16. The scrapping of the fixed amount for a reserve in the budget (EUR 200m in heading 6 in the current system) is not covered by this proposal but, instead, suggested in the proposals for a new FP 2007-2013.

15 amendments tabled by Parliament were not incorporated into the Council’s common position, for reasons of legal coherence and legislative technique; clarity in technical terminology; practicality, feasibility or enforceability; as well as avoidance of imposing excessive administrative burdens on operators and national authorities. These amendments relate to the deletion of the title (amendment 51), the threshold levels for the adventitious or technically unavoidable presence of GMOs or of traces of materials produced from GMOs (amendments 26, 52 and 55), mixtures of GMOs (amendment 16) and the standardisation of procedures for the i ...[+++]dentification of transactions (amendment 50), the doubling of the time for which information must be kept (amendments 17 and 22), derived products (amendment 20), the transmission of information on products which are produced from GMOs but do not contain GMOs (amendment 21), the coexistence of national and Community systems for traceability (amendment 28), entry into force (amendments 32 and 33), deletion of the term ‘produced from GMOs’ (amendment 39) and the application of comitology under Regulation 178/2002/EC (amendment 48).

At the first Round Table that Trade Commissioner Lamy holds with Europe's Textiles and Clothing industry representatives on 14 April, the Commission and industry mapped out the trade policy of the EU in the textiles and clothing sector until the expiry of the quotas under the WTO Marrakech agreements.

The Commission has approved the timetable set out in the 1991 Tax Amendment Law (Steueraenderungsgesetz) for abolishing the valuetadded tax subsidies available under the old Berlin Promotion Law (Berlinfoerderungsgesetz).

These modifications concerned in particular: - the supression of all purely quantitative criteria as regards the access to the distribution network, and the introduction of a procedure for automatic admission of new distributors, subject only to the application of certain qualitative criteria and a delay of 12 months; - an express recognition of the freedom of the distributor to determine its own retail prices; - the liberalisation of cross-sales among authorized retailers established within the same Member State; - the supression ...[+++]of certain contractual provisions which would result in the restraint of the liberty of the distributor in being able to sell the products to other members of the network (change of the rules concerning both the calculation of the minimum level of annual purchases and the control by the manufacturer of the distributors' invoices); - the liberalisation of passive sales of new products to outside the territory from where they were officially launched; Furthermore, Yves Saint Laurent Parfums has undertaken to ensure that the minimum level of annual purchases imposed on distributors be set in such a way that its amount does not exceed 40% of the average purchase figure achieved during the previous year, by all the retail outlets within a Member State.

The competition panel echoed the recommendations of the telecom panel, including lifting the restrictions for telecommunications companies with less than 10 per cent market share.