Traduction de «Comité des affaires internationales du travail » (Français → Anglais) :

whereas the Foreign Affairs Council, when adopting the EU Guidelines on promoting compliance with international humanitarian law, emphasised the importance of dealing effectively with the legacy of serious violations by supporting appropriate accountability mechanisms, and underlined the key role which the International Criminal Court (ICC) can play in cases where the state or states in question are unable or unwilling to exercise their jurisdiction; whereas the EU Guidelines commit ...[+++] the ‘appropriate Council working groups’ to monitoring situations where IHL may apply and, in such cases, to recommending action to promote compliance with IHL (paragraph 15(a)).

Implementation of the Court of Auditors’ international strategy: representing the court in international professional SAI bodies (INTOSAI and EUROSAI); chairing committees and working groups (programme evaluation, EUROSAI training committee, principles of transparency and responsibility, auditing standards); ; accompanying th ...[+++]e first President on visits to foreign counterparts and receiving delegations; relations with embassies and other foreign partners (World Bank, European Union, United Nations).

It is therefore important that the Commission uses the Agreement and, in particular, the possibility of reference to the Joint Committee, to promote compliance with relevant international legislation on social rights, in particular the labour standards embodied in the fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO 1930-1999), the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (1976, revised 2000) and the Rome Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations of 1980.

14. Urges the Commission to swiftly table a proposal for a regulation banning the import into the EU of goods produced using modern forms of slavery, forced labour, especially forced labour of particular vulnerable groups, in violation of basic human rights standards; believes that this regulation should refer to the rights outlined in both the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and the 1998 International Labour Organization declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work; emphasises that such a regulation would have to enable the EU to investigate specific claims when there seems to be sufficient evidence of ...[+++]a violation of these international standards; in the intervening period before such a regulation comes into force calls on the Commission to reinforce checks on imports and monitor the ethical standards in the supply chain in countries who export to the EU;

A Member State intending to request financial assistance from one or several other Member States or third countries, the ESM, the EFSF, or another relevant international financial institution, such as the IMF, shall immediately inform the President of the Eurogroup Working Group, the member of the Commission responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the President of the ECB of its intention.

− The next item is the report by Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, on the proposal for a Council decision authorising Member States to ratify, in the interests of the European Community, the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007, of the International Labour Organisation (Convention 188) (COM(2008)0320 – C6-0218/2008 – 2008/0107(CNS)) (A6-0423/2008).