15. Underlines the urgent need to tackle unemployment, in particular youth employment and in that framework calls upon the Commission, inter alia, to ensure that Member States properly implement the youth guarantee initiative; furthermore calls on the Commission to initiate a framework directive on minimum income, defining common standards and indicators on the adequacy and accessibility conditions of minimum income schemes and common indicators and benchmarks for the assessment of the effectiveness of policies designed to prevent and combat poverty to deliver on everyone’s right to a dignified life;

Third, one area in which the federal government is investing substantially, but with minimal impact in fact, negligible impact on access is tax credits and the registered education savings plan.

(5) The CXL schedule provides for certain tariff quotas under the arrangements for current and minimum access.

Companies that create more than five jobs will have access to the scheme without further conditions, while those that create between one and five jobs will be eligible only if they make a minimum investment of EUR 75 000 during the first two years of business.

One possible solution would be to define a system of control of national aid to the coal industry which meets the need for security of supply by maintaining minimum access to reserves and ties in with social and regional perspectives.

Whereas the Agreement provides for a series of tariff quotas under arrangements for current and minimum access; whereas the conditions applicable to such quotas are spelled out in detail in the Agreement; whereas, in view of the large number of quotas and in order to ensure that they are implemented as effectively as possible, the Commission should be responsible for opening and administering them using the management committee procedure;