Translation of "nécessité d'une interdiction " (French → English) :

The nuclear tests announced by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in October 2006 and May 2009 not only demonstrated the importance of a universal ban on nuclear tests, they also underscored the need for an effective verification regime to monitor compliance of such a ban.

Calls for a strengthening of the international system of treaties and regimes against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; stresses the need for closer cooperation between the EU and the United States in combating terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in compliance with international law, and for both sides to support the role that the UN must play in these areas; urges the Council to discuss with its US counterparts how to make a positive approach to future NPT Preparatory Committees (NPT PrepComs), as a first opportunity to strengthen the global non-nuclear proliferation regime in the run-up to ...[+++]the NPT Review Conference in 2010; underlines the need to discuss at the summit a number of nuclear disarmament initiatives based on the ‘13 practical steps’ agreed to unanimously in the 2000 NPT Review Conference; hopes that at this summit the US Administration will be willing to adopt a common strategy with the EU aimed at making progress on disarmament in terms of both weapons of mass destruction and conventional weaponry; calls on the EU and the United States to avoid the potential vacuum in the period 2009-2010, when the major agreements on disarmament will be due to be renewed; hopes that the very important agreements reached in 1999, 2000 and 2001 with Russia will be maintained; calls on the United States to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as a meaningful step towards reducing the operational relevance of nuclear weapons;

However, as regards, in particular, the prohibition on advertising on posters, parasols, ashtrays and other articles used in hotels, restaurants and cafés and the ban on advertising spots in cinemas, the Court held that they could not be justified by the need to eliminate obstacles to the free movement of advertising media or the freedom to provide advertising services since they in no way helped to facilitate trade.

The Commission, having heard the insistence of 13 Member States on the necessity for a ban, and in the interests of consistency, remains opposed to any relaxation of an outright ban in this regulation.

They have already decided on a ban in the swine fever directive, despite several opportunities to reconsider the need for a ban.

In this context, the Committee regrets that it has so far not been possible to convince a larger number of member countries that the fundamental workers' rights adopted by the ILO, the 'core labour standards` (freedom of association and the right to engage in collective bargaining; outlawing of forced labour and child labour; and a ban on all forms of discrimination over careers and employment) should also form part of the principles of international trade.