Translation of "appliquer de l'opaque " (French → English) :

19. Welcomes plans for the establishment of a Public Administration Institute, and calls for further action to implement the public administration reform strategy and ensure full enforcement of the law on the civil service, including an adequate human resources management system; draws attention to the risks of politicising public administration through the use of non-transparent recruitment procedures, and to the practice of hiring temporary staff outside the scope of the law, and calls on the authorities to put an end to these practices and to create a depoliticised civil service based on merit, which would also help to enhance citize ...[+++]ns' trust in public administration;

2. ‘Paint’ means a pigmented coating material, in liquid or in paste or powder form, which when applied to a substrate, forms an opaque film having protective, decorative or specific technical properties.

2. ‘Paint’ means a pigmented coating material, in liquid or in paste or powder form, which when applied to a substrate, forms an opaque film having protective, decorative or specific technical properties.

A judge from the United Kingdom also considered ECJ judgments to be sometimes opaque, and recommended that judgments would be easier to apply at national level if they adoped the fuller and clearer style seen in Advocate General Opinions.

144. Considers that financial corrections reflect not only the Member States' ability and willingness to implement a regime correctly, but also the possibility of implementing the regime correctly; believes in a general sense that many legal provisions concerning the common agricultural policy are so difficult to interpret, and the checking provisions in many cases so lacking in transparency, that the Member States' authorities do not have much opportunity to implement the regimes correctly;

In our case it was secretive and arbitrarily applied.