(6) In particular, the creation of physical connections and increased cooperation and coordination among transmission system operators are required to ensure progressive compatibility of the technical and commercial codes for providing and managing effective and transparent access to the transmission networks across borders, ║ to ensure coordinated and sufficiently forward-looking planning and sound technical evolution of the transmission system in the Community, with due regard to the environment, and to promote energy efficiency and ...[+++] research and innovation, in particular as regards the penetration of energy from renewable sources and the dissemination of low carbon technology.

(6) In particular, the creation of physical connections and increased cooperation and coordination among transmission system operators are required to ensure progressive compatibility of the technical and commercial codes for providing and managing effective and transparent access to the transmission networks across borders, and to ensure coordinated and sufficiently forward looking planning and sound technical evolution of the transmission system in the Community, with due regard to the environment, and promote energy efficiency and ...[+++]research and innovation notably with respect to ensuring penetration of renewables and dissemination of low carbon technology.

Such a study would be eligible for TEN-E funding according the guidelines in force, in particular under the “Baltic Electricity Ring” (annex II.4) and “4.16 Connections for the Baltic Electricity Ring” (annex III.4).

3. To continue and extend activities to encourage support for networking and advisory services with a European dimension, such as the help-desk on innovation financing (LIFT), activities to facilitate interfacing at European level between researchers, industry and investors, the existing network of regions of excellence for the creation of enterprises, new networks of European universities and public research centres to promote knowledge diffusion and best practices in technology transfer, and development of a European electronic dire ...[+++]ctory of innovative start-ups (see Objective 3: Encourage the creation and growth of innovative enterprises, and Objective 4: Improve key interfaces in the innovation system).

The RAXEN network will be an instrument for collecting and collating data and statistics from the national level to a central unit, and on this basis will develop a database for conducting research at European level, disseminating information and implementing a transfer of knowledge.

(14) Moreover in order to allow the monitoring of interconnection obligations under competition law, the cost accounting system implemented with regard to the provision of voice telephony and public telecommunications networks should, during the time period necessary to allow for effective market entry, clearly identify the cost elements relevant for pricing interconnection offerings and, in particular for each element of the interconnection offered, identify the basis for that cost element, in order to ensure in particular that this pricing includes only elements which are relevant, namely the initial connection charge, conveyance charg ...[+++]es, the share of the costs incurred in providing equal access and number-portability and of ensuring essential requirements and, where applicable, supplementary charges aimed to share the net cost of universal service, and provisionally, imbalances in voice telephony tariffs. Such cost accounting should also make it possible to identify when a telecommunications organization charges its major users less than providers of voice telephony networks.