The MOU provisions include things like standards on document screening, use of technological aids, training of personnel in document screening, fraud prevention, gate checks, information exchange, holding of documents, and performance standards in respect of these particular initiatives.

In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 2173/2005, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission to assess and approve existing schemes that guarantee the legality and reliable tracking of timber products exported from partner countries with a view to becoming the basis of a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licence, and to adopt modalities of a practical nature and documents of a standard format, including their possible means (electronic or paper format) in relation to the FLEGT licensing scheme.

promotion of the exchange of information concerning, and improvement of training in respect of forged or false travel documents, including the development and distribution of common tools and practices for the detection of such documents.

This programme, which the Commission proposed in January this year (see IP/02/144), helps Member States work more closely together with a view to preventing tax fraud, through improved electronic information exchange systems between national administrations, co-operation in investigations, training seminars for tax officials and experts and the exchanges of officials between national administrations.

Border control training of staff and equipment for effective border surveillance by the countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and up-grading quality of travel documents; exchange of information; the possibility for Member States to send units of police/immigration officers to work along side the State Border Services in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia to provide assistance, in particular on-the-job training and advice.

The discussions were based on a document presented by the German Presidency, which proposed seven points for consideration: the first three concerned the mobility of students, teachers, members of the professions, migrant workers and their families. The fourth concerned encouragement of opportunities for guidance, exchanges and cooperation in a People's Europe. The fifth dealt with guaranteed basic training and high-level skills, the sixth concerned intensified cooperation between European higher education establishments in research a ...[+++]nd teaching, while the seventh concerned the harmonious development of European regions as regards training opportunities.