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2. Believes that while co-regulation and self-regulation cannot be substitutes for appropriate sectoral regulation where such is needed, for instance with regard to social and environmental requirements, labour and employment practices, human rights, or in any of the areas covered by CSR, it could underpin existing private and voluntary CSR initiatives by establishing minimum principles, thereby ensuring consistency, materiality, multi-stakeholder input and transparency, and by facilitating the creation of environmental and social rating agencies specialised in CSR; stresses that any form of CSR based on self-regulation and self-organisation of the market must include provision for ‘access to remedy’ in line with ‘pillar three’ of the Unit ...[+++]ed Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; notes, at the same time, that public administrations should provide support by creating appropriate conditions – and providing appropriate tools and instruments, such as an incentive system – for CSR cooperation; believes that the philanthropic activities of businesses should, as a matter of principle, be voluntary;

20. Calls in the preparation of the future cohesion policy post 2013 for a strong EU-wide cohesion policy that streamlines existing funds and programmes that should ensure adequate financial resources and align the policy with the objectives of Europe 2020 Strategy; believes that funds should be focused on meeting the challenge of economic restructuring making the shift to a sustainable and competitive economy, including existing programmes aimed at globalisation, education, vocational training etc. to combat unemployment and reducing social inequalities; is strongly opposed to any renationalisation; furthermore, calls for proposals to improve the absorption capacity through innovation investment and facilitating access to finance for SM ...[+++]Es; asks in this context the Commission to consider a new system, for instance called JERICHO (‘Joint Rural Investment CHOice’), for the Rural Development Fund which, based on the experience from the JEREMIE initiative, could provide SMEs with finance in rural areas where the market fails; believes that simplification, better application of the partnership principle and multi-level governance would improve absorption rate;

(i) monitoring the level and effectiveness of market opening and competition at wholesale and retail levels, including on natural gas exchanges, prices for household customers including prepayment systems, switching rates, disconnection rates, charges for and the execution ofmaintenance services and complaints by household customers, as well as any distortion or restriction of competition, including providing any relevant information, and bringing any relevant cases to the relevant competition authorities;

(i) monitoring the level and effectiveness of market opening and competition at wholesale and retail levels, including on electricity exchanges, prices for household customers including prepayment systems, switching rates, disconnection rates, charges for and the execution of maintenance services, and complaints by household customers, as well as any distortion or restriction of competition, including providing any relevant information, and bringing any relevant cases to the relevant competition authorities;

All the changes mentioned have the effect of reducing the tax burden on higher income earners, while the tax burden is increasing at the opposite end of the income scale. This result is the effect of lowering corporation tax, cutting top income tax rates and switching to a dual income tax system, and of the general shift of emphasis from direct to indirect taxation.

However, I agree with dozens of witnesses who reiterated that without the agreement of all the other provinces at the same time, the result of tax inclusive pricing is a network of multi-rate, partly harmonized systems.