Traduction de «demande de conseils ou d'explications » (Français → Anglais) :

The President of the ECOFIN Council recommended to the European Council that it: - instruct the ECOFIN Council to define, in consultation with the Commission and the EMI, a reference scenario guaranteeing full compliance with the Treaty, this being a pre-condition for the irreversibility necessary at the start of stage 3, with a view to reporting back to the Madrid European Council in December 1995; - ask the Commission to undertake the necessary consultations with a view to reporting back to the European Council in Madrid; - note the work already completed on defining the technical characteristics of ...[+++]coins and ask the ECOFIN Council to continue with all the necessary work; - ask Member States to take all the necessary steps to see that public services consider the practical arrangements for switching their operations to the single currency when the time comes; - request the ECOFIN Council to examine, together with the EMI, the future relationship between the currencies of the Member Countries of the Monetary Union and of the other States of the European Union.

I will end, Commissioner by calling for the highest possible degree of pragmatism from the Commission; I call upon the Council to give voice to our governments; I call upon Parliament to be courageous enough never to fall silent on this matter.

Would the Leader of the Government in the Senate ask the minister to provide an explanation, and, second, if he can, to do something to improve the situation?

These include the rights to enter the premises of the undertaking concerned, to ask for oral explanations on the spot and to examine books and other records and to take or demand copies.

1. Calls for an interinstitutional agreement between Council, Commission and the European Parliament to coordinate economic and employment policies and calls on the European Council to set up a framework for dialogue between the institutions responsible for economic policy and the European Social partners in order to achieve a better coordination between economic policy and employment and wage-policies;

It: - calls on Member States to speed up the full implementation of the Directives concerning the internal market, in particular in the public procurement, investment services and insurance fields; - asks the Council to expedite proceedings for the adoption of the Statute for a European company and the legal framework for biotechnological inventions and stresses the importance of the recent agreements within the Council on the internal electricity market and telecommunications and calls upon the Council to go further in the direction of the greater liberalisation in those sectors; - calls on the Commission to submit the Council before ...[+++]the end of the year the initial results of its initiative on practical simplification measures (SLIM); - requests the Council to adopt the new action plan for small and medium- sized enterprises (SME) before the end of 1996 to reinforce the potential for their further development so that they can benefit fully from the internal market and thus make a more effective contribution to the creation of jobs; - calls on the Commission to draw up an action plan concerning the measures to be taken with regard to innovation; - requests the Council to submit to it, before the European Council in Dublin, a report on the development of tax systems within the Union, taking account of the need to create a tax environment that stimulates enterprise and the creation of jobs and promote a more efficient environmental policy.