off-grid community

grid and off-grid electricity service

off-net user

off-net station

13. Stresses that in order to reduce GHG emissions in developing countries, it is necessary to put in place mechanisms that increase the use of alternative and efficient energy sources; encourages developing countries to invest in small-scale, off-grid and decentralised renewable energy production; calls for increased EU support for such production and for energy efficiency, as well as for sustainable fisheries and agriculture focused on small-scale farmers, crop diversification, agro-forestry and agro-ecological practices, including assistance for training in rural communities; is convinced that action in all of these areas can contr ...[+++]ibute substantially to climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as to disaster risk reduction;

However, I think that we, as a society, could decide to invest in infrastructure for our communities that are far from the network or outside the network—self-sufficient communities.

(c) “Community-wide roaming” means the use of a mobile telephone or other device by a roaming customer to make or receive calls within the Community, while outside the Member State in which the customer’s home network is located, by means of arrangements between the operator of the home network and the operator of the visited network;

Natura 2000 network areas, composed of the special protection areas pursuant to Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds , and those areas under Directive 92/43/EEC together, or equivalent areas located outside the European Community that fall under the corresponding provisions of the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity.