This section is structured around the four priority issues of the 6th EAP (climate change; nature and biodiversity; resource management; and environment and health).

Section 2 describes and analyses relevant market developments including prospects for the immediate future. Section 3 concentrates on on-going legislative work both of financial and non-financial nature. Section 4 refers to tax issues relevant for risk capital. Section 5 describes developments related to entrepreneurship with special attention to RD issues. Section 6 refers to the important steps taken in the area of public funding. Finally, section 7 contains some general conclusions on the degree of progress achieved.

Section 2 describes and analyses relevant market developments including prospects for the immediate future. Section 3 concentrates on on-going legislative work both of financial and non-financial nature. Section 4 refers to tax issues relevant for risk capital. Section 5 describes developments related to entrepreneurship with special attention to RD issues. Section 6 refers to the important steps taken in the area of public funding. Finally, section 7 contains some general conclusions on the degree of progress achieved.

This section analyses the most relevant of those measures, both financial and non-financial. Tax related measures are discussed in the next section.

This section analyses the most relevant of those measures, both financial and non-financial.

17. Welcomes the Commission's Communication on Kaliningrad (COM(2001) 26 ) and the subsequent discussions on Kaliningrad, not least under the framework of the Action Plan for the Northern Dimension, in the external and cross-border policies of the European Union 2000-2003, which together recognise the "unique part” that Kaliningrad plays in the strategic trilateral relationship between the EU, the applicant countries (notably Poland and Lithuania) and Russia; regrets however that the Council has yet to announce the adoption of more concrete measures, especially with regard to the four priority issues (movement of goods, movement of peop ...[+++]le, environmental protection and energy supplies) and urges the Council to propose early progress on the upgrading of the relevant sections of the Pan-European Transport Corridors I (Gdansk-Kaliningrad-Riga) and IX. B (Kaliningrad-Vilnius-Minsk) as a first step in resolving these issues; notes that Kaliningrad is an important trade crossroads and that practically no action is being taken to modernise the relevant section of Transport corridor 1; stresses that if the Corridor is to be fully modernised to encompass Kaliningrad and ensure efficient international trade and free movement of goods, the EU will have to contribute towards the cost of modernisation;