Traduction de «minimum stage » (Anglais → Français) :

"1b. A replacement engine to be installed in a railcar or locomotive originally equipped with an engine that does not meet Stage III A limits or only meets Stage III A limits shall, as a minimum, comply with the limit values defined in Stage III A, where:

18. Is aware that a means of assessing or supervising the way in which common minimum standards are actually applied would help to build mutual trust in the police and judicial systems of each Member State and that this lies at the heart of a common area of freedom, security and justice and will help to ensure that the system of mutual recognition functions properly: firstly, the way in which the Member States have incorporated the principles of the common minimum standards into their national law must be monitored; secondly, the Commission must check that the national provisions incorporating the common minimum standards into the Membe ...[+++]r States" system of laws are actually applied, on the basis of statistical reports drawn up by the Member States every two years and of other information gathered by the Commission - for instance, the services of the network of independent experts on fundamental rights, which is already in place, could be used to assess the extent to which the agreed common standards on procedural safeguards are being applied and at the same time reports of non-compliance could be investigated; on those bases the Commission should draw up a general report to be submitted to the European Parliament and the Council every two and a half years, in which the degree of compliance at each of the procedural levels and stages is indicated;

5. Firmly believes that a common minimum standard relating to procedural safeguards of suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union (hereinafter 'common minimum standard) will ensure that any individual present within the territory of a Member State (irrespective of his or her nationality and situation) is entitled to assistance from and representation by a lawyer and / or, where appropriate, a procurator (a professional practitioner who, in Spain, France and Portugal represents a party before the courts), from the moment when, as a suspect of complicity in crime, he or she is placed under arrest, taken i ...[+++]nto custody or charged with an offence by a public authority appropriately empowered to do so, and that such assistance or representation is provided free of charge if the suspect or defendant has insufficient means to pay for it and the provision of such services is required in the interests of justice; the technical defence of suspects and defendants shall be compulsory and indefeasible at every stage and level of criminal proceedings; considers that the right to legal assistance should embrace, at every stage and all tiers of the proceedings, the complete confidentiality of contacts between the defence lawyer and the suspect or defendant, the presence of the defence lawyer each time the suspect or defendant is questioned and his right to put questions both to the suspect or defendant and to any witnesses, and the right of the defence lawyer to submit evidence in exoneration;

The new Community arrangements do not at this stage, as they do for oil stocks, lay down the minimum quantities of gas stocks that Member States should hold to guarantee security of supply.

The first stage – which I hope can be fully concluded by next June – involves laying down common minimum standards for the basic defining elements of an asylum policy. In the later, more long-term stage, the objective will be to define a fully comprehensive common asylum system.

It seems that the common denominator of Member States' opinions comprises as a minimum activities such as providing information on national law, building up a documentary basis, arranging contacts among investigating national bodies, transfer of information on the stage of proceedings or on judgments, exchange of experience and, to a certain degree, legal advice.