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Download — The perspective for sustainable employment in Rail, rolling stock and infra producers. How the industrial change will influence European employment and competence base
The prospects for sustainable employment in rail, rolling stock and infrastructure: how industrial change will influence the European employment and skills base - Mr Jean-Paul Preumont, Social Affairs Adviser of the CER- Community of European Railways
The prospects for sustainable employment in rail, rolling stock and infrastructure - Mr Lahcen Rachidi, Sales & Development Director at AKKA Technologies, Engineering and Technology Consultancy
The prospects of employment in the European rail industry - Mr Michael Clausecker, Director-General of UNIFE- Association of the European Rail Industry
The EESC agrees that the 2050 vision goal of a greenhouse gas reduction of 60% in the transport sector, although very challenging, is in line with the EU's overall climate policy aims and that it strikes a reasonable balance between the need for quick reductions of greenhouse gases and the time needed to optimise energy efficiency in a single European Transport Area and develop new and sustainable fuels and propulsion systems in order to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
Download — Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area (White Paper)
In the framework of this opinion a hearing (The processing and exploitation, for economic and environmental purposes, of the industrial and mining waste deposits from European Union) was organized in Cluj Napoca / Kolozsvár, in Romania, on 19 May 2011.
Download — The processing and exploitation, for economic and environmental purposes of the industrial and mining waste deposits from European Union