47. Calls on the Commission to establish minimum requirements for a harmonised template, methodology and evaluation process for NEEAPs; notes that this will reduce the administrative burden on Member States, ensure NEEAPs are well-founded and facilitate comparative analysis; believes that this harmonised template and methodology must require chapters by sector and must make a clear distinction between policies and actions on energy efficiency previously adopted by Member States on the one hand, and new and additional policies and actions on the other; points to the relevant provisions of the proposed directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources; stresses that the checking by the Commission and if necessary rejection of the nation ...[+++]al action plans at the moment of their submission would ensure a better quality of implementation downstream; calls for the coordination of National Action Plans and reports provided for under different legislative instruments linked with climate change objectives; calls on the Commission to cross-check the NEEAPs with other such National Action Plans and reports, including those submitted in connection with the Kyoto Protocol and the National Strategic Reference Framework documents of the Structural Funds;

47. Calls on the Commission to establish minimum requirements for a harmonised template, methodology and evaluation process for NEEAPs; notes that this will reduce the administrative burden on Member States, ensure NEEAPs are well-founded and facilitate comparative analysis; believes that this harmonised template and methodology must require chapters by sector and must make a clear distinction between policies and actions on energy efficiency previously adopted by Member States on the one hand, and new and additional policies and actions on the other; points to the relevant provisions of the Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources; stresses that the checking by the Commission and if necessary rejection of the nation ...[+++]al action plans at the moment of their submission would ensure a better quality of implementation downstream; calls for the coordination of National Action Plans and reports provided for under different legislative instruments linked with climate change objectives; calls on the Commission to cross-check the NEEAPs with other such National Action Plans and reports, including those submitted in connection with the Kyoto Protocol and the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) documents of the Structural Funds;

In the end, a month later, the whole of Europe united around a single plan to support the banks, and we, with President Barroso, have attempted to turn the European support plan to stop our banking system collapsing into a global plan. The United States have progressed from Paulson Plan I to Paulson Plan II, and have now got to Paulson Plan III, which is clearly inspired by European Plan I.

Juliet O’Neil, “Cross-border water plan won’t plug leaks, critics say,” Ottawa Citizen, 14 May 2010, p. A6.

See, for example, “Ottawa to reintroduce law limiting biofuels content,” The Record (Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo), 4 December 2007, p. A3; “Ottawa plans biofuels minimum in 3 to 5 years,” The Sault Star (Sault Ste. Marie), 4 December 2007, p. A6; and “Ottawa pushes biofuels in new legislation,” The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 4 December 2007, p. A11.

Projects are to be carried out in particular in the electronics and information technology industries (PEIN III plan), pharmaceuticals (FARMA), biotechnology, advanced chemistry and new materials (BQM plan) and the basic and manufacturing industries (SBT plan).