4. The tasks of the Agency's liaison officers shall include, in compliance with Union law and in accordance with fundamental rights, establishing and maintaining contacts with the competent authorities of the third country to which they are assigned with a view to contributing to the prevention of and fight against illegal immigration and the return of illegal migrants.

maintaining a continuous dialogue with Member States’ contact points in order to ensure an effective and coherent European civil protection contribution through the Mechanism to the overall relief effort, in particular:

[Translation] Mr. Dominique Goubau: Of course, it's difficult to control, but it could be that, in a particular case, a custodial parent is very dissatisfied with continued contact between the child and the incarcerated parent, whereas the court may have had, as we see in practice, an assessment by an expert designated by the court showing that, in that specific case, some contact should be maintained.

After examining the Communication, and recalling the expression of support at the Cologne European Council, last June, for the future stability and prosperity of the MSAR, based on the continuity of its specific social, economic, legal and cultural identity, the Council looks forward to the maintenance and enhancement of friendly relations between the EU and Macao, including an effective engagement with the SAR Government within its areas of responsibility.

Political and diplomatic The EU has, in its statements on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, underlined its support for the Minsk process and for the multinational peacekeeping force decided at the OSCE Budapest Summit, and has encouraged direct contacts between the parties; it has also supported UN peacekeeping in the security zone on the Georgia-Abkhaz frontier and the political negotiations under OSCE/Russian mediation through the Joint Control Commission for South Ossetia.

To summarize, we feel there needs to be more thorough and clear legislation setting out mechanisms and clear guidelines that would ensure mandatory arbitration; maintenance of family integrity through shared parenting, which would include joint physical and legal custody unless there's clear abuse or threats; and the formation of a new body, the family maintenance body, as I termed it, which would oversee the development of such requirements as custody access, visitation and support—to not only implement a plan that's going to work to maintain families and contact between children and parents, but to provide ongoing counselling and to ...[+++]assist in the problems that arise through the development of children.