Translation of "flemish institute for self-employed entrepreneurs " (English → French) :

Neither should it be the goal of our employment policy to make new self-employed entrepreneurs out of former employees and the non-self-employed workforce purely for business reasons.

The distinction between mobile workers and self-employed drivers has caused problems in practice, because of the emergence of 'false' self-employed drivers. These are people who are formally registered as self-employed entrepreneurs and operate as self-employed drivers but de facto work for only one other undertaking.

The Commission concludes that it is not worthwhile also to include genuinely self-employed drivers within the scope of the Directive. They are self-employed entrepreneurs who are free to decide on their working hours'.

For the other Priorities calls for projects will be launched by VIZO (the Flemish Institute for Self-Employment) or the Employment Department of the Ministry of the Flemish Community.

In short, the major changes proposed in this bill are to reduce the number of hours from 910 to 350; to increase the number of weeks for people who may qualify; to include self-employed entrepreneurs under the EI program; to increase the level of benefits to 66%, where it should really be.

The following resolution was adopted at the end of the conference. The European Conference on Craft Industries and Small Businesses: 1) Welcomes the adoption by the Commission of the action programme for small and medium-sized businesses (7 August 1986); 2) Hopes that all possible resources will be used to put into effect the actions described in the programme, as concerns both the business environment and greater flexibility and access to finance; 3) Considers that, since small businesses are those most handicapped by the non-tariff barriers which have persisted in the common market for 30 years, priority should be given to eliminating these obstacles to the completion of the internal market, and to reducing and simplifying administrativ ...[+++]e, tax and technical procedures as much as possible; ../.- 2 - 4) Considers that a special effort will have to be made to assist craft industries, including policies : a) to promote enterprise and the important role of the self-employed entrepreneur; b) to educate and inform craftsmen on the new technologies so that they are introduced into existing businesses; c) to encourage young people and the unemployed to set up their own craft industry businesses; d) to provide training in the new technologies and materials as early as the apprentice stage; e) to preserve craft skills; f) to simplify the procedures for making use of and protecting inventions. 5) Calls on the Community's financial institutions and Funds to introduce the kind of specific financing measures in favour of small businesses and craft industries that are easy to implement and cover the whole range of operations from grants and loans to special support and venture capital operations; 6) Welcomes the Commission's plans for providing information in the form of a "Community window for small businesses"; 7) Addresses this resolution to the Commission, Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the governement of the Member States.