Member States may decide not to apply those provisions to integrated electricity undertakings which operate a distribution grid to which less than 150 000 consumers are connected and where an undertaking is majority-owned and directly operated by a local authority or a body subject to its control or by a local independent private integrated electricity undertaking or by a community-owned integrated electricity undertaking.

c) Legal persons governed by private law which are owned by legal persons governed by public law, by local authorities of any level, including the Greek Central Association of Local Authorities (Κ.Ε.Δ.Κ.Ε.), by local associations of "communes", (local administrative areas) or by public entreprises or entities, or by legal persons as referred to in b) or which regularly receive at least 50 % of their annual budget in the form of subsidies from such legal persons, pursuant to the applicable rules or to their own articles of association, or legal persons as referred to above which have a capital holding of at least 51 % in such legal person ...[+++]s governed by public law.

Is it to be citizenship in the way that we traditionally understand it, with rights which characterise in a specific way the people belonging to a given community?

European citizenship is a new concept of citizenship, no longer based exclusively on a feeling of belonging to a national community but now also involving one of belonging – for reasons of nationality or simply of residence – to a larger community of states, as well as adherence to the values shared by that community.

The programme is building on a strong local sense of community by promoting a citizen's forum, enabling locals to deal with local problems on a self-help basis, as well as promoting their social and political inclusion in the wider community.

Anti-social behaviour undermines the sense of security and responsibility that is needed for people to participate in their community.