count in its legislative proposals of costs and benefits to the
Member States' public authorities and all the parties concerned.
DECLARATION
ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNITY LAW
1. The Conference stresses that it is central to the coherence and unity
of the process of European construction that each Member State
should fully and accurately transpose into national law the Community
Directives addressed to it within the deadlines laid down therein.
Moreover, the Conference, while recognizing that it must be for each
Member State to determine how the provisions of Community law can
best be enforced in the light of its own particular institutions, legal
system and other circumstances, but in any event in compliance with
Article 189 of the Treaty establishing the European Community,
considers it essential for the proper functioning of the Community that
the measures taken by the different Member States should result in
Community law being applied with the same effectiveness and rigour
as in the application of their national law.
2. The Conference calls on the Commission to ensure, in exercising its
powers under Article 155 of this Treaty, that Member States fulfill their
obligations. It asks the Commission to publish periodically a full report
for the Member States and the European Parliament.
DECLARATION
ON ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF COMMUNITY
MEASURES
The Conference notes that the Commission undertakes in its
proposals, and that the Member States undertake in implementing
those proposals, to take full account of their environmental impact and
of the principle of sustainable growth.
DECLARATION
ON THE COURT OF AUDITORS
The Conference emphasizes the special importance it attaches to the
task assigned to the Court of Auditors by Articles 188a, 188b, 188c and
206 of the Treaty establishing the European Community.
It requests the other Community institutions to consider, together with
the Court of Auditors, all appropriate ways of enhancing the
effectiveness of its work.
DECLARATION ON THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE
The Conference agrees that the Economic and Social Committee will
enjoy the same independence with regard to its budget and staff
management as the Court Auditors has enjoyed hitherto.
DECLARATION
ON COOPERATION WITH CHARITABLE ASSOCIATIONS
The Conference stresses the importance, in pursuing the objectives of
Article 117 on the Treaty establishing the European Community, of co-
operation b