Traduction de «Sans portée juridique » (Français → Anglais) :

As a formal decision of the EIB which is duly published and implemented, a provision governing the scope of the review to be carried out by the EIB’s appeals committee establishes an internal rule of general scope which is legally binding and limits the EIB’s discretion in relation to the organisation of its structures and the management of its staff.

E. whereas the diversity of legal regimes regulating human embryonic stem cell research in Europe, together with the subsidiarity principle, which devolves competency on legislation concerning ethical aspects, causes uncertainty as to the legal scope of the ‘moral exclusion’ clause in Article 6 of Directive 98/44EC of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions,

E. whereas the diversity of legal regimes regulating human embryonic stem cell research in Europe, together with the subsidiarity principle, which devolves competency on legislation concerning ethical aspects, causes uncertainty as to the legal scope of the ‘moral exclusion’ clause in Article 6 of Directive 98/44EC of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions,

In view of the above, having considered the legal implications of the issues at stake and the legal arguments put forward by Parliament's Legal Service, at its meeting of 20 February 2003 the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market decided unanimously that it would not be appropriate to take Article 95 of the EC Treaty as an additional legal basis.

The downside of using soft law approaches is, however, that they can be very resource-intensive and also they are not directly enforceable in legal terms.

It deals with globalisation and liberalisation, raising the question of whether a general legislative framework should be established at Community level for services of general interest, and seeks to deal with these issues by asking questions about: the impact of any additional Community initiatives to implement the treaty, in full respect of the principle of subsidiarity; the principles likely to be incorporated in any framework legislation on services of general interest and the actual added value of legislation of that kind; the definition of good governance in the organisation, regulation, funding and evaluation of services of general interest; an examination of any new m ...[+++]easure likely to be taken to increase legal certainty and facilitate consistent, harmonious coordination between the objective of safeguarding high-quality services of general interest and the rigorous application of the competition and internal market rules.