6. Deplores also the laxity of the Global Forum’s standards regarding the quality of information to be held (e.g. lack of a requirement concerning disclosure of beneficial ownership; lack of legal means to counter refusals or delays in the provision of information upon request; reliance on private agents, rather than public registries, for information, etc.); believes that the Global Forum peer review process would be far more effective if outside experts were involved in all of its stages;

In cooperation with the Member States, the Commission and the High Representative will: · Work towards a coherent EU International cyberspace policy to increase engagement with key international partners and organisations, to mainstream cyber issues into CFSP, and to improve coordination of global cyber issues; · Support the development of norms of behaviour and confidence building measures in cybersecurity. Facilitate dialogues on how to apply existing international law in cyberspace and promote the Budapest Convention to address cybercrime; · Support the promotion and protection of fundamental rights, including access to information and freedom of expr ...[+++]ession, focusing on: a) developing new public guidelines on freedom of expression online and offline; b) monitoring the export of products or services that might be used for censorship or mass surveillance online; c) developing measures and tools to expand Internet access, openness and resilience to address censorship or mass surveillance by communication technology; d) empowering stakeholders to use communication technology to promote fundamental rights; · Engage with international partners and organisations, the private sector and civil society to support global capacity-building in third countries to improve access to information and to an open Internet, to prevent and counter cyber threats, including accidental events, cybercrime and cyber terrorism, and to develop donor coordination for steering capacity-building efforts; · Utilise different EU aid instruments for cybersecurity capacity building, including assisting the training of law enforcement, judicial and technical personnel to address cyber threats; as well as supporting the creation of relevant national policies, strategies and institutions in third countries; · Increase policy coordination and information sharing through the international Critical Information Infrastructure Protection networks such as the Meridian network, cooperation among NIS ...

In the field of disease information, OIE has the unique experience of developing the World Animal Health Information Database (WAHID), an interface that provides for a comprehensive range of information on animal diseases.

Bridging the digital divide at a global level to ensure that all parts of the world can reap the benefits from the information society is at the heart of the World Summit on the information society that will be held in Geneva in December 2003 and Tunis in 2005.

64. Calls for a legal framework of corporate economic, social and environmental accountability for EU private corporations to be established by 2004, requiring private investors to comply with core labour and environmental standards defined in national legislation and international law and including measures on right to know, human rights, liability and full disclosure regarding financial transactions with national governments; as a first step, calls for a directive on mandatory reporting on social and environmental performance in al ...[+++]l countries in which they operate; at global level calls on the Johannesburg Summit to strengthen existing guidelines for multinational enterprises, leading to adoption of a legally binding instrument supportive of corporate economic, social and environmental accountability, which includes measures on stakeholder right to know, independent verification, human rights, liability and full disclosure regarding financial transactions with national governments; all MEAs should include provisions relating to natural resource use and investment controls;

59. Calls for a legal framework of corporate economic, social and environmental accountability for EU private corporations to be established by 2004, requiring private investors to comply with core labour and environmental standards defined in national legislation and international law and including measures on right to know, human rights, liability and full disclosure regarding financial transactions with national governments; as a first step, calls for a directive on mandatory reporting on social and environmental performance in al ...[+++]l countries in which they operate; at global level calls on the WSSD to strengthen existing guidelines for multi-national enterprises, leading to adoption of a legally binding instrument supportive of corporate economic, social and environmental accountability, which includes measures on stakeholder right to know, human rights, liability and full disclosure regarding financial transactions with national governments; all MEAs should include provisions relating to natural resource use and investment controls;