European Commission Proposes '10 commandments' for Employment Reform
Date: 8-4-2003
Brussels: The European Commission today agreed proposals for a new, more results-oriented European Employment Strategy to help it contribute more effectively to delivering more jobs, better jobs and an inclusive labour market. The Commission sets 10 priorities for action in Member States, wherever practicable to be accompanied by targets, and makes individual recommendations to each Member State on what the focus of its reform efforts should be.
The Commission also calls on governments, business and trade unions not to relax their effort during this difficult and uncertain period but rather to intensify the push for reform. The guidelines and individual recommendations now go to Council for agreement. The Commission hopes that agreement on the package can be reached at the Council meeting of 3 June in Luxembourg. For the first time, the Commission has today adopted its proposals for the broad economic policy guidelines and for the employment guidelines and recommendations on the same day, and in streamlined form, in order to ensure greater cohesion and effectiveness of the EU reform agenda.
Read the Communication "European Commission proposes '10 commandments' for employment reform" in Pdf format (105 kb) from the following link:
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Read the Proposal for a Council Decision on The Employment Guidelines: A European strategy for full employment and better jobs for all from the following link in Pdf format:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2003/apr/guid_en.pdf
Read the COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MEMBER STATES' EMPLOYMENT POLICIES in Pdf format from the following link:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2003/apr/recom_en.pdf