5. Recognises the crucial role of democratic ownership and parliamentary oversight within developing countries for ensuring aid effectiveness, the need for the EU to provide resources and capacity development support to developing country parliaments to ensure that they have sufficient capacity to engage in scrutiny and oversight of their governments' budgets and the importance that better reporting of the results to the European Parliament, civil society and the Member States can help build confidence in Community programmes, increase accountability and permit more strategic forms of oversight; in this respect, calls on the Commission ...[+++]to propose a new indicator to monitor parliamentary scrutiny;

5. Recognises the crucial role of democratic ownership and parliamentary oversight within developing countries for ensuring aid effectiveness, the need for the EU to provide resources and capacity development support to developing country parliaments to ensure that they have sufficient capacity to engage in scrutiny and oversight of their governments' budgets and the importance that better reporting of the results to the European Parliament, civil society and the Member States can help build confidence in Community programmes, increase accountability and permit more strategic forms of oversight; in this respect, calls on the Commission ...[+++]to propose a new indicator to monitor parliamentary scrutiny;

5. Recognises the crucial role of democratic ownership and parliamentary oversight within developing countries for ensuring aid effectiveness, the need for the EU to provide resources and capacity development support to developing country parliaments to ensure that they have sufficient capacity to engage in scrutiny and oversight of their governments' budgets and the importance that better reporting of the results to the European Parliament, civil society and the Member States can help build confidence in Community programmes, increase accountability and permit more strategic forms of oversight; in this respect, calls on the Commission ...[+++]to propose a new indicator to monitor parliamentary scrutiny;

12. Welcomes the so-called "Himalaya" report brought forward for consultation by the CESR, and agrees with its core recommendations notably on the need for convergence of supervisory powers, responsibilities and practices, subject to parliamentary control; recommends a benchmarking and monitoring role for the CESR, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS), building on the current supervisory framework, close cooperation between them and ...[+++], above all, appropriate action by Member States to adapt working methods and increase where necessary the resources of the national supervisory systems;

Implementing a Scheme of Joint International Inspection and Surveillance (i.e., conducts surveillance, coordinates inspections, monitoring and control measures including observers, satellite tracking devices, and dockside inspections); and

The services provided for harbour dues generally include: ensuring the safe and efficient movement of all traffic within a harbour by controlling navigation, directing vessels to anchorage, monitoring and controlling speed, monitoring pollution and the movement of dangerous goods, ensuring priority status for ferries, and providing navigation information.