Once the initial design of the track system has been established, an important parameter for the control of equivalent conicity is track gauge.

In a draft opinion* to be adopted today, Wednesday, 16 January, the ESC calls for a new, second legal channel for third-country nationals to be introduced to provide temporary entry to a Member State in order to seek employment: this is essential, especially where employees and migrant workers must know each other beforehand.

In cases where reductions to be applied by way of off-setting in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 32(2), the second subparagraph of Article 33, Article 34(2), the last sentence of Article 35(3), the third subparagraph of Article 38(2), the second subparagraph of Article 38(4) and Article 40(1) and (6) of Regulation (EC) No 2419/2001 could not yet fully be off-set before the date of application of this Regulation, the outstanding balance shall be off-set against payments under any of the aid schemes falling under this Regulation, provided the time limits for the off-setting stipulated in ...[+++]those provisions have not yet expired.

The decision to refer an action to the Court of Justice, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 47 of the ECSC Statute, the second paragraph of Article 47 of the EEC Statute and the second paragraph of Article 48 of the Euratom Statute, shall, in the case of manifest lack of competence, be made by reasoned order and without taking any further steps in the proceedings.

Why don't we use that energy to start constructing this parallel path that says, okay, we're doing the software thing over here, but we need to have another path of energy that says that when the dates roll over—1999 or 2000, whichever it's going to be—there's someplace people can call and say they don't know what to do, that things are breaking or not working there, and they can be helped?

The second route would require decision makers to pay greater attention to the EU’s overall water policy objectives when implementing other policies ranging from agriculture and fisheries to energy and transport or when allocating funding to infrastructure projects.