Firstly this will involve checking that the draft CFR is fit for use in improving the acquis and preparing legislation. |
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It is not enough for all of them to pass the 80,000 pages of laws and regulations known as the acquis communautaire. |
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Increasing our support for reforms and helping our partners to align with the EU acquis will help stabilise our eastern neighbours. |
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The acquis of the employment strategy reflects the positive contribution of the open method of co-ordination. |
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This approach would make it possible to reduce the acquis communautaire from more than 85Â 000 pages to perhaps 25Â 000 pages. |
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The acquis communautaire includes important rules for the financial sector and central banking activities. |
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They have the right not just to be here, but also to feel at home here and to help decide upon our acquis and collective management. |
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By contrast, Slovakia will need to make substantial efforts in order to apply the acquis in the fields of telecommunications and customs. |
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It is certainly not just about having general objectives, or simply being present, because the acquis communautaire is also very important. |
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It is also on track in developing adequate administrative capacity to implement the acquis in a considerable number of fields. |
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In 1999, the Republic of Lithuania started an intensive process of harmonisation of its legislation with the European Union acquis communautaire. |
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The borders of these countries that want to become part of the Schengen acquis are an easy target for criminals. |
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In the same way, application of the acquis communautaire faces two dangers. |
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The Ministry for Labour is planning to readapt this Code in the light of a further approximation to the Community acquis. |
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Albania would be in a position to take on the obligations of membership in the medium term in most of the acquis fields. |
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It could be interpreted as retrogressive 8 in relation to the current acquis, notably in the light of the case-law of the Court of Justice. |
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They believed that the much vaunted acquis communautaire would result in the resolution of the problem. |
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The Committee intends to strengthen these relations. board the Community acquis and especially that they actually implement it. |
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After this process started, a horizontal review of the Community consumer law acquis was initiated. |
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The transposition of harmonised European product legislation represents the largest part of the acquis under this chapter. |
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However we must also make it clear to Romania that it cannot wriggle out of this, but must work hard at fulfilling the acquis communautaire. |
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If new members resile from commitments that are not part of the legal acquis, there is no obvious remedy. |
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Proposals and initiatives to build upon the Schengen acquis shall be subject to the relevant provisions of the Treaties. |
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Adoption and implementation of the acquis in the area of inland waterways is expected to be unproblematic. |
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Lithuania has made some progress in transposing and implementing the acquis relating particularly to the single market. |
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In the area of health and safety at work, several regulations have been issued with the aim of transposing the relevant acquis. |
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Overall, alignment with the acquis has reached a fair level in the large majority of areas. |
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On the eve of enlargement, the acceding countries are for the most part well on track to be able to implement the acquis from accession. |
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The European institutions have agreed that simplification ought not to encroach on the acquis communautaire. |
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Hungary continued to make progress in aligning and implementing the acquis in many areas. |
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On the basis of progress to date, the prospects for full adoption of the acquis in this area are not positive. |
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Make preparations to revise the Bulgarian Constitution to ensure compliance with the acquis on the right of vote, including special legislation on elections of the European Parliament. |
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Although legislation is in preparation, in the absence at present of a VAT or excise system it must remain open to doubt whether Slovenia could comply with the acquis in the medium term. |
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Do some want to go backwards and unravel the acquis communautaire? |
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With regard to market abuse, Turkey should make substantial efforts to align the rules on insider dealing and market manipulation with the relevant acquis. |
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We are not going to start back at square one, but we do insist on upholding the Community patrimony, which is of course known as the acquis communautaire, as does the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. |
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This figure seems relatively small in the end in view of the number of Member States and the size of the Community acquis, which is made up of several thousand items of secondary legislation in addition to the Treaty. |
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As regards economic and fiscal matters, a high level of alignment has been achieved with the acquis on economic and monetary union, with significant recent progress as regards the independence of the central bank. |
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Iceland should be prepared to take on board the acquis in this respect. |
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This is all the more urgent because simplification will support and accelerate the effective implementation of the acquis in the new Member States, and should spur on those who are lagging behind to clear their backlog. |
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It therefore falls to the European Union to point the finger and tell each Member State whether its national legislation conforms to the Community acquis. |
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Most of acquis in the area of equal opportunities have already been transposed, and the principals of non-discrimination and equal opportunities have a good juridical and a progressing institutional background. |
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Nevertheless, we should guard against allowing this line of reasoning to call into question the acquis communautaire and succumbing to the temptation of introversion. |
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Turkey is partly aligned with the acquis in audiovisual policy. |
