The fact that women are largely excluded from decision-making processes – because of the glass ceiling – greatly restricts their ability to wield influence and bring about change in society.

All processes directly or indirectly linked to the production processes glass melting in the furnaces and glass refining in the foreheaths are included.

Increasing the competitiveness of process industries, such as chemical, cement, pulp and paper, glass, minerals or non-ferrous metals and steel, by drastically improving resource and energy efficiencies and reducing the environmental impact of such industrial activities.

9. Considers that women in the Balkans, who have been victims of war, should no longer be seen only as war victims but rather as actors of stabilisation and conflict resolution; stresses that women in the Balkans in general can only fulfil this role once equally represented in political and economic decision-making; welcomes quotas and calls on the countries which have not done so already, to promote female representation and, where necessary, to apply quotas effectively in political parties and national assemblies, and encourages the countries which have already done so to continue this process in order to ensure that women can partic ...[+++]ipate in political life and overcome their under-representation, with a view to removing the "glass ceiling" once and for all and to implement positive action to ensure that women and men learn about and engage with citizenship from an early age;

Potassium nitrate is used mainly in the agricultural sector and to a lesser extent in the industrial sector, with applications ranging from glass and ceramics to textiles and steel. The conditions for storing, handling and processing this compound for agricultural use are similar to those for other fertilisers.