calls on all the Local and Regional Authorities of the EU to support a burden-sharing action plan to help resettle refugees from the region and set up a solidarity fund to tackle the humanitarian pressures caused by the crisis and thus to urge the Member States to activate the mechanism provided for in Council Directive 2001/55/EC on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a ‘mass influx’ of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof, based on the principle ...[+++] of solidarity between Member States, and to demonstrate the European Union's genuine commitment to the principle of solidarity and responsibility-sharing;

I am a senior scientist with Environmental Defense in the U.S. That's the other environmental defence, the one spelled with an s rather than a c. I am here to describe the results of research I'm engaged in that is comparing policies that address industrial chemicals in the U.S., the European Union, and Canada.

One consequence of such legislation on concessions would be a qualitative leap in the protection of bidders in most of the Member States, as concessions, once they are covered by Community secondary legislation, would fall within the scope of the Community Directives on review procedures for the award of public procurement contracts, which provide for more effective and adequate remedies than the basic principles of jurisdictional protection developed by the European Court of Justice.

.given the principle of minority protection — particularly, francophone minority protection — is an independent principle underlying the constitution, and one.which is binding upon governments, the Court must intervene, where necessary, to protect against government action which fails to recognize that principle.

Whereas the information exchanged may concern physical persons and this Regulation must therefore implement, in its scope, the principles of protection of persons with regard to processing, by automatic means or otherwise, of personal data; whereas these principles, as set out in Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (8) should themselves, in compliance with the terms and ...[+++]conditions of this Directive, be specified and supplemented in this Regulation; whereas pending implementation of the national measures transposing that Directive certain Member States which have no protection rules for personal data exchanged by non-automatic means should be exempted from applying the provisions of this Regulation concerning the non-automatic exchange of data;

This movement has been an effort to develop a fundamental principle about the protection of individuals and their rights, not the protection of nation-states, not the protection of the interests of the grand powers but the fundamental protection of the security of individuals and to hold people accountable for those who commit crimes against individuals.