The Committee’s first interim report identified three broad age categories which distinguished seniors: the “young old” who are healthy, fit and reasonably affluent; the “middle old” who are starting to slow down and have less money and resources; and the “frail old” who are very elderly and have special social and physical needs.

One of the witnesses, Douglas Durst, talked about thinking about seniors in three broad age categories: the young-old, who are 65 to 75, newly retired, healthy and fit; the middle-old, who are 75 to 85 and are slowing down; and the frail-old, who are 85 and older and have special physical and social needs.

1.1. developing and operating a sustainable health monitoring system to establish comparable quantitative and qualitative indicators at Community level on the basis of existing work and of accomplished results, and to collect, analyse and disseminate comparable and compatible age- and gender-specific information on human health at Community level concerning health status, health policies and health determinants, including demography, geography and socioeconomic situations, personal and biological factors, health behaviours such as substance abuse, nutrition, physical activity, sexual behaviour, and living, working and envi ...[+++]ronmental conditions, paying special attention to inequalities in health;

As shown by the following table, certification conditions (training level, age, medical and psychological requirements, issuing authority, etc.) are based on relatively similar models which however take account of features and requirements pertaining to each mode of transport (physical fitness, age, experience, knowledge of infrastructure, etc.).

The Governments of the Member States and the European Commission were represented as follows: Belgium: Mr Bernd GENTGES Minister for Education, Culture, Youth and Scientific Research of the Government of the German-speaking Community Denmark: Mr Niels Henrik SLIBEN Deputy Permanent Representative Germany: Mrs Claudia NOLTE Federal Minister for Women, Youth, the Family and Senior Citizens Mr Willi HAUSMANN State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Women and Youth Greece: Mrs Hélène STEFANOU State Secretary, Ministry of Education Spain: Mrs Cristina ALBERDI ALONSO Minister for Social Affairs France: Mrs Michèle ALLIOT-MARIE Minister for Youth and Sport Ireland: Mr Frank COGAN Deputy Permanent Representative Italy: Mr Roberto ROSSI Deputy Permanent ...[+++] Representative Luxembourg: Mr Alex BODRY Minister for Regional Planning, the Armed Forces, Physical Education, Sport and Youth Netherlands: Mr Lambert J. HANRATH Deputy Permanent Representative Portugal: Mrs Maria de Céu BAPTISTA RAMOS State Secretary for Youth United Kingdom: Mr Timothy BOSWELL State Secretary, Department of Education Commission: Mr Antonio RUBERTI Member Representatives of the acceding countries took part, viz. Austria: Mrs Judith GEBETSROITHNER Deputy Head of Mission Finland: Mr Jan STORE Deputy Head of Mission for Sweden Sweden: Mrs Marita ULVSKOG Minister for Public Administration THIRD PHASE OF THE "YOUTH FOR EUROPE" PROGRAMME With a view to the conciliation procedure provided for in Article 189b of the Treaty the Council considered the European Parliament's amendments to its common position of 11 July 1994 (see Press Release 7179/94 - Presse 106).

4. Natural persons authorized in a Member State on the date of the adoption of this Directive to offer investment services shall be deemed to be authorized under this Directive, provided that they fulfil the requirements imposed in Article 1 (2), second subparagraph, second indent, and third subparagraph, all four indents.