While their scope extends beyond that of the Youth on the Move initiative, existing EU programmes such as the Lifelong Learning, Erasmus Mundus and Youth in Action programmes clearly have an important contribution to make towards achieving the aims of this initiative, as well as those of the ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’ in general.

In Serbia, despite the victory of democratic forces in the parliamentary elections and the formation of a reform-oriented government, extremist parties and nationalist rhetoric remain strong and affect negatively the overall political climate.

However, in order to focus the authorities' action on significant movements of cash, only those movements of EUR 10 000 or more should be subject to such an obligation.

International action through the IMO is the best way to regulate the environmental performance of ships of all flags, wherever they travel on the world's seas. It is also the most effective way to reduce emissions from vessels flagged outside the EU which travel in EU seas but which do not stop at EU ports. The Commission's study of year 2000 ship movements suggests that transit traffic represents around 50% of the ship movements in EU waters, and that ships flagged outside the EU are responsible for 50% of emissions.

Any action to allow the movement of interoperable trains on other infrastructures or the movement of non-interoperable trains on interoperable infrastructures shall ensure that free competition between suppliers is not prejudiced.

It may be a friction brake (when the forces are generated by the friction between two parts of the vehicle moving relatively to one another) ; an electrical brake (when the forces are generated by electromagnetic action between two parts of the vehicle moving relatively to but not in contact with one another) ; a fluid brake (when the forces are generated by the action of a fluid situated between two parts of the vehicle moving relatively to one another) ; or an engine brake (when the forces are derived from a controlled increase in the braking action of the engine transmitted to the wheels).