Whereas provision should be made for the possibility of discussing and examining the measures taken by the Member States to ban such products or withdraw them from the market, so as to ensure uniform application throughout the Community of the principles embodied in this Directive;

Meat that has been judged to comply with the hygiene and health inspection requirements laid down by this Directive must be marked with a stamp showing the administrative district of the health unit responsible for the establishment of origin.

THERE SHALL BE ADOPTED , IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURE LAID DOWN IN ARTICLE 29 , THE IMPLEMENTING RULES NECESSARY TO ENSURE THAT THE INSPECTIONS REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH 1 ARE CARRIED OUT IN A UNIFORM WAY , PARTICULARLY AS REGARDS THE APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 20 , AND MORE PARTICULARLY THE METHODS OF ANALYSIS , AND SAMPLING INTERVALS AND STANDARDS.

A single new Regulation containing all autonomous trade preferences would give greater transparency to the Community trade regime with countries and territories participating in or linked to the EU Stabilisation and Association process.

For the proper functioning of the system of veterinary checks in the single market all the information pertaining to a product should be brought together in a single document with a uniform design to reduce problems of differences of language in different Member States.

There shall be adopted, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 29, the implementing rules necessary to ensure that the inspections referred to in paragraph 1 are carried out in a uniform way, particularly as regards the application of Article 20, and more particularly the methods of analysis and sampling intervals and standards.

On-the-spot checks shall cover all the agricultural parcels for which aid is requested under aid schemes listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, except those related to applications for seed aid in accordance with Article 99 of that Regulation.

-any other information, such as the origin, nature and quantities of ingredients, additives and manufacturing aids delivered to the unit and the composition of processed products, that is required by the inspection body for the purposes of proper inspection of the operations.

The review reports are required for the proper implementation by the Member States, of several sections of the uniform principles laid down in the Directive, where those principles refer to the evaluation of the data which were submitted for the purpose of the inclusion of the active substances in Annex I to the Directive.

Airports with at least 1500000 passenger units per year shall transmit all tables listed in Annex I, but may, according to the terms of Article 3(5), benefit from a complete or partial derogation on table B1, in year 2003 only.

The review report is required for the proper implementation by the Member States, of several sections of the uniform principles laid down in Annex VI to the Directive which refer to the evaluation of the data which were submitted for the purpose of the inclusion of the active substance in Annex I to the Directive.

The national insurers' bureaux reviewed and unified the texts of the Supplementary Agreements and replaced them by a single agreement (the Multilateral Guarantee Agreement) signed in Madrid on 15 March 1991, in accordance with the principles laid down in Article 2(2) of Directive 72/166/EEC.

Whereas, furthermore, it seems appropriate to define more precisely the official checks to be applied to the processing of hops and hop products, in order to ensure a more efficient and uniform procedure of certification and in supervising of the respective Regulations by the Member States of the Community;

For the purposes of establishing and implementing the budget, the four fundamental principles of budgetary law (unity, universality, specification, annuality), and the principles of equilibrium, unit of account, sound financial management and transparency must be reasserted.

Airports with more than 150000 passenger units and less than 1500000 passenger units per year shall transmit all tables listed in Annex I, but may, according to the terms of Article 3(4), benefit from complete or partial derogations until year 2003, 2004 or 2005,

In its supplementary report to the Council on the application of Regulation (EEC) No 386/90(8), the Commission stated its intention to define precisely the term "physical check" as used in Article 2(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 386/90, in order to achieve uniform application of the Community rules in the Member States.

Commission experts may, in cooperation with the responsible official bodies of the Member States, make on-the-spot checks in so far as this is necessary to ensure the uniform application of this Directive, and in particular to verify whether suppliers are in effect complying with the requirements of this Directive.

