It supervises financial institutions and also enacts or amends separate supervisory regulations for different financial sectors.

Member States' competent authorities responsible for the sectoral group-wide supervision of any of the regulated entities in a financial conglomerate;

It is also vital that control operations are coordinated between the competent bodies in all Member States where wine-sector controls have been split up between several competent bodies.

The arrangements to be introduced for the control of concentrations should, without prejudice to Article 86(2) of the Treaty, respect the principle of non-discrimination between the public and the private sectors.

Whereas, in order better to ensure the correct and effective application of Community rules in the olive oil sector, it is advisable to entrust agencies with the task of carrying out the checks for all the Community aid paid in this sector, with the exception of export refunds;

Under the system of controls referred to in paragraph 1, an individual file shall be opened on each operators' organisation in the olive sector that has been subject to checks.

Switzerland and the Community shall notify each other of current and future laws and regulations in the wine sector that are relevant to the work of the official wine control services.

"operator" means the natural or legal person responsible for ensuring that the requirements of this Regulation are met within the food businesses or feed businesses under its control;

Whereas the scope of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1319/85 of 23 May 1985 on the reinforcement of supervision of the application of Community rules on fruit and vegetables (4) should be extended to the banana sector to permit checks that the standards laid down for bananas under that Regulation are being complied with;

The European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau will continue its directive-linked work on assessing best available technologies with a view to reducing pollution in selected industrial sectors.

For the purposes of proper management of the rules on operators' organisations in the olive sector, the Member States concerned should draw up a control plan and specify a system of penalties for any irregularities committed.

Whereas it is necessary to establish at Community level the control measures to be taken in the event of outbreaks of disease, in order to ensure rational development of the farming sector and to contribute to the protection of animal health in the Community;

Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables (5) should be applied to the processed fruit and vegetable products sector in order to avoid duplication of standards and monitoring bodies;

coordination of the gathering and dissemination of relevant or essential information in going concern and emergency situations, including the dissemination of information which is of importance for a competent authority's supervisory task under sectoral rules;

For medicinal products covered by this Sectoral Annex, each Party shall recognise the conclusions of inspections of manufacturers carried out by the relevant inspection services of the other Party and the relevant manufacturing authorisations granted by the competent authorities of the other Party.

The Committee should cooperate with the other committees in the financial sector, in particular with the Committee established by Decision 2004/10/EC, with the Banking Supervision Committee of the European System of Central Banks and with the Groupe de Contact of European banking supervisors.

whereas, under these circumstances, mixing white sugar from various sources at one place of storage should under certain conditions (in particular subject to controls) be permitted for the purposes of the advance payment of export refunds, by amending the relevant provisions on the sugar sector;

Whereas rules must be laid down for the organization of official inspections of feedingstuffs in view of the very wide range of products used, the large volume of consignments of goods commercially traded, the integrated structure of the sector and, in particular, the need to ensure both the wholesomeness of the feedingstuff to be consumed by animals and the quality of the foodstuff;

For medicinal products covered by this Sectoral Annex, each Party will recognise the conclusions of inspections of manufacturers carried out by the relevant inspection services of the other Party and the relevant manufacturing authorisations or licences granted by the competent authorities of the other Party.

if the entity is situated in a third country where there are legal impediments to the transfer of the necessary information, without prejudice to the sectoral rules regarding the obligation of competent authorities to refuse authorisation where the effective exercise of their supervisory functions is prevented;

for partial reimbursement to the commercial sector, provided that the taxes concerned are in conformity with Community law and provided that the amount of the tax paid and not reimbursed at all times respects the minimum rates of duty or monitoring charge on mineral oils as provided for in Community law;

Whereas, with a view to the uniform application of Regulation (EEC) No 1538/91, the terms 'marketing` and 'batch` should be defined in the poultrymeat sector and the special tolerances concerning the monitoring of the use of poultry carcase definitions, of presentation names and of quality categories for carcases and cuts should be amended;

Member States shall ensure that, from 1 July 1989, responsibility for drawing up the specifications referred to in Article 5, monitoring their application and granting type-approval is entrusted to a body independent of public or private undertakings offering goods and/or services in the telecommunications sector.

whereas as a result, the integrated system should comprise, in each Member State, a computerized data base, an alphanumeric identification system for agricultural parcels, aid applications from farmers, a harmonized control system and, in the livestock sector, a system for the identification and recording of animals;

One major reason for the introduction of rules coordinating procedures for the award of contracts in these sectors is the variety of ways in which national authorities can influence the behaviour of these entities, including participation in their capital and representation in the entities' administrative, managerial or supervisory bodies.

Whereas measures seeking to ensure the gradual and controlled liberalisation of the market and to secure a proper balance in the application thereof are necessary in order to guarantee, throughout the Community, and subject to the obligations and rights of the universal service providers, the free provision of services in the postal sector itself;

Any State Party which is a developing State or any natural or juridical person sponsored by it and effectively controlled by it or by another developing State which is a qualified applicant, or any group of the foregoing, may notify the Authority that it wishes to submit a plan of work pursuant to Article 6 of this Annex with respect to a reserved area.

For the various kinds of operators' organisation in the olive sector, the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 shall be those indicated in points (a), (b), (c) and (d) respectively, whereby the minimum number of members and other minimum size criteria may be increased by the Member State concerned, and those laid down, where applicable, by the competent national authorities as regards operational capacities, available means and controls on operators' organisations in the olive sector.

