Promote flexibility combined with employment security and reduce labour market segmentation through: the adaptation of employment legislation, reviewing where necessary the level of flexibility provided by permanent and non-permanent contracts; better anticipation and positive management of change, including economic restructuring, notably changes linked to trade opening, so as to minimise their social costs and facilitate adaptation; support for transitions in occupational status, including training, self-employment, business creation and geographic mobility; most importantly, ensuring that spouses assisting in family businesses, inc ...[+++]luding farms, have social security cover and a share of benefits, inter alia by proposing a framework statute to put an end to their precarious situation; the promotion and dissemination of innovative and adaptable forms of work organisation, including better health and safety and diversity of contractual and working time arrangements, with a view to improving quality and productivity at work; the promotion of ‘chosen working time’ (‘temps choisi’) and a flexibilisation of working time, without this flexibility giving rise either to a more precarious status or to additional burdens for businesses in terms of remuneration or the organisation of work, adaptation to new technologies in the workplace, determined action to transform undeclared work into regular employment (Integrated guideline No 20).

C. whereas an effective competition policy is, in particular, also in the interests of consumers, as competition constantly compels enterprises to make available better and cheaper products and services,

Indeed, the provision for notification every six months underestimates the need for constant control of firms which by their very nature must be highly liquid and solvent at any time.

8. Whereas there should be a permanent dialogue between small and medium-sized enterprises and their business partners; whereas small enterprises in particular may face specific difficulties in their own preparations for the changeover to the euro during the transitional period; whereas it is in everyone's interest to facilitate the changeover to the euro for small enterprises; whereas one way of achieving this would be for enterprises to engage in negotiations at the appropriate level with a view to agreeing on principles that wou ...[+++]ld help small enterprises to make the changeover to the euro;

- distributor undertakings which are administered by a producer undertaking and regularly employed by it to sell all or some of its products, and whose sales operations consist primarily in the distribution of that undertaking's products.

- distributor undertakings which are administered by a producer undertaking and regularly employed by it to sell all or some of its products, and whose sales operations consist primarily in the distribution of that undertaking's products".