(29) "energy efficiency/demand-side management" means a global or integrated approach aimed at influencing the amount and timing of electricity consumption in order to reduce primary energy consumption and peak loads by giving precedence to investments in energy efficiency measures, or other measures, such as interruptible supply contracts, over investments to increase generation capacity, if the former are the most effective and e ...[+++]conomical option, taking into account the positive environmental impact of reduced energy consumption and the security of supply and distribution cost aspects related to it;

Furthermore EU-wide regulations to reduce VOCs (Directive 94/63/EC on the control of volatile organic compound emissions resulting from the storage of petrol and its distribution from terminals to service stations(4); Directive 1999/13/EC on the limitation of emissions of volatile organic compounds due to the use of organic solvents in certain activities and installations(5); Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control(6)) as well as pending strategies to regulate the VOC content in products will red ...[+++]uce ozone peak levels.

29". energy efficiency/demand-side management" means a global or integrated approach aimed at influencing the amount and timing of electricity consumption in order to reduce primary energy consumption and peak loads by giving precedence to investments in energy efficiency measures, or other measures, such as interruptible supply contracts, over investments to increase generation capacity, if the former are the most effective and ec ...[+++]onomical option, taking into account the positive environmental impact of reduced energy consumption and the security of supply and distribution cost aspects related to it.

"energy efficiency/demand-side management" means a global or integrated approach aimed at influencing the amount and timing of electricity consumption in order to reduce primary energy consumption and peak loads by giving precedence to investments in energy efficiency measures, or other measures, such as interruptible supply contracts, over investments to increase generation capacity, if the former are the most effective and econom ...[+++]ical option, taking into account the positive environmental impact of reduced energy consumption and the security of supply and distribution cost aspects related to it;

7. Welcomes the commitment of many world leaders that the next trade round must be a development round and calls on the WTO's members to address developing countries' implementation concerns regarding the Uruguay Round, particularly in the fields of intellectual property, sanitation rules, technical barriers to trade, anti-dumping rules, safeguard measures and rules on mobility of professional labour from developing countries; to follow the EU's lead in providing tariff- and quota-free access to their markets for all products from least developed countries, other than armaments; to further open their markets to imports of goods and ser ...[+++]vices from developing countries, including the elimination of tariff peaks and tariff escalation; to strengthen capacity-building measures to equip developing countries to compete on an equal basis in the world economy; and to allow special and differential treatment provisions to ensure that developing countries have the time to equip themselves for integration in the global economy in accordance with their varying levels of development;

7. Welcomes the commitment of many world leaders that the next trade round must be a development round and calls on the WTO’s members to address developing countries' implementation concerns regarding the Uruguay Round, particularly in the fields of intellectual property, sanitation rules, technical barriers to trade, anti-dumping rules, safeguard measures and rules on mobility of professional labour from developing countries; to follow the EU’s lead in providing tariff- and quota-free access to their markets for all products from least developed countries, other than armaments; to further open their markets to imports of goods and ser ...[+++]vices from developing countries, including the elimination of tariff peaks and tariff escalation; to strengthen capacity-building measures to equip developing countries to compete on an equal basis in the world economy; and to allow special and differential treatment provisions to ensure that developing countries have the time to equip themselves for integration in the global economy in accordance with their varying levels of development;