29. Calls on the VP/HR to engage actively in conflict resolution and confidence-building in the region, ensuring that the EU has an active role as a player and not only a payer, in particular in the central Middle East peace process and also the Western Sahara conflict; believes that conflict resolution holds the key to political, economic and social developments in the region and to the progress of the ENP regional dimension and its multilateral forms of cooperation, such as the UfM; notes that finding a comprehensive solution, in accordance with international law, to the various conflicts, and the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular, ...[+++] in the EU's southern neighbourhood is crucial to the full success of the ENP;

Work will also include low cost, information-rich and higher resolution displays as well as advanced sensors including low cost vision and bio-metric sensors, and haptic devices.

Work will also include low cost, information-rich and higher resolution displays as well as advanced sensors including low cost vision and bio-metric sensors, and haptic devices.

Work will also include low cost, information-rich and higher resolution displays as well as advanced sensors including low cost vision and bio-metric sensors, and haptic devices.

These various services will require the use of specific Earth observation systems, in particular sensor technologies such as: high- and medium-resolution, optical and radar imagers for land surface, coastal zone and ocean monitoring; advanced optical and microwave sensors for atmospheric composition measurements and advanced active and passive microwave instruments for ocean monitoring.

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Whereas the Community, through Council Decision 89/337/EEC, Council Decision 89/630/EEC, Council Directive 92/38/EEC and Council Decision 93/424/EEC, recognized the strategic importance of advanced and high-definition television for the European consumer electronics industry and for the European television and film industries, and established the strategy framework for the introduction of European advanced and high- definition television; Whereas the Council, in Council Resolution ...[+++] 93/C 209/01, invited the Commission to submit to the Council a communication on digital television; Whereas on 18 November 1993 the Commission submitted to the Council a communication entitled "Digital Video Broadcasting - a Framework for Community Policy"; Whereas digital technology offers significant benefits for the future of television and for the future electronic information highways; Whereas the benefits will be best achieved if a harmonious approach, based on a long-term perspective, is adopted from the start; Whereas common standards are an essential prerequisite for such an approach; Whereas relevant research and development activities in the Community should be reinforced and appropriate studies on frequency allocation and implementation scenarios intensified; Whereas the development of digital television technology is a worldwide phenomenon and whereas the search for the highest degree of compatibility between the various regions of the world in this area is a desirable objective, WELCOMES the Commission communication entitled "Digital Video Broadcasting - a Framework for Community Policy", which provides an excellent basis for the Council's examination; 1. CONSIDERS that: 1.1. digital technology offers the potential of significant benefits for the future of television and, in the broader sense, for the future electronic information highways or integrated broadband commun ...