[1] Heads of State and Government of the G20 agreed on 15 November 2008 not to raise new barriers to investment or to trade in goods and services within the next 12 month and to reach agreement in 2008 on modalities that lead to a successful conclusion of the WTO's Doha Development Agenda with an ambitious and balanced outcome.

These are all available for public scrutiny. Because it enhances effective performance management: it reinforces effectiveness and the ownership of supervisory and control systems by the DGs and heads of service, it encourages anticipative and solid daily management embedding the risk management dimension. Because it reinforces the Commission’s responsibility and monitoring capacity, including when budget implementation tasks are delegated to third parties such as the Member States. Because it identifies further measures to strengthen the three strands above, for instance accounts under full accrual basis, which will be signed off by the Accounting Officer, an integrated internal control framework and a more coherent approach to risks by ...[+++] group of services'

stepping up a sense of responsibility within the Commission: the Synthesis Report is backed up by solid assurances from the Directors-General and heads of services; managing work quality more effectively: arrangements for overseeing and monitoring work are more effective and better tailored to requirements.

Innovative approaches in areas such as public transport, the organization of public space and the protection of borders can be envisaged. Space, offers great scope for high technology innovation over time (in particular public investors in the application of Galileo [17] and GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), the Commission's flagship space programmes. These need to share their knowledge of the system and its scope for business with potential downstream users in the space and non-space sectors, to raise their awareness of potential space-based solutions). Transport, where the demand for energy efficiency provides great opportunities. Marine technologies and products allowing for new ...[+++]uses of the sea such as deep sea drilling, blue biotech exploitation, offshore mariculture and renewable energies, ocean space monitoring and surveillance technologies offer promising scope. Health, which has a huge growth potential for innovative products and services (including in particular e-Health, and the provision of customized solutions to allow elderly people to continue to live independently, pharmaceuticals and medical devices where innovation can bring direct benefits to patients and improve competitiveness), or well-being and culture (for instance creative content services, which gain a new dimension with the rollout of broadband networks, allowing citizens and businesses to access all kind of creative contents such as audiovisual, games, cultural information at home and in mobility) are examples of markets where the public sector has a role to play.

considers it important, in particular at Chief Veterinary Officers level, to continue discussions on administrative cooperation and other technical questions relating to the implementation of animal welfare legislation".

in that connection, considers that the European Community and its Member States must actively support the proposal of the Working Group on Animal Welfare (as endorsed by the OIE Director General) to convene an international conference in the first half of 2004 bringing together Chief Veterinary Officers of OIE Member States, non-governmental organisations and professional bodies involved in the drawing up of such standards,