46. Welcomes the positive development of the Directorate for Impact Assessment and European Added Value within Parliament; believes that a systematic approach to the consideration of impact assessments should be adopted throughout Parliament; welcomes the preparation by the Impact Assessment Directorate of short summaries of the impact assessments accompanying Commission proposals, and considers that these should form an essential element of committees’ consideration of legislative proposals under debate; proposes that Parliament’s ...[+++] impact assessments should include a territorial dimension when appropriate; requests the Conference of Committee Chairs to consider how best to implement this recommendation;

1. Welcomes the efforts made to strengthen coordination of economic, budgetary and employment policies through the European Semester, allowing the parallel monitoring of national budgets and economic policies during a six-month period every year; stresses that the Cohesion Policy ought to become a focal point of the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey (AGS); regrets, therefore, that the AGS 2013 has not exploited an opportunity to commence a more meaningful debate on growth and jobs in the European Union, notably through an overhaul of its guidelines; considers that the processes behind the European Semester 2012 have highlighted the ne ...[+++]cessity for the European Union to achieve economic, social and territorial cohesion among regions and improve macro-economic coordination, and to reinforce democratic legitimacy and good governance with regard to Cohesion Policy, as well as in relation to all coordinated policies at European level that target the achievement of the Europe 2020 Strategy objectives;

18. Notes that the Commission has commissioned a study, linked to its European Transparency Initiative, of the rules and standards of professional ethics for holders of public office in the EU institutions and in national parliaments, national governments, constitutional courts (supreme courts), courts of audit and central or national banks of the 27 Member States of the EU, as well as Canada and the United States of America, and that for the EU institutions the study will examine ...[+++] and compare the rules and standards of professional ethics in the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Court of Auditors, the European Court of Justice, the European Central Bank and the European Investment Bank;

18. Notes that the Commission has commissioned a study, linked to its European Transparency Initiative, of the rules and standards of professional ethics for holders of public office in the EU institutions and in national parliaments, national governments, constitutional courts (supreme courts), courts of audit and central or national banks of the 27 Member States of the EU, as well as Canada and the United States of America, and that for the EU institutions the study will examine ...[+++] and compare the rules and standards of professional ethics in the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Court of Auditors, the European Court of Justice, the European Central Bank and the European Investment Bank;

The reports of the Commission and the European Central Bank shall also take account of the results of the integration of markets, the situation and development of the balances of payments on current account and an examination of the development of unit labour costs and other price indices.

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