11. Sees macroregional strategies – provided that regional authorities are involved in their governance – as affording a major opportunity to harness forms of supranational potential, improve cooperation between the different levels of governance and take a joint approach towards shared challenges such as environmental protection or the use of resources and development capacities, thus allowing more efficient, balanced and sustainable development; highlights the need to link territorial cooperation programmes more effectively with territorial strategies (such as regional development plans, local development strategies and local development plans); considers that better coordination ...[+++] of existing support mechanisms can create scope for more targeted use of the EU Structural Funds, without this entailing any increase in the resources earmarked for these fields of inter-regional cooperation; takes the view, moreover that no new instruments, financial resources or implementation structures should be created for these strategies and that the financial support provided to the regions for smaller scale development projects must not be affected; considers that the macroregional approach could be used to strengthen the links between cohesion policy and neighbourhood policy; encourages the Commission and Member States, in this context, to take greater account of the territorial dimension of the ESF, in particular with regard to access to employment;

These data are, first, to be documented in order to catalogue existing spatial data sets, sources and conditions of use (creation of meta-data), then to be made available to the infrastructure by establishing services which address the problems of accessibility and interoperability and clarify conditions of use.

notes that the political conditions in Belarus, the only dictatorship left in Europe, continue to make it inappropriate to engage in any comprehensive cooperation with the country; calls, however, for intensified EU support to the civil society and to the democratic opposition and for the exploitation of all existing possibilities in this regard; stresses the importance of preparing an Action Plan for this purpose, so as to create the preconditions for the European Union to have relations with this country;

The Directive allows existing plants to be exempted from compliance with the emission limits and from inclusion in the national emission reduction plan on condition that the operator undertakes not to operate the plant for more than 20 000 hours between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2015.

(a) taking appropriate measures to ensure that all licences for the operation of existing plants contain conditions relating to compliance with the emission limit values established for new plants referred to in paragraph 1; or

9. The following sentence is added to the last subparagraph of Article 6(4): However, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 29 of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88, the Commission may authorize a Member State to derogate from that condition, in exceptional cases and solely for investment to reduce emissions from animal droppings and the elimination of slurry in existing holdings, provided that such investment leads to a better result for the protection of the environment than that obtained by the condition derogated from and ...[+++] that it does not in any circumstances lead to an increase in production capacity.