Translation of "architecture de type matriciel " (French → English) :

Y. whereas the Council, in its conclusions on the development of the VIS adopted on 5 and 6 June 2003, invites the Commission to continue its preparatory work on the development of the VIS on the basis of a centralised architecture, taking into account the option of a common technical platform with SIS II and without delaying the development of SIS II; whereas the Council will give the necessary political guidance by December 2003 at the latest on the basic elements of the VIS, including the architecture, the functionalities, the choice of biometric identifier(s) and the approach for the implementation of the system, thus making it pos ...[+++]sible to integrate the VIS as a possible option in the call for tender for SIS II; whereas the Commission has presented two proposals to amend the regulations laying down a uniform format for visas and for residence permits of third-country nationals (COM(2003) 558), providing for the mandatory storage of the facial image and fingerprints as biometric identifiers,

Y. whereas the Council, in its conclusions on the development of the VIS adopted on 5 and 6 June 2003, invites the Commission to continue its preparatory work on the development of the VIS on the basis of a centralised architecture, taking into account the option of a common technical platform with SIS II and without delaying the development of SIS II; whereas the Council will give the necessary political orientation by December 2003 at the latest on the basic elements of the VIS, including the architecture, the functionalities, the choice of biometric identifier(s) and the approach for the implementation of the system, thus making it p ...[+++]ossible to integrate the VIS as a possible option in the call for tender for SIS II; whereas the Commission has presented two proposals to modify the regulations laying down a uniform format for visas and for residence permits of third-country nationals providing for the mandatory storage of the facial image and fingerprints as biometric identifiers (COM(2003) 558);

It will address alternative process technologies, device types, materials and architectures to meet demands of communication and computing.

(c) a high-capacity and high-speed European communication infrastructure (possibly based on GRID-type architectures), building on the achievements of the Géant project as well as electronic publishing services.

I. whereas in 1994, in the context of the global strategy adopted by the World Heritage Committee, a number of imbalances were identified on the World Heritage List, including the over-representation of the European continent in relation to the rest of the world, the over-representation of historic towns and religious buildings as compared with other categories, the over-representation of Christianity in relation to other religions and beliefs, the over-representation of historic periods in relation to prehistory and the 20 century, and finally the over-representation of "elitist" as opposed to vernacular architecture,

Equally important, in my view, is Europe's awareness, as the report states, that it is over-represented on the World Heritage list and that this over-representation applies both to historic towns and to religious buildings, as compared with other categories of countries, to Christianity in relation to other religions and beliefs and to ‘elitist’ as opposed to vernacular architecture.