Translation of "Centre international pour les études chimiques " (French → English) :

(e)ensure that their staff have good knowledge of international standards and practices in the areas referred to in point (b) and that the latest developments in research at national, Union and international level, including studies performed and actions undertaken by other European Union reference centres for animal welfare, in those areas are taken into account in their work.

I. whereas the EU has accepted the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as legitimate representatives of the Syrian people; whereas, however, the Syrian opposition is still fragmented by significant internal divisions; whereas more than a thousand factions are fighting the regime; whereas the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence estimates that between 3 300 and 11 000 foreign individuals have joined various factions, often with a radical Islamist agenda, over the past three years, with an estimated number of fighters from EU Member States ranging from 400 to 2 000, ma ...[+++]inly from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom;

15. Acknowledges from the Centre's AAR that during the financial year 2010 around 55 % of the total volume of pages translated was outsourced; notes from its AAR that the Centre took steps to consolidate the management of its translation workflow in 2010 by merging the Demand Management and Freelance Management Sections; acknowledges, in particular, that an external study on validation of the ratio between works carried out internally and outsourcing has been completed and that the calculation model used by the Centre was validated; ...[+++]

18. Recalls that the EU provides support for regional cooperation in the Black Sea, particularly through its involvement in the TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia) and INOGATE (Interstate Oil and Gas Transport to Europe) programmes, the Black Sea environmental programme, the Black Sea regional energy centre and the Black Sea international study centre;

(109) The feasibility study on the resource requirements for a central entity concluded that the most significant challenge to the effective functioning of the Agency was likely to be its ability to attract the right staff, including those working in the European Chemicals Bureau of the Commission's Joint Research Centre; the location should therefore enable the Agency to obtain the right staff in the start-up period as well as in the longer term.

- the International Centre for European Training in study, education, training and research on issues of European and world unification, federalism, regionalism and the changing structures of contemporary society, from a world federalist viewpoint.