I should like to ask a specific question: how do you rate the plans already under way to decontaminate the Mediterranean and for energy transfer, how do they fit in with maritime policy and what added value do you expect the new policy plans and programmes which you mentioned to have?

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13. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to support, through development cooperation and the Energy Facility, the transfer of technologies, including technical knowledge, information, and good practices, appropriate for the delivery of modern energy services to poor people, between partner countries in the South and between Europe and the South, devoted to capacity development, including twinning, staff exchange and practical training, in order to assess and absorb technological options; encourages also the transfer of energy efficiency technology in this regard to enable energy to be used in the most productive way, so as to ...[+++] maximise the energy services that a given amount of energy can offer;

13. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to support, through development cooperation and the Energy Facility, the transfer of technologies, including technical knowledge, information, and good practices, appropriate for the delivery of modern energy services to poor people, between partner countries in the South and between Europe and the South, devoted to capacity development, including twinning, staff exchange and practical training, in order to assess and absorb technological options; encourages also the transfer of energy efficiency technology in this regard to enable energy to be used in the most productive way, so as to ...[+++] maximise the energy services that a given amount of energy can offer;

Encouraging and increasing modal shift and decongesting transport corridors: development of sustainable innovative, intermodal and interoperable regional and national transport and logistics networks, infrastructures and systems in Europe; cost internalisation; information exchange between vehicle/vessel and transport infrastructure; optimisation of infrastructure capacity; modal shift strategies to encourage energy efficient means of transport.

20. Calls on the Commission substantially to increase Community expenditure on research and development in the energy sector and to give primary importance to energy efficiency and renewable energy; underlines in this context the importance of strengthening networks between energy research institutions in the EU and the developing countries; stresses the significance of know-how transfer, which goes beyond technology transfer as such and includes both training and the generation of expertise;