Translation of "Code d'équité en matière de réglementation du citoyen " (French → English) :

Summary code: Budget / Financial rules, controls and audits

Enhanced cooperation towards creating a level playing field concerning market and carbon regulation is needed, especially for the power sector, while trade increases and the issue of carbon leakage comes to the fore.

Trade policy will not gain public support in Europe if we do not have fair access to raw materials, or if access to public procurement abroad is blocked, for example.

In the event that the second question is also to be answered in the negative: Do the requirements relating to democracy and the rule of law on which Article 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights is clearly based and/or the requirement of fairness and efficiency under Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and/or the obligation of transparency under Article 56 TFEU and/or the right not to be tried or punished twice under Article 50 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights preclude national rules like Paragraphs 52 to 54 of the GSpG, Paragraph 56a of the GSpG and Paragraph 168 of the StGB, the delimitation between which is not reall ...[+++]y foreseeable or predictable ex ante for a citizen, in the absence of clear legislative provision, and can be clarified in each specific case only through an expensive formal procedure, but which are associated with extensive differences in terms of competences (administrative authority or court), powers of intervention, the connected stigmatisation in each case and procedural position (e.g. reversal of the burden of proof)?

Sustainability should be incorporated into national building codes, standards and regulations, using where possible a performance-based approach rather than prescribing particular techniques or solutions to be applied.

[35] Examples of Green Papers include: 'The citizens' network: Fulfilling the potential of public passenger transport in Europe', COM(1995) 601; 'Towards fair and efficient pricing in transport - Policy options for internalising the external cost of transport in the European Union', COM(1995) 691; 'Green Paper on a numbering policy for telecommunications services in Europe' COM(1996) 590; 'Green Paper on the convergence of the telecommunications, media and information-technology sectors, and the implications for regulation - Toward ...[+++]s an information-society approach', COM(1997) 623.