However, the Union is not committed to framework legislation on this issue.

Let us hope that the proposals for framework legislation will not be too long in coming.

The Commission could also do something here by introducing framework legislation.

I should like us at some point, but not now, to debate the opportunities for creating framework legislation in this area.

Members are having to fight for their parliamentary rights as regards the framework legislation on financial services.

We are now establishing framework legislation, but its implementation must also be monitored.

But the most important criterion must be that this framework legislation is practicable.

Before we spend another three years debating a White Paper and framework legislation, he is making things happen.

If we are to move forward, it is crucial that the framework legislation proposed by the Commission should be ambitious.

Such legislation may be led by the Commonwealth, perhaps through framework legislation of its own.

This is a piece of framework legislation that will be supplemented by implementing regulations.

Above and beyond this, generally speaking, the Treaty already provides us with plenty of room for manoeuvre through framework legislation.

As you are aware, the general product safety directive is the overall framework legislation that deals with this issue.

Framework legislation and the use of other regulatory mechanisms can only be something positive if they are linked with appropriate guarantees.

We need framework legislation that promotes waste prevention, reuse and recycling.

The problems with framework legislation at European level are clear when one looks at Sweden.

However, even if this framework legislation is fully transposed and implemented, the share of renewable energy should still only reach 10% in 2010.

These points advocate European framework legislation for an area which we most definitely consider should be subject to the principle of subsidiarity.

We have framework legislation which states that the employer is responsible for dealing with harassment in the workplace when this occurs.

The procedure rests on the distinction between framework legislation and secondary legislation.

Mr Wolf is right, however, in saying that a more general framework legislation is needed for two reasons.

This regulation on feed and food controls represents a piece of framework legislation in this context.

The European Union also has framework legislation in place which sets down minimum provisions on advertising to children for its 27 member states.

We therefore urgently need to adopt the new framework legislation on the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms.

In order to achieve framework legislation, I believe that a lot of work will have to be done in this Parliament’s next parliamentary term.