3. Notes the progress made by the Member States and the Commission in the context of the EU policy cycle on organised and serious international crime with a view to implementing the general strategic objectives through actions based on intergovernmental cooperation at operational level; believes, however, that a clear division of tasks between EU and national levels is necessary, that Parliament needs to be part of the process as regards policy guidance, implementation and evaluation of results, and that an in-depth assessment of the ...[+++] European policy cycle should be undertaken in 2013; considers, moreover, that in the light of its nature the cycle should be renamed the ‘EU operational cycle’; calls on the Member States to regularly assess the complementarity of national plans for countering organised crime with plans which are to be developed at European level, and to analyse the results achieved and the future prospects from a European strategic and operational viewpoint involving the EU institutions, the relevant EU agencies and the national parliaments;

The CAIS is an income stabilization program that benefits price cyclical agricultural sectors based on production margins and penalizes grain and oilseed producers.

Of course, contributions to the Round should be based on each developing country’s capacity to contribute.

The EU's favourable position to launching a new round based on a broad agenda including both market access and rule making, is largely shared by Morocco.

The Commission considers that initiating a new round on the basis of a broad agenda remains our priority.

In the area of trade negotiations, one month in advance of these rounds, the Commission presented negotiating texts containing specific EU proposals on technical pre-requisites for negotiations on goods (including issues such as basic duty from which tariff dismantling is to take place, standstill, rollback, definition of products and reference period for tariff statistics); standards, technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures; rules of origin; intellectual property rights; government procurement; competition; and dispute settlement. These texts, together with the Chilean proposals, will form the basis of discussio ...[+++]n in the coming rounds.