Traduction de «mécanisme de stocks régulateurs » (Français → Anglais) :

I would like to emphasise that, thanks to the essential role of the ‘buffer stock’, created and funded by the Commission in 2000, we have been able to avoid any interruption in food supplies.

- A European network of independent regulators (“ERGEG+”): Under this mechanism, the role of ERGEG will be formalised, and it would be given the task to structure binding decisions for regulators and relevant market players, such as network operators, power exchanges or generators, on certain precisely defined technical issues and mechanisms relating to cross border issues.

- Gradually evolving the current approach: reinforcing collaboration between national regulators by notably requiring Member States to give national regulators a Community objective, and introducing a mechanism whereby the Commission could review some decisions of national regulators which affect the internal energy market[26].

However, in view of the problems the World Food Programme has had in finding the donors it needs to meet its commitments ECHO decided, in 2001, to set up a three-month buffer stock of basic products such as cereals, pulses, oil and sugar, which the WFP can use in case its supplies arrive too late for distribution to the refugees, the condition being that the World Food Programme should undertake to replenish these buffer stocks.

4. Calls on the US to reconsider its February 2004 announcement that it will not join the Convention and that it will retain its 8.8 million ‘smart’ (self-destructing) anti-personnel mines for use anywhere in the world indefinitely, as well as its 1.2 million ‘dumb’ (non-self-destructing) anti-personnel mines to be used in Korea until 2010; further calls on the US not to resume the production of, trade in or use of any munitions that would meet the definition of anti-personnel mines under the Convention, including the so-called Spider system; also calls on the US to immediately cease delivery of anti-personnel mines to EU Member States and other friendly countries; calls on China to reconsider its production of landmines and to destroy i ...[+++]ts colossal stockpile, estimated at over 100 million antipersonnel landmines, most of them lacking self-destructing, self-deactivating or detection mechanisms; calls on Russia to cease using anti-personnel mines in its conflict in Chechnya and remove any stockpiles still at the disposal of its forces in Georgia and Tajikistan;

ECHO financed 300 tonnes of rice, delivered in October, and the use of the ECHO buffer stock I mentioned has made an important contribution, enabling us to satisfy the total needs for basic food products in October.