In the context of the establishment and functioning of the internal market, European laws or framework laws shall establish measures for the creation of European intellectual property rights to provide uniform intellectual property rights protection throughout the Union and for the setting up of centralised Union-wide authorisation, coordination and supervision arrangements.

In order to supervise the implementation of this Agreement, to examine all measures taken under this Agreement and their conformity therewith, and to take the actions specifically required of it by this Agreement, the Textiles Monitoring Body ("TMB") is hereby established.

Any unilateral measure taken under Article 3 of the MFA prior to the date of entry into force of the WTO Agreement may remain in effect for the duration specified therein, but not exceeding 12 months, if it has been reviewed by the Textiles Surveillance Body (referred to in this Agreement as the "TSB") established under the MFA.

For the purpose of this Protocol, the Republic of Slovenia agrees to take appropriate measures, in consultation with the Commission of the European Communities, to maintain or complete the take-over of Community law, in particular in the fields of standardisation, metrology, accreditation, conformity assessment, market surveillance, general safety of products and producer liability.

(3) 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.

In other cases, a possible remedy could be the divestiture of minority shareholdings or the elimination of interlocking directorates in order to increase the incentives for competing on the market(28).

The Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that feeding-stuffs put on the market are officially controlled, at least by check sampling, to verify whether the conditions laid down in this Directive are satisfied.

Member States shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that measuring instruments that are subject to legal metrological control but do not comply with applicable provisions of this Directive are neither placed on the market nor put into use.

Whereas the emergence of new overcapacity must be kept in check effectively in every branch of the inland waterway transport market;

Nothing in these provisions shall affect the right of Member States to take such measures as they consider necessary for the purpose of controlling immigration from third countries, and to combat terrorism, crime, the traffic in drugs and illicit trading in works of art and antiques.

Using in particular geographical proximity as the criterion, the third countries to which exports can be sent in the context of regional trade from the French overseas departments and the Azores and Madeira should be established, and the appropriate measures for monitoring such operations and applying the penalties required should be laid down.

aid measures which prior to the date of accession were assessed by the State aid monitoring authority of the new Member State and found to be compatible with the acquis, and to which the Commission did not raise an objection on the ground of serious doubts as to the compatibility of the measure with the common market, pursuant to the procedure set out in paragraph 2.

In accordance with Article 44(2)(g) of the Treaty, it is necessary to coordinate certain safeguards which, for the protection of the interests of members and others, Member States require of companies governed by the law of a Member State the securities of which are admitted to trading on a regulated market in a Member State, with a view to making such safeguards equivalent throughout the Community.

(6) The measures set out in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Telecommunications Conformity Assessment and Market Surveillance Committee,

whereas this threat is liable to increase in the light of the measures taken to control markets more effectively and to adapt production to requirements;

continue alignment of legislation and take steps to ensure effective implementation of the Consumer Protection Act, in particular through an independent and efficient market surveillance mechanism.

The Decision also includes specific control measures such as movement restrictions on live poultry, hatching and table eggs for intra-Community trade.

Develop a functioning land register, animal identification systems, plant passport systems and the improvement of administrative structures in order to monitor the agricultural markets and implement environmental, structural and rural development measures.

National regulatory authorities may apply to such undertakings appropriate retail price cap measures, measures to control individual tariffs, or measures to orient tariffs towards costs or prices on comparable markets, in order to protect end-user interests whilst promoting effective competition.

- reinforce common agricultural policy management mechanisms and administrative structures (monitor agricultural markets and implement structural and rural development measures, set up bodies and control mechanisms),

demand reduction, in particular through analysis of local patterns, the introduction of measures to control trade in and consumption of narcotics and psycho-tropic substances, treatment and reintegration of drug addicts, as well as risk limitation.

