Further legislative action would only be appropriate if clear and sufficient progress on international aviation emissions were made at the ICAO Assembly, including reaching an agreement on a global MBM with a realistic implementation timetable and on a non-discriminatory framework providing comprehensive coverage of international aviation emissions by national and regional MBMs, pending application of the global MBM.

The major policy objective for the EU is to remain competitive at global level and to have an open and functioning single market, as stressed in the Europe 2020 strategy and in the Single Market Act.

(2)a unique donation number allocated by the tissue establishment, unless such number is allocated centrally at national level or is a globally unique number as used by the ISBT128 coding system.

Permitted systems of allocation include national systems establishing centralised allocation of the nationally unique donation number or systems requiring each tissue establishment to allocate unique donation numbers or international systems that allocate globally unique donation numbers that are compatible with the Single European Code.

(c) The number of the model passport, ISO code of the Member State of issue followed by a unique number, shall be printed on the cover of the model passport.

35. Notes that the Helsinki European Council did not adopt the tax package owing to a lack of adequate progress on the two components of the package, i.e. the simultaneous adoption of directives on the taxation of savings and on company taxation; points out that there is no reason to kill off fair tax competition in the European Union and that the priority must be to eliminate the distortions which do exist and are actually disrupting the single market, that the competitiveness of European financial markets on a world scale must be preserved, and the geographical coverage of the directive on the taxation of savings should be extended to ...[+++] dependent or associate territories where Member States have special responsibilities and to non-Community countries likely to attract capital from the European Union;