Traduction de «Prescription faite par un herboriste » (Français → Anglais) :

When considering technical texts and specifications, should we not take account of what is being done by our competitors at international level and measure improvement in terms of not only our own performance to date but also what is being achieved at international level, particularly regarding innovation and environmental sustainability?

- The second proposal is that there should be a five-year time-bar on the recovery of sums owed to the Community. This limit could be extended in cases where active steps are being taken to secure recovery. As things stand, there is no general time-limit of a ‘Community’ nature (such a limit exists in certain sectoral regulations e.g. those concerning the Staff Regulations: 5 years, the regulation on the protection of the communities’ financial interests: 4 years). However, there is interference with the national legislation, where the contract refers to national law or where the judge is a national one applying his own law as the law of ...[+++] procedure. This could give rise to total chaos in those Member States where institutions’ right to collect debts is time-barred (after 3 or 10 years), or where, quite simply, no information is given on whether the deadline has lapsed until the case comes before the judge. Nor is it clear whether after the period has elapsed it is possible to accept compensation or spontaneous payment by the debtor. In brief, this proposal would introduce legal certainty for both the institutions and the debtors.

(20) In view of the approaching deadline for single hull oil tankers which do not comply with the requirements of MARPOL 73/78 on segregated ballast tanks and their protective location, and given that this is most relevant for Category (1) tankers, there are no reasons to maintain the differential charging system for which Regulation (EC) No 2978/94(8) provides between such oil tankers and oil tankers that comply with the said requirements beyond 2007, and therefore Regulation (EC) No 2978/94 should be repealed,

Whereas, consequently, a common procedure for granting an EEC mark to any tyre type complying with the common characteristics and test requirements should be established; whereas, at the Community level, to ensure the free movement of tyres, the conformity of the tyres with the common requirements is assured by the affixing on each tyre of an EEC mark which has been granted to the manufacturer in accordance with the abovementioned procedure; whereas any Member States may, in order to check the conformity of the tyres with the common requirements, carry out controls at any moment; whereas, in the case of a statement of non-conformity, ...[+++]the Member States need to take the necessary steps to ensure the conformity of the tyres with the requirements; whereas these measures may result in the withdrawal of the abovementioned EEC mark;

whereas it is therefore necessary that all the Member States adopt the same requirements either in addition to or in place of their existing rules, in order, in particular, to permit the implementation, for each vehicle type, of the EEC type-approval, which was the subject of Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers (4), as last amended by Directive 87/403/EEC (5);

Whereas those requirements differ from one Member State to another ; whereas it is therefore necessary that all Member States adopt the same requirements either in addition to or in place of their existing rules, in order, in particular, to allow the EEC type approval procedure which was the subject of the Council Directive (1) of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type approval of motor vehicles and their trailers to be applied in respect of each type of vehicle;