Simple repairs are called first-line maintenance, and to address that and to address normal operations and normal planned maintenance, there is a carried-on-board allowance for each submarine.

Mr Nielson will also meet Dr Virgílio Viana, Amazonas State Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development (SDS) to discuss how to strengthen decentralised environmental and natural resource management at state level, before returning to Brussels on 18 June.

He draws on interviews with more than 50 persons who were employed by the New Zealand intelligence service, GCSB, or otherwise involved in intelligence activities.

25. Regrets the conduct of the US State and Trade Departments, which have refused to hold important talks on which an agreement in principle had been given at preparatory meetings, and their unreadiness to meet the delegation from Parliament's temporary committee on the Echelon system, when it visited Washington last week; considers that this both gives the impression and provides evidence of a lack of willingness to engage in dialogue and a lack of the trust which should guide relations between the European Union and its American partners, especially on such a delicate issue; welcomes, however, the spirit of openness and availability ...[+++]shown by the US Congress towards the European Parliament's delegation;

24. Regrets the conduct of the US State and Trade Departments, which have refused to hold important talks on which an agreement in principle had been given at preparatory meetings, and their unreadiness to meet the delegation from Parliament's temporary committee on the Echelon system, when it visited Washington last week; considers that this both gives the impression and provides evidence of a lack of willingness to engage in dialogue and a lack of trust which should guide relations between the European Union and its American partners, especially on such a delicate issue; welcomes, however, the spirit of openness and availability show ...[+++]n by the US Congress towards the European Parliament's delegation;