In addition, these workers are exposed to health and safety risks and have few opportunities for professional development.

4. take the necessary measures so that self-employed workers can obtain from the services and/or bodies appointed for this purpose useful information and advice on the prevention of health and safety risks in the context of their occupational activity; these measures must be adapted to the needs of self-employed workers and allow them to control the risks to which they are liable to be exposed, and should include the implementation of national information campaigns on health and safety at work, focusing on the specific risks in the various sectors where there is a very large number of self-employed workers ;

4. take the necessary measures so that self-employed workers can obtain from the services and/or bodies appointed for this purpose useful information and advice on the prevention of health and safety risks in the context of their occupational activity; these measures must be adapted to the needs of self-employed workers and allow them to control the risks to which they are liable to be exposed, and should include the implementation of national information campaigns on health and safety at work. focusing on the specific risks in the various sectors where there is a very large number of self-employed workers;

In this way an effective follow-up will be achieved for this particular group of exposed workers who, due to their occupational mobility, require special mesures for their optimal radiological protection.

Mr Flynn underlined some practical suggestions, contained in the Memorandum, to close the pay gap, including : - Improving data on women and pay. Member States are requested to improve the collection and quality of basic data and greater pay discrimination and occupational segregation to expose the extent of the problem. Eurostat, the European Communities' Statistical Office, could help in this regard. - Improving information about the law. It is proposed to encourage research, seminars and conferences on pay systems and their impact on the gap in earnings and to improve the dissemination of information on significant legal cases. - Impr ...[+++]oving training. Attention should be given to the need to organise better training for employers, employees' organisations, unions and professionals, both at the Community level and in Member States. - A Code of Practice. The Memorandum expands upon a suggestion which the Commission has made in its Green Paper on Social Policy with regard to drafting a Code of Practice on equal pay for employers, employees and unions.

In this context they will apply the procedure laid down in Part II of Regulation No 1612/68, as amended by Regulation No 2434/92, and in the light of Commission Decision No 93/569/EEC on the implementing of the Regulation, in particular with regard to Article 15(16); - without prejudice to the application of the above two criteria, third-country nationals may, if necessary, be admitted on a temporary basis and for a specific duration to the territory of a Member State for the purpose of employment where: = such an offer is made to a named worker or named employee of a service provider and is of a special nature in view of the requirement of specialist qualifications (professional ...[+++] qualifications, experience, etc.); = an employer offers named workers vacancies only where the competent authorities consider, if appropriate, that the grounds adduced by the employer, including the nature of the qualifications required, are justified in view of a temporary manpower shortage on the national or Community labour market which significantly affects the operation of the undertaking or the employer himself; = vacancies are offered to: . seasonal workers, whose numbers are strictly controlled on admission to the territory of the Member States of the European Community and who undertake well-defined jobs, normally fulfilling a traditional need in the Community country concerned.