Traduction de «Code de conduite volontaire » (Français → Anglais) :

2. The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol shall periodically take stock of the use of voluntary codes of conduct, guidelines and best practices and/or standards and consider the adoption of specific codes of conduct, guidelines and best practices and/or standards.

[11] See for example: European Agreement on a Voluntary Code of Conduct on Pre-contractual Information for Home Loans: Second Progress Report on Implementation in the European Union , European Banking Industry Committee, 13.12.2005, which confirmed that although adherence and implementation of the Code in some markets was close to 100%, in other markets the situation was less satisfactory, and Monitoring the Update and Effectiveness of the Voluntary Code of Conduct on Pre-Contractual Information for Home Loans , I ...[+++]nstitute for Financial Services, 17.6.2003.

Our mandate outlines and empowers us through legislation to supervise financial institutions, to determine whether they are in compliance with consumer provisions applicable to them; to promote, by the adoption by financial institutions, the policies and procedures to implement consumer provisions applicable to them, in other words a compliance framework; to monitor the implementation of financial institutions' publicly available voluntary codes of conducts, such as the code of conduct as it will relate to how they deal with small business; and to monitor and review those public commitments that the institutions m ...[+++]ake from time to time.

A survey of mortgage credit suppliers on the uptake and effectiveness of the Voluntary Code of Conduct on Pre-contractual Information for Home Loans showed low levels of compliance with the Code [20] (€370.172).

More than 3 600 mortgage lending institutions had already agreed to comply with the Voluntary Code of Conduct on housing loans when it came into effect on 30 September 2002. The purpose of the Code, drawn up by the European Union in March 2001 (see IP/01/1755), is to guarantee that consumers receive transparent and comparable information on housing loans in order to encourage cross-border competition.

This theme relies less on prescriptive policy measures and more on encouraging the private sector in the EU to work with the private sector in timber-producing countries according to voluntary codes of practice for timber harvesting and procurement, supplemented by rigorous voluntary independent audit of the supply chain.