28. Also considers that the gradual ageing of the population will lead to an increase in the number of off-season tourists; calls on the Commission to encourage the development of senior citizens’ tourism within the European Union as well as cooperation between the Member States in this area, giving priority to exchanges between, and reception of, groups of senior citizens from other countries outside the peak season; considers t ...[+++]hat this action should be seen as an opportunity to establish greater North-South cooperation; call on the Commission to launch a low-season 'third-age' tourism programme, which will help to improve the quality of life of senior citizens, create jobs and generate demand and growth in the European economy; suggests that this programme might be named "Ulysses";

Will the Commission indicate how it intends to build on the positive commitment given on 4 October 1999 by one of the US companies at the forefront of GM food development, that it does not intend to commercialise the so-called ‘terminator’ technology, which can be used to ensure that crops produce sterile seeds, thereby depriving farmers of the right to hold over seed produced in one growing season for use in the next, and which can have particularly serious consequences f ...[+++]or subsistence farmers?

Will the Commission indicate how it intends to build on the positive commitment given on 4 October 1999 by one of the US companies at the forefront of GM food development, that it does not intend to commercialise the so-called ‘terminator’ technology, which can be used to ensure that crops produce sterile seeds, thereby depriving farmers of the right to hold over seed produced in one growing season for use in the next, and which can have particularly serious consequences f ...[+++]or subsistence farmers?

For the purposes of this Communication, the term "antimicrobial agent" encompasses a substance produced either synthetically or naturally by bacteria, fungae or plants, used to kill or inhibit the growth of micro-organisms, including bacteria, viruses and fungae, and parasites exhibiting the phenomenon of resistance (in particular protozoa).

Such "antimicrobial agents" (which for the purposes of this Communication include substances produced either synthetically or naturally by bacteria, fungae or plants, used to kill or inhibit the growth of micro-organisms, including bacteria, viruses and fungae, and parasites exhibiting the phenomenon of resistance, in particular protozoa, have greatly contributed to improvements in the health of the population. Antibiotics are substances with antibacterial effects.

The biotechnology programme will focus on the following four research areas: - "Cell factories" the aim being to move on from bioscience (biochemistry, genetics, bioinformatics, etc.) to bioprocesses (cell culture and fermentation, etc.); - "Genome analysis" the aim of which is to develop methodologies for the sequencing of genomes and identification of the biological functions of genes; - "Plant and animal biotechnology" in order to develop plant molecular engineering techniques, protein engineering, and animal genome mapping, etc.; - "Cell communication in neurosciences" the objective of which is to promote multidisciplinary researc ...[+++]h into nerve cell physiology and communication in order to encourage the neurosciences.