Translation of "Réduction intégrale du taux de cotisation " (French → English) :

25. Stresses that improved energy efficiency and energy savings will play an essential role in the transformation of the energy system, and that meeting the 2020 objectives is a prerequisite for making further progress up to 2050; recommends, in this respect, that the Member States step up their efforts to fully implement the recently adopted Energy Efficiency Directive, and recommends that awareness-raising campaigns and energy efficiency be integrated into national educational curricula in the Member States; recommends that the Member States and the Commission do more to include national ideas and involve national development banks a ...[+++]nd to support exchanges of best practice; recalls that energy efficiency, if properly implemented, is a cost-effective way for the EU to achieve its long-term goals as regards energy savings, climate change, and economic and energy security; recognises that shifting to a more energy-efficient economy can accelerate the spread of innovative technological solutions, decrease fossil fuel imports and improve the competitiveness and growth of industry in the Union; believes that the move towards a better energy-efficiency policy should focus on the whole energy supply and demand chain, including transformation, transmission, distribution and supply, alongside industrial, building and household consumption; stresses that the EU’s long-term energy-efficiency policy should take the reduction of energy use in buildings as a central element, given that existing building renovation represents enormous energy saving potential; stresses that the current rate and quality of building renovation needs to be substantially scaled up in order to allow the EU to significantly reduce the energy consumption of the existing building stock by 80 %, relative to 2010 levels, by 2050; calls, in this regard, on the Member States to adopt ambitious, long-term building renovation strategies as required by the Energy Efficiency Directive;

That includes seven consecutive surplus budgets; $61 billion in reduced federal debt; $3 billion saved each and every year on debt servicing costs; consistently low interest rates; more than $100 billion in cumulative tax cuts; and tax cuts in every budget since 1996, with a primary focus on middle- and low-income families; 10 consecutive reductions in employment insurance premiums; and more than $200 billion for investments in Canadians' highest social and economic priorities, like health care and equalization, the well-being of ...[+++]children and families, learning, skills and innovation, affordable housing, community infrastructure, and the environment.

The rate set by the Commission for 2001, the year examined by the Auditor General, was the seventh consecutive annual reduction in premiums, bringing the employees rate down by 82¢, from $3.07 in 1994 to $2.25 in 2001.

(F) Whereas most of the redundancies occurred in Baden-Württemberg (870 redundancies, or 70% of all dismissed workers) and a smaller number at other production sites in Brandenburg and Nordrhein-Westfalen. The 870 redundancies represent a reduction of 7 % of all workers involved in the manufacturing of machinery equipment and subject to social security contributions in the greater Heidelberg area and a significantly higher increase of unemployment rates in this part of Baden-Württemberg than during the same period for Germany as a who ...[+++]le;

17. Calls for significant efforts to be made to raise employment rates, especially for women, disabled and older workers, by the following actions: firstly, tax incentives for enterprises which hire these targeted groups, such as deductions on income taxes linked to job creation and reduction of taxes on labour (including social contributions), in particular for low income workers - this should be balanced by an increase in indirect taxation if budgetary stability were to be put at risk; secondly, an increase in the effective retirement age through voluntary decisions by workers, supported by an increase of expectations on pension level ...[+++]s and by incentives for enterprises who do not reduce employment of older workers; thirdly, the promotion of all aspects of quality of work including health and safety at work; finally calls for the setting-up of regional and local employment strategies;

Mr. Vermaeten: You have to take into account the provision to the effect that, the extent to which the revenues and benefits do not balance would require a general rate reduction, and that general rate reduction will be applied for everyone except those in Quebec.