Today's priority is achieving quick benefits from early results on information management, route assignment and guidance as well as on the airborne side of trajectory management.

Each Member State therefore should ensure that their military authorities continue to take part in the development of the Roadmap by participating in the Commission's Member State Expert subgroup on the integration of maritime surveillance.

The European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles engaged in International Road Transport of 1 July 1970 (the AETR), as amended, should continue to apply to the carriage by road of goods and passengers by vehicles registered in any Member State or any country which is a contracting party to the AETR, for the whole of the journey where that journey is between the Community and a third country other than Switzerland and the countries which are contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or through such a country.

The European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles engaged in International Road Transport of 1 July 1970 (the AETR), as amended, should continue to apply to the carriage by road of goods and passengers by vehicles registered in any Member State or any country which is a contracting party to the AETR, for the whole of the journey where that journey is between the Community and a third country other than Switzerland and the countries which are contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or through such a country.

Whereas in the light of technical progress it is now possible to test exhaust systems under conditions which correspond to their normal operating state in road traffic ; whereas in consequence methods shall be adopted which enable new types of silencers to be tested under these conditions ; whereas the testing of silencers may be effected by continuous road-testing or by special bench tests ; whereas since all the effects of continuous on-the-road, operation cannot always be produced, it is necessary where there is any doubt, to ha ...[+++]ve recourse to the test bench;

In the context of the development of the 'intelligent road', the entry into service in 2008 of the Galileo European satellite positioning system will enable navigation and guidance systems to be developed and make it possible to provide traffic information and to monitor vehicles carrying hazardous goods.