Traduction de «Groupe sur l'avenir de la politique intérieure » (Français → Anglais) :

The final report of the High Level Group, which is to be expected in 2018, will be one of the cornerstones of the Commission's reflection on the future of Cohesion Policy.

The Member States themselves are preparing, by debating in the High-Level 'Future' Group (High-Level Advisory Group on the Future of European Home Affairs Policy), possible ideas for shaping the next multiannual programme.

F. noting that the Member States themselves mention these problems in the context of their preparatory work for the future programme of the AFSJ for the period 2010-2014 (see the reports of the Future Group - Doc 11657/08, the Home Affairs Group - Doc. .../08 and the Justice Group, as well as the contributions of other Member States submitted to the Council and the Commission), recognising that the existing 'acquis' in the field of European Home Affairs which was developed step by step is necessarily unstructured and therefore diffic ...[+++]ult to explain to European citizens; noting that it is sometimes hard to understand even for specialists and that some of these instruments overlap and the legal basis for some actions can be found in different acts; noting, finally, that it is becoming increasingly difficult and time-consuming to monitor the proper implementation of European Union directives by as many as 27 Member States,

1. Welcomes the Commission’s fifth report on economic, social and territorial cohesion, which proposes directions that policy in this area might take in the future; stresses that the ESF is the most important instrument for the implementation of the social dimension of the EU 2020 Strategy and that the ESF can contribute significantly to the fulfilment of the central priorities of that strategy, namely employment, the transformation to a sustainable economy, reducing the number of school drop-outs, fighting against poverty, discrimination and social exclusion and finding answers to the different social situations people find themselves in; stresses in this context that besides GDP, other social indicators would be useful in the SWOT analy ...[+++]sis; underlines that an effective cohesion policy is essential for reducing discrepancies in regional development and achieving economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU; draws particular attention to the fact that all Member States have groups which are at a disadvantage in the labour market and whose situations must be improved by means of cohesion funds if a 75% employment rate is to be achieved; stresses that the three constituent pillars of the EU 2020 strategy (smart growth, sustainable growth and inclusive growth) must be complementary;

– having regard to the Report of the High Level Group on the future of social policy in an enlarged European Union of May 2004,

At the sitting of 1 July 2002 the President of Parliament announced that he had referred the Green Paper to the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy as the committee responsible with regard to impact on future EU policy aspects (C5-0295/2002) and to the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market as the committee responsible with regard to legal protection aspects (C5-0294/2002 – 2002/2150(COS)).