However, what I cannot understand is there are over 120,000 direct and indirect jobs associated with the oil sands across the country and I do not know why the member would be opposing that important part of our economy.

The National Energy Efficiency Action Plans shall provide information on measures adopted or planned to be adopted in view of implementing the main elements of this Directive and on their related savings.

The evaluation of the INSPIRE Directive confirms that the overall relevance of the Directive to meeting policy needs in an efficient manner remains high, and is expected to increase with time, given the drive towards a digital economy as set out by the Digital Single Market strategy which includes important elements of the Directive.

In respect of the transportation sector, the automotive industry itself, including supply chainers, is critical to our economy, representing over $44 billion in gross domestic product and well over 400,00 direct jobs.

However, you need to understand very clearly the elements that make up that national economy and you can only do that if you get out and talk to people who involved in it.

No other bilateral or multilateral official development assistance budget had been increased by so much in recent years (e.g. the outcome of the latest discussions on the ninth three- yearly replenishment of IDA resources. Official development assistance and private investment Oda was, of course, an essential factor in the development of the ACP countries. Nevertheless, it was a relatively minor component. Development necessarily meant the creation of a self-supporting economy, to which the private sector had an essential contribution to make. The challenge the ACP countries were facing, against the background of changes in the inte ...[+++]rnational economic scene, was the need to attract productive investment in spite of growing worldwide competitiveness. The ACP countries's debt to the Community Mr Marin personally undertook to make a more de tailed examination of the problem of ACP indebtedness towards the Community. The Commission now possessed the basic data relating to the problem and would soon be able to put forward a proposal aimed at wiping out the debt recycling funds under Lomé IV. Implementation of the Lomé Convention The capacity to absorb aid presented a very real problem. No more than about 19% of the sum available under Lomé III had actually been paid out (while 76% had been committed).