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Efforts should be made to step up coherence and create synergies between industrial policy and workers’ protection policy, in particular with regard to chemical substances. Equality: OSH policy can contribute to combating discrimination and promoting equal opportunities in EU policies, in particular by promoting the accurate implementation of Directive 2000/78/EC[40] relating to protection of health and safety at work of people with disabilities and Directive 2006/54/EC[41] prohibiting less favourable treatment of women in the workplace because of pregnancy or maternity.

One year on from the launch of our Gender Action Plan, the European Development Days provide a good opportunity for us to take stock of what's been achieved so far, and I'm delighted to see that it is already making a difference on the ground; helping governments to set up programmes to promote equality and create new policy which takes women's best interests into account".

Notes that in countries where equal treatment of men and women in the employment market has been achieved, it has had positive repercussions for economic and social development, and that equality policies should not therefore be abandoned in times of crisis, and that, despite the stated intention of the Member States and the Commission, consistently equal conditions have not yet been achieved; stresses that the recession has worsened what has been a constant trend over the last decade, namely the reduction of women to poverty, unemployment or insecure employment in far greater numbers than men, thus intensifying the feminisation of pove ...[+++]rty in the EU;

It is therefore appropriate to establish a European Institute for Gender Equality, which would assist the Community institutions and the Member States by carrying out those tasks.