Translation of "Gemeinschaftliche regelung" in English

Europe needs a common regulatory system in this area.

Whereas it is desirable to base the Community system on the experience gained at international level;

It will supplement the Community environmental liability regime which is in the process of being adopted.

Taking account of the principle of subsidiarity, why is Community legislation necessary in this area and what are its main aims?

If that can be achieved, then I believe we shall have established a good Community system.

There are already Community rules governing activities undertaken by railways in the public interest.

I believe that Community law can be extremely useful with regard to both those requirements.

These Community arrangements must also replace the divergent national arrangements in existence at the moment.

Council Regulation (EEC) No 706/73 of 12 March 1973 concerning the Community arrangements applicable to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man for trade in agricultural products [5], lays down that veterinary legislation is to apply to those islands under the same conditions as in the United Kingdom for the products imported into those islands or exported from them to the Community.

Council Regulation (EC) No 3690/93 [6] established a Community system laying down rules for the minimum information to be contained in fishing licences.

A common regulation is required at European level, a regulation based on consumer protection and focused on prevention, to prevent the development of addiction, the association of online gambling with organised crime, and the match-fixing scandals jeopardising fair play.

Fourthly, by enacting common rules making the identification of carcasses compulsory throughout the European Union, with a view to increasing the transparency of marketing networks.

Of course, it is regrettable that it is purely a Community regulation and that there has been no in-depth revision of the Warsaw Convention.

The aim of the proposed Regulation is to introduce such a Community arrangement for the Baltic area as a first stage in the gradual inclusion of Sweden and Finland in the common fisheries policy.

I think we therefore need to accept that in the long term, we can no longer leave education policy solely in the hands of the Member States, and that we need to introduce rules at Community level.

What this report, brimming with initiative, sets out to do is to establish a Community status with the highest degree of health and legal safety for the exercise of these alternative medical disciplines to which all of us - or nearly all of us - resort, as I said a moment ago.

It must be said that the proposal by the Commission and the agreement reached within the Ecofin Council on a community solution governing the matter of taxation on savings income paid by the Member States to individuals living in another State are particularly heartening for a Belgian politician like myself.

We are facing a particular situation, as the three new Member States had special standards which we have continued to maintain with the obligation to check whether there can be a Community regulation that adopts either these or other standards.

It was clear from the start that the Community regulation was to originate from scientifically founded data.

However, we must remind ourselves that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - a declaration that is often cited and one that is presumably adopted by all - recognises the right of any person to protect themselves against persecution and to enjoy asylum in any country. We must also bear in mind that the Geneva Convention, without restrictive interpretations, must be the frame of reference for all national or Community regulations on the right to asylum and refugee status.

There has been criticism to the effect that the outcome has been indeterminate as far as asylum and immigration policy is concerned and some of my colleagues in the European Parliament would probably like Community legislation to be in place already.