(c) permanent deck covering, within accommodation spaces on decks forming the crown of machinery or cargo spaces, shall be of a type that will not readily ignite;

24. Underlines that special attention should be paid to overcome financial and legal obstacles to sustainable development, protection and fulfilment of all women's human rights; urges the international community to address the unjust social, economic and environmental conditions that perpetuate the feminisation of poverty, commodification of natural resources, and threats to food sovereignty that impede women and girls from becoming empowered, stresses in this context the issue of large-scale land acquisition by foreign investors, which is affecting local farmers and which has a devastating impact on women and children;

Moreover, and there may have been a slip of the tongue in the announcement of your Commission proposal, our group, together with our good rapporteur, is firmly convinced that there should be no absolute priority for freight trains over all other trains, just easier access for freight traffic, because in almost all the Member States rail networks are used both by freight trains and by international, national, regional and local trains.

This is possible because operators have access to a single interface (whereby economic operators are able to discharge at one go their obligations as regards the declarations to be made to the customs authorities and other government agencies - veterinary, plant-health, etc. - by using permanently accessible electronic means on their own premises) and the goods will be checked by the authorities concerned at the same time and the same place.

These practices are commonplace in Central and Eastern European countries, and it is also normal for little space to be allocated to goods from local suppliers, for suppliers to be required to provide monetary deposits before starting to supply goods, and for them to have to supply goods at any time of the day, seven days a week.

26. Calls on the Commission to keep a close eye on local markets in the LDCs as regards possible shortages, which may arise if excessive amounts of food are exported; considers that, if it is proven that shortages on local markets are caused by excessive exports, the Commission should be able to suspend exports from those countries in line with Article 22 of the Regulation (EC) No 2820/98;