Translation of "Contrôle sur pied " (French → English) :

42. Regrets that the establishment of the EDA came too late to prevent the emergence of three different national programmes on the unmanned air vehicle instead of a single European one, thus enabling some companies to engage in more than one project and thereby to pocket taxpayers’ money several times over, leaving the EDA with no option but to work on the insertion of unmanned aerial vehicles into the regulated airspace; expresses its preference for a single European satellite project, whether in the field of intelligence or communication;

We therefore feel that a European Coast Guard must be set up as a matter of urgent priority, whereby fisheries control would be integrated with other sea control operations and fisheries would be opened up to the entire European fleet; an effective, modern and harmonised system of control and sanction.

According to the Directorate-General of my fellow-Commissioner Mr Fischler, though, the high volume of live cattle exported to Lebanon is also attributable to the steps that the European Union has taken to monitor the exports of live cattle in general. At the beginning of this decade, the main players left in this field were Lebanon and Egypt.

- RECOGNISING that an international certification scheme for rough diamonds will only be credible if all Participants have established internal systems of control designed to eliminate the presence of conflict diamonds in the chain of producing, exporting and importing rough diamonds within their own territories, while taking into account that differences in production methods and trading practices as well as differences in institutional controls thereof may require different approaches to meet minimum standards.

—RECOGNISING that an international certification scheme for rough diamonds will only be credible if all Participants have established internal systems of control designed to eliminate the presence of conflict diamonds in the chain of producing, exporting and importing rough diamonds within their own territories, while taking into account that differences in production methods and trading practices as well as differences in institutional controls thereof may require different approaches to meet minimum standards.

8. Takes the view that the protection of the Communities' financial interests must be a top priority in connection with the enlargement as emphasised by Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control, and that this must be reflected in serious efforts by the candidate countries to set up units to combat fraud against the Communities' interests, involving effective cooperation with OLAF, and to combat corruption; takes the view that a campaign to make the public in the candidate countries more aware of this issue is essential, not least ...[+++]in preparation for the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor's Office;