Thus, it is in our interest to ensure that immigration takes place legally, under regulated circumstances, and that Member States have the possibility to monitor the process, while immigrants experience legal certainty, meaning that there should be no advantages to be gained from circumventing legal procedures.

10. Firmly believes that each Member State should be required to draw up a register of certified translators and one of certified interpreters, which should allow access to the registers of the other Member States and that, furthermore, each Member State should set up a national accreditation body responsible for administering a scheme providing for the accreditation, renewable registration and in-service training of specialist legal translators and interpreters, in cooperation with the Ministries of Justice and the Interior; these registers would be amalgamated in due course into an EU-wide register with common minimum standards; considers moreover that suitable technical training courses should be provided for specialist interpreters an ...[+++]d translators to ensure that they understand the legal procedures and terminology of the systems within which they are working, and that all professional practitioners involved in criminal procedures, including police, lawyers, prosecutors and judges, should receive training in working with and through an interpreter;

These measures focus on protection from persecution and refoulement (minimum standards on qualification as a refugee), access to a legal procedure (minimum standards on procedures) and the possibility of adequate subsistence (minimum standards on reception conditions).

12. Is very alarmed at the doubts that have arisen in connection with the construction of the Altiero Spinelli building about whether the relevant legal procedures have been properly applied and implemented; is obliged, under the Treaty, to apply the same standards in respect of the discharge of the implementation of the budget of all institutions; expects, in view of the possible purchase of further buildings, the options available to Parliament to be presented as rapidly as possible, including a legal assessment of these options, to the committees responsible; notes in this respect that the procedures selected by Parliament must rem ...[+++]ain unimpeachable; requests the Bureau to present options for an accurate action and financing plan, in particular for the Louise Weiss building in Strasbourg, including their legal assessment taking into account the situation of negotiations, before 1 July 2000;

More detailed provisions relate to the date of application of the rule, transfers between Funds or programmes, incidences of decommitted amounts being reused (error due solely to the Commission, cases of force majeure due to a serious natural disaster) and any legal procedures or administrative appeals leading to delays in payment.

It hopes to clarify the concept of "mediator" and to develop all the out-of-court procedures, thereby lessening the imbalance between the cost of the cross-border legal procedure and the value of the dispute.