– (HU) Mr President, we all know that as a result of the financial crisis, the state pillar of the pension system, which offers a greater degree of security, is becoming increasingly attractive in several European countries.

This involves a Memorandum of Understanding dealing with prevention, identification and removal of infringing offers and sellers from Internet platforms, signed in 2011 and involving 33 companies and trade associations, covering 39 different internet sites.

Further meetings have been scheduled before the end of the year, which could lead to a Memorandum of Understanding, dealing with issues such as prevention, identification and removal of infringing offers (e.g. Notice and Take-Down procedures) and sellers from internet platforms.

By this I mean firstly putting in place the conditions necessary so that the Israeli withdrawal creates an opportunity for ordinary Palestinians to improve their daily lives. Secondly, the implementation of the roadmap in full, and thirdly, the creation of a viable Palestinian state at peace with its neighbour, Israel.

Promote a lifecycle approach to work through: a renewed endeavour to build employment pathways for young people and reduce the youth unemployment; resolute action based inter alia on affirmative measures to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities for women and men in terms of access to employment, pay, promotion and working conditions; better reconciliation of work and private life, including the promotion of better sharing of family responsibilities between spouses and partners and provision of accessible and affordable modes of public childcare and services providing a high level of educational quality, a high-quality public care service for elderly people and other dependants; modern pension and healthcare systems, ensuring their ...[+++]adequacy, financial sustainability and responsiveness to changing needs, so as to support participation in employment and longer working lives, including appropriate incentives to work and discourage early retirement; support for working conditions conducive to active ageing through an attractive supply of voluntary part-time work and opportunities for phased retirement (Integrated guideline No 17).

2. Notes that it is essential that by definition a pension includes cover for longevity through the purchase of an annuity and takes the view that supplementary pensions which also cover biometric risks are particularly advantageous for the person covered and for society as a whole and that accordingly, in the future legal framework for supplementary pensions, they could be given preference;