It is therefore of pressing importance that we pursue an active policy aimed at enhancing the quality of criminal justice and at harmonising Member State legislation.
It has proposed new rules to harmonise member states' legislation on IPR enforcement.
But Frydenberg said states such as South Australia, Victoria and Queensland had also been pursuing unrealistically high renewable energy targets – which was a separate issue – and it was his job to try to harmonise the state-based targets with the national target over coming years.
Measures include introducing centralised bank and payment account registers in member states, harmonising the checks that banks and financial institutions make across the EU and easing the flow of information between member states' financial intelligence units.
The government's approach to harmonising the sales taxes levied by state governments is to seek agreement to gradual change.
The discussion on the legal basis was also called subterfuge: 'When people say we should use article 129, they forget that, according to that article, it is not possible to adopt measures to harmonise the member states' legal and statutory provisions.
For France, the priority is to curb "disloyal" competition, by harmonising taxes to stop low-tax states (eg, Ireland) taking business away from high-tax ones (eg, France), or stopping Britain from imposing tougher rules on its banks that might make them seem safer than French ones.
The Land Use and Cover Area frame Statistical survey (LUCAS) aimed at the collecting harmonised data about the state of land use/cover over the extent of European Union (EU).
I welcome the fact that this service has been enabled by the EU's approach to harmonising the necessary spectrum across EU member states.
Achieve a uniform and high level of control and protection of external borders by supporting integrated border management, harmonising border management measures within the Union and sharing information among Member States, as well as between Member States and Frontex.
