Mr. Speaker, U.S. law applies to satellites operated by Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. companies and the satellite images belong “exclusively to the U.S. government” for reasons of “national security or foreign policy concerns”.

6. Calls for the Internal Market Scoreboard, the SOLVIT Report, the Citizens Signpost Service and the Consumer Market Scoreboard to be published at the same time once a year (not changing the frequency of their publication) in order to provide a global picture of the development of the internal market and to better coordinate the work that has been done in those areas while maintaining the particular nature of those instruments; calls on the Commission to consider including in the Consumer Market Scoreboard a detailed account of the progress, achievements and shortcomings of SOLVIT; calls on the Commission to take immediate action to r ...[+++]esolve recurrent problems detected through the SOLVIT network;

At the time, Parliament delivered its opinion (containing various amendments, most of which were not taken up) supporting the idea of harmonising these security standards and at the same time introducing biometric identification features (facial image and fingerprints).

40. Points out that, if it is translated into reality and made transparent to the public, corporate governance enhances a company's image and rating alike and hence its position on the capital and financial markets, thus working, in the final analysis, in the company's interest;

Any international accounting standards that are approved and made compulsory in the Community must be compatible with the overall framework set by the accounting directives. That presupposes that they will, firstly, comply with the basic requirements of the general and sectoral accounting directives (78/660/EC, 83/349/EC, 86/635/EC and 91/674/EC), and will in particular meet the requirements of providing a reliable and true account of an undertaking's financial position, business performance and changes in financial position.

Film sequences, computer animation and satellite pictures will highlight the different marine environments.