Translation of "me-too strategy " (English → French) :

The Committee therefore also urges all Member States (and, where relevant, the private sector too), for their part, to finally meet the targets of the Lisbon Strategy – now also incorporated in the Europe 2020 strategy – by investing 3 % of GDP in research and development.

Believes, therefore, that the EU strategy for Afghanistan will have to take as its starting point two premises: an acknowledgement of the continuing deterioration in security and socio-economic indicators in Afghanistan despite almost a decade of international involvement and investment; and the need to further encourage the shift in the mindset of the international community – which in the past, and in particular prior to the counter-insurgency strategy, has all too often shaped plans and decisions with scant regard for Afghan involvement – so that in future its plans and decisions are shaped in close cooperation with the Afghans; not ...[+++]es that the conferences in London and Kabul were an important step in this direction;

feels, however, that the administrative capacities of local and regional authorities need to be strengthened, where required, so that they too can fulfil their vital role as part of the Europe 2020 strategy;

- Proportionality - Protection strategies and measures would be proportionate to the level of risk involved as not all infrastructures can be protected from all threats (for example, electricity transmission networks are too large to fence or guard).

Compromises are called for here too. The only way to tackle the problem is to use as a basis simulations which make it possible to assess against a number of criteria the possible consequences of various management strategies, in combination with decision-making rules.

In line with the foregoing, such management strategies should be based on "planned" development of fishing mortality per fishery in the medium term (involving, for instance, a regular, gradual reduction over five years), combined with two additional measures connected on the one hand with the need to react quickly if the spawning biomass falls too low and on the other hand with a limitation of variations in TACs from one year to the next, e.g. in order to avoid any reduction that is greater than a pre-established limit.