2. The Commission shall, in cooperation with the Member States, conduct studies on saving energy in the use of spectrum in order to contribute to a low-carbon policy, and shall consider making spectrum available for wireless technologies with a potential for improving energy saving and efficiency of other distribution networks such as water supply, including smart energy grids and smart metering systems.

Optimising synergies between spectrum policy and RD activities and carrying out studies of radio compatibility between different spectrum users should help innovation.

Services which rely on the EU’s radio spectrum represent 2% to 2.5 % of annual European gross domestic product, i.e. more than € 250 billion according to an EU study.

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should create a national strategy for autism spectrum disorder that would include: (a) the establishment, in cooperation with provincial governments, of national standards for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder and the delivery of related services; (b) the study, in cooperation with provincial governments, of the funding arrangements for the care of those with autism spectrum disorder, including the possibility of transferring federal funds to assist provincial governments to provide no-cost treatment, education, professional training and other required supports for Canadians with ...[+++] autism spectrum disorder without unreasonable wait times; (c) the creation of a national surveillance program for autism spectrum disorder to be managed by the Public Health Agency of Canada; and (d) the provision of funding for health research into treatments for autism spectrum disorder.

A 1991 study by Friis-Christiansen and Lassen and similar studies found a correlation between solar cycle length and global temperatures, suggesting that fluctuations in solar radiation levels, not greenhouse gas emissions, were the controlling factor in climate changes over the last 100 years.

----------------- (1) COM (88) 388 - 2 - Energy derived from fossil sources - Oil and natural gas (oil exploitation and recovery techniques, conversion of gas into solid fuel, etc.) - Solid fuel (fluidized bed combustion, coals gasification, new burners, etc.) Renewable sources of energy - Wind energy (large-scale wind energy installations of the order of megawatts, wind measuremments and models) - Photovoltaic solar energy (chrystalline and amorphous silicon technology) - Hydroelectric energy (small power plants, study of the potential of energy from the sea and wave energy) - Biomass (production and storage of energy crops, biological ...[+++]and thermal conversion, etc.) - Geothermal energy (hot dry rocks, study of deep geology, etc.). The framework programme for Community projects in technological research and development (1987-1991) keeps the need to continue and update RD measures taken in the field of energy since 1975.