The audit focused on the infrastructures exclusively dedicated to domestic water supply co-financed by the Cohesion Fund and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and completed during the 2000‑2006 programme period in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy, which are the major recipients of funding in this area.

32. Underscores the importance of promoting energy efficiency measures, investing in renewable energy sources and ensuring that environmental concerns are catered for; recognises that generating diversity of supply is vital and can only be attained through enhanced cooperation with neighbouring states; takes the view that the Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus should be adequately funded and supported so that credible cross-border projects can also be run; considers the plans announced by Azerbaijan to make the development of alternative energy sources a government priority to be praiseworthy and encourages the pursuit of ...[+++]such objectives; welcomes the decision of Armenia to decommission the nuclear plant in Medzamor and encourages the Armenian authorities to seek viable alternative solutions for energy supplies, as requested by the EU; welcomes the efforts of the Georgian government to develop the hydropower sector and underlines the need for EU support in that regard;

31. Underscores the importance of promoting energy efficiency measures, investing in renewable energy sources and ensuring that environmental concerns are catered for; recognises that generating diversity of supply is vital and can only be attained through enhanced cooperation with neighbouring states; takes the view that the Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus should be adequately funded and supported so that credible cross-border projects can also be run; considers the plans announced by Azerbaijan to make the development of alternative energy sources a government priority to be praiseworthy and encourages the pursuit of ...[+++]such objectives; welcomes the decision of Armenia to decommission the nuclear plant in Medzamor and encourages the Armenian authorities to seek viable alternative solutions for energy supplies, as requested by the EU; welcomes the efforts of the Georgian government to develop the hydropower sector and underlines the need for EU support in that regard;

31. Underscores the importance of promoting energy efficiency measures, investing in renewable energy sources and ensuring that environmental concerns are catered for; recognises that generating diversity of supply is vital and can only be attained through enhanced cooperation with neighbouring states; takes the view that the Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus should be adequately funded and supported so that credible cross-border projects can also be run; considers the plans announced by Azerbaijan to make the development of alternative energy sources a government priority to be praiseworthy and encourages the pursuit of ...[+++]such objectives; welcomes the decision of Armenia to decommission the nuclear plant in Medzamor and encourages the Armenian authorities to seek viable alternative solutions for energy supplies, as requested by the EU; welcomes the efforts of the Georgian government to develop the hydropower sector and underlines the need for EU support in that regard;

- Subprogramme No 2 Support infrastructures for economic activities covers assistance for water supplies to urban areas, equipment for vocational training centres (including that for sailors at Villagarcia de Arose) and for university-level technical education (highway engineering at La Coruña, agronomy at Lugo, data-processing at La Coruña, food technology polytechnic at Orense and the faculty of maritime sciences at Vigo-Pontevedra), the provision of health centres (65 throughout the region and the improvement o ...[+++]f a number of ospitals (including those at Verin and Vigo) and rural electrification and rationalization of the electricity supply network (construction of a high-tension link from Meson to the Portuguese border via Castrelo).

As we look ahead to the renewal of that contract and to other federal initiatives in the North, including a new training base in Resolute Bay, a naval fuelling facility in Nanisivik and even the High Arctic research centre in your region, do you see the federal government continuing to be sensitive to their procurement obligations under the Inuit land claims agreements — the preference that you spoke of that has led to such successes?