Examples of using Convergence programmes in English and their translations into Czech
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Delivering an opinion on the member states' updated stability and convergence programmes.
Stability or convergence programmes and domestic reform programmes are needed, but are not enough.
We must not allow any more excuses or uneasy compromises to be made when the Member States disclose their convergence programmes and budget policies to one another.
If Member States submit their stability and convergence programmes and their national reform programmes simultaneously, we will have a truly joined-up approach.
On 18 February, the Commission adopted its recommendations for Council opinions on the latest updates of the stability and convergence programmes for 17 Member States.
We must continuously monitor how convergence programmes and the economic policies of Member States with a derogation are implemented in line with convergence programme objectives.
In close cooperation with the Commission,Member States are now finalising their National Reform Programmes as well as their Stability or Convergence Programmes.
Member States will take these broad policy orientations into account when preparing their stability and convergence programmes and the national reform programmes to be submitted in April.
A particularly important role should also be played by the Commission, which should monitor Member States' actions very responsibly andfollow the implementation of specific measures in accordance with national stability and convergence programmes.
The Commission expects the Member States to take this guidance into account when they draft their stability or convergence programmes and the national reform programmes under the Europe 2020 Strategy.
The simultaneous presentation of Stability and Convergence Programmes and National Reform Programmes enables the EU to assess national growth and fiscal strategies together and to address possible risks, imbalances or trade-offs.
The conclusions provide guidance on short-term priorities under their national reform programmes(structural reforms)and stability or convergence programmes(fiscal policies), to be presented in April.
The Member States' stability and convergence programmes, as well as the national reform programmes, are planned to be discussed at the Ecofin meeting in June, and I hope that at last, these programmes will mean a real breakthrough in each Member State's fiscal and economic policy.
Then our new economic framework would be fully in place andall its tools could be used to assess national budgets, Stability and Convergence Programmes, as well as National Reform Programmes by 2012.
As regards, on the other hand, the stability and convergence programmes of the Member States, these should include information on the consistency of the Member States' budgetary objectives with the EU's growth and jobs strategy, and the Employment Committee and the Social Protection Committee should be consulted during every surveillance procedure.
The aim is to lay down rules regulating the content, presentation, examination andmonitoring of stability programmes and convergence programmes, as part of the multilateral surveillance to be carried out by the Commission and the Council at an early stage.
The individual elements of coordination in the area of economic policy, including surveillance of structural reforms, must be integrated into the new surveillance cycle, the so-called European Semester, which unites the existing processes in the pact with the mainaims of economic policies, ensuring that stabilisation and convergence programmes and national reform programmes are submitted concurrently.
In practice, this regulation lays down the rules regulating the content, presentation, examination andmonitoring of stability programmes and convergence programmes, as part of the multilateral surveillance that the Commission and Council want to carry out at an early stage; the argument being to prevent budget deficits and excessive debt occurring, and to promote the surveillance and coordination of economic policy.
Furthermore, without prejudice to the result of the Commission's in-depth analyses,the Council INVITES Member States to address already in their upcoming National Reform Programmes and Stability and Convergence Programmes the issues raised in the Alert Mechanism Report.
All of this should be ref lected in Member States' National Reform Programmes and Stability and Convergence Programmes, taking full account of the discussions held in the Council in the framework of the European Semester on the Commission's Annual Growth Survey as set out in the Presidency Synthesis Report and in the relevant Council conclusions(1), as well as of the analysis provided by the Commission in the context of the macroeconomic imbalances procedure, including in the Alert Mechanism Report.
So with the Lisbon country-specific recommendations- and we are going back to this immediately after the European Councilon 18 December- and with the new stability and convergence programmes, we will be sure that Member States will also coordinate the way they implement it.
The conclusions of our report are particularly useful now in terms of the need to link budgetary policies with structural reforms and, in this respect, I agree with Mrs Berès: we must review and adapt the national Lisbon programmes, the national reform programmes, andwe must also review the stability and convergence programmes of the Member States and adapt them to the current situation.
It brings together in one policy cycle the two arms of economic recovery: financial stability that is based on fiscal consolidation,reflected in stability and convergence programmes, and structural reforms for a smart, sustainable, socially-inclusive and job-creating growth.
Additionally, the Council completed this year's European Semester by adopting,without discussion:- recommendations to each member state on the economic policies set out in their national reform programmes;- opinions on the fiscal policies set out in the member states' stability and convergence programmes; and- a specific recommendation on the economic policies of the member states of the eurozone.
Following discussions in several Council formations, the process will culminate at the European Council in March, which will provide essential policy guidance for Member States,to be reflected in their stability and convergence programmes as well as their national reform programmes, both of which we are expecting in April.
Be that as it may, I should like you to tell me if Cyprus is in danger of being put under supervision andif you are satisfied with the convergence programme.
Of course, you said something about estimates, butI should like to know if you are satisfied with the convergence programme tabled by the government.
The latter will have to submitnational reform programmes between now and the end of the year in a coordinated fashion, with a stability and convergence programme, while also showing respect for the Stability and Growth Pact.
The Council adopted:- a recommendation on the implementation of the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the member states whose currency is the euro;- for each member state, a recommendation on its 2011 national reform programme andincluding an opinion on the 2011 update of its stability or convergence programme.
As we have said in our communication,we will ask for a new convergence programme for the Member States in the framework of the Stability and Growth Pact and we also have our exercise in the European strategy, that is the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs.