The main elements of the integrated administration and control system and, in particular, the provisions concerning a computerised database, an identification system for agricultural parcels, aid applications from farmers, a harmonised control system and, within the single payment scheme, a system for the identification and recording of payment entitlements should be maintained.

However there are some differences in the disciplines applied by the two major pieces of Community law in this area, MiFID and the IMD.

As a result of this analysis, the existing quarterly statistics on passenger transport in the main European ports and the existing quarterly statistics on vessel traffic in the main European ports should be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) and disseminated on an annual basis, while the variable related to the classification dimension ‘nationality of registration of vessels’ in the existing quarterly statistics on passenger transport in the main European ports should be collected by Member States on a voluntary basis.

As they found it necessary to introduce an express provision to the effect that registration of a Community trade mark which is under application at the date of accession may not be refused on the basis of any of the absolute grounds for refusal listed in Article 7(1) of Regulation No 40/94, if these grounds became applicable merely because of the accession of a new Member State, the authors of the Act of Accession considered that, if that provision did not exist, such an application would have had to have been refused if the mark was devoid of any distinctive character in one of the new Member States.

(3) Annex III already comprises provisions for the main operators and different stages involved in the organic production of agricultural products.

(3) Annex III already comprises provisions for the main operators and different stages involved in the organic production of agricultural products.