Translation of "Intervention en matière de retraits du marché " (French → English) :

The Green Paper reviews the European pension framework in a holistic and integrated manner, benefiting from synergies across economic and social policy and financial market regulation which is why so many different topics are covered, such as: longer working lives, the internal market for pensions, mobility of pensions across the EU, gaps in EU regulation, the future solvency regime for pension funds, the risk of employer insolvency, informed decision-making and governance at EU level.

In the past, intervention by way of market withdrawals failed to improve the sector’s stability, and so, in 1996, the reform of the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables introduced a new instrument in the shape of what was termed the operational funds, thus transferring resources from intervention to a modern and forward-looking instrument.

Creating a European labour market, through enabling workers to take pension and social security entitlements with them when they work in a different Member States and by establishing an optional framework for collective bargaining across frontiers; the Commission will also examine transition periods for workers from new Member States; Getting more people into better jobs, particularly through the European Youth Initiative and supporting women in (re-)entering the labour market; Updating labour law to address needs created by new forms of work, i.e. particular short term contracts ...[+++]; a new health and safety strategy; Managing the process of restructuring through the social dialogue.

(30b) Abolishing the fiscal discrimination against foreign providers as well as the differing and sometimes very long vesting periods for occupational pensions of migrant workers, as practised by some Member States and which are in practice equivalent to sealing off the pensions market, is a precondition not only for the creation of a unified market for the sector of occupational retirement provision, but also for implementing the fundamental principles of the single market.

As we all know, our Member States are working towards ambitious structural reforms, but it is also up to the European Union to intervene in the area of pensions, particularly supplementary pensions, in order to facilitate the free movement of workers in the context of the single market, to establish a genuine single capital market and also to ensure that equality between men and women is respected.

On October 4, Louise Harel denounced, in a press release, the federal attempt to set up a parallel structure to get involved in the manpower training sector: ``Like its labour market partners, the Quebec government denounces Ottawa's intentions to set up its own parallel manpower structures in Quebec.