Senator Finestone: Mr. Minister, I count on your voice around the cabinet table to ensure that our rights as citizens are not being compromised under the stress and strain of September 11. September 11 will pass in years to come; however, with respect to changing privacy rights and the rights of our citizens, once they are lost they are difficult to regain.

One of the interesting things about privacy rights is that a violation of privacy is irreparable.

The objectives and effectiveness of the rules on multi-territorial licensing by collective management organisations would be significantly jeopardised if rightholders were not able to exercise such rights in respect of multi-territorial licences when the collective management organisation to which they have granted their rights did not grant or offer multi-territorial licences and furthermore did not want to mandate another collective management organisation to do so.

Whilst under the existing EU Treaties, Member States are competent to determine who can benefit from the right to vote in national elections, such disenfranchisement practices can negatively affect EU free movement rights.

The EU further recognises that the MDGs cannot be attained without progress in achieving the Cairo goal of universal sexual and reproductive health and rights; the need to make progress on environmental sustainability issues such as climate change and biodiversity, and a more coherent institutional framework of international environmental governance built on existing institutions including through launching a process leading to the creation of United Nations Environment Organisation; the creation of the Peacebuilding Commission; strong language on terrorism (leading to a definition of terrorism and conclusion of the Comprehensive Conv ...[+++]ention), disarmament, non-proliferation, and strengthening the rule of law; the responsibility to protect; strengthening the UN's human rights machinery including the establishment of a Human Rights Council in order to truly elevate the Commission on Human Rights and reinforcing the role and resources of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; strengthening gender equality in all UN activities; strengthening the new UN capacity building for rapid action in the face of humanitarian disasters;

It also specifies the type of information to be included in applications for action in order to facilitate the work of the customs administrations by recognising the goods that may infringe an intellectual property right.