Traduction de «Droit effectif d'action indépendante » (Français → Anglais) :

19. Welcomes the fact that in the case of continuous or repeated infringements, limitation periods are to begin on the day when the infringement ceases or when the victim can reasonably be expected to have knowledge of the infringement, whichever the later; stresses that rules on limitation periods also serve to create legal certainty and that in the event of a failure to bring a public or private action, a limitation period of five years must apply; also welcomes the fact that the limitation period for stand-alone actions is to be based on national law, and calls for this to apply also to follow-up actions; notes that Member States' ...[+++]laws regulating the suspension or interruption of the limitation period are not to be affected;

19. Welcomes the fact that in the case of continuous or repeated infringements, limitation periods are to begin on the day when the infringement ceases or when the victim can reasonably be expected to have knowledge of the infringement, whichever the later; stresses that rules on limitation periods also serve to create legal certainty and that in the event of a failure to bring a public or private action, a limitation period of five years must apply; also welcomes the fact that the limitation period for stand-alone actions is to be based on national law, and calls for this to apply also to follow-up actions; notes that Member States' ...[+++]laws regulating the suspension or interruption of the limitation period are not to be affected;

11. Stresses that in the event of a successful stand-alone claim, subsequent proceedings by the authorities for a breach of the EC competition rules are not excluded; also reiterates that in order to encourage undertakings to compensate the victims of illicit behaviour as quickly and effectively as possible, the competition authorities are asked to take account of the compensation paid or to be paid when determining the fine that is to be imposed upon the defendant undertaking; notes that this should, however, not interfere either w ...[+++]ith the victim's right to full compensation of the damage suffered or with the need to maintain the deterrent objective of fines, and that it should not result in lengthy and uncertain settlement finality for companies; calls on the Council and the Commission explicitly to incorporate into Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 those fining principles and further improve and specify them in order to comply with the requirements of the general legal principles;

innovation, such as the new Strategic RTD Objective on “ICT for networked businesses”, collaboration schemes with the Innovation Relay Centres and the National Patent and Trademark Offices research, for instance for technical textiles with high added value content, to develop new markets in construction, protective clothing and medical uses An Action Plan on market access, which identifies the main barriers to access to third country markets in the textile and clothing sector and ways of addressing them. protection of intellectual property rights: for instance, a new Helpdesk will provide assistance, in particular to SMEs education and ...[+++]training, such as actions under the Leonardo da Vinci programme to develop common European qualification standards dialogue with Europe’s Mediterranean partners: Urgent action so that the pending measures necessary to make effective the cumulation of origin for textile and clothing products within the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean zone are implemented by summer.

It noted the scale of the action taken by the Commission in 1993 to support electoral processes, consolidate the rule of law, promote free and independent media and raise awareness of human rights issues.

Effective right of private action produces several immediate benefits.