The standards will consist of the measuring results of the fuel supplier with the best overall performance or the average of the best three suppliers.

29. Calls on the Council and the Commission to pursue with determination the Parliament's recommendations aiming at a common European external policy on energy, in particular by promoting the unity of the EU in negotiations with energy suppliers and transit countries and defending its interests as a whole, developing efficient energy diplomacy, adopting more effective mechanisms for responding to crisis situations and ensuring the diversification of energy suppliers; recalls the need to adopt a strategy to this end accompanied by the necessary instruments to carry it out; calls for special attention to be paid to building the necessary ...[+++] interconnections which are missing, particularly in the eastern part of Europe;

22. Calls on the Council to pursue with determination the EP recommendations concerned with adopting a common European external policy on energy in particular by promoting EU unity in negotiations with energy suppliers and transit countries and defending EU interests as a whole, developing efficient energy diplomacy, adopting more effective mechanisms for responding to crises, and ensuring the diversification of energy suppliers; recalls the need to adopt a strategy to this end accompanied by the necessary instruments to carry it out; calls for special attention to be paid to building the necessary interconnections which are missing, p ...[+++]articularly in the eastern part of Europe;

29. Calls on the Council and the Commission to pursue with determination the EP recommendations aiming at a common European external policy on energy, in particular by promoting EU unity in negotiations with energy suppliers and transit countries and defending EU interests as a whole, developing efficient energy diplomacy, adopting more effective mechanisms for responding to crisis situations and ensuring the diversification of energy suppliers; recalls the need to adopt a strategy to this end accompanied by the necessary instruments to carry it out; calls for special attention to be paid to building the necessary interconnections whic ...[+++]h are missing, particularly in the eastern part of Europe;

One, ensure a procurement process founded on fairness, transparency, accountability, fair market value for the customer, and fair market return for the supplier, and where the customer gets what it needs to meet its mandated mission requirements (1110) Two, we believe the defence procurement should be based on performance indicators, i.e., where the customer is focused on the desired end result that meets operational requirements and not on prescribed requirements.

While governments in the USA and Japan are investing huge resources in meeting this scientific and engineering challenge, the report warns that Europe is "totally absent" as a supplier even of its own market for high- performance computing, estimated at up to 30% of the world market.