D. whereas the G8 has agreed a package on health that will help the training and recruitment of 1,5 million health workers in Africa and will ensure that 80% of mothers are accompanied in childbirth by a trained health worker; whereas this includes a commitment to upscale to 2,3 health workers per 1 000 people in 36 African countries experiencing a critical shortage; whereas, however, there is no mention of ring-fencing the USD 10 billion which civil society activists claim would be required to save the lives of six million mothers and children each year,

In this judgment the Court had ruled against France, firstly for not having transposed Directives 89/48/EEC and 92/51/EEC establishing a general system for the recognition of diplomas concerning access to the profession of special needs teacher and exercise of the profession in the public service, and secondly for failure to fulfil its obligations under Article 39 of the EC Treaty by not taking into account the professional experience of applicants as part of the procedure for the recognition of special needs teachers’ diplomas.

promote comprehensive maternal health programmes, including the provision of quality ante-natal care, care during childbirth and post-natal care, and the establishment / expansion of a body of skilled birth attendants;

(f) promote comprehensive maternal health programmes, for the provision of ante-natal care and the establishment of a professional body of skilled birth attendants and other staff to guarantee good-quality post-natal care;

2. Article 8 of Directive 92/85 and Article 5(1) of Council Directive 76/207/EEC of 9 February 1976 on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions do not preclude a clause in an employment contract from requiring an employee who has expressed her intention to commence her maternity leave during the six weeks preceding the expected week of childbirth, and is on sick leave with a pregnancy-related illness immediately before that date and gives birth during the period of sick leave, to bring forward the date on which her p ...[+++]aid maternity leave commences either to the beginning of the sixth week preceding the expected week of childbirth or to the beginning of the period of sick leave, whichever is the later.

This applies, among other things, to: - the duration of maternity leave (14 weeks or more) and the amount of remuneration or social security benefit paid during such leave (100% or at least 80%), in that some Member States grant - less than 14 weeks and/or - less than 100% (or 80%); - 4 - - conditions of eligibility for leave, in that some Member States require the women involved to have carried on an occupation for a certain period prior to the beginning of pregnancy; - the obligatory two-week rest period before the presumed date of delivery, an entitlement which to all intents and purposes does not exist as such in the Member States; - prenatal examinations without loss of remuneration, an entitlement not granted in some Member States; ...[+++] - the maintenance of work-related rights and the safeguards against dismissal, in that in some Member States these are subject to seniority of a stipulated length with the same employer or the requirement that the undertaking concerned be of a certain minimum size; - the adjustment of working conditions and working hours, and night- time working, in that the Commission proposal lays down certain provisions, sometimes allowing for alternatives, linked to the maintenance of work-related rights and remuneration, which go beyond the existing provisions in this area in several Member States; - protection against agents and processes, for women who have recently given birth as well as pregnant women, as the Commission's proposal goes beyond the "lists" which exist in some Member States.