RECOGNISING the importance of combating money laundering,

Recognising the mutual advantage of development of road transport;

Recognising the mutual advantage of development of road transport,

Recognizing the mutual advantages of such co-operation for both Parties;

recognising the advanced level of Korea's satellite navigation activities,

RECOGNISING the importance of cooperation on development for the implementation of this Agreement;

Recognising the mutual advantage and interest of an agreement on road transport;

Recognizing the mutual interest and advantage of an agreement on international road transport;

Acknowledging the need to adapt the Outline Convention to the actual situation in Europe;

Recognising the value of reinforcing co-operation with the other Parties to this Convention;

RECOGNIZING the importance of science and technology in the development of prosperous national economies and,

Acknowledging the benefit of genetics, in particular genetic testing, in the field of health;

RECOGNIZING the importance of timber and related trade to the economies of timber producer countries;

Recognising the value of fostering co-operation with the other States signatories to this Convention;

recognising the importance of the objective to reduce the costs relating to the translation of European patents,

ALSO RECOGNIZING the benefits of market prices that reflect the costs of sustainable forest management;

Recognizing the importance of fisheries conservation and management in the Region and of promoting cooperation to that effect,

Recognizing the importance of intellectual property rights in sustaining those involved in cultural creativity,

Recognising the obligations and commitments of Lithuania with regard to the acquis establishing an area of freedom, security and justice;

Recognising the progress and achievements made in the implementation of the commitments of the Ministerial Conferences on the protection of forests in Europe;

(PP9) Recognizing the difficulties that certain States and National Societies may have with the use of the existing distinctive emblems,

recognising the importance of GALILEO as a contribution to the navigation and information infrastructure in Europe and Korea,

recognising the importance of the GALILEO programme as a contribution to navigation and information infrastructure in Europe and Morocco,

recognizing the positive role of cooperation in the defence field as an important factor in the development of relations between states,

Recognizing the link between adequate environmental information systems and the exercise of the rights contained in the Aarhus Convention,

RECOGNISING the importance of GALILEO as a contribution to navigation and information infrastructure in European Community and Ukraine,

acknowledging the important potential benefits that may arise from competitive air services and viable air services industries;

Recognizing also the importance of developing internationally compatible national pollutant release and transfer register systems to increase the comparability of data,

Recognising the need to put people and human values at the centre of an enlarged and cross-disciplinary concept of cultural heritage;

recognizing the need for conservation measures to protect all populations of Chiroptera species in Europe and in their non-European Range States;

Recognising the role of governments in the prevention of solicitation of bribes from individuals and enterprises in international business transactions;

Acknowledging the benefits to the health and well-being of present and future generations that will follow if the need to protect and improve people's health is taken into account as an integral part of strategic environmental assessment, and recognizing the work led by the World Health Organization in this respect,

RECOGNISING therefore the need to establish a stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement in order to safeguard the economic and trade interests of the Parties;

Recognising their mutual interest in combating Trans-border crime and developing closer regional law enforcement cooperation;

RECOGNISING the importance of enhancing the access of their airlines to global capital markets in order to strengthen competition and promote the objectives of this Agreement;

RECOGNIZING the importance of establishing strict liability for all forms of oil pollution which is linked to an appropriate limitation of the level of that liability,

recognizing the need for all States, in combating unlawful acts against the safety of maritime navigation, strictly to comply with rules and principles of general international law,

RECOGNIZING the importance of the Protocol of 27 September 1996 to the said Convention in the fight against corruption damaging or likely to damage the European Communities' financial interests;

RECOGNIZING the importance of the Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests of 26 July 1995 in combating fraud affecting Community revenue and expenditure;

Recognising the need for the social and cultural activities listed in the Annex to this Resolution to be exercised henceforth as effectively as they were by Western European Union,

RECOGNIZING the importance of the Convention on the protection of the European Communities' financial interests of 26 July 1995 for combating fraud affecting Community revenue and expenditure;

Recognizing the need to take measures to protect the diversity of cultural expressions, including their contents, especially in situations where cultural expressions may be threatened by the possibility of extinction or serious impairment,

RECOGNIZING the need for increased investment in sustainable forest management, including through reinvesting revenues generated from forests, including from timber-related trade;

Recognizing the right of all States to develop and apply nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and their legitimate interests in the potential benefits to be derived from the peaceful application of nuclear energy,

Recognizing the benefits to be obtained from standardization, rationalization and interoperability in products, data, publications, related Geospatial Intelligence materials and equipment;

Recognizing the importance of the European Convention on the International Classification of Patents for Invention, of December 19, 1954, under which the Council of Europe created the International Classification of Patents for Invention,

Recognising that privatisation is of fundamental importance to a sustainable economic recovery, the Parties agree to cooperate in the development of the necessary institutional, legal and methodological framework.

Recognizing the important role that effective exchange of information among law enforcement agencies has in preventing and combating all forms of crime and serious crime, including terrorism;

Recognizing the importance of protecting the privacy of identified or identifiable natural persons in the processing of information reported to pollutant release and transfer regi sters in accordance with applicable international standards relating to data protection,

Acknowledging the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, done at Aarhus, Denmark, on 25 June 1998, and taking note of the relevant paragraphs of the Lucca Declaration, adopted at the first meeting of its Parties,