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External sources (not reviewed)

As results achieved and difficulties encountered were reviewed in much detail in each of these documents, it would be redundant to repeat their contents hereafter.

Going forward, we will continue to maintain the same rigorous standards of corporate governance.

The auditors have reported their factual findings on the selected samples based on the agreed procedures to the Board of Directors.

The Director-General has also borne in mind that the present C/4 and C/5 system is rather complex and cumbersome, that it has too many layers with too many categories difficult to distinguish (e.g. cross-cutting themes, mainstreaming, flagships, principal and other priorities), that it limits flexibility to meet evolving programme resource needs, that intersectoral efforts are too often an afterthought in the programming exercise and that monitoring does not receive sufficient attention.

Increasing both the number of food items and the number of samples per individual food commodity for laboratory analysis could provide a more comprehensive coverage and a more precise estimate of the range and average EC concentration of fermented foods in the Hong Kong market.

While there is no need to repeat any of these here, since they have been submitted separately to the Executive Committee under the annual work programmes for each of the sector plans, it is useful to briefly introduce the work that has been carried out in the control of imports and exports of ODS under the project.

It was also agreed that the commentary should be expanded to include additional examples of situations in which exclusions might be appropriate, including where there were burdensome assets, such as assets carrying an environmental liability or assets that would be difficult or costly to administer, or where the consequences of fraud might be exacerbated if certain assets were to be included in the order for substantive consolidation.

(h) (i) Where by virtue of this Ordinance any right or liability of First Pacific Bank becomes or is deemed to become a right or liability of Bank of East Asia, Bank of East Asia and all other persons shall, on and from the appointed day, have the same rights, powers and remedies (and in particular the same rights and powers as to taking or resisting legal proceedings or making or resisting applications to any authority) for ascertaining, perfecting or enforcing that right or liability as if it had at all times been a right or liability of Bank of East Asia; and any legal proceedings or application to any authority existing or pending immediately before the appointed day by or against First Pacific Bank may be continued by or against Bank of East Asia.

In response to Dr Priscilla LEUNG's concern about the regulation of the use and transfer of personal data in corporate mergers, Acting Deputy Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data advised that as corporate mergers were common commercial activities, the Bill proposed to exempt from Data Protection Principle 3 the transfer or disclosure of personal data for use in due diligence exercises in connection with mergers provided that (a) the personal data to be transferred were necessary; (b) the data transferee would provide the same products or services to the data subjects as did the original data user; (c) the consent of the data subjects to the data transfer could not be obtained despite the taking of all reasonably practicable steps; and (d) the data transfer did not include sale of the data.

I have encountered really poor and destitute people in my life and in my ministry as a religious leader, and I would like to ask the international community, especially the developed countries, not to underestimate the resourcefulness of the poor and not to find them burdensome.