Translation of "Application des ordonnances familiales " (French → English) :

(6a) This Regulation takes account of the different legal traditions of the Member States, and does not interfere with the national systems for ordering protection measures.

29. Calls on the Commission to commission regular and adequately financed studies that analyse the importance of ownership for the success and survival of a business and highlight the specific challenges facing family businesses, and to propose to the European Parliament and the Member States a statistically workable Europe-wide definition of ‘family business’ – developed together with Eurostat –, taking into account the different circumstances in the Member States; calls on the Commission, furthermore, to use the existing "task force small and medium-sized enterprise data" to collect enough data, including on family businesses in all t ...[+++]he Member States, to allow a comparison of the situation and needs of family businesses of different sizes, as well as a comparison of family businesses and non-family businesses, to promote information and exchanges of examples of know-how and good practice throughout the EU, for example by establishing a family business contact point at the Commission and by making the best use of programmes such as "Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, and to allow for more targeted assistance;

2. Calls on the Commission to continue its work on establishing a common EU definition of ‘family business’ by conducting an impact assessment on a possible revision of the European SME definition from 2003, by considering the size of a family business as one of the central elements, given the fact that a one-size-fits-all regulatory approach is not sufficient to address the diverse needs of family businesses with regard to taxation and access to finance, and by drawing up, together with the Member States, a list of common indicators based on which a family business could be described and which should enable statistics to be produced with respect to the contribution of family businesses to employment, with a view to better understanding ownership and h ...[+++]elping to design better policies that facilitate access to markets and finance for family businesses; the definition should be simple, clear and easily applicable in all Member States;

1. 1 Where the applicable legislation and/or the competence to grant family benefits change between Member States during a calendar month, irrespective of the payment dates of family benefits under the legislation of those Member States, the institution which has paid the family benefits by virtue of the legislation under which the benefits have been granted at the beginning of this month shall continue to do so until the end of th ...[+++]e month in progress.

41 Further, as the Commission correctly states, it is clear from the case-law of the Court that the Community institutions are not subject to any general obligation to inform the persons to whom their measures are addressed of the judicial remedies available or to any obligation to state the time-limits applicable to them (see, to that effect, the order in Case C‑153/98 P Guérin automobiles v Commission [1999] ECR I‑1441, paragraph 15).

AG. whereas a certain enforcement of national law, in particular certain aspects of procedural law, may help build mutual trust and therefore limit Member States' need for safeguards and preliminary consideration before an order is enforced,