In particular, supply agreements must include a procedure, (to be laid down separately by the Executive Board taking into account the Banknote Committee’s views), to authorise, before large-scale printing starts, the start of the main stages of production, e.g. for paper manufacturing, offset printing and intaglio printing.

I really must make it clear that the public is being systematically fed disinformation if the impression is being given that this is simply a rather overblown war on terrorism, quite apart from the fact that this is not how to fight terrorism, but at best how to produce terrorists, and here I must echo what Olivier Dupuis said, that so far there is not a shred of evidence to show that large-scale Chechen terrorism even exists.

- 2 - Remarkable developments during the past years have included: - the economic recovery of the European iron and steel industry, which had shed 41% of its personnel during the 1980s; - the large-scale replacement throughout the economy of traditional machinery by computer-aided and computer-integrated equipment, which has caused a boom for the European mechanical engineering sector; - the decline of energy consumption in EC industry by 10 % since 1973, while at the same time energy consumption in transport increased by 72%; - the increasing German sh ...[+++]are in the turnover of the 100 largest EC companies (from 22% in 1983 to 30% in 1989).

So within the family around the table, we would like to emphasize the spirit and letter of the memorandum of understanding on partnerships, which has been circulated, and on a larger scale to work with partners around the world, because it's our perception that the identification of living organisms is increasingly becoming a function of specialization in different countries around the world and of cooperation between those disciplines; and, secondly, that the maintenance of collections is such an expensive function that our perception is that's also being specialized around the world, with cooperation as need be.