Traduction de «énoncés des travaux techniques » (Français → Anglais) :

Some Community harmonisation legislation, however, permits Member States to lay down additional technical conditions at national level on the placing on the market and use of a product.

welcomes the production of the Communication of the Commission to the Council on the need to develop an anti tax-fraud strategy and takes note of the oral report by the Commission on the technical work done regarding the application of a reverse charge system in the VAT area; stresses the need for further action to combat actively fraud and most specifically VAT fraud; recognises that all kind of possible improvements should be considered and recalls the good experiences Member States have already made with the application of reverse charge in limited areas; in the light of the results of the technical group further analysis of a more ...[+++] generalised reverse charge is therefore necessary; will examine all the issues raised by the fraud communication, including possible legal changes to the VAT system, continue more specifically and with the help of the Commission the analysis of the use of the reverse charge as a mechanism for dealing with VAT fraud; prepare the elements that the Council would see being necessary components for a global anti-fraud strategy, come back by its last meeting in 2006 in order to allow the provision of guidance for further work to the Commission".

Because, in fact, the two initiatives we are discussing today relate, above all, to the technical work involved in the implementation of the SIS II. This implementation also requires the adoption, when the time comes, of legislative measures based on the appropriate bases in the Treaties, which the European Parliament will be consulted on.

As further detailed technical work was necessary, the Council asked the Special Committee on Agriculture to press ahead with its work and to submit to it, in the context of Agenda 2000, a new report on its proceedings at a forthcoming Council meeting.

It is, however, useful at this stage for the Presidency to set out the key issues on which compromises will be needed, as a means of targeting the technical work to be carried out in the Special Committee on Agriculture and its Working Group, and the Council's work under the Italian Presidency.

At the close of its discussions the Council adopted the following conclusions: "THE COUNCIL - REITERATES that in its Resolution of 7 February 1994 it invited the Commission to propose, before 1 July 1994, the measures necessary for the realization of the objectives identified, with a view to implementing without delay a Community policy on postal services, and in particular measures relating to universal service, services which can be reserved, and standardization; - NOTES that on 26 July 1995 the Commission accordingly adopted an overall approach consisting of the abovementioned draft Notice and a proposal for a Directive based on Article 100a, providing for a harmonized framework for the postal sector; - EMPHASIZES that the relevan ...[+++]t Council bodies began the technical discussions without delay and that today the Council had an initial policy debate on the proposal for a Directive and a debate on the draft Notice; - AGREES to continue active discussion of the proposal for a Directive in order to arrive at an agreed common position under the auspices of the Italian Presidency; - OBSERVES that the Notice envisaged by the Commission is not in itself binding but is a document in which it announces the guidelines it intends to follow in applying the Treaty's competition rules to the postal sector; - REQUESTS the Commission, in any follow-up to its draft Notice, to take the utmost account of the Council's comments, especially on the need to ensure, for the sake of transparency and legal certainty, that: - the definitions and concepts used in the Notice, in the proposal for a Directive or in other relevant Community provisions are consistent with one another; - the notice is published in the Official Journal at the same time as the Directive and in any case before the end of 1996; - EMPHASIZES that these conclusions are without prejudice to the positions of the Member States on the form and content of the Commission Notice".