Member States may encourage investment in research and development in relation to those and other renewable energy technologies that need time to become competitive.

Even though the EMAS scheme is designed for use by organisations of all kinds and sizes, the following specific measures will be taken to facilitate the implementation of the scheme in SMEs in the short and longer term.

8. To this effect, the Member States should support the work of the Expert Group on Emergency Access in defining common European requirements for emergency call routing and handling, handling of emergency calls originating from mobile terminals without SIM, providing adequate language support, and on longer term, handling of VoIP emergency calls and handling emergency calls for people with disabilities.

The major, usually long term, investments required at national and Community level for successful computerisation activities require close co-operation and long term planning.

The major, usually long term, investments required at national and Community level for successful computerisation activities require close co-operation and long term planning.

Whereas it is recognized that technical difficulties in potato breeding require expenditure of research activities for a long period in comparison with the overwhelming majority of all the other agricultural crops; whereas, in addition, experience on the market has shown that a new potato variety reveals its commercial value only in the long term in comparison with those agricultural species requiring also long-term research activities; whereas, for these reasons, an equitable refunding of the research activities is only possible at a fairly late stage of the protection in comparison with the other agricultural crops;