33. Notes that issues relating to product safety and market surveillance are of the utmost importance to European citizens; welcomes, therefore, the Commission's multiannual action plan for the development of European market surveillance based on guidelines for customs control and for product safety, and urges the Commission to establish a Single Market surveillance system for all products, based on one legislative act covering both the GPSD and the Market Surveillance Regulation; calls on the Commission to play a more active role in coordination and sharing of best practice between national customs and market surveillance authorities ...[+++]in order to increase the effectiveness of border controls on goods imported from third countries; ; calls on Member States and the Commission to deploy the resources needed to make market surveillance activities effective;

33. Notes that issues relating to product safety and market surveillance are of the utmost importance to European citizens; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s multiannual action plan for the development of European market surveillance based on guidelines for customs control and for product safety, and urges the Commission to establish a Single Market surveillance system for all products, based on one legislative act covering both the GPSD and the Market Surveillance Regulation; calls on the Commission to play a more active role in coordination and sharing of best practice between national customs and market surveillance authorities ...[+++]in order to increase the effectiveness of border controls on goods imported from third countries; ; calls on Member States and the Commission to deploy the resources needed to make market surveillance activities effective;

33. Notes that issues relating to product safety and market surveillance are of the utmost importance to European citizens; welcomes, therefore, the Commission's multiannual action plan for the development of European market surveillance based on guidelines for customs control and for product safety, and urges the Commission to establish a Single Market surveillance system for all products, based on one legislative act covering both the GPSD and the Market Surveillance Regulation; calls on the Commission to play a more active role in coordination and sharing of best practice between national customs and market surveillance authorities ...[+++]in order to increase the effectiveness of border controls on goods imported from third countries; ; calls on Member States and the Commission to deploy the resources needed to make market surveillance activities effective;

However, the Commission highlights the need to step up work in this area, in particular by mobilising European risk funding, fixing environmental performance targets for products, processes and services, establishing an EU wide system for testing and verifying environmental technologies as part of work to revise the Guidelines for environmental State aids, defining market development and industrial performance indicators, setting up national implementing roadmaps and drawing up action plans for public procurement.

12. Calls upon the European Council to ensure that all Councils, and not just the Competitiveness Council, address competitiveness across a broad front, notably by completing the existing internal market, developing the internal market for services, completing the risk capital market by the end of 2003 and the Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP) by the end of 2005, and transposing legislation to improve the performance of the telecommunications, energy and transport markets; underlines the importance of seeking political assurance at the highest level that Parliament's legislative rights to review implementing legislation (level II) w ...[+++]ill be upheld within the framework of the implementation of the FSAP;

The Fund's Guarantee Section finances, in particular, expenditure on the agricultural market organisations, the rural development measures that accompany market support and rural measures outside of Objective 1 regions, certain veterinary expenditure and information measures relating to the CAP.