For the duration of the Agreement, the Commission and the other Community institutions, as well as central government authorities within the meaning of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts , shall, without prejudice to Community and national law and economic criteria, specify energy-efficiency require ...[+++]ments not less demanding than the Common Specifications for public supply contracts having a value equal to or greater than the thresholds laid down in Article 7 of that Directive.

Improved public procurement practices can help foster market uptake of innovative products and services, while raising the quality of public services in markets where the public sector is a significant purchaser.

Subject to Title IV of part two of this Regulation, the Directives of the European Parliament and of the Council on the coordination of procedures for the award of public supply, service and works contracts shall lay down the thresholds which determine:

Some of the proposals put forward in the White Paper relate to the conditions under which non-Community countries may gain access to some of the advantages offered by the internal market: Article 7 of the second banking Directive (amended in April 1989), investment services, freedom to provide life insurance services, public procurement in the excluded sectors, tests and certificates.

Annex List of individual studies Impact on Manufacturing Food, drink tobacco processing machinery Pharmaceutical products Textiles Clothing Construction site equipment Chemicals Motor Vehicles Processed Foodstuffs Telecommunications equipment Impact on Services Insurance Air Transport Credit Institutions and Banking Distribution Road Freight Transport Telecommunications liberalised services Advertising services Audio-visual services and production Single Information market Single Energy market Transport networks Dismantling of Barriers Technical barriers to trade Public procureme ...[+++]nt Customs and fiscal formalities at frontiers Industrial property protection Capital market liberalisation Currency management costs Impact on Trade and Investment Foreign direct investment Trade patterns inside the Single Market Trade creation and trade diversion External access to European Markets Impact on Competition and Scale Effects Price competition and convergence Competition issues Economies of Scale Intangible Investments Aggregate Regional Impact Regional growth and convergence The cases of Greece, Spain, Ireland and Portugal Trade, labour and capital flows: the less developed regions Employment, trade and labour costs in manufacturing Aggregate results of the Single Market programme (CGE Modelling) Business Survey ***

Ensure citizens' access through universal service in the respective markets This will require consultation on both the scope and the means of providing universal service, especially with regard to its financing, whilst ensuring that the development of networks and the provision of services can be carried out without undue burden on any actors Open up markets to allow the development of global systems This is to be accomplished by pursuing liberalisation of services, infrastructure, equipment procurement and investment, within an appro ...[+++]priate framework.