Traduction de «Groupe de travail sur la Convention de Kyoto » (Français → Anglais) :

(5) The Community and the Member States are committed to implementing internationally agreed activities relating to the conservation and protection of forests, in particular, the proposals for actions of the intergovernmental panel and Forum on Forests, the expanded work programme on forest biological diversity of the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.

– (DE Mr President, the rapporteurs Duff and Voggenhuber, as well as the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, have done some sterling work. The report itself is sound because it conveys the key messages without going so far as to anticipate the work of the fundamental rights convention. I therefore nurture the hope that tomorrow in plenary sitting, this report will be adopted in the form we in the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights drafted it in. However there is one point which I would like to be amended. I have tabled an amendment to this effect on behalf of my group ...[+++]. It concerns the question, raised repeatedly today, as to whether the European Union should sign up to the European Convention on Human Rights. This was an important goal in the past. It was an important and appropriate goal in the past precisely because there was no intention, at that stage, to create our own, autonomous catalogue of fundamental rights at European Union level; viewed in this light, it was far better to have that, as a second-best solution, than nothing at all.

Article 2. 2 of the Kyoto Protocol adopted by the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 1997, and ratified by all EU Member States on 31 May 2002, calls for parties to pursue the limitation or reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships bunker fuels, working through the IMO.

Therefore once the Hague Convention had been concluded, its provisions were taken into account by the Working Party, particularly those directly affecting the Convention now under consideration, i. e. Article 10 regarding the jurisdiction of the courts deciding on the annulment of a marriage, an application for divorce or legal separation of the parents to take measures directed to the protection of the child and Article 52 regarding the relationship between the Hague Convention and other Conventions, and particularly the possibility for one or more Contracting States to conclude agreements which contain, in respect of children habituall ...[+++]y resident in any of the States Parties to such agreements, provisions on matters governed by the Hague Convention.

1. At its meeting on 10 and 11 December 1993, the European Council instructed the Working Party on Extension of the Brussels Convention to consider the possibility of extending the scope of the Brussels Convention to family matters.

Nevertheless, apart from the possibility to submit questions on interpretation and validity on Framework Decisions and Conventions to the European Court of Justice by way of preliminary rulings, the EU instruments do not provide a genuine follow-up monitoring or evaluating mechanism comparable to the (subregional) OECD Working Group on Bribery or the (mainly European) Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) mandated to ensure the implementation ...[+++]of the OECD Bribery Convention and the Council of Europe's Criminal and Civil Law Conventions.