Traduction de «treaty-making capacity » (Anglais → Français) :

– Mr President, with regard to the upcoming referendum in Ireland on the Reform Treaty, I would like to put into context the importance of this from an economic point of view, because the Reform Treaty, if nothing else, is about making the European Union more efficient in its decision-making capacity, which in itself will lead to greater economic success and greater growth.

E. whereas the 1996 IGC "simplified" the Treaties to a certain degree and increased the European Parliament's powers of legislative codecision but did not enhance the decision-making capacities of the Council and was unable to complete the work which it had undertaken with a view to rendering the institutions more effective,

Whereas, moreover, the common organization of the market of these products rests to a large extent on the capacity of producers' organizations to promote price regularization, by imposing on their members compliance with the rules they adopt, in order, in accordance with the objectives of the Treaty, to ensure in particular that fishermen enjoy a fair standard of living; whereas the advantage linked to the direct landing by the vessels concerned should not lead, in the areas of activities of producers' organizations, to any jeopardizing of the effectiveness of the measures adopted and implemented by these organizations in the applicatio ...[+++]n of the mechanisms of the common organization of the markets; whereas therefore, except where products are intended for processing, it is necessary to make the marketing of catches by fishing vessels flying the flag of, or registered in, a third country subject to such measures;

At the same time the Community is to adopt treaty articles leading to a political Union which will include a common foreign and security policy, an expansion of the Community's social and cultural functions, and a strengthening of its democratic institutions and decision-making capacity.

CONSUMER EDUCATION AND INFORMATION - COUNCIL RESOLUTION [1] "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community; Having regard to the Council Resolution of 9 June 1986 on "Consumer Education in primary and secondary schools"; Having regard to the Council Resolution of 23 June 1986 on "Future orientations of the policy of the European Economic Community for the protection and the promotion of the consumers' interests"; Whereas Article 3(s) of the Treaty stipulates that the activities of the Community shall include a contribution to the strengthening of consumer protection; Whereas, pursuant to Article 129a (1)(b) of the Treaty, the Community is to contribute to the attainment of a high level ...[+++] of consumer protection through specific action which supports and supplements the policy pursued by the Member States to protect the health, safety and economic interests of consumers and to provide adequate information to consumers; Whereas the Second Commission Three Year Action Plan "Placing the single market at the service of the European consumers" (1993-1995) emphasized that it is essential that the advent and the deepening of the large European market make itself felt in consumers' everyday life in the shape of tangible benefits; Whereas the Commission's Strategic Programme and its Communication on "Making the most of the Internal Market" emphasizes that the consumer has a critical role to play in the successful implementation of the Internal Market Programme since it will not operate properly without strong and effective consumer participation, and also that well-informed consumers exercising market choices can accelerate the positive economic effects of an integrated market; Whereas information measures designed to assist consumers to make soundly-based market choices will be more effective if consumers have the background knowledge and appropriate skills necessary to understand such information and to incorporate it ...

To give effect to, preserve and promote the treaty relationship's doctrine of mutual consent and reconciliation, Canada must not impose Canada's vision of the treaty relationship and Canada's standards for reconciling this relationship with government and corporate actions; Canada must not impose arbitrarily narrow time frames during which the elected leadership of First Nations must respond to the demands of the government, such as in the case of responding to notices of a pending federal government decisions; Canada must not create uncertainty in First Nation authority and community decision-making processes by imposing the jurisdiction of the federal government or institutions over matters that would otherwise be addressed by the elect ...[+++]ed First Nation leadership and through community-based processes; Canada must not impose any review of the First Nation customary laws, beliefs, values and principles by the federal government or federal institutions without a corresponding requirement for the federal government to take into account how the MKO First Nations perceive inherent, treaty, constitutional, individual and collective rights, as well as First Nations' concepts of transparency, access, and accountability; Canada must recognize that a source of many issues affecting the treaty relationship arise directly from the federal government policies, including the significant and persistent under-funding of education, social services, housing and infrastructure that are administered under the authority of First Nation governments and that are beyond the capacity of most First Nations governments to remedy.