– (LT) The environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico highlighted the lack of safety and security of oil operations.

10. Reminds that the Commission missed, in its 2008 proposal setting up a Community framework for nuclear safety, a clear opportunity to propose the establishment of common standards guaranteeing a high level of nuclear safety; recalls this proposal was falling under the Euratom Treaty under which the European Parliament has no co-legislative power; deplores that the EU institutions rejected at that time binding safety standards; deplores further that the Member States did not even take the European Parliament's opinion of April 2009 into account by making the mere safety principles of the IAEA a legal rather than a voluntary requirem ...[+++]ent;

There is often also uncertainty over the application of internal market rules and a lack of information about opportunities in other markets, particularly among SMEs.

The Regulation in question had been prepared by the Commission in a short space of time, in order to respond to the increased sense of lack of safety in civil aviation.

The Regulation in question had been prepared by the Commission in a short space of time, in order to respond to the increased sense of lack of safety in civil aviation.

Sir Leon Brittan, EC External Economic Affairs Commissioner, welcomed the proposal: "Poor nuclear safety standards still represent one of the most serious obstacles to economic and environmental stability in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.