Translation of "merit progression " (English → French) :

22. Calls for further efforts to guarantee the independence and impartiality of the judiciary ; considers it important to define clear requirements for the dismissal of judges in order to eliminate risks to judicial independence; welcomes the progress in reducing the overall backlog of court cases but urges measures to address backlogs at the Supreme Court and the Administrative Court; urges the gradual rationalisation of the court network and continued support to the Academy for Judges and Prosecutors, in light of its key role in ensuring continuing training, career development and merit-based recruitment;

73. Notes with regret the lack of progress in relation to labour and trade unions rights; calls on the authorities to swiftly proceed with creating the conditions for a genuine social dialogue which has not taken place so far, to simplify the procedures for registering a trade union, and to promote the recognition of already registered unions; draws attention to the shortcomings in the Law on Labour, which has not been brought into line with the acquis, as well as to the law on strikes, which does not comply with EU and ILO standards; points out, furthermore, that favouritism and nepotism remain significant problems in Serbia; underl ...[+++]ines the importance of merit-based recruitment and promotion, especially in the public sector, and stresses that dismissal of employees on grounds of their political opinion or affiliation is unacceptable;

2. Underlines the need to send a positive signal to Montenegro and other countries working hard on meeting the membership criteria; strongly believes that candidate and potential candidate countries should be judged solely on their own merits and progress in meeting these criteria and that their accession process should by no means be linked to the progress in other neighbouring or candidate countries in order to maintain the credibility of the enlargement process;

It has to be ensured that the restructuring measures are appropriate to address the company’s problems and enable the company to progress towards a new structure that allows it to stand on its own merits.

The Council reaffirms that the pace of the negotiations depends notably on the negotiating countries' progress in addressing opening and closing benchmarks as well as the requirements of the Negotiating Frameworks, including the implementation of the Accession Partnerships, currently in course of revision, with each country being judged on its own merits.

3. All reviews shall include a further investigation of the estimated costs and benefits of national emission ceilings, computed with state-of-the-art models and making use of the best available data to achieve the least possible uncertainty and taking also into account progress in the enlargement of the European Union, and of the merits of alternative methodologies, in the light of the factors listed in Article 9.