It may include any facility, such as automatic gauge changing facilities for rail, necessary to ensure the safe, secure and efficient operation of vehicles, including their reduced impact on the environment and improved interoperability.

11. Calls on the Commission to conduct a specific evaluation of the application of the priority criteria listed in the above-mentioned Communication, with the aim of assessing whether such an exercise is really needed and whether it may not risk reducing excessively the scope of infringement procedures, for which the Treaty does not provide any hierarchy; calls on the Commission to assess whether a simple increase in the available resources in the most exposed Directorates-General would not be a preferable solution with a view to improving the capacity to follow up complaints; points out that legal experts are needed in the Commission ...[+++]departments responsible for transposition to analyse whether legislation has been transposed in all its complexity; notes that it is not possible to rely solely on an automatic concordance system in order to analyse transpositions;

11. Calls on the Commission to conduct a specific evaluation of the application of the priority criteria listed in the above-mentioned Communication, with the aim of assessing whether such an exercise is really needed and does not risk reducing excessively the scope of infringement procedures, for which the Treaty does not provide any hierarchy; calls on the Commission to evaluate whether a simple increase in the available resources in the most exposed Directorates General would not be a preferable solution to improve the capacity to follow-up complaints; points out that legal experts are needed in the Commission departments responsibl ...[+++]e for transposition to analyse whether legislation has been transposed in all its complexity; notes that it is not possible to rely solely on an automatic concordance system to analyse transpositions;

failure of any autoflight system disconnect device;

The General Affairs Council of December 14 will begin further discussions on two proposed regulations for protecting the public against the risks of radioactivity in foodstuffs: - reintroduction on a Community basis of the post-Chernobyl standards for caesium levels in foodstuffs imported to the Community - establishment of an automatic system which would allow limits to be applied immediately to all foodstuffs marketed in the Community following abnormal radioactivity levels or a nuclear accident, while more spec ...[+++]ific limits are introduced It has long been clear that a Council decision is necessary on both parts of the package if an agreement is to be reached.

I have the advantage that, in 1977, when I was deputy chief of staff to the prime minister, I argued passionately against EPF on the simple ground that and Senator Fairbairn was with me in the PMO at the time having been in the government of Nova Scotia and having watched what happened when we moved to block funding for municipalities, it was self-evident that once you gave the money to the provinces via block funding, whether it was cash or tax points, you automatically lost any ability to influence where it went.