Regulation updating the working methods of the European Aviation Safety Agency with regard to standardisation inspections
90/2012
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 90/2012 of 2 February 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 736/2006 on working methods of the European Aviation Safety Agency for conducting standardisation inspections
It is deemed necessary to extend the application of the existing working methods of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for conducting standardisation inspections to the new fields of crew licensing, air operations, air traffic controllers’ license and the provision of ATM (air traffic management) / ANS (air navigation services) without delay. This is to take account of changes introduced by legislation including Directive 2004/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1034/2011, Commission Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011 and Commission Regulation (EU) No 805/2011. The Agency must amend its working procedures to comply with this Regulation not later than one month following its entry into force on 4 February 2012.
Proposed Legislation
Draft Decision with regard to a request to the WTO for permission to grant special trade preferences to Pakistan
COM(2012) 24 final
Proposal for a Council Decision establishing the position to be taken by the European Union within the General Council of the World Trade Organisation on the request for a WTO waiver on additional autonomous trade preferences granted by the European Union to Pakistan
The objective of this proposal is to establish the position to be taken by the EU within the General Council of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as regards the request for a WTO waiver on additional autonomous trade preferences granted by the Union to Pakistan and thus allow the EU to join a consensus on the adoption of this waiver request. On 14 October 2010, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council introducing emergency autonomous trade preferences for Pakistan, thereby responding to the invitation by the European Council of 16 September 2010 in the wake of the unprecedented and devastating floods in Pakistan. Discussions on this proposal in the Parliament and in the Council will resume shortly. To permit the EU to provide preferential treatment for imports originating in Pakistan without being required to extend the same preferential treatment to the like products of any other Member of the WTO, a waiver has to be granted by that body, suspending temporarily certain commitments which would be otherwise applicable. On 18 November 2010, the EU presented to the WTO a request for such a waiver and on 26 October 2011, a revised waiver request. As bilateral discussions on this request are still ongoing with some WTO Members, a second revised waiver request will be submitted in due time.
