‘Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro and FYROM are transit countries to the EU for illegal migrants and victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, cannabis products, heroin, cocaine, cigarettes, synthetic drugs and precursors, counterfeit Euros and firearms.

Combating trafficking in human beings, the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography Summaries of EU legislation: direct access to the main summaries page

Proteins and molecules (the functional blocks): protein/peptide sequencing/synthesis, lipid/protein engineering, proteomics, hormones, and growth factors, cell receptors/signalling/pheromones.

Thirty-nine male moths wer caught in pheromone-baited sticky traps in B.C. in 1994 and again in 1995; prior years moths trapped have numbered over 200 males (The pheromone is a sexual lure used to attract male gypsy moths only).

The essential contents of this Directive included - an immediate ban on stilbenes and thyrostatic substances (those considered to be at the origin of the problems in Italy). - a general ban on substances with oestrogenic, androgenic or gestagenic action (sometimes called sexual hormones), with the exception of certain specified uses, for example, for therapeutic purposes (this was allowed subject to restrictive conditions and controls); - allowing national rules to continue to apply in the case of five specific substances used at the time for fattening animals, namely Oestradiol 17 B, Progesterone, Testosterone, Trenbolone and Zeranol; ...[+++] the first three substances named are commonly known as "natural" hormones (because their chemical structure is the same as that of hormones found naturally in animals); Trenbolone and Zeranol are known as "synthetic" hormones (they are not naturally present in the body).