Moreover, the procedure in which an application for asylum is examined should normally provide an applicant at least with the right to stay pending a decision by the determining authority, access to the services of an interpreter for submitting his/her case if interviewed by the authorities, the opportunity to communicate with a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) or with any organisation working on its behalf, the right to appropriate notification of a decision, a motivation of that decision in fact and in law, the opportunity to consult a legal adviser or other counsellor, and the right to be inf ...[+++]ormed of his/her legal position at decisive moments in the course of the procedure, in a language he/she can reasonably be supposed to understand.

- Shall arrange for a meeting of the Commission Security Policy Advisory Group or, under a silent procedure if necessary, enquire from the Member States' National Security Authorities with a view to obtaining the Commission Security Policy Advisory Group's opinion.

- Shall arrange for a meeting of the Commission Security Policy Advisory Group or, under a silent procedure if necessary, enquire from the member States' National Security Authorities with a view to obtaining the Commission Security Policy Advisory Group's opinion.

If it is now assumed that the Copenhagen figures will be incorporated into the treaties and will be definitively laid down only in an approval procedure that is to take place very soon, there is, as you said, the de facto possibility of influencing the Financial Perspective in a codecision procedure involving the interested parties in the budgetary authority, or are we being thrown back on the ‘do or die’ position, in which we can only accept or reject?

19. Asks the Court of Auditors to assess to what extent contractual management procedures for Community appropriations (invitation to tender, awarding of contracts) comply with transparency principles, in terms of objectives, selection board make-up, candidate selection, compliance with procedures and reasons for decisions, and in particular has concerns about invitation-to-tender procedures in the research sector; notes, that the Court of Auditors, in its annual report, has come to positive conclusions concerning the procurement procedures used by the institutions to purchase services, supplies and work and stresses the need for increas ...[+++]ed use of long term environmental and social benefit criteria in selection procedures; in particular, asks the Court of Auditors to assess the transparency of present Commission arrangements regarding external aid, such as the establishment of a set of shortlists where the same companies are supposed to be always the most efficient solution to apply Community grants of up to EUR 200 000 in every corner of the world;

19. Asks the Court of Auditors to assess to what extent contractual management procedures for Community appropriations (invitation to tender, awarding of contracts) comply with transparency principles, in terms of objectives, selection board make-up, candidate selection, compliance with procedures and reasons for decisions, and in particular has concerns about invitation-to-tender procedures in the research sector; notes, that the Court of Auditors, in its annual report, has come to positive conclusions concerning the procurement procedures used by the institutions to purchase services, supplies and work and stresses the need for increas ...[+++]ed use of long term environmental and social benefit criteria in selection procedures; in particular, asks the Court of Auditors to assess the transparency of present Commission arrangements regarding external aid, such as the establishment of a set of shortlists where the same companies are supposed to be always the most efficient solution to apply Community grants of up to EUR 200 000 in every corner of the world;