Traduction de «Maintien du niveau des prestations » (Français → Anglais) :

Maintaining Professional Standards

continuation of benefit

retention of the right to unemployment benefits

for the purpose of acquiring and retaining the right to benefit

maintenance of the accustomed standard of living

Maintaining aircraft crash/fire/rescue skills for NATO fire-fighters

This can be achieved, where necessary, through extending unemployment benefit systems coverage, and reinforcing other social security entitlements (parental leave and other reconciliation entitlements, sickness leave, disability benefits, etc.); the level of unemployment benefits should be commensurate to the individual work history.

Lastly, the criterion of long-term consistency of merits enables the appointing authority in reality to strike a fair balance between the aim of ensuring rapid career progression for outstanding officials with an exceptionally high performance level, and the aim of ensuring a normal career for officials who have performed consistently well over a long period.

7. Points out that green infrastructure can play a particularly important role in cities, where an increasing proportion of the population is living today and where it can deliver services like clean air, temperature control and mitigation of the local ‘heat island effect’, recreation areas, flood protection, rainwater retention and flood prevention, maintenance of groundwater levels, restoring or halting the loss of biodiversity, alleviation of extreme weather and its effects, improving the health of citizens, and enhancing the quality of life in general, including by providing accessible and affordable areas for physical activity; str ...[+++]esses the link between green infrastructure and public health and considers that investment in green infrastructure is also an investment in public health;

Coming back to ageing: the dependency rate is continuously increasing, which means that the value of existing social provisions will also decrease, due to a lack of sufficient numbers of active citizens to ensure adequate levels of social benefits and minimum income. The number of active European citizens will drop by millions even in the next decade.