Secure energy supplies depend not only on the availability of reserves, but also on such factors as the capacity of countries to provide adequate quantities, the willingness of third countries to permit transit, the technical and financial resources to create and maintain transit routes and an international framework which creates stable trading conditions.

24. Appreciates the constructive approach of the Serbian Government to relations with neighbouring countries, since this has enabled substantial progress in both regional cooperation and closer relations with the EU, and urges Serbia to continue to build on its good-neighbourly relations; calls on Serbia to promote good-neighbourly relations and the peaceful settlement of disputes, which includes promoting a climate of tolerance and condemning all forms of hate speech or war-time rhetoric and refraining from gestures such as publicly welcoming the return of individuals convicted of war crimes; notes that outstanding disputes and issues, in particular issues of border demarcation, succession, return of cultural goods and disclosure of Yugo ...[+++]slavian archives should be resolved in line with international law and established principles, including through implementation of legally binding agreements, inter alia the agreement on succession issues, and that bilateral disputes should be addressed in the early stages of the accession process in accordance with international law; highlights Serbia’s constructive role in the framework of the ‘Berlin Process’ and the Western Balkan Six initiative and its connectivity agenda; welcomes other initiatives focused on the future of the Western Balkans, in particular the Brdo Process, which proves to be an important framework for cooperation in both political and technical fields, and takes the view that concrete cooperation in areas of mutual interest can contribute to the stabilisation of the Western Balkans; welcomes, in this respect, the first Serbia – Bosnia and Herzegovina joint ministerial meeting, which took place on 4 November 2015 in Sarajevo; calls on Serbia to further promote the stabilisation and institutional strengthening of Bosnia and Herzegovina through its existing contacts and good-neighbourly relations with the country; reiterates its call on the Serbian authorities to initiate further measures for cross-borde ...

(1) For the purposes of this Agreement, the amount of Net Profit derived by the Province, including agencies of the Province, from the disposition of Natural Gas underlying the Reserve shall be determined separately in respect of each Production Month, in accordance with the steps set forth in this paragraph 7, but for the purposes of making the calculations under each of the steps it is agreed that whenever Subject Gas is intermingled with Other Gas (that is, Natural Gas which is not Subject Gas) the Subject Gas shall for all such pu ...[+++]rposes be deemed to be apportioned among each of the Domestic Utilities and the Foreign Utility in the same proportions as deemed for the purposes of calculating the volume of British Columbia-produced gas sold and delivered under Licence GL-41, (as amended from time to time) issued by the National Energy Board (herein called the “NEB”) and for the settling of accounts between Westcoast and the Petroleum Corporation pursuant to either the Basic Agreement as amended from time to time or the directions of the NEB.

E. whereas it is important for the EU to give priority to securing and developing internal fossil fuel sources, especially the significant reserves recently discovered in the Mediterranean Sea, which would reduce European dependence on energy imports; whereas there are substantial opportunities for co-development and co-exploitation of fossil fuel sources with countries neighbouring the EU;