Traduction de «Commission fédérale de recours en matière de douanes » (Français → Anglais) :

7. Is concerned that different national interpretations of the EU customs legislation create red tape for business, with a consequential negative impact on European competitiveness, and weaken the EU’s ability to administer an efficient risk-based approach to compliance; therefore calls on the Member States to commit fully to the process of modernisation of customs and especially to the uniform application of EU customs legislation; insists moreover that the Commission, without delay, takes all necessary actions to ensure a seamless and harmonised application of the EU customs legislation throughout the EU;

7. Is concerned that different national interpretations of the EU customs legislation create red tape for business, with a consequential negative impact on European competitiveness, and weaken the EU's ability to administer an efficient risk-based approach to compliance; therefore calls on the Member States to commit fully to the process of modernisation of customs and especially to the uniform application of EU customs legislation; insists moreover that the Commission, without delay, takes all necessary actions to ensure a seamless and harmonised application of the EU customs legislation throughout the EU;

26. Calls on the Commission to bring forward, as priority, its announced proposal on alternative dispute resolution mechanisms since solutions reached by non-judicial means of redress may be more rapid and reached at a lower cost; reiterates its reservations about the Commission’s initiatives on collective redress; recalls that any initiative in the field of collective redress must be in line with Parliament’s resolution of 26 March 2009 on the White Paper on damages actions f ...[+++]or breach of the EC antitrust rules; it should not lead to ‘abusive litigation’ and shall respect the subsidiarity principle;

Mr President, on behalf of Commissioner McCreevy, I would like to thank warmly the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, and in particular the rapporteur, Mr Fruteau, for his excellent work in preparing the report on the review of the remedies directive in the area of public procurement.

In the event of the latter the Joint Declaration by the Council and the Commission on the use of the Community civil protection mechanism in crisis management referred to in Title V of the Treaty on European Union will be taken into account.

Two of these are discussed here. The first would be to use advisory committees for implementation of the budget, which would guarantee the independence of the Commission while still requiring it to comply with legislative and budgetary enabling decisions; the second is recourse to a new type of committee, whose decisions would be taken by agreement between the legislative executive authority, the Council, and the budgetary executive authority, the Commission, which would thus have the power to endorse or reject the decision for which ...[+++] it would be accountable to Parliament under the discharge procedure.