The Commission envisages the following action: in response to requests for actions against alleged violations of fundamental rights by Member States, to continue to monitor and promote fundamental rights in accordance with the EU Treaty and its 2002 Communication on Article 7 TUE; to give utmost priority to the correct implementation by Member States of the Council Directive 2004/38/EC on the right of free movement and residence within the EU; in recognition of the importance of developing a common EU knowledge and common standards on how to protect EU citizens who need help in a third country in which their homeland is not represented, the Commission is willing to contribute to training activities in favour of EU Member States officials; ...[+++] to continue with its information and communications campaign on EU citizens’ rights to diplomatic and consular EU protection and to consider how to develop further the creation of ‘Euro-Consulates’ to share common consular functions and to establish a European consular code.

17. A new balance between modes of transport – a major theme of the strategy set out in the White Paper that the Commission adopted in 2001 on a European transport policy for 2010 – is still a top priority.

(14) All the methods of service listed in Articles 13 and 14 are characterised by either full certainty (Article 13) or a very high degree of likelihood (Article 14) that the document served has reached its addressee.

There is an urgent need for PROPER REPRESENTATION OF PASSENGERS in the decision-making process at all levels for all modes.

This reflects the fact that this mode is given high priority at national and Union level and that great efforts are being made to advance these projects which are, in many cases, characterised by their particularly high cost, large scale and cross-border nature.

. there is nothing wrong in trying to improve the life style of parliamentarians, many of whom are men and women with family responsibilities The fact that Members of Parliament would not have to sit in the evening will upgrade their role in the sense that . they would be free to come and go as they please, to look after the interests of their constituents, to sit on the standing committees of the House, to participate actively in the special caucuses of their respective parties, [and] to go and address the Canadian people in many communities located within a reasonable distance from Ottawa.