— installation of two additional telephone lines in Members’ offices upon request.

1. The Commission may grant a derogation to the obligation laid down in Section 7.3.2.4 of Annex III concerning the mandatory equipment of lines with the European Train Control System (ETCS) in the context of EU funded projects (Section 7.3.2.4), when signalling is renewed on short (less than 150 km) and discontinuous sections of a line and provided that ETCS is installed before the earlier of these two dates:

Following the announcement by the Chairman of the Usinor Sacilor group in February 2001 that he intended to close down Cockerill Sambre's hot-rolling line in Charleroi, talks were entered into between Usinor-Cockerill Sambre, the Duferco group and Sogepa primarily with a view to setting up a joint venture to produce slabs based on Cockerill Sambre's existing mill in Charleroi together with plant owned by Duferco Clabecq (continuous casting).

(Return tabled) Question No. 240 Mr. Rahim Jaffer: With regard to ports of entry into Canada: (a) what are the standards used by all customs officers across Canada to determine a high-risk traveller or shipment, and what is the standard procedure as to what to do with such a traveller or shipment once it is determined to be high-risk; (b) under what standard procedure are customs officers expected to refer travellers to immigration officers, and is there any standard for immigration officers to notify customs officers as to the results of such referrals; if it is determined that a traveller should be referred to an Immigration officer ...[+++]and there is no immigration officer at that location, what is the standard procedure that a customs officer should follow; (c) why are there no joint Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) evaluations planned to determine the effectiveness of customs officers and immigration officers at the border; (d) is there a standard for the sharing of data and intelligence between customs officers and immigration officers; (e) is there a standard referral procedure by which customs officers can clearly determine by which points should a traveller be referred to immigration officers; (f) is there an agreement between the CCRA and CIC that would provide for periodic evaluations to be performed jointly by CCRA and CIC to determine the effectiveness of their joint operations; (g) what percentage of the time does the Primary Automated Lookout System-Highway equipment correctly read licence plates of vehicles stopped at border crossing booths; (h) what facilities exist for examining commercial shipments at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor and where are they located in relation to the bridge customs site: (i) what is the standard procedure for ensuring that truck operators told to report to the facility actually arrive there; and (ii) under what circumstances would procedures dictate that a truck b ...

Even on issues such as shared customs facilities straddling the border, this exercise founders on the fact that we have different building codes in the two countries.

It must also agree not to build a second continuous casting facility for slabs for at least five years from the date of closure of the slab mill; (d) ProfilArbed SA agrees by the end of 1995 at the latest, pursuant to the abovementioned Decision, to replace its L-D steel melting shop at Esch-Belval with an electric melting shop with an MPP not exceeding 1 500 kt/year; (e) until output at rolling mill IX at Esch-Belvan begins, Klöckner Stahl agrees to limit production of hot-rolled coil at the Bremen hot strip mill to 2 640 kt/year and not to exceed 3 360 kt/year, including rolling to order; (f) Klöckner Stahl undertakes not to invest, ...[+++] save by prior agreement with the Commission, in maintenance or other plant, in order to maintain the bottleneck identified in the SNV expert report ("Einschleusungslogistik für die Warmbreitbankstrasse der Hütte Bremen, 8.3.1984, Studiengesellschaft Nahverkehr mbH) which limits the quantity of slabs coming from outside for processing to 1 020 kt/year; (g) Klöckner Stahl GmbH cuts its MPP of cold-rolled strip and sheet products by 500 kt/year by reducing MPP at its Bremen plant from 1500 to 1000 kt/year as follows: 300 kt/year before the end of June 1996 200 kt/year before the end of June 1998.