5. Urges the EU and its Member States to strive for the integration of provisions on sustainability in its investment agreements that are in line with the adoption of and follow-up work on the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UNCTAD/FAO/World Bank/IFAD Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment, the 2011 Revision of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the Doha Mandate adopted at UNCTAD’s XIII Ministerial Conference in 2012 and the Rio+20 Conference in 2012;

2. Is of the opinion that the work on the MFF should under no circumstances interfere in the work on the regulations defining the scope of support and the rules of implementation of each fund, and should thus respect the role of the European Parliament in the negotiations on the legal basis for cohesion policy; deeply regrets the fact that the negotiations on the MFF 2014-2020 did not follow this principle, which resulted in the work on the MFF having a substantial influence on the legislative negotiations on the regulations for cohe ...[+++]sion policy in terms of both content and timeframe;

Thirdly, the Civil Service Tribunal observes that even though the outcome of reconciling the obligation to state reasons and observance of the principle of the secrecy of the selection board’s proceedings, in particular as to whether the communication of a single eliminatory individual mark to the candidate eliminated in the oral phase satisfies that obligation, is more often than not in favour of the principle of the secrecy of the selection board’s proceedings, the position may be otherwise when special circumstances exist, all the more so as the recent case-law concerning ...[+++]Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (OJ 2001 L 145, p. 43) shows a development of Community case-law in favour of openness (see, to that effect, Case C‑64/05 P Sweden v Commission [2007] ECR I‑11389, and Joined Cases C‑39/05 P and C‑52/05 P Sweden and Turco v Council [2008] ECR I‑4723) (paragraph 40 of the judgment under appeal).

competitive tendering shall be ensured for all packages and, for the six main work packages, a single procedure shall be applied whereby any one independent legal entity, or a group represented for this purpose by a legal entity belonging to that group, may bid for the role of prime contractor for a maximum of two of the six main work packages.

All work packages in the framework of the activities of the deployment phase of Galileo should be open to the maximum possible competition, in line with the procurement principles of the European Union.

(b) competitive tendering of all packages and, for the six main work packages, the use of a single procedure whereby any one independent legal entity, or a group represented for this purpose by a legal entity part of a group, may bid for the role of prime contractor for a maximum of two of the six main work packages;