Subject to the Commission’s approval, the Head of Mission may conclude technical arrangements with Regional Command/PRT lead nations and international actors deployed in Afghanistan regarding the provision of equipment, services and premises to the Mission, notably where security conditions so require.

| (a)persons working in a senior position within a legal person, who primarily direct the management of the establishment, receiving general supervision or direction principally from the board of directors or stockholders of the business or their equivalent, including:directing the establishment or a department or sub-division of the establishment,supervising and controlling the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees,having the authority personally to hire and fire or recommend hiring, firing or other personnel actions,BG: and who do not directly perform tasks concerning the actual supply of the services of the establishmen ...[+++]t.

Subject to the Commission's approval, the Head of Mission may conclude technical arrangements with Regional Command/PRT lead nations and international actors deployed in Afghanistan regarding the provision of equipment, services and premises to the Mission, notably where security conditions so require.

This activity shall not include: (a) flights performed exclusively for the transport, on official mission, of a reigning Monarch and his immediate family, Heads of State, Heads of Government and Government Ministers, of a country other than a Member State, where this is substantiated by an appropriate status indicator in the flight plan (b) military flights performed by military aircraft and customs and police flights (c) flights related to search and rescue, fire-fighting flights, humanitarian flights and emergency medical service flights authorised by the appropriate competent authority (d) any flights performed exclusively under visua ...[+++]l flight rules as defined in Annex 2 to the Chicago Convention (e) flights terminating at the aerodrome from which the aircraft has taken off and during which no intermediate landing has been made (f) training flights performed exclusively for the purpose of obtaining a licence, or a rating in the case of cockpit flight crew where this is substantiated by an appropriate remark in the flight plan provided that the flight does not serve for the transport of passengers and/or cargo or for the positioning or ferrying of the aircraft (g) flights performed exclusively for the purpose of scientific research or for the purpose of checking, testing or certifying aircraft or equipment whether airborne or ground-based (h) flights performed by aircraft with a certified maximum take-off mass of less than 5 700 kg (i) flights performed in the framework of public service obligations imposed in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92 on routes within outermost regions, as specified in Article 299(2) of the Treaty, or on routes where the capacity offered does not exceed 30 000 seats per year (j) flights which, but for this point, would fall within this activity, performed by a commercial air transport operator operating either:

16. Reiterates the value of a life-long learning approach to education and training, notably in information technology, entrepreneurial skills and educational multimedia products and services, and urges the Commission to help SMEs commercialise research funded through the Fifth Framework Programme and to strengthen the European Union's support to initiatives such as business angels networks, technology parks and university incubators;

The Council is also discussing whether to set up joint investigative teams, give Europol the power to call on the Member States to initiate criminal investigations, give the heads of Europol’s national units a more important role, increase its powers to analyse files and open files, introduce cooperation between Europol and Eurojust, coordinate cooperation between Europol and the European Police Chiefs’ Task Force, extend access to Europol’s information system, give Europol access to the SIS, facilitate ...[+++]technical and operational support for Europol in on-the-spot operations, encourage better dissemination of data, enable personal data contained in analysis files to be kept for longer periods of time.