Traduction de «Affaires extérieures et Commerce extérieur Canada » (Français → Anglais) :

C. whereas the Lisbon Treaty defines international trade as one of the three arms of the EU's External Action and requires coherence with its other policies: foreign affairs and international development; whereas trade has always been a strong pillar in the Neighbourhood Policy and this has been emphasised in the Commission's communications on a ‘New Response to a Changing Neighbourhood’ and ‘A Partnership for Democracy and Shared Prosperity with the Southern Mediterranean’;

Therefore, while it goes without saying that the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the External Action Service will work to support the Union's policies in areas such as foreign affairs, trade and security, we cannot take it for granted that the new service will attach equal importance to attaining the EU's development policy objectives and the Millennium Development Goals.

In particular, the Commission should be empowered to adapt the list of customs procedures or customs-approved treatment or use which determine an export or import for external trade statistics; to adopt different or specific rules for goods or movements which, for methodological reasons, call for specific provisions; to adapt the list of goods and movements excluded from external trade statistics; to specify the data sources other than the customs declaration for records on imports and exports of specific goods or movements; to specify the statistical data, including the codes to be used; to establish requirements for data related to specific goods or movements; to establish requirements on the compilation of statistics; to specify t ...[+++]he characteristics of samples; to establish the reporting period and the level of aggregation for partner countries, goods and currencies; and also to adapt the deadline for transmitting statistics, content, coverage and revision conditions for statistics already transmitted; and to establish the deadline for transmitting statistics on trade by business characteristics and statistics on trade broken down by invoicing currency.

28. Considers that investing in durable solutions will require considerable coordination between different departments and agencies of the Commission, and especially those concerned with development, justice and home affairs, trade and external relations; believes that the Commission should communicate its proposals for such cooperation to the Parliament as soon as possible and report regularly to Parliament on the progress of such cooperation;

The Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy calls on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, as the committee responsible, to endorse conclusion of the agreement.

(30) Economic globalisation means that environmental action is increasingly needed at international level, including on transport policies, requiring new responses from the Community linked to policy related to trade, development and external affairs enabling sustainable development to be pursued in other countries.