In setting emissions standards it is important to take into account the implications for markets and manufacturers' competitiveness, the direct and indirect costs imposed on business and the benefits that accrue in terms of stimulating innovation, improving air quality, reducing health costs and increasing life expectancy, as well as the implications for the overall impact on carbon dioxide emissions.

The Commission will: Present in 2011 a White Paper on Pensions to jointly address sustainability and adequacy of pensions in the post-crisis context. Launch a European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on active and healthy ageing in 2011 and support initiatives for active ageing at all levels in the context of a European Year for Active Ageing in 2012. Develop the Voluntary European Quality Framework on social services at sectoral level, including in the field of long-term care and homelessness. Undertake an assessment of the efficiency and effectiveness of health expenditure, including in relation to the issues highlighted in the communication on "Solidarity in Health: reducing health inequalities in the EU", Present in 2011 a legislative init ...[+++]iative to ensure access to certain basic banking services and call on the banking sector to submit a self-regulatory initiative geared towards improving the transparency and comparability of bank charges.

It is a fundamental contradiction to the principles of a free marketplace and an overall objective of reducing the overheads of the industry.

The measures are a health care policy program 'Health for all - Health 2015' targeted to local level; a National Health Project to secure the functioning of the health care system (the project will deal, among other things, with the issue of charges, that may have prevented chronically ill low-income people from seeking medical attention); and a parallel National Project for the Social Welfare Field.

" (5) The Ministers shall conduct research or studies relating to a safer environment for children and shall (a) identify environmental pollutants commonly used or found in areas that are reasonably accessible to children; (b) create a list that has been reviewed by a team of scientists of environmental pollutants identified under paragraph (a) to have known, probable, or suspected health risks to children; (c) create a scientifically reviewed list of safer-for-children substances and products recommended by the Ministers for use in areas that are reasonably accessible to children and that will minimize potential risks to children from ...[+++] exposure to environmental pollutants; (d) establish guidelines to help reduce and eliminate the exposure of children to environmental pollutants in areas reasonably accessible to children, including advice on how to establish an integrated environmental pollutant reduction program; (e) create a family right-to-know information kit that includes a summary of helpful information and guidance to families, including the list created under paragraph (c), the guidelines established under paragraph (d), information on the potential health effects of environmental pollutants, practical suggestions on how parents may reduce their children's exposure to environmental pollutants and other relevant information, as determined by the Ministers; (f) make all information gathered under this subsection available to governments and the public; and (g) review and update the lists created under paragraphs (b) and (c) at least every two years" .

This scheme, with a budget of 327 mio DM (around 163 MECU) for the years 1993 - 1996, finances fundamental research and basic industrial research aimed at the protection of health by reducing and providing safeguards against dangerous burdens and adaptations of work and technology to the individual.