(12) ‘the public concerned’ means the public affected or likely to be affected by, or having an interest in, the taking of a decision on the issuing or the updating of a permit or of permit conditions; for the purposes of this definition, non-governmental organisations promoting environmental protection and meeting the requirements of any relevant national law shall be deemed to have an interest;

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32007H0879 - EN - Commission Recommendation of 17 December 2007 on relevant product and service markets within the electronic communications sector susceptible to ex ante regulation in accordance with Directive 2002/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on a common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (notified under document number C(2007) 5406) (Text with EEA relevance ) - COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION // (Text with EEA relevance) // ...[+++] (2007/879/EC)

EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32007R0633 - EN - Commission Regulation (EC) No 633/2007 of 7 June 2007 laying down requirements for the application of a flight message transfer protocol used for the purpose of notification, coordination and transfer of flights between air traffic control units (Text with EEA relevance) - COMMISSION REGULATION

It considers that it is neither possible nor relevant to draw up common definitions of services of general interest, or of the public-service obligations resulting from them, but that the European Union must lay down common principles, including the following: universality and equality of access, continuity, security and adaptability; quality, efficiency and affordability, transparency, protection of less well-off social groups, protection of users, consumers and the environment, and citizen participation, taking into account circumstances which are specific to each sector.

It considers that it is neither possible nor relevant for common definitions of services of general interest, or of the public-service obligations resulting from them, to be drawn up, but that the European Union must establish common principles, such as universality and equality of access, continuity, security, adaptability, quality, efficiency, affordability, transparency, protection of disadvantaged groups, protection of users, consumers and the environment, and participation of citizens, taking into account circumstances specific to each sector.

In this context, it must be underlined that the "New Approach" has proven to be a specific model of legislation by which both the public interest (i.e. protecting public health and safety, consumer and environmental protection) and the interest of private business to produce standards according to the relevant "state of the art", could be merged in an adequate way.