The above mentioned operational objectives: (1) gradually align authors' and performers' protection; (2) incrementally increase the remuneration of performers; (3) diminish the discrepancies in protection between the EU and US; (4) incrementally increase AR resources, i.e., the development of new talent; (5) ensure availability of music at reasonable prices; and (6) encourage digitisation of back catalogue, can best be achieved by changes to the performers' and producers term of protection.

All options are assessed against the following six operational objectives: (1) gradually align authors' and performers' protection; (2) incrementally increase the remuneration of performers; (3) diminish the discrepancies in protection between the EU and US; (4) incrementally increase AR resources, i.e., the development of new talent; (5) ensure availability of music at reasonable prices; and (6) encourage digitisation of back catalogue.

In addition to ensuring the increased availability of AR, option 2b is also easier to implement than option 2a, because it does not link the term of protection to the, sometimes very different lifetimes of individual co-performers but to a uniform date, i.e., the publication of the phonogram that contains the performance.

document any unforeseen encounters with vulnerable marine ecosystems referred to in Article 7, including the gathering of information that may be of use in relation to the protection of the site.

The above mentioned operational objectives: (1) gradually align authors' and performers' protection; (2) incrementally increase the remuneration of performers; (3) diminish the discrepancies in protection between the EU and US; (4) incrementally increase AR resources, i.e., the development of new talent; (5) ensure availability of music at reasonable prices; and (6) encourage digitisation of back catalogue, can best be achieved by changes to the performers' and producers term of protection.

(13) Whereas the Community's legal framework for the protection of biotechnological inventions can be limited to laying down certain principles as they apply to the patentability of biological material as such, such principles being intended in particular to determine the difference between inventions and discoveries with regard to the patentability of certain elements of human origin, to the scope of protection conferred by a patent on a biotechnological invention, to the right to use a deposit mechanism in addition to written descriptions and lastly to the option of obtaining non-exclusive compulsory licences in respect of interdepende ...[+++]nce between plant varieties and inventions, and conversely;