66. Notes that the European market in electronic payments is still fragmented, both across and within national borders; encourages the necessary measures and enforcement to ensure a more open, transparent, innovative and competitive single market in payments, in such a way that it brings advantages and choice to all consumers with regard to card, internet and mobile payment options and mobile wallets, interoperability, costs and portability; asks the Commission, therefore, to assess the possible ways of bringing new entrants into the European market for card, internet and mobile payments while protecting future technological innovation ...[+++]s in this sector; believes that the supervision of multilateral interchange fees needs to be strengthened, and welcomes the proposals set out in the Single Market Act II relating to a revision of the Payment Services Directive and a legislative initiative on multilateral bank charges;

26. Invites the Member States and the Commission, especially through the involvement of the EIGE where appropriate, to collect, analyse and disseminate data broken down by sex for the purpose of monitoring gender equality in decision-making in all sectors (public and private) and at all hierarchical levels and as a basis for further measures if the set targets are not met; calls on the Commission to continue to collect and disseminate comparable data at EU level through the use of its database on women and men in decision-making positions and to develop this observatory towards a European map of gender balance that includes the annual v ...[+++]ariations experienced at EU, state and regional levels with regard to gender balance, on the basis of common indicators; considers that this map should include, at least:

1. Calls on Member States to facilitate and promote training and apprenticeships for tourism activity organisers, to lend support to the diversification and specialisation of European tourism and, together with the Commission, to encourage tourism organisations to exchange good practices; calls for improvements in the mutual recognition of professional qualifications in the tourist industry in order to make it easier for both skilled workers and people changing careers to find work in the industry year-round; strongly supports the Commission’s efforts to introduce a professional card that could improve the mobility and employability of quality worker ...[+++]s in this sector, considers that the first such professional card to be introduced could be for tour guides;

serve as means of communication of appropriate information to employers (in the public and private sectors) in order to facilitate cross-borders recruitment; is of the opinion that any further public steps should involve a well-defined description of the types of profession and specific needs that the card is supposed to cover;

There are two types of cards that can be used in the healthcare sector: the health card, which may carry emergency data such as blood types, pathologies and treatments, and the health insurance card, which was launched on 1 January 2004 and replaces all the paper forms which were needed to benefit from medically-necessary care while on a temporary stay abroad.

In certain regions in the candidate countries in particular, the heavy dependence on agriculture and the traditional industries (Maps 6 a, b and c employment by sector, 2000 and 7 - GDP per person employed, 1999) suggests that the further restructuring expected in these two sectors will contribute to ongoing economic change after enlargement.