Translation of "Tributyltin-based free-association paint " (English → French) :

promoting freedom of association and assembly, unhindered movement of persons, freedom of opinion and expression, including political, artistic and cultural expression, unimpeded access to information, a free press and independent pluralistic media, both traditional and ICT-based, internet freedom and measures to combat administrative obstacles to the exercise of these freedoms, including the fight against censorship, particularly through the adoption and implementation of relevant legislation.

B. whereas the conclusion and successful implementation of the Association Agreements between the EU and Mexico, and between the EU and Chile, draw attention to the strategic importance and economic, political and social interest of bi-regional relations between the EU and Latin America based on association agreements that include free trade areas (FTA);

I. whereas the conclusion and successful implementation of the Association Agreements between the EU and Mexico, and between the EU and Chile, draw attention to the strategic importance and economic, political and social interest of bi-regional relations between the EU and Latin America based on association agreements that include free trade areas,

8. Reminds the parties of the commitments they made in Annapolis to hold negotiations in good faith with a view to concluding by the end of 2008 a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues and calls for swift and tangible results on the ground, including the respect of Israel's right to live in security and the establishment of a viable Palestinian State; encourages the trilateral cooperation between the European Union, the Israeli and the Palestinian authorities in key policy areas, in line with the EC-Israel Association Agreement and the EC-PLO Interim Association Agreement, which can promote peace and people-to-people contacts; ...[+++]calls on Israel, in this context, to fully respect the EC-PLO Interim Association Agreement, to lift all impediments to its implementation and to facilitate the participation of individuals – with special regard to students and researchers –, companies and other organisations based in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Community programme projects under the cooperation between the EU and the Palestinian Authority by removing administrative and physical obstacles and by ensuring the free movement of the persons concerned;

(9) In order to promote the free movement of workers, freedom of establishment and the free provision of services, while ensuring an adequate level of qualification, the European body recognised as competent to put forward a platform shall be, at the European level, the representative of professional bodies (or similar bodies) and/or any association recognised as representative of a professional body at European level, and shall have the task of establishing common platforms at European level under which professionals meeting a number of criteria relating to professional qualifications, based on a ...[+++]points system to be decided at European level, are awarded the right to bear the professional title awarded by those associations or organisations.

Since the nineteen sixties, the effective anti-fouling paints used on ships around the world have used organotin compounds such as tributyltin (TBT) as biocides to keep the hulls free of fouling organisms, such as barnacles, algae and molluscs, which, if they remain attached to the hull, considerably reduce the ship's speed and at the same time raise its fuel consumption.