Modifications to the existing tasks, and the introduction of new ones, have put the EU regulatory system in a better position to ensure that safe and effective medicines, as well as adequate information about them, are available to European patients.

The Parties shall adopt regulatory measures allowing full use of GALILEO, in particular of receivers and ground and space components, in the territories falling within their jurisdiction.

GALILEO-related sensitive technologies and items under export control and non-proliferation regulatory measures applicable in the European Community or its Member States,

Development and initiation of implementation by the Technical Working Groups of action plans for addressing aspects of health sector policy (including, but not limited to, health care financing, health sector capacity planning, institutional management, public health care network modernization, and diagnostic and therapeutic standards development); all based on an analysis of present regulatory, technical and institutional aspects, reform options, and international experience and best practice and with a view to devising, launching and implementing said action plans.

Administrative charges may be imposed on providers of electronic communications services in order to finance the activities of the national regulatory authority in managing the authorisation system and for the granting of rights of use.

National regulatory authorities shall ensure that, where implementation of a cost accounting system is mandated in order to support price controls, a description of the cost accounting system is made publicly available, showing at least the main categories under which costs are grouped and the rules used for the allocation of costs.

Where a national regulatory authority imposes obligations to implement a cost accounting system in order to support price controls, it may itself undertake an annual audit to ensure compliance with that cost accounting system, provided that it has the necessary qualified staff, or it may require the audit to be carried out by another qualified body, independent of the operator concerned.

A national regulatory authority may, in accordance with the provisions of Article 8, impose obligations relating to cost recovery and price controls, including obligations for cost orientation of prices and obligations concerning cost accounting systems, for the provision of specific types of interconnection and/or access, in situations where a market analysis indicates that a lack of effective competition means that the operator concerned might sustain prices at an excessively high level, or apply a price squeeze, to the detriment of end-users.

It is considered necessary to ensure the continued application of the existing provisions relating to the minimum set of leased line services in Community telecommunications legislation, in particular in Council Directive 92/44/EEC of 5 June 1992 on the application of open network provision to leased lines(6), until such time as national regulatory authorities determine, in accordance with the market analysis procedures laid down in Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (Framework Directive)(7), that such provisions are no longer needed because a sufficiently competitive market has developed in their territory.

In order to ensure continuity of existing agreements and to avoid a legal vacuum, it is necessary to ensure that obligations for access and interconnection imposed under Articles 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, and 14 of Directive 97/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 1997 on interconnection in telecommunications with regard to ensuring universal service and interoperability through application of the principles of open network provision (ONP)(8), obligations on special access imposed under Article 16 of Directive 98/10/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 1998 on the application of open network provision (ONP) to voice telephony and on universal service for telecommunications in a competitive environment(9), and obligations concerning the provision of leased line transmission capacity under Council Directive 92/44/EEC of 5 June 1992 on the application of open network provision to leased lines(10), are initially carried over into the new regulatory framework, but are subject to immediate review in the light of prevailing market conditions.

It seems desirable, in the interest of administrative simplification, to work towards a single regulatory system for proof of origin in respect of imports of textile and clothing products from all countries.

The Chinese government introduced in 1994 a regulatory system consisting of an annual export quota combined with an export licence fee that covered a number of minerals including fluorspar.

Comparative analysis of markets and regulatory systems

Such schemes shall be subject to the approval of the regulatory authorities.

whereas a regulatory regime aimed at the development of a single market for radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment should permit investment, manufacture and sale to take place at the pace of technology and market developments;

Such a scheme shall be subject to approval by the regulators of the Member States concerned.

National regulatory authorities may require that specific schemes be modified or withdrawn.

(b) to improve accounting and supervisory and regulatory systems of banking, insurance and other financial sectors in Jordan.

National regulatory authorities are to keep available, with an adequate level of detail, information on the cost accounting systems applied by such undertakings.

(5) The ECB attaches great importance to enhancing the transparency of the regulatory framework of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) even in the absence of an obligation to do so under the Treaty establishing the European Community.

the organisation of seminars aiming to inform regulatory/designating authorities and conformity assessment bodies on each Party's regulatory system, procedures and requirements;

National regulatory authorities shall, on request, submit information to the Commission concerning the retail controls applied and, where appropriate, the cost accounting systems used by the undertakings concerned.

