Job centres must provide training and mentoring programmes particularly in the field of information and communication technologies , as well as access to high-speed internet to job seekers, especially older people, legal migrants, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities, in order to optimally facilitate the job search .

Job centres must provide training and mentoring programmes particularly in the field of information and communication technologies , as well as access to high-speed internet to job seekers, especially older people, legal migrants, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities, in order to optimally facilitate the job search .

Job centres must provide training and mentoring programmes particularly in the field of information and communication technologies, as well as access to high-speed internet to job seekers, especially older people, legal migrants, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities, in order to optimally facilitate the job search.

61. Recalls the rapid pace of Estonia"s membership negotiations up to the end of 2000 and notes that the search for optimal solutions, rather than the rapid closure of more chapters, could gather maximum support within the country; shares the Commission"s conclusions that Estonia has continued to make good progress in both adopting and implementing the acquis and that its administrative capacity is also developing in a positive way; stresses, nevertheless, the need to deal effectively with the remaining challenges pointed out by the Commission and recognised by Estonia; draws attention, in this context, to the energy and regional poli ...[+++]cy areas;

52. Recalls the rapid pace of Estonia’s membership negotiations up to but not during last year and notes that the search for optimal solutions, rather than the rapid closure of more chapters, could gather maximum support within the country; shares the Commission’s conclusions that Estonia has continued to make good progress in both adopting and implementing the acquis and that its administrative capacity is also developing in a positive way; stresses, nevertheless, the need to deal effectively with the remaining challenges pointed out by the Commission and recognised by Estonia; draws attention, in this context, to the energy and regi ...[+++]onal policy areas;

BLOOD SAFETY AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY - COUNCIL RESOLUTION "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, RECALLING the Commission communication of 25 May 1993 on blood self- sufficiency in the European Community and its conclusions of 13 December 1993 on that communication; NOTES with interest the Commission communication of 21 December 1994 on blood safety and self-sufficiency in the European Community; REAFFIRMS the need to achieve self-sufficiency in blood and its derivatives in the Member States and in the Community, in particular through cooperation between Member States, in accordance with the principle of voluntary, unpaid blood donations; EMPHASIZES that the efforts to promote the quality and safety of blood collection help to prevent AIDS and ...[+++] other communicable diseases; RECALLS that Directive 89/381/EEC [1] which extends the scope of Directives 65/65/EEC and 75/319/EEC on proprietary medicinal products by laying down special provisions regarding medicines derived from human blood or plasma applies only to these products; AGREES on the need to define a strategy for reinforcing trust in the safety of the blood-transfusion chain and promoting self-sufficiency in the Community; ACCORDINGLY AGREES that, taking full account of the Council of Europe's discussions, the main activities to be undertaken could include: - the development of policies and agreed procedures in the donor-selection process among blood-collection establishments; - the implementation of efficient, validated and reliable screening tests; - the development and use of quality-assessment criteria and good practices regarding the collection, processing and transfusion of blood and blood products and patient follow-up procedures; - development of a haemovigilance system on the basis of existing networks for the collection of epidemiological data related to the blood- transfusion chain; - encouragement of health professionals to make optimal use of blood and blood products; - the establishment of basi ...