The question of whether weekly rest should normally be taken on a Sunday, rather than on another day of the week, is very complex, raising issues about the effect on health and safety and work-life balance, as well as issues of a social, religious and educational nature.

There is evidence that this creates a serious challenge for reconciling work with family life and for general work/life balance.

The impact assessment on the amendment of the Asylum Procedures Directive assessed each option with regard to the problems identified so as to represent an ideal proportion between practical value and efforts needed and concluded that opting for EU action does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve the objective of solving those problems.

Calls on the Commission and Member States to introduce legislation and/or strengthen existing regulations and to attach particular importance to respecting intellectual property rights relating to commercial communications, trademarks and images, names, media rights and any other spin-offs from the sporting events organisers are running, so as to protect the professional sport economy, while respecting the right of ‘short reporting’ as stipulated by Directive 2007/65/EC (12) (‘Audiovisual Media Services’ Directive) and the self-sustained and balanced development of sport, without putting at stake the proper balance between a sporting organisation's legitimate concerns and the needs of the public to be able to access and create objective, in ...[+++]formative and topical information in the forms of written, pictorial and audio content; points out that it is also important to ensure that recipients are guaranteed the possibility of having access to sporting events at cross-border level within the EU at a distance; in particular, problems of ambush marketing, Internet piracy and unlawful sports betting should be addressed as a priority by Member States and the Commission;

The impact assessment on the amendment of the Reception Conditions Directive assessed each option to the problems identified so as to represent an ideal proportion between practical value and efforts needed and concluded that opting for EU action does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve the objective of solving those problems.

- that aid be designed to promote a durable and balanced development of economic activity and not give rise to a sectoral overcapacity at the EEA level such that the resulting EEA sectoral problem produced is more serious than the original regional problem; in this context a sectoral approach is required and in particular the EEA rules applicable to certain industrial sectors which currently are synthetic fibres, textiles and clothing, motor vehicle, steel and transport,