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As to the first group, the Commission feels that a consistent definition of the notions of consumer and professional is important since it permits to delimit the scope of the acquis more accurately. |
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Romania has continued to make progress in transposing the company law acquis as such and the acquis concerning the protection of intellectual and industrial property rights. |
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In the field of internal market, Bulgaria has continued to make progress in most areas as regards the free movement of goods in terms of transposition of the acquis and the development of the administrative capacity. |
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One problem, however, which is not specific to transport, concerns their administrative capacity to apply the acquis and more particularly to recruit sufficient numbers of inspectors. |
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However, further efforts are required to develop the administrative capacity to implement the acquis on industrial products and as regards foodstuff and food safety. |
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We cannot fail to be impressed, when reading the actions to be taken in this regard, by their sheer number, which shows the scale of the Community acquis to be implemented by the candidate countries. |
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But I am very aware that the accession states have recently negotiated legislation in their own countries to put the acquis communautaire on to their statute book, and that included a period of data exclusivity of six years. |
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Do the acquis of the Council of Europe distill into a right to democracy? |
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In the field of labour law, notwithstanding the good progress made, further efforts to transpose and align with the relevant acquis and to ensure effective implementation and application are needed. |
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On the other hand, the candidate countries will need assistance in order to be able to apply the acquis without placing unmanageable demands on their public finances. |
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The difficulty is simply that the negotiations on the acquis communautaire, i.e. the accession negotiations, give us only a political means of exerting pressure and nothing more. |
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For some observers, there is no doubt about the cause: the European construction has reached its zenith, so that it is now fated to reduce its ambitions in favour of a rationalization of the acquis communautaire. |
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The legislative work carried out by Turkey on aligning with the acquis in the field of safety and non-safety-related measures was followed up by further efforts to implement and enforce the consumer protection legislation. |
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But could we please stop this farcical pretence that it has got anything to do with the criteria of dealing with the justice system or them fulfilling the acquis communautaire. |
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Irradiation facilities should be improved, legislation should be brought into line with the acquis and proper analysis of irradiated foods should be performed. |
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Excluding gender equality from the acquis communautaire is unimaginable, and of course we shall be just as vigilant on that issue as on the others. |
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Let us also point out how strictly the Community acquis has been applied to them, in spite of their fragile economy and the exorbitant social cost of an abrupt transition to a market economy. |
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The author shows that the Better Regulation agenda calls into question the whole Community acquis in itself by mingling the regulatory burden with the administrative burden. |
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The inclusion of such a principle, which would act as a safety net, would fill in any future regulatory gap and ensure that the acquis remains future proof. |
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After an entire year's work, Lithuania, another would-be member, has translated a mere 4,000 pages of the acquis communautaire, the body of EU law. |
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The acquis communautaire, the existing body of EU law, is chopped up into 31 different chapters, covering everything from agriculture to the environment and the free movement of labour. |
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There are two other issues that are also always present in our acquis and our culture and which are linked to the general trend of respect for human rights in any action or initiative in external policy. |
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have witnessed events which require us to construct a legal acquis of humanitarian law for Petersberg tasks in the future. |
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A special, and reinforced, effort will have to be made with urgency if the system is to be able effectively to apply the acquis in the medium term. |
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It therefore endorses the work of evaluating and monitoring the social situation and the adoption of the acquis in the social sphere in the applicant countries. |
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The objective is to achieve an European contract law acquis which has a high degree of consistency in its drafting as well as implementation and application. |
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This ensured that the regulations became part of the acquis communautaire before the new members joined, obliging them to accept the regulation. |
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To put it another way: application in accordance with the Treaties of the principle of subsidiarity may in no way be translated into a weakening of Community law or an undermining of the acquis communautaire. |
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Everyone has pointed out that these two countries have made remarkable progress within the framework of their efforts to harmonise with the acquis communautaire. |
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The introduction in January 1999 of a VAT system should be followed up by supplementary measures aimed at fully aligning Maltese legislation on the acquis communautaire in that field. |
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It is therefore necessary to ensure that the substantive law on intellectual property, which is nowadays largely part of the acquis communautaire, is applied effectively in the Community. |
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Therefore, on 11 February 2004, a new Consumer Protection Code came into force in order to completely harmonise Estonian law with the acquis communautaire. |
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In preparation for the next enlargement, candidate countries have to transpose the acquis communautaire into their national legislation and apply it immediately on accession. |
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It certainly facilitated the start of the negotiation process with the candidate countries for EU membership and harmonization with the acquis communautaires of the European Union. |
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Now that the Schengen Agreement is part of the acquis communautaire, it has, for EU members, lost the status of a treaty, which could only be amended according to its terms. |
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Ratification by the former agreement signatory states is not required for altering or repealing some or all of the former Schengen acquis. |
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