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.
Mar a fhoráiltear i gComhaontú Idirinstitiúideach an 28 Samhain 2001 maidir le húsáid níos struchtúrtha theicníc an athmhúnlaithe do ghníomhartha reachtacha, is é is athmhúnlú ann gníomh nua reachtach a ghlacadh lena n-ionchorpraítear i dtéacs aonair na leasuithe substainteacha a dhéantar ar ghníomh roimhe sin chomh maith le forálacha an ghnímh sin atá gan athrú.