8. Recalls the importance of taking the activities anticipated in the cooperation plan with the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality into consideration in the Institute's annual work programme and to regularly present the results and findings of the research before the relevant committees of Parliament; notes that the Institute should ease the access to gender-related information towards the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality in a more proactive way and more focused on the work carried out by this committee, which would allow its members more effective tools of information; calls for better interaction between l ...[+++]egislative and non-legislative priorities of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Institute's research; supports the importance of the role performed by the Institute in collecting reliable comparative data disaggregated by sex and fundamental to the development of national and Union policies especially on gender based violence; calls on the Institute to work closely with Eurostat and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in order to produce regular surveys on those issues the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality considers to be the most important, notably violence against women and typical features of female employment;

27. Calls on the Government to increase efforts to enforce laws and the implementation of policies on women’s rights and gender equality, with particular focus on protecting women against all forms of violence and their equal participation in public and political life; encourages further gender mainstreaming efforts at central and local levels;

21. Emphasises the relevance of reliable, comparable and available quantity and quality indicators, as well as gender-based statistics, for ensuring implementation and follow-up to the Directive; urges equality bodies to intensify their efforts in conducting independent surveys, publishing independent reports and making recommendations concerning any issue related to discrimination; recalls the role of the European Institute for Gender Equality, entrusted with the task of gathering and analysing information regarding gender equality, raising the awareness of EU citizens as regards gender equality and developing methodological tools in ...[+++]support of gender mainstreaming;

2. Points out that the current European Community Framework Strategy on Gender Equality and its associated programme will come to an end in 2005; notes that the new gender equality funding programme is part of a larger social programme called PROGRESS, which will operate from 2007; fears that access for women’s NGOs to Community funds may well be difficult; calls on the Commission to adopt a comprehensive, forward-looking new Framework Strategy on Gender Equality, addressing the main challenges to the achievement of equality between women and men in Europe and firmly establishing gender equality objectives in the areas of EU employmen ...[+++]t policy, immigration policy, social protection reforms, EU external relations, development cooperation etc.;

22. Emphasises the relevance of reliable, comparable and available quantity and quality indicators, as well as gender-based statistics, for ensuring implementation and follow-up to the Directive; urges equality bodies to intensify their efforts in conducting independent surveys, publishing independent reports and making recommendations concerning any issue related to discrimination; recalls the role of the European Institute for Gender Equality, entrusted with the task of gathering and analysing information regarding gender equality, raising the awareness of EU citizens as regards gender equality and developing methodological tools in ...[+++]support of gender mainstreaming;

This programme of action is also part of the global political framework for this area adopted by the Community and presented in the following documents: the Communication on integrating gender issues in development cooperation (18 September 1995), the Council Resolution of 20 December 1995 on the same subject and Council Regulation (EC) No 2836/98 of 22 December 1998 on integrating of gender issues in development cooperation.