EC (2002c). Recommendation on statutory auditors' independence in the EU. European Commission. May.

The EU Commission has competence on exports of dual use goods from the Community.

The EU Police Mission was fully engaged in the police restructuring process, and the EU Police Mission Head of Mission served as a full member of the Police Restructuring Commission.

(iv) 2002 2003 Director of the EU Policy and Legal Advice Centre in Belgrade (tasked by the European Commission with assisting Serbia and Montenegro with the EU accession strategy, see www.plac.yu.org).

The Council URGES the Commission to report on the efforts made by Member States and the Commission in the EU synthesis report for the 2005 MDGs stocktaking exercise.

European and international supervision of nuclear material is made by the EU Commission and the IAEA (Euratom Treaty, INFCIRC 193).

Ms. Struncova (Observer for the European Commission) said that competence would be shared between the EU and its member States.

Latvia and other new EU members have little recourse but to challenge the European Commission in court. But suits and countersuits are not how we imagined the EU working when we struggled to join it.

Merkel also demanded a stifling and undemocratic EU fiscal straightjacket, which the Commission duly enforces. So when voters throw out a government, EU fiscal enforcer Olli Rehn immediately insists that the new administration stick to its predecessor s failed policies, alienating voters from the EU and pushing them toward the extremes.

Moreover, although the European Commission clearly has a duty to prevent mismanagement and fraud, every application for EU funding requires extremely onerous procedures.

But European support for the Afghan mission is in fact limited, and cooperation between the biggest EU donor governments and the European Commission remains inadequate.

As if this weren t bad enough, the Commission is preparing an emission trading scheme for EU airlines, with 2004 as the base year for setting quotas. This is a clear disadvantage for airlines from the new EU members, as the number of passengers they carry increased sharply only after 2004, when these countries joined the EU.

In addition Europol, Interpol, World Customs Organisation and the EU Commission have been invited to participate in the work of the OPC on a permanent basis.

The conference was attended by ministers responsible for gender equality and integration policy in the 25 EU Member States and the relevant representatives of European Commission.

Nonetheless, the timing of the current ceasefire, which coincides with the installation of a new EU Commission, is advantageous, as is Putin s shortsighted emphasis on tactical victories. EU leaders should take advantage of the break in the fighting to stop reacting and start anticipating.

The Council Conclusions of 26 January 2004 and of 27 April 2004 on the EU position with regard to the MDGs, as well as on the Mandate for the Commission to prepare an EU synthesis report on the MDG stocktaking exercise due in 2005

(ii) 1998 2002 Director General of The Independent Media Commission (later the Communications Regulatory Agency, www.cra.ba) in Sarajevo (EU and the USA. cf. the Dayton Peace Agreement)

He reassured the Commission that every effort would be made to avoid inconsistencies in the ratification of the draft convention by the EU and its member States.

The EU would invite non EU states to do likewise

The Office of the High Representative, with the European Commission and the EU Customs and Fiscal Assistance Office, invested heavily in ongoing support for the Indirect Taxation Administration.

Turkey has been given what looks like an ultimatum from the EU Commission open your ports for ships from Cyprus within a month, or you may risk a halt to the EU accession talks now underway. At the same time, the Commission s latest report on Turkey s progress toward accession notes that political reforms have slowed down, further calling into question the country s future EU membership.

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France s successful presidency has intensified doubts about the effectiveness of the Commission and its president, so much so that even in Paris concerns are being voiced that the Brussels executive must somehow be strengthened if it is not to become a mere secretariat. EU governments have wanted a pliable Commission, but now the cost could be the death of the community method that protects the EU against national frictions.

The International Monetary Fund now encourages more transparency by foreign investors, and has plans for a code of conduct. The EU Commission also favors voluntary agreements aimed at strengthening transparency.

Ms. Struncova (Observer for the European Commission) said that the European Union (EU) was keen to ensure that European companies derived maximum benefit from a new framework for international contracting.

Twenty five EU nations have contributed troops to NATO s 35,000 strong army in Afghanistan, and now represent more than half of all troops. EU states command a third of all Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs), and, together with the European Commission, have paid for a third of the country s post 2001 reconstruction.

None of this will be easy, not only because Europe s relationship with Russia has grown so chilly, but also because Putin is understood to despise the EU as politically impotent. Russian leaders may have misinterpreted as a sign of weakness Europe s representation at last month s EU Russia summit by two Portuguese politicians European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and Prime Minister Jose Socrates, whose government currently holds the revolving EU presidency.

Blair s EU disaster

Post EU Depression

EU European Union

When the 20 20 20 commitment was adopted in March 2007, the decision was much trumpeted and sold to the public as another success for EU climate change policy. Then EU Council President Angela Merkel called it a breakthrough, and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso proclaimed it the most ambitious package ever.

In 2005, UNIDIR will begin a project supported by the Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship programme of the European Commission to study EU and United Nations planning for crisis management and peacebuilding.

The EU should commit to continue democratizing its institutions, as it did when it gave the democratically elected European Parliament a voice in the selection of the European Commission president. For their part, EU member countries should recognize that they, as sovereign actors, chose integration, because the benefits of pooling their sovereignty outweighed the costs.

Britain s Last EU Straw?

A Better EU Budget

Politicizing EU Competition Policy

Righting the EU Constitution

The EU vs. Democracy

Statement of the EU

MADRID Before his appointment as EU Commission President, Jean Claude Juncker was pilloried as an old school federalist who would do little to alter the status quo. But the new structure that he has imposed on the Commission implies a radical overhaul of how things are done in Brussels.

But given the current situation, and wishing to avoid a repetition of last year's experience, the EU would suggest that the Chairman may wish to consult delegations informally to establish the sentiment of the Commission on the way forward, and then come to the Commission with his conclusions.

The Monitoring Group also learned that the Alpha Serengeti was approved by the European Union (EU) as a freezer vessel, as per European Commission decision 2004 39 EC of 14 January 2004 (approval No.

Meanwhile, the EU has yet to open its markets for business services and digital trade, on which the American economy thrives, even though services account for about 70 of GDP in most EU countries. In 2006, the European Commission issued a directive on the liberalization of trade in services, but major countries particularly Germany have refused to implement it.

The EU s role in fostering productivity gains, economic growth, and employment should increase, with as much as a quarter of spending from the EU budget devoted to human capital and research. Research spending should be made more effective by scrapping bureaucratic management by the Commission and Council and opening all national research funds to EU wide competition.

In areas such as policing, the rule of law, and counter narcotics, EU states have pursued policies entirely independently of each other. The EU Police Mission (EUPOL), launched in June 2007, was meant to address this lack of coordination, but in the end its focus was narrowed to police reform, with the Commission funding a separate judicial program.