Translation of "être plus valorisé " (French → English) :

(a) attain, no later than 30 June 2001, lower targets than those fixed in paragraphs 1(a) and (c), but shall at least attain 25 % for recovery or incineration at waste incineration plants with energy recovery;

(b) no later than 31 December 2008 60 % as a minimum by weight of packaging waste will be recovered or incinerated at waste incineration plants with energy recovery;

(a) no later than 30 June 2001 between 50 % as a minimum and 65 % as a maximum by weight of packaging waste will be recovered or incinerated at waste incineration plants with energy recovery;

High employment and activity rates among the prime age group could be translated into significantly higher employment rates for older workers up to a decade later if a dynamic approach is taken to retain these workers longer in the labour market through better working arrangements and quality in work.

Mr Flynn welcomed the approval of the operational programmes and said "developing human resources will help to achieve a more flexible labour market, higher productivity and in the longer term, increased employment and economic growth in the Eastern Länder".

Encourage work to be organized in a way which allows the jobs of older workers to be adapted and makes the best possible use of their experience. It is necessary in particular to: (a) continue the improvements in taking account of the requirements of workers, including older workers, with regard to health and family life; (b) continue the efforts made by undertakings to ensure that working conditions make allowance for the specific needs of older workers, especially where they have spent their careers in arduous jobs; (c) foster mobility within undertakings, by means also of continuing vocational training, for workers in the latter par ...[+++]t of their working lives, whose careers should evolve towards tasks which they find more congenial and suitable and which make better use of their experience; (d) implement appropriate support arrangements for workers for whom vocational training may be the starting point for a new career; (e) promote in accordance with national laws and/or practice the combination of periods of work, vocational training and, if necessary retraining.