With regard to the other specific issues raised in the question tabled, I would like to start with the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks, which refers to a study conducted by the Joint Research Centre to analyse the methodology used in laboratories to identify traces of heavy metals such as lead in toys.

Sometimes they don't fall in with the plans of the bureaucracy, or whoever is making policies.

With the use of the sensitive analytical methods available today, they can be found in virtually all foods at trace amounts.

The open method of coordination prescribed by the Lisbon European Council closely followed the pattern set by Articles 126 and 128 of the Treaty establishing the European Community (TEC), which established the method of coordinating employment policies by stipulating that, each year, the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the Employment Committee, should draw up guidelines which the Member States should take into account in their employment policies, on the basis of a joint annual report by the Council and the Commission.

Because we see hardly a trace of this more progressive, decentralized family oriented approach to prevention of youth crime in the bill, we consider its approach to rehabilitation and prevention completely inadequate and completely out of date.

We can detect minute traces of pretty much anything with sensitive methodology.