45. Welcomes the establishment of the Milk Market Observatory (MMO) and emphasises its importance in disseminating and analysing market data, and calls for an increased role for the MMO; recommends the definition of a market index comprising trends in product quotations, milk prices and production costs; recommends that the Commission take the necessary action to ensure that the MMO is in a position to, on the one hand, produce accurate data in real time and, on the other, communicate earlier and more frequent warnings, crisis anticipation and recommended actions based on market analysis and predictive tools to the Commission, Member S ...[+++]tates and relevant stakeholders when the market index falls below a certain level, and when the market situation so requires; considers that the information provided by the MMO should involve updates on market and price trends, data on production costs and the interactions between beef and milk production, consumption, stock situation, prices and exchanges of imported or exported milk at European level; notes that it is equally useful to integrate the monitoring of production costs and of international markets in order to identify any trends and seize export opportunities; stresses that the data should be easily accessible and user-friendly for all stakeholders;

In order to facilitate the easy exchange and re-use of these data for the provision of such services, road authorities, road operators and real-time traffic information service providers should make the data, corresponding metadata and information on the quality of the data accessible to other road authorities, road operators, real-time traffic information service providers and digital map producers through a national or common access point.

‘real-time traffic information service’ means an ITS service that provides users, and end-users, immediately with real-time traffic information.

considers further that, in order to frame Parliament's cooperation with national parliaments within the AFSJ, it would be worth creating a permanent forum of representatives at political level (two per Chamber + two substitutes) meeting twice a year and sharing a common workspace where all the information dealing with the AFSJ, including that of a restricted nature, could be shared in real time); considers also that the representatives of the national parliaments should be allowed to attend Parliament's proceedings at committee level and during Parliament's annual debate on the progress of the AFSJ;

The coverage of the new programme extends to new online technologies, including mobile and broadband content, online games, peer-to-peer file transfer, and all forms of real-time communications such as chat rooms and instant messages, primarily with the aim of improving the protection of children and minors.

"European road information system" shall mean a system for collecting and disseminating in real time all information relevant to road haulage operators and professional drivers concerning the rules applied to, and the regulation and characteristics of, road traffic on the TENs network, in close coordination with road information centres in the Member States.