Traduction de «nécessité d’une interdiction » (Français → Anglais) :

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;

Commenting on this proposal, David Byrne, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, said : "The scientific advice provided to the Commission confirms the need for the ban which has been in place for the past decade and which is fully supported by the Member States and the public.

- The need for a wider prohibition of money laundering.

In their interventions, the Ministers addressed key issues, i.e. the need for a general ban on drift nets, length of a transitional period, measures of financial compensation (social flanking measures) to fishermen depending on this fishing method, and territorial scope, including the possible exclusion of salmon fisheries in the Baltic Sea.

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.

However, the ease of deployment and effectiveness of this type of gear, and the rapid development and expansion of its use in other parts of the world point to the necessity for the proposed ban.