Notes that, in order to guarantee supply security, the development of RES with variable feed-in will necessitate a flexible balancing of fluctuations and a flexible back-up through an integrated and interconnected European electricity grid that allows cross-border trading, demand response systems, energy storage and flexible power plants; calls on the Commission to assess whether there is a capacity issue in the EU and to determine the amount of firm capacity that can be provided by variable RES in an integrated EU power system, as well as its potential impact on generation adequacy; agrees with Commission’s analysis that the developme ...[+++]nt of reserve capacity mechanisms entails substantial costs and may distort price signals; notes that there is an increasing need for a stable policy framework to provide economic guarantees concerning the availability of these reserves as well as for system and balancing services; rejects the concept of competition for subsidies between energy sources and calls for an energy market design tailored to the Union’s long-term energy and climate policy objectives, which makes it possible to integrate RES technologies into the internal energy market, but acknowledges that state aid has historically been necessary in the development of all energy sources;

10. Calls on the Commission to intensify cross-border joint action by the Member States" labour inspectorates and to study the possibility of setting up a corresponding European cooperation network (i.e. a social Europol);

9. Calls on the Commission to intensify cross-border joint action by the Member States’ labour inspectorates and to study the possibility of setting up a corresponding European cooperation network (i.e. a social Europol);

This covers contributions to the transition phase of the EEJ-Net in 2004 in 15 Member States, Norway and Iceland (almost €737.000), as well as to the first year of the integrated European Consumer Helpnet for 2005 and its extension to 6 new Member States (Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Cyprus and Latvia.).

It provides the institutional and regulatory basis for de-fragmented, inter-operable European Air Traffic Control.

This means giving high priority to channelling Community resources and national investment into strategic sectors like research and innovation, lifelong learning as an integral and inseparable part of the structural reform of the labour market, and the creation of a European network of infrastructures and services, starting with telecommunications.