Traduction de «Examen avec volume ouvert » (Français → Anglais) :

O. whereas regarding the inquiries initiated by the Ombudsman in 2013, the following key topics may be identified: transparency within the EU institutions, ethical issues, participation of citizens in EU decision-making, EU-funded projects and programmes, fundamental rights, and culture of service;

The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into concerns that Aspen Pharma has engaged in excessive pricing concerning five life-saving cancer medicines.

8. Points out that in the recently adopted Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) and Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) the time period for scrutinising RTS may be extended by a further month given their volume and complexity, and considers that this kind of flexibility should become a general rule; considers that deadlines for objections by Parliament to delegated acts adopted by the Commission need to be sufficiently long to allow for the full exercise of Parliament’s rights of scrutiny, taking into account the plenary calendar and workload; takes the view that the standard deadline of two months, extendable by two months, as provi ...[+++]ded for the in the Common Understanding is not sufficiently long for complex matters and extensive delegated acts, which call for a longer scrutiny period to be set; recalls that the co-legislator has full discretion regarding the period of scrutiny to be set in the basic act; stresses, in this regard, that where the Common Understanding provides guidelines in relation to deadlines, it is in no way binding and therefore does not limit the legislator in this respect; points out that the legislator has set a period of scrutiny of three months, extendable by three months, for all delegated acts in the area of financial services, and considers that this practice should be extended to other areas of a complex nature;

An examination of the relative size of the different parts of the report shows that competition policy focuses mainly on the fight against secret agreements and mergers which might result in abuses of dominant positions.

According to the first implementation report on the Council recommendation, the annual volume of screening examinations in the EU at the time was considerable; however, this volume was less than half of the minimum annual number of examinations that would be expected if the screening tests specified in the Recommendation were available to all EU citizens of appropriate age (approximately 125 million examinations per year).

Talks must continue with the institutions involved to explore ways of involving them more effectively in the open coordination mechanism, so that they can contribute to the process more fully.