European Union Pension Directive

[Excerpt] This Directive thus represents a first step on the way to an internal market for occupational retirement provision organised on a European scale. By setting the ‘prudent person’ rule as the underlying principle for capital investment and making it possible for institutions to operate across borders, the redirection of savings into the sector of occupational retirement provision is encouraged, thus contributing to economic and social progress. The prudential rules laid down in this Directive are intended both to guarantee a high degree of security for future pensioners through the imposition of stringent supervisory standards, and to clear the way for the efficient management of occupational pension schemes

Council Regulation of October 2013

Council Regulation (EU) of October 15, 2013 conferring specific tasks on the European Central Bank Concerning Policies Relating to the Prudential Supervision of Credit Institution

Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council

Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of July 15, 2014 establishing uniform rules and a uniform procedure for the resolution of credit institutions and certain investment firms in the framework of a Single Resolution Mechanism and a Single Resolution Fund and Amending Regulation

Report on the implementation of programmes, ad hoc centres, pilot projects and joint operations

I.INTRODUCTIONTaking into account the Communication by the European Commission to the Council and the European Parliament concerning the integrated management of the external borders of the Member States of the European Union (7.5.2003), the "feasibility study" on the creation of a European Border Police, and the outcomes of the workshop on Police and border security under the auspices of OISIN programme, the Plan for the management of external borders (thereafter referred to as "Plan"), was ..

The rise and change of the competence strategy: reflections on twenty-five years of skills policies in the EU

The principal aim of this article is to provide a historical overview of 25 years of competence policy in the European Union, highlighting connections between past and current initiatives and outlining possible scenarios for the decade to come. The article presents the social investment turn in social policy as the critical political background against which the emergence of a competence strategy in European Union education policy should be analysed and understood. The competence strategy, it is argued, finds its roots in a renewed attention at the European Union level for harmonising educational outputs and labour market demands. While trying to produce a schematic history of the emergence and change of the competence strategy, the article does not seek to offer strict definitions of competence itself; instead, it conveys the nebulous and context-dependent nature of the concept