Within three months of receipt of this decision, Germany will propose to the Commission a suitable trustee mandate and an independent trustee who will be required by law to observe professional secrecy and who will, at the expense of Germany, monitor the proper course of the sale and ensure in particular that the bank continues to restructure Berliner Bank in a sound business manner, invest in it and do nothing that will reduce its value, above all by transferring private or corporate customers or sales personnel to Berliner Sparkasse ...[+++] or to any other part of the Bankgesellschaft group.

(7) At its meeting on 25 and 26 June 1996 the Council noted that in the framework of the negotiations on a protocol concerning the Berlin Mandate, the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (SAR IPCC) had concluded that the balance of evidence suggested that there was a discernible human influence on global climate change and had stressed the need for urgent action at the widest possible level, noted that significant "no-regrets" opportunities were available and requested the Commission to identify the measures that had to be taken at Community level.

With regard to the Convention on Biological and Toxin Weapons, the European Union confirms that the mandate of the ad hoc group of States which are parties to the Convention is still valid.

31. When satisfied with the above preparatory work for a candidate product group and with the positive recommendation of the ad hoc working group, the EUEB shall forward the final report together with the proposals concerning the drafting of the mandate to the Commission, and shall request the Commission to initiate the procedure for setting the ecological criteria for the product group in question and to give a mandate to the EUEB that takes into account the abovementioned proposals.

(c) establishment of an ad hoc working group within the Conference on Disarmament under Agenda item 1 "cessation of nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament" subject to a consensus agreement on a mandate for such a group;

It is also proposed that there should be an ad hoc group of experts whose mandate will be set by a special group of senior officials which will then endorse the results of the work [7]. The exercise should be carried out in the course of 2001, culminating in the presentation of conclusions and proposals for action to be approved by the 2002 Summit.