40. Stresses that a joint processing scheme should fully respect the rights of applicants and contain strong guarantees to that end; insists that joint processing must in no circumstances be used to accelerate the asylum procedure at the expense of its quality; takes the view that joint processing could lead to more efficient asylum procedures, also benefiting individual asylum seekers since with increased administrative capacities their protection needs could be recognised faster;

The European Union needs to take a leading role in developing effective policy measures and partnerships to ensure the accelerated development, production and effective use of Global Public Goods, with a particular focus on therapeutic and preventive technologies, such as microbicides and vaccines, that meet the health needs of developing countries.

Both the rapporteur and all the political groups showed willing, although it was difficult to strike a balance between the ambitious objectives set by the European Union for women's employment and the quality of jobs, the already high acquis communautaire on equal treatment for men and women and the exceptional, high-level performance by certain Member States which have gone beyond the proposals for the directive (Mrs Karamanou and Mrs Smet referred to experiences in Greece and Belgium) and the real need to maintain flexibility and the status of female employment during a downswing in the economy and on the labour market, help speed up c ...[+++]ooperation with the Council and the European Commission and avoid overburdening the text with important women's issues such as equal pay, which are dealt with elsewhere, and achieve the consensus and majority needed.

Some initiatives provide vaccines, others medicines; some offer accelerated access to treatments, others RD” (Oxfam Report ‘Dare to Lead’ p. 26)

I was in the fast track, that is, the expedited process of the Immigration and Refugee Board at Montreal.

Mr. William Kennedy Bernadas: In my case I came under the expedited process, the so-called fast track.