Translation of "Document à caractère législatif " (French → English) :

3. The review referred to in paragraph 1 shall in particular address the scope and impact of this Directive, including the extent of the increase in re-use of public sector documents, the effects of the principles applied to charging and the re-use of official texts of a legislative and administrative nature, the interaction between data protection rules and re-use possibilities, as well as further possibilities of improving the proper functioning of the internal market and the development of the European content industry’.

– (DE) Madam President, I have taken the liberty of carrying out a brief statistical analysis of the Commission work and legislative programme, and have counted 57 non-legislative acts and only 37 of a legislative nature, so it would appear that the vast majority are non-legislative, and that strikes me as confirming a trend that has made itself clearly visible in recent times, that being that the Commission is more inclined to take refuge in non-legislative acts such as Green Papers, White Papers, communications, and so on, thereby i ...[+++]n part circumventing its own legislature.

2. The review shall in particular address the scope and impact of this Directive, including the extent of the increase in re-use of public sector documents, the effects of the principles applied to charging and the re-use of official texts of a legislative and administrative nature, as well as further possibilities of improving the proper functioning of the internal market and the development of the European content industry.

Public sector bodies should promote and encourage re-use of documents, including official texts of a legislative and administrative nature in those cases where the public sector body has the right to authorise their re-use.

- the existence of insurance guarantee schemes for policyholders in the case of a winding-up of an insurance undertaking are being examined in order to determine whether an EU-wide response is required (legislative or otherwise);

Whereas Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 provides that the Member States concerned shall carry out every 10 years basic surveys on the area under vines and annually intermediate surveys ; whereas, as a result of difficulties which could not have been foreseen, it was not possible to complete the first basic survey on the area under vines in one Member State within the prescribed period ; whereas it was therefore decided to grant an extension of the agreed period of one year to this Member State ; whereas this extension has proved insufficient because of further complications of a legislative nature ; whereas it is therefor ...[+++]e advisable to allow this Member State to postpone for a further year the dates by which this survey must be completed and the results forwarded to the Commission;