1. Calls on the Commission to increase the level of support for honeybee-health-related research under the next financial framework (FP8) and to focus the research on technological developments and disease prevention and control, particularly on the impact of environmental factors on the bee colony immune system and their interactions with pathologies, on defining sustainable agricultural practices, on promoting non-chemical alternatives (i.e. preventative agronomic practices such as crop rotation and use of biological control) and on generally further encouraging Integrated Pest Management ...[+++] techniques and the development of veterinary medical products for current EU honeybee-disease-causing agents, especially the Varroa destructor mite, as it is the main pathogenic agent and requires a greater variety of active substances to combat it, given its great ability to develop resistance and to combat endoparasites and other opportunistic diseases;

1. Calls on the Commission to increase the level of support for honeybee-health-related research under the next financial framework (FP8) and to focus the research on technological developments and disease prevention and control, particularly on the impact of environmental factors on the bee colony immune system and their interactions with pathologies, on defining sustainable agricultural practices, on promoting non-chemical alternatives (i.e. preventative agronomic practices such as crop rotation and use of biological control) and on generally further encouraging Integrated Pest Management ...[+++] techniques and the development of veterinary medical products for current EU honeybee-disease-causing agents, especially the Varroa destructor mite, as it is the main pathogenic agent and requires a greater variety of active substances to combat it, given its great ability to develop resistance and to combat endoparasites and other opportunistic diseases;

1. Unless otherwise provided for in paragraph 2, 3 and 4, decentralised management, where the Commission confers the management of certain actions on the beneficiary country, while retaining overall final responsibility for general budget execution in accordance with Article 53c of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 and the relevant provisions of the EC Treaties, shall apply to the implementation of assistance under the IPA Regulation.

K. whereas, in the same way, special importance must be attached to the interim report by the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe , drawn up as part of the inquiry conducted under Article 52 of the ECHR, and the statements made by the Secretary-General at the press conference on 12 April 2006 in response to the detailed replies provided by the Member States of the Council of Europe , including the EU Member States; whereas the Secretary-General has stated that it is clear that rendition flights have taken place, that "virtually none of our Member States have proper legislative and administrative measures to effectively protect i ...[+++]ndividuals against violations of human rights committed by agents of friendly foreign security services operating on their territory" and that he has received "official acknowledgement of the "handing over" of individuals to foreign officials through procedures which do not comply with the standards and safeguards required by the ECHR and other legal instruments of the Council of Europe' ,

K. whereas, in the same way, special importance must be attached to the interim report by the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe , drawn up as part of the inquiry conducted under Article 52 of the ECHR, and the statements made by the Secretary-General at the press conference on 12 April 2006 in response to the detailed replies provided by the Member States of the Council of Europe , including the EU Member States; whereas the Secretary-General has stated that it is clear that rendition flights have taken place, that "virtually none of our Member States have proper legislative and administrative measures to effectively protect i ...[+++]ndividuals against violations of human rights committed by agents of friendly foreign security services operating on their territory" and that he has received "official acknowledgement of the "handing over" of individuals to foreign officials through procedures which do not comply with the standards and safeguards required by the ECHR and other legal instruments of the Council of Europe' ,

The Council observes first, in that regard, that the Convention is directly built upon the voluntary prior informed consent procedure established by the UNEP and the FAO, that is to say, in a non-commercial framework, and that it was the governing councils of the UNEP and the FAO which jointly convened the parties to a conference with a view to preparing and adopting the Convention and also played an essential part in the management of the Convention since, under Article 19(3) of the Convention, ‘[t]he secretariat functions for this C ...[+++]onvention shall be performed jointly by the Executive Director of UNEP and the Director-General of FAO, subject to such arrangements as shall be agreed between them and approved by the Conference of the Parties’.