46. Calls on the Member States to take an intergenerational approach to education, and to ensure equal access to formal and informal education by integrating the supply of affordable and quality childcare in their educational systems, as well as care for the elderly and other dependents; calls on the Member States to engage in initiatives that reduce direct and indirect educational costs and to increase the capacity of all nurseries and crèches, pre-school, school and after-school networks, in due respect of the principles of inclusion for children living in poverty or at risk of poverty; emphasises the importance of this in order to help all women and men, including single parents, balance family life with work and guarantee women’s part ...[+++]icipation in lifelong learning and vocational education and training whilst subsequently creating role models for girls’ empowerment;

On the one hand we have a certain debatable model of protecting intellectual property based on the argument of the incentive for innovation and the consequent expansion of scientific knowledge, while on the other are millions of poor human beings, living in countries with scarce resources who cannot be condemned to suffer and die for economic reasons at a time when we have the knowledge that can save their lives.

1. Understands that biotechnology has different meanings for different people; it encompasses a collection of scientific techniques that are used to create or modify plants, animals and organisms, which can range from brewing to modern day transgenic plants; for the purpose of this resolution, the term biotechnology is used to mean the application of scientific technology to living organisms as well as parts, products and models thereof, in order to alter living or non-living materials to obtain knowledge, goods and services; it is ...[+++] a body of methods and techniques that employ as tools the living cells of organisms or part or products of those cells (such as genes and enzymes); biotechnology includes modern biotechnology techniques such as genetic engineering technology, but does not exclusively relate to transgenic technology, which is used to create GMOs;

[1] According to the latest OECD definition, biotechnology is defined as "the application of science and technology to living organisms as well as parts, products and models thereof, to alter living or non-living materials for the production of knowledge, goods and services". [http ...]

4. A certificate conforming to the specimen in Chapter X, Part A, is to accompany live animals inspected at the holding. A certificate conforming to the specimen in Chapter X, Part B, is to accompany animals inspected and slaughtered at the holding.

1. Welcomes the European Commission’s Action Plan on Life sciences and Biotechnology and its vision for a long term, competitive and responsible European model for biotechnology with all its benefits and opportunities for our society, while respecting the cultural diversity of each Member State;