(67b) Although internationally certified reference materials and materials used for external quality assessment schemes are not covered by this Directive, calibrators and control materials needed by the user to establish or verify performances of devices are in vitro diagnostic medical devices.

My second question is whether you are going to take measures to ensure that the membership of programme committees, high-level groups, working groups, etc. is balanced from a gender point of view and to ensure the same thing in all other activities financed by the European Union.

The programme has shown that there is some possibility of misdiagnosis by the laboratories offering this type of molecular diagnosis.

17. Calls on the Commission to organize, in conjunction with responsible bodies at various levels, a greater involvement of the various operators at local level, eg communal development workshops and comparable planning procedures which will act as an incentive to the persons involved, and lead to the creation of partnerships between the various people involved, in particular between employed persons and the unemployed, local firms and administrations; systematic use must be made of 'coordinators and consultants' to analyze local supply and demand and then forge contacts between project managers, local actors and potential customers. One possibility might be technical support under the KAROLUS programme ...[+++] and a new programme aimed at training civil servants (at national, regional and local level), whereby both programmes should work together in an integrated way and serve to promote local development and employment initiatives;

The second-level services are the supports to the teachers and the principals and the delivery of some of the supports in the schools; and the third level becomes certification of teachers, curriculum and other such issues.

Leading up to that time, we will develop these kinds of domestic programs so that basically, as further processors, we will have the benefit through our import system and through our domestic programs to have a choice between a Canadian manufacturer for a particular product or a U.S. manufacturer.