Another related possibility to improve traceability would be to expand considerably the use of catch certificates for fish that enters international trade. Two RFMOs have already adopted such schemes and the EU should promote certificates as a general tool to combat trade in IUU fish. The ultimate objective should be to develop a global catch certification scheme, while avoiding creating a non-tariff barrier to trade. It is difficult to see how countries could argue in favour of trade in IUU fish, but there were loud voices in the EU ...[+++]against the IUU regulation when it was first proposed.

28. Expresses its support for the Keymark, a voluntary European certification mark, owned by CEN/CENELEC, which demonstrates compliance with European standards; stresses that the Keymark is a valuable alternative to the various national certification schemes that entail multiple testing and marking of products in several Member States and can therefore become a barrier to trade within the Internal Market and cause significant costs for small companies that may be reflected in higher prices for the consumer; encourages, therefore, national standards bodies, and other national certification bodies, to ...[+++]promote the Keymark as an alternative to national certification schemes; calls also for a pan-European information campaign in order to raise awareness amongst businesses and consumers about the benefits of the Keymark;

28. Expresses its support for the Keymark, a voluntary European certification mark, owned by CEN/CENELEC, which demonstrates compliance with European standards; stresses that the Keymark is a valuable alternative to the various national certification schemes that entail multiple testing and marking of products in several Member States and can therefore become a barrier to trade within the Internal Market and cause significant costs for small companies that may be reflected in higher prices for the consumer; encourages, therefore, national standards bodies, and other national certification bodies, to ...[+++]promote the Keymark as an alternative to national certification schemes; calls also for a pan-European information campaign in order to raise awareness amongst businesses and consumers about the benefits of the Keymark;

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32009L0028 - EN - Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC (Text with EEA relevance) - DIRECTIVE 2009/28/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL // of 23 April 2009 // on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC // National overall targets for the share of energy from renewable sources in gross final cons ...[+++]umption of energy in 2020 - ( // Normalisation rule for accounting for electricity generated from hydropower and wind power // Energy content of transport fuels // Certification of installers // Rules for calculating the greenhouse gas impact of biofuels, bioliquids and their fossil fuel comparators // Minimum requirements for the harmonised template for national renewable energy action plans // Accounting of energy from heat pumps

54. Stresses that existing certification systems, as well as ensuring compliance with legal rules by close monitoring, should also guarantee other important food safety factors such as traceability; stresses that certification requirements should reflect the demands of society and that there should therefore be state support for the costs incurred by farmers; advocates the promotion of more active cooperation by producers" associations, since individual farmers are unable to challenge obsolete trade certification rules;

(d) take the measures they consider appropriate to promote a European qualification area, i.e. to enable those concerned to report on the qualifications obtained and the experience acquired in the host State to the relevant authorities, particularly the academic and professional authorities in their home State; that might be carried out by promoting the objectives of the 1992 and 1996 Resolutions on the transparency of qualifications and training certificates, by encouraging the use of the Europass Training document as provided for in Council Decision 1999/51/EC of 21 December 1998 on the promotion ...[+++] of European pathways in work-linked training, including apprenticeship(16) and of the European diploma supplement, and by implementing the conclusions of the Lisbon European Council of 23 and 24 March 2000, in particular by establishing a European framework of basic skills and a common European format for curricula vitae.