28. Urges the government to pursue policies enhancing media pluralism and diversity of opinion, and to guarantee the independence of the public broadcaster and the media regulator; notes with concern that the public broadcaster has displayed significant bias in favour of the governing parties, both during electoral campaigns (as reported in the OSCE/ODIHR reports) and in non-campaign circumstances (as reported in the Commission’s Progress Report); welcomes the fact that the government has made data on government advertising publicly ...[+++] available; calls on the government, however, to enhance the transparency of the criteria used in the allocation of funds; strongly recommends to the Commission that it be more active in monitoring and advising on policy developments and in encouraging dialogue among all media stakeholders;

Reported emission data and related disclosures shall be free from material misstatement, avoid bias in the selection and presentation of information, and provide a credible and balanced account of an installation’s or aircraft operator’s emissions.

This under-recognition of intellectual capital can lead to a bias in financial markets towards traditional rather than research-intensive businesses and in the allocation of resources within companies. Although several methods of measuring and reporting intellectual capital have been developed, especially for internal management purposes, take-up in companies has been slow.

Of course all these measures cannot simply be decreed, they entail scientific studies and reports. This is where the reform of the CFP should have begun, in order to obtain more information on resources and set an example of responsible fishing to the world, by creating specific scientific programmes for the various species, classified by geographical areas of the sea, in order to evaluate on a permanent basis the state of stocks and their biological evolution, learn about their spawning areas and seasons, which particularly require protection, promote research and training and oceanographic research projects using our own vessels and th ...[+++]e enormous resources we have available under the EU's RD programmes, and winning the battle against public opinion, which because of either bias or the simplistic influence of the media, considers fishing and fishermen as merely predatory.

This long experience of the BIA system provides interesting lessons as regards success factors for a new, integrated impact assessment scheme, including a sustainability dimension. The European Council in Barcelona took note of the Commission's intention to establish such a new impact assessment method by the end of 2002, as part of its wider efforts in the field of better regulation and as outlined in the Communication to the Laeken Summit on simplifying and improving the regulatory environment . The BIA Pilot Project report is thus an important contribution to the on-going discussions on the new system, of which a first outline will be ...[+++] presented in the form of a Communication alongside the upcoming action plan for simplifying and improving the regulatory environment (to be presented in June 2002).

In order to avoid bias in either direction the analysis contained in this report is based on cgt as a measurement that most appropriately reflects shipbuilding contents.