(b) develop joint initiatives relating to import, export and transit procedures and initiatives to offer an efficient service to the business community;

3) The Joint Committee shall meet once per year or at the request of either Contracting Party, alternately in either Contracting Party.

The Joint Committee shall develop cooperation and foster expert-level exchanges on new legislative or regulatory initiatives.

(3) The first formal meeting of the Standing Joint Committee shall be convened, at the initiative of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, within two months of the entry into force of this Agreement.

To this end, it may promote joint initiatives, support research and technological development and coordinate the efforts needed for the exploration and exploitation of space.

The European Economic and Social Committee underlined that action at Community level can reinforce the effect of initiatives taken by national authorities, the private sector and NGOs fn.

(ii) The Director-General, acting in response to a request by the Community or on his own initiative, shall immediately inform the Community and the States of the withdrawal of the designation of any official as an inspector for the States.

The initiative for the execution of a specific programme or project shall be given either by the Joint Committee referred to in Article 6 hereof or by individual holders or contractors of a specific development cooperation activity or project.

The initiative for the implementation of a specific programme or project shall be given either by the Joint Committee referred to in Article 6 of the present Agreement or by individual holders and providers of concrete development cooperation activities/projects.

The implementation of a specific programme or project shall be proposed either by the Joint Committee referred to in Article 6 hereof or by individual holders and providers of specific development cooperation activities/projects.

(d) the Director-General, acting in response to a request by the Community or on his own initiative, shall immediately inform the Community and the States of the withdrawal of the designation of any official as an Agency inspector for the States.

In 1988 the World Healrh Organization initiated efforts to eradicate, by the year 2000, the circulation of ""wild"" polioviruses in the population with the aim to eradicate the appearance of paralytic poliomyelitis cases as well.

European decisions relating to the common security and defence policy, including those initiating a mission as referred to in this Article, shall be adopted by the Council acting unanimously on a proposal from the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs or an initiative from a Member State.

Any Member State, the Union Minister for Foreign ­Affairs, or that Minister with the Commission's support, may refer any question relating to the common foreign and security policy to the Council and may submit to it initiatives or proposals as appropriate.

The Contracting Parties shall take individual or joint initiatives, compatible with international law trough the relevant international organisations to encourage the implementation of the provisions of this Convention and its Protocols by all the non-party states.

the Commission of the European Communities shall be responsible for the general coordination, inspection and auditing of the monitoring systems, and for taking the legislative initiatives required to ensure the uniform application of standards and requirements on the European internal market.

For the purpose of this Convention the Contracting Parties shall, subject to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph 2, encourage any initiative by territorial communities and authorities inspired by the outline arrangements between territorial communities and authorities drawn up in the Council of Europe.

The verification shall be carried out by the competent authority which would be the coordinator if the criteria set out in Article 10(2) were to apply, on the request of the parent undertaking or of any of the regulated entities authorised in the Community or on its own initiative.

(ii) encouraging a policy of active decentralization, devolving responsibility for management and decision-making to local authorities, and encouraging initiatives and the assumption of responsibility by local communities and the establishment of local structures; and

The Managing Authority shall each year consult and inform the Commission, having taken advice from the Monitoring Committee, of the initiatives taken and those to be taken, with regard to informing the general public about the role played by the Community in the Programme and its results.

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.

Regarding it to be in the common interest to capitalize on the advantages and opportunities created by the SECI Regional Center for Combating Trans-border Crime (SECI Center) and anticipating the advancement of those advantages and opportunities in a new international organization;

Where, because the common commercial policy and the Common Customs Tariff are not applied to the import of raw materials or intermediate products into Ceuta or into Melilla, imports of a product originating in Ceuta or in Melilla cause, or may cause, serious injury to a producer activity exercised in one or more Member States, the Commission, at the request of a Member State or on its own initiative, may take the appropriate measures.

Without prejudice to Article III-344, a Political and Security Committee shall monitor the international situation in the areas covered by the common foreign and security policy and contribute to the definition of policies by delivering opinions to the Council at the request of the latter, or of the Union Minister for Foreign Affairs, or on its own initiative.

In that context, the Parties shall engage in further cooperation including in relation to air operations, notably to allow the sharing of information which may have an impact on the safety of international air navigation, the participation in each other's oversight activities or conducting joint oversight activities in the field of civil aviation safety and the development of joint projects and initiatives, including with third countries.

