1. Regrets that the percentage of early school leavers in the EU currently stands at 14.4 % and that 17.4 % of these have only completed primary school; notes that reducing early school leaving has been a target for the EU and Member States for many years but not sufficient progress has been made, with rates for early school leaving above 30 % in some Member States; notes the tremendous divergence in the percentage of early school leavers in the various Member States and the difficulty of drawing comparisons in terms of relevant contextual factors – such as migratory movements and levels of education in the family – between different regions and Member States; points out that these children are most often from low-education backgrounds o ...[+++]r socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds and are more often boys than girls; calls therefore for a stronger commitment from Member States and for closer monitoring on the part of the Commission in order to make sure that Member States are creating and implementing strategies to reduce early school leaving; warns that the possible public spending cuts in the education sector on account of the economic crisis and the budgetary austerity policies being implemented in Member States will have adverse effects in that they will further increase the numbers of early school leavers in the EU;

14. Stresses the importance, in order to combat early school leaving effectively, of exchange of experience and best practice at national and European level; therefore urges the Commission to encourage cooperation between the Member States and to support their strategies through the exchange of experience, expertise and good practices; supports the Council Recommendation which suggests a common European framework for effective and efficient policies against early school leaving, including the idea that Member States should adopt comprehensive national strategies against early school leaving by 2012;

This Article sets out the key definitions, which are based on those in Commission Recommendation 2005/162/EC on the role of non-executive or supervisory directors of listed companies and of the Committees of the (supervisory) board[14], on Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises[15] in relation to the definition of SMEs, and on Commission Directive 2006/111/EC of 16 November 2006 on the transparency of financial relations between Member States and public undertakings, as well as on financial transparency within certain undertakings[16] in relation to the d ...[+++]efinition of public undertakings.

- dejudicialisation: transferring the administration of justice from the courts to social mediators which may be, depending on the type of delinquent behaviour, school committees (teachers, pupils and parents), associations at neighbourhood or local level (e.g. social ombudsman), social workers etc.,

Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Report on the application by Member States of the EU of the Commission 2009/385/EC Recommendation (2009 Recommendation on directors´ remuneration) complementing Recommendations 2004/913/EC and 2005/162/EC as regards the regime for the remuneration of directors of listed companies (COM(2010) 285 final, 2.5.2010)

Amounts to be paid back by the trustee to the general budget of the European Union, the trustee's management fees and other eligible costs and expenses shall be debited from the Trust account in accordance with the terms set out in the agreements between the Commission and the trustee.