C. whereas the Authority should be considered in the context of its legal transition from its predecessor, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), a French association, and as a result, apart from its new mandate, it has taken over all existing and ongoing tasks and responsibilities from the CESR (all assets, liabilities and all pending operation of CESR were automatically transferred to the newly created Authority ...[+++]),

25. Stresses that improved energy efficiency and energy savings will play an essential role in the transformation of the energy system, and that meeting the 2020 objectives is a prerequisite for making further progress up to 2050; recommends, in this respect, that the Member States step up their efforts to fully implement the recently adopted Energy Efficiency Directive, and recommends that awareness-raising campaigns and energy efficiency be integrated into national educational curricula in the Member States; recommends that the Member States and the Commission do more to include national ideas and involve national development banks and to support exchanges of best practice; recalls that energy efficiency, if properly implemented, is a ...[+++]cost-effective way for the EU to achieve its long-term goals as regards energy savings, climate change, and economic and energy security; recognises that shifting to a more energy-efficient economy can accelerate the spread of innovative technological solutions, decrease fossil fuel imports and improve the competitiveness and growth of industry in the Union; believes that the move towards a better energy-efficiency policy should focus on the whole energy supply and demand chain, including transformation, transmission, distribution and supply, alongside industrial, building and household consumption; stresses that the EU’s long-term energy-efficiency policy should take the reduction of energy use in buildings as a central element, given that existing building renovation represents enormous energy saving potential; stresses that the current rate and quality of building renovation needs to be substantially scaled up in order to allow the EU to significantly reduce the energy consumption of the existing building stock by 80 %, relative to 2010 levels, by 2050; calls, in this regard, on the Member States to adopt ambitious, long-term building renovation strategies as required by the Energy Efficiency Directive;

In view of those elements and of the already existing procedural structures with regard to transit of commodities from and bound for Russia, the transit of eggs and egg products from Belarus through Lithuania to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad by rail or road should continue to be permitted, provided that identical conditions to those already laid down in Article 18(1) of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 for other commodities are complied with.

The characteristics justifying the application for the recognition of ‘Carciofo Spinoso di Sardegna’ as a PDO and which differentiate it from other products of the same product type are: its limited astringency, pleasant flavour, resulting from the balanced blend of bitter and sweet notes, the tenderness of its flesh encouraging its consumption uncooked, high content of nutrients of significance in cleansing the organism (stimulating diuresis, removing toxins from the liver and lowering cholesterol levels in the blood), significant carbohydrate content, coupled with mineral salts, iron, potassium, phosphorous and various types of vitamin ...[+++]s, especially A group vitamins.

In this context, the new 'democracy clause' (Article 2 of the Agreement) must be seen as an essential element of the new partnership between Morocco and the EU, as well as a key instrument for promoting human rights and making further progress in Morocco's transition to pluralist democracy.

The EDI transit declaration is based upon the particulars entered into the Convention of 20 May 1987 on simplification of formalities in trade in goods and corresponding to the different boxes of the Single Administrative Document (SAD) as defined in the present Annex and Annex B1, in association with or replaced by a code if appropriate.