Inspiration may also be sought from the development of the Single European Payments Area where the same is being achieved in transactions with money.

6. Believes that the international community should bring about a political solution for Syria which can stop the violence, prevent further use of chemical weapons and promote a democratic transition; calls, in particular, on Russia and China, as permanent members of the Security Council, to face their responsibilities and to facilitate the achievement of a common position and a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis, without excluding a role for the UN General Assembly whereby it could take up this matter in the event of a persistent blockage in the Security Council; is convinced that a lasting solution to the current crisis in Syria can only be achieved through a Syrian-led, inclusive political process with the backing of the internat ...[+++]ional community; continues to support, in this spirit, the efforts of the EU and its Member States and of UN-Arab League Joint Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi to achieve progress in the Geneva II process and in the Security Council; reiterates its calls for the Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court for a formal investigation; reiterates its call for President Assad and his regime to step aside and pave the way for a democratic transition;

However, whatever alternatives may be found for energy supply, it is almost certain that overall energy consumption will have to decrease in relation to current levels, which is not necessarily a very bad thing.

Since the beginning of this year, though, a number of things have changed more rapidly than we had dared hope, for there is a functioning government for the whole country, its parliament has got down to work; the EU has decided to reduce the number of EUFOR troops; the issue of what is to become of the High Representative and of the ‘Bonn powers’ is again being discussed; and it is to be hoped that a way will soon be found to implement police reform, to which the Republika Srpska was, until very recently, resistant.

Olivier Davanne, in his report to France's prime minister Lionel Jospin, draws attention to the inherent usefulness to economic life of these routine transactions, suspect though they be on account of their huge size. The great majority of exchange-market transactions amount to risk-free arbitrage operations aimed at improving the market's technical efficiency When a seller comes forward, the broker agrees to act as counterpart even although there is no real buyer available, and sells his position on to another intermediary (at the same price - in the absence of a tax this amounts to a blank transaction) who will in turn do the same thin ...[+++]g until a counterpart is found outside the banking system.

confer on any person the power to verify compliance with the regulations, including the power to seize and detain things found in the exercise of that power (clause 5(1)(h));