In its Communication to the Council and the European Parliament on a Community Strategy Concerning Mercury the Commission outlined that it is necessary to reduce mercury levels in the environment and human exposure and proposed as objectives, among others, the reduction of entry into circulation of mercury in society by cutting supply and demand, the reduction of mercury emissions and the protection against mercury emissions.

In its Communication to the Council and the European Parliament on a Community Strategy Concerning Mercury the Commission outlined that it is necessary to reduce mercury levels in the environment and human exposure and proposed as objectives, among others, the reduction of entry into circulation of mercury in society, by cutting supply and demand, the reduction of mercury emissions and the protection against mercury emissions.

27. Stresses the need to continue to focus our efforts in completing an open and competitive digital single market in Europe; notes however, that the free movement of digital services is today still severely hindered by fragmented rules at national level and consequently urges all parties to effectively implement the new regulatory framework, boost the digital services market and develop the free circulation of content and knowledge, the 'Fifth freedom';

B. whereas the newly conceived trans-European network of 'Motorways of the Sea', particularly the 'Motorways' in the Baltic, Western Europe, South-East Europe and South-West Europe, should have the aim of concentrating the movement of goods on maritime logistic routes in such a way as to improve existing short sea shipping services or create new, viable, regular and frequent short sea shipping services for the movement of goods and passengers between the Member States, so as to reduce road congestion and improve transport links with peripheral or island regions and States,

Temporary reduction measures: Local speed limits (up to -14 % NOx; -1 % VOC) and local driving bans including non-low emission diesel cars (up to -25 % NOx; up to -28 % VOC) exert only minor effects on peak ozone concentrations, at maximum -4 % for speed limits and -7 % for traffic bans.

E. whereas the Commission in its White Paper on European transport policy highlights the continued existence of bottlenecks, particularly in international corridors in which North-South trans-European traffic is highly concentrated, in natural barriers such as the Alps and the Pyrenees, on the outskirts of major urban and trading centres in which long-distance, regional and local traffic meets and is concentrated, as well as on a number of EU borders, in particular those with the candidate countries,