Enterprise Allocation Working Group [ Enterprise Assessment Working Group ]

Working Party No. 6 on the Taxation of Multinational Enterprises [ Working Party on the Taxation of Multinational Enterprises ]

Task Force on National Building Materials Evaluation Service

Working Party on Safety Services in Industry

corporate strategy | business strategy | corporate level strategy | corporate-level strategy | companywide strategy | company-wide strategy

corporate strategy | business strategy

Ad hoc Group on Evaluation of Workplace Risks | AHG Evaluation of Workplace Risks

Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises

43. Welcomes the Commission's idea of setting up a working group on double taxation problems, involving tax authorities of Member States and, where appropriate, consumer associations; calls on the Commission to strengthen the EU working group on business taxation, the Joint Transfer Pricing Forum (JTPF), and to engage with the business community and advocates of consumers' rights;

66. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to analyse and eliminate the barriers to (re)entering the labour market and self-employment of Roma women and furthermore to place proper emphasis on the role of women in the economic empowerment of marginalised Roma and launching businesses; furthermore calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the involvement of Roma women in the preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the EU ...[+++] Strategy on Roma Inclusion;

In their reply the Greek authorities submitted a number of reports drawn up by independent experts that have been used to (a) calculate and certify the overall cost of the VRS (KPMG has audited OTE’s 2005 financial results and certified the total cost of the VRS), (b) calculate the cost of permanency and the cost of higher salaries for OTE’s employees by using the appropriate benchmark in Greece (CRA International and the Hay Group undertook the relevant studies), and (c) describe the labour regulatory framework in Greece applicable to private undertakings in general and to OTE in particular (study by Mr Levantis, professor of labour law ...[+++] at the University of Athens).

97. Stresses the need to promote codes of conduct that have been negotiated with multinationals, which should incorporate the objectives of providing decent employment; recommends that undertakings which are based in Europe and have subsidiaries in the SEMCs should regularly check their subsidiaries' compliance with these codes of conduct; calls for any newly associated undertaking to accept the codes of conduct and to publicise the fact that it has done so;