U. whereas the draft EU negotiation text on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures tabled for the round of 29 September-3 October 2014 suggests obliging Parties to apply tolerances and maximum residue levels set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission within 12 months after their adoption, unless the importing Party had signalled a reservation at the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting; whereas there is a general pattern of lower amounts of pesticide residues allowed in food in the EU as compared with the Codex Alimentarius Commission; whereas over the last four years, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has filed a reservation in 31 ...[+++]-57 % of all cases, which highlights the large degree of disagreement by EFSA with the Codex standards; whereas EFSA currently feels free to express its reservations, within the limits possible; whereas once the TTIP has been adopted, however, it is highly questionable whether EFSA will be allowed politically to continue to do so, given that the draft text intends to commit the EU and the US to collaborate in the international standard setting bodies ‘with a view to reaching mutually satisfactory outcomes’, which could discourage EFSA from filing reservations to the Codex Alimentarius Commission in the future and thus lead to weaker standards in the EU;

For the purpose of restructuring milk production in the Community, Article 75(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 gives to the Member States the possibility to grant compensation to producers who undertake to abandon permanently all or part of their milk production and place the individual quotas thus released in the national reserve.

8. Calls on the Commission to work towards a targeted global system of decentralised regional and local food stocks (both emergency stocks to reduce hunger and regional stocks to ease supply in times of price spikes); considers that these stocks should be managed on the most appropriate levels including local regional and national authorities and a co-ordination body under the aegis of the United Nations’ FAO, making full use of the experience gathered by the FAO and the UN World Food Programme;

The remaining 2 %, or such other portion as the Parties might determine, of the overall DML for the fishery shall be maintained as a separate Reserve DML Allocation (RDA), to be managed at the discretion of the Director.

Negative Reserve: Neither the Commission nor the Parliament agreed to mobilise this reserve given that it must be drawn upon before the end of the financial year by means of transfers, meaning that the Commission would have to freeze other priorities during the year to feed this reserve.

4% of each national allocation of Structural Funds are held in reserve at the beginning of the programming period ("performance reserve").