Welcomes the replacement as from 8 March 2012 of Law No 4320 on the Protection of the Family with Law 6284 on the Protection of the Family and the Prevention of Violence Against Women; stresses the importance of ensuring a broad scope of application, regardless of the nature of the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator and of gender identity, effective legal remedies and protection mechanisms, and strict and immediate implementation of the legal framework with no concessions, in order to eradicate violence against women, with dissuasive and severe punishments for the perpetrators of violence against women; stresses the ne ...[+++]ed to make necessary provisions for the removal of violent spouses or partners, and to guarantee the victims’ effective access to the courts and to protection measures;

[15] Such as Act on the Classification of Audiovisual Programmes, Video Recording Act, Law on Consumer Protection, Law on Public Information.

Calls on the Commission to check carefully in order to ascertain that laws and practices in force in individual Member States do not violate the rights conferred on Union citizens by the EC Treaty and the Free Movement Directive, especially as regards the concepts of ‘sufficient resources’, ‘an unreasonable burden on the social assistance system of the host Member State’, ‘serious grounds of public policy or public security’, and ‘imperative grounds of public security’; calls on the Commission, in addition, to ascertain that there are procedural safeguards operating at the practical level, together with legal ...[+++]protection arrangements and the possibility of appealing to the courts against removal measures; points out that any restriction on the fundamental right to free movement must be interpreted in a narrow sense.

76. Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where like conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on trade in services, nothing in the GATS can be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any Member of measures necessary to protect public morals or to maintain public order, to protect human, animal or plant life or health, to secure compliance with laws or regulations relating to the prevention ...[+++] of deceptive and fraudulent practices or to deal with the effects of a default on services contracts, the protection of the privacy of individuals in relation to the processing and dissemination of personal data and the protection of confidentiality of individual records and accounts, and safety (Article XIV of the GATS).

All these priorities can only be achieved by relying on a combination of instruments from different policy areas (including public health and consumer protection, internal market, environmental policy, trade policy, as well as the regulatory framework - conditions of access to the market, laws authorising or forbidding certain practices, research paths or technologies - etc.).

However, full transposition of all New Approach directives depends on the entry into force of the Framework Act which in some cases will be amended by the new Act on Public Health Protection.