Contracting entities should be encouraged to make use of the Code of Best Practices set out in the Commission Staff Working Document of 25 June 2008 entitled ‘European Code of Best Practices Facilitating Access by SMEs to Public Procurement Contracts, providing guidance on how they may apply the public procurement framework in a way that facilitates SME participation.

Calls on the Member States to improve substantially their tax surveillance, control and collection capacity, thereby generating additional resources to promote growth and jobs as laid down in the EU 2020 strategy; underlines that national best practices in making tax administration more efficient should be compiled in a transparent manner — preferably in a European code of best practice within the EU-wide tax information system — and carefully taken into account; is concerned by the tendency in a number of Member States to cut staff ...[+++] and other resources at tax authorities and similar bodies; stresses that this could weaken the ability to provide fair and efficient service to enterprises and individuals and to counter tax fraud and tax evasion; in light of this, urges the Member States to allocate adequate financial and human resources to their national tax administrations and tax audit staff;

Notes the importance of the creation of a simplified and transparent EU regulatory framework for public procurement, so that SMEs gain better access to public contracts both within the EU and in third countries, including through the application of the “only once principle” and the use of electronic transmission systems, as well as by applying the “European code of best practices facilitating access by SMEs to public procurement contracts”; considers that public procurement is an effective public policy instrument to support domestic SMEs’ technical innovation capacities and ...[+++] to provide for their growth to the size needed for them to engage in internationalisation; calls for a better definition of tenders as well as for the opening up of services to public tenders;

1. The Commission shall encourage the development of two Community Codes of good labelling practice (hereinafter ‘the Codes’), one for pet food and one for compound feed for food producing animals, which may include a section concerning compound feed for fur animals.

- supporting the compilation of the European code of good practice and carrying out cost-benefit analysis of intelligent car safety systems.

Furthermore, the Commission will invite an eSafety Forum Working Group to pursue an industrial and societal consensus on a European Code of Practice, applicable to both system design specifications and validation procedures, and to formulate practical guidelines which facilitate the market introduction of Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems.