It should be possible for the complexity of the database to be proportionate to the size of the organisation concerned and/or its significance with respect to the objectives of this Regulation, and it should at least consist of a data file containing common mandatory data fields and, where applicable, specific mandatory data fields.

At the same time, the Immigration Minister had announced the insertion of biometric data of expelled Roma in the OSCAR database, EDVIGE/EDVIRSP is in the process of being created, the Netherlands and other EU countries are reported to be registering ethnic and racial data, and Italy is denying Roma access to public housing.

This morning, despite the very clear explanations which you have just given us, another new French information website has been found which contains a Roma database, illicit of course, which contains detailed and extensive information including surnames, first names, nicknames, parentage, social contacts, car registration numbers and models, and partners’ names. Once again, the authorities have claimed that they were not aware of the existence of such files ...[+++].

A database was put together and was started in this country, but researchers have been having a difficult time finding out what is in that database, how it is structured and how that information is in fact used.

The accomplishments of the ARG over the past year or year and a half have been initiation of dialogue among aboriginal people on our perspective and contribution to the voluntary sector, the development of a work plan of activities to guide the ARG over the past year, ARG participation and input to a number of VSI joint tables and working groups, feedback from ARG in the consultation phase of the Canada volunteerism initiative, ARG input to the development frame of the accord between the Government of Canada and the voluntary sector, and initial development of a database of aboriginal organizations ...[+++] in the voluntary sector.

As for communication networks, the services provided over such networks are typically messaging, data-base access, file transfer and access to specialized programmes on remote machines.