Traduction de «indicateur de synthèse » (Français → Anglais) :

CONSIDERING that in order to determine the main environmental indicators connected with the Strategy for Sustainable Development, the Council has adopted a list of environment-related headline indicators, which the Commission has included in its synthesis report, and has recommended that a work programme be drawn up for the further development of the open-ended list of indicators, STRESSES the importance of ensuring the coordination between different processes related to the establishment of indicators;

[68] Commission Communication on Structural Indicators, presenting 35 indicators as a basis for the Synthesis Report.

4. Whereas it is necessary for the Council, in order to enable the Commission to include such evaluation in its next synthesis report, to agree on a first set of environment-related headline indicators for sustainable development, in order to complement the agreed indicators for social cohesion, economic reform, employment and innovation as well as the general economic background indicators;

acknowledges the need to use a limited number of indicators in the Annual Synthesis Report in order to focus the policy debate, while ensuring a balanced assessment of performance and progress across the five areas, but believes that keeping the indicator on employment growth, together with the indicators on employment levels, would give a more rounded view of employment performance.

As a follow-up to the Stockholm and Göteborg European Councils, the Commission has been working on developing a number of sustainable development indicators on environment The environment indicators will be added to the existing set of socio-economic indicators and presented in an annual Synthesis Report to the Spring European Council.

The Commission suggests that during the year 2001 Member States and the Commission should together define what work should be undertaken in each of the areas concerned - which are suitable for peer review or the exchange of good practice, where progress should be compared against which benchmarks, which areas need indicators, where new indicators should be defined, the way in which Member States will take a view about developments likely to be positive in the future. At the same time, consideration will need to be given to the way in which education and training are represented within (say) the Luxembourg process, or the Commission's ann ...[+++]ual Synthesis Report; just as continuing activity at EU level, such as the debate on the Memorandum on Lifelong Learning, will surely provide very valuable contributions to the discussions.