Translation of "translation of chef de l'information " (French → English) :

19. Welcomes the fact that after the former Head of the Legal Service left the Agency in June 2012 to join a US-based law firm having a number of pharmaceutical industry companies as clients as senior counsel, the Executive Director of the Agency launched a review of his work as Head of the Legal Service, Chair of the Joint Committee, Chair of the Disciplinary Committee and as a member of the Advisory Committee on Procurement and Contracts; acknowledges that no evidence of conflicts of interest nor breach of obligations provided in Articles 11 and 11a of the Staff Regulations could be identified; welcomes the fact that in accordance with Article 16 of the Staff Regulations, the Executive Director imposed some restrictions to the activitie ...[+++]s of the former Head of Legal Service for a period of two years following his leaving the Agency; calls on the Agency to provide the discharge authority with detailed information on those restrictions;

– (PT) In view of the implications of the Lisbon Treaty regarding the operation of the European Union institutions and the reinforcement of shared responsibility in the decision-making process, it has become absolutely necessary to establish a set of procedures which ensure and guarantee the healthy and efficient exchange of information and points of view regarding the strategies for consolidating and developing European integration.

– Whilst we agree with those parts of the proposal that provide for the equal treatment of Parliament with the Council with regard to access to meetings and to information; for regular dialogue between the President of the Commission and the President of the Parliament; cooperation on citizens’ initiatives; impact assessments on legislation; and the use of ‘soft law’ (rather than punitive law?); we disagree with: a reaffirmation and strengthening of compulsory time limits for the implementation of directives; and the use of congratulatory language about the European Union and its officers.

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32006D0507 - EN - 2006/507/EC: Council Decision of 14 October 2004 concerning the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants // COUNCIL DECISION // (2006/507/EC) // Declaration by the community in accordance with Article 25(3) of the Convention // Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants // ELIMINATION // RESTRICTION // UNINTENTIONAL PRODUCTION // INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS AND SCREENING CRITERIA // INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE RISK PROFILE // INFORMATION ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS

13. Stresses the need to make information more readily available to journalists, sub-editors and editors-in-chief; calls on the European Institutions to develop specific training programs related to European mechanisms and issues for these groups and for future journalists, in partnership with their training schools and institutes;

The analysis of the situation thus obtained should be systematically discussed between Heads of Missions, used to make an input into "EU Human Rights fact sheets" to be elaborated by HoMs and regularly revised in the relevant Council Working Groups.