Traduction de «Passe soulevée » (Français → Anglais) :

1. Regrets that, unlike in the past, the Commission has not responded in any way to the issues raised by Parliament in its previous resolutions, in particular the above-mentioned resolution of 21 February 2008; notes the lack of significant improvement with regard to the three fundamental issues of transparency, resources and the length of procedures;

The US delegation explained that these constraints do not preclude representatives advising the DOT decision-maker in an active proceeding from discussing with representatives of the Commission such matters as (1) the state of competition in any markets based upon non-confidential data; (2) the impact of existing alliances or other cooperative ventures and the results of previously imposed conditions or other limitations to address competition issues; (3) general approaches to competition analysis or methodology; (4) past cases, including records and decisions; (5) substantive law, policies, and procedures applicable to any cases; ( ...[+++]6) issues that might be raised by potential cases that have not been formally initiated, so long as DOT representatives do not ‘prejudge’ the facts or results of such cases; and (7) in active proceedings, what issues have already been raised by the parties and what non-confidential evidence has been provided for the record, again up to the point of potential ‘prejudgment’ of the facts and outcome.

The US delegation explained that these constraints do not preclude representatives advising the DOT decision-maker in an active proceeding from discussing with representatives of the Commission such matters as (1) the state of competition in any markets based upon non-confidential data; (2) the impact of existing alliances or other cooperative ventures and the results of previously imposed conditions or other limitations to address competition issues; (3) general approaches to competition analysis or methodology; (4) past cases, including records and decisions; (5) substantive law, policies, and procedures applicable to any cases; ( ...[+++]6) issues that might be raised by potential cases that have not been formally initiated, so long as DOT representatives do not ‘prejudge’ the facts or results of such cases; and (7) in active proceedings, what issues have already been raised by the parties and what non-confidential evidence has been provided for the record, again up to the point of potential ‘prejudgment’ of the facts and outcome.

The European Patent Office is not a European Union institution. Parliament has raised the question of its accountability in the past.

As the Convention is only just about to start its work and is likely to be concerned initially with basic issues of a fundamental nature it has not been considered necessary for the Commission to adopt at the present time a position on the issue raised by the honourable Member.

Before I finish, I would like briefly to refer to some of the specific questions put by Mrs Maij Weggen: - The management and long-term maintenance of projects can no longer remain under exclusive government control, as in the past.