regulatory policy [ better lawmaking | better law-making | better regulation | good regulatory practice | outcome-based regulation | performance-based regulation | REFIT | regulatory fitness | Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme | regulatory governance | regulatory improvement | regulatory quality | regulatory reform | smart regulation ]

ensuring regulatory compliance concerning distribution activities | secure regulatory compliance concerning distribution activities | enable regulatory compliance concerning distribution activities regulatory compliance concerning distribution activities | ensure regulatory compliance concerning distribution activities

energy gap [ energy band gap | forbidden energy gap | energy difference | band gap | interband energy gap ]

block gap | interblock gap | interrecord gap | record gap | IBG [Abbr.]

gender gap in pensions | gender pension gap | pension gap | pension gap between men and women

gap-filling adhesive [ gap filling adhesive | gap-filling glue | gap filling glue ]

regulatory committee (EU) [ EC regulatory committee ]

powers of parliament [ parliamentary power | regulatory autonomy ]

- Gaps in the regulatory environment: a persistent regulatory gap particularly for cross border issues.

- Filling the regulatory gaps, promoting transparency, stability and accountability notably as regards derivatives and market infrastructure.

Calls for further measures to exploit the remaining significant potential of renewable energy in the heating and cooling sectors in order to fully achieve the 2020 goals; calls on the Commission to bridge regulatory gaps in those sectors in the post-2020 renewables legislative package.

Welcomes the Commission communication of February 2016 on an EU strategy on heating and cooling, but highlights the lack of progress and low targets set for renewable use in heating and cooling, in particular in buildings; stresses the great potential for continued progress in renewable use in heating and cooling; notes that the heating and cooling sector accounts for half the EU’s final energy consumption and therefore plays a key role in achieving the EU objectives on climate and renewable energy resources; recognises the benefits of increasing renewable energy in the heating and cooling sector; stresses the increased flexibility of thermal infrastructure and storage in facilitating the integration of variable renewable sources by sto ...[+++]ring energy in the form of heat, offering excellent returns on investment and providing opportunities for enhancing quality local employment; calls on the Commission to bridge the regulatory gaps in the post-2020 renewables legislative package; reiterates that efforts in the heating and cooling sector hold great potential for increased energy security (given that 61 % of gas imported into the European Union is used in buildings, mainly for heating purposes), for example through the development of district heating/cooling networks, which are an efficient means of integrating sustainable heat into cities on a large scale, since they can simultaneously deliver heat derived from a range of sources and are not inherently dependent on any one source.