Traffic forecast assumptions: comparison of local service unit forecasts used in the performance plan with the Eurocontrol Statistics and Forecast Service (STATFOR) traffic forecasts available three months before submission of the performance plan;

The market value of the acetic anhydride required is trivial in comparison to this – and in comparison to the value of legitimate sales or to the cost of lost personal or corporate reputations following such diversions for illicit use.

Delay level: Comparison of the expected level of en route ATFM delay used in the performance plans with a reference value provided by the capacity planning process of Eurocontrol and in the Network Operations Plan of the Network Manager’.

Urges the EU institutions and Member States to resist pressure from industry and other interested stakeholders seeking to escape the burden of more regulation, as is to be expected (and as emerges clearly from a comparison between the Commission and the Council versions of the EU CBRN Action Plan); considers that industry concerns about the quality and impact of the proposed regulatory measures should be taken into consideration, without losing sight of what is at stake, namely the rights to life, liberty and security of all people i ...[+++]n Europe and their societies; stresses the priority of ensuring supervision and protection of CBRN materials throughout the EU and the efficiency of the EU response to a disaster, be it accidental or intentional and the importance of working towards the elimination of such threats;

The framework for cooperation in generic preparedness planning in the EU covers three main activities: first, sharing national plans and making comparisons, evaluations, in particular through joint tests and guidance on peer reviews of plans, and improvements on the basis of specific checklists set out in the technical guidance on generic preparedness planning; second, identifying the contribution and role of existing Community legislation and ensuring that national plans take them fully into account, as well as examining the need for further Community measures; and third, examining and improving implementing arrangements, which could ...[+++]help improve the timely flow of information and the interoperability and congruence of plans and responses.

The figures above imply that, in spite of the progress in recent years, there are not, at present, enough entrepreneurs in Europe with the capacity to create and propose a world class flow of innovative projects and companies, which could become the target of risk capital financing.