Traduction de «awareness step » (Anglais → Français) :

Take similar steps to ensure greater awareness of standards of conduct among personnel deployed in military operations, and to raise awareness in local communities where missions/operations are deployed.

37. Emphasises that cigarette smuggling serves as an important source of financing for internationally structured criminal organisations, and highlights, therefore, the importance of strengthening the external dimension of the Commission’s action plan to fight against the smuggling of cigarettes and alcohol along the EU Eastern border, which provides support for enforcement capacity in neighbouring countries, offering technical assistance and training, raising awareness, stepping up operational cooperation such as Joint Customs Operations, sharing intelligence and enhancing international cooperation; stresses, in pa ...[+++]rticular, the importance of collaboration between the Member States, Russia and the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) for the implementation of the targeted actions proposed in the action plan;

37. Emphasises that cigarette smuggling serves as an important source of financing for internationally structured criminal organisations, and highlights, therefore, the importance of strengthening the external dimension of the Commission’s action plan to fight against the smuggling of cigarettes and alcohol along the EU Eastern border, which provides support for enforcement capacity in neighbouring countries, offering technical assistance and training, raising awareness, stepping up operational cooperation such as Joint Customs Operations, sharing intelligence and enhancing international cooperation; stresses, in pa ...[+++]rticular, the importance of collaboration between the Member States, Russia and the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) for the implementation of the targeted actions proposed in the action plan;

5. Welcomes the action plan aimed at fighting the smuggling of cigarettes and alcohol along the EU’s eastern border, and notes that this illegal activity is leading to significant financial losses for the EU budget and for the budgets of the Member States (estimated at EUR 10 billion per year); emphasises that this activity serves as an important source of financing for internationally structured criminal organisations, and highlights, therefore, the importance of strengthening the external dimension of the aforementioned action plan, which provides for supporting enforcement capacity in neighbouring countries, offering technical assistance and training, raising awareness ...[+++]ss=yellow2>, stepping up operational cooperation, such as Joint Customs Operations (JCO), sharing intelligence and enhancing international cooperation; stresses, in particular, the importance of collaboration between the Member States, Russia and the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) for the implementation of the targeted actions proposed in the action plan;

The Commission and the European Parliament will organise a joint hearing to raise awareness amongst all parties concerned, foster an exchange of ideas and experience and consider next steps in the light of the findings of the study. Such steps could include legislative and/or other action by the Commission, in particular towards common European criteria for the definition or categorisation of this kind of work.

We are aware that the problem cannot be resolved simply by reducing public debt and this is a positive step.