Whereas, in order to ensure the effective functioning of the inspection system for fishery products and to avoid distortions of competition in this sector, such detailed rules should be laid down for the fishery products covered by Council Directive 91/493/EEC of 22 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and placing on the market of fishery products (12);

Once determined, equivalence shall be applied in relation to individual or groups of sanitary measures for live animals or animal product sectors, or parts of sectors, in relation to legislation, inspection and control systems, parts of systems, or in relation to specific legislation, inspections and/or hygiene requirements.

Whereas the specific situation of workers with a fixed-duration employment relationship or a temporary employment relationship and the special nature of the risks they face in certain sectors calls for special additional rules, particularly as regards the provision of information, the training and the medical surveillance of the workers concerned;

In those situations where a State-owned company merges with or acquires control of another company controlled by the same State (21), the question arises as to whether these transactions really constitute concentrations within the meaning of Article 3 of the Merger Regulation or rather internal restructuring operations of the 'public sector group of companies` (22).

The decision to include this step should be based upon an assessment of risk, taking into account factors such as the animals or products concerned, the history of conformity with requirements by the industry sector or exporting country, the volume of product produced and imported or exported, changes in infrastructure and the nature of the inspection and certification systems.

According to the provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1608/2000 of 24 July 2000 laying down transitional measures pending the definitive measures implementing Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine(9), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2631/2000(10), Council Regulation (EEC) No 2048/89 of 19 June 1989 laying down general rules on controls in the wine sector(11) remains applicable until 30 November 2000.

To prevent misuse and to ensure that controls are effective, Commission Regulation (EC) No 659/97 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards intervention arrangements in the fruit and vegetables sector(9), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 398/2000(10), should be amended to provide that the possibility of withdrawing produce in bulk without sizing is not extended to miniature produce.

Investment in the units of a unit trust managed by the same management company or by any other company with which the management company is linked by common management or control, or by a substantial direct or indirect holding, shall be permitted only in the case of a trust which, in accordance with its rules, has specialized in investment in a specific geographical area or economic sector, and provided that such investment is authorized by the competent authorities.

The Commission Action Plan for Financial Services identifies a series of actions which are needed to complete the Single Market in Financial Services, and announces the development of supplementary prudential legislation for financial conglomerates which will address loopholes in the present sectoral legislation and additional prudential risks to ensure sound supervisory arrangements with regard to financial groups with cross-sectoral financial activities.

On the basis of a case-by-case analysis of the national and sectorial programme/project management capacity, financial control procedures and structures regarding public finance, as provided for in Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1266/1999, the Commission adopted Decision 2002/638/EC of 31 July 2002 conferring management of aid on implementing agencies for pre-accession measures in agriculture and rural development in Romania in the pre-accession period(4) with regard to certain measures provided for in Sapard.

If, at the time of the adoption of this Directive, a Member State provides for the exchange of information between authorities in order to check compliance with the laws on prudential supervision, on the organization, operation and conduct of commercial companies and on the regulation of financial markets, that Member State may continue to authorize the forwarding of such information pending coordination of all the provisions governing the exchange of information between authorities for the entire financial sector but not in any case after 1 July 1996.

by making, or cofinancing together with multilateral institutions, commercial banks or other interested sources, or participating in, loans to private sector enterprises, loans to any state-owned enterprise operating competitively and moving to participation in the market-oriented economy, and loans to any state-owned enterprise to facilitate its transition to private ownership and control; in particular to facilitate or enhance the participation of private and/or foreign capital in such enterprises;

Whereas in the field of road transport, Community social legislation is set out in Regulation (EEC) No 543/69 (5) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2829/77 (6); whereas that legislation aims at the harmonization of conditions of competition between methods of inland transport, especially with regard to the road sector and the improvement of working conditions and road safety; whereas progress made in these fields must be safeguarded and extended; whereas, however, it is necessary to make the provisions of the said Regulation more flexible without undermining their objectives;

For the purpose of this Sectoral Annex, any term, unless otherwise defined in this Agreement, has the meaning assigned to it in the "OECD Principles of good laboratory practice" as contained in Annex II of the OECD Council Decision of 12 May 1981 (C(81)30(final)), the "Guides for compliance monitoring procedures for good laboratory practice" as contained in Annex I of the OECD Council Decision - Recommendation of 2 October 1989 (C(89)87(final)), the GLP Consensus Document "The Application of the GLP Principles to Field Studies" (OECD Series on Principles of good laboratory practice and compliance monitoring, Number 6), and all amendments made thereto.

they will elaborate a system for mutual assistance between authorities responsible for ensuring compliance with Community and national provisions in the wine sector on the basis of the relevant provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2048/89 of 19 June 1989 laying down general rules on controls in the wine sector.

directive on insurance undertakings and insurance supervision, (ii) directives on securities and regulated markets, (iii) directives on undertakings for collective investments in transferable securities; strengthen the capacities of the financial sector supervision agencies,

Pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1266/1999 and Regulation (EC) No 2222/2000, the Commission analysed the national and sectorial programme/project management capacity, financial control procedures and structures regarding public finance and considers that, for the implementation of the aforementioned measures, Romania complies with the provisions of Articles 4 to 6 and of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2222/2000 and with the minimum conditions set out in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1266/1999.

Regulation (EC) No 1266/1999 provides that the ex ante approval requirement referred to in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1266/1999 may be waived on the basis of a case-by-case analysis of the national and sectorial programme/project management capacity, financial control procedures and structures regarding public finance; Commission Regulation (EC) No 2222/ 2000 ( 4 ), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2252/ 2001 ( 5 ), provides for detailed rules for the carrying out of the said analysis.