4. The financial arrangements shall respect the chain of command as provided for in Articles 3, 5 and 6 and the operational needs of EUCAP Sahel Mali, including compatibility of equipment and interoperability of its teams.

It is worth underlining that, already in 2004 when the creation of an integrated European railway area was intensified with the adoption of the 2nd railway package, it was recognised that there was a need for more harmonised safety rules and improved technical compatibility of infrastructure, rolling stock, signalling and other parts of the rail system, as well as simpler procedures for approving rolling stock for use across the European rail network.

For the rolling stock bearing an 'EC' declaration of verification, the criteria which a safety authority may check with a view to issuing an authorisation are comprehensively identified and include technical compatibility between rolling stock and infrastructure concerned, rules on open points and specific cases based on TSIs and derogations which are in compliance with the Directive.

13. Recalls that the availability of the special hard- and software and the compatibility of information with the hard- and software (accessibility requirements) are not the only conditions for access for the disabled and elderly: the skills of the user are of vital importance; therefore the information should be structured in such a way as to be user-friendly, particularly for those who are not familiar with IT; information on social services for disabled children could, for example, be broken down by age category; emphasises the desirability of training for people who offer information to people with cognitive disabilities, in order ...[+++] to enable them to deal with the characteristics of the internet and what it can do and what it cannot;

Special hard- and software availability and the compatibility of the information with assistive soft- and hardware (accessibility requirements) are not the only access conditions for disabled and elderly people: user's skills are of vital importance.

12. Recalls that the availability of the special hard- and software and the compatibility of the information with the hard- and software (accessibility requirements) are not the only conditions to access for disabled and elderly : the skills of the user are of vital importance, therefore the information should be structured in such a way that it is user-friendly, particularly for those who are not familiar with IT ; information on social services for disabled children could, for example, be split up per age category; points at the desirability of training for people who offer information to people with cognitive disabilities, in order ...[+++]to enable them to deal with the characteristics of the instrument Internet and the possibilities and impossibilities of that instrument;