[PDF] Top 20 Frontier-free Europe April 2000 No. 4

... Monthly newsletter m ISSN 102 1-23S3 % Managing economic and monetary union by Pedro Solbes, Member of t h e European Commission The introduction of the euro on 1 January 1999 has been a[r] ... See full document

... The tariff union was completed in 1968: all customs duties and restrictions among the six founding Member States of the Community were eliminated and the Common Customs Tariff - an exter[r] ... See full document

... BACKGROUN A NEW LOOK REGIONAL POLICY Concentrated aid, focused funding, decentralised management The European Union Structural Funds in the years 2000-06 will term development programmes[r] ... See full document

... Some of the Year's key objectives are to raise people's awareness of the EU's linguistic riches and the advantages of kno­ Chocolate products will be able to move freely throughout the E[r] ... See full document

... Meanwhile, in order that euro-area Member States maybe ready in good time to do battle against 'European' forgers, the Euro­ pean Commission proposed on 26 July a regulation which pro­ v[r] ... See full document

... BACKGROUND A competitive tool for the single market THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDISATION Europe's internal market cannot function effectively as long as mutually incompatible natio[r] ... See full document

... Supplement - Frontier-free Europe, No 3-2000 The Report on the risk assessment of 4-MTA in the framework of the joint action on new synthetic drugs issued by the EMCDDA's scientific comm[r] ... See full document

... The tariff indicates the customs duties While the free circulation of goods within the European Union is the internal aspect of the customs union, the Common Customs Tariff CCT is the ex[r] ... See full document

... SINGLE MARKET: ACHIEVEMENTS AND DELAYS φ Strengthening ¡ntra­EU cooperation Each Member State of the European Union would be required to indicate to its partners and to the European Comm[r] ... See full document

... The published results of work commissioned or produced by the centre take various forms: discussion papers under the general title 'Panorama' recent example: Exploring the returns to con[r] ... See full document

... BACKGROUND LOANS FROM THE EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK As the financial institution of the European Community, the European Investment Bank EIB was set up under the Treaty of Rome to help fi[r] ... See full document

... In 1996 the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg annulled a decision allowing the European Broadcasting Union with its 67 public broadcast members exclusive rights to broadcast[r] ... See full document

... SMEs ♦ Trade/craft industry: towards the crossborder recognition of diplomas The European Commission presented on 8 February a draft directive designed to improve and simplify Community [r] ... See full document

... It took only a few years for the Community to develop a whole range of tools for reducing national and regional economic disparities: agricultural structural policy, social policy, regio[r] ... See full document

... The directive, which the EU Council of Ministers adopted on 12 February, after its adoption by the European Parliament, adapts the existing regulation to the complete liberalisation of t[r] ... See full document

... The world's largest Internet site Under the stimulus of the European Parliament and the European Commission, the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities will provide[r] ... See full document

... ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION: WHAT WILL CHANGE ON 1 JANUARY 1999 Conversion rates are irrevocably fixed and legislation comes into force, notably on the legal status of the euro; Responsi[r] ... See full document

... There is still a need, however, to remove the obstacles which continue to block access to markets in third countries and prevent European ' For more information on the common commercial [r] ... See full document

... The twin forces driving the deregulation of telecommunications services are the internal market and the coming of the information society, while the foundation it rests on is a clear reg[r] ... See full document

... This is one of the innovations contained in a regulation which the European Union EU Council of Ministers adopted, in agreement with the European Parliament, on 25 January.. Travel agent[r] ... See full document