22. Notes the recent opinion of the Advocate-General of the Court of Justice of the European Communities in the 'Brita Case', which stated that preferential treatment under the EC-Israel Agreement cannot be applied to goods originating from the occupied territories and that entitlement to preferential tariffs under the EC-PLO Agreement may be granted to goods manufactured in the occupied territories only if the requisite certificates of origin are issued by the Palestinian authorities, and is awaiting with interest the Court's final judgment; stresses that this judgment could have serious consequences on the EC-Israel and EC-PLO Agreeme ...[+++]nts;

Hon. Paddy Torsney: Is there enough work in the rest of employment law for the lawyers to keep busy so that they won't resist the legislation?

G. whereas Anwar Al Bunni, a founding member of the Syrian Human Rights Organisation and a lawyer specialising in human rights issues, was arrested on the streets of Damascus in 2006 when he was on the verge of taking up a post as director of a human rights centre financed by the European Union and has now been sentenced to five years" imprisonment for "spreading false information harmful to the state",

77. Calls on the Commission to pay due attention to and propose solutions for, in the framework of the Transparency initiative, the fact that a substantial number of former and actual high ranking members of staff in sensitive positions have left the Commission, sometimes on unpaid leave, to join lobbyists and law firms for example representing clients who are either under investigation by DG Competition or appeal against fines imposed on them;

– having regard to its resolution of 5 April 2001 on scale fees and compulsory tariffs for certain liberal professions, in particular lawyers, and on the particular role and position of the liberal professions in modern society ,

– having regard to its resolution of 5 April 2001 on scale fees and compulsory tariffs for certain liberal professions, in particular lawyers, and on the particular role and position of the liberal professions in modern society,