one regarding the formulation of social demands: it would be necessary to demonstrate that there really was a coherent underlying social demand and that the measure adopted was consistent with that demand (i.e. that the legal response did not misrepresent the social demand); and another regarding the legal response to social demands: it would be necessary to demonstrate that the measures adopted did not restrict trade more than other measures capable of satisfying the same demand, and complied with the basic principles underlying the multilateral trading system (transparency, non-discrimination, national treatment and proportionality); ...[+++] and, lastly, the safeguard clause could not be used to sanction customs duties, as conventional safeguard clauses do; that would simply fail to address the issue raised.

I do not know a great deal about the nature or structure of the special joint committee, but it seemed to me that an overwhelming number of MPs and senators took an active role in this particular study.

At this stage, it is not possible to define precisely what tasks might be assigned to the management structure of SIS II. Clearly, however, the solution chosen should take into account the mixed nature of SIS II and ensure continuity with SIS I, retaining the advantages of a single integrated system.

The Commission would also point out that the Council Decision authorising the United Kingdom to participate partly in the SIS, like the two Belgian-Swedish initiatives, where the free movement aspect falls under the first pillar while police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters is based on the third pillar, confirm the mixed nature of the SIS.

It should be borne in mind that any decision to finance SIS II once it is operational will have to take due account its mixed basis under the first and third pillars.

But where the remedy by Impeachment is available, such bills will be regarded with jealousy, on account of the dangerous license which the Houses of Parliament have permitted themselves, from the mixed and indefinite nature of their legislative and judicial capacities, when united: and in their being ex post facto laws, made for retrospective purposes.