Should future balances between supply and demand remain precarious, incentives for oil consumers in developed countries to decrease the oil intensity of their economies will doubtless continue. Presumably, similar developments will emerge in the large oil-consuming developing economies.
In addition, a proposal for a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms has been adopted; this is even more essential, as only a system that allows an orderly restructuring of SIFIs will impose the necessary market discipline on them.