In order to ensure effective interoperation between those aspects of the ethics rules that principally relate to operational implementation and those that principally relate to institutional and framework related issues, at least one of the members of the ECB's Audit Committee (hereinafter the ‘Audit Committee’) should also be a member of the Ethics Committee.

In an age that thrives on multi-media formats, it is often the case that performers, including professional ones, are not duly recognised and rewarded for their creative input to an artistic work.

Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions (3) and Council Directive 86/378/EEC of 24 July 1986 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in occupational social security schemes (4) have been significantly amended (5).

Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions and Council Directive 86/378/EEC of 24 July 1986 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in occupational social security schemes have been significantly amended .

‘occupational social security schemes’: schemes not governed by Council Directive 79/7/EEC of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in matters of social security (16) whose purpose is to provide workers, whether employees or self-employed, in an undertaking or group of undertakings, area of economic activity, occupational sector or group of sectors with benefits intended to supplement the benefits provided by statutory social security schemes or to replace them, whether membership of such schemes is compulsory or optional.

The Advisory Committee for Vocational Training set up by Council Decision 63/266/EEC of 2 April 1963 laying down general principles for implementing a common vocational training policy , composed of representatives of the social partners and of the national authorities of Member States, should be regularly informed on the implementation of this Decision.