The preparation of individual directives has been ongoing for the past decade and a half.

We are therefore talking about harmonising the legal provisions in the individual directives.

I do not therefore feel that it is right now to make and accept proposals for amendments in individual directives.

Each individual directive generally specifies how you must show your product meets the relevant requirements.

The individual directives can be added later, while we focus on developing the main directive. But the price will be high.

There are 16 individual directives dealing with the purchase, marketing and presentation of fertiliser for sale.

This is an extremely vital matter on which we are expecting the European Commission to table an individual directive in the autumn.

It also provides the enabling framework for a number of other individual directives concerned with specific aspects of health and safety.

There is, of course, a need for changes and improvements to individual directives, such as the Toy Safety Directive.

In order to fulfill its mission of providing guidance, the Commission issues reports- at regular or irregular intervals depending on its individual directive.

Section 16 of the Framework Directive stipulates that individual directives must be created to address risks of various types.

Father Ritter takes individual directives from Father McHugh only because the latter is his Provincial.

We do not want to elaborate a European asylum and immigration code, we want - as Mr Vitorino rightly said - individual directives.

More generally, the Commission has raised a number of sometimes very serious questions about the individual Directives, which require very careful review and to which we have responded individually.

It was drafted after the Commission had adopted its communication on the implementation of Framework Directive 89/391/EEC and of the first five individual directives.

Moreover, our motto should be to give priority to the small, but when it comes to individual directives and regulations, the Commission's analysis of their impact on small enterprises is lacking.

The plan is for only one report, including a general section dealing with the general principles of the framework directive, supplemented by special chapters on aspects relating to the individual directives.

Framework Council directive 89/391 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work and all the subsequent individual directives are also covered.

However, legislators are not disputing any of the issues concerning artificial radiation, and it would be expedient to introduce the individual directive providing precise regulation in this area right now, this year.

These would include, among others, the framework directive 80/1107/EEC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to chemical, physical and biological agents at work, and all the subsequent individual directives.

As regards the individual Directives, I broadly endorse the minimum harmonisation approach - and what Mrs Patrie has said - but this does not exclude the possibility that individual areas should be conclusively regulated where possible.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, as Mrs Breyer has just indicated, we are dealing today with the second individual directive deriving from the framework Directive of 1996 on the assessment and management of ambient air quality.

Perhaps I could just add one more thing. It would have been nice if we had been able to carry out these simplifications in Article 4, but this was not possible because there were, quite simply, no reports available on the experience gained from the thirty-five earlier, individual directives.

Greater openness and commitment will be created in respect of the financial sectors in many countries and the implementation of the rules contained in the individual directives in the individual states will be more uniform, creating a basis for more uniform supervision.

According to the framework directive on ambient air quality assessment and management and the respective individual directives, which define emission limits for PM10 particulates and for benzene, the Member States must ensure by appropriate measures that the limits are maintained nationally on the appointed date.