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all-weather road [ all-season road | all-weather highway | all-season highway ]

all weather operations | AWO [Abbr.]

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TATT - Tired all the time

At a time when command and appropriate use of information has important geo-strategic implications, Europe needs to have available a capacity which allows it independently to evaluate its policy responses in a reliable and timely manner.

Welcomes the Joint Communication on capacity-building and joins the Council in calling for its urgent implementation; points to the EU’s potential, particularly through its comprehensive approach covering civilian and military means, to help strengthen security in fragile and conflict-affected countries and to address the needs of our partners, in particular for military recipients, while reiterating that security is a precondition for development and democracy; regrets that neither the European Commission nor the Council shared with the European Parliament their assessment of the legal options in support of capacity building; calls o ...[+++]n both institutions to inform the European Parliament on this in due time; calls on the European Commission to suggest a legal base in line with the original European objectives of 2013 outlined in the initiative on ‘Enable and Enhance’.

66. Notes moreover the Council's statement annexed to its position, concerning ‘the importance of monitoring closely the appropriations for all categories of external staff, against the backdrop of the additional capacity built up by the increase of working time’, and the parallel cuts brought to support expenditure in various policy areas, amounting to EUR 20,8 million; besides the already mentioned threats posed by this type of cuts considers them to be ill justified; recalls that, according to the IIA of 2 December 2013, that supposed additional capacity was to be already neutralised by rendering 5 % of the official staff over five ...[+++]years; notes in this respect that the Commission already goes beyond its commitments as it is reducing staff of all categories, whether financed from Heading 5 or from other headings;

65. Notes moreover the Council's statement annexed to its position, concerning "the importance of monitoring closely the appropriations for all categories of external staff, against the backdrop of the additional capacity built up by the increase of working time", and the parallel cuts brought to support expenditure in various policy areas, amounting to EUR 20,8 million; besides the already mentioned threats posed by this type of cuts considers them to be ill justified; recalls that according to the IIA of 2 December 2013, that supposed additional capacity was to be already neutralised by rendering 5 % of the official staff over five y ...[+++]ears; notes in this respect that Commission already over complies with its commitments as it is reducing staff of all categories, whether financed from heading 5 or from other headings;