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European Commission Spokesman's Briefing for 96-10-01
From: HR-Net News Distribution Manager <dist@hri.org>
MIDDAY EXPRESS
News from the Spokesman's midday briefing
Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi du Porte-Paroleb
01 / 10 / 1996
CONTENTS / CONTENU
[01] European Union policies and health
[02] La Commission autorise Temic et Leica à créer une entreprise commune de
fabrication de systèmes de régulation de vitesse
[03] Ritt Bjerregaard: "We need the French national list under the Natura 2000
now !"
[04] Commission calls for urgent action by Argentina to avert dispute in textiles
trade
[05] Franz Fischler says that the 1992 reforms should be completed and
deepened
[06] Edith Cresson: Pour un véritable statut européen de l'apprenti
[01] European Union policies and health
Many key policy areas in the European Union can have implications for human
health and should take health considerations into account from the early stages
of policy development, according to the second annual report on the integration
of health requirements in the EU policies recently adopted by the European
Commission. According to the report, almost all main policy areas in the EU
increasingly have an impact, direct or indirect, on health; hence the need to
integrate health requirements at an early stage into the drafting of policies and
action programmes. There has been some progress in raising awareness of the
importance of the health dimension in other policies, both in the Member States
and at Union level. However, much more needs to be done: in many sectors the
questions of how best to integrate health requirements in a given policy area, or
on how and according to which criteria to judge success or failure are still being
discussed. In publishing this report, the Commission seeks to stimulate debate
on these questions and to contribute to the development of new thinking on the
subject, promoting a transparent and open exchange on health issues within the
EU.
[02] La Commission autorise Temic et Leica à créer une entreprise commune de
fabrication de systèmes de régulation de vitesse
La Commission européenne a approuvé un projet aux termes duquel Temic
Telefunken microelectronic GmbH, une entreprise appartenant au groupe Daimler
Benz, et Leica AG (Suisse), qui appartient au groupe Schmidheiny, prendront le
contrôle conjoint de l'entreprise commune nouvellement créée ADC Automotive
Distance Control Systems GmbH.
[03] Ritt Bjerregaard: "We need the French national list under the Natura 2000
now !"
In a meeting with the French Minister for the Environment, Corinne Lepage, in
Brussels yesterday, Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard, underlined the
obligations for all Member States, including France, to ensure the implementation
of the Habitats Directive, and in particular the obligations of the Member States
to submit to the European Commission their proposals for national lists of sites,
which constitutes the first stage of the implementation of the Natura 2000
network.
[04] Commission calls for urgent action by Argentina to avert dispute in textiles
trade
In a last effort to resolve a trade dispute with Argentina, the European
Commission has asked the Argentinians to take urgent action to remove trade
barriers which are severely restricting access to Argentina's market for EU
exports of textiles, clothing and footwear. Argentina has been identified by EU
exporters as a market with great potential demand for high quality European
exports. However, during the course of 1996, Argentina has introduced duty
rates exceeding the rates bound in WTO as well as new restrictive legislation
concerning labelling and certificates of origin which is also contrary to WTO rules.
The Commission believes these measures are incompatible with Argentina's
WTO commitments. The European Union will request formal WTO consultations
if the matter is not solved within the next few days.
[05] Franz Fischler says that the 1992 reforms should be completed and
deepened
( !!! embargo 14h !!!
) Speaking today in Brussels, at the CEPS meeting on "The
Common Agricultural Policy - Future Developments and Questions on
Enlargement", Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Franz Fischler
said that we have to continue to develop our agricultural policy. Specifically, that
means that the reforms must be completed where they have not yet been
introduced; they must be simplified where they have become too complex; and
they must be reinforced where they did not go far enough in 1992. We will have
to rely on the price support mechanism even less in the future than we do today,
for it cannot give farms the guaranteed income they hope for in the long term.
What is more, in markets where competitiveness will become even more
important in the future, a route involving artificially high prices will quickly lead to
a dead-end. However, it is not true at all that our farmers, as producers of high-quality foodstuffs and raw materials, have no chance on world markets. On the
contrary, recent events especially have demonstrated that consumers throughout
the world prefer foodstuffs whose quality and origin are guaranteed. We are
already going along this road in Europe. And we need to redouble our efforts in
this area. ( !!! embargo 14h !!!
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[06] Edith Cresson: Pour un véritable statut européen de l'apprenti
La Commission européenne va développer au profit des apprentis un grand
programme de mobilité transnationale, du même type qu'Erasmus, dont l'objectif
est d'aboutir à 60.000 échanges-placements environ dès 1998. C'est ce qu'a
annoncé le Commissaire européen à la recherche, l'éducation et la formation
Edith Cresson hier à Paris devant les "Entretiens Condorcet", grande conférence
annuelle regroupant les professionnels de la formation, placée cette fois-ci sous
l'égide de l'Année européenne de la formation et de l'éducation tout au long de
la vie. Mme Cresson a également présenté quelques idées figurant dans le Livre
vert sur la mobilité transnationales des étudiants, enseignants, chercheurs et
personnes en formation - que la Commission devrait approuver demain -, parmi
lesquelles figure l'élaboration d'un véritable statut européen de l'apprenti à
négocier avec les partenaires sociaux et les Etats membres en 1997.
MIDDAY EXPRESS
From EUROPA, the European Commission Server at http://europa.eu.int/
© ECSC - EC - EAEC, Brussels-Luxembourg, 1995, 1996
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