Complete alignment of veterinary and phytosanitary legislation in order to enforce internal market control systems and imports from third countries fully and effectively; continue to implement veterinary, phytosanitary and food safety legislation, including animal disease control measures.

reinforce common agricultural policy management mechanisms and administrative structures (monitor agricultural markets and implement structural and rural development measures, set up bodies and control mechanisms),

it is now urgent to prohibit rapidly the placing on the market of toys and childcare articles intended to be placed in the mouth by children under three years, because it has now become evident that there is no other effective control measure currently available for regulatory purposes;

This Regulation lays down the measures to be taken to monitor trade between the Community and third countries in substances frequently used for the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for the purpose of preventing the diversion of such substances.

Whereas such a register is needed if vital information is to be obtained on production potential and trends, in order to ensure the proper functioning of the common organization of the market in wine, and in particular of the Community arrangements on intervention and planting, and monitoring measures;

(8) According to the Stockholm European Council, Level 2 implementing measures should be used more frequently, to ensure that technical provisions can be kept up to date with market and supervisory developments, and deadlines should be set for all stages of Level 2 work.

The Chinese exporters/traders claimed that it was very unlikely that exports of fluorspar to the Community would increase if measures were repealed given the increase in domestic consumption and the controls imposed by the Chinese authorities to production and production capacity.

This Agreement sets out measures to strengthen administrative cooperation between the Contracting Parties to prevent the diversion of controlled substances frequently used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, without prejudice to the recognition of the legitimate interests of trade and industry.

Expenditure relating to the payment of the Community withdrawal compensation and to Community financing of the operational fund, the specific measures referred to in Article 17 and Articles 53, 54 and 55 and checks by experts of the Member States made available to the Commission in application of Article 40 (1) shall be deemed to be intervention to stabilize the agricultural markets within the meaning of point (b) of Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70.

(3) Using in particular geographical proximity as the criterion, the third countries to which exports can be sent in the context of regional trade from the French overseas departments and the Azores and Madeira should be established, and the appropriate measures for monitoring such operations and applying the penalties required should be laid down.

It is imperative, for the purpose of monitoring the implementation of Title II of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 and of the proper management of the market, that the Commission has available the appropriate data as to production potential, including planting rights, and details of measures taken by Member States in implementation of that Title.

Whereas the Government of the Polish People's Republic has, furthermore, stated that it is prepared to communicate regularly to the Commission, through the State foreign trade agency Animex, details of exports of live swine and pig carcases to the Community and to enable the Commission to exercise continuous supervision of the effectiveness of the measures it has taken;

whereas if surveillance measures are requested on the grounds that imports may lead in a Member State to economic difficulties, the reality of such danger should be assessed in the light of deflections of trade observed in the past and the level of the import opportunities granted by the Community to the third country in question;

Whereas the competent authorities of the Hungarian People's Republic have, furthermore, stated that they are prepared to communicate regularly to the Commission, through the foreign trade agency Terimpex, details of exports to the Community of pig carcases and of cuts of pigmeat and to enable the Commission to exercise continuous supervision of the effectiveness of the measures they have taken;

Acting in liaison with the Commission, Member States shall take all appropriate measures to establish direct cooperation and exchange of information between competent authorities, in particular to eliminate the risk that possible disparities in the application of export controls to dual-use items may lead to a deflection of trade, which could create difficulties for one or more Member States.

2. The United States and the European Union reaffirm their support for appropriately strengthening nuclear non-proliferation measures on a worldwide basis, their commitment increasingly to open peaceful nuclear trade and technology for States that abide by accepted international non-proliferation rules and their opposition to controls that unfairly burden legitimate commerce and unduly restrain worldwide growth and opportunity in the peaceful nuclear area.

The Commission should periodically examine the manner in which this Directive is applied and the results obtained, in particular in relation to the functioning of market surveillance systems, the rapid exchange of information and measures adopted at Community level, together with other issues relevant for consumer product safety in the Community, and submit regular reports to the European Parliament and the Council on the subject.

