12. Calls for the potential savings identified by the Joint Bureau and Committee on Budgets Working Group to be explored further in order to generate substantial organisational savings, such as the scope for interinstitutional cooperation arrangements between the Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, which reflects the will to strengthen the institutional, political and legislative role of the Parliament and the two advisory Committees; notes that restructuring the Committees’ Translation Service should improve their respective political core work and strengthen the new Research Service ...[+++] for Members; emphasises that according to this organisational reform, the Parliament can become the standard provider for the interpretation of these two Committees; supports the idea of offering interpretation capacities to other institutions during off-peak times;

11. Calls for the potential savings identified by the Joint Bureau and Committee on Budgets Working Group to be explored further in order to generate substantial organisational savings, such as the scope for interinstitutional cooperation arrangements between the Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, which reflects the will to strengthen the institutional, political and legislative role of the Parliament and the two advisory Committees; notes that restructuring the Committees’ Translation Service should improve their respective political core work and strengthen the new Research Service ...[+++] for Members; emphasises that according to this organisational reform, the Parliament can become the standard provider for the interpretation of these two Committees; supports the idea of offering interpretation capacities to other institutions during off-peak times;

a first strand, covering in particular paragraphs 1 to 8 of Article 23, whereby the Commission may request a Member State to reprogramme part of its funding when this is justified by the economic and employment challenges identified under various economic governance procedures; and

6. Highlights the importance of the EU’s energy policy amidst the economic and financial crisis; emphasises the role that energy plays in spurring growth and economic competitiveness and creating jobs in the EU; calls on the Commission to propose post-2020 strategies and to present, as soon as possible, a 2030 policy framework for a EU energy policy; believes that this policy framework should be consistent with the EU’s 2050 decarbonisation agenda and that it should take into account the ‘no regrets’ options identified in the Roadmap; calls for action to be taken to minimise the energy sector’s negative impact on the environment, whi ...[+++]le taking into account the effects of the action taken on the competitiveness of national economies and the EU economy, as well as on the citizens’ security of energy supply;

6. Highlights the importance of the EU’s energy policy amidst the economic and financial crisis; emphasises the role that energy plays in spurring growth and economic competitiveness and creating jobs in the EU; calls on the Commission to propose post-2020 strategies and to present, as soon as possible, a 2030 policy framework for a EU energy policy; believes that this policy framework should be consistent with the EU’s 2050 decarbonisation agenda and that it should take into account the ‘no regrets’ options identified in the Roadmap; calls for action to be taken to minimise the energy sector’s negative impact on the environment, whi ...[+++]le taking into account the effects of the action taken on the competitiveness of national economies and the EU economy, as well as on the citizens’ security of energy supply;

1. WELCOMES the Commission's 2002 Review of the Internal Market Strategy which sets out the measures which are deemed necessary over the next 18 months to improve the proper operation of the internal market by addressing the shortcomings identified by successive Cardiff reports, so that it can contribute fully to making the European Union the most dynamic and competitive economy in the world by 2010;