101. Notes with satisfaction the improvements in the IT sector from 2010 onwards resulting in: greater capacity to manage key aspects "in house", the process of internalisation of activities, the establishment of key corporate governance organs (Committee on ICT Innovation Strategy and Steering Committee for ICT Innovation), the setting-up of the IT planning function and of the reporting system on the status of IT development projects and the development of a transparent short-term planning methodology; welcomes the extensive use of performance indicators by this DG; expresses its disquiet at the growing risk of illicit access to, and manipulation of, Parli ...[+++]ament’s ICT systems and considers that, as a matter of the utmost urgency, an effective long-term strategy must be devised to protect them; asks the Secretary-General to keep it informed of the measures taken to that end;

103. Notes with satisfaction the improvements in the IT sector from 2010 onwards resulting in: greater capacity to manage key aspects ‘in house’, the process of internalisation of activities, the establishment of key corporate governance organs (Committee on ICT Innovation Strategy and Steering Committee for ICT Innovation), the setting-up of the IT planning function and of the reporting system on the status of IT development projects and the development of a transparent short-term planning methodology; welcomes the extensive use of performance indicators by this DG; expresses its disquiet at the growing risk of illicit access to, and manipulation of, Parli ...[+++]ament's ICT systems and considers that, as a matter of the utmost urgency, an effective long-term strategy must be devised to protect them; asks the Secretary-General to keep it informed of the measures taken to that end;

11. Stresses that abortion must not be regarded as a family planning method, but calls for legal and medically safe interventions to be possible for women who have no other way out of their difficulties, in order to protect their reproductive and mental health, which would mean a reduction in maternal mortality in developing countries, since 14% of the women who do not survive labour are victims of botched abortions;

10. Stresses that abortion must not be regarded as a family planning method, but calls for legal and medically safe interventions to be possible for women who have no other way out of their difficulties, in order to protect their reproductive and mental health, which would mean a reduction in maternal mortality in developing countries, since 14% of the women who do not survive labour are victims of botched abortions;

Whilst it is true that abortion, as the report states, must not be encouraged as a method of family planning, it is crucial that a health and social policy be put in place that enables women to resort less to abortion, specifically through the promotion of sexual education and of family planning properly targeting young people, so as to prevent unwanted pregnancies, specifically amongst adolescents.

The consultation looks at the methodology for TEN-T planning in a dual layer approach, the implementation of the TEN-T and the legal and institutional framework of the TEN-T policy review.