32. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with HOTREC, as the European catering trade association, to promote labelling processes regarding tourist accommodation carried out in the different Member States and to promote quality models that have proved effective elsewhere (for example the Qualmark in New Zealand) in order to improve visibility;

At ministerial level, the EU's dialogue with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the one hand, and with Australia and New Zealand on the other, continues to make progress.

There are tens of millions of Europeans living outside Europe who have benefited from the immigration policy of other countries – not only the United States, but also Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and many others.

Only recently Parliament drew attention to areas where greater activity is required of the Union at international level; these spheres go well beyond the 'pillar structure'. In its resolution on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system) Parliament regards it as essential that an agreement should be negotiated and signed between the European Union and the United States stipulating that each of the two parties should observe, vis-à-vis the other, the provisions governing the protection of the privacy of citizens and the confidentiality of business communica ...[+++]tions applicable to its own citizens and firms. It also calls on the Member States to consider to what extent industrial espionage and the payment of bribes as a way of securing contracts can be combated by means of European and international legal provisions and, in particular, whether WTO rules could be adopted which take account of the distortions of competition brought about by such practices, for example by rendering contracts obtained in this way null and void; it calls on the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada to join this initiative.

At ministerial level, the EU's dialogue with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the one hand, and with Australia and New Zealand on the other, continues to make progress.

Institutions in the European Union (EU) and candidate countries and the members of the group of 24 western industrialised countries other than the EU countries (Australia, Canada, the United States, Iceland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Norway, New Zealand and Switzerland) may take part in Tempus projects on the basis of co-financing only.