To that end, a Community instrument in matters relating to maintenance obligations is to be created which will bring together provisions on jurisdiction, conflict of laws, recognition and enforceability, enforcement, legal aid and cooperation between central authorities.

The two athletes filed a complaint with the European Commission, alleging that the International Olympic Committee’s rules on doping control were not compatible with the Community rules on competition and freedom to provide services.

To ensure better protection of consumers' rights, and without prejudice to any Community rules concerning jurisdiction and applicable law, the applicable law in disputes between registrars and registrants on matters concerning Community titles should be the law of one of the Member States.

Any person employed with a Community institution or body may lodge a complaint with the European Data Protection Supervisor regarding an alleged breach of the provisions of this Regulation governing the processing of personal data, without acting through official channels.

(4) finally, facilitate the handling of disputes: it is indispensable in this area that airlines, airports, travel agencies and tour operators should make it easier to file complaints, and that these should be processed within a set period; it is also necessary that mechanisms should be put in place for the settlement of disputes, particularly on the basis of the Council Resolution of 25 May 2000 on a Community-wide network of national ...[+++] bodies for the extra-judicial settlement of consumer disputes ;

Efforts will be aimed at: - introducing measures on companies' right of establishment and on the liberalization of the supply of services; - promoting the appropriate conditions for the free movement of capital; - fostering compliance with competition rules and their application, drawing no distinction between the public and private sectors, and ensuring compliance with dispute-settlement rules and mechanisms; - facilitating the progressive narrowing of disparities hindering cooperation, the exercise of the right to private and public ownership, industrial and intellectual property rights, capital liability and corporate bankruptcy pr ...[+++]ocedures, legal persons, companies and their fiscal treatment, securities and banking and financial systems; - adjusting production processes to international and Community rules and standards in order to strengthen conformity testing, certification, recognition and quality schemes and processes; - abolish progressively all obstacles to trade and investment, including those arising from rules of origin.