Traduction de «conception verte » (Français → Anglais) :

Indeed, the ‘green’ concept is being misused with increasing frequency for the purposes of a kind of protectionism.

28. Rejects the new concept of ‘flexicurity’ introduced by the Commission as part of the strategy connected with the Lisbon Strategy and the Green Paper on Labour Law Reform, which is defined as combining sufficiently flexible work contracts with coupled labour market policies that support switches from one job to another, i.e. the adjustment of labour (and wages) to the business cycle with the public employment services of the Member States assuming the costs of labour recycling and rotation; considers that this concept, in parallel with the ‘employability’ concept, places responsibility for finding a job on the worker; stresses that ...[+++]both concepts promote labour market deregulation and the liberalisation of firing, jeopardising social cohesion and the quality of work; alerts to the fact that behind this strategy is also the purpose of reviewing unemployment benefit schemes with the aim of reducing benefits and their duration;

Even before the events of 11 September the Green Paper also underlined the need to include plant safety questions in the security of supply concept.

8. The debate on the Green Paper has shown the need to develop a Europe-wide security of supply concept which alone will enable Europe to control its energy future.

Does the Commission still support the view expressed by Anna Diamantopoulou in her address to the EU Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce on 30 October 2000 that 'when voluntary action fails, the pressure for regulation grows' and that 'there are certain abuses of basic rights which simply cannot wait for voluntary action to address them?' How will this view be upheld in the Green Paper on corporate social responsibility currently being prepared by DG Employment?

The Green Paper notes that eco-design guidelines and a general strategy for integrating the environment in the design process could be used as instruments for the promotion of the life cycle concept within companies.