Translation of "Groupe consultatif juridique " (French → English) :

7. In order to fully accomplish the high standards of human rights set out in the Trade Agreement, to which both the Andean governments and the European Union are committed, suggests that the parties involved swiftly establish a dedicated domestic advisory group (DAG) on human rights and democratic principles, which should accompany and monitor the implementation of this or other Trade Agreements and work as an effective internal consultation body to the domestic offices that participate in the Committee on Trade of the Trade Agreemen ...[+++]t, using as a model for its operation the legal framework envisaged in the Trade Agreement for the participation of civil society in the Subcommittee on Trade and Sustainable Development; calls on the parties to the Trade Agreement to guarantee these DAGs the same level of binding involvement for civil society as in the Free Trade Agreement with South Korea, including a formalised and institutionalised complaint mechanism; calls on the parties, furthermore, to ensure the full independence of the DAGs, including as regards their own choice of members of the DAGs;

Following the opinion of the Legal Service, whose representatives participated in the meetings of the Consultative Working Party examining the recast proposal, and in keeping with the recommendations of the draftsperson, the Committee on Legal Affairs considers that the proposal in question does not include any substantive changes other than those identified as such in the proposal or in the opinion of the Consultative Working Party and that, as regards the codification of the unchanged provisions of the earlier acts with those changes, the proposal contains a straightforward codification of the existing texts, without any change in thei ...[+++]r substance.

The Consultative Group of the Legal Services considered that the said provision established a secondary legal base which is not manifestly obsolete, and therefore needs to be re-examined in the light of the judgement of the Court of Justice of 6 May 2008 in case C-133/06 with a view to either the deleting or the amending thereof.

In the course of a codification exercise concerning Regulation (EC) No 539/2001, the Consultative Working Group of the legal experts of the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament examined the secondary legal base established by Regulation (EC) No 851/2005[6].

The setting up of the Advisory and Monitoring group and the expert groups on legal and tax issues is to be considered as a priority action.

Transparency will be achieved by consulting external groups of experts (the Internet Working Party and the Legal Advisory Board) as well as actively using the information services of the Commission in connection with the awareness measures.