21. Points out that resource efficiency could help EU businesses exploit markets in fast-growing eco-industries, but notes that investment in innovative business models is, in many cases, not properly provided for; calls on the Commission to establish an appropriate political basis for the circular economy; calls on the Commission and the European Investment Bank to ensure that the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) supports resource and energy efficiency objectives – including improved energy efficiency of buildings (including social housing) and the development of environmentally sustainable and innovative SMEs, start-ups ...[+++]and entrepreneurs – and strengthens advisory services on resource efficiency; calls for funding allocated from the EU Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME), Horizon 2020 and the European Structural and Investment Funds to be more focused on developing sustainable, innovative and resource-efficient solutions and new business models (such as leasing or product-service systems), and on improving product design and material efficiency in product and process performance; calls on the Commission to stop the use of EU funds for landfilling, and, in order to avoid waste of valuable materials and the creation of lock-in effects and over-capacity situations, to refrain from promoting and investing in waste-to energy infrastructure;

1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘Towards a circular economy: A zero-waste programme for Europe’ (COM(2014)0398); endorses the Commission’s approach to designing and innovating for a circular economy, setting up a policy framework to support resource efficiency, setting a resource-efficiency target as outlined in the communication and outlining a specific policy framework to enable SMEs to turn environmental challenges into environmentally sustainable business opportunities; stresses that legislative measures are ne ...[+++]eded to move towards a circular economy, and calls on the Commission to come forward with an ambitious proposal on a circular economy by the end of 2015, as announced in its Work Programme for 2015;

10. Notes that the Agency's Annual Activity Report provides only limited information on the planning, allocation and use of human resources and considers that this deficiency could affect the stakeholders' view on the Agency's use of its staff; calls, accordingly, on the Agency to better reflect in its work programme and Annual Activity Report the planned allocation of staff resources as well as the final use of such resources; c ...[+++]alls, in particular, on the Agency to include in its Annual Activity Report a description of the impact on the available human resources when setting the objectives of the Agency;

10. Notes that the Agency's Annual Activity Report provides only limited information on the planning, allocation and use of human resources and considers that this deficiency could affect the stakeholders' view on the Agency's use of its staff; calls, accordingly, on the Agency to better reflect in its work programme and Annual Activity Report the planned allocation of staff resources as well as the final use of such resources; c ...[+++]alls, in particular, on the Agency to include in its Annual Activity Report a description of the impact on the available human resources when setting the objectives of the Agency;

2. In pursuing its activities, the Agency shall, in order to achieve complementarity and guarantee the best possible use of resources, take account, where appropriate, of information collected and of activities undertaken, in particular by:

3. In pursuing its activities, the Institute shall, in order to avoid duplication and to ensure the best possible use of resources, take account of existing information from whatever source and in particular of activities already carried out by the Community institutions and by other institutions, bodies and competent national and international organisations and work closely with the competent Commission services, including Eurosta ...[+++]t.