Without limiting the scope for actions which Member States may wish to initiate, Community action may exploit synergies and economies of scale, facilitate Europe-wide action, pool resources, disseminate best practice and thereby contribute to the overall impact of Member State initiatives.

(16) Since the objective of the proposed action, namely the establishment of rules on the supplementary supervision of credit institutions, insurance undertakings and investment firms in a financial conglomerate, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale and the effects of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

DETERMINING THE COMMUNITY SCALE FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF CARCASES OF ADULT BOVINE ANIMALS

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3220/84 of 13 November 1984 determining the Community scale for grading pig carcases

information concerning coordination on a Community scale of structural policies for the fishing industry, covering:

Until 31 October 1974, the United Kingdom is authorized not to apply the Community scale of classification for pig carcases.

Council Directive 94/45/EC of 22 September 1994 on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees (OJ L 254, 30.9.1994, p. 64), as amended by Directive 97/74/EC (OJ L 10, 16.1.1998, p. 22).

whereas provision should be made for the private storage aid and the intervention scheme to be implemented on the basis of the grading scale laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1208/81 of 28 April 1981 determining the Community scale for the classification of carcases of adult bovine animals(7);

From 1 July 2002, the granting of aids for private storage may be decided, when the average Community market price recorded, on the basis of the Community scale for the classification of carcases of adult bovine animals provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1208/81 (called hereinafter "Community scale"), is, and is likely to remain, at less than 103 % of the basic price.

WHEREAS, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS THAT ARE ENTAILED BY THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMMUNITY SCALE FOR CLASSIFICATION IN THE MEMBER STATES, IT IS NECESSARY TO PROVIDE FOR ITS GRADUAL APPLICATION,

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2137/92 of 23 July 1992 concerning the Community scale for the classification of carcasses of ovine animals and determining the Community standard quality of fresh or chilled sheep carcasses and extending Regulation (EEC) No 338/91 (OJ L 214, 30.7.1992, p. 1), as amended by:

Whereas, in view of the amendments referred to above, all the rules which apply should be consolidated and Council Regulation (EEC) No 2760/75 of 29 October 1975 determining the Community scale for grading pig carcases (3) should accordingly be repealed;

THE COUNCIL, ACTING ON A PROPOSAL FROM THE COMMISSION, SHALL DECIDE BEFORE 31 MARCH 1982, IN THE LIGHT OF THE SAID REPORT, ON THE DATE FROM WHICH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MARKET PRICES AND APPLICATION OF INTERVENTION MEASURES SHALL BE EFFECTED ON THE BASIS OF THE COMMUNITY SCALE.

Before 1 August of each year a basic price shall be fixed, valid from 1 November of the same year, for meat of domestic swine in carcases or half-carcases (hereinafter called "pig carcases") of a standard quality defined with reference to a Community scale for grading pig carcases.

THE COMMISSION SHALL, BEFORE 31 DECEMBER 1981, SUBMIT TO THE COUNCIL A REPORT ON THE PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THE IMPLEMENTATION IN THE DIFFERENT MEMBER STATES OF THE COMMUNITY SCALE, PARTICULARLY AS REGARDS THE APPLICATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE SECOND SUBPARAGRAPH OF ARTICLE 3 (2).

From 1 July 2002, public intervention shall be opened if, for a period of two consecutive weeks, the average market price in a Member State or in a region of a Member State recorded on the basis of the Community scale provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1208/81 falls short of EUR 1560/t;

THIS REGULATION LAYS DOWN THE COMMUNITY CLASSIFICATION SCALE FOR THE CARCASES OF ADULT BOVINE ANIMALS.

the extent of operations, in particular the frequency of intra- and extra-Community trade, and their financial scale;

whereas, in order to achieve the highest degree of comparability, the prices for slaughtered pigs to be taken into account should be those for all important grades on the Community scale for grading pig carcases as set out in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2760/75 at the marketing stage as defined in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1229/72 and on the markets listed in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2762/75;

the average Community market price recorded on the basis of Community grading scale for the carcases of adult bovine animals is less than 84 % of the intervention price,

action at Community level would produce clear benefits by reason of its scale or effects compared with action at the level of the Member States.

The disclosure of information to and the consultation of representatives of the employees of the offeror and the offeree company should be governed by the relevant national provisions, in particular those adopted pursuant to Council Directive 94/45/EC of 22 September 1994 on the establishment of a European Works Council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees(4), Council Directive 98/59/EC of 20 July 1998 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies(5), Council Directive 2001/86/EC of 8 October 2001 supplementing the statute for a European Company with regard to the involvement of employees(6) and Directive 2002/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2002 establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community - Joint declaration of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on employee representation(7).

A smoothing process shall be applied to determine the real discount rate and the rate of annual change in the salary scales of officials of the Communities.

the development and dissemination of comparable statistical series on the scale of discrimination in the Community in accordance with national law and practices;

The above scale shall accord with that laid down by the Council of the European Communities each time remuneration is reviewed pursuant to Article 65 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the Communities.

the potential of interventions and programmes to act as a catalyst and a multiplier in order to support the strategy of gender mainstreaming on a large scale in Community interventions;

creation of an information service on agricultural markets in order to record prices and the introduction of the Community grading scale for carcases with a view to quotation comparability;

WHEREAS REGULATION (EEC) NO 1358/80 PROVIDED THAT A COMMUNITY GRADING SCALE FOR CARCASES OF ADULT BOVINE ANIMALS SHOULD BE APPLIED FOR RECORDING PRICES AND FOR INTERVENTION IN THE BEEF AND VEAL SECTOR;

Given the scale and impact of the action proposed in the sector in question, the Community measures which are the subject of this Directive are necessary, or even indispensable, to attain the objective set, namely Community vehicle type-approval;

Community fishing vessels fishing for squid (Martialia hyadesi) in FAO statistical subarea 48.3 shall transmit to the Commission, by 25 September each year, the fine-scale catch and effort data for that fishery.

Article 68 shall apply to the guaranteed prices in Spain and to the intervention purchasing prices in the Community, as at present constituted, valid for comparable qualities determined on the basis of the Community grading scale for carcases of adult bovine animals.

In cases where expenditure is not charged to the budget of the European Communities it shall be charged to the Member States in accordance with the gross national product scale, unless the Council acting unanimously decides otherwise.

In the beef and veal sector, Articles 240, 285 and 287 shall apply to the intervention purchasing prices in Portugal and in the Community as at present constituted, valid for comparable qualities determined on the basis of the Community grading scale for carcases of adult bovine animals.

In Article 4 (2) of Council Decision 85/257/EEC, Euratom of 7 May 1985 on the Communities' system of own resources, the words 'the level and scale of funding of which will be fixed pursuant to a decision of the Council acting unanimously" shall be replaced by the words 'the level and scale of funding of which shall be fixed pursuant to a decision of the Council acting by a qualified majority after obtaining the agreement of the Member States concerned'.

Competition will give them the opportunity to make full use of technological development and to accelerate it, and encouraging them to restructure and reach the necessary economies of scale to become competitive not only on the Community market, but worldwide.

Community fishing vessels that have participated in krill fisheries in the Convention area shall transmit, by 1 January each year to the competent authorities of the Member State whose flag they fly, the fine-scale catch and effort data for the previous fishing season.

Since the objectives of the proposed action cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale or effects of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

Whereas, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, the creation of common statistical standards enabling harmonised information to be produced is a proposed action the objectives of which can, by reason of its scale or effects be better achieved by the Community;