2. Points specifically to US NSA intelligence programmes allowing for the mass surveillance of EU citizens through direct access to the central servers of leading US internet companies (PRISM programme), the analysis of content and metadata (Xkeyscore programme), the circumvention of online encryption (BULLRUN), access to computer and telephone networks, and access to location data, as well as to systems of the UK intelligence agency GCHQ such as the upstream surveillance activity (Tempora programme), the decryption programme (Edgehill), the targeted ‘man-in-the-middle attacks’ on information systems (Quantumtheory and Foxacid programmes ...[+++]) and the collection and retention of 200 million text messages per day (Dishfire programme);

A synchronised EU-US cybersecurity month will be organised starting in 2014. · Step up national efforts on NIS education and training, by introducing: training on NIS in schools by 2014; training on NIS and secure software development and personal data protection for computer science students; and NIS basic training for staff working in public administrations.

However, in our field, IT, it is impossible, especially because we work with large companies, because we work on large computer systems.

16. Stresses that the necessary introduction of ICT into the school system must not lead to information overload, that it should be combined with pupils' need for free time and the cultivation of imagination and creativity, and should take account in every way of the psychological aspects of their age and help develop communication within the school group;

24. Stresses the importance of further education and training, in order to raise the level of qualifications and skills applied to farming and considers that such skills must be geared in particular to the vocational training of women whose livelihoods are in rural areas; believes that the EU should fund programmes for farmers relating to the latest developments in the market, as well as new and alternative techniques; stresses also that all forms of education, including computer courses, which meet standards recognised in the Member States, and are provided by colleges, as well as courses run by private or state bodies, should be elig ...[+++]ible for this funding;

40. Calls on the Commission to organise an e-government conference in mid-2000 to enable representatives of European administrative units to exchange experience, firstly on on-line administrative services, as developed in the public-private partnership model, for example, and, secondly, on the consistent introduction of IT technology in civil services, while reorganising work patterns to facilitate an exchange of ideas and know-how;