Summary code: Internal market / Businesses in the internal market / Public procurement / Dematerialisation of public procurement markets Information society / Digital Strategy, i2010 Strategy, eEurope Action Plan, Digital Strategy Programmes / i2010 Strategy and eEurope Action plans / eEurope 2005

The purpose of this Action Plan is to mobilise the general public, policy-makers and market actors, and to transform the internal energy market in a way that provides EU citizens with the most energy-efficient infrastructure (including buildings), products (including appliances and cars), and energy systems in the world.

There is, however, one point to which allusion has already been made and which it is important to underline from the outset. We have an internal market concept, we have the Lisbon and Gothenburg strategies, we have European competition policy, we have the Financial Services Action Plan and the Risk Capital Action Plan, we have Article 2, which obliges Member States to pursue a course of economic policy coordination, we have the Stability and Growth Pact, we have the euro, we have EU enlargement and hence the expansion of the internal market into a home market, and we have the eco-social market ec ...[+++]onomy as our model of economic governance, which means competitiveness within a free market, promoting social cohesion while being mindful of its responsibility towards nature and people.

12. Calls upon the European Council to ensure that all Councils, and not just the Competitiveness Council, address competitiveness across a broad front, notably by completing the existing internal market, developing the internal market for services, completing the risk capital market by the end of 2003 and the Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP) by the end of 2005, and transposing legislation to improve the performance of the telecommunications, energy and transport markets; underlines the importance of seeking political assurance at the highest level that Parliament's legislative rights to re ...[+++]view implementing legislation (level II) will be upheld within the framework of the implementation of the FSAP;

12. Considers innovation-oriented modernization of the European economy to be a key to higher employment: welcomes, therefore, the internal market action plan to improve the efficiency and workability of the single European market, but calls for all spheres of activity to be translated into practical terms and to be subject to a timetable,

9. Considers innovation-oriented modernization of the European economy to be a key to higher employment; welcomes, therefore, the internal market action plan to improve the efficiency and workability of the single European market, but calls for all spheres of activity to be translated into practical terms and made subject to a timetable;