(b) The European Community shall associate Morocco with relevant operational initiatives in the fields of air navigation services, airspace and interoperability that stem from the Single European Sky, in particular through the early involvement of Morocco` s efforts to establish functional airspace blocks, or through appropriate coordination on SESAR.

The Council shall adopt a European decision establishing the specific procedures for guaranteeing rapid access to appropriations in the Union budget for urgent financing of initiatives in the framework of the common foreign and security policy, and in particular for preparatory activities for the tasks referred to in Article I-41(1) and Article III-309. It shall act after consulting the European Parliament.

Give expression to the initiative by establishing a framework for financial support under which the Parties shall support jointly approved industrial R&D cooperation projects in the field of industrial R&D undertaken by Entities from Slovenia and Israel, for joint development and subsequent joint management and marketing of products or processes based on new innovative technologies to be commercialized in the global market (hereinafter referred to as "Projects").

After the entry into force of this Convention, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe may, on its own initiative or following a proposal from the Standing Committee and after consultation of the Parties, invite any non-member State of the Council of Europe, which has not participated in the elaboration of the Convention, as well as the European Community to accede to this Convention by a decision taken by the majority provided for in Article 20, sub-paragraph d of the Statute of the Council of Europe, and by the unanimous vote of the representatives of the contracting States entitled to sit on the Committee of Ministers.

HAVING REGARD to Framework Agreement between the European Community and the European Space Agency signed on 25 November 2003 establishing a ` framework providing a common basis and appropriate operational arrangements for an efficient and mutually efficient cooperation between the Parties with regard to space activities in accordance with their respective tasks and responsibilities and fully respective of their institutional settings and operational frameworks` and which constitutes the basis for the joint ESA and European Community initiatives,

Where a credit institution, the parent undertaking of which is a credit institution or a financial holding company, the head office of which is outside the Community, is not subject to consolidated supervision under Article 52, the competent authorities shall verify whether the credit institution is subject to consolidated supervision by a third-country competent authority which is equivalent to that governed by the principles laid down in Article 52. The verification shall be carried out by the competent authority which would be responsible for consolidated supervision if the fourth subparagraph were to apply, at the request of the parent undertaking or of any of the regulated entities authorised in the Community or on its own initiative.

HAVING REGARD to Resolution on the evolution of the Agency adopted by the ESA Council meeting at Ministerial level on 6 December 2005 (ESA/C-M/CLXXXV/Res.5 (Final)), and in particular its Chapter IV paragraph 17 whereby the Council ` NOTES the growing interest of several new Member States of the European Union in participating progressively in the Agency's programmes and to foster public interest in space exploration, and RECALLS the joint initiatives between ESA and the European Community such as Galileo and GMES which involve all these new Member States` ,

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ADDITIONAL MEASURES AND COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

SECTION 3 Additional measures and community initiatives

for the Community initiative EQUAL

The Parties shall take common initiatives within the European Communities:

"Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 7(6), the Community initiatives shall cover the following fields:".

The EAGGF Guarantee Section may also, on the initiative of the Commission, finance evaluations at Community level.

to encourage and support any initiative likely to facilitate a concerted approach to vocational training problems.

encouraging an environment favourable to initiative and to the development of undertakings throughout the Community, particularly small and medium-sized undertakings;

The Council, acting unanimously on the initiative of the Commission or a Member State, may decide to apply Article 100c of the Treaty establishing the European Community to action in areas referred to in Article K.1(1) to (6), and at the same time determine the relevant voting conditions relating to it.

The Community inspectors may not on their own initiative use the powers of inspection conferred on national agents.

The Advisory Committee shall be empowered, at the request of the Commission of the European Communities or of the Administrative Commission on its own initiative:

For Community Initiatives, innovative actions and the Peace II special programme, the limit shall be 5 % of the Structural Funds' total contribution.

For all assistance, except Community Initiatives, the Peace II special programme and innovative actions, the limit shall be the sum of the following amounts:

Every project for establishing a Joint Undertaking, whether originating from the Commission, a Member State or any other quarter, shall be the subject of an inquiry by the Commission.

The Community Committee may examine any other question raised by its Chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of a representative of a Member State.

Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be followed, matters shall be referred to the Community Committee by the Chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of the representative of a Member State.