40. Asks the Commission, in the context of its ongoing negotiations with the UNFCCC, to continue to prepare the ground for an ambitious global climate agreement at the COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009; considers that the preparations should also include the promotion of the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) as a template for emissions trading, with a view to linking other emissions trading systems to the EU ETS in the future and driving a competitive international carbon market; the Commission shall inform Parliament of the progress of these preparations;

37. Asks the Commission, in the context of its ongoing negotiations with the UNFCCC, to continue to prepare the ground for an ambitious global climate agreement at the COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009; considers that the preparations should also include the promotion of the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) as a template for emissions trading, with a view to linking other emissions trading systems to the EU ETS in the future and driving a competitive international carbon market; the Commission shall inform Parliament of the progress of these preparations;

The package we have just approved in the Commission includes the following: an updated Emissions Trading System (ETS) to create a borderless ETS to drive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from big industrial emitters; specific, binding national targets, so that Member States know exactly what they have to do outside the ETS, in sectors like transport, buildings, agriculture and waste; a new approach to actively promote renewable targets, again including binding national targets; new rules to stimulate carbon capture and storage, tomorrow’s technology to cut emissions; and new state aid rules that take into consideration the specificit ...[+++]y of the action needed in this environmental field.

(b)shall confer on the special negotiating body the right to decide, by a majority of two thirds of its members representing at least two thirds of the employees, including the votes of members representing employees in at least two different Member States, not to open negotiations or to terminate negotiations already opened and to rely on the rules on participation in force in the Member State where the registered office of the company resulting from the cross-border merger will be situated.

shall confer on the special negotiating body the right to decide, by a majority of two thirds of its members representing at least two thirds of the employees, including the votes of members representing employees in at least two different Member States, not to open negotiations or to terminate negotiations already opened and to rely on the rules on participation in force in the Member State where the registered office of the company resulting from the cross-border merger will be situated.

(11a) In the European electricity market, operators of nuclear installations will receive unmerited gains due to increased electricity prices when the EU emission trading scheme becomes operational.