Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 is hereby amended as follows:
(1.)
Article 3(1) shall be replaced by the following:
‘1. The Commission shall decide on the applicability within the Community of international accounting standards. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 6(2).’;
(2.)
Article 6 shall be amended as follows:
((a))
paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following:
‘2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’;
((b))
paragraph 3 shall be deleted.