discrete cosine transform | DCT | discrete cosinus transform

discreet respondent | non respondent

soft sell | soft sales approach

discretely timed signal [ discrete signal | discrete-time signal | discretely-timed signal ]

discrete cosine transform

arithmetic mean of a number of discrete quantities | mean value of a number of discrete quantities

covert surveillance | discreet surveillance | surveillance

tenancy at will

agricultural equipment designer | agricultural equipment engineering specialist | agricultural equipment design engineer | agriculturl scientist

23. Welcomes the increasing availability of integrated electronic ticketing systems in cities and other urban areas, such as inclusive digital ‘smartcard’ technologies that can be used across the different transport modes, and also for cross-border travel, but emphasises that technical solutions should be left to the market and not be imposed at European level;

8. Points out that in the recently adopted Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) and Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) the time period for scrutinising RTS may be extended by a further month given their volume and complexity, and considers that this kind of flexibility should become a general rule; considers that deadlines for objections by Parliament to delegated acts adopted by the Commission need to be sufficiently long to allow for the full exercise of Parliament’s rights of scrutiny, taking into account the plenary calendar and workload; takes the view that the standard deadline of two months, extendable by two months, as provided for the in the Common Understanding is not sufficiently long for complex matters and extensive delega ...[+++]ted acts, which call for a longer scrutiny period to be set; recalls that the co-legislator has full discretion regarding the period of scrutiny to be set in the basic act; stresses, in this regard, that where the Common Understanding provides guidelines in relation to deadlines, it is in no way binding and therefore does not limit the legislator in this respect; points out that the legislator has set a period of scrutiny of three months, extendable by three months, for all delegated acts in the area of financial services, and considers that this practice should be extended to other areas of a complex nature;

This timeframe can only be exceeded at the discretion of the persons in charge of the ADR procedure where an extension is necessary to guarantee good quality dispute resolution in a particularly complex or technical dispute.

11. Calls on the Commission to draw up a study by the end of 2013 on the investigative practices employed in the Member States to combat organised crime, with particular reference to the use of tools such as telephone interception, environmental interception, search procedures, delayed arrest, delayed seizure, undercover operations and controlled and supervised delivery operations; calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a directive by the end of 2014 on common investigative techniques to combat organised crime, pursuant to Article 87(2)(c) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;