– the more restrictive EGF conditions, in particular the trade criterion as the main intervention criterion for applications based on globalisation;

the more restrictive EGF conditions, in particular the trade criterion as the main intervention criterion for applications based on globalisation;

The opportunity is being seized on by many to launch plans for permanent economic governance, with intervention and control as its guiding principles.

According to this principle, action at Community level should be taken only when the objectives envisaged cannot be achieved sufficiently by Member States alone.

This programme primarily targets interventions in the field.

Research will focus on: developing promising candidate interventions (vaccines, therapies and HIV microbicides) against the target diseases by sponsoring research over the full spectrum from basic molecular research, taking advantage of microbial genomics, through to pre-clinical testing and proof-of-principle; establishing a clinical trials programme to unite and support Europe's clinical trial activities specifically targeted at interventions for use in developing countries; establishing an AIDS Therapy Trials Network in Europe to improve the coherence and complementarity of clinical trials of AIDS therapies for European use.