‘4a. With regard to persons and entities listed in Annex IV to this Decision, exemptions may also be made for funds and economic resources which are necessary for humanitarian purposes, such as delivering or facilitating the delivery of assistance, including medical supplies, food, the provision of electricity, humanitarian workers and related assistance, or evacuating foreign nationals from Libya’.

Workers in the ‘Aircraft maintenance’ and in the ‘basic metals’ sectors received the highest average amounts of EGF support (approximately EUR 10 000 per worker), followed by the automotive sector (almost EUR 8 000 per worker) and the mechanical/electronic sector (more than EUR 7 000 per worker).

Prosperity: key actions envisaged for 2007 Lisbon Strategy Annual assessment of progress and identification of areas for further action Start of new programmes for 2007-2013: 7th Research Framework Programme; Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme; Galileo; Trans European Networks; Marco Polo; Lifelong Learning; Customs and Fiscalis Actions to boost investment in research and innovation by Member States and the private sector, in particular through supporting markets for innovative goods and services, to strive for an attractive single market for researchers, and to enhance university-based research Launch of the European Space Programme Employment Communication on “flexicurity”: aiming at a balance between flexibility and ...[+++] employment security Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) governance Enhanced monitoring of stability and convergence programmes and increase dialogue with the Member States likely to qualify for participation in the euro area Further development of the functioning of the euro area under the reformed Stability and Growth Pact and enhanced policy coordination Energy and Transport Preparing for the setting up of a European Observatory of energy markets Measures to support the completion of the internal market for electricity and gas Action Plan on intermodal transport logistics, aiming at alleviating traffic congestion and diminishing transport costs Measures foreseen by the NAIADES Action Plan to promote inland waterways transport and exploit its commercial potential Single Market Concessions (follow-up to the Green Paper on Public-Private Partnerships and EC public procurement and concessions) Payment services industry - to create a Single European Payment Area by 2010 Continued action to create a true internal market for financial services Proportionality of capital and control (one-share-one-vote) to enhance convergence between shareholders' financial contributions and their control rights in listed companies Promoting growth in wi ...

Its four main business areas cover power generation, power transmission and distribution, metallurgy and electrical plant building and infrastructure.

At sectoral level, the following achievements should be noted: a code of conduct on corporate social responsibility in the sugar industry, a joint statement on life-long learning in the electricity sector, and in the railway sector an agreement on certain aspects of the working conditions of railway mobile workers assigned to interoperable cross-border services and an agreement on the European licence for drivers carrying out a cross-border interoperability service.

Since the government did not address this in the last throne speech, today I will present three of the seven measures being called for jointly by the Shipbuilders' Association of Canada, which represents the owners of all the major shipyards in Canada; the Fédération de la métallurgie CSN; the Marine Workers Federation (CAW Canada), representing maritime workers primarily; and the Shipyard General Workers' Federation of British Columbia.