On 18 February 2003, the Commission and the US administration issued a joint statement, recalling our shared interest in combating terrorism, setting out initial data protection undertakings agreed by US Customs and recording the parties' undertaking to pursue talks with a view to allowing the Commission to make a decision in accordance with Article 25 (6) of the data protection Directive 95/45/EC, recognising the protection given to the transmitted data as adequate.

In the joint statement of February 2003 the Commission and the US side undertook to work towards a solution for the transfer of PNR data that respected the law on both sides.

C. having regard to the decision taken by the authorities in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to regard the 1994 agreements as null and void and, therefore, no longer to accept the presence on its territory of inspectors sent by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency,

With regard to other considerations that have been expressed here on the United States’ lamentable tendency to act unilaterally in many areas, not only in these matters of trade policy but also in other matters of general policy, the Presidency can only agree with many of the positions expressed here. I therefore believe that the forthcoming EU-US Summit to be held in Washington on 2 May will be a good opportunity for the Presidency of the Council and the Presidency of the Commission to remind the United States’ President that the spirit of the Transatlantic Declaration, which, as has been mentioned, was signed in 1995, binds the parties ...[+++] to maintain a spirit of cooperation, to seek common ground and not to seek ground that separates us and, in the fine tradition of the intense relationship between the United States and Europe, it is in the interests of both parties, the United States and Europe, to seek points of agreement and not of disagreement.

This Decision regards the Accession of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) to the Convention on Nuclear Safety, adopted under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations.

18. Calls for the Commission, in conjunction with the Parliament authorities and the relevant committees, to liaise with the U.S. Congress in order to establish a forum for discussion of key policy issues and concerns, and calls for the EU-US Delegation to establish a system of "pairing " with members of the relevant committees in the US Congress and the European Parliament in order to facilitate more direct and pertinent dialogue between the two in contacts which are not limited to the bi-annual meetings.