(25) In Article 890, the first paragraph is replaced by the following:"The decision-making customs authority shall grant repayment or remission when:

In accordance with Article 14 of the Commission's Rules of Procedure, the power to take decisions on confirmatory applications is delegated to the Secretary-General.

Improve (through simplification and clarification) the legal framework for administrative decision-making and procedures to ensure legal certainty.

a chain of command must be set up to ensure that the decision-taking procedure for an epizootic is rapid and effective.

(1) Article 20 of the Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, as amended by Council Decision 2002/653/EC, permits non-member States to participate in preliminary-ruling proceedings before the Court of Justice where an agreement, relating to a specific subject matter, concluded by the Council with one or more non-member States, provides for such participation where a court or tribunal of a Member State refers to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling, a question falling within the scope of the agreement.

The introduction of national and regional financing plans based on the indicative programmes facilitates the streamlining of decision-making procedures.

The provisions of paragraph (1) shall apply to the references for a preliminary ruling provided for in the Protocol concerning the interpretation by the Court of Justice of the Convention of 29 February 1968 on the mutual recognition of companies and legal persons and the Protocol concerning the interpretation by the Court of Justice of the Convention of 27 September 1968 on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, signed at Luxembourg on 3 June 1971, and to the references provided for by Article 4 of the latter Protocol.

(18) Detailed rules for implementation should be laid down, in particular the form of action, the cooperation partners and the decision-making procedure.

Whereas it may become apparent from this examination that the Community should exercise surveillance over certain exports, or that interim protective measures should be introduced as a safeguard against unforeseen practices; whereas the need for rapid and effective action makes it justifiable for the Commission to be empowered to decide upon such measures, but without prejudice to the subsequent position of the Council, whose responsibility it is to adopt a policy consistent with the interests of the Community;

In considering whether particular enforcement activities should be coordinated, the Parties shall take account of the following factors, among others:

Whereas it is desirable that the management and decision-making procedures should be those traditionally provided for in the textile and clothing sector;

In the case of equivocal results, histopathological examination may help to decide if the test should be repeated using another set of animals.

In deciding whether or not to grant an export authorisation under this Regulation, the Member States shall take into account all relevant considerations including:

In cases falling under Article 56(1)(b) and (c), (2), second sentence and (3) of the Agreement, the surveillance authority which is not competent to decide on a case in accordance with Article 56 may request at all stages of the proceedings copies of the most important documents lodged with the competent surveillance authority for the purpose of establishing the existence of infringements of Articles 53 and 54 or of obtaining a negative clearance or exemption, and may furthermore, before a final decision is taken, make any observations it considers appropriate.

Whereas it is for the decision-making customs authority within the meaning of Article 877(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 2454/93 to decide on an application for repayment or remission;

The OCT concerned shall, on each occasion, provide the delegate with the information needed for the EEC to decide on such derogations, particular attention being given to:

These measures seem to be directed at specific sensitive sectors, in a non-transparent way, and through a very flexible decisional process.

Where a question referred to the Court for a preliminary ruling is manifestly identical to a question on which the Court has already ruled, the Court may, after informing the court or tribunal which referred the question to it, hearing any observations submitted by the persons referred to in Article 20 of the EEC Statute, Article 21 of the Euratom Statute and Article 103 (3) of these Rules and hearing the Advocate-General, give its decision by reasoned order in which reference is made to its previous judgment.

In deciding whether a product falls under that Directive or the present Directive, particular account shall be taken of the principal intended purpose of the product.

Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, Aarhus, 25 June 1998.

(6) It is expedient to apply such a procedure in order to facilitate the Community's decision-making process without changing the respective roles of the Commission and the Council in the application of the Basic Regulations, and without implying any changes for the decision-making procedures in other areas of the common commercial policy or other sectors.

