Traduction de «particulièrement averti en matière d'investissement » (Français → Anglais) :

8. Emphasises the need to monitor social investment as part of a ‘social investment pact’ modelled on the Euro Plus Pact and designed to strengthen the Union’s economic and budgetary governance and including investment in social housing; emphasises as well the need for social investment targets for the Member States to meet with a view to attaining the social, employment and education objectives laid down under the Europe 2020 strategy; welcomes the conclusions of the December 2012 European Council meeting which stress that ’the possibilities offered by the EU’s existing fiscal framework to balance productive public investment needs wi ...[+++]th fiscal discipline objectives can be exploited in the preventive arm of the Stability and Growth Pact’, thus bearing out the validity of this proposal; calls on the Commission to monitor social investment more closely, using a scoreboard based on indicators of investment at Member-State and EU level, which, in connection with social housing investment, takes account of changes in housing costs and in the number of people waiting to be allocated housing in the Member States; further calls on all Member States to ratify the revised European Social Charter, with special regard to Article 31;

8. Emphasises the need to monitor social investment as part of a ‘social investment pact’ modelled on the Euro Plus Pact and designed to strengthen the Union’s economic and budgetary governance and including investment in social housing; emphasises as well the need for social investment targets for the Member States to meet with a view to attaining the social, employment and education objectives laid down under the Europe 2020 strategy; welcomes the conclusions of the December 2012 European Council meeting which stress that ‘the possibilities offered by the EU’s existing fiscal framework to balance productive public investment needs wi ...[+++]th fiscal discipline objectives can be exploited in the preventive arm of the Stability and Growth Pact’, thus bearing out the validity of this proposal; calls on the Commission to monitor social investment more closely, using a scoreboard based on indicators of investment at Member-State and EU level, which, in connection with social housing investment, takes account of changes in housing costs and in the number of people waiting to be allocated housing in the Member States; further calls on all Member States to ratify the revised European Social Charter, with special regard to Article 31;

3. Commends the setting up of an information exchange mechanism on energy agreements between Member States and third countries in order to strive for consistent external actions in the field of energy and to raise the transparency of energy imports into the EU; notes that many agreements in the energy field have investment components – this is the reason why the Commission should ensure that there is coherence between energy agreements and investment agreements, and in particular, that the powers and recommendations of the European P ...[+++]arliament are taken into account in future investment policy; stresses that the Commission must play an active, promoting role when coordinating intergovernmental agreements, so as to ensure that all established entitlements can be realised; before signing energy agreements, the Member States shall submit these negotiated intergovernmental agreements for approval to the Commission, which shall ensure that such agreements are compatible with Union law and, in particular, with the trade and investment rules and the internal energy market, as well as the long-term energy and climate policy targets of the Union;

13. Believes that EU investment policy should take into account the differences between middle-income and low-income countries and, in particular, seek to encourage flexibility in relation to foreign investment in developing countries in activities and sectors with a clear and significant impact on sustainable development, which might otherwise not attract investment because of the risks involved; considers that greater support should be given to local firms, notably through incentives for strengthening their productivity, engaging i ...[+++]n closer cooperation and improving workforce skills – areas of, considerable potential in terms of boosting economic development, competitiveness and growth in developing countries;

Such financial instruments at Union level include, inter alia, Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the European Regional Development Fund , amended to allow increased investments in energy efficiency in housing; the public-private partnership on a ‘European energy-efficient buildings’ initiative to promote green technologies and the development of energy-efficient systems and materials in new and renovated buildings; the EC-European Investment Bank (EIB) initiative ‘EU sustainable energy financing initiative’ which aims to enable, inter alia, investments for energy efficiency and ...[+++] the EIB-led ‘Marguerite Fund’: the 2020 European Fund for Energy, Climate Change and Infrastructure; Council Directive 2009/47/EC of 5 May 2009 amending Directive 2006/112/EC as regards reduced rates of value added tax , structural and cohesion funds instrument Jeremie (Joint European Resources for micro to medium enterprises); the Energy Efficiency Finance Facility; the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme including the Intelligent Energy Europe II Programme focused specifically on removing market barriers related to energy efficiency and energy from renewable sources through for example the technical assistance facility ELENA (European Local Energy Assistance); the Covenant of Mayors; the Entrepreneurship and Innovation programme; the ICT Policy Support Programme 2010, and the Seventh Research Framework Programme.

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