60. Welcomes the creation of offices for traditional and organic products at Member State level; believes that every Member State should have bodies, whether public or private, that are recognised both by producers and consumers for purposes of promoting and validating local organic and quality production;

49. Welcomes the creation at Member State level of offices for traditional and organic products; believes that every Member State should have bodies, whether public or private, that are universally recognised by producers and consumers for purposes of promoting and validating local organic and quality production;

49. Welcomes the creation at Member State level of offices for traditional and organic products; believes that every Member State should have bodies, whether public or private, that are universally recognised by producers and consumers for purposes of promoting and validating local organic and quality production;

The Council conclusions on quality assurance in vocational education and training of 23 and 24 May 2004, Recommendation 2006/143/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 on further European cooperation in quality assurance in higher education and the standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area agreed by the ministers responsible for higher education at their meeting in Bergen contain common principles for quality assurance which should underpin the implementation of ...[+++]the European Qualifications Framework.

For land-based biological resources, research will focus on: soil fertility, improved crops and production systems in all their diversity, including organic farming, quality production schemes and monitoring and assessment of the impact of GMOs on the environment and humans; plant health, sustainable, competitive and multifunctional agriculture, and forestry; rural development; animal health and welfare, breeding and production; infectious diseases in animals, including epidemiological studies, zoonoses and their pathogenic mechanisms, and diseases linked to animal feedstuffs; other threats to the sustainability and se ...[+++]curity of food production, including climate change; safe disposal of animal waste.

The second supplement deals with several topics in the quality assurance of pathology in breast cancer screening and diagnosis in which problems and practical solutions as well as new techniques and other advances have emerged in recent years. In 2014 the European Commission in cooperation with IARC and the European Cervical Cancer Screening Network (ECCSN) intends to deliver the 2nd edition of the European Guidelines for Quality Assurance of Cervical Cancer Screening and Diagnosis ­– Supplements covering primary HPV testing in cervical cancer scre ...[+++]ening and organization of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and conventional cytology in cervical cancer screening.