Traduction de «résistance initiale » (Français → Anglais) :

(k) improve safety standards, especially for medical devices that are resistant to sterilisation (e.g. endoscopes), and undertake careful monitoring to ensure that medical devices originally designed and CE-marked for single use, if regenerated, meet all safety standards in order to protect consumer health;

This is a definite success, especially in view of the General Assembly’s initial resistance.

20. Asks, in the interests of efficient policymaking and a transparent public debate, for the initial estimated total cost of the necessary safety improvement measures recommended following the stress tests for the 132 reactors operating in the EU (EUR 10 to 25 billion over the coming years) to be further substantiated by a more detailed cost analysis, to be carried out by the national regulators in cooperation with the nuclear operators and, if possible, linked to the choice of identified recommendations; considers that, whatever the costs of such improvements, they must be borne entirely by the nuclear operators and not by the taxpaye ...[+++]r; calls on the Commission to monitor this issue closely, including in the context of its competences in competition policy;

19. Asks, in the interests of efficient policymaking and a transparent public debate, for the initial estimated total cost of the necessary safety improvement measures recommended following the stress tests for the 132 reactors operating in the EU (EUR 10 to 25 billion over the coming years) to be further substantiated by a more detailed cost analysis, to be carried out by the national regulators in cooperation with the nuclear operators and, if possible, linked to the choice of identified recommendations; considers that, whatever the costs of such improvements, they must be borne entirely by the nuclear operators and not by the taxpaye ...[+++]r; calls on the Commission to monitor this issue closely, including in the context of its competences in competition policy;

Despite the Council's initial resistance, monitoring committees will also be attended by environmental partners, non-governmental organisations and other bodies which represent civil society.

Wages have responded only modestly to the worsened economic situation, partly reflecting a greater resilience initially shown in the labour market in the current slowdown.