Moreover, with a view to clarifying the scope of the directive ratione materiae , the proposal makes it clear that the procedural principles and guarantees set out in the Asylum Procedures Directive apply to applicants who are the subject to procedures pursuant to the Dublin Regulation[8] in the second Member States, and underlines that the notion of implicit withdrawal of applications should not be an obstacle for applicants to re-access asylum procedures in the responsible Member State.

Moreover, with a view to clarifying the scope of the directive ratione materiae , the proposal makes it clear that the procedural principles and guarantees set out in the Asylum Procedures Directive apply to applicants who are the subject to procedures pursuant to the Dublin Regulation[8] in the second Member States, and underlines that the notion of implicit withdrawal of applications should not be an obstacle for applicants to re-access asylum procedures in the responsible Member State.

I do so, I should explain, because I'm sensitized to the question of famine through my own work as a physician and a health and hunger historian (0925) Over 60% of Iraqi civilians, 16 million, depend primarily, many solely, on the monthly food ration system for meagre, subsistence food from an Iraqi government food distribution system made up of a network of 46,000 food ration agents throughout central and southern Iraq.

This is an important instrument which will enable customs to crack down on the proliferation of illicit trafficking in breach of national and international customs provisions.

(b) products presented as a replacement for one or more meals of the daily diet.

In other words, such aid may not under any circumstances constitute aid for exports; - the aid will have to be objectively quantifiable beforehand on the basis of a ratio "aid per kilometre travelled" or on the basis of a ratio "aid per kilometre travelled" and "aid per unit of weight", and will have to form the subject-matter of an annual report drawn up on the basis of such ratio(s); - estimates of the extra cost will have to be based on the cheapest means of transport and the most direct route between the place of production/processing and the commercial outlets; - aid may be granted only to businesses located in an area eligible f ...[+++]or regional aid on the strength of the new criterion of low population density; - the products of firms for which there is no possible alternative location (products of the extractive industries, hydroelectric power stations, etc.) will not be eligible for transport aid. - any transport aid granted to firms in sectors considered sensitive by the Commission (motor vehicles, textiles, synthetic fibres, shipbuilding, ECSC sectors and steel falling outside the scope of the ECSC Treaty) will be subject to the requirement of prior notification and to the sectoral guidelines applicable; - agricultural products falling within Annex II of the EC Treaty are not covered by the present provisions and will form the subject-matter of an appropriate proposal in due course.