Vertaling van "Official observation the signing documents " (Engels → Nederlands) :

19. Takes the view that, in the pre-electoral period, following meetings with candidates and electoral commission officials, observers should be able to meet other groups in the country in which the elections are being held;

17. Takes the view that, in the pre-electoral period, following meetings with candidates and electoral commission officials, observers should be able to meet other groups in the country in which the elections are being held;

2. The Council recalls that the initial findings of the EU Election Observer Mission and reports from other independent observers, notably from the Commonwealth, the International Republican Institute, the East African Community and a number of domestic observer groups, cast serious doubts on the official results of the presidential elections.

This document defines the preconditions that must be met for the EU to send electoral observers, namely the respect of certain minimum democratic standards in the country concerned (e.g. genuinely universal franchise, respect of legitimate right of candidates to take part in the election, freedom of expression and access to media for all candidates) and the fulfilment of certain conditions concerning the work undertaken by the observers (e.g. need for a request for observers by the legitimate government with the support of all main parties, freedom of acc ...[+++]ess of observers to all parties and to all polls and counting centers and freedom of movement for observers throughout the country, etc.).

At the close of its discussions the Council adopted the following conclusions: "THE COUNCIL - REITERATES that in its Resolution of 7 February 1994 it invited the Commission to propose, before 1 July 1994, the measures necessary for the realization of the objectives identified, with a view to implementing without delay a Community policy on postal services, and in particular measures relating to universal service, services which can be reserved, and standardization; - NOTES that on 26 July 1995 the Commission accordingly adopted an overall approach consisting of the abovementioned draft Notice and a proposal for a Directive based on Article 100a, providing for a harmonized framework for the postal sector; - EMPHASIZES that the relevant Cou ...[+++]ncil bodies began the technical discussions without delay and that today the Council had an initial policy debate on the proposal for a Directive and a debate on the draft Notice; - AGREES to continue active discussion of the proposal for a Directive in order to arrive at an agreed common position under the auspices of the Italian Presidency; - OBSERVES that the Notice envisaged by the Commission is not in itself binding but is a document in which it announces the guidelines it intends to follow in applying the Treaty's competition rules to the postal sector; - REQUESTS the Commission, in any follow-up to its draft Notice, to take the utmost account of the Council's comments, especially on the need to ensure, for the sake of transparency and legal certainty, that: - the definitions and concepts used in the Notice, in the proposal for a Directive or in other relevant Community provisions are consistent with one another; - the notice is published in the Official Journal at the same time as the Directive and in any case before the end of 1996; - EMPHASIZES that these conclusions are without prejudice to the positions of the Member States on the form and content of the Commission Notice".

MUTUAL RECOGNITION OF AERONAUTICAL PRODUCTS - COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS "The Council, Having regard to the Treaty and to the case law of the Court of Justice and pointing out that Regulation No 3922/91 [13] provides that each Member State has an obligation to recognize aviation products certified by another Member State and specifies the arrangements, Whereas procedures to ensure, in accordance with Council Regulation No 3922/91 on the harmonization of the technical requirements and administrative procedures in the field of civil aviation, ...[+++]the acceptance of products by each of the Member States must, with due regard for national law, be simplified as far as possible in order to reduce costs to the aviation industry and airlines; Whereas such simplification ought to be possible as a result of the work under way within the JAA [14] aimed at setting up a unified technical survey for demonstrating the conformity of aviation products and taking official note of the results of such a survey; Whereas the establishment of a clear official record of the results of a unified technical survey is also a major asset in having European products accepted by non-Union countries; Whereas the studies in progress on the common certification of aviation products undertaken in accordance with the Council Resolution of 24 October 1994 [15] must be accelerated, NOTES THAT: - significant progress has been made over the past two years in the development of JAR [16] technical standards and administrative procedures to serve as a basis for mutual acceptance; - the common administrative procedures are at an advanced stage of development within the JAA, but have not yet been established for the full range of aviation products, which means that Article 6(1) of Regulation No 3922/91 cannot be fully applied; - the procedures already followed within the JAA enable the completion of a technical survey on an aviation product to be officially established by the publication of a single "type acceptance" ...