Noting the need to adopt implementing provisions for the additional Union assistance to address the consequences of the closure and the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant;

In the early 70s the highly developed industrial countries of the ` Western` type were faced with the limits of economic growth and the disastrous consequences of pollution.

During the period 2004-2006, the Union shall provide Slovakia with financial assistance in support of its efforts to decommission, and to address the consequences of the closure and decommissioning of, Unit 1 and Unit 2 of the Bohunice V1 Nuclear Power Plant (hereinafter referred to as "the Assistance").

If a Member State considers that imports of petroleum products refined in the Netherlands Antilles, made either directly or through another Member State under the system provided for in Article 2, are giving rise to real difficulties on its market and that immediate action is necessary to meet them, it may on its own initiative decide to apply customs duties to such imports, the rate of which may not exceed those of the customs duties applicable to third countries in respect of the same products.

When the Commission, at the request of a Member State or on its own initiative, establishes that imports into the Union of petroleum products refined in the Netherlands Antilles under the system provided for in Article 2 are giving rise to real difficulties on the market of one or more Member States, it shall adopt a European decision establishing that customs duties on the said imports shall be introduced, increased or re-introduced by the Member States in question, to such an extent and for such a period as may be necessary to meet that situation.

A person in custody whose personal appearance as a witness or for purposes of confrontation is applied for by the requesting Party shall be temporarily transferred to the territory where the hearing is intended to take place, provided that he shall be sent back within the period stipulated by the requested Party and subject to the provisions of Article 12 in so far as these are applicable.

Furthermore, attention should be drawn to the election confrontation of the ZLSD and NSi on TV3, in which this topic was one among many others discussed.

POP TV (a commercial channel) dedicated one debate to these issues which revealed the location of the currently concealed and suppressed social struggle.

NOTING the need to adopt implementing provisions for the additional Community assistance to address the consequences of the closure and the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant,

On the national television channel a question about the 'status of the homosexual population in Slovenia' was put by a viewer through the internet, so it accidentally found its way onto the agenda of this debate (on 28 September 2000).

(U. Lipušček in his introduction to the election confrontation on SLO TV).

In the election debates, as on all other occasions for that matter, journalists reproduced the political agenda and almost invariably asked questions relating to the topics '... that used to disturb Slovenian politicians in the past and still do' (from an introduction to the election debate on SLO TV, 4 October 2000).

To 'monitor elections' now involves more effort than studying only proxemics, gesticulation, facial expressions and the verbal communication of some politician, or analyzing televised confrontations or debates.

Despite the fact that the participants had a live chat with the leader of the party so that (theoretically) they could ask questions on any subject they thought important, some nevertheless preferred to watch the classical confrontation of the candidates on TV ('I am leaving to watch POP', 'i am going. it's time for the tvs1 show. enjoy yourself').

The meaning of the election confrontations was a result of the network of topics that were suppressed and excluded as much as of those that were discussed.

In addition to the ZLSD and LDS, other parties also appeared in election confrontations on TV 3 (the pairs were confronted as follows, in order of appearance: LDS/SDS, ZLSD/ NSi, SDS/SLS+SKD, LDS/NSi, SLS+SKD/ZLSD, LDS/ZLSD, SDS/NSi, SLS+SKD/LDS, SDS/ZLSD, NSi/SLS+SKD). This was followed by extensive interviews with Andrej Bajuk, the Prime Minister, Franc Zagožen,the leader of the SLS+SKD, Franc Arhar, the Governor of the Bank of Slovenia, and Janez Janša, the leader of the SDS.

I will look into the election confrontations on both TV channels in Slovenia from the perspective of the professional myth of objectivity.

In election confrontations the balance, meaning the demand for the equal treatment of 'all sides', has proved to be one of the most bizarre components of objectivity.

The 'social issues' that problematized the supposed communal consensus were discussed in two election confrontations in all.

Through election debates the media took over the conceptual framework of reasoning and determined the 'central points' of the discourse that favored specific perspectives over certain others.

In order to be effective, takeover regulation should be flexible and capable of dealing with new circumstances as they arise and should accordingly provide for the possibility of exceptions and derogations.

Similar to other aspects of the self-image of journalism that became articulated through election debates, also the myth of objectivity will be treated from the standpoint of the fetishization of objectivity as the central aspect of the journalistic self-image.

Balance is based on a naive empiricist belief that the truth can certainly be found somewhere between two contrasting subjective views (or five, six, or eight views, as the case may be in election contests).

After going through a quarter of a cubic meter of written materials and tapes of recorded TV broadcasts, I was quite convinced that the purpose of the public 'statements', 'confrontations' and the like, is primarily to conceal.

It is a model example of the election confrontation. One participant was a known public figure skilled in political public appearance, while the other was entirely unknown and unskilled in political rhetoric, probably appearing before the cameras for the first time - yet both were brilliant!

The problematic issues pertaining to public schools have long been present in the media, Bajuk's government even emphasized problems through some moves of the Ministry of Education, which was reflected in election confrontations - yet the only exception, slight but conspicuous, was precisely the issue of religion.

