Management of the training programme by an existing or newly created executive agency would enable the Commission to maintain overall control of the programme while delegating technical functions, such as selecting participants, logistical arrangements, the training provided, monitoring of results and networking with national training agencies, to the agency.

· Training programmes and associated training allowances: FÁS courses cover a wide range of relevant subjects, including energy conservation, green and sustainable energy technologies and structures, and the management of the environment;

What is the responsibility of Eurostat – and we are doing this – is to provide training for people required to carry out certifications and, to this end, Eurostat has prepared a training package consisting essentially of three elements: a basic certification for European Union-level certification, a website which serves as an on-line training tool for people required to carry out certifications and printed information which is also available on the Internet in the form of a pdf leaflet which provides people required to carry out certifications with details of the requirements ...[+++] and methods for collecting the most accurate information possible, so that that information – for the purposes you have indicated and which we all agree with – can be used as efficiently as possible.

It is also appropriate to maintain the obligations formerly laid down in Directive 95/47/EC requiring fully digital electronic communications networks used for the distribution of television services and open to the public to be capable of distributing wide-screen television services and programmes, so that users are able to receive such programmes in the format in which ...[+++]they were transmitted.

For example: training modules for journalists on the representation of children in the media; European Charter for operators of child helplines and a scheme for the identification of their competencies; training of teachers and professionals on the evaluation of the programmes in the educational field to prevent child sexual abuse particularly in vulnerable groups; a drama workshop for self-empowerment of girls and a training programme for teachers and social workers in the prevention of violence and sexual abuse against young women; training resource pack for the workplace to increase awareness of domestic violence, targeting both t ...[+++]rade union members and employers; domestic violence intervention, best practice intervention model, manuals and training materials to work with perpetrators of domestic violence and their (ex) partners; a website for training health professionals on how to deal with domestic violence; animated video and written materials addressing the problems of gender and violence in schools.

International fisheries agreements also include specific actions designed to aid the development of the local fishery sector and ancillary industries such as: measures geared to the conservation and study of marine resources; creation and operation of infrastructure for monitoring the fleets operating in these fisheries; training programmes for officials and local age ...[+++]nts involved in the fishery sector, including the cost of participation by the administration of these countries in international fisheries organisations; provisions designed to guarantee food security through the compulsory landing of part of the catch; provisions geared to promoting an emerging local processing industry whose market is the European Union itself, by granting generous customs concessions for imports from these third countries, which mostly enter the Community with zero duty; strengthening the small-scale coastal fishing sector and, where appropriate, the existing processing industry; training for observers, inspectors and seamen on board vessels operating in the country, etc.