Traduction de «Opérateur de presse en blanc » (Français → Anglais) :

63. Supports the Commission's efforts to facilitate communication between traders and Member States; proposes, however, further improvements: in particular urges the Commission to publish all the relevant information and documentation on the meetings with national experts as soon as they are available in order to provide direct access to overviews, for trade representatives and any citizens concerned by developments in the area of customs, of the discussions carried out at those meetings; is convinced that this would, in particular, benefit SMEs, ensure transparency and raise public awareness of customs-related issues;

- (SK) The blank front pages of Slovakia’s daily papers – a protest against the approval of the media law that will introduce non-democratic press standards in Slovakia from June 2008 – remind me of Belarus, where the government does not respect the opposition and where there is no freedom of speech or freedom of the press.

The example of the agreement between the three main French mobile telephony operators (including the historic operator, France Telecom, and its subsidiary, Orange), a secret agreement which was only revealed by the press in 2005, shows that it is not necessarily wise to entrust this kind of supervision to national authorities.

In publishing its White Paper, which will be circulated widely, the Commission hopes to contribute to this debate, which should involve all the players and operators in public life.

This White Paper also calls for strong involvement of the operators, who bear the prime responsibility for the daily application of the requirements for food safety.

So when I talk about culture, when I talk about the level of specific requirements for a given site, that is when the operator and the NEB look one another in the eye, when we can see that a management system exists, one that very clearly indicates that the company must focus on safety.