- promoting civil society organisations, notably women’s organisations and networks, in their endeavours to promote gender equality and economic and social empowerment, including north-south and south-south networking and advocacy;

However, the draftsperson believes that the proposal does not regard sufficiently the specific nature and non-financial aspects of the development aid and, thus, proposes to grant an exemption to the NGOs, who provide added value by reaching the target groups for aid that are difficult through the official channels, work to raise the public awareness of the development issues and contribute to the overall North-South partnership.

If the phenomenon of market opening of industrialised economies is not a new one, the actors and the modalities of this international division of labour have changed: a rapid development since the first oil crisis, the end of the traditional international division of labour between North and South, a new competition from the countries of the South without the dominant position of the North in World trade being seriously undermined, a division of labour within branches and not only between branches, an international segmentation of production processes.

► Reform of existing instruments (see ‘Legislation to be simplified’ below), mainly to: 1) alter the structure of the provisions laying down conditions for the exploitation of fishery resources subject to catch limitations, in particular by separate treatment of catch limitations, technical measures, measures for the management of fishing effort and control measures; 2) target the decisions at uniform groups taking into account the scientific environment when drawing up institutional and administrative opinions, in particular by separating measures aimed at Baltic fish stocks, or by separating provisions concerning the results of negoti ...[+++]ations within the regional fisheries organisations (for example NAFO); 3) develop multiannual approaches, notably by drawing up multiannual management plans such as those that exist (cod, Northern and Southern hake) and in particular for the sole fisheries in the Bay of Biscay and the Western Channel, Baltic cod and sole and plaice in the North Sea.

Providing that forum for work and dialogue with tools such as the Euro-Mediterranean Development Bank and the Foundation and pursuing the MEDA programmes will allow us to create and foster an area of south-south and north-south free trade, on the one hand, and an area of dialogue, knowledge, training and communication on the other.

Innovative practices aiming at better jobs, safer and employee-friendly workplaces, gender mainstreaming and the innovation or technology transfer to local communities and developing countries, leading to a more equitable North-South economic and social development, are further examples of societal benefits created by innovative enterprises.