It states also that the Commission shall, on the basis of the reports, examine in an annual report the operations of the EWRS and if necessary propose changes thereto (Article 3.2).

9. Emphasises that the social indicators scoreboard in the Alert Mechanism Report is important for identifying, in advance, the social impact of measures designed to correct macro-economic imbalances; calls on the Commission to assess its scope and effectiveness; encourages the Commission to take into account social considerations on a par with the economic ones, but also to pay attention to better and sustainable jobs, long-term and youth employment and child poverty, and the particular social situation in each Member State when developing country-specific recommendations and when assessing their implementation in ...[+++] Member States; calls on the Member States to use social indicators as an early warning mechanism to prevent future social and economic downturns;

57. Urges for the improvement of coordination and communication between the national authorities responsible for investigating food fraud, thereby helping Member States to step up their efforts to combat this problem; calls, therefore, on the Commission, as a matter of urgency, to put in place an electronic system, based on the existing Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) as the Commission has suggested, to enable the rapid exchange of information between Member States and the Commission in cases of food fraud; calls for the publication of annual reports outlining ...[+++] cases of food fraud that have been uncovered, by analogy with the RASFF reports;

The first report, which shall be submitted within three years after the entry into force of this Decision, shall, in particular, identify those elements of the Community network which should be improved or adapted and shall, in particular, assess the participation of each Member State in the CIWIN system as well as the possibility of upgrading CIWIN to include a rapid alert system (RAS) functionality.

The deletion of references to 'immediate threats and alerts' is in line with the position adopted by the draft report to have only an exchange of information functionality for the first stage of development of CIWIN.

However, as far as coordination is concerned, the report should support any measure that will speed up the establishment of the CIWIN network, which, through its hybrid nature, should combine an early warning system with a discussion and exchange area to signal and forward immediate alerts and the immediate implementation at Community level of appropriate protection measures in the event of a crisis, and constitute a basis for discussion and exchanges on best practice with regard to protecting critical infrastructure outside emergency ...[+++] periods.