Democracy depends on the active participation of citizens to the life of their community and media literacy would provide the skills they need to make sense of the daily flow of information disseminated through new communication technologies.

Using this flexible and needs-based rule, the aim is to avoid a situation in which national authorities have to provide overly extensive information to Eurojust and also avoid ‘swamping’ Eurojust with information which the authority simply cannot process.

7. Calls on the Commission to ask the relevant authorities to supply information on the content of the cargo of the wreck and the plans and timetable for refloating the vessel and monitoring the potential pollution risks from the cargo, and to forward the information received to Parliament;

The areas covered are, among others: the extension of controls to cover transit, transhipment[2], brokering and re-exports; the clarification of the content of controls of intangible transfers of technology; the establishment of a comitology procedure for the adoption of lists of controlled items; the improvement of sharing of information on national controls on non-listed items according appropriate security standards; the improvement of sharing of information on denials with the possibility to introduce a secure electronic syste ...[+++]m between the Commission, Member States and the Council; international cooperation with third countries, providing for possibilities of adopting ad-hoc export control rules in the case of specific EC-funded projects involving potential access by third countries to the EU dual use technologies; insertion in the recasted Article 21 of the reference to criminal sanctions at least for serious infringements of the provisions of the Regulation and of the regulations adopted by Member States for its implementation so as to respond to the call in the European Council declaration on criminal sanctions of June 2004, and to the call by UN Security Council Resolution 1540 for the introduction of appropriate civil or criminal penalties for violations of such export control regulations; the replacement of the remaining intra-Community controls by a system consisting of prior-notification of shipments; provision for the establishment by national authorities of indicative deadlines for the processing of applications for export authorisations, and of deadlines for the treatment of requests for information from licensing authorities concerning the application of national controls on non listed items and technologies.

‘repair information’ means all information required for diagnosis, servicing, inspection, periodic monitoring or repair of the engine and which the manufacturers provide for their authorised dealers/repair shops. Where necessary, such information shall include service handbooks, technical manuals, diagnosis information (e.g. minimum and maximum theoretical values for measurements), wiring diagrams, the software calibration identification number applicable to an engine type, information enabling the update of the software of the electronic systems in accordance with the specifications of the vehicle manufacturer, instructions for individual and special cases, ...[+++] information provided concerning tools and equipment, data record information and two-directional monitoring and test data. The manufacturer shall not be obliged to make available that information which is covered by intellectual property rights or constitutes specific know-how of manufacturers and/or OEM suppliers; in this case the necessary technical information shall not be improperly withheld;

* Observation satellite systems deliver a continuous flow of near-real-time data about any part of the globe, in compliance with international law.