4. Received for further clarification on the Agency's contractual relationships with AceAce, a Danish video production company situated in Copenhagen; notes that in 2011, the Agency awarded AceAce a video-production contract (EEA/COM/10/001 – lot 5) with a budget ceiling up to EUR 1 000 000 following an open tendering procedure; emphasises that the awarding criteria differed greatly from those used for the previous tender on video-production (EEA/CCA/07/001 – lot 1) and included narrowed criteria such as ‘access to editing services in the EEA vicinity’; acknowledges the Executive Director's statement that 16 companies located in the Agency's vicinity applied to this tender procedure and that 15 fitted all criteria; received from the Age ...[+++]ncy a list of all applicants, including names and addresses, to the call for tender EEA/COM/10/001 ;

B. whereas Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs then proceeded to evaluate the credentials of the nominee, in particular in view of the requirements laid down in Article 283(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and in the light of the need for full independence of the European Central Bank pursuant to Article 130 TFEU, and whereas in carrying out that evaluation, the committee received a curriculum vitae from the candidate as well as his replies to the written questionnaire that was sent out to him,

B. whereas Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs then proceeded to evaluate the credentials of the nominee, in particular in view of the requirements laid down in Article 283(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and in the light of the need for full independence of the European Central Bank pursuant to Article 130 TFEU, and whereas in carrying out that evaluation, the committee received a curriculum vitae from the candidate as well as his replies to the written questionnaire that was sent out to him,

On the basis of the tenders received, the GALILEO joint undertaking will make its choice from the preselected candidates in the course of January 2004.

14. Emphasises the particularly important role that the Structural Funds can play in combating the adverse effects that economic and social restructuring has on women in many of the candidate countries, particularly from the point of view of rising unemployment and the decrease in childcare facilities, which would enable work and family life to be combined; asks the governments of the candidate countries and the Commission to ensure that adequate financial support is provided to the NGOs concerned with equal opportunities and that they are involved at every stage of the programming and implementation of measures; calls for specific mea ...[+++]sures for women in the candidate Member States, who have specific problems staying in or re-entering into employment, having received most, if not all, of their education and vocational training under the "old" economic/ political system;

14. Emphasises the particularly important role that the Structural Funds can play in combating the adverse effects that economic and social restructuring has on women in many of the candidate countries, not least from the point of view of rising unemployment and the decrease in childcare facilities enabling work and family life to be combined; asks the governments of the candidate countries and the Commission to ensure that adequate financial support is provided to the NGOs concerned with equal opportunities and that they are involved at every stage of programming and implementing measures; calls for specific measures for women in the ...[+++]candidate Member States who have specific problems staying in, or re-entering, employment, having received much, if not all, of their education and vocational training under the ‘old’ economic/ political system;