14. Emphasises the great importance of public spaces in helping to develop projects (providing visibility and acting as incubators for companies) and providing financial and tax-related support, relevant and up-to-date information, and advice on starting up a business, in particular for new female entrepreneurs; stresses, likewise, the importance of funds for business consolidation, greater presence in social forums, work-life balance policies and recognition by the authorities of the importance of this group – both new and long-esta ...[+++]blished entrepreneurs – to society;

Following up the Final Report of the CARS21 Group, the Commission will coordinate all policy actions supporting the market introduction of clean vehicles, including the deployment of plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles by ensuring timely regulation and standards, facilitating the roll out of recharging infrastructure, and potentially providing seed funding for key RD and demonstration projects (CARS 2020 Communication by November 2012).

3. Welcomes the Commission’s proposals on extending the use of innovative financial instruments to strengthen the leverage of the EU budget while fully respecting the rights of the budgetary and discharge authorities; asks the Commission to improve framework conditions and access to finance for primary target groups such as SMEs (and particularly seed and early-stage companies), universities and research centres; stipulates that any SME-specific activities should function under the umbrella of the EIB group, providing this does not divert funds from FP7 funding; calls for further evaluation of the concept of so-called ‘soft loans’; e ...[+++]xpresses its doubts about any such loan arrangements which envisage the possibility of transforming loans into grants; asks the Commission and the EIB to implement the Risk Sharing Financial Facility (RSFF) as a key instrument to finance research and innovation projects and improve competitiveness ensuring long-term economic growth and employment in Europe;

The co-ordinated package of personalised services to be funded, including its compatibility with actions funded by the Structural Funds, includes measures for the reintegration of the 2 103 targeted workers into employment, such as training courses leading to qualifications, workshops and peer groups, ancillary measures and international job search, in-depth start-up advice, job search, activation premium, coaching and advisory services in a new job and during unemployment.

Safety precautions during refuelling and defuelling including when an APU is in operation or when a turbine engine is running and the prop-brakes are on;

Welcomes the efforts so far made in the States in the Luxembourg and Helsinki Groups and the gradual progress in implementing structural change in agriculture there; considers it necessary to continue along the same path and hopes that, after initial difficulties, the Sapard programme (Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development), which is intended to provide pre-accession aid, can finally successfully perform its intended task of helping the candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe to implement the requisite structural changes in agriculture;