As provided in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 28 November 2001 on a more structured use of the recasting technique for legal acts, recasting consists in the adoption of a new legal act which incorporates in a single text both the substantive amendments which it makes to an earlier act and the unchanged provisions of that act.
V skladu z Medinstitucionalnim sporazumom z dne 28. novembra 2001 o bolj sistematičnem ponovnem sprejemu pravnih aktov pravni akt, ki se ponovno sprejme, vključuje hkrati bistvene spremembe k prejšnjemu aktu in njegove nespremenjene določbe.