13. Notes the Commission's aim to improve the visibility and working methods of the EU Strategy on Social Inclusion and Social Protection and to strengthen its interaction with other policies; points out, however, that the Commission and the Council rejected the Parliament's calls for a new guideline on social inclusion to be introduced into the Employment Guidelines 2008-2010, thus failing to improve such visibility and interaction with other policies;

14. Takes note of the Commission's aim to improve the visibility and working methods of the EU Strategy on Social Inclusion and Social Protection and strengthen its interaction with other policies; points out, however, that the Commission and the Council rejected the call by Parliament for the introduction of a new guideline on Social Inclusion into the Employment Guidelines 2008-2010 and thus refused to improve such visibility and interaction with other policies;

12. Regrets that the payment appropriations of EUR 50 000 000 on the EGF budget line (line 04 05 01) in the 2012 budget have proved to be insufficient to cover all needed payments; regrets that the Commission has proposed to partially cover this payment through a transfer of EUR 1 160 745 in payment appropriations from European Progress Microfinance Facility (line 04 04 15) instead of asking for fresh money through Draft Amending Budget No 6/2012 as it justifiably did for other requests for EGF mobilisation and a part of the current request (EUR 1 497 750); recalls that the EGF was created as a separate specific instrument with its own ...[+++] objectives and deadlines and that it therefore deserves a dedicated allocation, which will avoid transfers from other budget lines, as has happened in the past, which is detrimental to the achievement of the policy objectives of the EGF;

That the main aim of the updated eEurope 2005 Action Plan is to fine-tune the existing actions and strengthen the implementation mechanisms in order to speed up progress in five key areas (broadband, on-line public services, e-business, e-inclusion and benchmarking) as part of the Lisbon strategy. That following the commitment at the 2003 Spring European Council, the 15 Member States have all drawn up national broadband strategies. Broadband deployment and take-up are increasing rapidly and are mainly market-driven. That to address circumstances where there is clear evidence of market failure, the strategies stress to various degrees the ...[+++] need of increasing coverage of under-served areas through e.g. public support, demand aggregation and public private partnerships. That the strategies also stress to various degrees the need of stimulating demand through financial incentives and increased usage by the public sector; and of developing innovative applications and services supporting the introduction of broadband technologies in a technologically neutral way. In all these actions, the Guidelines on the use of Structural Funds in electronic communications should be followed so as not to distort competition nor thwart private commercial incentives. That on-line public services (eGovernment, eHealth and eLearning) make an important contribution to the Lisbon process by acting as a catalyst for growth, efficiency and innovation, and that there is a need to increase the impact of bringing public services on-line by enhancing interoperability, the exchange of good practice and pan-European co-operation. That interoperability, including open standards and open platforms, is of utmost importance for the effective deployment and use of ICT in all sectors, notably in the pan-European and national work for the development and implementation of eGovernment services. The importance of strengthening trust and security through the general development of a culture of network and info ...

The reference to the NAFTA panel, 0404.90, is strictly because it reflects what DFAIT says was the history of the trade negotiation, why we put 0404.90.

The reference to the NAFTA panel, 0404.90, is strictly because it reflects what DFAIT says was the history of the trade negotiation, why we put 0404.90.