(10) Member States should take adequate and effective steps to ensure control of the implementation of measures adopted pursuant to this Directive in compliance with their national legislation, as provided for in Commission Communication to the European Parliament and the Council on the role of penalties in implementing Community Internal Market legislation and in the Council Resolution of 29 June 1995 on the effective uniform application of Community law and on the penalties applicable for breaches of Community law in the Internal Market fn.

Whereas, pending the introduction of definitive Community arrangements for the control of foot-and-mouth disease and without prejudice to the final solution to be adopted, it is appropriate that the Community measures provided for in Articles 4a and 4b of Directive 64/432/EEC and in Article 13 of Directive 72/461/EEC be retained for an additional period as an interim protective measure in order to maintain traditional trade flows,

(1) Council Directive 92/40/EEC of 19 May 1992 introducing Community measures for the control of avian influenza fn, as amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, sets out the minimum control measures to be applied in the event of an outbreak of avian influenza in poultry, without prejudice to Community provisions governing intra-Community trade.

Whereas the Agreement negotiated between the European Community and the Republic of Bulgaria on the reciprocal protection and control of wine names will help make measures to eliminate unfair competition in trade more effective, ensure a greater degree of consumer protection and promote trade in wine between the Contracting Parties; whereas it is therefore desirable to approve the said Agreement;

In the context of the Protocol between the European Economic Community and Romania on trade in textile and clothing products, initialled on 30 April 1993, the Parties agreed that Articles 7 and 8 of the Protocol do not preclude the Community, if the conditions are fulfilled, from applying the surveillance system or the safeguard measures for one or more of its regions in conformity with the principles of the internal market.

whereas, in this regard, account should be taken of the progress made in the Community as regards both the adoption of rules concerning live animals and animal products from third countries and the harmonization of measures to control foot-and-mouth disease and swine fever, specifically Council Directive 90/423/EEC of 26 June 1990 amending Directive 85/511/EEC introducing Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease, Directive 64/432/EEC on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine and Directive 72/462/EEC on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine animals and swine and fresh meat or meat products from third countries (7) and Council Directive 91/685/EEC of 11 December 1991 amending Directive 80/217/EEC introducing Community measures for the control of classical swine fever (8);

To permit any necessary adjustments to the arrangements for monitoring trade in scheduled substances between the Community and third countries, the competent authorities in each Member State shall each year communicate to the Commission all relevant information on the implementation of the monitoring measures laid down in this Regulation, in particular as regards substances used for the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances and methods of diversion and illicit manufacture.

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. As a result, the new implementing rules should enter into force on 1 December 2000.

The report shall in particular include information on the safety of consumer products, in particular on improved traceability of products, the functioning of market surveillance, standardisation work, the functioning of RAPEX and Community measures taken on the basis of Article 13. To this end the Commission shall conduct assessments of the relevant issues, in particular the approaches, systems and practices put in place in the Member States, in the light of the requirements of this Directive and the other Community legislation relating to product safety.

Whereas the provision by governments (or special institutions controlled by governments) of export credit guarantee or insurance programmes at premium rates which are inadequate to cover the long-term operating costs and losses of the programmes are classified as prohibited export subsidies in the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures concluded in the framework of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (1986 to 1994)(1), in particular under Article 3(l)(a) and paragraph (j) of Annex I thereto;

Council Directive 90/423/EEC of 26 June 1990 amending Directive 8 5/511/EEC introducing Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease, Directive 64/432/EEC on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine and Directive 72/462/EEC on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine animals and swine and fresh meat or meat products from third countries (OJ L 224,18.8.1990, p. 13)

The detailed arrangements for implementing this Agreement, including possible surveillance measures, shall be adopted, as appropriate, in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 33 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 of the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables (1) or in accordance with the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 1981/94 of 25 July 1994 opening and providing for the administration of Community tariff quotas for certain products originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, the Occupied Territories, Tunisia and Turkey, and providing detailed rules for extending and adapting these tariff quotas (2).