It is now our responsibility to take all the necessary steps to adapt means and methods to the new realities.

14. Notes the initiative to develop the social dimension, and welcomes the wish to ensure the sustainability of pension systems; strongly emphasises that, along with the necessary pension reforms, Member States must increase the labour market participation of underemployed sections of the population, such as women, immigrants, older workers and disabled people, e.g. through targeted integration measures, measures to reconcile work and family life and incentives to promote a longer working life; stresses, furthermore, that all Member States must promote incentives for work, e.g. by taking action to adapt tax and benefit systems to make ...[+++] work and education pay; reiterates that full employment is the best way to ensure the sustainability of pensions;

23. Notes the initiative to develop the social dimension, and welcomes the wish to ensure the sustainability of pensions systems; strongly emphasises that, along with necessary pension reforms, Member States must increase the labour market participation of underemployed sections of the population, such as women, immigrants, older workers and disabled people, e.g. through targeted integration measures, measures for the reconciliation of work and family life and incentives to promote a longer working life; stresses, furthermore, that all Member States must promote incentives for work, e.g. by taking action to adapt tax and benefit systems to make ...[+++] work and education pay;

20. Strongly emphasises that Member States must increase the labour market participation of underemployed sections of the population, such as young people, women, immigrants, older workers and disabled people, for example by means of targeted integration measures, measures for the reconciliation of work and family life and incentives to promote a longer working life; underscores furthermore that all Member States must promote incentives for work, for example by taking action to adapt tax and benefit systems to make ...[+++] work and education pay; furthermore believes that under the new employment strategy, national and regional labour market policies must be adapted to local conditions and to more flexible methods of working;

The elements of this framework are: to raise awareness of adaptation; to facilitate the capacity for action on adaptation; to coordinate adaptation into government programs; to promote research on adaptation; to support networks, the communication point that many of you have been bringing up; and to provide methods for adaptation planning.

Structural Funds will support in particular the measures listed below: - infrastructure measures to protect the environment, in particular * reclamation of derelict industrial sites and restoration of derelict commercial areas including the necessary decontamination * investments in waste water treatment and refuse disposal * water supply and distribution - investment of the productive sector in environmental improvement and clean technologies - productive investment in connection with business start-ups, setting-up, extension, rationalisation and restructuring of enterprises which can unequivocally be related to environmental improvemen ...[+++]t - introduction of services and environmental agencies for giving advice and information Priority 5 - Measures to promote the development of human resource, vocational training and further training as well as employment The strategy to develop human resources and employment and to combat unemployment - in line with the White Paper - will concentrate the efforts of the ESF on the following priorities: - measures for training, retraining and lifetime learning; assistance with finding a job; help for those who have lost their jobs, are threatened with unemployment of who are in employment but need to have their qualifications brought into line with market needs and new technologies; - measures for target groups which concentrate on one of the following areas: a) improved access for young people to initial training and the transition to the labour market including Youth start measures; b) improvement in the opportunities for employment and training for unemployed persons who are difficult to place in work, long-term unemployed persons threatened with exclusion from the labour market; c) improvement of vocational qualification and (re)integration of women into the labour market in all areas of the economy. - technical assistance measures together with pilot and demonstration projects.