However, the Commission really missed the boat when it reactivated a twenty-year-old regulation without adjusting the limits for radioactive foodstuffs.

Union emission performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles following the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 443/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 setting emission performance standards for new passenger cars as part of the Community’s integrated approach to reduce CO emissions from light-duty vehicles and Regulation (EU) No 510/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2011 setting emission performance standards for new light commercial vehicles as part of the Union’s integrated approach to reduce CO emissions from light-duty vehicles , respectively ...[+++].

Today we want to make a reality of the Regulations from some 16 years ago on common rules for the operation of air services in the Community.

As if that were not enough, ladies and gentlemen, the FAO also stresses that the affected countries do not wish to import vessels, whether old or new.

Indeed such a policy might encourage participation in scrap-and-build programmes amongst those Member States which have traditionally refused to take advantage of cofinancing for such schemes, and the UK is a case in point.

(39) Regulation (EC) No 2038/1999 provided for a system for compensating storage costs. Since the regime to be introduced by this Regulation does not include such a system, transitional provisions should be adopted to ease the transition from the old system to the new one.