28. Notes that, very often, the problem encountered in business transfers to employees is not only a question of the length of the relevant procedures but also, and even more importantly, of lack of knowledge about this business scenario amongst relevant professionals (e.g. lawyers and accountants) and within the legal and education system; stresses that the training and awareness-raising of all players involved in the creation or transfer of ownership of enterprises would greatly contribute to promoting this practice; recommends, therefore, that the cooperative form of enterprise be assigned a permanent place in the relevant curricula ...[+++] of universities and management schools; believes, furthermore, that better knowledge about cooperatives should also be promoted and business transfers to employees under the cooperative form should be supported financially, also through a targeted, intelligent use of the Structural Funds, amongst trade unions and bodies tasked with providing information on the creation or transfer of businesses; underlines the expertise acquired in creating and transferring enterprises in the form of cooperatives by cooperative federations in some Member States and calls on the Commission to put in place mechanisms to facilitate cooperation and exchanges of best practices and methods in this field between enterprises and to report to the Council and Parliament on the outcome;

In such cases, different techniques (e.g. based on satellite technologies) may be required, taking into account international data standards, such as those contained in the United Nations Trade Elements Directory (UNTDED), the practical experience of relevant RTD projects and already developed military information exchange systems.

For the purpose of ML17, the term ‘library’ (parametric technical database) means a collection of technical information of a military nature, reference to which may enhance the performance of military equipment or systems.

For the purpose of ML17, the term ‘library’ (parametric technical database) means a collection of technical information of a military nature, reference to which may enhance the performance of military equipment or systems.

"network" means transmission systems and, where applicable, switching or routing equipment and other resources which permit the conveyance of signals by wire, by radio, by optical or by other electromagnetic means, including satellite networks, fixed (circuit- and packet-switched, including Internet) and mobile terrestrial networks, electricity cable systems, to the extent that they are used for the purpose of transmitting signals, networks used for radio and television broadcasting, and cable TV networks, irrespective of the type of information conveyed; ...[+++]

B. whereas at first the US Administration confined itself to asking airlines to supply data on passengers and crew (Passenger Manifest Information) ( ) using the Advanced Passenger Information System (APIS); whereas, however, it has subsequently interpreted the interim agreement so as to impose, under threat of severe penalties, direct access to computerised reservation systems and, in particular, to the Passenger Name Record (PNR), which can be linked up not only with identification data but with other information of the most vario ...[+++]us kinds , including sensitive information as defined in Article 8 of Directive 95/46/EC,