Traduction de «Direction des affaires pénitentiaires » (Français → Anglais) :

(c) it is not, however, necessary to strip the Commission Directorates-General of all their external relations responsibilities; particularly in fields where the Commission has executive powers, the integrity of current Community policies with an external dimension should be preserved; the Commission should provide a specific model for the departments concerned, such as the Directorates-General for trade, enlargement and development and relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States, EuropeAid, the European Community Humanitarian Office, the department for Human Rights and Democracy, the department for Election Assistance, and th ...[+++]e externally oriented units of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs;

(c) it is not, however, necessary to strip the Commission Directorates-General of all their external relations responsibilities; particularly in fields where the Commission has executive powers, the integrity of current Community policies with an external dimension should be preserved; the Commission, striving to avoid duplication, should provide a specific model for the departments concerned, such as the Directorates-General for trade, enlargement and development and relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States, EuropeAid, the European Community Humanitarian Office, the department for Human Rights and Democracy, the department ...[+++] for Election Assistance, and the externally oriented units of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs;

it is not necessary to strip all the Commission directorates-general of their external relations responsibilities; the progress report submitted to the European Council should provide a discussion model for the departments concerned (for example the trade, development and enlargement DGs, the Europe Aid Cooperation Office, the Humanitarian Aid Office and the externally oriented units of the Economic and Financial Affairs DG),

If examination of a Community measure reveals that it pursues a twofold purpose or that it has a twofold component and if one is identifiable as the main or predominant purpose or component, whereas the other is merely incidental, the measure must be founded on a single legal basis, namely that required by the main or predominant purpose or component (see Case C-155/91 Commission v Council [1993] ECR I-939, paragraphs 19 and 21 (waste directive judgement), Case C-42/97 Parliament v Council [1999] ECR I-869, paragraphs 39 and 40, and Case C-36/98 Spain v Council [2001] ECR I-779, paragraph 59).

If consideration of a measure adopted by the Community leads to the conclusion that it pursues two aims or consists of two components, one of which may be regarded as the principal or predominant aim or component, whilst the other is simply ancillary, the measure must be founded on a single legal basis, i.e. that dictated by the principal or predominant aim or component (see Case C-155/91, Commission v Council, ECR 1993, p. I-939, paragraphs 19 and 21 (waste directive judgment), Case C-42/97, Parliament v Council, ECR 1999, p. I-869, paragraphs 39 and 40, and Case C-36/98, Spain v Council, ECR 2001, p. I-779, paragraph 59).

We have with us Pat Chamut, who is the assistant deputy minister for fisheries management, Earl Wiseman, who was before this committee quite a number of times on previous issues, director general of the international affairs directorate, and Nadia Bouffard, who is director, Atlantic affairs division, international affairs directorate.