A. whereas the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have raised awareness that ending global poverty is an urgent challenge and a priority for global action thanks to their limited set of concrete and time-bound targets; whereas, two years from the 2015 target date for the MDGs, there has been significant progress: the target of reducing extreme poverty by half has been reached, as has the target of halving the proportion of people who lack dependable access to improved sources of drinking water, conditions for over 200 million people living in slums have been improved, primary school enrolment of girls now equals that of boys and accel ...[+++]erating progress in reducing child and maternal mortality can be seen; whereas, however, the current MDGs do not sufficiently address the root causes of poverty such as inequalities within and among countries, social exclusion, biodiversity and governance;

A. whereas the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have raised awareness that ending global poverty is an urgent challenge and a priority for global action thanks to their limited set of concrete and time-bound targets; whereas, two years from the 2015 target date for the MDGs, there has been significant progress: the target of reducing extreme poverty by half has been reached, as has the target of halving the proportion of people who lack dependable access to improved sources of drinking water, conditions for over 200 million people living in slums have been improved, primary school enrolment of girls now equals that of boys and accele ...[+++]rating progress in reducing child and maternal mortality can be seen; whereas, however, the current MDGs do not sufficiently address the root causes of poverty such as inequalities within and among countries, social exclusion, biodiversity and governance;

· While infringement proceedings are time-consuming and should be further improved, in the meantime instruments like the ‘EU Sweeps’ and the ‘EU Pilot’ allow to detect poor compliance and bring about answers to possible cases of non-transposition or non-conformity more quickly.

This picture may be composed by data stemming from a combination of systems and sensors detecting cooperative and non cooperative targets of any size.

Mode S target detection cannot be guaranteed when several test systems operate concurrently.

In a rapidly developing world, we already know that small- and medium-sized enterprises are a key target for enhanced electronic communications.