In practice, a joint mission of different EU services should be swiftly deployed in the early stages of a transition, to assess the needs and tailor a response to the specific situation.

60. Welcomes the EU 2020 flagship initiative on a resource efficient Europe and urges the Commission to continue its work on formulating concrete policies to ensure a switch to a resource efficient, low-carbon economy; calls on the Commission to develop concrete benchmarks and binding targets that can be monitored within the framework of the EU2020 European Semester of policy coordination;

[Translation] First, in terms of implementing the values and principles that underlie the agreement between the voluntary and community sector and the Government of Canada, we call for adherence to two codes: one respecting funding which calls on the government to develop and implement smart, effective and dependable funding mechanisms for the sector, as well as relevant and appropriate reporting measures; fulfilment of the commitments made in the Code of Good Practice on Policy Dialogue that encourage the involvement of voluntary sector organizations in public policy dialogue; ongoing support of sector employees through the support of ...[+++] the Human Resources Council and the Canada Volunteerism Initiative.

14. Urges the Member States to regularly review the availability of personnel for civilian ESDP missions and to bring their competent national authorities together in order to set up national action plans with regard to possible contributions, as is the case in Finland, including the creation of procedures to secure the career prospects of participants in such missions and appropriate consideration of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) concerning the representation of women in mechanisms for the prevention, management and resolution of conflict; further urges that specific training be devised with regard to the protection of chi ...[+++]ldren, in line with the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflict;

Mr. Speaker, we have closely consulted with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. We were able to craft, build and design a new building Canada program, $33 billion, to help municipalities and to work with the provinces in terms of developing new programs and fixing projects.

The Commission helped to establish a Technology Platform for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, bringing together industry, public authorities and the research community to devise an Action Plan, which outlines the concrete steps and measures required to move towards a hydrogen economy.