Traduction de «CF 339C - Articles approchant leur limite de vie » (Français → Anglais) :

30. Takes note of the Commission's intention to establish an EU 'skills audit' every two years; considers, however, that the development of skills and competences throughout the lifecycle is best served by a rights-based approach to active labour market policies and lifelong learning, comprehensive health and safety at work, universal and equal social and workers' rights for everyone, a work/life balance and reconciliation of work and non-work life ...[+++], improving the quality of employment and well-being at work instead of a narrow approach of 'boosting labour mobility' and promoting flexicurity; insists that the skills and jobs agenda must be closely linked to robust supply and demand side measures to promote a green and social economy and respective industrial and regional policies for sustainable development, rather than a mere strategy of 'anticipating change';

1. Stresses that the Member States should increase the number of affordable housing options and support women in achieving financial independence by providing them with conditions more conducive to reconciling work and family life, bearing in mind their pressing daily schedules and challenges; expresses its concern about country-specific recommendations aimed at limiting Member States’ social housing sectors and about the Commission’s restrictive approach in compet ...[+++]ition policy of limiting the definition of social services of general interest to social housing for socially disadvantaged persons only;

21. Welcomes the fact that the Commission is considering ‘privacy by design’ and recommends that any concrete implementation thereof be based on the existing EU model of the New Approach and the New Legislative Framework with respect to goods, in order to ensure free movement of products and services conforming to harmonised privacy and data protection requirements; highlights the need for any implementation thereof to be based on sound and concrete criteria and definitions in order to ensure users’ right to privacy and data protecti ...[+++]on, legal certainty, transparency, a level playing field and free movement; believes that ‘privacy by design’ should be based on the principle of data minimisation, meaning that all products, services and systems should be built in such a way as to collect, use and transmit only the personal data absolutely necessary for them to function;

The development in procurement legislation towards a cost-effectiveness approach, such as life-cycle costing, has been generalised in the proposal of the Commission of 20th December 2011 for a revision of the existing Directives on public procurement[9], in particular in Article 66 on contract award criteria and Article 67 on life-cycle costing.

There is support for a more interventionist approach, including tight restrictions on energy-hungry appliances/vehicles and practices and public awareness raising of the effects of behavioural choices today on quality of life in the future.

Whereas the study carried out by the Commission demonstrates that it is possible to reduce the maximum methyl alcohol content to levels similar to those laid down for fruit spirits in Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89 although such a reduction would be difficult, particularly for small distilleries which do not have adequate technical and financial resources to comply quickly with a maximum limit fixed at a lower level; whereas it would be advisable for health reasons to reduce the methyl alcohol content of all fruit spirits to the lowest possible levels; whereas it is therefore proposed to introduce gradually and in stages a new maximum lim ...[+++]it for the methyl alcohol content of the fruit spirits listed in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1014/90;