Translation of "Numerical targets" in German

Positive measures, including numerical targets for promoting women, must continue to be possible under the social protocol.

Since Deng Xiaoping’s reforms of the early 1980’s, less and less attention has been paid to the numerical targets of central planning.

Rather than trying to hit precise numerical targets, whether for inflation or unemployment, policymaking in this mode attempts to dampen excessive fluctuations.

Koizumi sought smaller government and set clear numerical targets for fiscal consolidation, including a primary budget balance in 10 years.

Central banks in advanced economies have recently been providing a few more case studies confirming Goodhart’s Law, as they struggle to fulfill their promises to raise inflation to the stable plateau of their numerical targets.

Much criticism has focused on the use of these numerical targets and indicators, which, skeptics argue, are misspecified, mismeasured, and divert attention from equally important areas.

Still, even if other world leaders conclude that they cannot support numerical targets, they must recognize the pain that the US is suffering in the name of free trade.

There are currently considerable differences between Member States with respect to the numerical targets and specific caseloads they wish to resettle, the legal criteria which are used for deciding who to resettle, and the partners through which resettlement is carried out.

The Commission will therefore initiate a more determined policy in this field and will call on the Member States to improve the transposition of – and compliance with – their national legislation, using numerical targets.

With regard to the preventive element, and in consonance with the targets outlined in the Annual Growth Survey, it is proposed that the establishment of numerical targets for fiscal performance be based on a two-pronged system with top-down and bottom-up elements.

To this end, it subscribes to the declaration on capabilities adopted by the Council, which sets numerical and precise targets to enable the EU, in the coming years, to conduct simultaneously, outside its territory, a series of civilian missions and military operations of varying scope, corresponding to the most likely scenarios.

Although the EU Council did not set specific numerical targets on the new Aid for Trade categories, the EU is already providing substantial support to such areas.

Clear and stable numerical targets can help to trigger action and promote new alliances for development.

Any effort that is concrete and implementable needs to monitor the results, and setting clear numerical targets is the best way to do so.

MEASURING DISCRIMINATION- DATA COLLECTION ANDEUEQUALITYLAW that the Directives also entitle states to take action to prevent disadvantage,so that special measures may be takeneven where the disadvantages have not yet materialized.Under the last mentioned scenario,there should however beevidence of sufficiently widespread discrimination,or some other macrolevel factor likely to produce disadvantages inthe future.This is because positive action is only allowed with a view to ensuring full equality in practice.As well asassisting in detecting the necessary disadvantage to trigger specific measures,statistical data play an important part indesigning and carrying out special measures,such as the setting of numerical targets that organisations should aspireto reach in order to attain a balanced workforce.

These included commitments to keep rates on hold for an extended period of time and setting numerical targets for unemployment.

I would merely like to point out that those countries which have had the courage to set numerical targets achieve better results than others, and I believe this to be an extremely important argument.

Road safety can, and must, be a top priority both for the whole of Europe and for each individual country, which is why I shall support the proposal made by Mrs Hedkvist Petersen, whom I should like to congratulate on her report, that we need strategic planning for road safety and we need to set a series of strict but realistic numerical targets.

This is why many countries, particularly in Europe, have numerical targets driving their education policies: 50% participation in post-secondary education in the UK or Sweden, for example, or 80% to baccalaureate level in France.

Accordingly, no numerical target levels can yet be set with reasonable scientific certainty.

The property has numerous early stage targets in various stages of development and testing.

However, the agreement is based on a fixed numerical target, so it is not necessary to have a reference year.

Based on this, the project makes proposals for numerical target and threshold values for urban sprawl.

A numerical target will also act as a signal to the public, and will give all those involved an objective to aim for.

The numerical target for the education objective - reducing school drop-out rates and increasing the share of the population with a tertiary or equivalent education - will be agreed by the European Council in June 2010, taking into account the proposal of the Commission.

The flagship initiative, the European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion, includes proposals for practical measures to achieve the numerical poverty reduction target.

Firstly there is the question of whether it is appropriate to establish at European Union level a numerical target for the reduction of the annual number of road deaths from the current awful level of 45 000 a year to a maximum of 25 000 by the year 2010.