12. Calls on the Commission to conduct an impact assessment on the effects of the GSP over the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2009, and in particular on its impact on the poorest social strata in the beneficiary countries, the expansion of employment, wage levels and democratic and trade union rights; encourages the labour movement and civil society organisations to conduct additional impact assessments; states that the studies must subsequently be submitted to Parliament and the Council; states that the new proposal for a revised GSP regulation must duly ...[+++] take into account the results of the impact assessments;

This makes it necessary for dental amalgam waste to be properly disposed of.

Paragraph 70 goes on from the confusion and includes falsehoods.

UNITE traces its roots to the beginning of the century, when our founding unions, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union of America began organizing to combat sweatshop conditions in the apparel industry.

We all have to realize that this infrastructure program has an intellectual component to it which is just as valid as bricks and mortar and I am proud to be part of a government which has seen that, seen the need to renew and seen the need to look forward to the future.

It currently suffers from certain handicaps, particularly when compared to competition from Japan: - lower productivity: it takes an average of 35 hours to produce a mass- produced car in Europe, compared with less than 17 hours in Japan; - although expenditure on research and technological development (RTD) (in 1990: ECU 6 billion by vehicle makers and ECU 4 billion by equipment producers) is comparable to that in Japan and the United States, European industry displays a lack of ability to translate RTD activities into innovative products and/or processes, and these into shares of the market; - the workforce in the European motor vehicle industry h ...[+++]as a significantly lower level of basic education and skills than its Japanese counterpart; moreover, the average age in the European industry is 45 years, compared to just 28 years in Japanese transplants in Europe and about 35 years in Japan.