It will replace the various local tracking systems that were developed on a regional level and it will provide the department with accurate enforcement-based information, which we can then use in the department's decision making and recommendations or in addressing requirements before Parliament.

The ECA also found that monitoring and evaluation systems, both directly related to the CAP and those providing more general data did not provide the information necessary to fully inform policy-making as regards pressures on water coming from agricultural activities, though noting some useful initiatives.

In regard to reservist care, I would recommend that a health care specialist be appointed to specifically oversee the delivery of health care to reservists, and further, that there be the development of a tracking system and policy to ensure at least two years' follow-up, especially for those who leave the reserves.

The EU anti trafficking policy must be based on a clear picture of the actual extent of the problem at EU and global level.[lxv] But precise figures are not available,[lxvi] and law enforcement data, although important, are not sufficient.[lxvii] In 2003, the Council invited the Commission and the Member States to promote measures to set up a monitoring system on human trafficking in order to provide updated data through the continuous and regular collection from the competent national authorities.[lxviii] Taking into account the 2003 Statistics Action Plan[lxix] and Eurostat data in the area of migration[lxx] which cover aspects of the ...[+++]phenomenon, the first step for a coherent statistical system is to systematically collect and analyse data - disaggregated by age, sex and other relevant aspects[lxxi] - from different sources based on common guidelines at a central place at the national level.

Should monitoring mechanisms be developed (and at what level) to assess the position of women in all areas, such as pay, benefits and family- friendly policies, and the organisation of working time ?

There are a number of system requirements that are necessary to have that kind of community-based system, including the appropriate kind of policy, the appropriate kind of governance and funding mechanisms in place, as well as monitoring and evaluation.