"further steps are needed" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where additional actions or measures need to be taken in order to achieve a desired outcome. Example: "In order to effectively combat climate change, further steps are needed to reduce carbon emissions and increase the use of renewable energy sources."
The agency will ask a committee of experts on Sept. 15 whether further steps are needed.
Although it already employs various means to do precisely this – and has most likely delivered a net benefit to the atmosphere – further steps are needed.
If new information comes to light, the next step is to assess its credibility and determine if further steps are needed".
Warning that the economic crisis has entered "a dangerous new phase" — a catch phrase she repeated several times during the fund meetings — she insists that further steps are needed to strengthen the euro zone.
"So that the F.S.B. can fulfill its mandate and keep pace with growing demands, further steps are needed to strengthen its capacity, the resources that support it and its governance arrangements," Mr. Draghi wrote in a letter to the G-20 dated Friday.
However, further steps are needed to realise cross-thematic integrated intelligence for environmental management, using standard harmonisation processes in order to facilitate information requirements at all levels of governance i.e. local, national, and EU.
Added to which further steps were needed to improve take-up among pensioners and others on low income.
The commission said it would study trading on Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange to see if further steps were needed on internalization and payment for orders.
China's government reported industrial production growth unexpectedly accelerated in May, hours after Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, left, said further steps were needed to cool the country's economy.
The report said that the Palestinian economy was helped by Israeli measures to facilitate movement and access, but that further steps were needed.
Fitch has already downgraded the country's debt over doubts that Portugal can cut its deficit of 9 percent of G.D.P. Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, warned Portugal this week that further steps were needed to cut its deficit.
