(7) The Joint Research Centre of the Commission shall provide detailed technical guidelines, definitions and procedures in the areas of technical characteristics of identifiers and readers; test procedures, acceptance criteria and certification model for agreed test laboratories; procurement of appropriate identifiers and readers; application of identifiers, their reading and recovery; codification of identifiers; common glossary, data dictionary and communication standards.

(5a) The Joint Research Centre of the Commission should provide detailed technical guidelines, definitions and procedures in the areas of technical characteristics of identifiers and readers; test procedures, acceptance criteria and certification model for agreed test laboratories; procurement of appropriate identifiers and readers; application of identifiers, their reading and recovery; codification of identifiers; common glossary, data dictionary and communication standards.

(5a) The Joint Research Centre of the Commission should provide detailed technical guidelines, definitions and procedures in the areas of technical characteristics of identifiers and readers; test procedures, acceptance criteria and certification model for agreed test laboratories; procurement of appropriate identifiers and readers; application of identifiers, their reading and recovery; codification of identifiers; common glossary, data dictionary and communication standards.

Recommendation for second reading (A5-0268/2000 ) by Mr Trakatellis, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, on the common position adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a European Parliament and Council directive amending Council Directive 93/42/EEC as regards medical devices incorporating stable derivatives of human blood or human plasma [13561/1/1999 – C5-0331/2000 – 1995/0013 B(COD)]

(g) pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading No ; weight-operated counting and checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading No ); lifting or handling machinery (heading Nos to ); paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading No ); fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine-tools, of heading No , including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, "optical" dividing heads) but not those which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes); calculating machines (heading No ); valves and other appliances (heading No ) ...[+++];

(f) Pumps incorporating measuring devices, of heading No 84.13 ; weight-operated counting and checking machinery, or separately presented weights for balances (heading No 84.23) ; lifting or handling machinery (heading Nos 84.25 to 84.28) ; paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds (heading No 84.41) ; fittings for adjusting work or tools on machine-tools, of heading No 84.66, including fittings with optical devices for reading the scale (for example, "optical" dividing heads) but not those which are in themselves essentially optical instruments (for example, alignment telescopes) ; calculating machines (heading No 84.70) ; ...[+++] valves and other appliances (heading No 84.81);