The Commission also launched ‘Plan D for democracy, dialogue and debate’,2 which is intended to involve citizens in a wide-ranging discussion on the European Union – what it is for, where it is going and what it should be doing.

Issues raised during the discussion included the role of education and vocational training, instruction of engineers and graduates in scientific disciplines, the need to strengthen the relationship between universities, research and industry, the urgent need for public authorities to engage in fighting poverty and energy insecurity, involvement of local communities to develop initiatives and raise awareness relating to intelligent, sustainable energy use, and innovative tools for both informal and formal extra-curricular training.

The debate about the role of cooperatives has gained a renewed interest after the adoption by the Council in July 2003 of the Regulation for a Statute for a European Co-operative Society2 , hereinafter SCE and the Directive on workers involvement in the decision making process of the SCE.

The Commission will launch a debate on the technical and legal aspects of the ‘right to silence of the chips’, which has been referred to under different names by different authors30 and expresses the idea that individuals should be able to disconnect from their networked environment at any time.

On the basis of the First Action Programme (2007) (16 ) a European discussion could be started on the modernisation of administrative systems and practices as to the relationship state — regions/cities.

those items on the agenda of the Council which are open to the public in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be marked with the words ‘public debate’.

The proposal should also be seen against the backdrop of the Commission's recent Communication ‘A project for the European Union’ (1 ), the Commission's initial overall contribution to the debate on the Future of Europe, which identifies education as being among those policies which encourage the competitiveness of our economies and businesses and which need to be developed in order to strengthen a knowledge-based Europe.

Moreover, four alternative options for the future of support in the dairy sector are presented for discussion.

The European Commission launched the debate on the future Internal Market with its new Communication ‘A Single Market for 21st Century Europe’ (20 November 2007) (1 ); it is necessary to consider the place of islands in this reflection.

In December 2002, one session in the context of the first meeting of the European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters was devoted to a discussion of the first experiences with the application of the Regulation.

Article 14(2) (possibility for any member of the Council to oppose discussion if the texts of any proposed amendments are not drawn up in the language he or she has specified).

In October 2005, the Commission presented a “Plan D”, where D stands for Democracy, Dialogue and Debate2 .

To this end, the proposal for a Regulation of the European Commission on the general safety of motor vehicles, currently under discussion at the European Parliament (1 ), seeks, inter alia, to establish new, more stringent parameters for the typeapproval of tyres, in terms of fuel consumption, safety and noise.

The White Paper, ‘European transport policy for 2010: time to decide’ (1 ), stresses the need to do more to confront transport users with the real costs and initiates a discussion on the need to create a separate category of fuel used for commercial purposes, in order to improve the functioning of the internal market.

At an internal discussion within Interbrew on 5 May 1994, Interbrew’s CEO described a scenario requested by Danone/Kronenbourg (41 ).

The debate (5 ), until now, has shown that the proposed categorisation is controversial and therefore likely to be changed.