Traduction de «soutenabilité » (Français → Anglais) :

20. Calls on the Commission to focus more on competitiveness aspects during the impact assessment process (‘Competitiveness Proofing’) and in ex-ante/ex-post evaluation (‘Fitness Checks’), and to implement this essential part of smart regulation as fast as possible across all Commission services; stresses the fact that sustainability is essential for continuous competitiveness and for a resource-efficient and low-carbon economy;

24. Considers that, in view of demographic trends and the need to ensure that pensions can be paid for, it is necessary for more people to participate in the labour market and to do so for longer, but observes that life expectancy is growing and that better occupational health is a precondition for longer working lives; calls on Member States to make it possible for people who want to carry on working to do so; calls on the Member States which have increased the statutory retirement age or will be doing so to encourage work by older people through fiscal and social security exemptions; also calls on the Member States to create adapted ...[+++] and flexible employment contracts and retirement schemes for older people and to encourage and facilitate combining work with retirement and put in place dissuasive measures so that companies find it harder to make older people redundant; calls on the Commission to set up a study analysing the way wealth distribution is influencing life expectancy in Member States;

6. Welcomes the agreement to provide € 832 bn in additional financial resources for the IMF, other financial institutions and trade finance and the commitment to make a sustained fiscal effort on the requisite scale to restore credit, growth and jobs in the world economy while ensuring long-run fiscal sustainability; regrets, however, the fact that no additional European fiscal stimulus was agreed; recognises that the margin for action is different for each country, but each needs to act to the limits of its possibilities and the EU as a whole should consider financing new priorities, e.g. eurobonds; supports the commitment to fiscal ...[+++]sustainability and public budgetary discipline, which should be brought back on track as soon as economies recover;

To this end, the shortcomings experienced so far should be addressed by placing greater emphasis on economic developments in Member States and on safeguarding the sustainability of public finances.

The Commission has put forward three suggestions for revising the Stability and Growth Pact: clarifying and rendering operational the debt criterion, identifying country-specific medium-term budgetary objectives and defining the adjustment path in the excessive deficit procedure taking into account issues relating to the sustainability of public finances.

The Commission focuses particularly on the trend in economic factors in the Member States and the long-term sustainability of public finances.