Traduction de «Groupe de travail mixte Agriculture-environnement » (Français → Anglais) :

Joint Working Party on agriculture and the environment

Joint Working Party of the Committee for Agriculture and the Environment Policy Committee

Joint Task Force on Marine Procurement

Joint Working Group on Environment and Economics

Working Party on Economic and Monetary Affairs, the Environment and Agriculture

Joint CPMP/CVMP Quality Working Party

Welcomes, in particular, the HLWG’s recommendation that the EU and the US address the environment and labour aspects of trade and sustainable development; considers that the experience of previous EU trade agreements and the long-lasting EU-US commitments should be taken into account in order to strengthen the development and enforcement of labour and environmental laws and policies and promote the core standards and benchmarks laid down by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), as well as decent jobs and sustainable development; encourages the harmonisation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) standards; recognises that ach ...[+++]ieving common standards is likely to present both technical and political challenges, and emphasises that the common goal should be to ensure that there is no diminution of environmental ambitions;

10. Takes into consideration the initial conclusions of the Joint Bureau and Committee on Budgets Working Group on the Parliament budget to pursue structural and organisational reforms that aim to achieve greater efficiencies without endangering legislative excellence and the quality of working conditions; notes, in that regard, that the provision of independent scientific advice and the capacity to exercise scrutiny should be improved to strengthen Parliament's work as an institution vested with legislative and democratic scrutiny powers; welcomes the fact that the Joint Working Group is looking for further potential savings and effic ...[+++]iencies, and expects it to present its first findings in time for the preparation of Parliament's 2014 budget reading according to the two-step procedure agreed in the Conciliation;

8. Considers that the Joint Bureau and Committee on Budgets Working Group on the Parliament budget could, on the basis the work it began in 2012, play a useful role in this reform, by identifying possible savings and reflecting on and presenting to the Committee on Budgets ideas for improving efficiency; notes that the working group has already largely achieved the objectives established for it at the end of 2011, in particular as regards the reduction of travel expenses; in the light of the Group’s preliminary findings based, inter ...[+++] alia, on comparative studies of the European Parliament’s budget with the budgets of the US Congress and a sample of Member States’ parliaments, encourages the continuation of its work and the development of a corresponding action plan, to be presented to both the Committee on Budgets and the Bureau for consideration in the 2014 Parliament budget process; recalls its resolution of 23 October 2012 in which it expressed the expectation that these studies will ‘create long-term savings in the Parliament’s budget and present ideas for improving efficiency in 2013 and the following years’; notes that the European Parliament has lower overall spending per inhabitant than comparable Member State parliaments and the US Congress; notes further that there is a need to strengthen the scrutiny role of Parliament and to provide it with better-targeted research support so that it is able to fulfil its role in democratic representation;

Considers that the Joint Working Group should reflect the democratic balance within Parliament; believes that the working group should consider, inter alia, further alternatives relating to the opening hours of the Members’ Register and measures to encourage the use of cheaper and greener modes of transport; furthermore, calls on the working group to report back to the Committee on Budgets and the Bureau in order to achieve medium and long-term structural and organisational savings in Parliament's budget;