We recommend that advisory committees for research stations, composed of producers nominated by provincial commodity associations, be re-established, with meaningful input into business plans, including succession planning for researchers and adequate and balanced resources required for senior researchers and technical staff to ensure a balance between horticultural and other types of research.

The European Statistical Advisory Board replaces the European Advisory Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres.

(3) The social, political and institutional changes which have taken place since the creation of the Advisory Committee on Vocational Training and the new prospects opened up by the forthcoming accessions require a constructive re-examination of the composition of the Advisory Committee on Vocational Training and its organisational framework.

(7) In its Communication on a Community programme in the field of safety, hygiene and health protection at work (1996-2000), the Commission stressed the need to streamline the operation of the two advisory committees - the Advisory Committee for Safety, Hygiene and Health Protection at Work and the Safety and Health Commission for the Mining and Other Extractive Industries - by merging them, reducing the number of members and giving them a single secretariat.

- debate in European Community bodies: Council of Ministers (initial conclusions), European Parliament, Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Coal and Steel Community Consultative Committee, EURATOM Scientific and Technical Committee, EURATOM Supply Agency Advisory Committee, Energy Consultative Committee

DRAFT PROGRAMME "DEVELOPMENTS IN BANKING SUPERVISION OVER THE LAST DECADE AND NEW CHALLENGES" Celebration of the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the European Banking Advisory Committee on 17 November 1989 in Brussels 9.00 Registration and coffee 9.30 Opening by Mr. Tommaso PADOA-SCHIOPPA, Acting Chairman of the European Banking Advisory Committee and Vice-Direttore Generale della Banca d'Italia 9.35 Address by Sir LEON BRITTAN, EC Vice-President and Commissioner responsible for Financial Institutions 10.00 Address by Mr. Takeshi OHTA, Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of Japan 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Address by Mr. Alfons VERPLAETSE ...[+++], Governor of the National Belgium 11.30 Address by Mr. Geoffrey FITCHEW, Director General of the Commission of the European Communities - DG "Financial Institutions and Company Law" 12.30 Lunch offered by the Commission of the European Communities - Address by Mr. PADOA-SCHIOPPA 14.30 Address by Mr. Gerald CORRIGAN, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 15.00 Coffee break 15.30 Panel discussion chaired by Mr. Tim O'GRADY WALSHE, third Chairman of the Banking Advisory Committee and General Manager of the Bank of Ireland after short presentation by - Mr. Renaud de la GENIERE, Chairman of "Compagnie Financière de Suez" - Prof. Dr. Dietrich KÖELLHOFER, Member of the Board of the "Bayerische Vereinsbank A.G". - Sir Jeremy MORSE, Chairman of the EC Banking Federation and Chairman of "Lloyds Bank Plc" - Mr. Huib MULLER, second Chairman of the EC Banking Advisory Committee, Chairman of the Basle Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices and Director of "De Nederlandsche Bank N.V".