The ECA makes a series of recommendations to improve the Commission’s procedures and management effectiveness: to review the allocation of resources devoted to State aid control; to increase the transparency of case-handling procedures; to shorten the duration of the procedures; to implement an enhanced system of time recording and management reporting; and to regularly assess the ex post impact of State aid control.

The use of tolling rather than time-based charging should be encouraged since vignette or time-based charging systems do not reflect accurately enough the actual use of the road and therefore, relative to tolling, do not respect the user/polluter pays principle.

Consequently, the Advocate General proposes that the Court of Justice should declare that EU law precludes a national court from making an order, on the basis of the Belgian statutory provision, requiring an internet service provider to install, in respect of all its customers, in abstracto and as a preventive measure, entirely at the expense of the internet service provider and for an unlimited period, a system for filtering all electronic communications passing via its services (in particular, those involving the use of peer-to-peer software) in order to identify on its network the sharing of electronic files containing a musical, cine ...[+++]matographic or audio-visual work in respect of which a third party claims rights, and subsequently to block the transfer of such files, either at the point at which they are requested or at the point at which they are sent.

The system before us, involving stricter standards for working hours – indeed, not only driving hours are referred to, but also working hours – involves a tightening-up on the system used in the past.

The Commission's progress report on the applicant countries points out that a shortcoming of the Romanian democratic system is that so much of the incorporation of Community legislation into national law is done by way of decrees or urgent decrees.

A Message was received from the Senate as follows: That the Senate do unite with the House of Commons in the appointment of a Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons to develop a Code of Conduct to guide Senators and Members of the House of Commons in reconciling their official responsibilities with their personal interests, including their dealings with lobbyists; That seven Members of the Senate and fourteen Members of the House of Commons be members of the Committee; That the Committee be directed to consult broadly and review the approaches taken with respect to these issues in Canada and in other jurisdictions with comparable systems of govern ...[+++]ment; That the papers and evidence received and taken on the subject during the First Session of the Thirty-Fifth Parliament be referred to the Committee; That the Committee have the power to sit during sittings and adjournments of the Senate; That the Committee have the power to report from time to time, to send for persons, papers and records, and to print such papers and evidence as may be ordered by the Committee; That the Committee have the power to retain the services of expert, professional, technical and clerical staff; That the quorum of the Committee be eleven members, whenever a vote, resolution or other decision is taken, so long as both Houses are represented, and that the Joint Chairpersons be authorized to hold meetings, to receive evidence and authorize the printing thereof, whenever six members are present, so long as both Houses are represented; That the Committee be empowered to appoint, from among its members, such sub-committees as may be deemed advisable, and to delegate to such sub-committees all or any of its power, except the power to report to the Senate and House of Commons; That the Committee be empowered to authorize television and radio broadcasting of any or all of its proceedings; That the Committee present its final report no later than June 21, 1996; That, ...