Commission Decision of 3 July 2003 amending Decisions 2001/881/EC drawing up a list of border inspection posts agreed for veterinary checks on animals and animal products from third countries, and 2002/459/EC listing the units in the ANIMO computer network

Whereas rationalization at the level of each Member State and harmonization at Community level of the units of tonnage measurement are amongst the conditions for the effective implementation of the multiannual guidance programmes for the period 1993-1996, under the transparent conditions which are needed for supervising compliance with the objectives;

At present, it is not advisable to apply the principle of uniform charges for paper cheques as by nature they cannot be processed as efficiently as the other means of payment, in particular electronic payments. However, the principle of transparent charges should also apply to cheques.

The review report is required for the proper implementation by the Member States, of several sections of the uniform principles laid down in Annex VI to the Directive, where those principles refer to the evaluation of the data which were submitted for the purpose of the inclusion of the active substance in Annex I to the Directive.

For livestock meat production Member States shall ensure, without prejudice to the provisions of Annex III, that the inspections relate to all stages of production, slaughter, cutting and any other preparation up to the sale to the consumer to ensure as far as technically possible the traceability of livestock products through the production, processing and any other preparation chain from the unit of production of the livestock until the unit of final packaging and/or labelling.

If after examination of these criteria or following the checks carried out in accordance with Article 12, the Commission considers that the criteria adopted might jeopardize the uniform application of this Directive, such criteria may be amended or supplemented, for the first time before 1 January 1993, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 20.

The establishment and implementation of the budget of the Community body (hereinafter referred to as "the budget") shall comply with the principles of unity and budget accuracy, annuality, equilibrium, unit of account, universality, specification, sound financial management and transparency as provided for in this Regulation.

With a view to a uniform, transparent and simple application of the State aid rules, the market rates for the purposes of this Regulation should be deemed to be the reference rates, provided that, in the case of a soft loan, the loan is backed by normal security and does not involve abnormal risk.

Whereas in its resolution of 9 June 1983 (5) concerning, inter alia, the passport union and the suppression of individual controls at Community frontiers, the European Parliament urged the Council and the Commission to make further proposals particularly with a view to harmonization of visa policies and legislation concerning foreigners;

Every five years the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, shall examine and, if need be, revise the amounts expressed in this Article in European units of account in the light of economic and monetary trends in the Community and of the tendency towards allowing only large and medium-sized undertakings to opt for the types of company listed in Article 1 (1).

The nature and frequency of the checks and inspections on the spot to be carried out by the Member States and the procedure for performing them shall be determined as necessary by sectoral rules in such a way as to ensure uniform and effective application of the relevant rules and in particular to prevent and detect irregularities.

Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products(4) codified and consolidated previous Community legislation on veterinary medicinal products in a single text in the interests of clarity and rationalisation.

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The number of prepackages checked shall be equal to the number in the sample, as indicated in the plan: - if the number of defective units found in the sample is less than or equal to the criterion for acceptance, the batch of prepackages shall be considered acceptable for the purpose of this check;

Without prejudice to Article 15, and insofar as necessary for the uniform application of the requirements of this Directive, Commission and Member State experts may carry out on-the-spot inspections, in cooperation with the competent national authorities, to verify that the provisions of this Directive, and in particular Articles 4, 5, 7, 11 and 12, are being applied.

In order to ensure transparency on the world market, account should be taken of the recent modifications of the standard for sweet peppers recommended by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, which stipulates that packages containing peppers of different colours shall not necessarily contain the same number of sweet peppers of each colour provided packages show an appropriate marking.

Whereas, in order to guarantee the necessary uniformity and transparency, the Community should define a model for a single national boatmasters' certificate, mutually recognized by the Member States with no exchange obligation, responsibility for the granting of which would, in accordance with the subsidiarity principle, lie with the Member States;

In order to ensure uniform application of Regulation (EEC) No 1907/90, and in particular the provisions concerning inspections, including the special arrangements for monitoring the use of the laying date and indications of particular types of poultry rearing, the poultry feed used and the origin of eggs, there must be a continuous exchange of information between the Member States and the Commission.

