Certain Member States have requested, pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000, that the maximum period laid down for applying eartags to bovine animals be extended to six months where the animals are kept under specific management conditions and where the area's specific natural handicaps and the animals' highly aggressive behaviour make it difficult and even dangerous to apply eartags in the 20 days after the animals are born.

I would also like to announce, given that this House, in accordance with the new Rules of Procedure, does not allow us to table resolutions, that through the Committee on Fisheries I shall propose a resolution to establish protected European sea-fishing zones in susceptible areas, which will increase the required distances to be maintained between these zones and ships carrying dangerous goods and bring forward the obligation for this type of ship to have a double hull, which is currently laid down for the year 2015, and I shall call ...[+++]for it to be brought forward to the year 2005.

In the first reservation, should any Member State sign the Convention, the State in question would declare that the Community rules on jurisdiction would apply if the pollution damage had been caused in the territory of a Member State and the accused were domiciled in a Member State of the EC. Your rapporteur considers that this reservation does no harm, but may unnecessarily complicate the situation. Moreover, there is no corresponding provision in the parallel proposal authorising the Member States to ratify in the interest of the European Community the International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection wit ...[+++]h the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea, 1996 (COM(2001) 674).

(h) The suitability of the explosive for use in hazardous environments (e.g. environment endangered by firedamp, hot masses, etc.) if it is intended to be used under such conditions.

The United States Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Air Force are in the process of taking delivery of their planned fleet of 119 C-130J's. This aircraft is currently supporting our Allies in operations around the world, including dangerous areas of conflict such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

Information required includes the name of the ship, the master, position, time, course, speed, weather, estimated time of entry of zone or arrival/departure from a berth, destination, route, the last port, the ship's draft, dangerous goods on board, defects, name of an agent, and the date or expiry of certain ship certificates, including the international oil pollution prevention certificate.