Traduction de «Commission pour la rénovation de l'école de base » (Français → Anglais) :

29. Calls on the Commission to assess the potential for efficiency in existing buildings starting with public administration buildings including schools and propose a cost-efficient target for the reduction of the primary energy consumption of buildings; calls on the Member States to implement practicable programmes to support deep renovations by which the energy demand will initially be reduced by more than 50% over pre-renovation performance and where the level of financial and/or fiscal and other, support is proportionally linked ...[+++]to the level of improvement; asks that Member States should be required to include set annual refurbishment targets in their national action plans on Energy Efficiency and calls on the Commission to propose policy options on how to achieve a nearly zero level building stock in the context of the 2050 energy roadmap;

To widen possibilities, the Commission is proposing an amendment to the Structural Funds Regulations to support this move and stresses the need for early adoption of the amendments; The Commission will work with the EIB and a number of national development banks to launch a 2020 fund for energy, climate change and infrastructure to fund equity and quasi-equity projects; The Commission calls on Member States and industry urgently to develop innovative financing models, for example, where refurbishments are financed through re ...[+++]payments, based on savings made on energy bills, over several years.

The 2007 Commission report Science education now: a renewed pedagogy for the future of Europe recommended greater use of inquiry-based science education, breaking the isolation of science teachers through networks, paying special attention to girls’ attitudes to maths, science and technology, and opening up schools towards the wider community.

190. Notes the Court's favourable report concerning the European Schools' annual accounts; observes, however, that it is pointed out in that report that the Schools' internal control system does not follow the principle of the separation of functions between authorising officers and accounting officers and that authorising tasks are performed by delegation by two heads of unit in respect of all budget headings and with no financial ceiling; hopes that the new Financial Regulation for the European Schools (which has been in force since 1 January 2007) will remedy the weaknesses to which the Court has drawn attention; hopes that, in fu ...[+++]ture, the Commission will shoulder its responsibility for a sustainable schools policy to a greater extent, commensurate with its share of funding of the European Schools and not with its formal voting rights on the highest decision-taking bodies, and work towards a long-term and, for stakeholders, reliable policy guaranteeing planning certainty; calls, in the medium term, for voting rights to be brought into line with funding share;

36. Urges the Member States to implement speedily Directive 2002/91/EC; asks the Commission to rapidly evaluate its impact on energy consumption as well as on the economy and, in the case of positive results, to consider the possibility of gradually extending the scope of the Directive to fully cover all buildings, in particular to ensure that all existing residential buildings smaller than 1000m2 are also covered by an obligation to bring energy efficiency standards of components (e.g. roof insulation, windows) up to current new-bui ...[+++]ld standards when the component is undergoing renovation, taking as a basis similar initiatives already in place in Member States;

Fifthly, does the Commission agree that the city of Karlsruhe only recently invested large sums of its own money in an exemplary school renovation and extension project?