However, in spite of the warnings about the humanitarian aspect made to your services, to your collaborators, to your cabinet and to your Director-General, and despite the fact that I submitted a draft statement to you myself, you did not speak out until there had been 32 deaths and more than 300 wounded.

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– Ladies and gentlemen, before you leave me alone, I would like on behalf of the Bureau, once again, to thank all the Members, all the services, officials, assistants and other co-workers and, if you will allow me – although all the co-workers work for us – perhaps a special mention should go to the language services which help us to understand each other here.

–the assessment of the opportunities and barriers which disadvantaged social groups and peripheral and less-favoured regions may face in accessing and using Information Society products and services; the identification of appropriate measures to overcome these obstacles and to grasp the related benefits; –the analysis of current initiatives at European and national level regarding the provision of applications, based in particular on a permanent inventory of projects which facilitate the deployment of the Information Society; –the provision of transparency, based in particular on a permanent inventory, concerning ongoing policies an ...[+++]d programmes at European and national level; –the contribution, on the basis of identified best programmes and practices, to the European-wide take-up of successful examples in Information Society policies, projects and services; –the promotion of exchange of expertise and experiences between ongoing studies and activities at European and national level; –the identification and evaluation of the financing mechanisms needed to develop the Information Society, in particular those able to help stimulate public/private partnerships for the deployment of applications of public interest; –the identification of obstacles to the functioning of the Internal Market in the area of the Information Society and the consideration of measures to guarantee the full benefit of the area without frontiers for its development, taking into account the linguistic diversity; –the launching of actions to ascertain the priorities of SMEs and regarding the obstacles hampering the use by SMEs of information technologies, in close coordination with Commission efforts to mobilize different groups of ICT users; –the promotion of electronic literacy in the educational sector through the dissemination of relevant experience gained at national and European level; (c) measures to enhance Europe's role and visibility within the global dimension of the Inf ...

This requirement was laid down in a circular issued by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Communications on 28 May 1986 calling upon the members of the Government, their Private Office staff and also the officials in their departments to use Sabena flights wherever possible for duty travel abroad.