6. Calls on the Commission explicitly to exclude from the TiSA negotiations public services and cultural and audiovisual services – and to ensure specifically that developing countries are able to preserve their cultural assets – as these represent fundamental tools for sustainable development and for ensuring respect for people’s dignity; recalls that TiSA, like any other international agreement, must comply with internationally agreed standards on labour, the environment and human rights; invites the Commission to support and moni ...[+++]tor the capacity-building efforts of developing countries in providing sustainable public services;

68. Calls on the Member States to continue the process of reform and development of effective public employment services so as to better target their activities and approaches on young people, as a fundamental component of any national Youth Guarantee strategies; stresses the need to introduce reforms to EURES with the aim of proactively matching jobseekers and job-changers to existing vacancies, as well as with the aim of raising awareness of EURES, including its advisory network, and increasing its visibility and availability, as a career advice system that helps students become more aware of existing job opportunities; highlights th ...[+++]e need for closer coordination between EURES and other portals and services for citizens and business (examples being ‘EURES my first job’, the Europe Direct information points or the European Enterprise Network for SMEs), in order to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness on the part of the services provided; welcomes the work of the Heads of Public Employment Services (HoPES), and supports its institutionalisation;

19. Welcomes the fact that after the former Head of the Legal Service left the Agency in June 2012 to join a US-based law firm having a number of pharmaceutical industry companies as clients as senior counsel, the Executive Director of the Agency launched a review of his work as Head of the Legal Service, Chair of the Joint Committee, Chair of the Disciplinary Committee and as a member of the Advisory Committee on Procurement and Contracts; acknowledges that no evidence of conflicts of interest nor breach of obligations provided in Articles 11 and 11a of the Staff Regulations could be identified; welcomes the fact that in accordance wi ...[+++]th Article 16 of the Staff Regulations, the Executive Director imposed some restrictions to the activities of the former Head of Legal Service for a period of two years following his leaving the Agency; calls on the Agency to provide the discharge authority with detailed information on those restrictions;

1. A DPC shall be appointed in each Directorate-General or Service by the Director-General or the Head of Service.

We hold joint meetings of the chief health officers, the chief veterinary officers and all the experts on animal and human health.

24. Notes that, in regions with brief and intensive tourist seasons and slack off-seasons, employment levels in this sector fluctuate sharply, making it difficult to provide services of a consistently high quality; is of the opinion that efforts must therefore be made to provide more sustainable and consistent services; calls on the Commission to consider means of offsetting the under deployment of manpower, capital and services arising from the seasonal nature of work in this sector;