23. Encourages greater coordination of financial flows and policies affecting housing, in particular ensuring that the actions supported by the ERDF, the Jessica and Jeremie financial instruments, the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and the other Community, national, regional and local measures concerning housing and urban redevelopment are complementary, and specifically ensuring that residential buildings in historic city districts are modernised and renovated;

The eastward enlargement of the EU gave particular importance to a European strategy for the sustainable development of this type of housing; whilst, in western European countries, the future of large-scale estates lies mainly in the performance of social functions, the main task in eastern European states is the repair and modernisation of the stock of prefabricated buildings in order to make the flats in them fit to be rented out, while, at the same time, the structural change of the housing sector from state-regulated institutions ...[+++] allocating accommodation to private-sector or community-based enterprises operating on the market is only just beginning.

21. Encourages greater coordination of financial flows and policies affecting housing, in particular ensuring that the actions supported by the ERDF, the JESSICA and JEREMIE financial instruments, the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and the other Community, national, regional and local measures concerning housing and urban redevelopment are complementary, and specifically ensuring that residential buildings in historic city districts are modernised and renovated;

increasing the efficiency of programmes to boost employment, with an emphasis on lifelong learning and on combating all forms of discrimination in all socio-economic sectors; finalising implementation of the reform of health services by eliminating discrepancies in territorial coverage and quality of medical services, modernising equipment in hospitals and clinics, improving collection mechanisms and redistribution of collected funds, strengthening the management, monitoring and evaluation of all the different types of care; intensifying measures to eliminate non-attendance in compulsory education, improve the adaptability of vocationa ...[+++]l and technical education to labour market demands and promote lifelong learning; covering the need for emergency and social housing and improving housing conditions in specific areas or for specific social categories; implementing the new national system of social assistance and social services, gradually improving the guaranteed minimum income, the support granted to families with children and the public pension system to ensure the elimination of severe poverty; finalising implementation of the Government strategy for the improvement of the Roma situation and in particular eliminating cases of people with no ID papers, supporting training and employment, education, health care, housing and infrastructure development programmes which promote the social inclusion of the Roma community and continue to fight against discrimination.

Commenting on the loan EIB Vice-President Wolfgang Roth said in Warsaw : 'Our loan for urban renewal and social housing will enhance the quality of the urban environment through the rehabilitation of low-cost rental social housing and the construction of energy efficient new apartment blocks in derelict urban areas; building and modernising homes is important as it should lead to a better quality of life for many Poles living in the country's more densely populated areas and will help improve and protect the environment.

Secondly, the improvement of production linked infrastructure including the restoration of old industrial sites, tourism (for example the plan to modernise a thermal bath), and environmental protection (for example using methane gas from collieries to provide central heating for houses, for which 5.6 MECU has been allocated). Thirdly, transborder actions for which 0.1 MECU has been allocated.