The co-decision procedure ought to be the procedure of choice when the Parliament or the Council adopt fiscal measures affecting the environment. Animal protection ought to be given higher priority in community law and in shaping community policies. Hence, the Treaty ought to be revised to include a common, binding energy policy. Again the benchmark for objectives must be sustainable development. Renewable energies, energy saving schemes and measures for a better use of energy ought to be specially promoted.
Sustainable development is impossible without an agreed policy of land use.
The different conditions prevailing in the European regions call for a coherent policy of land use, taking due account of economic, ecological but also of social effects. What is required is a European space development scheme which serves as a guideline for national policy-making. In particular, the Treaty must provide that member states planning to take measures which affect the territories of other member states are obliged to inform and to consult all the states concerned, and that actions are discussed and agreed. Any future space development scheme of the EU will, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, only relate to measures taken at the European level and to EU policies. Nationally, regionally and locally limited spatial planning measures will remain unaffected, although there is pent-up demand, also at these levels, for coherent, socially, ecologically and economically balanced space development policies.