40. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to follow up its recommendation to the Council of 25 October 2007 on production of opium for medical purposes in Afghanistan and to support the civil society initiatives cooperating with countries producing drugs in the fight against drugs and their possible positive effects in those countries' democratisation process; stresses the importance of promoting for example pilot schemes such as 'poppies for medicine', which are intended to switch some of the existing illegal cultivation of poppies to industrial production of legal, opium-based painkillers and to consider the benefits which may ...[+++] be derived from the granting of licences for the use of poppy crops for medical purposes, as well as to determine in what way this may be brought about and with what controls under the responsibility of the UN;

40. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to follow up its recommendation to the Council of 25 October 2007 on production of opium for medical purposes in Afghanistan and to support the civil society initiatives cooperating with countries producing drugs in the fight against drugs and its possible positive effects in those countries' democratisation process; stresses the importance of promoting for example pilot schemes such as 'poppies for medicine', which are intended to switch some of the existing illegal cultivation of poppies to industrial production of legal, opium-based painkillers and to consider the benefits which may b ...[+++]e derived from the granting of licences for the use of poppy crops for medical purposes, as well as to determine in what way this may be brought about and with what controls conducted under the responsibility of the UN;

40. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to follow up its recommendation to the Council of 25 October 2007 on production of opium for medical purposes in Afghanistan and to support the civil society initiatives cooperating with countries producing drugs in the fight against drugs and their possible positive effects in those countries' democratisation process; stresses the importance of promoting for example pilot schemes such as 'poppies for medicine', which are intended to switch some of the existing illegal cultivation of poppies to industrial production of legal, opium-based painkillers and to consider the benefits which may ...[+++] be derived from the granting of licences for the use of poppy crops for medical purposes, as well as to determine in what way this may be brought about and with what controls under the responsibility of the UN;

The industry has made all efforts possible to assist agriculture in their new program by providing existing data and letters of support, shipping out product samples for the upcoming growing season, and advising on the application methods of these products for any given crop (1135) By now, the minor use office has assumed the following responsibilities: receives complaints and requests for information from growers, processors, provinces, industry, and scientists, and resolves these by either finding the information within PMRA or iden ...[+++]tifying new sources of information that shed a different light on a given issue and allow the development of a solution; clarifies misunderstandings of procedures and responsibilities concerning the registration of minor uses; shows small companies and the pesticide industry, in particular American companies, the path into PMRA; elaborates proposed timelines for PMRA, Agriculture, industry, and provinces to minimize the delay between the identification of a project and the registration of its new use; produces templates, to which I previously referred, to facilitate the production of submissions of acceptable quality so that delays caused by the need for clarification can be avoided; produces templates for study protocols, field notebooks, and study reports to assist agriculture and other sponsors in the production of high-quality data packages that will conform to OECD norms for good laboratory practice and that will be acceptable to PMRA and IR-4 and the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S.; prepares a training plan about the registration process for study directors from Agriculture and Forestry; supports growers and provinces in the identification of potential pest control products; establishes tracking systems that allow us to follow the advance of any given project through the different parts of the process, from the identification of a need to the availability of the product on the shelf; and advises PMRA on differ ...

The availability of cannabis in Europe has increased considerably. This is partly the result of intensified cultivation in countries in southern Europe, mainly Albania, and soaring indoor cannabis cultivation has been facilitated by the unrestricted sale of cannabis seeds and cannabis-growing accessories in so-called " hemp shops and on the Internet.

PROMOTION OF THE TRANSLATION OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN DRAMATIC WORKS - RESOLUTION "The Council and the Ministers for Culture meeting within the Council, Recognizing, as part of the improvement of the dissemination of the culture of the European peoples, the need for wider circulation of contemporary dramatic works within the European Community so as to enable decision-makers in theatres and the broadcasting sector to present a more varied repertoire of drama from the Member States to the public of the other Member States; Noting that ...[+++]potential producers of dramatic works may need to read these works in their own language before taking a decision on production, particularly when the original language of the work is a lesser spoken language in Europe; Recalling the importance attached to the promotion of translation of dramatic works in the Ministers' Resolution of 7 June 1991 on the development of the theatre in Europe; AGREE to promote the translation of contemporary dramatic works by playwrights of the Member States which have been successful in their country of origin; this should be organized within the pilot scheme for the translation of contemporary literary works established by their Resolution of 9 November 1987, as an addition to it; INVITE the Commission to assess any necessary steps for putting into practice such a scheme on the translation of dramatic works, including proposals for appropriate financing, and to propose an appropriate number of translations, preferably into at least two languages, each year; the whole to be evaluated within the review of the main scheme for the translation of contemporary literary works, due at the end of 1994. They invite the Commission, in so doing, to take account of the ideas contained in a separate Presidency proposal to promote translation of dramatic works".