It also gives the authority to verify that every shipment of natural rough diamonds entering Canada is accompanied by a Kimberley Process certificate from the exporting country, again certifying that diamonds have a non-conflict source (1225) There are also trade restrictions whereby trading rough diamonds from non-participating countries are prohibited.

It was decided that the Protocol should create a framework for international transboundary movements of living modified organisms derived from modern biotechnology. The previous attempt to finalise the Protocol in Cartagena, Columbia in February 1999, ended without agreement after the Miami group, comprising 6 major crop exporting countries including the US, opposed an EU compromise proposal supported by all other participants.

(22) It is necessary to guarantee transparency in the implementation of the scheme and to ensure consistency with relevant international standards in order to facilitate access to, and participation in, the scheme for manufacturers and exporters from countries outside the Community,

(17) It is necessary to guarantee transparency in the implementation of the scheme and to ensure consistency with relevant international standards in order to facilitate access to, and participation in, the Scheme by manufacturers and exporters of countries outside the Community.

The Community and Member States have furthermore undertaken jointly to press the case of the CATF recommendations with countries which did not participate but which are judged "sensitive" (exporters of chemicals, transit countries and countries which produce drugs).

We must provide the political impetus necessary to produce concrete measures capable of delivering considerably higher increases in energy efficiency". ".In the EC context, the Commission has recently proposed a new 5- year energy technology programme called "THERMIE", which will give emphasis to new technologies with environmental as well as energy benefits, joint ventures involving undertakings from more than one Member State, and promote dissemination of demonstrated technology throughout the Community". ".I want to emphasize the importance of eliminating distortions to energy trade, whether they occur in energy-exporting or energy- i ...[+++]mporting countries.