Translation of "Study Group on Methods and Organization Forest Work " (English → French) :

52. Underlines the need for Euro-Mediterranean partners to establish new programmes in order to encourage cooperation both between police authorities and between judicial authorities and to ensure a joint approach to the fight against organised crime and terrorism; calls for all countries to ratify the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its additional protocols against trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants; stresses the fact that Euro-Mediterranean partners share a commitment both to human rights and to fundamental freedoms and therefore calls on the Council, the Member States and the Com ...[+++]mission to actively support the aim of the Euro-Mediterranean agreement to ensure observance of human rights by means of a permanent political dialogue with the partner countries; also stresses that they share a common experience of terrorism, which should allow them to work together in dissuading disaffected groups from choosing terrorist methods and carrying out violent attacks, in developing state capacity to combat terrorism and in defending human rights in the struggle against terrorism; points out that terrorist acts, of whatever kind, essentially involve a direct attack on citizens" rights and freedoms as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on democracy and on the rule of law;

2. Recalls the 24-year history of pedestrian-friendly car fronts to date, with EU and national funding of research in this field, the work of the European Enhanced Vehicle-Safety Committee (EEVC) and its different working groups, contradictory benefit studies by several national road safety institutes on one side and the European Association of Automotive Manufacturers (ACEA) on the other, debates on ...[+++]test methods, the presentation at a relatively early stage of cars which to a considerable extent already meet the EEVC criteria, the aborted attempts by the Commission to come forward with a legislative proposal and the subsequent promises in various communications to attempt again to propose a legislative act, and European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro-NCAP) tests in which most cars performed rather poorly;

2. Recalls the 24 year long turbulent history of pedestrian-friendly car fronts to date, with EU and national funding of research in this field, the work of the EEVC and its different working groups, contradictory benefit studies by several national road safety institutes on one side and ACEA on the other, debates on tests methods ...[+++], the presentation at a relatively early stage of cars which to a considerable extent already meet the EEVC criteria, the aborted attempts by the Commission to come forward with a legislative proposal and the subsequent promises in various communications to attempt again to propose a legislative act, the Euro-NCAP tests showing a generally rather poor performance for most cars;

(e) making an inventory and obtaining copies of existing Eco-labels, standards, test methods and studies that are relevant for the establishment of an Eco-label for the product group, taking into account the work done on related product groups, and estimating the costs of testing.

22. Notes that OLAF's working methods are currently being examined by an external group of experts and that the new Director of OLAF, who took up his duties on 1 March 2000, must be allowed to take the necessary decisions on the reorganisation of OLAF in the light of the findings of this study in partic ...[+++]ular;

(e) making an inventory and obtaining copies of existing Eco-labels, standards, test methods and studies that are relevant for the establishment of an Eco-label for the product group, taking into account the work done on related product groups, and estimating the costs of testing;