Translation of "Job demands-resources model " (English → French) :

3. Stresses that improving resource use through better design requirements, and through waste legislation that ensures upward movement in the waste hierarchy (thereby fostering waste prevention, reuse, preparation for reuse and recycling), could bring substantial net savings for EU businesses, public authorities and consumers, estimated at EUR 600 billion, or 8 % of annual turnover, while also reducing total annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2-4 %; emphasises that increasing resource productivity by 30 % by 2030 could boost GDP by nearly 1 % and create 2 million additional sustainable jobs; recalls that resource efficiency is a priori ...[+++]ty objective of the 7th Environmental Action Programme, which emphasises the need to stimulate production and consumer demand for environmentally sustainable products and services through policies that promote their availability, affordability, functionality and attractiveness; emphasise that resource scarcity requires aiming at the absolute decoupling in order maintain resource use and GDP increase within the biophysical limits of the planet;

A cost-effective implementation of the 2030 climate and energy framework and transition to a competitive, resource efficient low carbon economy should be pursued, including through both demand and supply side reforms, while promoting green jobs, green technologies and innovative solutions.

12. Regards identifying the future needs of the labour market, and future skills requirements, as a priority; emphasises the need for strategies for matching workers’ skills with the future needs of the labour market; underlines, in this context, the fact that – in order to tackle the challenges posed by the transition to a less resource-intensive economy – appropriate levels of training and skills are needed for eco-innovations to flourish, and for EU waste legislation to be correctly implemented; recommends that the Member States integrate the circular economy model in their professional training schemes; notes that training can im ...[+++]prove the perceived status of work in the recycling sector, and can help improve staff retention and health and safety practices; recalls in this context that, by promoting vocational training and work-based learning, the European Social Fund should help in satisfying the demand for sustainable quality jobs in the less resource-intensive industry, in line with the Social Investment Package presented by the Commission in February 2013.

7. Welcomes the Commission’s measures to combat youth unemployment which should, alongside the EU’s Youth Employment Initiative and, especially, the Youth Guarantee and in line with the EU 2020 Strategy, seek to put forward solutions to encourage the creation of decent, high-quality and sustainable jobs and equal opportunities for young people, promoting social inclusion, reducing job insecurity and the risk of poverty, giving young people a sense of dignity and an independent life and fighting the brain drain; –considers that such measures should also encourage and strengthen existing mobility programmes and better recognition of skill ...[+++]s and qualifications within the EU, and promote increased cross-border and inter-regional cooperation while limiting existing administrative obstacles and removing the current barriers for apprenticeships, traineeships and internships to better combat geographical mismatches between supply and demand of jobs as part of a roadmap for the future of a more economically, socially and territorially cohesive economic and monetary union; calls for the Member States and regional and local authorities to quickly implement the measures drawn up under the Youth Guarantee Scheme, and to promote exchanges of successful models that have resulted in positive trends in terms of reducing youth unemployment, in particular among the NEETS group; notes, however, that funding to fight youth unemployment is inadequate, and stresses that the proposed EUR 6 billion funding for the 2014-2020 EU Youth Employment Initiative is not sufficient to have any significant impact on the situation of young people.

7. Agrees with the Commission that more ambitious renewable energy targets trigger investments and hence employment in knowledge-intensive generation technologies; urges Member States to move towards an economic model based on the principle of resource efficiency; points to the Commission's finding that every percentage point reduction in resource use could lead to up to 100 000 to 200 000 new jobs;

G. considering that job creation in the services sector presupposes the adjustment of the internal market to the fundamental principles of supply and demand for services, harmonisation with competition policy and further strengthening the internal market, and also requires new models of consumption to be taken into account, with an ever-increasing role for services,