Traduction de «Groupe ad hoc Evaluation du lieu de travail » (Français → Anglais) :

Under the proposed dispute settlement process, the setting up of ad hoc NAFO panels could be blocked if objecting members found enough allies, which would be easier to do under a two-thirds voting rule ([96]) The decisions of ad hoc panels appear to have no legal force to overrule or suspend objections, and could lead to further Fisheries Commission meetings whose decisions could again be open to objections.

1. Welcomes the Commission's analysis of the implementation of health and safety legislation and its assessment of how the directives are being applied in the workplace and looks forward to seeing the Commission's evaluation of the application of the remaining individual directives; notes the decrease in the number of accidents at the workplace as a positive result, and that measures to protect health and safety in the workplace contribute to better working conditions and promote productivity, competitiveness and employment; regrets, however, the belated publication of the Commission's report, as the Member States" national implementat ...[+++]ion reports should already have been transmitted in 1997; calls for future evaluation reports to better assess the extent to which health and safety legislation has been complied with in practice in the Member States;

1. Welcomes the Commission’s analysis of the implementation of health and safety legislation and its assessment of how the directives are being applied in the workplace and looks forward to seeing the Commission’s evaluation of the application of the remaining individual directives; notes the decrease in the number of accidents at the workplace as a positive result and that measures to protect health and safety at the workplace contribute to better working conditions and promote productivity, competitiveness and employment; regrets, however, the belated publication of the Commission's report, as the Member States’ national implementati ...[+++]on reports should have been delivered already in 1997; calls for future evaluation reports better to assess the extent to which health and safety legislation has been complied with in practice in the Member States;

13. Calls for further implementation of the acquis communautaire in the field of health and safety at work; acknowledges the extraordinarily high costs involved in implementing the acquis in this field, calls on the candidate countries, in order to improve living and working conditions, to submit to the Commission a realistic assessment of the difficulties associated with the practical implementation of the acquis in the field of health and safety at work; calls on the candidate countries to reinforce their industry inspection services, particularly in performing their task of assisting firms with the implementation of the acquis commu ...[+++]nautaire;

TRAINING On the training front, the Commission plans : - to ask CEDEFOP to take these issues into account in its work on the training of instructors; - to encourage, under its draft programme on the training and preparation of young people for working life, joint initiatiives relating to training, the development of educational materials and improvements in the methods used to ensure health, hygiene and safety at work. SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED UNDERTAKI ...[+++]NGS The Commissin will devote particular attention to the problems encountered by small business and consequently during the period 1988-91 intends : - to review the extent to which the existing regulations are understood and applied in this field, by studying a sample and medium-sized undertakings; - to carry out a study of the special rules and exemptions applicable to small business in national health and safety legislation and to assess the need for action and for the harmonization of legislation; - to study the influence of new work layouts on health, hygiene and safety in small business; - to study how health and safety regulations can be made readily understandable to owners of small businesses; - to prepare information manuals containing advice for those setting up small businesses; - to prepare safety training modules aimed at those setting up small businesses; - to develop a system to enable small businesses to have a rapid access to information on safety equipment and individual protective equipment.

As a first step, the Group will work on the basis of the priority themes mentioned in the Commission report for the December 1994 Essen European Council : - qualitative and quantitative impact of the introduction of new information and communication technologies on employment, and conditions for optimal exploitation of new sources of employment linked to technological progress, - impact of new technologies on work organisation (flexible enterprise, teleworking) and potential consequences on social legislation (labour law, social secur ...[+++]ity, including health and safety at work), - consequences of the information society on the cohesion of Europe's regions and towns, - opportunities offered by new technologies for adaptation of education systems to the needs of the information society, - opportunities offered by new technologies for improving management of systems devoted to healthcare and quality medical care ; and - opportunities offered by new technologies for improving the labour market situation and developing human resources.