European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision in accordance with Article122(2) of the Treaty on the adoption by Slovenia of the single currency on 1 January 2007 (COM(2006)0225 - C6-0164/2006 - 2006/0077(CNS))
Date: 2006-06-15
Institutions: Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Parliament
Subjects: Economic and Monetary Union, Slovenia, economic convergence, euro, exchange rate

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5.

Points 1 to 4 shall apply to Community air carriers and to carriers that have their principal place
of business in one or more Member States.

6. Responsibilities for taking appropriate action in the event of any act of unlawful interference
committed on board a civil aircraft or during a flight shall be clearly defined, without prejudice
to the principle of the authority of the captain of the aircraft.

11. STAFF RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING

1.

2.

Persons implementing, or responsible for implementing, screening, access control or other security
controls shall be recruited, trained, where appropriate, certified so as to ensure that they are suit-
able for employment and competent to undertake the duties to which they will be assigned.

Persons other than passengers and escorted persons with a short term airport pass requiring
access to security restricted areas shall, before either an airport identification card or crew iden-
tification card is issued, receive security training unless they are continuously escorted by one or
more persons that have an airport identification card or crew identification card.

3. Training as referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be conducted on initial and recurrent basis.

4.

Instructors engaged in the training of the persons mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be qual-
ified.

12. SECURITY EQUIPMENT

Equipment used for screening, access control and other security controls shall comply with approved
specification and be capable of performing the security controls concerned.

13. BACKGROUND CHECKS

All pilots and applicants for pilot licences for motorised aircraft shall be subject to uniform back-
ground checks which shall be repeated at regular intervals. Decisions of the appropriate authorities
regarding background checks shall be taken on the basis of the same criteria.

P6_TA(2006)0268

Adoption by Slovenia of the single currency *

European Parliament legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision in accordance
with Article 122(2) of the Treaty on the adoption by Slovenia of the single currency on 1 January
2007 (COM(2006)0225 — C6-0164/2006 — 2006/0077(CNS))

(Consultation procedure)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Commission proposal to the Council (COM(2006)0225) (1),

— having regard to the Commission convergence report 2006 on Slovenia (COM(2006)0224) and the

European Central Bank convergence report of May 2006,

— having regard to Article 122(2) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament

(C6-0164/2006),

(1) Not yet published in the OJ.

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— having regard to Rules 51 and 43(1) of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to its resolution of 1 June 2006 on the enlargement of the euro zone (1),

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (A6-0200/2006),

1.

2.

Approves the Commission proposal;

Favours the adoption of the euro by Slovenia in January 2007;

Calls on the Member States to allow the Commission to assess compliance with the Maastricht criteria

3.
on the basis of definite, current, reliable, and high-quality data;

4.

Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;

Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to amend the Commission proposal substan-

5.
tially;

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission, and the governments of

6.
the Member States.

(1) Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0240.

P6_TA(2006)0269

Human rights situation in Tunisia

European Parliament resolution on Tunisia

The European Parliament,

— having regard to its previous resolutions on the human rights situation in Tunisia, in particular those

adopted on 29 September 2005 (1) and 15 December 2005 (2),

— having regard to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European
Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Tunisia, of the other
part (3), which entered into force on 1 March 1998,

— having regard to the Commission Communication of 21 May 2003 entitled ‘Reinvigorating EU actions

on Human Rights and democratisation with Mediterranean partners’ (COM(2003)0294),

— having regard to the Commission Communication of 12 April 2005 entitled ‘Tenth anniversary of the
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: A work programme to meet the challenges of the next five years’
(COM(2005)0139),

— having regard to the Commission Communication of 12 May 2004 on the European Neighbourhood
Policy (COM(2004)0373) and its EU-Tunisia Action Plan, which entered into force on 4 July 2005,

— having regard to the Council's guidelines on the protection of human rights defenders, adopted in June

2004,

— having regard to the statements made by the President-in-Office of the Council and the Commission at

the debate on human rights in Tunisia held on 13 December 2005,

— having regard to its resolution of 14 February 2006 on the human rights and democracy clause in the

European Union's agreements (4),

— having regard to the steps taken by the Presidencies of the Council with regard to human rights in

Tunisia between September 2005 and May 2006,

(1) Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2005)0368.
(2) Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2005)0525.
(3) OJ L 97, 30.3.1998, p. 2.
(4) Texts Adopted, P6_TA(2006)0056.