23. Calls on the Council and the Commission to analyse, support and coordinate the setting of benchmarks for EU human rights dialogue or consultation with actions of other donors and international organisations, with a special focus on the UN mechanisms in place (reports of the Special Rapporteurs, expert committees, the Secretary-General, the Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, etc.); Considers that, in their overall approach to raising human rights issues in the context of political dialogue, the Council and the Commission should systematically refer to the pledges made upon election, by the Member States, of ...[+++]the UN Human Rights Council;

Even less do we share his view when he talks of the elimination of small producers which he, above all, uses to ask the European institutions for supplementary financing for large livestock producers.

The EP's legislative initiative: The Group considers that the right of request established in Article 138b is broadly sufficient. Some members nevertheless point out that this Article should require the Commission to reply to the European Parliament's request.

4. The Council's decision shall be deemed to have been adopted if, within two months of the other Member States being informed as laid down in the previous paragraph, neither the Commission nor any Member State has requested that the matter be raised by the Council.

In the present circumstances, the European Council thinks it necessary to adopt the following measures : - raising of the issue of human rights in China in the appropriate international fora; asking for the admittance of independent observers to attend the trials and to visit the prisons, - interruption by the Member States of the Community of military cooperation and an embargo on trade in arms with China, - suspension of bilateral ministerial and high level contacts, - postponement by the Community and its Member States of new cooperation projects, - reduction of programmes of cultural, scientific and technical cooperation to only those activities that might maintain a meaning in the present circumstances, - ...[+++]prolongation by the Member States of visas to the Chinese students who wish it, Taking into account the climate of uncertainty created in the economic field by the present policy of the Chinese authorities, the European Council advocates the postponement of the examination of new requests for credit insurance and the postponement of the examination of new credits of the World Bank.