If further justified derogations to the common rules are needed to take into account specificities of the EMFF and of the EAFRD, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission commit to allow for these derogations by proceeding with due diligence to the necessary modifications to the Regulation laying down common provisions for the European Structural and Investment Funds.

91. Calls on the Commission to determine, taking account of the diverse range of project specificities and the territorial characteristics of projects, whether joint or coordinated procedures establishing concrete ad hoc key measures and best practices (regular exchanges of information, timely communication of decisions, joint problem-solving mechanisms, etc.) could be set up, and to evaluate the suitability of using arbitration procedures as a final decision-making tool;

92. Calls on the Commission to determine, taking account of the diverse range of project specificities and the territorial characteristics of projects, whether joint or coordinated procedures establishing concrete ad hoc key measures and best practices (regular exchanges of information, timely communication of decisions, joint problem-solving mechanisms, etc.) could be set up, and to evaluate the suitability of using arbitration procedures as a final decision-making tool;

In its communication of November 2000, the Commission noted that, while legislative policy, albeit in two phases, constituted the core and the greater part of the establishment of a common European asylum system, the special nature of asylum policy also meant that it needed ancillary measures and convergence techniques.

The approach proposed by the Commission extends to satellite communications the general principles of Community telecommunications policy based on a balance between liberalisation and harmonisation measures in conformity with the consensus achieved at the Telecommunications Council of 7 December 1989; it also takes into account the special features of this sector.

In the absence of any real control over fishing capacity, this system has produced a race in terms of vessels and catches, with a very significant phenomenon of discards at sea; - lack of consideration of a number of constraints and distinctive features, such as multispecies fisheries; - the complexity of the system, necessitating major surveillance and control mechanisms coupled with inadequate coercive measures at Community level and a lack of political will to guarantee compliance with Community norms; - insufficient consideration of all parameters, giving priority to the biological approach to resources management; - 3 - - compartmentalizing the common fisheries ...[+++] policy into distinct components, with a lack of coherence between them (particularly the common market organization and structural policy), made worse by the lack of real sanctions against illegal practices; - lack of attention to social parameters, due to the absence of a true social policy with instruments to organize the necessary restructuring (job cutbacks, alternative employment) while guaranteeing the future of the fishing industry (training).