Traduction de «équipes sur un pied d'égalité » (Français → Anglais) :

20. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure the adoption and implementation of specific and comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation in line with international and European standards in all Member States, ensuring that anti-discrimination bodies are equipped to promote equal treatment and have complaint mechanisms which are accessible to Roma women and girls;

The Commission's report COM(2008) 64 of 11 February 2008 concluded that a number of amendments to the Regulation should be proposed to address the following weaknesses identified during the review process: the need to extend the principle of equality of charges to direct debits in order to establish a level playing field between different payment instruments and avoid undermining the objectives of this Regulation by not making all electronic payment instruments operating cross-border subject to the principle of equality of charges; enforcement problems due to the absence of identified national competent authorities and of out-of-court r ...[+++]edress bodies for disputes related to the Regulation; disruption of the internal market in payments caused by divergent balance-of-payments (BoP) statistical reporting obligations and unclear scope of the article on BoP reporting.

Of course – and this goes without saying – members of the teams will receive their instructions from the Member State that is hosting them but, otherwise, they are on an equal footing with the national border guards.

EETS providers will be guaranteed equal market access on a par with national tolling service providers.

I will limit myself to mentioning the three main reasons for this pessimism, in the hope, of course, that I will be proved wrong. Firstly, the slow pace of the attempt to place the environmental dimension on a genuinely equal footing with the economic and social dimensions, evidence of which is the fact that only some of the indicators for assessing progress made have been established thus far. Secondly, the excessively closed way in which the Lisbon and Gothenburg strategy is being managed, without the European Parliament, or the regional authorities or social partners either, being involved as they should. Thirdly, the delay in the end ...[+++]eavours of the Community institutions, including Parliament, to bring their activities into line with the principle of sustainable development, a principle which allows neither completely separate departments nor overlapping responsibilities.

Some Member States (Belgium, Cyprus, Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands) have gone beyond the requirements of Directive 2000/43/EC in setting up equality bodies that deal with all the grounds of discrimination covered by EU anti-discrimination law and/or more general human rights instruments.