The Commission will make strategic use of relevant EU programmes and initiatives[17] to bring multilingualism closer to the citizen: run awareness-raising campaigns on the benefits of linguistic diversity and language learning for intercultural dialogue monitor citizens’ language skills through the Language Indicators and Eurobarometer surveys together with the Member States, exchange good practices, train and network legal interpreters and translators and develop specific translation tools to access documents in order to improve access to justice The Member States are invited to: make efforts in order to have Points of Single Contact ...[+++]under the Services Directive working in several languages to facilitate cross-border provision of services facilitate access to targeted courses of the host country's language(s) for non native speakers |

The Commission will make strategic use of relevant EU programmes and initiatives[17] to bring multilingualism closer to the citizen: run awareness-raising campaigns on the benefits of linguistic diversity and language learning for intercultural dialogue monitor citizens’ language skills through the Language Indicators and Eurobarometer surveys together with the Member States, exchange good practices, train and network legal interpreters and translators and develop specific translation tools to access documents in order to improve access to justice The Member States are invited to: make efforts in order to have Points of Single Contact ...[+++]under the Services Directive working in several languages to facilitate cross-border provision of services facilitate access to targeted courses of the host country's language(s) for non native speakers |

I refer, in particular, to the idea of a federal European Coastguards Service or the proposals for making the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and the Member States jointly responsible for emergency planning arrangements, which can only lead to a dangerous confusion of roles.

extension of the EU's proscribed list of banned Mugabe associates to include other key figures, such as the vice-presidents, all ministers, senior military, police and secret service commanders and leading businessmen who have helped to bankroll ZANU-PF or benefited from its corrupt activities, and who play a role in sustaining the regime and its campaign of violence, and also include their respective spouses and children, as they also spend illegally acquired money abroad,

In order to make applicant countries more familiar with the various concepts of Private Public Partnerships and inter-municipal co-operation in the management and financing of public utilities, the Austrian "Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management" and the Commission (DG Regional Policy and DG Environment) organised a joint seminar in Vienna on 17 and 18 September 2001 with participants from many countries both within the existing European Union and the Candidate Countries.

The rapporteur would like to see government departments responsible for both SMEs and equal opportunities coordinating information campaigns involving also women's NGOs as well as the professional bodies for the relevant sectors.