For the latter, this includes: understanding the determinants of health and optimising the effectiveness of healthcare provision; supporting policies empowering rural areas; researching and preserving Europe's cultural heritage and richness; promoting informed consumer choices; creating an inclusive digital ecosystem based on knowledge and information; robust decision making on energy policy and in ensuring a consumer-friendly European electricity grid and a transition to a sustainable energy system; supporting evidence-based transport policy and foresight; supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, resource e ...[+++]fficiency initiatives and measures towards a green and sustainable economy; and understanding cultural and socio-economic aspects of security, risk and management issues (including legal and human rights aspects).

39. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to implement individual case management schemes and care plans; however, while acknowledging that a client/patient-centred approach is necessary, believes that the costs of such an approach in terms of deploying trained care providers and utilising appropriate ‘tools’ should not be met solely by the individual but should be considered as a societal responsibility, guaranteeing inter- and intra-generational solidarity; believes consideration should be given to new forms of solidarity which lie ...[+++]hidden in the potential of the older generation and which should be incorporated into solutions for care- and cure-related issues;

39. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to implement individual case management schemes and care plans; however, while acknowledging that a client/patient-centred approach is necessary, believes that the costs of such an approach in terms of deploying trained care providers and utilising appropriate ‘tools’ should not be met solely by the individual but should be considered as a societal responsibility, guaranteeing inter- and intra-generational solidarity; believes consideration should be given to new forms of solidarity which lie ...[+++]hidden in the potential of the older generation and which should be incorporated into solutions for care- and cure-related issues;

(3) Following the removal of the noisiest aircraft pursuant to Directive 2002/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 March 2002 on the establishment of rules and procedures with regard to the introduction of noise-related operating restrictions at Community airports and Directive 2006/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the regulation of the operation of aeroplanes covered by Part II, Chapter 3, Volume 1 of Annex 16 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, second edition (1988) , an update of new measures is required to enable authorities to deal with the noisiest aircra ...[+++]ft to improve the noise climate around airports in the Union within the international framework of the Balanced Approach on Noise Management.

The conduct of the auctions, the establishment and management of the auction calendar and various other tasks relating to the auctions, such as maintaining an up-to-date website accessible throughout the Union, require joint action by the Member States and the Commission, within the meaning of the third subparagraph of Article 91(1) of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (the Financial Regulation).

- (PL) Mr President, the main healthcare challenges facing us today are improving the health of older people, preparing to deal with geriatric diseases in relation to the ageing population, universal access to a proper level of healthcare, ensuring financial stability for national healthcare systems, giving particular attention to access to healthcare for disabled people, children, the elderly, and those from poorer families, guaranteeing the rights of the patient in cross-border healthcare, establishing cross-border electronic interoperability for medical records, while at the same time ensuring protection for personal data and the prov ...[+++]ision of good working conditions for employees in the healthcare sector.