Traduction de «Acte communautaire obligatoire » (Français → Anglais) :

The Contracting Parties take note that, in addition to the obligatory tour leader provided by the Chinese travel agencies, Community travel agencies may provide tour guides for each Chinese tourist group for the duration of the stay on the territory of the Community.

– (EL) Madam President, the two regulations we are debating today add to a series of Community legislative acts on genetically modified organisms relating not only to the restricted use, but also to the deliberate release of GMOs into the environment, new foodstuffs and new ingredients and compulsory information on soya seed and genetically modified corn labels.

Different elements could be combined concerning the nature of the act to be adopted (regulation, directive or recommendation), its relationship with national law (which could be replaced or with which it could co-exist) and whether the contracting parties would choose to apply the EC instrument or apply the European rules automatically as a safety net of fallback provisions if the contracting parties had not agreed on a specific solution.

For item A-7031 "Expenditure on meetings of committees whose consultation is compulsory in the procedure for drafting Community legislation" ECU 16 000 000 was voted and for item A-7032 "Expenditure on meetings of committees whose consultation is not compulsory in the procedure for drafting Community legislation" ECU 3 500 000 was voted.

In its Communication on Consumer Health and Food Safety, adopted on 30 April 1997 , in compliance with the wishes of the European Parliament, the Commission indicated that, in order to implement Commission policy concerning scientific advice on matters relating to consumer health, it will propose or adopt the necessary acts to introduce, where necessary, compulsory consultation of a Scientific Committee.

Commission statement: "It should be noted that compliance with common quality standards is recommended for this type of sales but is not compulsory" (c) A uniform transitional period of 5 years will be allowed for all measures (application of the final measure from the 6th year/marketing year), for each of the measures concerned: - adjustment of existing POs to the new requirements, - adjustment of new POs to the new requirements, - financial limitation of withdrawals, - quantitative limitation of withdrawals, - reduction of Community Withdrawal Compensation (CWC): the final level of CWC will be achieved progressively, in equal stages, except as regards the first reduction for fruit (other than citrus) and vegetables (d) Minimum number of m ...[+++]embers and minimum production volume of the PO: these will be determined by the Commission under the Management Committee procedure, subject to the following statement: "The Council notes the Commission's intention of determining the minimum number of producers and minimum production volume of POs on the basis of a pragmatic approach, taking account of economic and administrative realities in the Member States" (e) Special measures for regions with a small number of producer organizations: - The following new provision was inserted: "In regions of the Community where the degree of organization of producers is particularly low, Member States may be authorized, upon duly substantiated request, to pay producer organizations national financial assistance equal to half the financial contribution of producers.