21.   The adoption of an EIA procedure for biotechnology research and activities, including assessment on safety and social impacts.

22.   The Commission also proposed publishing an annual report on EU-Hong Kong relations, including assessments of political relations, commerce, finanace and human rights.

23.   The study, which also includes an assessment of new oil field development, is expected to start as early as August.

24.   These include an assessment that the patient is suffering unbearable pain, that death is imminent and that the patient consents.

25.   The draft also stated that the report should include an assessment of the situation in the South, mainly populated by Kurds, and the mainly Shiite North.