This solution, among other things, reflects the point n. 34. of the Report of the European Parliament of 25 November 2011 on modernisation of customs (2011/2083(INI)), that “Calls on the Commission to include in the MCC more rigorous requirements for the provision of the EU’s customs representation services, helping to increase the level of professionalism and ownership on the part of these intermediaries and laying down clear rules to guide relations between customs agents and forwarding undertakings, so as to change the role of the agents to that of consolidators for small and medium-sized impo ...[+++]rters that do not have the capacity to implement customs compliance programmes similar to those of European AEOs”.

are shared by the rapporteur unreservedly. The individual provisions put forward to lay down common safety, regulation and operating standards for central counterparties, collateralisation for bilaterally cleared contracts, higher capital requirements for bilaterally cleared trades, and mandatory central clearing for standardised contracts through CCPs for financial institutions are among the proposals which should be supported.

This was clearly down to a lack of work on the part of our governments.

The clear premise has to be that slaughterhouses must satisfy the conditions laid down.

What we are in fact seeing here, in both the minor and major incidents, is the extent to which the Europe of Nice, designed to be a driving force, has in fact broken down, irretrievably broken down, for the reasons clearly described by Mr Bourlanges the day after the Nice Summit.

We intercepted that aircraft, a small airplane that was probably not going to knock down the World Trade Centre, and so we continued to monitor that with a shared process for information-sharing, command and control, et cetera, until he almost ran out of gas and decided that clearly we were not going to shoot him down.