Generally speaking, the evidence from the four countries and, indeed, Canada itself, suggests that advance voting has become an important mainstay in the repertoire of voting opportunities.

The Commission strongly supports the "one-stop shop" EEA-wide copyright licensing for legitimate online Internet music services and which include the music repertoires of all societies as foreseen in the so-called Santiago Agreement.

Federal and provincial ministers responsible for justice issues have expressed support for the concept of a DNA missing persons index, or MPI, for humanitarian purposes, noting, however, that careful preparatory work would be necessary to ensure it would be as effective as possible (0955) [Translation] Under the direction of federal, provincial and territorial ministers, a task force comprised of officials from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Nova Scotia and of representatives of the departments of Justice, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and the RCMP have drafted a public discussion paper to gauge the suppor ...[+++]t of Canadians across the country for a missing persons DNA database.

The Commission suggests that the principle would become less important if there were a register of ongoing proceedings and final judgments in criminal matters and a system of EU-wide powers.

In order to achieve a system of regional standardization for Mediterranean countries based on recognized international principles the priority targets should include: - the dissemination of information about existing and upcoming norms and technical regulations and the creation of an inventory of standardization and quality certification systems; - the launch of a major programme of consultancy and technical assistance with the support of the European Union and the WTO covering all aspects of standardization, type-approval and quality control and giving particular attention to training to acquire the relevant skills.

(12) Whereas the protection principles must apply to all processing of personal data by any person whose activities are governed by Community law; whereas there should be excluded the processing of data carried out by a natural person in the exercise of activities which are exclusively personal or domestic, such as correspondence and the holding of records of addresses;