structural indicators

In Nice we defined 35 structural indicators, which are the ones the synthesis report is based upon.

The Commission was invited to produce a report on tightening up the use of structural indicators.

This applies to the structural indicators, for example.

We are gratified moreover by the adoption of a restricted list of structural indicators.

We wonder who will agree those structural indicators and just how strong the synthesis report to be produced by the Commission will be.

The structural indicators developed as part of the European Employment Strategy will also be extremely useful in this process.

The assessment will draw on the series of structural indicators which have been proposed by the Commission in its communication of 30 October 2001.

As of 2003, the candidate countries will be included in the structural indicators the Commission uses to assess progress on the Lisbon strategy.

The Laeken Summit may have produced a few structural indicators in the field of environment, but integration has clearly not been achieved.

These data show that the labour market suffers from structural problems, a finding borne out by the Commission Communication on structural indicators.

In Lisbon people said we should set some structural indicators that would enable us to draw a better comparison between the situations in the various countries.

The Commission must prepare the ground for the decisions to be taken in this context on the basis of a range of criteria dubbed "structural indicators" .

Mr Bullmann has given us a lot of definitions of important structural indicators, which are intended to give us pointers for the correct approach to take.

As Mrs Randzio-Plath knows, those structural indicators are a very accurate reflection of the progress made and the Commission thinks it is a valuable instrument.

Also, we are told that each spring the European Council will consider an overall report to be produced by the Commission that will deal with structural indicators to be agreed.

Secondly, we have to combat structural indicators and step up the pace of structural reform, if we really want to bring down unemployment in the long term and not just increase employment figures.

The third point concerns structural indicators on sustainable development which will be, on the basis of a Commission communication, endorsed by the Council before being submitted to the Laeken European Council.

These aggregated data refer, for example, to some of the structural indicators requested for the annual spring report of the Commission, which was agreed at the Göteborg European Council of June 2001.

Possible aids could be national Lisbon plans, a number of structural indicators, involving national parliaments in monitoring and assessing the process and certainly also a classification of the Member States according to performance.

Ecofin' s structural indicators were adopted in full but not a single environmental indicator was included, not even the Commission' s proposal for indicators on energy efficiency nor any indicators on emissions of greenhouse gases.

Although there are not yet any gender-specific indicators at European Union level for the feminisation of poverty, certain structural indicators, broken down by gender and produced as part of the processes of inclusion and social cohesion, are presented each year to the Spring European Council.