Traduction de «tenue d’axe sur radioguidage » (Français → Anglais) :

4. As regards payment appropriations, considers 0,95 % of EU GNI to be an insufficient figure in the light of the policy challenges faced by the EU; expresses its astonishment that the Council should propose over EUR 1 billion of cuts to payments in headings 1a and 1b for programmes identified as priorities under the Lisbon Strategy for improving European competitiveness and cohesion - a long-standing priority of the Council and Parliament; therefore proposes increases in the overall level of payments to 0,99 % of EU GNI; in line with the emphasis on accurate implementation in the "budget for results" approach, has focused these incre ...[+++]ases on Lisbon priorities and on programmes where levels of unpaid commitments ("reste à liquider " (RALs)) are persistently high;

4. Highlights that, in line with the cost-benefit approach set out in paragraph 7 of the APS resolution, a qualitative value for money approach was started through policy hearings in the Committee on Budgets, and a thorough analysis of a number of sources of information on the quality of spending of EU funds and on budget implementation; notes that budget amendments were prepared inter alia on the basis of the information thus obtained; welcomes the fact that Council, Commission and Parliament all participate in a value-for-money trend;

4. Highlights that, in line with the cost-benefit approach set out in paragraph 7 of the APS resolution, a qualitative value for money approach was started through policy hearings in the Committee on Budgets, and a thorough analysis of a number of sources of information on the quality of spending of EU funds and on budget implementation; notes that budget amendments were prepared inter alia on the basis of the information thus obtained; welcomes the fact that Council, Commission and Parliament all participate in a value-for-money trend;

- Several major events were organised over the year including the 'added value' conference in Brussels (part of a cycle of such events following up issues raised in the Second Cohesion Report or the first progress report.); the 'Cities for Cohesion' event in London - launching the debate with local authorities about the urban content of future cohesion policy - and the mountain seminar in Brussels, examining aspects of territorial cohesion raised in the Second Cohesion Report.

31. Urges that the use of personal genetic information and the access to it afforded to third parties be debated with a view to adopting future legislation based essentially on protection of the inviolability of the person and grounded in the requirement that the individual's free and informed consent must be obtained for the purpose of protecting his or her health or the health of his or her offspring (or medical research), ruling out any other purposes; but considers that, for example, in the case of research, it must be possible to know who is the donor and who the recipient of cells, without the persons themselves having this inform ...[+++]ation;

A 'Summer School' which brought together representatives of all the intermediary bodies, the external evaluators and the European Commission was held in Belgium on 8-11 July. It focused on specific practical issues such as the selection and monitoring of micro-projects and the management of partnerships, building on discussions started on the CIRCA electronic discussion forum.