base period | baseline period | basis period | reference period

baseline [ scope baseline ]

quota base [ basic quota ]

development baseline review | DBR

height datum for official geodata

Depending on efforts of third countries, a well-functioning carbon pricing system should continue to include mechanisms such as incentivizing cost-effective emission reductions outside Europe and free allowances based on benchmarks to prevent significant risks of carbon leakage.

The regulatory standard on position limits provide regulators with the full set of tools to ensure that food price speculation is curbed.The rules establish a "baseline" and maximum bands of deviation on either side of the baseline, to be set by the competent regulators in line with observed price volatility in the underlying commodity markets.

87. Stresses the need to develop a clear baseline, on the basis of which the Commission is to measure progress towards the (sub-)targets; welcomes in this context the biodiversity baseline developed by the European Environment Agency; welcomes in this regard the work of the European Environment Agency with regard to the Biodiversity Information System (BISE) and the biodiversity baseline, which will provide useful tools to improve and fine-tune biodiversity policy-making, in particular for the strategic plan being developed by the Commission; underlines that existing data should be used rather than insisting on the collection of new d ...[+++]ata;

This recommendation establishes a European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (the Framework) as a reference instrument to help Member States to promote and monitor continuous improvement of their VET systems based on common European references, which builds on and further develops the CQAF.