Translation of "Page de l'achevé d'imprimer " (French → English) :

1. Urges the Commission to use its right of initiative to its full extent in order to give the Union clear political leadership, to insist that the heads of government stand behind the decisions they take in the European Council, and in particular to deliver the completion of the single market together with the strategic roadmap for fiscal union, economic union, political union and external action; invites the Commission to pursue a bold reform agenda in respect of the monetary union architecture, and recalls that it has the right under Article 48 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) to make proposals for the amendment of the Treaties; ...[+++]

1. Urges the Commission to use its right of initiative to its full extent in order to give the Union clear leadership, and in particular to deliver the completion of the single market together with the strategic roadmap for economic union, political union and external action;

Calls on those Member States which have not already done so to print Article 20 of the EC Treaty inside their national passports alongside national information, as called for by the Barnier report and the Council Conclusions of 15 June 2006; calls on the Commission to provide passport-issuing offices in each of the Member States with a brochure setting out these rights and a general outline of the measures which support Article 20 of the EC Treaty; requests that the brochure be distributed to individuals who collect their new passports; calls on the Commission to set up a web page on the ‘Europa’ site to publish practical information ...[+++]on consular protection and facilitate access to Member States’ travel advice notices, as called for by the Commission's 2007 Action Plan.

In order to give the European economy fresh impetus, however, the EU must make another qualitative leap ahead to complete its internal market and thus to derive maximum benefit from it.

On all pages inside the passport or travel document a unique document number should be printed (where possible with a special style of figures or typeface and in UV-fluorescent ink), or perforated or, in passport cards, a unique document number should be integrated using the same technique as for the biographical data.

As well as benefiting from the impetus created by a new Commissioner and a new DG, the 1993-1995 period saw the first use of both the co-decision procedure and Article 129a. This new article established a basis on which to build a consumer policy independent of that designed to complete the internal market.