declare that, by refusing to provide the cash benefit for care, cash benefit for assistance and cash benefit to compensate for increased costs under Law No 447/2008 to persons entitled who have their residence in a Member State other than the Slovak Republic, the Slovak Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 48 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Articles 7 and 21 of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems; ...[+++](1)

encourages institutional capacity-building and the development of an institutional twinning scheme between Moldova's recently created regional development agencies and similar agencies in the EU, and within non-governmental bodies (European Association of Regional Development Agencies) and associations of local and regional authorities, such as the recently established congress of local authorities CALM (Congress of the Local Authorities from Moldova); proposes looking into the possibility of giving Moldovan local and regional authorities observer status on some EU institutions dealing with regional policy (Committee of the Regions, Economic and Social Committee ...[+++]).

Participation in invitations to tender and contracts shall be open on equal terms to all natural and legal persons from the Member States coming within the scope of the Treaties, from candidate countries for accession to the European Union and countries benefiting from assistance in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1488/96 of 23 July 1996 on financial and technical measures to accompany (MEDA) the reform of economic and social structures in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership(9) and in accordance with Council ...[+++] Regulation (EC) No 2666/2000 of 5 December 2000 on assistance for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(10).

7. Participation in invitations to tender and contracts shall be open on equal terms to all natural and legal persons from the Member States coming within the scope of the Treaties, from candidate countries for accession to the European Union and countries benefiting from assistance in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1488/96 of 23 July 1996 on financial and technical measures to accompany (MEDA) the reform of economic and social structures in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership(9) and in accordance with Coun ...[+++]cil Regulation (EC) No 2666/2000 of 5 December 2000 on assistance for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(10).

2. The Joint Consultative Committee shall be composed of an equal number of members of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union, on the one hand, and of members of the corresponding institution dealing with economic and social matters in the Republic of Chile, on the other.

Whereas, on the basis of the Protocol on Social Policy annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Portuguese Republic (hereinafter referred to as 'the Member States'), desirous of implementing the Social Charter of 1989, have adopted an Agreement on Social Policy;