Traduction de «Comité de hauts fonctionnaires pour la mer du Nord » (Français → Anglais) :

We have always found that objectionable: firstly because only committees of national civil servants and not Parliament have the right to scrutinise the Commission and refer questions back, and secondly because matters are referred back only to one branch of the legislative authority – the Council – even when the basic act has been adopted under codecision.

What is unusual in our system in the European Union is that, when we confer such powers on the Commission, we oblige it to act in conjunction with a committee of national civil servants.

But to authorise a committee of senior officials working under the authority of the European Commission to 'specify' the terms of certain proposals drawn up by a directive of the European Parliament and the Council has two serious implications: firstly, that the work of the Securities Committee must be conducted with the most complete transparency and after consulting all interested parties; and, secondly, the two legislative branches - Parliament and Council - must have the right to inspect the measures drawn up by the Commission on the basis of the work of the European Sec ...[+++]urities Committee so as to check whether there has been any infringement of the original legislative framework.

Should the Commission note, when this paragraph is being applied, that major difficulties arise for a Member State with regard to the level of training indicated in paragraph 1(b), it shall take the opinion of the Committee of Senior Officials on Public Health established by Council Decision 75/365/EEC(21) and shall inform the European Parliament and the Council.

20. Considers that the programme aimed at enhancing the protection of species and habitats in European waters (Action 2) should not be awaited until 2005 and that European action should contribute to the establishment of the network of marine protected areas called for by WSSD; other appropriate measures worthy of recognition would include the commitments to the establishment of a representative network of well-managed marine protected areas in the North Sea by 2010 (Bergen Declaration) and the North East Atlantic Ocean (including on the high seas) and Baltic Sea in the context of the OSPAR Convention and the Helsinki Convention on the ...[+++]Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area (HELCOM) (forthcoming Joint OSPAR/HELCOM Ministerial Declaration);

setting up a Senior Officials Committee with a long-term mandate to advise the Commission on action to be undertaken in the field of the security of information systems.