Promote flexibility combined with employment security and reduce labour market segmentation through: the adaptation of employment legislation, reviewing where necessary the level of flexibility provided by permanent and non-permanent contracts; better anticipation and positive management of change, including economic restructuring, notably changes linked to trade opening, so as to minimise their social costs and facilitate adaptation; support for transitions in occupational status, including training, self-employment, business creation and geographic mobility; most importantly, ensuring that spouses assisting in family businesses, including farms, have social security cover and a share of benefits, inter alia by proposing a framework sta ...[+++]tute to put an end to their precarious situation; the promotion and dissemination of innovative and adaptable forms of work organisation, including better health and safety and diversity of contractual and working time arrangements, with a view to improving quality and productivity at work; the promotion of ‘chosen working time’ (‘temps choisi’) and a flexibilisation of working time, without this flexibility giving rise either to a more precarious status or to additional burdens for businesses in terms of remuneration or the organisation of work, adaptation to new technologies in the workplace, determined action to transform undeclared work into regular employment (Integrated guideline No 20).

Whereas Member States will endeavour, when implementing this joint action, to apply or facilitate the measures relating to the protection of witnesses and/or individuals who cooperate with the judicial process in the fight against international organised crime set out in the Council resolutions of 23 November 1995 (2) and 20 December 1996 (3);

crime and of 20 December 1996 on individuals who cooperate with the judicial process in the fight against organized crime,

The Council calls on Member States to provide appropriate protection measures for any individual and, where necessary, for his parents, children and other persons close to him, who, by virtue of the individual's willingness to cooperate with the judicial process, is or are likely to be exposed to serious and immediate danger; in considering such measures, Member States should have regard to the resolution of 23 November 1995.

The Council passed this resolution in December 1996 to stimulate persons to enhance cooperation regarding the judicial process in the European Union in combating international organised crime.

The Council calls on Member States to facilitate judicial assistance in the fight against international organised crime in cases involving individuals cooperating with the judicial process, and in particular: