considering the following legal instruments: – Option 1: Publication of the results of the expert group. The outcome of the work of the expert group is published on the website of the Commission and [...] in the EU and stakeholders’ interests and “take into consideration” the contributions to the present consultation. ► Options for the legal form of the instrument of “European Contract Law“ The Commission [...] 2010/233/EU). The “Commission on European Contract Law” worked out the Principles of European Contract Law, PECL. In 2008 the Commission submitted a Draft Directive on the full harmonisation of consumer
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to exploit the full potential of the Single Market forms integral part of the Lisbon strategy. SMEs are a driving force of the EU economy. They account for more than 99% of all European companies and [...] provide around 70% of jobs in the European Union. The potential for the expansion of SMEs in the Single Market, however, remains unfulfilled. More than 40% of SMEs operating in the EU market would like [...] ..............21 6.2. Summary of the suggested content sub-options .........................................................34 7. The summary of the impacts of the SPE Statute ....................
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Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on a common framework for the marketing of products, and Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 setting out the [...] their credibility and of the level of consensus that they represent. The current diversification of the use of standards requires a broadening of the range of partners involved in the standardisation process [...] risk of technical barriers to trade within the internal market. Since the 1980’s, the Commission and the standardisation bodies (ESOs and NSOs) shall be informed – in the field of products – of the new
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differentiated. The centralisation of the management of the technical committees at secretariat level and the co-financing of national mirror committees incorporate the risk that the Commission could gain too [...] Consultation on the Revision of the Standardisation Package of 7 April 2010 Brief Summary The regulation options considered by the Commission are stipulated in the Roadmap of the Impact Assessment [...] includes the following amendments: - the Directive on the procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards (“Information Directive“, 98/34/EC), - the Decision on the financing
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in the area of standardisation has contributed to the success of European standardisation, enabling the development of European rather 5 Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the [...] revision of Decision 1673/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2006 on the financing of European standardisation - a revision of Council Decision 87/95/EEC of 22 December [...] Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on a common framework for the marketing of products, and • Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 setting out the
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in the area of standardisation has contributed to the success of European standardisation, enabling the development of European rather 5 Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the [...] revision of Decision 1673/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2006 on the financing of European standardisation - a revision of Council Decision 87/95/EEC of 22 December [...] Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on a common framework for the marketing of products, and • Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 setting out the
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FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Concluding the first European semester [...] legislative proposals of the Commission and the work of the Task Force headed by the President of the European Council will lead to a complete redesign of the EU tools to prevent macro-economic imbalances [...] EN EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, 7.6.2011 COM(2011) 400 final COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC
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accessible to all on the internet. The European Parliament1 and the Council2 have highlighted the importance of Europeana both as a showcase of the cultural heritage of the Member States on the internet and [...] Commission and the European Council, suggesting the creation of a European digital library. For the general public Europeana is the most visible result of the initiative. It is a common point of access to [...] into consideration the vocation of Europeana to offer the widest possible access to cultural collections, the European scope and nature of the site, and also the prominent role of the cultural institutions
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provisonally approved by the competent District Court of the US State of New York. MAIN ISSUES Objective of the Communication: The Commission wishes to increase the online cultural database [...] in the public domain and thus can be made available more easily than in the EU. – According to the Commission, the different handling of copyright protection for older works in the US and in the EU [...] is advocating that the creation of registries for orphan and out- of-print works in the EU be speeded up. As an EU alternative it proposes the “pragmatic use” of a cut-off date in the past as an effective
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accompanied by the development of a single rule book which will ensure uniform application of rules in the EU and thus contribute to the functioning of the internal market. The task of the European Supervisory [...] responsibility of central banks, the Commission will propose that the ESRC would include the central bank governors of the 27 Member States and the President of the ECB. Participation in the ESRC will not [...] members); – Governors of the 27 national central banks; – Vice-President of the ECB; – Chairpersons of the three European Supervisory Authorities; – Member of the European Commission. Observers:
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