Traduction de «tenue en main commode » (Français → Anglais) :

Faced with increasing costs of pollution controls and safety standards at EU level, toxic waste generators and brokers have found a convenient escape hatch to evade these liabilities by sending their waste materials to countries where labour is cheap and enforcement of environmental regulations is poor, if not altogether absent.

1. Points out the gendered nature of precarious employment and recalls the shift in the labour market from standard to non-standard types of employment, making it necessary to prevent non-standard types of employment becoming precarious work; considers that, in order to combat these problems, the Member States and social partners must be asked to align to a large extent their legislative and contractual rules on standard work and atypical work, so as to prevent the most convenient and least expensive forms of work from taking precedence, taking into account however the risks of a possible increase in undeclared work;

(EN) After a sharp and rapid increase at the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008, the prices of many agricultural commodities fell drastically due mainly to the strong production development in 2008 at EU and world level.

There remains, in fact, the serious question of conflict of interest in the most important portfolio – Competition – previously held masterfully by Mario Monti.

This consultation shall be organised in the most convenient way, taking into account the existing structures of cooperation’.

In view of the difficulties which could be created by the ‘list’ system on account of the fact that the cases provided for in the Initiative are not completely harmonised, it would be more appropriate to use the ‘penalty threshold’ system as provided for, inter alia, in the 1996 extradition agreement or the Schengen Agreement provisions on cooperation in criminal matters.