In view of the diversity of Member States' approaches and advancements the Commission recognises that a binding EU-wide switch-off date common to all Member States is not realistic.

10. Calls for a new strategy to improve the quality of employment by investing in health and safety at work, equal opportunities and qualifications, measures to combat illiteracy and to provide a guarantee of training and retraining for young people, in order to provide for a sustainable working life which allows for choice and diversity and permits switching between training and employment; regrets that according to the respective structural indicators little progress has been made to turn lifelong learning into a daily reality; insists that employees should be given the right to vocational training and life-long learning; states tha ...[+++]t education systems must become more responsive to the needs of people and the labour markets and therefore calls for more investment and joint actions to improve decisively the knowledge base (especially in the fields of training, lifelong learning, education, innovation and research); primary schools throughout Europe must be supplied with computers and Internet access as quickly as possible; calls for investment in the quality of training to be given priority and for early and targeted measures to train up workers in the IT field;

10. Calls for a new strategy to improve the quality of employment by investing in health and safety at work, equal opportunities and qualifications, measures to combat illiteracy and provide a guarantee of training and retraining for young people, in order to provide for a sustainable working life which allows for choice and diversity and permit switching between training and employment; regrets that according to the respective structural indicators only little progress has been made to turn lifelong learning into a daily reality; insists that employees should be given a right to vocational training and life-long learning; states that ...[+++] education systems must become more responsive to the needs of people and the labour markets and therefore calls for more investment and joint actions to decisively improve the knowledge base (esp. in the fields of training, lifelong learning, education, innovation and research); primary schools throughout Europe must be supplied with computers and Internet access as quickly as possible; calls for investment in the quality of training to be given priority and for early and targeted measures to train up workers in the IT field;

20. Notes that the common agricultural policy often has a directly negative impact on the Community's biological diversity and calls, therefore, on the Commission, in the current revision, to press for a switch to sustainable agriculture which respects biological diversity and for a greater part of agricultural aid to be earmarked for environmental measures and organic farming;