30. Reiterates its view that Member States‘ governments should, when determining their national budgets, take into account the Integrated Guidelines and the country-specific recommendations as well as the overall budgetary situation in the euro area; the various national fiscal calendars and the main assumptions used in the underlying forecasts should be harmonised in order to avoid disparities caused by the use of different macro-economic forecasts (concerning, for example, global growth, EU growth, the oil barrel price and interest rates) and other parameters;

30. Reiterates its view that Member States‘ governments should, when determining their national budgets, take into account the Integrated Guidelines and the country-specific recommendations as well as the overall budgetary situation in the euro area; the various national fiscal calendars and the main assumptions used in the underlying forecasts should be harmonised in order to avoid disparities caused by the use of different macro-economic forecasts (concerning, for example, global growth, EU growth, the oil barrel price and interest rates) and other parameters;

Firstly, there is a need for the general introduction of shared television aerials to include digital broadcasting, particularly on blocks of flats owned by housing cooperatives, in accordance with the exceptions under Article 5 of the information guidelines, as this is a problem for millions of citizens in the new Member States, including the Czech Republic.

8. Welcomes the well-balanced conclusions of the Spring European Council in March 2006, respecting the supportive multi-sectoral approach of the re-focused Lisbon Strategy; calls on the Member States to implement the NRPs speedily and accurately, involving national parliaments and other interested stakeholders, such as the social partners, and to provide timely information to the Parliament, the Council, and the Commission; invites the Council and the Commission to establish, together with the Parliament, a Code of Conduct to allow a scrupulous joint follow-up of these programmes; regrets however, that neither a clear timetable nor a code of conduct ...[+++] was agreed upon, which would ensure appropriate cooperation and the full involvement of the three main EU institutions concerned in the follow-up to the Integrated Guidelines, as key instruments of the Lisbon Strategy; furthermore, recalls, in this context, the importance of the equal involvement of all the main Council formations concerned and the enhanced role of the General Affairs Council in coordinating this input;

8. Welcomes the well-balanced conclusions of the Spring European Council in March 2006, respecting the supportive multi-sectoral approach of the re-focused Lisbon Strategy; calls on the Member States to implement the NRPs speedily and accurately, involving national parliaments and other interested stakeholders, such as the social partners, and to provide timely information to the Parliament, the Council, and the Commission; invites the Council and the Commission to establish, together with the Parliament, a Code of Conduct to allow a scrupulous joint follow-up of these programmes; regrets however, that neither a clear timetable nor a code of conduct ...[+++] was agreed upon, which would ensure appropriate cooperation and the full involvement of the three main EU institutions concerned in the follow-up to the Integrated Guidelines, as key instruments of the Lisbon Strategy; furthermore, recalls, in this context, the importance of the equal involvement of all the main Council formations concerned and the enhanced role of the General Affairs Council in coordinating this input;

I'd like to acknowledge the presence of a couple of additional officials: Dr. Robert Peterson, director general of the therapeutic drugs directorate of the health products and food branch; and Ms. Janice Hopkins from the Pest Management Regulatory Agency.