The elderly are also exposed to a higher risk of poverty compared to the overall population (at 19%) and in a number of countries, the elderly population is particularly exposed to material deprivation.

13. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop and encourage research initiatives aimed at gathering data on the situation and needs of older people in European society, making clear the difference in the situation of the third age and the fourth age; calls on all the institutions and actors involved at worldwide level to increase cooperation by developing common research, policy making and programmes, the analysis and processing of statistics, including data disaggregated by sex, age and other factors, and regular performance reviews;

The initiative contains additional provisions on lis pendens in criminal matters (Articles 1(d) and 3) and the criteria for determining the Member State having jurisdiction.Applying the third mandatory ground for non-enforcement provided for by the Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 (Article 3(3)), the judicial authority of the Member State of enforcement refuses to order enforcement if a person against whom a European arrest warrant has been issued cannot, on grounds of age, be held criminally liable for the act on the basis of the warrant under the law of the Member State of enforcement.

The initiative contains additional provisions on lis pendens in criminal matters (Articles 1(d) and 3) and the criteria for determining the Member State having jurisdiction.Applying the third mandatory ground for non-enforcement provided for by the Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 (Article 3(3)), the judicial authority of the Member State of enforcement refuses to order enforcement if a person against whom a European arrest warrant has been issued cannot, on grounds of age, be held criminally liable for the act on the basis of the warrant under the law of the Member State of enforcement.

(b) persons living permanently in institutions who have little or no autonomy of action or decision in economic matters (e.g. members of religious orders living in monasteries, long-term patients in hospitals, prisoners serving long sentences, old persons living permanently in retirement homes). Such people are treated as comprising, together, a single institutional unit, that is, a single household;

Whereas the total value of the goods eligible for exemption must not exceed 25 units of account per person ; whereas, under Article 1 (2) of Directive 69/169/EEC, Member States may reduce this exemption to 10 units of account for travellers under 15 years of age;