Urges all Member States to collaborate fully in international criminal justice mechanisms, and especially in bringing fugitives to justice; in this regard, notes with satisfaction the cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the transfer of Germain Katanga to the ICC, the cooperation of Serbia in the arrest and transfer of Zdravko Tolimir to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the cooperation of Serbia and Montenegro in the arrest and transfer of Vlastimir Đjorđjević to the ICTY; however, notes with concern the persistent failure of Sudan to cooperate with the ICC by arresting and transferring Ahmad Muhammad Harun and Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman; notes with concern that the ICC warran ...[+++]ts for the arrest of four members of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda have not yet been executed; also notes with concern that Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić remain at large and have not been brought before the ICTY; in this regard, calls on the Serbian authorities to ensure full cooperation with the ICTY, which should lead to the arrest and transfer of all remaining indictees, in order to open the way to the ratification of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement; considers further that the current proceedings brought against Liberia's former President, Charles Taylor, by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague constitute a significant development towards the ending of impunity;

Directive 2006/49 has been amended by Directive 2010/76 in particular to reinforce the standards of the internal models that the credit institutions and investment firms can use, after receiving authorisation from the supervisory authorities, to calculate their capital requirements, particularly for taking into account the credit risk in the trading book and the results of the strengthened stress tests.

The Commission has successfully resisted this pressure on the grounds that it can only take a position once internal US processes have been completed and once it is clear that Congress's privacy concerns regarding CAPPS II have been met.

At Community level, the problem of antimicrobial resistance has been recognised and addressed for several years. This document gives a global overview of the situation and sets out a Community strategy against antimicrobial resistance, including enhanced actions to address the problem which at international, Community and national level is seen as a growing and serious threat to health. In this context the various Recommendations of the Council, the Copenhagen Recommendations on antimicrobial resistance [1] endorsed by Council as well as the work of international organisations, in particular WHO and OIE, are significant.

To obtain more comparable and reliable data, the Commission has supported the Antimicrobial European Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS), an international network of national surveillance systems which, since 1998, aims to aggregate comparable and reliable antimicrobial resistance data for public health purposes in Europe The network is growing.

- The Office International des Epizooties (OIE - the international organisation for animal health) has clearly established antimicrobial resistance as one of its priorities for coming years and has conducted a world-wide consultation on its recommendations relating to control of antibiotic resistance.