The Commission's state aid assessment, based on the 2013 Broadband Guidelines, aims to ensure, amongst other things, that public funding does not take the place of private investment.

51. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to agree on an EU Broadband Deployment Pact with a view to coordinating national and European funding programmes and private investment more effectively, in accordance with the Commission's State Aid Guidelines, targeting rural areas in particular, and ensuring the necessary coordination with consistent output indicators on an EU-wide scale;

33. Notes the evolution of key performance indicators since 2006 in this respect as included in the Environmental Management Review for the year 2008, notably a reduction in carbon footprint of 12,9%, a decrease in electricity consumption of 0,8 %, an increase in gas/oil/ heat consumption of 7,4% in 2008, after a decrease of 17,5% in 2007, an increase in mobility/ transport emissions of 8,8%, an increase in the percentage of recycled waste from 49,8% in 2006 to 55,4% in 2008, an increase in water consumption of 18,1 % and a decrease o ...[+++]f paper consumption of 16,9 %;

33. Notes the evolution of key performance indicators since 2006 in this respect as included in the Environmental Management Review for the year 2008, notably a reduction in carbon footprint of 12,9%, a decrease in electricity consumption of 0,8 %, an increase in gas/oil/ heat consumption of 7,4% in 2008, after a decrease of 17,5% in 2007, an increase in mobility/ transport emissions of 8,8%, an increase in the percentage of recycled waste from 49,8% in 2006 to 55,4% in 2008, an increase in water consumption of 18,1 % and a decrease o ...[+++]f paper consumption of 16,9 %;

25. Opposes the reduction in the number of indicators by comparison with the list adopted for the purposes of the 2003 Spring European Council and which are drastically reduced in the Commission's Communication on Structural Indicators (COM(2003) 585) to review progress and implementation of the Lisbon and Göteborg strategies, and urges the Council to take into account biodiversity indicators in order to be able to assess the attainment of EU commitments made in Decision No 1600/2002/EC laying down the Sixth Environmental Action Programme (6EAP) to halt biodiversity loss by the year 2010 in the EU, and in the Plan of Implementation adopt ...[+++]ed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development by 2015 globally; is concerned, moreover, that the plan to establish the indicators for a period of three years does not guarantee sufficient flexibility to take into account new facts, policy revisions (e.g. Sustainable Development Strategy in 2004) or the time that new policies take before an impact can be observed;

24. Opposes the reduction in the number of indicators by comparison with the list adopted for the purposes of the 2003 Spring Council and which the Commission's Communication on Structural Indicators (COM(2003) 585) to review progress and implementation of the Lisbon and Göteborg strategies drastically reduces, and urges the Council to take into account biodiversity indicators in order to be able to assess the attainment of EU commitments made in the Sixth Environmental Action Programme (6EAP) to halt biodiversity loss by the year 2010 in the EU, and in the Plan of Implementation adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development by ...[+++]2015 globally; is concerned, moreover, that the plan to establish the indicators for a period of three years does not guarantee sufficient flexibility to take into account new facts, policy revisions (e.g. Sustainable Development Strategy in 2004) or the time that new policies take before an impact can be observed;