1) Reduced contingency fuel procedure, ie contigency fuel 3% of trip fuel instead of 5% with a suitable enroute alternate as specified (don't know the reference to EU-OPS but I'm sure you'll find it in your OM-A and somebody will post all the references). You could also think about decision point procedure planning with an enroute destination, where you need a suitable enroute alternate for your enroute destination.
2) For the above requirements, it must be suitable at planning stage.
EDIT : Woops you mentioned the references, must be still sleeping
