Traduction de «engager à la hausse » (Français → Anglais) :

Considers the CIP programme as one of the main deliverers of Europe 2020 and an essential tool to facilitate access to finance, in particular for innovative SMEs; decides, therefore, to increase commitment and payment appropriations in favour of the CIP Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme and CIP Intelligent Energy Europe as well as, in line with the increasing demands by SMEs, to increase both CA and PA for the financial instruments under this programme;

Deplores, therefore, the decision of the Council to proceed again this year with the usual approach of horizontal cuts to the DB, aimed at artificially reducing the level of the EU's resources for 2013 by an overall total of EUR 1 155 million (- 0,8 %) in commitment appropriations (CA) and EUR 5 228 million (- 3,8 %) in payment appropriations (PA) as compared to the DB, thereby leading to a very modest increase compared to the 2012 budget both in commitments (+ 1,27 % compared to 2 % of the DB) and in payments (+ 2,79 % compared to 6,8 % of the DB);

This means that after the pension relief, RMG will continue to bear the risk that the historic liabilities for deferred members may increase by reason of any salary increases, which exceed price inflation, as the pension benefits have to be linked to the current final salary level.

Finally, RMG will remain liable for all newly accrued liabilities in the future as well as for new liabilities from an increase in the previously-accrued benefits of current employees as a result of future above-inflation wage increases.

Given the considerable efforts necessary to combat climate change and to adapt to its inevitable effects, it is appropriate that at least 50 % of the proceeds from the auctioning of allowances should be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to adapt to the impacts of climate change, to fund research and development for reducing emissions and adaptation, to develop renewable energies to meet the Union’s commitment to using 20 % renewable energies by 2020, to meet the commitment of the Community to increase energy efficiency by 20 % by 2020, to provide for the environmentally safe capture and geological storage of greenhouse gases, to c ...[+++]ontribute to the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund and to the Adaptation Fund as made operational by the Poznan Conference on Climate Change (COP 14 and COP/MOP 4), to provide for measures to avoid deforestation and facilitate adaptation in developing countries, and to address social aspects such as possible increases in electricity prices in lower and middle income households.

This encouraging but uneven situation, plus the need for close monitoring of trends in EU aid budgets lead the Commission to recommend that each Member State draw up a road map by the end of 2007 to ensure a gradual increase in official aid flows by 2010 and 2015 in order to prevent any slippage on collective and individual commitments.