* 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.

* 2003 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge and member of the European Parliament ( b. 1941 )

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

In 2002 Chile signed an association agreement with the European Union ( comprising FTA, political and cultural agreements ), in 2003, an extensive free trade agreement with the United States, and in 2004 with South Korea, expecting a boom in import and export of local produce and becoming a regional trade-hub.

Croatia became a World Trade Organization ( WTO ) member in 2000 and started the Accession of Croatia to the European Union in 2003.

The A4 connection from Zagreb to Varaždin and Čakovec exists since 2003, which was extended to the Hungarian border in October 2008 to complete the upgrade of the European route E71.

It applied in 2003, and began with accession negotiations in 2005 ( see also: Accession of Croatia to the European Union ).

For example, in a discussion of euthanasia presented in 2003 by the European Association of Palliative Care ( EPAC ) Ethics Task Force, the authors offered: " Medicalized killing of a person without the person's consent, whether nonvoluntary ( where the person in unable to consent ) or involuntary ( against the person's will ) is not euthanasia: it is murder.

In 2003, a member of the European Parliament tabled a proposal in a temporary committee of the European Parliament that national civil ensigns be defaced with the European flag.

The November 2003 party convention was held in Dresden and decided the election platform for the 2004 European Parliament elections.

The first stage of the Galileo programme was agreed upon officially on 26 May 2003 by the European Union and the European Space Agency.

The European Union and the European Space Agency agreed in March 2002 to fund the project, pending a review in 2003 ( which was finalised on 26 May 2003 ).

The Scientific Steering Committee ( SSC ) of the European Union ( EU ) in 2003 stated that the risk associated with bovine bone gelatin is very low or zero.

In 2006 the European Food Safety Authority ( EFSA ) stated that the SSC opinion was confirmed, that the BSE risk of bone-derived gelatin was very small, and removed support for the 2003 request of excluding the skull and vertebrae of bovine origin older than 12 months from the material used in gelatin manufacturing.

* Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered ( Eastern European Studies, 18 ) Luisa Lang Owen and Charles M. Barber, Texas A & M University Press, January, 2003, hardcover, 288 pages, ISBN 1-58544-212-7

Finland in the European Union ( F. Cass, 2003 ) online edition

During his military career, he served as Commander, United States European Command ( COMUSEUCOM ) and Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( SACEUR ) from 2003 to 2006 and as the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1999 to January 2003.

Chile assumed a two-year non-permanent position on the UN Security Council in January 2003 and is an active member of the UN family of agencies, serving as a member of the Commission on Human Rights and participating in UN peacekeeping activities.

On April 2002 The Commission released its decision ( with a clarification in 2003 ).

In 2003, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) rejected a Canadian Cable Telecommunications Association ( CCTA ) application to bring Fox News to Canada because Fox News U. S. and Global Television were planning to create Fox News Canada ( a combination of U. S. and Canadian news ).

The Scottish Law Commission, in its Discussion Paper No 122 on Insanity and Diminished Responsibility ( 2003 ), pp. 16 / 18 confirms that the law has not substantially changed from the position stated in Hume's Commentaries:

After some pressure, an office of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission opened an office in Mazar in April 2003.

The party, along with its Northern Ireland wing, voluntarily deregistered with the Electoral Commission at the end of 2003.

In 2003, the Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment published a disputed report finding pesticide levels in Coke and Pepsi soft drinks sold in India at levels 30 times that considered safe by the European Economic Commission.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

In May 2003, the Zanzibar Electoral Commission conducted by-elections to fill vacant seats in the parliament, including those seats vacated by the CUF boycott.

In 2003, the Law Commission of India recommended the adoption of the Public Interest Disclosure ( Protection of Informers ) Act, 2002.

While these groups elevated Antonescu to the status of hero, his involvement in the Holocaust was officially reasserted and condemned following the 2003 Wiesel Commission report.

In 2003, the cathedral was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ; however, shortly thereafter, the designation was unanimously overturned by the New York City Council, some of whose members favored landmark status for the cathedral's entire footprint, rather than just the building.

* New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, " Designation List 347 " ( 2003 )

The Court also overruled that portion of McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, 540 U. S. 93 ( 2003 ), that upheld BCRA's restriction of corporate spending on " electioneering communications ".

In 2003, the United States Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) disclosed what it called an internet-based " pyramid scam.

* McConnell v. Federal Election Commission ( 2003 ), substantially upheld McCain – Feingold.

* Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ( 2010 ) the Supreme Court of the United States held that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment, overruling Austin ( 1990 ) and partly overruling McConnell ( 2003 ).

In 2003 the Regional Transit District Act was enacted, which authorized the creation of Regional Transit Districts ( RTD's ) in the state of New Mexico ; In September, 2004, the North Central Regional RTD was the first RTD to be certified by the New Mexico Transportation Commission.

However, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 2003 that if the domestic species and the wild species are considered subspecies of each other, the scientific name of the wild species has priority, even when that subspecies was described after the domestic subspecies.

As part of the fallout of the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) to designate a national Electric Reliability Organization ( ERO ).

* 2003 ( 76th ) Harvie Krumpet-Australian Film Commission, Film Victoria, SBS Independent-Adam Elliot

In 2003, the WHO and UNICEF published their Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, which restated that " processed-food products for infants and young children should, when sold or otherwise distributed, meet applicable standards recommended by the Codex Alimentarius Commission ", and also warned that " lack of breastfeeding — and especially lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first half-year of life — are important risk factors for infant and childhood morbidity and mortality ".

In its final findings published in 2003, the Commission observed:

In 2003, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $ 125 million in order to settle its portion of a $ 1. 4 billion settlement brought by Eliott Spitzer, the Attorney General of New York, the National Association of Securities Dealers ( now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ( FINRA )), the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, ( SEC ) and a number of state securities regulators, relating to intentionally misleading research motivated by a desire to win investment banking business with the companies covered.