Besides different ways to access data and databases on the basis of the principle of equivalent access, another option to make existing data and data bases better accessible is by networking them or creating central databases.

- launch a stocktaking exercise by the end of 2004, to identify the scope, needs and constraints of access to data and databases by law enforcement authorities.

- Demonstration of the appropriateness and acceptability of tagging, tracking and tracing devices by static and mobile multiple sensors that improve the capability to locate, identify and follow the movement of mobile assets, goods and persons, including smart documentation (e.g. biometrics, automatic chips with positioning) and data analysis techniques (remote control and access).

Whereas it should be ensured that the Commission has remote access to information contained in the relevant computer files in the databases updated by the Member States so that it can efficiently carry out the control tasks entrusted to it pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93;

The initiative states the principle of the separation in two different databases between the biometric data on one side and the textual identification data on the other side. The access to the second database is only possible if a ‘hit’ happened in the first one.

IV. Monitoring of the epidemiological situation in the CommunityIn the light of the considerable work already done to improve the general system for gathering epidemiological data, and notably the conclusions of the Council and the Ministers for Health meeting within the Council on 15 December 1988 and 16 May 1989 (1), the Member States and the Commission are requested, each as far as it is concerned, to:- continue improving the general system for gathering epidemiological data, and particularly national monitoring systems,-forward regularly to the European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS (WHO-EC Collaboration Centre in Paris) the available epidemiological data and provide suitable ...[+++]access to the Centre's database,-develop coordinated epidemiological studies for assessing the present situation and the possible spread of the epidemic,-take account of the above information when subsequently developing strategies for prevention and care,-develop, together with experts designated by the Member States and the European Centre, methodological approaches to ensure greater comparability of epidemiological data.