Following the killing of four RCMP officers, the RCMP used registration information in the Canadian Firearms Information System to link a long gun recovered at the scene to a licensed owner.

Supports the resumption of negotiations on the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement - given that an Association Agreement of this kind, which is of the utmost importance and affects 700 million people, would, if concluded swiftly, be the world’s most ambitious bi-regional agreement - and therefore stresses that the European Parliament should be closely involved at all stages of the negotiations; is aware that agriculture issues will probably be one of the sensitive topics in the negotiations; calls for agricultural imports to be allowed into the EU only if they have been produced in a manner consistent with European consumer protection, a ...[+++]nimal welfare and environmental protection standards and minimum social standards; emphasises that a balanced outcome for both parties has to be achieved in the end by making sure that the negotiations take full account of recent developments in the global economy, global environmental challenges, such as climate change, and the demands and concerns put forward by Parliament;

Giving the existing evidence showing that exposure to environmental smoke causes increased risks of several illnesses in children and that this exposure of non-smoking women during pregnancy also causes reductions in foetal growth, the Commission fully supports tobacco control policies including measures to protect people from passive smoking like the banning of smoking in public places.

However, the health and safety requirements laid down by this Directive cannot, in view of their specific use, apply to theatre elevators, that is to say devices for lifting persons which are permanently or temporarily installed in auditoria and which permit the movement of persons from the stage to adjacent locations and vice versa.

The “crime scene index” contains DNA profiles from bodily substances found at the scene of a “designated offence,” or on or within the body of a victim or any other person or thing associated with the commission of a designated offence.

The “crime scene index” contains DNA profiles from bodily substances found at the scene of a “designated offence,” or on or within the body of a victim or any other person or thing associated with the commission of a designated offence.