Such measures should include (1) continuing to pursue horizontal employment targets, (2) setting targets for percentage reductions in the three indicators that make up the composite poverty and social exclusion indicator, (3) setting European and national level sub-targets for groups presenting a higher risk of poverty than the population as a whole, such as children and single-parent families, and for the working poor, (4) a review of how Member States calculate poverty levels and set their national targets, and (5) ensuring that the Member States renew their commitment to make sure that the combined efforts of each of them enable the overall Europ ...[+++]ean Union objective to be achieved;

While some Member States have interpreted the scope of Directive 89/105/EEC restrictively, the Court of Justice ruled that those pricing and reimbursement procedures fall within the scope of Directive 89/105/EEC given the objectives of that Directive and the need to ensure its effectiveness.

While some Member States have interpreted the scope of Directive 89/105/EEC restrictively, the Court of Justice ruled that those pricing and reimbursement procedures fall within the scope of Directive 89/105/EEC given the objectives of that Directive and the need to ensure its effectiveness.

As called for by the European Parliament, thorough and comprehensive implementation of Single Market legislation by all Member States requires by 2012: (i) the notification by Member States of correlation tables to be made public; (ii) numerical targets limiting the transposition and compliance deficit for national legislation to 0.5%[66] for the transposition deficit, and 0.5%[67] for the compliance deficit, respectively; (iii) more effective application of infringement proceedings through numerical targets relating to the stages of the procedure.

K. whereas there is a dearth of general surveys on the effectiveness of the method in achieving both the long-term objective of national policy coordination and the procedure's short-term objectives, namely exchanging good practice, assessing national policy, setting targets and responding to Commission recommendations,

K. whereas there is a dearth of general surveys of the effectiveness of the method in achieving both the long-term objective of national policy coordination and the procedure’s short-term objectives, namely: exchanging good practice, assessing national policy, setting targets and responding to Commission recommendations,