He went on to point out that a monetary union requires close
cooperation between its member states on budgeting and bank regulation.
For example, said Major, the European Council met in Essen last December and approved a plan of action both to improve
cooperation between member states, and to develop programmes of assistance to non-EU countries from which the material may be coming.
Yet there is limited
cooperation between Member States on managing large carnivore populations and ensuring their conservation.
Almost all Member States openly question why the Commission did not first maximize the existing possibilities of
cooperation between Member States and await the effects of recently proposed and / or adopted adjustments strengthening Eurojust and OLAF, as well as the pending proposal of Directive on EU Fraud.
Currently, the EU provides a mechanism which proscribes which country's jurisdiction takes precedence when there are two hearings taking place simultaneously in different countries; it enables court orders for maintenance, child contact or injunctions to be enforced in all member states; it enables information to be shared between nations so a partner can be located across borders; and it ensures
cooperation between member states in cases of child abduction overseas.
Notwithstanding perhaps obvious pressures for the UK to attract foreign investment and reduce strain on UK businesses, the strong focus of the Directive on reporting and
cooperation between Member States would be significantly undermined if one of the key players in its implementation were to introduce weaker controls.
Within the scope of application of this Treaty, the Council, acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251, shall take measures in order to strengthen customs
cooperation between Member States and between the latter and the Commission.
With a view to achieving the objectives of Article 136 and without prejudice to the other provisions of this Treaty, the Commission shall encourage
cooperation between the Member States and facilitate the coordination of their action in all social policy fields under this chapter, particularly in matters relating to:
Not exact matches
The euro crisis, moreover, has generated fear and mutual distrust
between member states, thus
cooperation has become more difficult.
In development
cooperation, an area of «shared» competences
between the EU institutions and the
member states, it has remained unexplored how economic recession, the sovereign debt crisis, austerity, the struggle in the eurozone and increasing Euroscepticism have affected the relationship
between the EU and its
member states.
While Lord West's review has found no systematic failings in our procedures for checking potential suspects, it has highlighted the importance of enhancing existing
cooperation to share more information
between police and immigration services and internationally across countries: - within the EU to enable British law enforcement authorities to access immigration information on existing EU databases; - bilaterally with other
member states to mutually exchange information; - and joining up criminal records databases throughout the EU so that our authorities can quickly identify individuals charged with crimes, no matter where in Europe they are convicted.
These new instruments in EU research funding foster coordinated efforts
between the EU and its
Member States» national and regional programmes, are highly ambitious, and rely on
cooperation among a range of disciplines, communities and programmes — requiring support for up to 10 years.
The EU is promoting
cooperation in research
between Member States with the aim of creating the European Research Area.
The Humane Society of the United
States says that this hierarchy serves to maintain order, reduce conflict and promote
cooperation between the
members of the pack.
Jayantha Dhanapala,
member of the BAS Board of Sponsors, former United Nations under - secretary - general for Disarmament Affairs and ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United
States, adds, «Despite the promise of a new spirit of international
cooperation, and reductions in tensions
between the United
States and Russia, the Science and Security Board believes that the path toward a world free of nuclear weapons is not at all clear, and leadership is failing.
The operation of this Regulation will involve
Member States in various instances, for example through the notification of information requests to the
Member States concerned and through the sharing of information
between the Commission and
Member States, thereby reflecting the principle of sincere
cooperation between the Commission and
Member States set out in Article 4 (3) TEU (available here).
EUROSUR is a technological platform for the operational
cooperation and the exchange of information
between the Schengen
Member States and FRONTEX for the surveillance of the external land and sea borders.
Therefore, when the Union acts within its external competences and within the remit of an association agreement, the proper legal basis should be chosen from those Treaty provisions regulating such action (part V), irrespective of whether the aim and content of the external measure are to introduce
cooperation equal to that
between Member States or not.
The particular position of UK and Ireland in regard of the Schengen
cooperation — which constitutes a special form of enhanced
cooperation between EU
Member States — is regulated by Artt.
Solidarity is referred to as a core element of the
cooperation between EU
Member States in the Schuman declaration of 9 May 1950, which represents the founding act of the EU.
In the VALE judgment the Court refers to its earlier SEVIC judgment (C - 411 / 03) where it ruled that company transformation operations respond to the needs for
cooperation and consolidation
between companies established in different
Member States.
And thirdly, it ensures that there is
cooperation between EU
member states surrounding the sharing of information which is used to protect children and to make former partners pay maintenance wherever they are.
The current
cooperation pursuant to the Council Framework Decision 13th June 2002, following my observations as a practitioner in both jurisdictions, drew my attention to the necessity for a mutual
cooperation, not only
between the
Member States» authorities, but inter alia, the lawyers from both countries as the ways of defending the requested persons are completely different; this will see the result meeting at one point, namely the successful defence.
With the Amsterdam Treaty, a new capacity was created to deploy enhanced
cooperation on a more ad hoc policy issue basis, particularly where legislative negotiations had failed to resolve disagreements
between Member States.
It does not only concern Article 218 TFEU on treaty - making, but also such provisions as Article 3 (5) and 21 TEU on external objectives of the EU at large, or Article 4 (3) TEU on sincere
cooperation between the Union institutions and the
Member States.
It will change fundamentally the existing system of judicial
cooperation between EU
Member States.
Furthermore, although it is true that the procedure laid down in Article 267 TFEU is an instrument for
cooperation between the Court of Justice and the national courts, by means of which the former provides the latter with the points of interpretation of EU law necessary in order for them to decide the disputes before them, the fact remains that when there is no judicial remedy under national law against the decision of a court or tribunal of a
Member State, that court or tribunal is, in principle, obliged to bring the matter before the Court of Justice under the third paragraph of Article 267 TFEU where a question relating to the interpretation of EU law is raised before it...
The hearing of a child in another
Member State may take place under the arrangements laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001 of 28 May 2001 on
cooperation between the courts of the
Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters (9).
-- closer
cooperation between judicial and other competent authorities of the
Member States including
cooperation through the European Judicial
Cooperation Unit («Eurojust»), in accordance with the provisions of Articles 31 and 32,
Member States which intend to establish closer
cooperation between themselves may be authorised, subject to Articles 43 and 44 of the Treaty on European Union, to make use of the institutions, procedures and mechanisms laid down by this Treaty, provided that the
cooperation proposed:
The Eurasian Economic Commission is currently drafting: (1) the Trademark Agreement, which provides for the establishment within the EEU of the Union - wide system for registration of trademarks and service marks; (2) Agreement on common process for administering copyrights and neighbouring rights on a collective basis, to establish the process for administration of copyrights and neighbouring rights within the EEU
member states; and (3) Agreement on the coordination of activities to protect intellectual property rights, regulating the
cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of EEU
member states in the area of IP rights protection.
As
stated in the official press release, the companies hope to find possible areas of
cooperation between other
members of the community and to work out open standards that could be beneficial for the entire industry.
The court
stated that possible isolated acts of
cooperation between members and non-
members did not alter the fact that non-
members were deprived of the use of the MLS.