29. Calls on the Commission to commission regular and adequately financed studies that analyse the importance of ownership for the success and survival of a business and highlight the specific challenges facing family businesses, and to propose to the European Parliament and the Member States a statistically workable Europe-wide definition of ‘family business’ – developed together with Eurostat –, taking into account the different circumstances in the Member States; calls on the Commission, furthermore, to use the existing "task force small and medium-sized enterprise data" to collect enough data, including on family businesses in all t ...[+++]he Member States, to allow a comparison of the situation and needs of family businesses of different sizes, as well as a comparison of family businesses and non-family businesses, to promote information and exchanges of examples of know-how and good practice throughout the EU, for example by establishing a family business contact point at the Commission and by making the best use of programmes such as "Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, and to allow for more targeted assistance;

33. Calls on the Commission to set up, and define the remit of, an internal permanent working group that specifically addresses the needs and characteristics of family businesses, regularly reports to Parliament and the Member States, encourages exchanges of best practices between Member States’ family business organisations and disseminates guidelines and standard texts and solutions for family businesses on overcoming their speci ...[+++]fic problems; calls also on the Commission to create a one-stop shop for businesses which can act as a contact at European level for family businesses and family business interest groups and to assist in specific issues relating in particular to European legislation and access to EU funding;

Greece has suspended transposition for this group: as a result, doctors in training can still be required to miss minimum rest periods and to work very excessive hours (between 66 and 80 hours per week on average).

- The Commission has set up the ‘Working group on the prudent use of antimicrobial agents in human medicine’ to keep relevant matters under review and has been consulting this working group in collating the Member States’ reports and in developing a proposal on containing healthcare-associated infections.

(a) health: health of key population groups; major diseases and disorders (e.g. cancer, diabetes and diabetes-related diseases, degenerative diseases of the nervous system, psychiatric diseases, cardiovascular diseases, hepatitis, allergies, visual impairment), rare diseases, alternative or non-conventional medicine and major diseases linked to poverty in developing countries; activities involved will be implemented, for instance, through coordination of research and comparative studies, development of European databases and interdi ...[+++]sciplinary networks, exchange of clinical practice and coordination of clinical trials.

23. Recommends as a matter of urgency, that action be taken to set up agencies, foundations or telephone services whose aim is to provide aid and assistance to victims of violent family situations and recommends the establishment, within the Member States, of multidisciplinary structures (comprising doctors, judges, social workers, teachers, parents' associations and churches) to address these problems and to develop effective channels of assistance for children who have experienced or witnessed family violence;