In order to make controls possible and to manage the payment of the aid efficiently, tobacco should be produced under cultivation contracts concluded between farmers and first processors.

Finally, the influence over the victims is even stronger when the criminal organisations control the whole chain from recruitment, through transportation to the concrete sexual exploitation.

(14) Whereas a patent for invention does not authorise the holder to implement that invention, but merely entitles him to prohibit third parties from exploiting it for industrial and commercial purposes; whereas, consequently, substantive patent law cannot serve to replace or render superfluous national, European or international law which may impose restrictions or prohibitions or which concerns the monitoring of research and of the use or commercialisation of its results, notably from the point of view of the requirements of public ...[+++] health, safety, environmental protection, animal welfare, the preservation of genetic diversity and compliance with certain ethical standards;

(17) the existing permission to replant vines is necessary to allow the normal renewal of exhausted vineyards; the existing system should therefore be maintained subject to the necessary checks; for greater flexibility the system should also permit, subject to the necessary checks, the acquisition and use of replanting rights before the related grubbing-up takes place; replanting rights acquired under prior Community or national legislation should be respected; furthermore, it should be possible to transfer replanting rights to another holding, subject to strict controls, provided that this transfer is in pursuit of quality or conern ...[+++]s the areas intended for graft nurseries or is connected with the transfer of part of the holding; in order to ensure the smooth running of the common organisation of the market, these transfers should be maintained within the same Member State;

issuing guidance to verifiers in order to ensure that they understand the culture of SMEs and thus ensure that their checks are proportional to the requirements of SMEs whilst fulfilling the objectives of EMAS, (to be developed by the Commission). encouraging Member States to take the measures falling under their competence, such as reducing or waiving any registration fees they levy on participating SMEs (Article 10.1); encouraging Member States to use the potential of EMAS participation in the implementation and control of environmental legislation (Article 10.2); adopting a visible and recognisable logo in order to assist the promotion of EMAS and t ...[+++]o provide organisations with a means to easily advertise their participation (Article 8); developing a promotional strategy shared between Member States and the Commission (Article 11); increasing the follow-up of the improvements of the environmental performance carried out by organisations through more regular verification and reporting (Annex V); ensuring compliance with the requirements of EMAS by increased verification frequency and strengthened supervision of the work performed by verifiers (Annex V); enhancing the added value of EMAS compared to other EMSs (Annex I B); ensuring the consistency of implementation of the Regulation across Member States by setting up a forum of accreditation bodies and a forum of competent bodies in order to provide for a common understanding and application of the requirements of the Regulation.

Together with my colleagues, Commissioners Franco Frattini and Louis Michel, I proposed a series of measures: improved police cooperation and joint border controls; tougher measures for dealing with people traffickers; a rapid reaction force for crises at the borders; more support for transit countries; and above all the fight against illegal migration at its source in the countries of origin, by means of our development and neighbourhood policy.