Will the Commission establish the appropriate institutional instruments to prepare, within six months, a thorough analysis of a range of options for reducing the threat posed by deliberately crashing aircraft and other acts of malice at nuclear facilities, including the prospective benefits of transferring spent fuel to dry storage facilities that are robust against acts of malice, and suspending reprocessing until stocks of liquid high-level radioactive waste have been vitrified or otherwise used as part of an immobilisation programm ...[+++]e for surplus plutonium?

Will the Commission establish the appropriate institutional instruments to prepare, within six months, a thorough analysis of a range of options for reducing the threat posed by deliberately crashing aircraft and other acts of malice at nuclear facilities, including the prospective benefits of transferring spent fuel to dry storage facilities that are robust against acts of malice, and suspending reprocessing until stocks of liquid high-level radioactive waste have been vitrified or otherwise used as part of an immobilisation programm ...[+++]e for surplus plutonium?

2. Notes that the Court of Auditors has formed its opinion based on an analysis and testing of the supervisory systems and controls of the Commission as well as on controls carried out on a number of underlying transactions in Brussels and on the spot in six ACP States;

The AOSIS protocol proposal and the German delegation's suggestions will as well as others form part of the negotiations (c) Report of the ad hoc group to the second Conference of the Parties on the state of negotiations on the protocol; completion of the negotiations six months before the third Conference of the Parties in order to allow adoption during that Conference (d) Inclusion in the ad hoc group's working programme, in cooperation with the other subsidiary bodies, of an analysis or assessment to identify potential and possible policies and measures for ac ...[+++]hieving limitations and progressive reductions of greenhouse gas emissions (e) Consideration of the following key elements for inclusion in the protocol: (i) comprehensiveness of the protocol, covering all greenhouse gases, their sources and sinks and all relevant sectors; (ii) common but differentiated responsibilities of Parties in line with their respective capabilities and possibilities: - lead responsibility of Annex I Parties through specific commitments, individually or jointly, strengthening and enlarging those undertaken in Article 4(2)(a) and (b) of the Convention, - participation, over time, of non-Annex I Parties as recognized in Article 4(2)(f) and (g); establishment of a framework leading to sustainable patterns of economic development that will secure steadily increasing economic growth while restraining the growth of greenhouse gas emissions; (iii) combined approach including both policies and measures as well as targets and timetables such as 2005 and 2010, taking into account the differences in starting points and approaches, economic structures and resource bases as set out in Article 4(2)(a); (iv) coordinated policies and measures covering CO2 and other greenhouse gases, in particular in those areas where international coordination is called for in view of competitiveness concerns, priority being given to: - measures subject to competitiveness concerns; - measures concerning globall ...

The Council: 1. reaffirms the importance of reinforcing coordination in development cooperation between the Community and the Member States as stated in Article 130x of the Treaty on European Union and in accordance with the principle of complementarity of policies set out in Article 130u; 2. notes with interest the initial results of reinforced coordination in the six pilot countries, in particular the progress made in several countries in reciprocal exchange of information between the representatives of the Member States and the Community and the consequent greater transparency of sectoral and regional activities of the Commission and ...[+++] Member States; 3. notes, however, the disparity between one country and another in the functioning of coordination and observes that the process is hindered by a number of problems relating, inter alia, to lack of staff, links with other coordination bodies and the involvement of beneficiary countries; 4. also emphasizes, in view of the differing economic and social situations in the various countries, the advantages of coherent analysis and exchange of information between the Member States and the Commission; 5. stresses the importance of Community coordination and reiterates the main objectives, which are: to strengthen the capacity of the recipient country to assume responsibility for and ownership of its own development strategies and programmes; to reduce the administrative burden on beneficiary countries with the aim of encouraging strengthened capacity; to increase the effectiveness of development cooperation by the Community and its Member States and providers of funds as a whole; to ensure consistency of the cooperation activities of the Community and its Member States with the common political guidelines adopted by the Council and to ensure complementarity of the various measures within the framework of a single strategy developed by the beneficiary country itself; to optimize the European Union's presence in develo ...

This should take place in a flexible manner and be tailored to the given situation in the country; 9. having discussed these issues and bearing in mind the complementarity referred to in Article 130u of the Treaty, the Council: - has decided to continue and consolidate the experiment in the six pilot countries, by: = developing dialogue with local authorities, = concertation on individual countries' strategy documents and improved information, particularly through exchange of such documents, = increasing sectoral concertation, in particular in the priority sectors set out in the framework of the "Horizon 2000" declaration, = where appro ...[+++]priate, Community concertation prior to meetings with the other multilateral fund providers, particularly before meetings of the World Bank Consultative Group; and - to improve information exchange in other developing countries, in the light of experience acquired and the procedures already established in the pilot scheme countries; 10. calls on each of its members and the Commission to take the necessary measures to overcome the difficulties encountered and identified in the Commission's report; 11. takes note of the current informal talks between the Directors- General for Development of the Member States and of the Commission, on the subject of coordination; 12. has decided to reinforce coordination in cooperation policies upstream, and in particular to improve information exchange and concertation during the stages of programming of Community aid and aid from the Member States; 13. will explore the possibilities for progress in coordination on the environment; 14. requests the Commission to draw up proposals to ensure active involvement of the beneficiary countries in the coordination process; 15. agrees to analyze the situation again at its meeting in the first half of 1997, and requests the Commission to carry out a further survey with that in mind".