1. Suppliers of groundhandling services and self-handling airport users shall ensure that all their employees involved in the provision of groundhandling services, including managing staff and supervisors, regularly attend occupational and recurrent training, harmonised at European level, to enable them to perform the tasks assigned to them and to prevent accidents and injuries.

1. Suppliers of groundhandling services and self-handling airport users shall ensure that all their employees involved in the provision of groundhandling services, including managing staff and supervisors, regularly attend specific and recurrent training to enable them to perform the tasks assigned to them.

Considers that the EU CBRN Action Plan should unambiguously call for the development of EU guidelines on security training and standard requirements to be implemented in all 27 Member States, and should ensure that specific training programmes are provided for those security staff dealing with high-risk CBRN materials, including staff in industries and research centres where high-risk CBRN are present, and that requirements are laid down for CBRN officers (role, competence and training); stresses that safety and awareness training must also be provided to first responders;

The training programmes must be certified and should cover the following subjects: the legislation currently in force; hazards and risks associated with pesticides, and how to identify and control them; procedures for preparing application equipment for work, and procedures for its operation and maintenance; emergency action in case of accident.

21. Calls on the Commission not only to assess farms from the point of view of business economics but to recognise both their significance for environmental protection and landscape conservation and the relief which they will continue to afford in the social field until such time as enough alternative jobs come into existence outside farming; stresses in this context the importance of training programmes to develop the skills needed to deal with these changes and, in particular, to enable women in the farming sector to develop innova ...[+++]tory activities;

21. Calls on the Commission to assess farms not only from the point of view of business economics but to recognise both their significance for environmental protection and landscape conservation and the relief which they will continue to afford in the social field until such time as enough alternative jobs come into existence outside farming; in this context stresses the importance of training programmes to develop the skills to deal with these changes and, in particular, to enable women in the farming sector to develop innovatory ac ...[+++]tivities;