‘overriding reasons relating to the public interest’ means reasons recognised as such in the case law of the Court of Justice, including the following grounds: public policy; public security; public safety; public health; preserving the financial equilibrium of the social security system; the protection of consumers, recipients of services and workers; fairness of trade transactions; combating fraud; the protection of the environment and the urban environment; the health of animals; intellectual property; the conservation of the national historic ...[+++]and artistic heritage; social policy objectives and cultural policy objectives;

The notion as recognised in the case law of the Court of Justice covers at least the following grounds: public policy, public security and public health, within the meaning of Articles 46 and 55 of the Treaty; the maintenance of order in society; social policy objectives; the protection of the recipients of services; consumer protection; the protection of workers, including the social protection of workers; animal welfare; the preservation of the financial balance of the social security system; the prevention of fraud; the prevention of unfair competition; the protection of the environment and the urban environment, including t ...[+++]own and country planning; the protection of creditors; safeguarding the sound administration of justice; road safety; the protection of intellectual property; cultural policy objectives, including safeguarding the freedom of expression of various elements, in particular social, cultural, religious and philosophical values of society; the need to ensure a high level of education, the maintenance of press diversity and the promotion of the national language; the preservation of national historical and artistic heritage; and veterinary policy.

17 If Member States are required to establish a national scheme for providing legal translators and interpreters in criminal proceedings, should the requirement extend to verifying that remuneration is enough to make participation in the scheme attractive for translators and interpreters?

If Member States are required to establish a national scheme for providing legal translators and interpreters in criminal proceedings, should the requirement extend to verifying that remuneration is enough to make participation in the scheme attractive for translators and interpreters?

The Cultural Heritage Applications Unit has signed an Understanding on Co-operation with the Digital Libraries Division of the National Science Foundation (USA) to cover co-operative activities in the digital libraries field, following similar synchronization between the Foundation's Intelligent Systems Division and the Human Language Technologies Unit in 1999.

The study showed that the system of cultural heritage protection in each country consisted of a core of national treasures which could not permanently leave the national territory, a second category comprising cultural objects that required national authorisation in order to be transferred abroad and a third category consisting of all the objects which could move freely without controls because of their relative lack of importance in cultural terms.