11. Acknowledges from the Court of Auditors the need to improve the transparency of staff selection procedures; notes with concern that Selection Board members did not always complete their conflict of interest declarations or did not do so in a timely manner and there was no evidence of any action taken to address the issues raised by those declarations; regrets that the documentation of the Selection Board's proceedings was not always adequate and that there is no evidence as to how the method for the short-listing of candidates was established and that the questions for the written tests ...[+++] or interviews were set before the examinations;

7. Welcomes the 2008 pilot exercise to enhance cooperation between its Bureau and Committee on Budgets, which should test a streamlined budget procedure as well as allowing for more timely and transparent consultation on all parliamentary matters with significant financial implications; underlines that the pilot exercise should be carefully evaluated before any decisions are taken for the longer term;

7. Welcomes the 2008 pilot exercise to enhance cooperation between its Bureau and Committee on Budgets, which should test a streamlined budget procedure as well as allowing for more timely and transparent consultation on all parliamentary matters with significant financial implications; underlines that the pilot exercise should be carefully evaluated before any decisions are taken for the longer term;

3. Where the medium used to communicate the commercial practice imposes limitations of space or time, these limitations and any measures taken by the trader to make the information available to consumers by other means shall be taken into account in deciding whether information has been omitted.

With a view to preserving the guidance that may be drawn from past judgments of the European courts and Commission decisions pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89, while at the same time maintaining consistency with the standards of competitive harm which have been applied by the Commission and the Community courts regarding the compatibility of a concentration with the common market, this Regulation should accordingly establish the principle that a concentration with a Community dimension which would significantly impede effective competition, in the common market or in a substantial part thereof, in particular as a result of the crea ...[+++]tion or strengthening of a dominant position, is to be declared incompatible with the common market.

The difference between the results of two determinations carried out simultaneously or in rapid succession by the same analyst using the same apparatus on identical test material shall not exceed 0,2 % m/m.