Soviet Programme of Close-Spaced Repeated Oceanographic Observations

12. Stresses the need for coherence and consistency across all policy areas as an essential condition for an effective and credible human rights strategy and considers it regrettable that there is no specific reference to these principles in the Strategic Framework; reminds the Commission of its repeated commitments, as set out in its 2001 communication and its 2010 Communication on an Action Plan Implementing the Stockholm Programme (COM(2010)0171), to take practical steps to ensure greater coherence and consistency between its external and internal policies; recalls that the full involvement of Parliament and greater coordination in ...[+++]this area were agreed in 2001; reminds the Member States and the EU institutions that respect for fundamental rights begins at home and must not be taken for granted, but continually assessed and improved, so that the EU can be heard as a credible voice on human rights in the world;

12. Stresses the need for coherence and consistency across all policy areas as an essential condition for an effective and credible human rights strategy and considers it regrettable that there is no specific reference to these principles in the Strategic Framework; reminds the Commission of its repeated commitments, as set out in its 2001 communication and its 2010 Communication on an Action Plan Implementing the Stockholm Programme (COM(2010)0171 ), to take practical steps to ensure greater coherence and consistency between its external and internal policies; recalls that the full involvement of Parliament and greater coordination in ...[+++] this area were agreed in 2001; reminds the Member States and the EU institutions that respect for fundamental rights begins at home and must not be taken for granted, but continually assessed and improved, so that the EU can be heard as a credible voice on human rights in the world;

Aligned with the strategic goals of both ArcticNet and the network of centres of excellence, BP executed a collaboration agreement in April 2010 with ArcticNet and Université Laval, which included the following scope of research activities: retrieval and redeployment of eight subsurface oceanographic moorings deployed in 2009 by ArcticNet to collect metocean and ice data; biological sampling at eight biophysical stations to determine baseline contaminant levels and biological productivity; deployment and retrieval of 12 bottom-ancho ...[+++]red hydrophones used to detect and track vocalizations of whale species of concern; deployment of a remotely-operated vehicle for a visual survey of the ocean floor; deployment and retrieval of a moored metocean surface buoy for the duration of the 2010 field program; ice thickness and roughness surveys, using the helicopter-mounted electromagnetic induction system; deployment of ice drift satellite beacons on large multi-year ice flows; collection of 42 piston core samples to determine physical soil characteristics; and ocean-bottom mapping.

- 3 - Within its spheres of competence, the Community's contribution to the space effort will aim at: (a) encouraging and supporting the optimum development and exploitation of Earth observation applications, particularly by means of initiatives contributing to the establishment of a European operational system for the study and monitoring of the environment; increasing and intensifying the use of satellite data within the framework of various Community policies; (b) creating regulatory conditions allowing the development of new markets for satellite communication services; (c) developing complementarity and synergy between Comm ...[+++]unity RTD programmes and the space programmes of the ESA and the Member States, in particular by taking into consideration the future technological needs of the space sector when defining the content of Community programmes and by promoting better use of the results of Community programmes in the space sector; (d) encouraging the consolidation and growth of a competitive space industry and promoting its interests at international level, within the framework of the Community's industrial and commercial policies; (e) encouraging the widening of balanced international cooperation, particularly taking into account the new opportunities for cooperation with the Republics of the former Soviet Union and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.