Translation of "Sommet de la dent " (French → English) :

Calls for a strengthening of the international system of treaties and regimes against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; stresses the need for closer cooperation between the EU and the United States in combating terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in compliance with international law, and for both sides to support the role that the UN must play in these areas; urges the Council to discuss with its US counterparts how to make a positive approach to future NPT Preparatory Committees (NPT PrepComs), as a first opportunity to strengthen the global non-nuclear proliferation regime in the run-up to the NPT Review Conference in 2010; underlines the need to discuss at the ...[+++]summit a number of nuclear disarmament initiatives based on the ‘13 practical steps’ agreed to unanimously in the 2000 NPT Review Conference; hopes that at this summit the US Administration will be willing to adopt a common strategy with the EU aimed at making progress on disarmament in terms of both weapons of mass destruction and conventional weaponry; calls on the EU and the United States to avoid the potential vacuum in the period 2009-2010, when the major agreements on disarmament will be due to be renewed; hopes that the very important agreements reached in 1999, 2000 and 2001 with Russia will be maintained; calls on the United States to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as a meaningful step towards reducing the operational relevance of nuclear weapons;

‘dredges’ means gears which are either actively towed by the main boat engine (boat dredge) or hauled by a motorised winch from an anchored vessel (mechanised dredge) to catch bivalves, gastropods or sponges and which consist of a net bag or metal basket mounted on a rigid frame or rod of variable size and shape whose lower part may carry a scraper blade that can be either rounded, sharp or toothed, and may or may not be equipped with skids and diving boards.

The EU will implement its commitments related to the international framework for sustainable development, whose building blocks are the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg), the Monterrey Consensus, the outcome of the Millennium Review Summit and of the World Summit.

The areas concerned range from the existing priorities of external assistance - which may need to be adjusted to take into account the new goals defined by the Millennium Declarations, WSSD, FfD and the Doha Development Agenda - to the political, security and human rights issues which are now increasingly in the EU's remit:

1. Throughout 2001 and 2002 the European Community and its Member States have been proactive in addressing the specific issues addressed by the Programme for Action in global fora such as G8 [25] Summits, the EU/US Summits in Queluz, Washington and Gothenburg, the EU/Canada and EU/Japan Summits in 2001, the follow-up to the Cairo Plan of Action within the EU/OAU forum (leading to the EU/AU Summit in Lisbon in 2003), the LDCIII Conference in Brussels in 2001, the UNGASS on HIV/AIDS in 2001, the Barcelona AIDS Conference in 2002, and the Doha WTO Ministerial, the Monterrey Conference and the Johannesburg Summit.

A large majority of Member States do not restrict advertising aimed at children but do provide for detailed rules as to the content of such advertising (for example: no advertisement may encourage children to enter strange places or to converse with strangers; the use of personalities known to children may be forbidden or restricted; advertisements for sweets should feature a toothbrush symbol on the screen).