The development of these arrangements between national authorities responsible for managing the failure of global firms should be a means to ensure effective planning, decision-making and coordination in respect of international groups.

The development of those arrangements between national authorities responsible for managing the failure of global firms should be a means to ensure effective planning, decision-making and coordination in respect of international groups.

Yet rail research and innovation in the EU suffers from a number of important market and systemic failures that call for public intervention, in particular: high level of product customisation due to the diversity of national standards and operating frameworks; the lack of a system-wide approach to innovation and the complexity of interfaces between railway sub-systems; limited private investment in research and innovation and limited market uptake of innovations due to low operational margins and funding gaps in the full innovation cycle; and heightened financial risks due to the capital-intensity of investments.

The KPIs should be related to the key activities in the provisioning cycle, covering all its stages, i.e. the ordering process, the delivery or provision of the service, the quality of service including faults and fault repair times, and migration by access seekers between different regulated wholesale inputs.

Promote a lifecycle approach to work through: a renewed endeavour to build employment pathways for young people and reduce the youth unemployment; resolute action based inter alia on affirmative measures to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities for women and men in terms of access to employment, pay, promotion and working conditions; better reconciliation of work and private life, including the promotion of better sharing of family responsibilities between spouses and partners and provision of accessible and affordable modes of public childcare and services providing a high level of educational quality, a high-quality public care ...[+++] service for elderly people and other dependants; modern pension and healthcare systems, ensuring their adequacy, financial sustainability and responsiveness to changing needs, so as to support participation in employment and longer working lives, including appropriate incentives to work and discourage early retirement; support for working conditions conducive to active ageing through an attractive supply of voluntary part-time work and opportunities for phased retirement (Integrated guideline No 17).

- In order to assist the importer in securing his declaration of origin, special clauses on compliance with origin requirements should be introduced in commercial transactions between exporters and importers, including the definition of responsibilities in the event of failures and the possibility to transmit statements of origin by electronic means.