1. Common projects may assist the successful implementation of the ATM Master Plan Ö may be supported by common projects Õ. Such Ö These Õ projects shall support the objectives of this Regulation to improve the performance of the European aviation system in key areas such as capacity, flight and cost efficiency as well as environmental sustainability, within the overriding safety objectives. ð The common projects shall aim to deploy in a timely, coordinated and synchronised manner ATM functionalities to achieve the essential operational changes identified in the ATM Master Plan ï.

65. Stresses the role that corporate social responsibility plays by adhering to high environmental and social and labour standards abroad and applying best available technologies; believes these should be promoted through relevant fora such as the G8, G20, WTO, OECD, UNCTAD, UNEP and its International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, the international metals study groups and other bodies; applauds, in this context, positive contributions through the UN's Global Compact; calls on EU companies to develop an appropriate code of conduct for those operating in third countries and to base their activities on the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises and ISO 26000; calls on the Commission to take measures whi ...[+++]ch ensure compliance with social, environmental and labour standards by European companies mining natural resources in third countries; calls on the Commission to come forward with a proposal of its own on country-by-country reporting concerning conflict minerals and to establish legally binding requirements for extractive companies to publish their revenue payments for each project and country they invest in, following the example of the US Dodd-Frank bill; supports the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the global network Publish What You Pay (PWYP); believes that these standards should, in particular, be applied to projects receiving EU funding, for example from the EIB; urges the EU to investigate how the importing of illegally traded or extracted minerals can be prevented; asks the Commission to investigate whether ‘fingerprinting’ technology could be used in this context and to promote pilot projects based on the experiences of the ‘coltan fingerprint’; calls on the EIB to undertake a regular analysis of the expected impacts of its lending in the extractive industry;

Where the established sub-programmes and identified projects referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of the second paragraph do not reach the stage of individual legal commitment by 1 September 2010 due to a lack of project maturity, the unspent funds allocated to such projects shall be reallocated to additional sub-programmes and projects in the field of energy efficiency (for example, smart cities) and renewable energy.

These include the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Commission and the various stakeholders in the sector, the setting up of a steering committee for implementing this cooperation agreement, the adoption by the Commission of a Communication to the European Parliament and the Council on the deployment of the European rail signalling system ERTMS/ETCS, the appointment, by the Commission, of a European coordinator for the ERTMS project as a priority project of Community interest, the definition of the Agency's role as system authority in the context of the various annual work programmes, and the adoption of the ‘control-command ...[+++] and signalling’ TSI for conventional rail .

Secondly, European added value is evident in many areas, for example in cross-border projects in the Wadden Sea region and underwater archaeology.

M. whereas in that context there is only one viable and efficient method of testing for depleted uranium in urine samples, namely the method developed by the team of Dr.Asaf Durakovic, MD, nuclear medicine specialist and director of the uranium medical project of Georgetown University, Washington, USA,