preparatory act
preparatory action

This aim is clearly visible in the Commission' s preparatory act.

This preparatory act came when other preparations, such as increased training and equipment production, had not yet been approved.

Accordingly a preparatory act can be an appropriation (cf. the law of attempt)!

Conspiracy, attempts, preparatory acts, and financial operations related to drug offenses are also called on to be criminalized.

The alternative would be to consider X's actions of writing and posting the letter as preparatory acts and so an attempt.

The Act provides a comprehensive structure covering merely preparatory acts to the most serious offences of arson and causing damage with intent to endanger life.

However, it is clear that, as with all significant amendments to the Treaty, a few preparatory acts are necessary for the Lisbon Treaty to enter into force.

Compliance in the United States with discovery orders requiring 'preparatory acts' abroad was regarded as not constituting 'discovery in a foreign nation as addressed by the Hague Convention'.

Although the executor may subdelegate the preparatory acts, he may not, unless the rescript expressly says so, subdelegate the actual execution of the decree, unless he subdelegates to another ordinary.

Macau's national security law is a law in Macau which prohibits and punishes acts of "treason, secession, and subversion" against the Chinese government, as well as "preparatory acts" leading to any of the three acts.

The activity of the Office is not only confined to the handling of the information, but also corresponds to the attendance of the director in the protocol, by means of the accomplishment of preparatory acts of decorations, floral offerings, seminaries and meetings.

There must be more than merely preparatory acts and, although the defendant may threaten death, this may not provide convincing evidence of an intention to kill unless the words are accompanied by relevant action, e.g. finding and picking up a weapon, and making serious use of it, or making a serious and sustained physical attack without a weapon.

To just continue with two existing preparatory actions is not enough.

We have sometimes had rather too many pilot projects and preparatory actions, for example.

The Council also wants to cut back on pilot projects and preparatory actions.

We are putting these in as preparatory actions to be approved under the 2007 budget.

Then there is the implementation of pilot projects and preparatory actions.

The Council will also approve the statement on pilot projects and preparatory action.

You also, notably, approved the specific line, or budget, for a preparatory action, which we will soon start to implement.

Let me take as one example the preparatory action for security research, of enormous interest to the citizens of Europe.

We must move from preparatory action to adopting a legal basis that will ensure our prominence in this field.

That last point still leaves something to be desired, however, especially regarding the pilot projects and the preparatory actions.

As for the pilot projects and preparatory actions, I am sure we will be able to build on last year's excellent cooperation between institutions.

We are having intense discussions on that and perhaps that could be a base for preparatory actions.

As regards the pilot projects, we need to strengthen our action, including our preparatory actions.

We have to undertake a preparatory action.

Commissioner Schreyer could perhaps state the exact date when the list with the results of the trial projects and the preparatory actions will be produced.

We appreciate the pilot projects and the preparatory action originally adopted by the Committee on Budgets.

Third, a number of technical/nomenclature changes will be made, mainly as regards pilot projects and preparatory actions.

Full enforcement and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty requires certain preparatory actions.

The recommendations made by the rapporteur on the pilot programmes and on the preparatory actions have taken a lot out of the debate.

Indications are preparatory actions that indicate whether an infrastructure event is likely to occur or is planned.

Under the new interinstitutional agreement, both budgetary authorities must state their intentions regarding the pilot projects or preparatory action.

The Presidency is aware of all these problems and the related need for a unified framework within which to conduct these preparatory actions.

There are areas where we have more margin of judgment such as pilot projects, preparatory actions and autonomous actions.

We have some margin of manoeuvre when you talk about pilot projects, preparatory actions and autonomous actions.

Apart from this point, Parliament has set a number of priorities for the agriculture budget in the form of pilot projects or preparatory actions.