2. The Steering Board, in the context of Agency ad hoc projects and programmes, may authorise the Agency, under the conditions set out in the arrangements governing the activities in question, to enter into contracts and grant agreements, and collect the necessary contributions from these Member States in advance to honour such contracts and grant agreements.

ensure at their own expense data collections and surveys which the ESS ERIC may operate when necessary in pursuance of its principal task (at least on a biennial basis) are carried out to the specifications drawn up by the Director and agreed when necessary by the General Assembly; and

G. whereas a bipartisan group of 26 US Senators has written to the NSA Director complaining that a ‘provision of the USA Patriot Act has been secretly reinterpreted to allow the government to collect the private records of large numbers’ of citizens and that the administration is relying on a ‘body of secret law’ to collect bulk private data of citizens, instead of using regular court orders or emergency authorisations;

8. Asks the Commission to include a binding CSR clause in all bilateral trade and investment agreements signed by the EU, on the basis of principles of CSR as defined at the international level – with an emphasis on sustainable development and good governance and with a clear focus on human rights, decent work, labour standards, freedom of association, collective bargaining and other social considerations – in particular the 2010 update of the OECD Guidelines; suggests that this clause should harmonise existing standards and concepts, in order to ensure comparability and fairness, and contain measures for monitoring these principles on ...[+++]the EU level and for its implementation, and that National Contact Points be set up as fora for questions on the issues raised in the OECD Guidelines, such as the requirement to monitor the activities of companies and their subsidiaries and supply chains, and the requirement to apply due diligence;

8. Asks the Commission to include a binding CSR clause in all bilateral trade and investment agreements signed by the EU, on the basis of principles of CSR as defined at the international level – with an emphasis on sustainable development and good governance and with a clear focus on human rights, decent work, labour standards, freedom of association, collective bargaining and other social considerations – in particular the 2010 update of the OECD Guidelines; suggests that this clause should harmonise existing standards and concepts, in order to ensure comparability and fairness, and contain measures for monitoring these principles on ...[+++]the EU level and for its implementation, and that National Contact Points be set up as fora for questions on the issues raised in the OECD Guidelines, such as the requirement to monitor the activities of companies and their subsidiaries and supply chains, and the requirement to apply due diligence;

(15) The concept of common projects, aimed at assisting airspace users and/or air navigation service providers to improve collective air navigation infrastructure, the provision of air navigation services and the use of airspace, in particular those that may be required for the implementation of the ATM Master Plan Ö as endorsed by Council Decision 2009/320/EC[28] , in accordance with Article 1(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 219/2007 Õ , should not prejudice pre-existing projects decided by one or several Member States with similar objectives.