Translation of "Aalborg " (French → English) :

37. Stresses that the Aalborg Charter identifies cities as key agents in sustainable development; in order to improve the EU's environmental performance, it is therefore essential to encourage sustainable and coherent urban administration and to generalise best practice at local level, notably by means of exchange networks among cities;

36. Stresses that the Aalborg Charter has constituted cities as key agents in sustainable development; in order to improve the EU’s environmental performance, it is therefore essential to encourage sustainable and coherent urban administration and to generalise best practice at local level, notably by means of exchange networks among cities;

125. As to the applicant’s arguments relating to the non-communication of the minutes of the Bureau’s deliberations and the results of votes, it has to be found that these documents are irrelevant as they do not relate to the contested decision, from which it follows that the applicant cannot effectively rely on this failure to communicate (see by analogy the judgment in Aalborg Portland and Others v Commission , cited in paragraph 119 above, at paragraph 126).

119. Furthermore, in the context of an action brought before the Court of First Instance against the decision closing an administrative procedure, it is open to that Court to order measures of organisation of procedure and to arrange full access to the file, in order to determine whether the refusal to disclose a document may be detrimental to the defence of the applicant (see by analogy the judgment in Joined Cases C‑204/00 P, C‑205/00 P, C‑211/00 P, C‑213/00 P, C‑217/00 P and C‑219/00 P Aalborg Portland and Others v Commission [2004] ECR I‑123, paragraph 102).

- A number of special events were organised for the regional press: seven in Germany, one in Seville to coincide with the Spanish presidency of the EU and one in Aalborg to coincide with the Danish Presidency.

Universities and their networks form nodes of regional research and innovation partnerships, taking different forms, ranging from nurturing links with the local SME community (Aalborg University, Denmark / University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) to broader approaches in a regional context (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France) [18].