21. Believes that given, notably, the EU 2020 strategy and the objective of ‘intelligent growth’, it is necessary to identify common research areas among those which appear most promising in terms of concrete applications enabling the highest extent of sharing in an ethical context; points out that such areas could form part of a common research platform financed by the EU and supported by a common network for data exchange, which should be treated as being of major importance and priority interest;

21. Believes that given, notably, the EU 2020 strategy and the objective of ‘intelligent growth’, it is necessary to identify common research areas among those which appear most promising in terms of concrete applications enabling the highest extent of sharing in an ethical context; points out that such areas could form part of a common research platform financed by the EU and supported by a common network for data exchange, which should be treated as being of major importance and priority interest;

(a) actions improving police cooperation, coordination between law enforcement authorities and inter-agency collaboration , including joint investigation teams and any other form of cross-border joint operation, the access to and exchange of information and interoperable technologies, such as the extension of Europol Secure Information Exchange Network Application (SIENA) or the implementation of data loaders for the Europol information system ;

Identifying diabetes as a public health challenge in Europe and encouraging networking and the exchange of information between Member States with a view to promoting best practices, to enhancing the co-ordination of health promotion and prevention policies and programmes for the whole population and high-risk groups and to reducing inequalities and optimising healthcare resources; Facilitating and supporting European diabetes research in basic and clinical science and ensuring the wide dissemination of the results of this research across Europe; Examining and strengthening the comparability of diabetes epidemiological evidence by consi ...[+++]dering the establishment of standardised outputs for monitoring, surveillance and reporting of diabetes mortality, morbidity and risk factor data across Member States; Reporting on Member States' actions in order to emphasise health determinants, promote healthy lifestyles, national diabetes plans and prevention measures, on the basis of information provided by Member States, assessing the extent to which the proposed measures are working effectively, and considering the need for further action; Continuing the work on the development of a comprehensive approach to health determinants at European level, including a coherent and comprehensive nutrition and physical activity policy, and addressing the impact on public health of the promotion, marketing and presentation, in particular to children, of energy dense foods and sugar-sweetened drinks; Building on the work of the EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health and encouraging the development and implementation of national diabetes prevention programmes and measures; Taking the health determinants and risk factors of diabetes into account across EU policies.

to use existing means and work with established European networks to propose guiding principles in order to enable youth information structures to develop quality assessment; to raise the profile of quality youth information in Europe and thus make it more accessible; to promote and develop cooperation, networking and the exchange of good practice between national youth information sites and portals across Europe, together with analyses of the use of such sites and portals; with this in mind, to use European programmes when working with youth information to develop a greater insight into young people's information needs, an exchange o ...[+++]f experience between youth information experts at various levels at European seminars and training sessions, a regularly updated database of innovative approaches and examples of good practice, with particular reference to networking among youth information structures in various sectors".

Since the end of 1992, a computerized data-exchange network covering the entire Community, the VAT Information Exchange System (VIES), had been launched by the Commission, in conjunction with the Member States.