It abolishes the weighting of votes and establishes a dual majority system for adopting decisions.

9. Calls for an increased use of high-quality dual education systems which combine theoretical and practical teaching; stresses the importance of involvement of the social partners in building up these systems; calls on the Commission to draw up qualitative guidelines for a modern dual education system, backed up by a list of broadly defined, non-academic European key occupations;

10. Expresses its concern at how the system of joint import surveillance is to be set up; calls on the Commission to guarantee proper implementation of this double checking and to evaluate its effectiveness; stresses that a system of double checking cannot be implemented solely in 2008 and that an effective surveillance system should be guaranteed for a long period;

8. Stresses that a system of double checking cannot be implemented solely in 2008 and that an effective surveillance system should be guaranteed for a long period; underlines that the product categories on which double checking will not be carried out must be submitted to customs surveillance;

24. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop programmes in order to involve skilled people in the diasporas in the process of development by covering the costs of wage differentials for highly skilled migrants prepared to return to their countries or by setting up "dual post" systems for public sector personnel in southern countries (teachers, researchers and doctors); calls on the Commission to conduct a study on experiences in the Member States with regard to "dual posts";

2. Recognises the benefits of a user-friendly interface (Si2) for sectorial services in the transmission of data to the central accounting system (SAP R/3) but is concerned at the risk of inconsistency posed by a dual-input system; notes that an effort has been made in 2001 and 2002 to provide full reconciliation of the data in the two systems but points to the Court's criticism that this is exercise is neither comprehensive nor systematic and thus does not represent a satisfactory solution in the longer term; takes the view that reconciliations play an important role in improv ...[+++]ing the consistency of data in the sub-systems and therefore they should be treated with higher urgency and regularity;