targeted actions, part-financed up to a maximum of 50% of their total cost and including:- transnational actions promoting the ex situ and in situ conservation *, characterisation, collection and utilisation of genetic resources in agriculture; - the establishment of a European decentralised, permanent and widely accessible web-based inventory of genetic resources currently conserved in situ including in situ/on-farm genetic resources conservation activities; - the establishment of a European decentralised, permanent and widely accessible web-based inventory of the ex situ collections (gene banks) and in situ resources; - the promotion of regular exchanges of technical and scientific information among competent ...[+++]organisations in the Member States.

On the quality side, that's where I think we may find ourselves in a more energetic discussion with CIDA. For example, its recent policies favour government-to-government transfers, which raises serious accountability issues and diminishes the opportunity for civil society organizations to do development aid agencies and those kinds of groups.

If we could analyse all of the DNA in the human body—and it consists of three billion nucleotides, four different kinds arranged different ways—we could spell out the exact sequence of all three billion nucleotides and recognize what chunks they form as genes.

– (IT) Mr President, one of the most enduring impressions of those who were victims of the violence in Nice, Gothenburg and Genoa is that of helplessness, especially towards the national authorities. Increasingly often, these authorities close borders indiscriminately and unlawfully, expel citizens with a clean record (as recently happened to a Swedish citizen, a member of a non-governmental organisation, who was expelled a few days ago from Belgium on no real grounds), and arrest defenceless demonstrators and subject them to unacceptable procedures, if n ...[+++]ot torture and terrible violence, as happened in Genoa.

Yesterday we took the initiative, in association with the Green Group, the Attac association and socialist MEPs, of organising a major debate on the subject with the coordinator of the Genoa Social Forum, Mr Agnoletto.

With regard to inventions arising from knowledge of a gene or partial gene sequence, the first ethical question is that of sharing knowledge in human genetics, knowledge which, under the terms of the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome, adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in 1998 is, symbolically, a part of the heritage of all mankind.