Suggests that the Commission declare a European Year of Energy and Resource Efficiency in order to raise citizens' awareness at all policy levels of more efficient use of resources and to take climate change as an opportunity to hold an intensive debate on the availability and handling of resources; calls on the Commission and the Member States to fight energy poverty as well as to guarantee the development of a water-saving culture and to raise public awareness of water saving through educational programmes; calls on the Commission to look into the possibility of promoting a network of cities to encourage sustainable water use with th ...[+++]e aim of exchanging good practice and jointly carrying out pilot demonstration projects; calls on Member States to provide free energy audits, to enable citizens to reduce their energy consumption and to reduce their emissions;

Typical areas of intervention would include: agriculture and natural resources management; food security and rural/local development (including urban/peri-urban issues); sustainable management of and access to natural resources including forestry and fisheries; nutrition, demographic and labour issues, migrations; food security and health/education (etc.).

The decision also introduces innovative spectrum management approaches, by requiring the application of “intelligent” techniques to protect other radio spectrum users against harmful interference, such as military radar and satellite services.

River basins are considered as the management unit for water resources and each has a "Plan de Cuenca" (Basin Plan), whose main objectives are to achieve a highly satisfactory level of supply in quantity and quality, best possible use of the resources available through savings and more efficient management, the diversification of the resources in its origin and reduced vulnerability of water supply systems.

Just as an example, there are various approaches that the provinces could consider and where the federal government would be of no help: create structures, functions and responsibilities with a view to integrated management of water resources; recognize users of environmental water in order to get them more involved, and be able to identify minimum water requirements of aquatic ecosystems; develop exchanges of information and educational strategies in order to improve the dissemination of information, the results of pilot projects, best practices, case stu ...[+++]dies, and much more; develop environmental impact assessment procedures in order to improve the water resources management knowledge base; and, finally, encourage the public to get involved and give it additional responsibilities and a greater say in the planning and management of water resources.

The Chairman: Page 117 and the preceding pages of the Nisga'a Final Agreement set out the process, and then it comes to the review of the recommendations of the Joint Fisheries Management Committee, which the minister is to take into account. It refers to conservation requirements and the availability of fisheries resources, Nisga'a preferences in respect of methods, timing and locations of harvest throughout the Nass area, utilization of the fisheries resource for the benefit of all Canadians, efficient and effective harvesting of fisheries resources, requirements for integration and efficient management of all fisheries, accepted scien ...[+++]tific procedures for management of fisheries resources, and any other matters that the minister thinks appropriate.