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Ordinance of 7 June 2004 on the Networked Administration of Data relating to Swiss Nationals Living Abroad | VERA Ordinance [ VeraO ]

the Commission would welcome if U.S. Congress would consider favourably enshrining in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act the protections for non-Americans offered by Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28); the Commission calls on the U.S. administration to swiftly appoint a permanent Privacy Shield Ombudsperson, as well as the missing members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB); the Commission calls for the public release of the PCLOB's report on the implementation of PPD-28.

11. Welcomes the formation of the Yatsenyuk Government and hopes that it will implement duly and without delay the reforms necessary to bring Ukraine closer to the EU; underlines, in this regard, the need to reform and increase the efficiency of the Verkhovna Rada by, inter alia, prolonging the two-week deadline for tabling amendments to proposed acts, ensuring proper vacation legis for the adopted regulations, and ensuring higher participation by deputies in the work of the assembly; reiterates its call to step up the efforts in the fight against corruption; welcomes the appointment of foreign experts for important posts in the new administration ...[+++];

77. Calls on the Commission to improve considerably its appraisals of trade agreements, in particular the impact assessments carried out, by taking the issue of industrial competitiveness into account and carrying out ex post assessments, as well as analyses of the aggregate effect of all agreements already concluded or under negotiation; stresses the importance of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) undertaking for realising European reindustrialisation, growth and employment objectives, and which has the potential to simplify and increase the export of European industrial products, improve the competitiveness of ...[+++]industry by raising international production standards and reduce the import costs of raw and processed materials for manufacturing companies; advocates that the TTIP, as with other trade agreements, should include a chapter focused on such energy matters as those which could affect the internal market; calls on the Commission, by means of tariff dismantling, to make better market access possible in connection with services and investments, strengthen regulatory cooperation, ensure improved public procurement rules and the protection of intellectual property, and to pursue these objectives actively within competition policy and in connection with energy and commodities; stresses the need for streamlining regulations and reducing regulatory and administrative burdens as intended by the TTIP, to be implemented under the strict consideration and protection of high social and environmental standards and employee rights; underlines the fact that the eventual conclusion of the TTIP will create the prospect of a wide economic space which would in turn strengthen the EU’s relationships and serve as a multiplier for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the EU;

12. Is concerned at the proposed cuts in administrative expenditure, inter alia for technical assistance, evaluations and audits, both at headquarters and in EU delegations abroad, as these activities are key to upholding the most rigorous evaluation and audit standards; given that in 2011 the Commission requested 18 additional full-time staff for 2012 ‘to ensure proper sound financial management of the great number of grants of small amount under the DCI’, is also concerned at the proposed substantial redeployment of staff from DCI ...[+++]to ENPI activities, and points to the risks in terms of quality of the DCI’s financial management which this weakened staffing level may entail.