51. Notes that the percentage participation of women in the labour market remains exceptionally low, below 25%, and is very low compared to the average women's employment rate in the EU-27 of 49% and that the female employment rate has dropped to around 20%, in contrast to the rise of women's participation in the informal sector, which is often the result of a combination of the low level of education of many women, the lack of an institutionalised, widespread, accessible and affordable system of care facilities for children, elderly and disabled relatives and the gender division of labour in society;

50. Notes that the percentage participation of women in the labour market remains exceptionally low, below 25%, and is very low compared to the average women's employment rate in the EU-25 of 55%, and that the female employment rate has dropped to around 20%, in contrast to the rise of women's participation in the informal sector, which is often the result of a combination of the low level of education of many women, the lack of an institutionalised, widespread, accessible and affordable system of care facilities for children, elderly and disabled relatives and the gender division of labour in society;

- speech-data time-division multiplexing (mobile to lineside):

- Time-division multiplex for serial transmission of telegrams with up to 104 usable data bits

- Time-division multiplex for serial transmission of telegrams with up to 96 useful bits

16. Regards the distinction between services of general interest and services of general economic interest as irrelevant for the purpose of striking a balance between general interest activities and competition law: for example, this distinction is often difficult to apply in the social services sector which requires special treatment , as a large number of social services, or some of the activities of service providers may be regarded as being economic in nature and stresses the great diversity of the various methods of organising SGIs (for example, the co-existence of direct public management and private management in the public-servic ...[+++]e broadcasting sector helps safeguard media pluralism, democracy and cultural diversity; by the same token, the legislation should take account of the specific characteristics of non-profit making charitable, cultural or social associations); urges the Commission, therefore, not to base its policy on SIGs on that distinction, and to give further thought to a classification taking particular account of the nature of the activities and the geographical area in which they are carried out, including the European area;