4. Calls on the Commission to deliver a study presenting updated, comparable, gender-disaggregated data in order to make available better knowledge of female participation rates in cooperatives in the EU, including managerial positions, and the impact of cooperatives on fostering gender equality on the labour market; calls, further, for contacts to be established between SCEs with a view to setting up networks that will encourage exchanges of good practice with the aim of promoting increased female participation; calls on the Commission, in this connection, to boost communication between the various SCE contact points in the Member Sta ...[+++]tes;

The right to equal treatment in the fields specified by this Directive should be granted not only to those third-country nationals who have been admitted to the territory of a Member State for work but also to those who have been admitted for another purpose and who have been given access to the labour market of that Member State in accordance with national or Union law, including those admitted in accordance with Council Directive 2003/86/EC of 22 September 2003 on the right to family reunification , Council Directive 2004/114/EC of 13 December 2004 on the conditions of admission of third-country nationals for the purposes of studies, pupil exchange, unremune ...[+++]rated training or voluntary service or Council Directive 2005/71/EC of 12 October 2005 on a specific procedure for admitting third-country nationals for the purposes of scientific research .

At European level, the application of the directives on non-EU nationals who are long-term residents and on equal treatment should be monitored and studies and exchanges of best practices should be supported.

141. Welcomes the activities of the Subcommittee on Human Rights, including regular reports by the Presidency, the Commission and the Personal Representative for Human Rights, exchanges of views (notably with UN Special Rapporteurs and independent experts), numerous hearings, expert testimony and studies; suggests that the impact of its work could be enhanced by systematic association with other committees such as the Committees o ...[+++]n Development, International Trade, Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Women's Rights and Gender Equality and Budgets;

At European level, the application of the directives on non-EU nationals who are long-term residents and on equal treatment should be monitored and studies and exchanges of best practices should be supported.

At European level, the application of the directives on non-EU nationals who are long-term residents and on equal treatment should be monitored and studies and exchanges of best practices should be supported.