They include broadcasting, cultural, musical and theatrical performances, and social and sporting events.

Major sport events offer opportunities to celebrate the performance, values and benefits of sport; they also have an important economic, social and environmental impact on the areas where they are organised.

Major sport events are attractive opportunities to celebrate the performance, values and benefits of sport in a national and international context.

LEAPS: a project undertaken by the city of Dublin with the aim of helping young people in difficulty to improve their school performance by drawing their inspiration from sporting achievement; Euro 2004: some 70 European volunteers, supported by the Union, are in Portugal for this event to carry out tasks of communication and information; Olympic Champions of Education: 28 young people selected by the national coordinators of the ...[+++] Year on the basis of their school performance, will be invited to Athens for the Olympic Games.

risk assessment and cooperation with other Member States and relevant EU bodies ; measures to detect trafficking in human beings and early identification of victims of trafficking, including by deployment of officers specialised to combat trafficking; launching or supporting targeted campaigns, including by civil society, encompassing adequate information directed to relevant target groups in order to reduce the risk of becoming victim of trafficking in human beings; developing and implementing measures that discourage the demand for such victims; measures with a view to provide an adequate level of assistance to and protection of victims of trafficking ...[+++]in human beings, including for instance the establishment of adequate shelters and 24/7 multi-lingual hotlines; best possible cooperation with civil society and with the organisers of the event, such as sports associations; the deployment of law enforcement officers to the Member States holding an event with a view to establishing operative cooperation to detect and dismantle a temporary increase in trafficking during the event".

ANNEX LIST OF PRODUCTS THAT MAY BE SUBJECT TO THE REDUCED RATE, AS DRAWN UP BY THE COUNCIL ON 18 MARCH 1991 The widest discretionary scope of the reduced rate will be strictly defined on the basis of the following list of products and services, on the understanding that its scope will have to be defined more accurately: - foodstuffs for human and animal consumption (excluding alcoholic beverages); - water supplies; - pharmaceutical products; -- medical equipment for the disabled; - passenger transport; - books, newspapers and periodicals; - admissions to shows, theatres, circuses, fairs, concerts, museums, zoos, cinemas, exhibitions, libraries and access to televi ...[+++]sion; - the output of writers, composers, performers, etc. and copyright; - social housing; - farm inputs; - hotel accommodation; - hire of camping sites; - admission to sporting events; - use of sporting facilities; - welfare and charitable activities; - funeral undertakings, cremation; - medical care in hospitals, spas, etc. and dental services; - street cleaning, refuse collection.