I fully agree that this problem deserves more complete research and that, before presenting draft legislation, we must study carefully various non-regulatory methods for dealing with some of the issues raised in the report, in other words: improved cooperation and coordination among national authorities, inspection and other national enforcement authorities; an awareness of good practice within companies; current guidelines and standards; initiatives on social responsibility; and transnational company agreements, into which are already built innovative provisions relating to risk assessment procedures and the supervision of subcontra ...[+++]ctors.

(23) For the purposes of this Regulation, the concept of unfair trade practices covers prohibitions on agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practices which may affect trade between Member States and which have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within a Member State or within the internal market, as well as prohibitions on the abuse of a dominant position within a Member State or within the internal market, within the meaning of Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty .

all agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practices between undertakings which have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition, as defined by their respective legislation;

all agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and concerted practices between undertakings which have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition;

Blak list”: maintain a central database, in line with best practice in international organisations such as the World Bank, containing the names of companies and individuals found to have defrauded the Union budget so as to avoid contracts being granted by different departments to the same companies or individuals; asks that details of convicted defrauders are published on the Commission website; regrets that an early warning system, the so called grey list, is poorly understood and is not strictly enforced throughout the Commission; points out that no preferential treatment should be given to organisations with direct links to persons ...[+++] working or having worked in European institutions; asks that both the Blak and grey lists be cross-referenced to the central register of invoices foreseen in April 2001 under Action 11 of the White paper on Reform (COM(2000) 200 ) and to the central contracts database foreseen in June 2001 under Action 74 of the White paper on Reform; asks the Commission to put forward proposals to amend the Council Regulation (EC) No 1469/95 of 22 June 1995 on measures to be taken with regard to certain beneficiaries of operations financed by the Guarantee Section of the EAGGF in order to list companies under suspicion of wrongdoing or fraud; asks the Commission to ensure that all external contractors indicate whether they have worked in European institutions; reserves the right to make enquiries concerning individual contracts; calls on the Commission to put forward a proposal for a legal base enabling the Commission to add the names of companies and individuals to the Blak list;

The Stabilisation and Association Agreement / Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters provides for a competition regime to be applied in trade relations between the Community and Croatia based on the criteria of Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty (agreements between undertakings, abuses of dominant position), Article 86 (public undertakings and undertakings with special or exclusive rights) and of Article 87 (State aid).