Taking the view that the passengers should have noticed that the driver was drunk, the courts hearing the dispute decided, however, that none of them had the right under the Finnish Law on motor vehicle insurance to compensation by the insurance company.

Welcoming today's action plan EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy added: 'Commodity dependent developing countries are particularly disadvantaged in their efforts to reap the benefits of a more open international trading system. The case of African cotton producers is a clear example of this. Market access is important and has to be improved in a number of major markets, including developing ones. But trade alone is clearly not a sufficient answer as we have witnessed in the case of African cotton, which already has full market access in the EU..

This can only be done if the person states that they have a health problem or police officers have sufficient training to make this assessment themselves.

It is very important to realise that the largest share of this deficit stems from the low level of private investment in higher education and research and development in the EU compared with the USA.

In Corsica, for example, attendance by the local authorities and the social partners at the bi-annual assessment and monitoring meetings revealed a certain financial imbalance among the priorities laid down, which led to the transfer of additional resources to the agricultural sector.

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