Currently, not even the types of account falling under the deficit guarantee scheme’s requirements are the same in every Member State.

Currently, not even the types of account falling under the deficit guarantee scheme’s requirements are the same in every Member State.

IV?Updated Stability Programme of Germany (1999-2003) PAGEREF _Toc476535948 \h IV?Updated Stability Programme of Italy (1999-2003) PAGEREF _Toc476535949 \h V?Updated Stability Programme of Belgium (2000-2003) PAGEREF _Toc476535950 \h VII?Updated Stability Programme of Spain (1999-2003) PAGEREF _Toc476535951 \h VIII?Updated Convergence Programme of United Kingdom (2004-2005) PAGEREF _Toc476535952 \h IX?Updated Convergence Programme of Denmark (1999-2005) PAGEREF _Toc476535953 \h XIBROAD ECONOMIC POLICY GUIDELINES PAGEREF _Toc476535954 \h XIICOMMISSION REPORT ON THE FUNCTIONING OF PRODUCT AND CAPITAL MARKETS - CARDIFF PROCESS PAGEREF _Toc476535955 \h XIIPREPARATION OF THE SPECIAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON EMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC REFORMS AND SOCIAL COH ...[+++]ESION -Towards a Europe based on Innovation and Knowledge, Lisbon - 23/24 March 2000 PAGEREF _Toc476535956 \h XIIICOMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN THE LAST PHASES OF THE COMPLETION OF EMU PAGEREF _Toc476535957 \h XIIIMANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE IMF - EU CANDIDATE PAGEREF _Toc476535958 \h XIVMISCELLANEOUS PAGEREF _Toc476535959 \h XIVITEMS APPROVED WITHOUT DEBATEECOFIN--Technical scheme for handling counterfeit eurocoins - Conclusions PAGEREF _Toc476535962 \h XIV--VAT - reduced rate for labour-intensive services * PAGEREF _Toc476535963 \h XV--Sixth VAT Directive - Derogation for Germany * PAGEREF _Toc476535964 \h XV--Excessive deficit procedure * PAGEREF _Toc476535965 \h XVIEXTERNAL RELATIONS--FRY/Serbia - sanctions PAGEREF _Toc476535967 \h XVI--Kosovo PAGEREF _Toc476535968 \h XVI--Relations with Morocco PAGEREF _Toc476535969 \h XVII--EC-ASEAN Cooperation Agreement PAGEREF _Toc476535970 \h XVIIEUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA PAGEREF _Toc476535971 \h XVIIDEVELOPMENT COOPERATION--ACP-EC PAGEREF _Toc476535973 \h XVII--South Africa PAGEREF _Toc476535974 \h XVIIISECURITY AND DEFENCE--National military experts PAGEREF _Toc476535976 \h XVIIIINTERNAL MARKET--Directive on electronic commerce PAGEREF _Toc476535978 \h XVIII--Fourth Motor Insurance Directive PAGE ...

The aid scheme that the Commission has approved today for Sweden lays down the eligible area ('nordic' regions defined in the accession negotiations with Sweden), the types of production covered (milk, pigmeat, eggs, berries and vegetables) and the limits on national aid.

18. EMPHASISES that priority must be given to the improvement of public and consumer opinion about forestry and forest products, assuring them that forests are managed sustainably; NOTING that forest certification schemes are market-based instruments which aim to seek to improve consumer awareness of the environmental qualities of sustainable forest management and to promote the use of wood and forest products as environmentally friendly and renewable raw materials, and that forest certification schemes should be comparable and the performance indicators should be compatible with internationally agreed principles of sustainable forest m ...[+++]anagement and furthermore should comply with conditions regarding their voluntary nature, credibility, transparency, cost efficiency, open access and non-discriminatory character with respect to forest types and owners; one essential point in ensuring credibility should be the independent audit of forest management; INVITES the Commission to consider the possibility for further action at EU level;

The main points are set forth below: The Commission proposal for a Council Directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to certain employment relationships with regard to distortions of competition (based on Article 100 of the Treaty) provides : - that part-time and temporary workers should enjoy access to vocational training operations and social services provided by the firm under conditions comparable to those enjoyed by workers employed fulltime for an indefinite duration; they should also enjoy the sa ...[+++]me treatment as regards benefits in cash and in kind granted under social assistance schemes or under non-contributory social security schemes; - such employees should also be taken into account, on the same footing as the other employees (and in proportion to the duration of their work) for the calculation of the threshhold within the undertaking at which workers' representative bodies must be set up. Where the employer intends to use such employees, he is required to inform (and consult) in due time the workers' representative bodies within the undertaking, and in undertakings with more than 1 000 employees a regular report must be drawn up on this type of employment with regard to the development of the workforce as a whole. In the same vein, the employer is required in due time to inform part-time and temporary workers currently in employment when he proposes to recruit full-time workers for an indefinite duration, so that their applications can be given due consideration; ./.