Traduction de «Régime de retraite avec participation aux bénéfices » (Français → Anglais) :

31. Acknowledges the wide dispersion in characteristics and outcomes across Member States’ occupational pension schemes as regards access, solidarity, cost-effectiveness, risk and return; welcomes the Commission’s intention, in close consultation with the Member States, social partners, the pension industry and other stakeholders, to develop a code of good practice for occupational pension schemes addressing issues such as better coverage of employees, the payout phase, risk-sharing and mitigation, cost-effectiveness, and shock absorption in compliance with the subsidiarity principle; stresses the mutual benefit of improving the exchan ...[+++]ge of best practices between Member States;

36. Notes the current trend away from defined benefit pension systems to defined contribution pension systems and is concerned about the decline in employer contributions that evidently accompanies this trend; emphasises the need for strengthened participation and contribution levels of employees in existing pension schemes in order to ensure adequate retirement income for individuals and emphasises the need for continued adequate contributions from employers, particularly in defined contribution pension schemes; is concerned that the envisaged revision of International Accounting Standard (IAS) 19 regarding employee benefits, as for e ...[+++]xample in the case of the possible abolition of the so-called 'corridor-approach', could entail significant changes to pension systems that need to be carefully assessed, especially as regards possible adverse effects on the attractiveness of defined benefit schemes;

7. Notes the current trend towards moving from defined benefit pension systems to defined contribution pension systems and is concerned about the observed decline in employer contributions that accompanies this trend; emphasises the need for strengthened participation and contribution levels of employees in existing pension schemes in order to ensure adequate retirement income for individuals and emphasises the need for continued adequate contributions by employers, particularly in defined contribution pension schemes; is concerned that the envisaged revision of IAS 19, as for example in the case of the possible abolition of the so-cal ...[+++]led "corridor-approach" could entail significant changes to pension systems that need to be carefully assessed, especially regarding possible adverse effects on the attractiveness of defined benefit schemes;

36. Notes the current trend away from defined benefit pension systems to defined contribution pension systems and is concerned about the decline in employer contributions that evidently accompanies this trend; emphasises the need for strengthened participation and contribution levels of employees in existing pension schemes in order to ensure adequate retirement income for individuals and emphasises the need for continued adequate contributions from employers, particularly in defined contribution pension schemes; is concerned that the envisaged revision of International Accounting Standard (IAS) 19 regarding employee benefits, as for e ...[+++]xample in the case of the possible abolition of the so-called "corridor-approach", could entail significant changes to pension systems that need to be carefully assessed, especially regarding possible adverse effects on the attractiveness of defined benefit schemes;

31. acknowledges the challenge of ageing populations; emphasises the importance of collective second pillar occupational pensions in addition to proper solidarity-based first-pillar pension schemes, and endorses Directive 2003/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 June 2003 on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provision as the specific regulatory framework for pension funds; urges the Commission to explore the possibility, within the framework of better regulation, and in order to promote supervisory convergence across the European Union and to prevent unequal treatment of market players and distortions of competition, of supplementing that Directive with a harmonised solvency fr ...[+++]amework for pension funds in line with the Solvency II approach, in order to provide for advanced risk management techniques as well as disincentives for regulatory arbitrage by establishing equal supervision requirements both from a qualitative point of view, in terms of risk management standards, and quantitatively, as regards capital requirements ("same risk, same capital"), taking into account the specific features of occupational retirement provision; reiterates that such a legislative framework must be supported by the coordination of taxation, especially concentrating on the tax base;

Many pension plans in Canadian workplaces are already integrated with Canada's public pension system, the CPP and OAS system.