In cases where the rights or interests of individuals are involved, the staff member shall ensure that, at every stage in the decision-making procedure, the rights of defence are respected.

households always enjoy autonomy of decision in respect of their principal function and must therefore be institutional units, even though they do not keep a complete set of accounts;

In order not to prolong decision-making unnecessarily, the Rapporteur Member State should at the same time consider carefully the need for additional studies.

entities which, while keeping a complete set of accounts, have no autonomy of decision in the exercise of their principal function are combined with the units which control them;

The Contracting Parties shall ensure that the opportunity is given to the public to participate in decision-making processes relevant to the field of application of the Convention and the Protocols, as appropriate.

Internal decision-making process, relationship with members, including arrangements to ensure involvement of membership in policy development and policy pronouncements.

the establishment of integrated telematic networks for the facilitation of communication between the Community institutions and in support of the Community decision-making process.

- determine by mutual agreement the specific tasks to be undertaken under this Agreement, without prejudice to the taking of autonomous decisions by the Parties on their respective programmes.

The "one member, one vote" principle, which is the Governing Council's core decision-making principle, continues to apply to all members of the Governing Council having a voting right.

The bureau shall set up a budget group, drawn from among its members, to assist it in making decisions when exercising its budgetary and financial powers.

a chain of command must be set up to ensure that in the event of the outbreak of an epidemic the decision-taking procedure for an epizootic is rapid and effective.

Notional resident units, even if they keep only partial accounts and may not always enjoy autonomy of decision, are treated as institutional units.

Such an approach can be facilitated by the use of the following decision tree (other methods can be used by the team, according to their knowledge and experience).

With regard to the STPF, the GOK furthermore claimed that since transparent and objective criteria are employed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, it cannot exercise any discretion in deciding on priority projects and that the Commission had failed to present any evidence to support its conclusion that this discretion has been exercised.

In particular, Article 5(2)(b) provides that an acceptable daily intake (ADI) for man must be taken into account in deciding on the inclusion of an active substance in Annex I.

Voting shall normally be conducted so as to maintain the maximum transparency in decision-making, and shall at the sole discretion of the Chairman of the meeting be by show of hands or by roll-call.

In considering how a project may be carried out, account shall be taken of the advantage, for economic and technical reasons, of dividing the project into homogenous lots which are as large as possible.

To that effect, the present notice is intended to preserve the guidance that can be drawn from past decisional practice and to take full account of past case-law of the Community Courts.

(b) determining the specific tasks to be undertaken in the areas referred to in Article 2, without prejudice to the taking of autonomous decisions by the Parties on their respective programmes.

Whereas in acting pursuant to this Regulation the Community has to bear in mind the need for rapid and effective action, through the application of the decision-making procedures provided for in the Regulation;

The decision-making process shall be examined to identify critical decision points or items of data for which uncertainties could lead to a false classification of risk.

They shall not take part in decisions concerning the management, organisation or operation of the Office, and shall be entitled to vote on matters that relate to social welfare infrastructure.

Urban issues deserve particular attention, given that political decision-makers are increasingly clamouring for an evaluation of the quality of life in Europe's cities.

It is expected that the evaluation and decision-making process with respect to a decision on possible Annex I inclusion for each of the active substances concerned will have been completed within 24 months.

In deciding on the redressive duties, the Council shall also take due account of the external trade policy considerations as well as the port interests and the shipping policy considerations of the Member States concerned.

The ECB and the NCBs should have appropriate arrangements in place to check that financial transactions entered into by the decision-making bodies and employees conform with this rule.

Where the infrastructure manager, in its legal form, organisation or decision-making functions, is not independent of any railway undertaking, the functions, described in this chapter, other than collecting the charges shall be performed by a charging body that is independent in its legal form, organisation and decision-making from any railway undertaking.

The Commission undertakes to inform the European Parliament, at the same time as the Council, of any proposal amending legal bases in the course of decision-making procedures.

In deciding, in the case of both bovine ani-mals and swine and fresh meat, whether a third country or part thereof may appear on the list referred to in paragraph 1, particular account shall be taken of: