9. Stresses that the transfer of clean-energy technology to developing countries is central to tackling climate change and meeting the Millennium Development Goals; notes that at the 2005 Gleneagles summit, G8 leaders recognised the need for greater international co-operation and coordination of research and development of energy technologies; notes further that, at the same time, the Heads of Government of Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, China and India issued a joint statement with a view to building a new paradigm for international cooperation in the future, including improved participation in RD, international funding for technology ...[+++]transfer, and a concerted effort to address issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR); calls on the Commission to address IPR-related barriers to the acquisition of existing proprietary clean-energy technology through dialogue on the basis of further work analysing how international funds and public-private initiatives have fostered technology transfer covered by IPRs in other fields; calls on the Commission to explore the potential for new kinds of global public-private-partnerships in technologies to tackle climate change, drawing experience from international agreements to support IPR access to anti-retroviral drugs for developing countries.

2. The Procurement Arrangement shall provide a detailed technical description of the contributions to be made including the technical specifications, schedules, milestones, risk assessments, deliverables and criteria for their acceptance, and shall set out the arrangements by which the project leader concerned will be enabled to exercise technical authority over the performance of the in-kind contributions.

This activity shall not include: (a) flights performed exclusively for the transport, on official mission, of a reigning Monarch and his immediate family, Heads of State, Heads of Government and Government Ministers, of a country other than a Member State, where this is substantiated by an appropriate status indicator in the flight plan (b) military flights performed by military aircraft and customs and police flights (c) flights related to search and rescue, fire-fighting flights, humanitarian flights and emergency medical service flights authorised by the appropriate competent authority (d) any flights performed exclusively under visual flight rules as defined in Annex 2 to the Chicago Convention (e) flights terminating at the aerodrome f ...[+++]rom which the aircraft has taken off and during which no intermediate landing has been made (f) training flights performed exclusively for the purpose of obtaining a licence, or a rating in the case of cockpit flight crew where this is substantiated by an appropriate remark in the flight plan provided that the flight does not serve for the transport of passengers and/or cargo or for the positioning or ferrying of the aircraft (g) flights performed exclusively for the purpose of scientific research or for the purpose of checking, testing or certifying aircraft or equipment whether airborne or ground-based (h) flights performed by aircraft with a certified maximum take-off mass of less than 5 700 kg (i) flights performed in the framework of public service obligations imposed in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92 on routes within outermost regions, as specified in Article 299(2) of the Treaty, or on routes where the capacity offered does not exceed 30 000 seats per year (j) flights which, but for this point, would fall within this activity, performed by a commercial air transport operator operating either:

We welcome the extra time given to the Convention to complete its work on Part III, though for the Council to describe the remaining discussions on majority voting and codecision as 'purely technical work' is a masterpiece of understatement worthy of the British Government's description of the whole process as just a 'tidying-up exercise'.

In the "technical sector" the following training courses were included: forester, technical consulting, labour leasing, employment agent, investment adviser, private investigator, security guard, real estate agent, real estate manager, advertising and promotion agency, building project organiser, debt-collecting institute, insurance consultant, master builder or wood builder/planning and technical calculation.

1. A meeting of Co-Presidents, Co-Vice-Presidents and Co-Rapporteurs of the three Working Committees of the Euro-Arab Dialogue took place in Lisbon on 20-21 April. 2. The purpose of the Lisbon meeting, the first meeting in the framework of the Dialogue since June 1990, was to bring together the office- holders of the Economic, Technical and Social and Cultural working committees to ensure that when the working committees begin their work they will be fully familiar with, and will fully reflect in their work, the reformed structures a ...[+++]nd reformed procedures of the Dialogue decided at the Ministerial meeting in Paris in December, 1989 and at the General Committee meeting in Dublin in June, 1990.