// Following the move to a better streamlined policy coordination cycle, this Implementation Report is presented as part of the "Implementation Package" together with the draft Joint Employment Report and the Implementation Report on the Internal Market Strategy.

33. Welcomes the fact that pilot projects and preparatory actions will be included in the Implementation Plan for 2003 as agreed in the Joint declaration of 25 November 2002 concerning the implementation profile for the 2003 Budget ; intends to monitor closely the implementation of these;

Could the Commission outline what action it has taken in response to the resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 15 January 2004 on the implementation of Directive 96/71/EC concerning the Posting of Workers in connection with the provision of services (P5_TA(2004)0030) which noted that the implementation, as intended by the Directive, of core labour standards in the free movement of services and the prevention of social dumping often fails to be achieved in practice, and, in particular, to point 10, which called on it to submit proposals to simplify and improve the existing Directive with a view to obtaining better implementatio ...[+++]n and application of the Directive in practice as well as better achieving the goals of the Directive, and point 14, which called on it to submit a second report to the Council and the European Parliament on the implementation of the Directive no later than by the end of 2004?

4. Calls on the Commission to make, by the end of 2006, a full assessment of the implementation of the extended Ankara Agreement, and stresses that failure in the implementation of this agreement will have serious implications for the negotiation process and could even lead to a halting of the negotiation process; demands, therefore, that the implementation of the Customs Union be amongst the first chapters to be dealt with in the accession negotiations in 2006;

The implementation plan will include the implementation profiles for headings 2, 3, 4 and 7 of the financial perspective (for each heading as a whole) and for the budget chapters under those headings.

It would, in particular, be appropriate to determine how civil society might be more closely associated with the process of implementing the social policy agenda and, more generally, to specify what might amount to an effective partnership for such implementation.