Translation of "Poste de travail blanc stérile " (French → English) :

laminar air flow station | laminar air flow workbench

Those Member States which immediately opened their labour market to new ones benefited in various ways: migrants helped fill vacancies and jobs moved from the grey to the white sector.

We find this proposal interesting and all hope that it will not be like Delors’ White Paper on Unemployment, which, it appears, has still not created even a single job.

26. Welcomes the White Paper's concept of the role of the regions as intermediary between the citizen and the supranational authorities; will welcome proposals from the Convention to redraft Article 5 of the EC Treaty in order to make a specific reference to the function of constitutional regions within Member States; proposes that regions and local authorities, both of which have important duties in the implementation of EU law and policy, be invited to involve themselves much more in consultative work in the pre-legislative phase as well as in post-legislative monitoring of the effect of such legislation on the ground;

I. Annual Plans: submit, for the first time, a summary by Directorate-General of all completed and outstanding tasks for 2000, since annual work plans for each of the 29 Directorates-General and job descriptions of all 59 officials who occupy A1 posts were not established for 1999, or for any prior year; welcomes that under Action 22 of the White paper on Reform, the Commission would carry out individual performance appraisals of A1 and A2 officials in April 2001; regrets substantial delays whereby the first appraisal will only start by the end of 2001 ...[+++], as stated in the Commission decision of 22 December 2000 on the appraisal, selection and appointment of senior Commission officials (SEC(2000) 2305 ); calls for the transmission of annual work plans and, on a confidential basis, appraisals of A1 officials; asks the Commission to inform Parliament of the number of officials that have left under Articles 50 and 51 of the Staff Regulations; calls on the Commission to take into account the staff appraisals; invites the Commission to implement measures that will allow it to dismiss A1 officials whose career development reports indicate that performance is inadequate ;