Translation of "Table à instruments " (French → English) :

Table of contents [...] (A table of contents is inserted at the beginning of the operative part. It will be adapted in order to reflect the content of the instrument. See amendment deleting the table of contents at the beginning of the Annex).

140. Stresses the role of women in leveraging development policies by participating in the formulation and implementation of such policies, thereby ensuring that political and economic negotiations take women’s interests into account and creating a virtuous circle in which women are the driving force behind development policies which, in turn, set up the structures whereby women can be empowered; highlights the importance of supporting civil society organisations and groups which take on the task of promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment;

140. Stresses the role of women in leveraging development policies by participating in the formulation and implementation of such policies, thereby ensuring that political and economic negotiations take women’s interests into account and creating a virtuous circle in which women are the driving force behind development policies which, in turn, set up the structures whereby women can be empowered; highlights the importance of supporting civil society organisations and groups which take on the task of promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment;

9. Rejects the Commission’s approach regarding public procurement and trade in services; considers a positive list as the most convenient tool with respect to services and asks the Commission to exclude public services from liberalisation; rejects the Commission’s aggressive approach concerning legal and accountancy services; recalls India’s right to keep its public procurement sector off the negotiating table; expects the Commission to give its assurance that speculative financial instruments are explicitly excluded from the scop ...[+++]e of the agreement;

The signing of agreements between the European Union and third countries, round tables and business forums, industrial cooperation programmes and external trade policy: these are the instruments which allow European businesses to develop on an international scale.

It is very highly desirable that the Council learn the lessons of this stage of the negotiations so that the instruments still on the table can be adopted in 2003.