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European Commission Spokesman's Briefing for 01-09-14

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From: EUROPA, the European Commission Server at <http://europa.eu.int>

MIDDAY EXPRESS

News from the Spokesman's midday briefing

Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi du Service Presse et Communicationb

Midday Express 14/09/2001

  • [01] La Commission et le CIO lancent une action de promotion des valeurs de l'olympisme à destination des écoles Viviane Reding, membre de la Commission européenne responsable de l'Education, de la Culture et du Sport, et Jacques Rogge, Président du Comité international olympique (CIO), signent aujourd'hui à Bruxelles une convention de coopération sur le thème "sport, écoles et valeurs de l'olympisme en Europe". Cette action a pour objectif de promouvoir les valeurs éthiques du sport auprès des élèves européens et de faire ainsi contrepoids aux multiples exemples de dérives du sport que fournit l'actualité. Dans un premier temps seront mises en oeuvre des actions pilotes avec les comités olympiques français, néerlandais et italien. La commissaire et le Président du CIO ont mis en place aujourd'hui un comité consultatif qui suivra les projets pilotes et préparera l'extension de cette action au niveau des Quinze pour 2003-2004.
  • [02] Levies for milk quota surplus down to euro 289 million, estimates Commission According to a provisional calculation the European Commission presented to the Member States, the estimated amount of levies for Member States exceeding their milk quotas totals euro 289 million for the whole of the European Union for the marketing year 2000/01. Last year the total levy exceeded euro 380 million. These provisional figures show that the year 2000/01 was marked by a sharp decrease in the milk quota overrun. The overrun in the EU amounted to 40,000 tonnes.
  • [03] Premières estimations pour le second trimestre 2001 - L'UE15 a enregistré un déficit des échanges courants de 7,8 milliards d'euros ; excédent de 7 milliards d'euros pour la balance des services (! embargo 12h00 !) Selon les premières estimations publiées aujourd'hui par Eurostat, la balance des opérations courantes de l'UE15 avec les pays tiers a enregistré un déficit de 7,8 milliards d'euros durant le second trimestre 2001, comparé à un déficit de 8,0 milliards d'euros au second trimestre 2000 et à un déficit de 17,9 milliards d'euros au premier trimestre 2001. Au cours du second trimestre 2001, la balance des services extra-UE15 a enregistré un excédent de 7,0 milliards d'euros, comparé à un excédent de 2,6 milliards d'euros durant le second trimestre 2000 et à un déficit de 3,8 milliards d'euros durant le premier trimestre 2001.
  • [04] Euro-zone government surplus at 0.3% and debt at 69.6% of GDP in 2000 ; public debt ratios decreased in all EU-Member States (! embargo 12 am !) For the second time in 2001, the EU15 Member States have notified to the European Commission their data on government deficit and debt for 2000. According to estimates by Eurostat today, the revised data confirm the trends observed in the first notification in March 2001. In 2000, the government balance of the euro-zone and the EU15 moved into surplus, while the debt ratio to GDP continued to decline. Even excluding the licence sales, the declining trend in the government deficit continued.
  • [05] EU supports and coordinates stem cell research Today, a two-day conference on stem cell research came to the conclusion that more research is needed before anyone can predict with confidence the future outcome of this kind of novel therapy. The meeting was organised by the European Commission's Directorate General for Research with the objective of coordinating European efforts in this field. The scientific, legal, ethical and industry experts saw a need for clearer national regulations that unambiguously define what is allowed and what is forbidden. A survey on the regulation of stem cell research in all EU Member States conducted by the Commission in spring 2001 revealed many areas of divergence as well as convergence across Europe. Participants at the meeting included coordinators of the 15 transnational research projects on stem cell therapy the Commission is currently financing as well as experts from industry and from the ethical and legal fields. The projects subsidised by the Commission have a financial volume of euro 27 million and involve more than 100 laboratories. All scientists work exclusively with stem cells taken from adults, umbilical cord blood or aborted foetuses in line with the European Ethics Group's recent opinion excluding the creation of embryos for research purposes and considering that therapeutic cloning techniques are still too immature and present possible risks, despite the great potential they hold.
  • [06] Merger approved under the simplified procedure Shell Gas BV (NL) / Cinergy Global Power, Inc (US) / Attiki Gas Distribution Company SA (G) / Attiki Gas supply Company SA (G)
  • [07] Autre matériel diffusé Déclaration commune des chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement de l'UE, de la Présidente du PE, du Président de la Commission et du Haut Représentant pour la Politique étrangère et de Sécurité commune Speech by Pedro Solbes : "The Euro and enlargement" at the 'Euro 2002' Conference (Budapest) Speech by Erkki Liikanen : "Realising our vision of a global information society" at the 3rd annual conference of the Global Business Dialogue on e- commerce (Tokyo) Calendrier du 16 au 22 septembre

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