Translation of "en fonction de l'utilité " (French → English) :

M. whereas the first paragraph of Article 1 of the first Additional Protocol to the ECHR declares that "[e]very natural or legal person is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions" and that "[n]o one shall be deprived of his possessions except in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by law and by the general principles of international law"; whereas the second paragraph of that article states that "[t]he preceding provisions shall not, however, in any way impair the right of a State to enforce such laws as it deems necessary to control the use of property in accordance with the general interest or to secure the payment of taxes or other contributions or penalties"; and whereas, at the time of ratifi ...[+++]cation of the said Protocol, Spain expressed a reservation in respect of Article 1 in the light of Article 33 of the Spanish Constitution, which provides as follows: "The right to private property and inheritance is recognised. 2. The social function of these rights shall determine the limits of their content in accordance with the law. 3. No one may be deprived of his or her property and rights, except on justified grounds of public utility or social interest and with a proper compensation in accordance with the law". ,

(156) An airport always fulfils a public function, which explains its general submission to certain types of regulations even if it belongs to and/or is managed by a private company.

Whereas forests cover a large area of the Community; whereas both the restocking of these forests and new afforestation require increasing quantities of forest reproductive material; whereas sustainable management is necessary to do justice to the multifunctional role of forests in environmental, economic and social terms and all their benefits need to be considered rather than solely their practical uses;

Recital 24 adds that, in cases where a sequence or partial sequence of a gene is used to produce a protein or part of a protein, it is necessary, in order to meet the requirement of industrial application, to specify which protein or part of a protein is produced or what function it performs: the level of description required as to the specific utility may vary from case to case, depend on the knowledge available, and vary as the u ...[+++]se of genes for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes spreads.

A decision to send observers should be based on consideration of advisability, viability and usefulness.

- ratified the 'Guidelines for a European Plan to Combat Drugs` submitted to it by the European Committee to Combat Drugs (Celad), and in particular the recommendation that 'a study be conducted by experts on the existing sources of information, their reliability and their usefulness, and on the need for and possible scope of a European Drugs Monitoring Centre and the financial implications of setting up such a Centre, on the understanding that the brief of this Centre would cover not only the social and health aspects but also other drugs-related aspects, including trafficking and repression`,