Traduction de «travaux des corps d'état secondaires » (Français → Anglais) :

If you will allow me, Mr President, I would like to finish with some thanks, and with a very personal thank you to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is sitting here beside me, who has accompanied me throughout these six months, to the Secretary of State for European Affairs, who is here with me, but I would also like to thank the Portuguese diplomatic corps, which organised everything, working in the background and often unacknowledged for the fruits of its labours; I want to thank the whole Portuguese diplomatic corps that gave of its best for its country and ...[+++] for Europe and was headed by one of the great Portuguese ambassadors, ambassador Mendonça e Moura, who is here with me.

15. Asks the Commission to supply further information on the potential risks resulting inter alia from hyperstimulation of the ovaries; asks the Commission accordingly to supply accurate figures on the number of women suffering from side-effects of ovarian stimulation and calls on it to disseminate such information in the Member States; places particular emphasis on the obligation to inform women of all potential risks caused by ovarian stimulation;

| This idea of the pilot scheme project has gradually taken shape over the last four years, starting with the publications on Home State Taxation by its authors Malcolm Gammie and Sven-Olof Lodin[22], and continuing with the Commission work on a new company taxation strategy, and the reactions to these initiatives.

This right would make it possible for a manufacturer to prevent the non-authorized extraction and/or the re-utilization of the whole or a substantial part of the contents of a database - without prejudice, however, to application of the rules of competition (especially as regards the abuse of dominant positions and abusive practices. The protection granted by this right would apply for fifteen years after the completion of a database. The Member States would have the option of providing for certain exceptions to the sui generis right, in particular as regards extractions for private purposes or illustration in teaching. Under the common position, the sui generis right could be extended to databases manufactured in third countries, on the ba ...[+++]sis of reciprocal agreements. The Member States should transpose the Directive into their national legislation before 1 January 1998. CONVENTION ON INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS The Council - noted the agreement of fourteen delegations on the current draft text of the Convention; - instructed the Permanent Representatives Committee to continue its proceedings and seek bases for rapprochement such that unanimous agreement could be reached and to prepare the explanatory report awaited for final approval by the Council. The draft Convention is based on the principle of attenuated universality, i.e. on an approach based on main insolvency proceedings opened in the Contracting State in which a debtor has the centre of his main interests and the possibility of opening secondary or territorial proceedings wherever he is established. The main proceedings would produce effects in all the Contracting States and the territorial and secondary proceedings would produce effects restricted to the territory of the Contracting State where they were opened. This approach represents a compromise which endeavours to take into account the various legal traditions in the Member States.

Centred on schools (there are more than 300 000 pre-school, primary and secondary education establishments in the Community), which are one of the main places for exchanges and contacts between the various people involved in education, and implemented by means of projects and transnational cooperation networks, Community measures in the field of education could be based on the following points: - encouraging cooperation between education establishments by means of, for example, mobility and exchanges of young people, providing them with the opportunity to encounter different environments; - making teachers and other people involved in e ...[+++]ducation more aware of the European dimension in education during their training and, to this end, encouraging cooperation and exchanges between training institutes in different Member States; - developing language teaching, thereby increasing mobility vis-à-vis other countries and the possibility of communicating with other cultures, strengthening Community action to this end on the basis of experience acquired through the Lingua programme, and encouraging the development of teaching materials; - encouraging greater exploitation of the possibilities offered by distance education and multimedia systems to help young people adapt to occupational developments or, where necessary, retraining, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge; - promoting educational innovations and their dissemination by encouraging the establishment at European level of networks of researchers into education and training requirements and methodologies; provisions to this end are set out in the proposal for the fourth framework programme of Community activities in the field of research and technological development; - strengthening exchanges of information and experience relating to the education systems and methodologies of Member States, their reforms and innovations, and thereby profiting from the considerable knowledge acquired through the work of the ...

The specific objectives include: - setting up machinery for monitoring environmental factors (in collaboration with the European Environment Agency) - creating environmental control mechanisms in the primary and secondary sectors of industry, especially for public works - support for schemes to help meet Community environmental directives, above all on waste-water treatment, solid-waste disposal, toxic substances and drinking water (directives linked directly with infrastructure) - support for schemes to help meet Community environmen ...[+++]tal directives on water quality (e.g. controlling nitrate pollution), soil erosion, air quality, bird protection and habitat conservation - support for schemes agreed on in partnership which will give Greece better tools for spatial development planning, urbanization and protection of woodland and biotopes.