3. Calls in this context on the Council to agree on the inclusion of social indicators in the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure, including indicators for youth unemployment; calls on the Council to agree in parallel on the development of a scoreboard of common social indicators including indicators for youth unemployment and comprising an alert mechanism for monitoring progress in Member States;

4. Urges the Commission and the Member States to agree, by 2013, on clear, robust and measurable indicators for economic activity that take account of climate change, biodiversity and resource efficiency from a life-cycle perspective, for example in the form of a basket of four resource use indicators, namely land footprint, water footprint, material footprint and carbon footprint, and to use these indicators as a basis for legislative initiatives and concrete reduction targets; underlines that this process has to be transparent and ...[+++]include key stakeholders;

17. Reminds the Commission, in view of its upcoming White Paper on Pensions, that under the OMC Member States have already agreed to common objectives on pension policy which is monitored through a number of agreed indicators; calls on the Commission to focus on improving these existing indicators rather than moving away from already agreed objectives and indictors; considers that in view of demographic changes member states should be encouraged to consider the strong socio-economic arguments in favour of removing policies which may inhibit older workers from remaining active in the labour market for longer;

10. Recalls the importance of indicators for evaluating the implementation of the action plans, which are to be of two types, namely general and sectoral; considers that use of the latter should be compulsory as from the stage at which the various policies (reform of the CAP, fisheries policy, structural policy, development cooperation policy) are drafted, and provision should be made for regular assessments based on compliance with such indicators; considers that indicators should in particular be taken as the basis for drafting the next report on biodiversity; calls on the Commission, in agreement with the Council, to propose such i ...[+++]ndicators before 2003 (as provided for in paragraph 40 of Volume 1 of COM(2001) 162) and in the conclusions of the Environment Council of 29 October 2001);

10. Recalls the importance of indicators for evaluating the implementation of the action plans, which are to be of two types, namely general and sectoral; considers that use of the latter should be compulsory as from the stage at which the various policies (reform of the CAP, fisheries policy, structural policy, development cooperation policy) are drafted and provision should be made for regular assessments based on compliance with such indicators; considers that indicators should in particular be taken as the basis for drafting the next report on biodiversity; calls on the Commission, in agreement with the Council, to propose such in ...[+++]dicators before 2003 (as provided for in paragraph 40 of Volume 1 of COM(2001) 162) and in the conclusions of the Environment Council of 29 October 2001);

Work is already in progress in the indicators subgroup of the Social Protection Committee which has started to discuss this matter in order to elaborate a list of commonly agreed indicators that could underpin the EU-level co-operation process on safe and sustainable pensions.