maximum signal direction finding

We have radar; various radio communications facilities; digital selective calling, which is an advance distress signalling system, under a new global marine distress and safety system; automated identification systems; direction-finding equipment; satellite communications; and cryptic communications, computers and databases.

For instance, the question of transparency of the decision-making process is a signal in that direction, an attempt to find out more and more, and also to step up influence on the decision-making process.

1. Welcomes the publication of the Commission communication entitled 'Implementing the Community Lisbon programme: Social services of general interest in the European Union' (COM(2006)0177), which had already been signalled in the White Paper on services of general interest (COM(2004)0374), and which arises from the exclusion of social services from the scope of the amended proposal for a directive on services in the internal market, in connection with which the Council’s common position was approved at second reading by the European Parliament; welcomes the Commission's endeavours to conduct a consultation process with the Member State ...[+++]s and with all the sectors involved, aiming to find a balance between the special characteristics of these services, which sometimes make them difficult to define in general terms, and the application of the principles of transparency, free competition and non-discrimination, which have mandatory force in the EU, and of Community law on the award of public contracts and concessions;

With this Directive, the Commission has sent a clear and tangible signal to the European consumer, which finds expression in the aim of attaining a high level of protection for consumers in Europe, as enshrined in the Treaty of Maastricht.