While over 80% of the market of emission allowances is a derivative market, and is therefore already covered by MiFID and MAD, the new Market Abuse Regulation aims at extending market protection to the primary market and unregulated spot markets of emission allowances, in order to avoid fraudulent practices that could undermine trust in the ETS.

8. With a view to question 114 of the Commission's Green Paper on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy asking for a ranking of priorities amongst the various issues raised in the Green Paper, endorses the importance of achieving effective solutions concerning the need for fair, open and balanced market access whilst promptly addressing other urgent issues, such as simplification and clarification of the rules, improving SME access to public contracts, driving innovation through public procurement and subsequently considering other aspects of the review of public procurement with regard to concessions; therefore calls on the ...[+++] Commission to first approach the issue of simplification of rules, achieving well-balanced access to public sector markets, improving SME access, and to undertake the revision of public procurement and concessions as a second step, in order to allow for the necessary, sound involvement not only of the European Parliament and the Member States, but also of citizens and businesses, with a view to achieving the necessary recognition for all of these important Single Market issues, which are highly relevant for the overall welfare of the EU;

National/ local residential telephone services from a landline (Market 3) International residential telephone services from a landline (Market 4) National/ local business telephone services from a landline (Market 5) International business telephone services from a landline (Market 6) The minimum set of leased lines (Market 7) Transit services in the fixed telephone network (Market 10) Wholesale trunk segments of leased lines (Market 14) Access and call origination on mobile networks (Market 15) International roaming on mobile networks (Market 17) Broadcasting transmission (Market 18)

A delegation from Cape Breton has come to Ottawa in a last bid effort to stop the Liberals from adopting a plan that would see the Cape Breton Development Corporation, DEVCO, turn its back on growing export markets for coal, resulting in the privatization of DEVCO and the loss of 800 jobs.

CONSUMER EDUCATION AND INFORMATION - COUNCIL RESOLUTION [1] "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community; Having regard to the Council Resolution of 9 June 1986 on "Consumer Education in primary and secondary schools"; Having regard to the Council Resolution of 23 June 1986 on "Future orientations of the policy of the European Economic Community for the protection and the promotion of the consumers' interests"; Whereas Article 3(s) of the Treaty stipulates that the activities of the Community shall include a contribution to the strengthening of consumer protection; Whereas, pursuant to Article 129a (1)(b) of the Treaty, the Community is to contribute to the attainment of a high level ...[+++] of consumer protection through specific action which supports and supplements the policy pursued by the Member States to protect the health, safety and economic interests of consumers and to provide adequate information to consumers; Whereas the Second Commission Three Year Action Plan "Placing the single market at the service of the European consumers" (1993-1995) emphasized that it is essential that the advent and the deepening of the large European market make itself felt in consumers' everyday life in the shape of tangible benefits; Whereas the Commission's Strategic Programme and its Communication on "Making the most of the Internal Market" emphasizes that the consumer has a critical role to play in the successful implementation of the Internal Market Programme since it will not operate properly without strong and effective consumer participation, and also that well-informed consumers exercising market choices can accelerate the positive economic effects of an integrated market; Whereas information measures designed to assist consumers to make soundly-based market choices will be more effective if consumers have the background knowledge and appropriate skills necessary to understand such information and to incorporate it ...

In 1995, the policy of the Commission has been organised along six lines of action, designed to give a fresh impetus to the Single Market: (a) completing and streamlining the legislative framework of the Single Market (for example, the Commission has presented its proposals for the elimination of border checks on people in a framework of security); (b) making the Single Market work (notably by ensuring adequate penalties are applied for violations of Community law and improving the transparency and efficiency of infringement procedures); (c) confirming the Single Market as the cornerstone of Economic and Monetary Union (the Commission has confirmed that the response to the difficulties caused for the European economy by monetary fluctuati ...[+++]ons should be increased convergence with a view to introducing the single currency and not compensatory measures which would fragment the Single Market); (d) securing a Single Market for the citizen (The "Citizens First" initiative has been agreed to raise awareness about the rights and opportunities people enjoy in the Single Market); (e) adapting the Single Market to technological and other change (broad consultations have been launched to ensure an appropriate legislative framework for the Information Society); and (f) preparing the Single Market for enlargement (the White Paper on preparation of the CEECs for integration into the Single Market constitutes a valuable basis for the "structured dialogue" with these countries).