However, if the use of sign language becomes necessary to enable deaf people to access employment, career advancement or training, the issue could possibly fall under the scope of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation .

4. Is convinced that it is essential to ensure better and earlier implementation of the provisions of the Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast), relating to equality organisations and social dialogue with a view to redressing differences in pay by ensuring that the Member States, social partners and equal opportunity organisations apply measures such as those set out in the 'Framework of actions on gender equality' endorsed by the social partners in ...[+++] March 2005, by providing for the distribution of information and guidelines on practical means (particularly for SMEs) of redressing the pay gap, including national or sectoral collective agreements;

(7 ) The Community and its Member States were signatories to the Declaration and Platform for Action of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, which stressed the need for action against world-wide obstacles to gender equality and established gender mainstreaming as a strategy to promote gender equality.

We can say that almost all women have worked hard to achieve a better Treaty where equality is concerned, and I therefore think that we can be quietly pleased with the fifteen men who sat and adopted the Treaty of Amsterdam and were therefore also involved in implementing the principles of equality, even though it cannot, of course, be said that there is much in the way of obvious equality in their own Assembly.

Commissioner Flynn made the following specific commitments for 1995 as regards equality issues : - the Commission will introduce a Code of Practice on equal pay for work of equal value; - there will be four items on equal opportunities on the Commission's Legislative Programme for 1995, namely the Fourth Programme on Equal Opportunities; the proposal for a directive to amend Directive 86/378 on equal treatment in matters of social security in order to take account of the Barber and post-Barber judgements; a proposal concerning the burden of proof in equal treatment cases and a proposal on the reconciliation of family and working life; ...[+++] - the Commission has also decided to produce a Memorandum setting out the present situation in the Community as regards procedures and remedies for the implementation of Community law on equal treatment".

If this is not adopted by the end of 1994, the Commission will consider withdrawing the proposal and issuing a Communication on procedures and remedies for the implementation of Article 119 and the equality directives (access to justice, time limits, burden of proof, and remedies and sanctions, etc.), building on the existing case law of the ECJ; - use all available means to ensure the real and effective implementation of all applicable legal provisions, including legal procedures where necessary; - following the recent Council Resolution on the promotion of equal opportunities through the Structural Funds and in line with demands from t ...[+++]he European Parliament, develop mechanisms to integrate the equality dimension in the operation of the Funds including the Community Initiatives through the use of more precise targets, data collection and monitoring of the participation of women; - examine how to build monitoring by gender into all relevant Union policies and make it a requirement in their evaluation; - propose that regular meetings be held between the social partners and the heads of the national equality agencies represented on the Advisory Committee for Equal Opportunities.