The Union is committed to the development and implementation of transparency and confidence-building measures, as a means to achieve enhanced space security.

6. Calls for the use of the 40th anniversary of the Helsinki Act in 2015 to confirm and fully implement the norms and principles thereof, to rebuild trust and to start negotiations on an effective cooperative security system in Europe based on the UN Charta and OSCE norms which takes into account the interests of all countries in Europe; underlines the urgent need to resume and pursue conventional arms control and improve the effectiveness of existing confidence- and security-building measures, and enhance transparency mechanisms, modernising them and broadening their scope; ...[+++] calls for the elaboration of new confidence-building and transparency measures with a view to preventing the outbreak of similar conflicts in the future;

5. Looks forward to the quadripartite meeting between the EU High Representative, the US Secretary of State and the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Ukraine, and hopes that this can contribute to reducing tension and paving the way for a comprehensive and lasting diplomatic solution to the crisis; stresses, however, that Ukraine’s future choices can only be made by the Ukrainian people themselves through a democratic, inclusive and transparent process; urges the Kyiv authorities, in this regard, to make every effort to ensure that the presidential elections scheduled for 25 May 2014 are held in full ...[+++]compliance with OSCE standards and welcomes, in this respect, the Commission’s decision to allocate EUR 5 million in aid to support the OSCE election observation mission and election-related confidence-building measures;

At the second meeting I led on behalf of the E3+3 – China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States – in Istanbul, I presented to Iran our proposals for concrete confidence-building measures, including an updated fuel supply arrangement for the Tehran Research Reactor, as well as other transparency measures.

Secondly, on the transparency measures: the Transparency Directive is a major step towards integrated European financial markets that investors and the public can trust.

The EU joint action on small arms and light weapons proposes the adoption of a series of confidence-building measures including measures to promote increased transparency and openness.