Traduction de «Responsabilité liée à la petite caisse » (Français → Anglais) :

4. Underlines that throughout the current parliamentary term the Petitions Committee was taking up the challenges to meet the expectations of the citizens of the European Union; emphasises the importance of citizens direct involvement in the Parliament’s activity and to have their concerns, proposals or complaints specifically addressed by the Committee members; points out the amount of work that had been done to resolve possible infringements of citizens’ rights and by cooperating with national, regional and local authorities on issues related to the application of European laws; while maintaining a vital role in reconnecting with European citizens and reinforcing the democratic legitimacy and accounta ...[+++]bility of the EU decision-making process;

4. Underlines that throughout the current parliamentary term the Petitions Committee was taking up the challenges to meet the expectations of the citizens of the European Union; emphasises the importance of citizens direct involvement in the Parliament’s activity and to have their concerns, proposals or complaints specifically addressed by the Committee members; points out the amount of work that had been done to resolve possible infringements of citizens’ rights and by cooperating with national, regional and local authorities on issues related to the application of European laws; while maintaining a vital role in reconnecting with European citizens and reinforcing the democratic legitimacy and accounta ...[+++]bility of the EU decision-making process;

– (EL) Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the institution of the ombudsman, which is directly linked to the Committee on Petitions in order to ensure it is able to respond to the circumstances, as well as to the obligations of the European Parliament towards the citizens and the citizens' right to ask the extended family of the European Union for protection, fills us with responsibilities.

Ministers renewed their commitment to strengthen their co-operation to fight the world-wide drugs problem and related crimes, illegal trafficking in small arms and light weapons, corruption, organised crime, through strengthening co-ordination mechanisms, and to actively combat under the principle of shared responsibility against all drugs (including synthetic ones), drug trafficking, the control of diversion of chemical precursors and money laundering, as well as its financial sources and the prevention of their use to finance terror ...[+++]ism and crimes globally.

I find myself, however, powerfully affected by the argument that the focus of Bill C-20, the government's approach to the possible secession of a province of Canada, is another such subject, something that is so fundamentally, inherently political, so directly and intimately bound up wclass=yellow1>ith the will of the people, that it,class=yellow1> too, falls into that small but crucial class where it is the House of Commons and not Parliament as a whole that must take the decision and, class=yellow1>of course, bear the ...[+++]responsibility for doingclass=yellow1> so.

28. Support African initiatives to improve the investment climate and business opportunities that help create wealth and employment for the poor; promote investment in Africa, including measures related to the rural economy and to provide a market for agricultural products; promote the OECD guidelines for Multinational Enterprises in Africa, as well as other relevant instruments and initiatives that aim to encourage corporate social responsibility and support for public-private partnerships and Small and medium-sized enterprises through local institutions.