TV 3 presented all the larger parliamentary parties in individual broadcasts, while the interviews were held with the representatives of right political orientations who appealed to Christian values in their election campaign. The only party that in fact was not admitted onto TV 3, even though it had been invited, was the ZLSD. Actually, the party sent in its coalition partner instead, i.e. the Party of Christian Socialists, but the editorial board of TV 3 did not accept it, so only the SDS appeared on the broadcast reserved for the confrontation of the SDS and ZLSD.

Since this admonition is essential for an analysis of the election confrontations, the temptations mentioned above should be additionally defined as follows: the tendency towards the clericalization of politics and politization of the religion can be identified in situations where political events or affiliations are supported or criticized using religious arguments.

Since in our example politicians found it more important to control what people thought about than to influence how they thought about significant issues, the author analyzed the pre-election debates on the Slovenian national TV station and POP TV in light of the agenda that was publicly discussed, while leaving out other significant aspects (iconography, rhetorical conditions and the like).

The participants in the election debates answered questions about the budget deficit (it should be reduced), the share of resources allocated to science and technology (it should be increased), Slovenia's accession to the European Union (we should join the EU yet should decisively defend our interests), the re-establishment of relations with Yugoslavia (of course caution can never be dismissed as redundant), and so on.

On the same day, the participants at an election confrontation commented on a typical Mahnič-style statement that 'the one who is not Roman Catholic is not a Slovenian'. The Minister of Culture himself minimized the scandalousness of this statement because in his opinion what was much worse was some sports ad featured in the media at that time, which invited the supporters of the national football team to jump and cheer (TV 1, 27 September 2000).

c The only medium in Slovenia that actually violated the principle of free access to the media by political parties, was the Church owned Radio Ognjišče: its broadcasts of confrontations between political parties before the elections were open to the parties 'close to Christian values' exclusively, while all other parties were banned, which was explicitly stated (Radio Ognjišče 17 September 2000).

The pages in our sample contained classical, or rather standard elements (once again the Greens of Slovenia were an exception) that include: the introductory page and slogans, the party's profile (the program, statute, leadership, regional lists), contact information, information on changes made to the pages, some form of interaction with the visitors (polls, the possibility of posting an opinion), links to other sites related to the elections, news about parties' activities, a calendar of pre-election confrontations, and photo-galleries.

Consequently, only 'Spring' parties such as the NSi, SDS and SLS+SKD appeared on this radio, so the live 'election contest' was staged between the first two parties mentioned on the one side, and the SLS+SKD on the other. Moreover, only the NSi and SDS received positive comments (without exception), while all other parties faced negative criticism (without exception). One should, however, keep in mind that it was precisely this radio station that accused the national TV stations of attempting to break down the 'Spring' bloc in its election broadcasts.

b Of all the media, the harshest criticism of the politization of the Church could be found exactly in the right-oriented Mag magazine. It explicitly asserted that the so called forces of nomenclature caused the politization of the 'Slovenian church, which is oddly involved in the political dealings of the nomenclature and is consciously its victim' but other media do not see this because they are all 'manipulated the same as Serbian media are'; according to Mag, this was confirmed by elections confrontations on TV 3, to which were 'invited the ZLSD and LDS only'. Precisely these two parties, claimed Mag, 'have in their programs the removal of the Church from public life.

There are some glaringly contradictory points contained in this criticism, particularly that expressed by protagonists who most criticized the media. For example, when Janez Janša appeared on TV Slovenia he stated that 'this year's campaign has been the most correct one so far', and that 'the most correct electronic medium in the election campaign is TV Slovenia' (TV Slovenia, 13 October 2000); the Church weekly Družina, on the other hand, proclaimed the same TV channel to be the most incorrect one, because election confrontations were allegedly held 'in the absence of political content' so the viewers were 'forced' to be the witnesses to 'ruthless and uncivilized butchery' (1 October 2000); the representative of the SLS+SKD thought that the media published 'low blows' against their party 'particularly coming from the SDS', giving the paradoxical explanation that this was probably due to their 'cheering for LDS' (POP TV, 13 October 2000); in the same broadcast the representative of the governmental party NSi stated that the media were 'expressly against the right option', another of its representatives on TV 3 asserted that the 2000 election campaign was 'less aggressive than previous ones', while the representative of the SLS+SKD, which was in a coalition dispute with the NSi and SDS, agreed wholeheartedly with this view (TV 3, 6 October 2000).

prepare enterprises for facing globalisation and, in particular, promote the participation of SMEs in the process of standardisation and its implementation;

Whereas a crisis in obtaining supplies could occur unexpectedly and whereas it is therefore essential to establish forthwith the necessary means to make good a possible shortage;

In order to be effective, takeover regulation should be flexible and capable of dealing with new circumstances as they arise and should accordingly provide for the possibility of exceptions and derogations.

The amount of the adjustment relating to periods prior to those included in the financial statements is adjusted against the opening balance of retained earnings of the earliest period presented.