Our priority during work on the review of the RoHS Directive was to raise safety standards for electrical appliances and electronic gadgets for sale in the European Union.

Only yesterday just a gimmick without resources, personnel or power, it would seem that, today, Frontex’s remit allows it to provide its support to joint return operations and contributes in some, albeit small, way to the daily fight against illegal immigration.

The Graefe zu Baringdorf report, explaining as it does the new methods to address fraud and agrarian policy under the common agricultural policy (CAP), is dealing with one of the most inefficient, expensive, wasteful, bureaucratic and amoral systems of farm support known to man, and no amount of agro-meteorological gimmickry can rescue it.

[15] For example, the GADGET and ESCAPE projects.

The Federal Communications Commission has launched a full-scale investigation, with high power advisory committees, to determine the best future course .in the public interest. The theme of compatibility is now on everyone's lips. In the Commission, so convinced are we that compatibility cannot be considered as an "optional extra" we have taken the political lead in trying to persuade our Japanese counterparts of the serious, and wide- spread, repercussions on others of their HDTV system plans.

If there's a technology out there that is going to do what it claims to do, and that is monitor, check, and build a profile, and then that profile is distributed to the maker of widgets, and the widget maker sees how you, Mr. Power, are very interested in widgets because you've been dialing in all these different widget companies over the last six months and then it decides to not so much pester you but deliver its magazine to your front door, the consumer is going to be hard pressed to turn around and start to prove that there's some kind of improper use of the information that the consumer has not supplied to anyone.