Traduction de «Pas en arrière dans le droit communautaire » (Français → Anglais) :

2. This Regulation shall, unless otherwise provided for, not affect the right to bring proceedings under the civil, administrative or criminal law of a Member Sate or under provisions of Community law for the purpose of prohibiting the use of a Community trade mark to the extent that the use of a national trade mark may be prohibited under the law of that Member State or under Community law.

In the Advocate General's view, the question raised by the referring court amounts to a determination as to whether Community law precludes a national administrative body from refusing a payment claim under Community law on the ground that that claim seeks to call in question a prior administrative decision which has become definitive even though that decision is founded on an interpretation of Community law invalidated by the Court in a subsequent preliminary ruling.

The Court of Justice was asked whether such a time-limit was compatible with Community law. It ruled in judgments of 1998 (Edis and others) that the Member States retain the right to resist actions for repayment of charges levied in breach of Community law by relying on a time-limit, even if the time-limit is less generous than the time-limit for actions between private individuals for the recovery of sums paid but not due, provided that it applies both to actions based on Community law and to actions based on national law and that it ...[+++] is not adopted specifically to block those claims for repayment after the charges in question have been held to be incompatible with Community law.

'1. Community law does not preclude national provisions from making repayment of customs duties or taxes contrary to Community law subject to less favourable time-limits and procedural conditions than those laid down for actions between private individuals for recovery of sums paid but not due, provided that those conditions apply in the same way to actions for repayment which are based on Community law and to those based on national law and do not make it impossible or excessively difficult to exercise the right to repayment.

4. Application of transposal measures Complaints relating to individual cases of incorrect application of national implementing measures are a valuable source of information for the Commission, especially when they reveal that the measure was not in conformity with the directive or they bring to light repeated infringements or horizontal problems, such as administrative practices that are incompatible with the directive. In 1995, for instance, there were more than 40 complaints concerning the directives on the mutual recognition of diplomas for professional purposes. Greater transparency of infringement proceedings By virtue of the Treat ...[+++]y itself, the infringement procedure is directed entirely at securing a remedy for the infringement without the need for referral to the Court. Traditionally, it has therefore been confidential so as to preserve the discretion that will make it easier for the Member State to rectify matters. The completion of the internal market, Parliament's ever-growing interest in monitoring the application of Community law and the Commission's determination to achieve greater openness in its activities have combined to prompt the Commission to boost transparency policy. It has, for instance, extended its practice of issuing press releases. On 19 July 1995 it decided to put out 22 press releases on 58 cases without awaiting the issue of reasoned opinions or referral decisions. Transparency in Commission activities for the enforcement of Community law, in particular internal market legislation, was treated as a political priority. The operation was repeated later in the year and was well received. Conclusions The work done by the Commission would be futile without Community citizens jealously and vigilantly enforcing their rights and without national courts and administrative bodies placing observance of Community law among their priorities. Implementation of Community law is the means of guaranteeing the confidence of European citizens. ***

At page 3 of the Lowes paper, the first two paragraphs under the heading, Subdelegation of the Power to Amend the Regulations: Section 6 ACFLR,'' state: As set out above, the ACFLR, and in particular the ``communal licence'' is a tool with which the Government is attempting to create, by regulation, that which does not exist at common law: namely, a communal right to fish.which is not based on an aboriginal or treaty right to fish.