To prevent duplication of work, Member States should be entitled to use existing preliminary flood risk assessments, flood hazard and risk maps and flood risk management plans for the purposes of achieving the objectives and satisfying the requirements of this Directive.

To avoid duplication of work and to reduce the amount of information, only summary documentation should be submitted concerning elements that comply with TSIs and other requirements of Directives 96/48/EC and 2001/16/EC.

Because of the duplication that now exists between this directive and the proposal for a directive on the creation of a general framework promoting equal treatment in employment and work – the directive on discrimination – racial discrimination was withdrawn from its scope, but let me remind you that the scope of this proposal for a directive is a great deal more limited than that of the directive previously adopted, which covers not only the sectors of employment and work but also social protection, welfare benefits and education, as well as access to goods and services and the provision of goods and services.

In this respect, the present work programme plans: (i) to commission the independent study foreseen by Article 25 bis of the Directive; (ii) to give further consideration to the application of Chapter III of the "television without frontiers" Directive; and (iii) to pursue exchanges of views on the series of questions identified in the context of the "Cinema" Communication.

In this respect, the present work programme plans: (i) to commission the independent study foreseen by Article 25 bis of the Directive; (ii) to give further consideration to the application of Chapter III of the "television without frontiers" Directive; and (iii) to pursue exchanges of views on the series of questions identified in the context of the "Cinema" Communication.

The aim of the proposal for a directive on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purpose of paid employment and self-employed economic activities [10] is both to provide a pathway for third-country workers which could lead to a more permanent status for those who remain in work, while at the same time giving a secure legal status while in the EU to those who return to their countries of origin when their permit expires.