Traduction de «Cessation anticipée d'activité » (Français → Anglais) :

IV. G. Aid for Early Retirement or for the cessation of farming activities

They are demanding to be able to retire at 55 and calling for an improvement in their working conditions, which are still antiquated and result in the physical deterioration and sometimes death of a number of workers each year.

5. Make use of early retirement taking into account acquired experience, in accordance with national practice, for example by: (a) making more use of internal flexibility measures, inter alia with regard to working hours, for further restructuring of undertakings in the context of seeking to be competitive and getting people back to work; (b) striving to gear, where appropriate, early retirement schemes in particular to workers who have spent long careers in arduous jobs, or as an accompaniment to mass lay-offs; 6. Facilitate phased retirement, for example by developing for older workers the possibility of part-time work and activities making good use of ...[+++]their skills, while ensuring that workers in comparable situations receive equal treatment in principle, in particular as regards access to social protection.

A. Afforestation of agricultural land The Commission proposes : - extension of the afforestation aid to all natural and legal persons planting on agricultural land, including beneficiaries under the early retirement and set-aside schemes, - an increase in the maximum eligible investment in planting, - an increase in the maximum eligible investment on farm-forestry, holdings in improvement of wooded areas and other sylvicultural operations, - specific measures to promote cork-growing, - 5 - - special terms when action is taken as part of the programme for the development and exploitation of woodland in rural areas, - annual allowances to compensate for the potential income loss to farmers planting trees who do not already receive allowances ...[+++]under the measures to encourage the cessation of farming and to assist the less-favoured areas, - that Member States be obliged to adopt afforestation rules that will stop the countryside looking "tree bitten".

The Commission has decided not to object, on the basis of Articles 92 and 93 of the Treaty, to measures involving an aid scheme to encourage the early cessation of farming in Spain (Cantabria).

Today, Ireland has become the second Member State, after France, to have a programme adopted by the Commission concerning the implementation of the accompanying measure under the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy for Community aid for early-retirement from farming.