
23. Regulation on Community Trademarks.
24. Regulation on the rules needed for implementing the Community Trademark Regulation.
25. Regulation on rules of procedure for the Boards of Appeal of the Community's Trademark Office.
26. Community's Trademark Office — regulation on fees.
27. Legal protection of biotechnological inventions.
28. Protection of computer programs.
29. Open Network Provision.
30. Approximation of the laws of member states concerning telecommunications terminal equipment.
31. Obligation to Indicate Ingredients and Alcoholic Strength (partially adopted).
(iii) Other Directives
No directives have been delayed or otherwise held up specifically as a consequence of any reservation entered by my Department. My Department actively participate, in policy areas for which it is responsible, in all deliberations at Community level concerned with proposed Community legislation. At any given time, my Department's position is determined both by the priority of the issue under discussion and the stage which negotiations have reached.