Translation of "Système d'observation initial " (French → English) :

With GMES, the EU is ensuring its autonomous access to reliable, traceable and sustainable information on environment and security, contributes through the GEOSS international initiative (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) to build global observational datasets and information and increases its influence in international negotiations and treaties such as the three Rio Conventions, the post-Kyoto Treaty, and other bilateral or multilateral agreements.

They showed great insight, and some of their answers included the following: a lack of infrastructure such as livestock facilities and processing facilities; market uncertainty due to fear of unfamiliar and new markets; lack of experience or training in managing livestock; lack of knowledge and experience with innovative endeavours at the farm, family, community, and institutional levels; no opportunities to gain experience or knowledge; lack of expertise in institutions, and institutions supporting a narrow range of primarily mainstream systems; and far ...[+++]m programs that do not necessarily support innovation or integrative systems.

In mastering this challenge one could draw on EU initiatives and methodologies already implemented by the Joint Research Centre or other programmes – such as Kopernikus, the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, and Global Observations of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics.

I want to strongly echo the comments made by Minister Emerson and I'd like to focus my own observations today on my portfolio and the range of initiatives and positions the government has taken specifically in support and defence of the supply management system.

These steps include the implementation of additional performance indicators in order to more fully gauge the results of the complete range of Underground Economy Initiative activities on compliance, the implementation of a core audit program which will improve the Department's ability to assess the performance of all its enforcement activities, including those falling within the domain of the Underground Economy Initiative, and the examination of ways in which departmental information systems might be modified to record more precisely ...[+++] the additional unreported income identified through its enforcement activities.

In conclusion, THE COUNCIL AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEMBER STATES' GOVERNMENTS: INVITE the Member States: 1. to foster the provision of education and training of quality, enabling all children to fulfil their potential and play a role in the community; 2. to enhance the flexibility of educational systems so that they can respond to complex situations and thus promote plurality in curricula; 3. to promote educational and curricular innovations which contribute to the development of concepts such as peace, democracy, respect and equality between cultures, tolerance, cooperation ...[+++], etc. and encourage the preparation of educational materials designed to foster attitudes and values favourable to understanding and tolerance; 4. to encourage initiatives promoting cooperation between schools and their local communities; NOTE that in a communication, to be prepared by the Commission concerning action already completed under existing Community programmes, as well as the possibilities for future action relevant to the struggle against racism and xenophobia, there will be a section devoted to education and training; INVITE the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States: 1. to exploit fully and ensure coherence among all Community programmes which promote education and training aspects of the struggle against racism and xenophobia, in particular those which assist initiatives among the local community; 2. to exploit in particular the parts of the SOCRATES programme involved with the problems concerned, including schools partnerships, exchanges of experience on intercultural matters and teacher training; 3. to assist in the exchange of experience by collecting and disseminating information about the contribution of European educational systems in combating racism and xenophobia and the integration of people of different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds; 4. to ensure that in the field of education appropriate cooperation in combating racism and xenopho ...