In their view, terrestrial transmission is rather complementary to cable and satellite, as it also covers areas not served by cable, enables the transmission of regional and local programmes and can serve as a basis to develop mobile reception.

In particular, the Commission should be empowered to adapt the list of customs procedures or customs-approved treatment or use which determine an export or import for external trade statistics; to adopt different or specific rules for goods or movements which, for methodological reasons, call for specific provisions; to adapt the list of goods and movements excluded from external trade statistics; to specify the data sources other than the customs declaration for records on imports and exports of specific goods or movements; to specify the statistical data, including the codes to be used; to establish requirements for data related to specific goods or movements; to establish requirements on the compilation of statistics; to specify t ...[+++]he characteristics of samples; to establish the reporting period and the level of aggregation for partner countries, goods and currencies; and also to adapt the deadline for transmitting statistics, content, coverage and revision conditions for statistics already transmitted; and to establish the deadline for transmitting statistics on trade by business characteristics and statistics on trade broken down by invoicing currency.

Whereas information on the results of monitoring programmes is particularly appropriate for treatment, storage and transmission by electronic/informatic methods; whereas formats have been developed for supply in diskette form to the EU Member States by the Commission; whereas the same format could be used by the EFTA States; whereas the EFTA States should therefore be able to send their reports to the EFTA Surveillance Authority in the standard format; whereas the further development of such a standard format is most effectively u ...[+++]ndertaken by the development of guidelines;

It is moreover unclear whether the supply of further personal data following a match between DNA-profiles or fingerprints is covered since on the one hand Recital 11 implies that the supply of further information (through mutual assistance procedures) falls within the scope of the Council Decision, whereas on the other hand the Articles 5 and 10 emphasise that such supply is governed by national law.

(c) the transfer of goods pursuant to a contract under which commission is payable on purchase or sale.

The network proposed by the Commission will bring a number of benefits: - it will allow continuous, well-structured, reliable and effective communication between Member States' communicable disease surveillance authorities; - it will facilitate rapid and reliable identification of cases, accessible to all relevant bodies, which occur inside the Union or which occur outside and are then brought in or are likely to be brought in; - it will give the competent authorities the opportunity and the means to consult together on preventive m ...[+++]easures to be taken; - it will encourage mutual support between authorities in the analysis and interpretation of surveillance data collected, and in the deployment of appropriate measures to stop the spread of a disease.