3. The Joint Supervisory Authority shall be competent to supervise operation of the Customs Information System, to examine any difficulties of application or interpretation which may arise during its operation, to study problems which may arise with regard to the exercise of independent supervision by the national supervisory authorities of the Member States, or in the exercise of rights of access by individuals to the System, and to draw up proposals for the purpose of finding joint solutions to problems.

3. The Joint Supervisory Authority shall be competent to supervise operation of the Customs Information System, to examine any difficulties of application or interpretation which may arise during its operation, to study problems which may arise with regard to the exercise of independent supervision by the national supervisory authorities of the Member States, or in the exercise of rights of access by individuals to the System, and to draw up proposals for the purpose of finding joint solutions to problems.

1. Calls on the Pakistani Government to immediately end the state of emergency, to restore constitutional rule, to remove all restrictions on the exercise of freedom of opinion and expression, including freedom of the press, to end the crackdown on the judiciary, lawyers, media, human rights activists and political opponents, to reinstate the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry, and the other honourable judges and to release immediately all citizens who have voiced their opposition to President Musharraf's actions;

As a first step towards an effective right of reply applicable to all media, for instance in cases where the allegation has been published in another country, the proposal includes a call on the Member States to consider the introduction of measures into their domestic law or practice such as to ensure the right of reply across all media, without prejudice to the possibility of adapting the manner in which it is exercised to take into account the particularities of each type of medium.

The competent authorities of the State where the child is staying shall order the prompt return of the child without the person with rights of access being able to challenge the order, in particular by invoking proceedings referred to in Article 5, the existence of a judgment granting him or her custody given in that State or likely to be recognised in that State, or Article 13 of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

The Commissioner concluded on this point by saying that while considerable progress has been made there are a number of areas in which further initiatives might be taken with a view to ensuring a genuine and effective opening up of national public services. In particular : - the adoption of the regulation now pending before the Council on the "extension" of Regulation 1408/71 to special schemes for civil servants and persons treated as such; - comparative law studies should be launched into the major issues of principle, which could have serious consequences on the actual exercise of the right to freedom of movement in the public sector ...[+++] and which are not at present directly regulated by existing Community legislation; - an inventory needs to be drawn up of all the barriers (both overt and covert) which still stand in the way of exercise of the right to freedom of movement in the public sector in the different Member States; - preparation (and regular updates) of explanatory handbooks on the Community law applicable for the use of both individuals and the responsible national public services; - continuation and development of the exchanges of officials responsible for freedom of movement under the Karolus programme.