The Commission will: promote mobility among students, apprentices, workers and young entrepreneurs disseminate the results of an ongoing study on the link between language skills, creativity and innovation create a permanent platform for exchange of best practice for companies, gathering relevant information from the business community, social partners, trade organisations, chambers of commerce, trade promotion organisat ...[+++]ions, schools and education authorities The Member States are invited to: value and further develop language skills acquired outside the formal education system encourage trade promotion organisations to develop specific programmes, in particular for SMEs, that include language training supplement EU mobility schemes with specific support at national and local level |

18. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to involve social partners (trade unions and employers) and civil society, including gender equality bodies, in the realisation of gender equality, with a view to fostering equal treatment; stresses that social dialogue must include the monitoring and promotion of gender equality practices at the workplace, including flexible working arrangements, with the aim of facilitating the reconciliation of work and private life; stresses the importance of collective agreements in combating di ...[+++]scrimination and promoting equality between women and men at work, as well as other instruments such as codes of conduct, research or exchanges of experience and good practice in the area of gender equality;

T. whereas equality bodies are present in all Member States, but their work and impact varies greatly depending on their level of independence and their competences and resources; whereas such bodies should be adequately supported and strengthened in the performance of their tasks, with regard to the promotion, monitoring and support of equal treatment in an independent and effective manner;

provide assistance for investment promotion activities, such as investment promotion organisations, organisation of investment conferences, training programmes, strategy workshops and follow-up investment promotion missions.

(a) only issue the certificate of inspection and endorse the declaration in box 15, after it has carried out a documentary check on the basis of all relevant inspection documents, including in particular the production plan for the products concerned, transport documents and commercial documents, and after the authority or body has either made a physical check of the consignment concerned before it is expedited from the third country of dispatch, or has received an explicit declaration of the exporter declaring that the consignment concerned has been produced and/or prepared in accordance with the provisions which are implemented by the ...[+++]authority or body concerned in respect of the import and marketing in the European Community of products referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 in accordance with Article 11(1) or (6) of that Regulation.

In addition, the Commission consulted national equality bodies[7], the European Network of Equality Bodies (Equinet), the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, social partners[8], civil society organisations[9] and the European Network of Legal Experts in the Non-discrimination Field[10].