Virtual Control Program Interface | VCPI [Abbr.]

Lotus Intel Microsoft expanded memory specification [ LIM-EMS | LIM EMS specification | LIM EMS standard | LIM standard | LIM ]

EMS board [ expanded memory board | EMS expansion board | EMS expansion card | expanded memory card ]

Quaterdeck Expanded Memory Manager | QEMM [Abbr.]

Paged Memory Management Unit | PMMU | Paged-Memory Management Unit

Research to underpin the continued safe operation of all relevant types of existing reactor systems (including fuel cycle facilities), taking into account new challenges such as life-time extension and development of new advanced safety assessment methodologies (both the technical and human element) including as regards severe accidents, and to assess the potential, the safety and waste-management aspects of future reactor systems, in the short and medium term, thereby maintaining the high safety standards already achieved within the ...[+++]EU and considerably improving the long-term management of radioactive waste.

Research to underpin the continued safe operation of all relevant types of existing reactor systems (including fuel cycle facilities), taking into account new challenges such as life-time extension and development of new advanced safety assessment methodologies (both the technical and human element) including as regards severe accidents, and to assess the potential, the safety and waste-management aspects of future reactor systems, in the short and medium term, thereby maintaining the high safety standards already achieved within the ...[+++]EU and considerably improving the long-term management of radioactive waste.

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 system 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.

This new provision, which parallels the existing one on quality management standards, permits contracting authorities to require economic operators to provide certificates of conformity with environmental management standards, including the Community’s own Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, which the Community recently decided to extend. It also includes those developed according to the principles laid down under Agenda 21.