S. whereas IPCC AR4 has, for the first time, collated existing documented wide-ranging impacts of changes in current climate for Europe, such as retreating glaciers, longer growing seasons, shifts of species" ranges and health impacts due to a heatwave of unprecedented magnitude; whereas the observed changes are consistent with those projected for future climate change; whereas, in an overall balance for Europe, nearly all regions will be negatively affected by some future impacts of climate change and these will pose challenges to ...[+++] many socio-economic sectors; whereas climate change is expected to magnify regional differences in Europe's natural resources, e.g. water availability,

The interim report by our Temporary Committee on Climate Change is the first phase in a process that will lead to a search for solutions.

45. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States and having taken account of the various geographical and climatological conditions, the production techniques used and the particular nature of the species farmed, to propose specific sustainable criteria in relation to the well-being of farmed fish, such as maximum levels of farming density, the quantity of vegetable and animal proteins that can be used in feedstuffs on the different types of fish farms, and which take into account the specific factors relating to the farming of individual species, the nutritional requirements of the fish species farmed, the phases in their life cycle ...[+++] and the environmental conditions, and to promote transportation and slaughter practices which limit sources of stress and the changing of water in fish ponds in such a way as to guarantee the well-being of the fish being farmed there; understands that the long-term goal must be to substitute animal proteins with vegetable proteins for all species where it is possible, considering their nutritional needs, and that strategic research into replacements for the essential ingredients should be of highest priority, considering that research into the essential nutrients and how to produce them from alternative sources such as microalgae and yeast would reduce the need for fish meal in the longer term;

Such a revision will consider the opinion expressed in the ERTMS Change Control Management procedure, taking into account the fact that a consolidation phase is necessary for the ERTMS specifications, based on the trial sites and the first implementations

The Commission in its Communication on the implementation of the first phase of the European Climate Change Programme identified promotion of cogeneration as one of the measures needed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector and announced its intention to present a proposal for a Directive on the promotion of cogeneration in 2002.

Anticipating and managing change // Consultation of the social partners on the identification at Community level of best practices on restructuring guided by a long-term vision aimed at developing human capital (First-stage consultation of the social partners under Article 138(2) of the Treaty)