These separate lanes aim at reducing delays for persons entitled under Community law (citizens of the European Union, nationals of States parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and nationals of the Swiss Confederation, and members of their families), who are generally subject only to an identity check.

The costs that impede are not only the fares, difficult as those often are, but also the inconvenience of pre-booking, of waiting in queues, of fitting in with timetables which provide low and variable frequencies; and then there are the risks of delays and cancellation due to weather or mechanical breakdown, or strikes which hold the islands to ransom from time to time.

The costs that impede are not only the fares, difficult as those often are, but also the inconvenience of pre-booking, of waiting in queues, of fitting in with timetables which provide low and variable frequencies; and then there are the risks of delays and cancellation due to weather or mechanical breakdown, or strikes which hold the islands to ransom from time to time.

Ms. Lucie Gagnon: In light of the comments we have presented today as well as the elements included in our brief tabled in September, we ask members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to maintain the main objectives of the Broadcasting Act to ensure that the legislation defends the interests of Canadians by keeping the commitments made to members of Canada's broadcasting system, mainly to support and promote the broadcasting of Canadian content and the expression of Canadian diversity; to maintain the current regulatory regime which prohibits ownership of Canadian media by foreign interests; to maintain the CRTC's role as a regulatory bod ...[+++]y, and more specifically, to assign it responsibility for safeguarding the place of non-profit community media; to recognize, in the Broadcasting Act, the non-profit community-owned sector as a fundamental part of the broadcasting system; to ensure that the act safeguards and supports community broadcasting, which is embodied by all community-owned organizations in which the public is directly involved in management and programming decisions; to encourage the establishment of a fund for radio programming and support for showcasing future cultural talent with a view to giving the community sector an opportunity to effectively meet the aims of the Broadcasting Act; and to ensure the community sector has access to technology by setting aside frequencies and the use of part of all new regulated technologies.

25. Stresses that a Statute for Members of the European Parliament should be adopted as soon as possible; regrets that not enough progress has been achieved to allow the Statute to come into effect in the financial year 2003; can agree, under the circumstances, to a token entry in Chapter 102 ('Reserve for the Statute for Members') for the time being; takes the view that, pending further developments, the appropriations for the Members' Statute could be entered against a provisional reserve for property expenditure; points out that this matter must be re-examined in the course of the budgetary procedure in the light of possible devel ...[+++]opments;

The Commission believes that if followed, these proposals would ensure that trucks are delayed at borders for no more than one hour: Certain border posts should be reserved only for transit traffic carrying valid clearance documents (the T.I.R. carnet), enabling them to avoid normal traffic queues at customs.