uses/resources or changes in financial assets/liabilities

net asset balance

concept of change in financial assets/liabilities

* The resources required to meet solidarity commitments and focus further on growth and employment post-enlargement.

1". funds" means financial assets and economic benefits of every kind, including but not limited to cash, cheques, claims on money, drafts, money orders and other payment instruments; deposits with financial institutions or other entities, balances on accounts, debts and debt obligations; publicly and privately traded securities and debt instruments, including stocks and shares, certificates presenting securities, bonds, notes, warrants, debentures, derivatives contracts ...[+++]; interest, dividends or other income on or value accruing from or generated by assets; credit, right of set-off, guarantees, performance bonds or other financial commitments; letters of credit, bills of lading, bills of sale; documents evidencing an interest in funds or financial resources, and any other instrument of export-financing.

In 2014 the European Resource Efficiency Platform (EREP) also highlighted the need to develop a broad strategy for greening jobs, skills and education, and called upon the EU to integrate sustainability objectives, identify labour market instruments to accompany the transition, mobilise EU funding, support exchange of good practice, promote awareness raising and engagement, and ensure follow up in the European Semester of economic ...[+++]policy coordination[10].

7. Reiterates its concerns about the funding of the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) as a key tool for the fight against youth unemployment in the Union, which is a top priority for all European decision-makers; notes the frontloading of the YEI top-up allocation in 2014 and 2015; regrets that no new commitments are proposed in 2016; recalls that the MFF has provided for a global margin for commitments to be made available over and above the ceilings as of 2016 for policy objectives related to growth and employment, in particular youth employment; recalls that, consequently, the Regulation on the European Social Fund has provided ...[+++] that the resources for the YEI may be revised upwards for the years 2016 to 2020 in the framework of the budgetary procedure; calls, therefore, for the Youth Employment Initiative to be continued by making use of any flexibility provision contained in the MFF, and intends to ensure that the budget 2016 foresees the necessary amounts;