31. Emphasises that the Permanent Structured Cooperation, as laid down in the Treaty, provides legal safeguards and obligations, and is also an instrument to promote better use of CSDP assets in times of economic austerity and to overcome a lack of consensus among Member States; calls on the Council and the Member States to determine the aims and substance of such cooperation without further delay, involving all the Member States which prove themselves to be both politically willing and militarily capable;

3. Notes with satisfaction the adoption by the ECJ in July 2007 of a code of conduct applying to Members and former Members of the Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal , including an obligation to submit a declaration of financial interests to the President of the Court of Justice; stresses, however, its repeated request, in the interest of transparency, even in the absence of legal requirement at present, for the publication of concrete declarations, for example on the ECJ's website;

3. Notes with satisfaction the adoption by the ECJ in July 2007 of a code of conduct applying to Members and former Members of the Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance and the Civil Service Tribunal, including an obligation to submit a declaration of financial interests to the President of the Court of Justice; stresses, however, its repeated request, in the interest of transparency, even in the absence of legal requirement at present, for the publication of concrete declarations, for example on the ECJ's website;

As regards financial services, lack of information in advertising on the annual rate and the cost of credit, offers of misleading bargains for credit contracts with a low interest rate, and lack of proper information on the legal obligations related to the signing of contracts were amongst the practices reported.[113] In relation to immovable property, examples of practices encountered were: misdescription of property characteristics, lack of transparency in relation to the cost of the property and respective taxes, bait advertising, aggressive practices by real estate agents such as intimidating consumers into signing an exclusive contr ...[+++]act with an agent when attempting to sell their properties.

111. In any event, the complaint about the absence of a regulatory mechanism guaranteeing the independence and impartiality of the Bureau is unfounded, because it is clear from the case-law that the guarantees conferred by the Community legal order in administrative proceedings include, in particular, the principle of good administration, to which is linked the duty of the competent institution to examine carefully and impartially all the relevant aspects of the individual case (judgments in Cases C‑269/90 Technische Universität München [1991] ECR I‑5469, paragraph 14, T‑44/90 La Cinq v Commission [1992] ECR II‑1, paragraph 86, and T‑70/ ...[+++]99 Alpharma v Council [2002] ECR II‑3495, paragraph 182).

The Commission has received representations from European and national parliamentarians, defence lawyers, citizens and civil society groups highlighting a number of problems with the operation of the EAW: no entitlement to legal representation in the issuing state during the surrender proceedings in the executing state; detention conditions in some Member States combined with sometimes lengthy pre-trial detention for surrendered persons and the non-uniform application of a proportionality check by issuing states, resulting in requests for surrender for relatively minor offences that, in the absence ...[+++] of a proportionality check in the executing state, must be executed.