(2) In order to address the potentially detrimental effect of poorly designed remuneration structures on the sound management of risks and control of risk-taking behaviour by individuals, there should be an express obligation for undertakings of collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) management companies to establish and maintain, for those categories of staff whose professional activities have a material impact on the risk profiles of the UCITS they manage, remuneration policies and practices that are consistent with sound and effective risk management.

1. Launch a major European employment support initiative a) The Commission is proposing to simplify criteria for European Social Fund (ESF) support and step up advance payments from early 2009, so that Member States have earlier access to up to € 1.8 bn in order to: Within flexicurity strategies, rapidly reinforce activation schemes, in particular for the low-skilled, involving personalised counselling, intensive (re-)training and up-skilling of workers, apprenticeships, subsidised employment as well as grants for self-employment, business start-up's and Refocus their programmes to concentrate support on the most vulnerable, and where necessary opt for full Community financing of projects during this period; Improve the monitoring and matc ...[+++]hing of skills development and upgrading with existing and anticipated job vacancies; this will be implemented in close cooperation with social partners, public employment services and universities; Working with Member States, the Commission proposes to re-programme ESF expenditure to ensure that immediate priorities are met. b) The Commission will also propose to revise the rules of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund so that it can intervene more rapidly in key sectors, either to co-finance training and job placements for those who are made redundant or to keep in the labour market skilled workers who will be needed once the economy starts to recover.

From thereon in, first nations across British Columbia have been stepping in and asserting their right to control first nations education in B.C. To their credit, I must mention that the elders, the first nations' chiefs and their councillors, the community members, the students in school and their teachers, all came together to talk about how important this was and to put initiatives in place.

The Council agreed on 3 June 2003 as part of a package of three measures to tackle harmful tax competition on a Directive to ensure effective taxation of savings income (see IP/03/787).

23. RECOGNISING that recent extreme weather events in Europe and many other parts of the world have dramatically illustrated how vulnerable human societies are to climate change, and UNDERLINING the need for further international and Community actions and for prevention measures in the fields of climate, energy and transport, as outlined in the 6th EAP, as well as in the field of flood control, refers to the conclusions on the preparation of the Eighth Conference of the Parties (COP8) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (New Delhi, 23 October to 1 November 2002).

ECHO's partner, the Pan American Health Organisation plans a campaign to control a potentially massive epidemic.