(ii) inland transport connections to ports and airports, actions to reduce rail freight noise by retrofitting of existing rolling stock, as well as development of ports and multi-modal platforms: the amount of Union financial aid shall not exceed 20% of the eligible cost.

Finally, the effects conferred by the European patent with unitary effect shall not extend to the use of the patented invention on board vessels, aircrafts or land vehicles of countries other than participating Member States, when such vessels, aircrafts or vehicles temporarily or accidentally enter the waters of participating Member States and to the use by a farmer of protected livestock for farming purposes, on condition that the breeding animals or other animal reproductive material was sold or otherwise commercialised to the farmer by the patent proprietor or with his consent.

In view of the fact that the data used to forecast the development of ash clouds was incomplete because of insufficient on-site ground and air installations, further investment in technological equipment on the ground and in the air (LIDAR equipment, radar installations, fully equipped verification aircraft, satellite imagery) is necessary.

24. Insists on the need to continue to press for implementation at international level of the EU strategy against the spread of WMD, to work actively for the retention of the existing arms control and disarmament system, in particular for the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the consistent implementation and comprehensive monitoring of the Chemical Weapons Convention, an international ban on cluster munitions and universal application of the Ottawa Convention banning landmines, to place greater emphasis on initiatives to control the small-arms trade and other disarmament and non-proliferation initiatives and issues, and to strengthen multilateral non-proliferation treaties and provide the financial means to imp ...[+++]lement the EU's WMD strategy; calls on the EU and the Member States to play a positive and effective role in ending the ongoing deadlock at the Geneva Disarmament Conference and to take steps to ensure that the negotiations result in a non-discriminatory, multilateral, international and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons;

Likewise, it cannot be excluded that in the future. xDSL technology and multipoint video distribution services based on wireless local loops may be used for the transmission of TV materials in direct competition with other existing TV delivery systems based on cable systems, direct-to-home satellite transmission and terrestrial analogue or digital transmission platforms.

(c) The second and third indents of Section 7 shall be replaced by the following: "- construction or development of centres for transfers between inland types of transport, including the setting up within the terminal of transhipment equipment with the corresponding infrastructure,