Traduction de «Qualifying stages » (Anglais → Français) :

24. Considers it vital that international agreements, in particular on trade, energy, readmission, security and technical cooperation, do not contradict the EU's founding principles enshrined in Article 21 of the TEU; proposes that human rights impact assessments with benchmarks be undertaken prior to the launching of the negotiations of such agreements as well as during the negotiation stage, to be followed up by regular progress reports comprising the assessments made by the EU institutions and services responsible for implementation and evaluations provided by local and international civil society organisations as part of institutionalised civil society monitoring mechanisms; insists on the full use, in this regard, of Article 218 of t ...[+++]he TEU, according to which the Commission has the obligation to inform Parliament and the Council at all stages of the negotiations on international agreements with third countries; considers it highly important, in this respect, to provide EU institutions with highly qualified and independent expertise on individual countries' human rights and democracy situations;

24. Considers it vital that international agreements, in particular on trade, energy, readmission, security and technical cooperation, do not contradict the EU’s founding principles enshrined in Article 21 of the TEU; proposes that human rights impact assessments with benchmarks be undertaken prior to the launching of the negotiations of such agreements as well as during the negotiation stage, to be followed up by regular progress reports comprising the assessments made by the EU institutions and services responsible for implementation and evaluations provided by local and international civil society organisations as part of institutionalised civil society monitoring mechanisms; insists on the full use, in this regard, of Article 218 of t ...[+++]he TEU, according to which the Commission has the obligation to inform Parliament and the Council at all stages of the negotiations on international agreements with third countries; considers it highly important, in this respect, to provide EU institutions with highly qualified and independent expertise on individual countries’ human rights and democracy situations;

Concerning the distinction made between highly qualified workers and unskilled workers, a subject mentioned by Mr Busuttil and Mrs Lefrançois, in particular, and by Mrs Lambert, I believe we must move forward by stages.

In short, however regrettable it may be that no further progress has been made, in particular as regards qualified majority voting, realistically it must be borne in mind that, at the current stage of the European integration process, foreign policy is so central to the hard core of national competences that a genuine common external policy is inconceivable as long as the Member States fail to demonstrate the collective political will required to reach agreement.

The Conference declares that Member States may indicate, when they make a request to establish enhanced cooperation, if they intend already at that stage to make use of Article 333 providing for the extension of qualified majority voting or to have recourse to the ordinary legislative procedure.

Moreover, the 25 countries which signed the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance agreed to apply reverse qualified majority voting at an even earlier stage in the procedure, for example when deciding whether an EU country should be subject to an EDP.