To this end, national regulatory authorities are to ensure that undertakings identified as having significant market power pursuant to Article 18(1) formulate and put in practice a suitable cost accounting system.

National regulatory authorities shall ensure that, where an undertaking is subject to retail tariff regulation or other relevant retail controls, the necessary and appropriate cost accounting systems are implemented.

National regulatory authorities should be able systematically to collect information on the quality of services offered in their territories on the basis of criteria which allow comparability between service providers and between Member States.

However, as regards the occupational pensions field, while the Committee should consider regulatory and supervisory aspects relating to such arrangements, it should not address labour and social law aspects, such as the organisation of occupational regimes, and in particular, issues relating to compulsory membership (affiliation) or the results of collective bargaining agreements.

(5) In its Conclusions, the Energy Council of 30 May 2000 invited the Commission, Member States and national regulatory auhorities and administrations to ensure timely implementation of congestion management measures and, in liaison with the European Transmission System Operators (ETSO), rapid introduction of a robust tarification system for the longer term which provides the appropriate cost allocation signals to market participants.

In principle a forward-looking approach based on current costs fn will foster fair and sustainable competition and provide alternative investment incentives; however, if this could result in distortions of competition in the short term, for example where the notified operator's end user tariffs remain unbalanced on the basis of current costs, then it is recommended that the national regulatory authority, following the procedure of point 5, specify the reasonable time period necessary for the gradual adjustment to current costs of the price of local loops, while keeping consistency with the cost system used when regulating retail services.

It is considered necessary to ensure the continued application of the existing provisions relating to the minimum set of leased line services in Community telecommunications legislation, in particular in Council Directive 92/44/EEC of 5 June 1992 on the application of open network provision to leased lines fn, until such time as national regulatory authorities determine, in accordance with the market analysis procedures laid down in Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 March 2002 on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (Framework Directive) fn, that such provisions are no longer needed because a sufficiently competitive market has developed in their territory.

On request, detailed accounting information arising from these systems shall be made available in confidence to the national regulatory authority and to the Commission.

This process has been completed and has shown that both regulatory systems basically provide equivalent safeguards against public health risks.

The ECB attaches great importance to enhancing the transparency of the regulatory framework of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) even in the absence of an obligation to do so under the Treaty establishing the European Community.

National regulatory authorities shall ensure that compliance with one of the cost accounting systems described in paragraphs 3 or 4 is verified by a competent body which is independent of the universal service provider.

The national regulatory authority shall keep available, to an adequate level of detail, information on the cost accounting systems applied by a universal service provider, and shall submit such information to the Commission on request.

All pulp and paper production sites shall have a system for handling waste (as defined by the relevant regulatory authorities of the pulp and paper production sites in question) and residual products arising from the production of the eco-labelled product.

Any failure, malfunction or defect of any system or equipment, or damage or deterioration thereof found as a result of compliance with an airworthiness directive or other mandatory instruction issued by a regulatory authority, when:

Any party having a complaint against a transmission, LNG or distribution system operator with respect to the issues mentioned in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 and in Article 19 may refer the complaint to the regulatory authority which, acting as dispute settlement authority, shall issue a decision within two months after receipt of the complaint.

Regulatory authorities shall have the authority to require transmission, LNG and distribution system operators, if necessary, to modify the terms and conditions, including tariffs and methodologies referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3, to ensure that they are proportionate and applied in a non-discriminatory manner.

In addition, the Agency will collaborate fully and work with the Member States ’ veterinary regulatory authorities in the European Surveillance System to foster a joint approach to optimising efficiency in EU veterinary pharmacovigilance for all medicinal products authorised in the Community.

The offering by satellite operators of space segment capacity of national, private or international satellite systems to licensed satellite earth station network operators, is still, in some Member States, subject to regulatory restrictions other than those compatible with frequency and site coordination arrangements required under the international commitments of Member States.

encourage any measure aimed at improving convergence and compatibility between the respective system of the Parties in the abovementioned areas, including transparency, good regulatory practices and the promotion of quality standards for products and business practices.