Where all or part of the commercial documents required to be scrutinized pursuant to this Regulation are located with an undertaking in the same commercial group, partnership or association of undertakings managed on a unified basis as the undertaking scrutinized, whether located inside or outside Community territory, the undertaking shall make available these commercial documents to officials responsible for the scrutiny, at a place and time to be determined by the Member States responsible for carrying out the scrutiny.`;

Acting in conjunction with the competent national authorities, the Commission shall inspect the border inspection posts designated in accordance with paragraph 3 in order to satisfy itself that there is uniform application of the rules on veterinary checks and that the various border inspection posts in fact possess the necessary infrastructures and meet the minimum requirements laid down in Annex A.

between the agricultural parcels as declared in the single application and plots subjected to official examination that have been found to comply with the requirements of the Directives referred to in Article 1(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1674/72 of 2 August 1972 laying down general rules for granting and financing aid for seed(18);

In the case of products in quantities expressed in units of volume, one of several methods of meeting the measuring and checking requirements is to use, when making up the prepackage, a measuring container of the type defined in the Directive relating thereto, filled under the conditions prescribed in that Directive and herein.

3.Where the competent authority has already informed the farmer of irregularities in the single application or where it has given notice to the farmer of its intention to carry out an on-the-spot check and where that on-the-spot check reveals irregularities, amendments in accordance with paragraphs 1 shall not be authorised in respect of the agricultural parcels affected by the irregularities.

Whereas it is appropriate to undertake the same inspections in respect of fresh meat intended for trade on the internal market of each Member State in order to guarantee free movement inside the Community as well as in order to avoid distortions of competition for products subject to the common organization of the market whilst assuring, at the same time, uniform conditions of health protection to consumers;

The list of border inspection posts for veterinary checks on live animals and animal products from third countries, approved by Commission Decision 2001/881/EC(3) which includes the Animo unit number for every border inspection post, should be updated to take account in particular of developments in certain Member States and of Community inspections.

A border inspection post consists of facilities dedicated to veterinary checks, placed under the responsibility of the official veterinarian, or in the case of fishery products either the official veterinarian or the official agent referred to in Commission Decision 93/352/EEC(3), and localised in a manner so that the facilities constitute one complete working unit.

Acting in accordance with the procedures referred to in Articles 50(2) and 48(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999, the Commission shall approve any amendments to rural development programming documents, financial table annexed to the decision referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 48(1) and rural development measures included in single programming documents under Objective 2 financed by the EAGGF Guarantee Section whenever they have a bearing on:

-the nature, quantities and consignees of products as referred to in Article 1 which have left the unit, -any other information, such as the origin, nature and quantities of ingredients, additives and manufacturing aids delivered to the unit and the composition of processed products, that is required by the inspection body for the purposes of proper inspection of the operations.

the institution's board of directors and senior management are actively involved in the risk-control process and the daily reports produced by the risk-control unit are reviewed by a level of management with sufficient authority to enforce both reductions of positions taken by individual traders as well as in the institution's overall risk exposure;

Commission Decision 2002/986/EC of 13 December 2002 amending Decisions 2001/881/EC drawing up a list of border inspection posts approved for veterinary checks on animals and animal products from third countries, and 2002/459/EC listing the units in the ANIMO computer network(3), as corrected by OJ L 4, 9.1.2003, p. 24, is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

Whereas Council Directive 91/296/EEC of 31 May 1991 on the transit of natural gas through grids (4) and Council Directive 90/377/EEC of 29 June 1990 concerning a Community procedure to improve the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users (5) constitute a first phase of the completion of the internal market in natural gas;

Projects will address the main barriers hampering the development of a single market in public sector information, such as the possible need for common standards (for example in collecting methods), or the need for transparent pricing for public information access and use in the various Member States.

In order to achieve the objective of the Contracting Parties to arrive at as uniform an application and interpretation as possible of the provisions referred to in Article 2, the Mixed Committee shall keep under constant review the development of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, hereinafter referred to as the "Court of Justice", as well as the development of the case law of the competent courts of Iceland and Norway relating to such provisions.