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4. Recalls that individual consumers but also small businesses, especially those who have suffered dispersed and relatively low-value damage, are often deterred from bringing individual actions for damages by the costs, delays, uncertainties, risks and burdens involved; stresses, in this context, that collective redress, which allows the aggregation of individual actions for damages for breaches of the EC competition rules and enhances victims' ability to obtain access to ...[+++] justice, is an important deterrent; welcomes, in this respect, the Commission's proposals that mechanisms be set up to improve collective redress while avoiding excessive litigation;

6. Notes that actions for damages for breaches of the EC competition rules should be treated consistently with other non-contractual claims in so far as possible, is of the opinion that a horizontal or integrated approach could cover procedural rules that are common to collective redress mechanisms in different areas of law, and stresses that this approach must not delay or avoid the development of proposals and measures identified ...[+++] as necessary for the full enforcement of EC competition law; notes, furthermore, the more advanced analysis of civil competition law redress and the advanced framework for competition authorities, including the European Competition Network, and that, at least in regard to some issues, this justifies moving forward rapidly, taking into account that some of the measures envisaged could be extended to non-competition law sectors; takes the view that such sectoral measures could already be proposed with regard to the particular complexities and difficulties encountered by victims of breaches of the EC competition rules;

CALLS upon key stakeholders to commit themselves to the 2010 targets and to work in partnership with Member States and the Commission to achieve these targets; WELCOMES the Countdown 2010 initiative, launched by a partnership of civil organisations, including the Irish Presidency, the Commissioner for the Environment and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and other key actors at the Malahide Conference, as an important sensitising initiative to the significance of biodiversity loss across the globe and as a means to act as an independent monitor of progress towards the 2010 targets and ENCOURAGES Member States, Commission and civil society to support the Countdown 2010 initiative; ACKNOWLEDGES the need to address the EU's impact on thir ...[+++]d countries' biodiversity as well as the EU's particular responsibility in contributing to the achievement of the 2010 targets at pan-European and global levels. EMPHASIZES the need for urgent action to eliminate imports of illegally harvested timber into the EU as a contribution to fostering sustainable development by halting the loss of biodiversity and protecting the environment; STRESSES the need to continue work on implementation of the Community's Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT); URGES the Commission to present its reports and proposals on the issue without delay, taking account inter alia of existing multilateral mechanisms, as requested in the Council's October 2003 conclusions on the FLEGT Action Plan.

2. We support the continuous improvement of scientific knowledge and monitoring mechanisms, but research should not become an excuse for delaying action. The EU is convinced that scientific evidence, as laid down in the IPCC Third Assessment Report and confirmed by the recent report of the US National Academy of Science, is solid enough to warrant concrete and urgent action.

the conclusion of the Pre-Accession Pact on organised crime with the applicant countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including the Baltic States, and Cyprus; political agreement of a joint action aiming at making it an offence under the laws of each Member State for a person, present in its territory, to participate in a criminal organisation, irrespective of the location in the Union where the organisation is concentrated or is carrying out its criminal activity; the signature of conventions on customs co-operation and corruption and substantive progress on the draft convention on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters; th ...[+++]e establishment of a European judicial network to improve practical co-operation and agreement on a Joint Action on best practices in mutual legal assistance in criminal matters; establishment of a system of mutual evaluation, focusing initially on reasons for delays in providing mutual legal assistance and urgent requests for restraint of assets; improvements to the mechanism for collecting and analysing data on organised crime in preparing the annual situation report; adoption of the Falcone multi-annual funding programme for action against organised crime.

The Commission is to report to the Council on the subject at the end of 1995 and 1998; 7. strengthen the forms and mechanisms of co-operation between the economic agents concerned (industry, management and workers, distributors, and consumers), with a view to seeking ways of improving the industry's competitiveness; 8. ensure, in co-operation with trade organizations, the collection and rapid publication of international trade statistics with a view to effectively combating unfair imports without delay; Externally: 9. as regards th ...[+++]e Uruguay Round: - ensure compliance with the provisions of the Agreement on Textiles in order to preserve the balance of rights and obligations between all parties concerned; the dismantling of the MFA must in particular go hand in hand with observance of GATT rules and constraints, using all the international or autonomous instruments available to the European Union; - make a concerted assessment of its impact on the industry; - ensure strict application of the letter of the Agreement in co- operation with representatives of the economic sectors concerned; 10. significantly improve access to third-country markets in accordance with the outcome of the Uruguay Round by: - systematically identifying non-tariff barriers and swiftly taking all appropriate measures to have them removed; - stepping up action to promote exports, in particular to new markets opened up as a result of the Uruguay Round; 11. engage in strict, swift and effective application, in compliance with existing rules, of safeguard measures and commercial-policy instruments, particularly in fields such as anti-dumping and anti- subsidy action and protecting intellectual property rights; - strengthen the Textile Anti-Fraud Initiative (TAFI) and step up the fight against counterfeiting; 12. in the 10-year review of the GSP, take into account both the competitive position of third countries in the textile industry and the implications for the textile industry of the o ...