Measures may include soil improvement by fertilisation and other treatments to maintain its natural balance, reducing excessive vegetation density and ensuring sufficient water retention and proper drainage.

16. Calls on the Member States to enforce legal provisions with sanctions commensurate with the seriousness of the offence and to sanction dissuasively the non-respect of working conditions; stresses that research has indicated clearly that, in terms of improving working conditions, the highest impact is achieved by strong, well-coordinated prevention measures and inspections at an early stage, inter alia by providing employers with information and advising them or by registering undeclared workers retroactively;

40. Calls on the Commission to work, as part of the CAP reform and the Water Framework Directive, towards better irrigation and water drainage and storage systems for agriculture that use water more efficiently and that include improving water storage capacities in soils, water harvesting in dry areas and water drainage in moist areas, as a way of r ...[+++]educing the use of fresh water and also as a precaution against changes in rainfall patterns due to climate change;

40. Calls on the Commission to work, as part of the CAP reform and the Water Framework Directive, towards better irrigation and water drainage and storage systems for agriculture that use water more efficiently and that include improving water storage capacities in soils, water harvesting in dry areas and water drainage in moist areas, as a way of r ...[+++]educing the use of fresh water and also as a precaution against changes in rainfall patterns due to climate change;

14. Notes with concern that the European Union's reputation, as well as the rights of EU citizens, suffer owing to the length of time it takes the European Court of Justice to deal with its current case load; requests the Court to provide Parliament with a report explaining how it currently organises its work, and to detail the problems which preclude the Court from giving an efficient service; notes that enlargement will increase the severity of the problems faced by the Court; requests that the Court provides suggestions on how to address these problems, indicating where structural changes are necessary, and giving a full breakdown of the additional resources that would be necessary to carry ou ...[+++]t these improvements.

Alberta's oil reserves are sourced in the following ways: by strip mining shallow bitumen sands deposits, where 90% recovery of original oil-in-place is achieved; by in situ extraction of bitumen sands in deeper deposits using cyclic steam stimulation, now achieving recovery factors of 35% to 40%; by steam-assisted gravity drainage, typically achieving recovery factors exceeding 50%, and sometimes up to 70%; by in situ extraction of bitumen carbonate deposits, where two successful commercial-scale pilot projects in the Grosmont deposit are now both proceeding to full scale-development; and by multiple fracking of ...[+++] horizontal wells in tight oil shales containing a large oil resource little developed as yet, but classed as “proved undeveloped”, based on success exploiting analogous tight oil shales in the U.S. These recent developments and improvements in recovery factors indicate Alberta's proved oil reserves are 848 billion barrels.