70 experts convened for a joint conference on CFC legislations in Rust (Austria) from 3-6 July 2003. 23 National Reports from nearly all EU countries as well as Australia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, Lithuania, New Zealand and Norway deal with domestic CFC provisions and the influence of DTCs and EC law on CFC legislations. These National Reports and a summarizing General Report have been compiled and published in this volume.

Open nonlinear systems are capable of self-organization in space and time. This realization constitutes a major breakthrough of modern science, and is currently at the origin of explosive developments in chemistry, physics and biology. Observations and numerical computations of nonlinear systems surprise us by their inexhaustible and sometimes nonintuitive variety of structures with different shapes and functions. But as well as variety one finds on closer inspection that nonlinear phenomena share universal aspects of pattern formation in time and space. These similarities make it possible to bridge the gap between inanimate and living matter at various levels of complexity, in both theory and experiment. This book is an account of different approaches to the study of this pattern formation. The universality of kinetic, thermodynamic and dimensional approaches is documented through their application to purely mathematical, physical and chemical systems, as well as to systems in nature: biochemical, cellular, multicellular, physiological, neurophysiological, ecological and economic systems. Hints given throughout the book allow the reader to discover how to make use of the principles and methods in different fields of research, including those not treated explicitly in the book.

Michael, ein sportlicher, allseits beliebter Student der Rechtswissenschaften stammt aus einem burgerlichen Haus. Die Eltern wollen ihm eine gute Zukunft ermoglichen und lassen ihn eine elitare Privatschule besuchen. Dadurch wachst er teilweise in einem snobistischen Umfeld auf. Caro ist ein Madchen aus armen Verhaltnissen. Sie ubt neben ihrem Biologiestudium zwei Jobs aus um sich und ihrer alkoholkranken Mutter die Existenz zu sichern. Caro und Michael treffen an der Abendkassa eines Kinos aufeinander und spuren sofort eine Verbindung zueinander. Die Ursache fur dieses Gefuhl konnen sich beide anfangs nicht erklaren, jedoch gesellt sich zur wachsenden Verliebtheit mit der Zeit ein aufkeimendes Bewusstsein fur ihre unterschiedliche Herkunft.