Translation of "évaluation d'un centre de jour pour adulte " (French → English) :

37. Welcomes the indication in the Centre's activity report that in 2006 it continued to implement the recommendations of the Commission's IAS concerning the finalisation and updating of job descriptions, making authorising officers aware of their responsibilities, longer deadlines for publication of vacancy notices, adequate monitoring of Centre's activities, risk assessment, a clear definition of the agency's status as a subsidis ...[+++]ed or self-financing body, and the provision of a handover procedure for all essential functions;

37. Welcomes the indication in the Centre's activity report that in 2006 it continued to implement the recommendations of the Commission's IAS concerning the finalisation and updating of job descriptions, making authorising officers aware of their responsibilities, longer deadlines for publication of vacancy notices, adequate monitoring of Centre's activities, risk assessment, a clear definition of the agency's status as a subsidis ...[+++]ed or self-financing body, and the provision of a handover procedure for all essential functions;

a new expert committee, within the European Medicines Agency to assess and agree companies’ testing plans; a requirement at the time of marketing authorisation applications for data on the use of the medicine in children (plus a system of waivers from this requirement for medicines unlikely to benefit children and a system of deferrals to ensure medicines are tested in children only when it is safe to do so and to ensure the requirements do not delay the authorisation of medicines for adults); a reward for studying medicines for children of 6-months extension to the supplementary protection certificate - in effect, six-month patent e ...[+++]xtension; for off-patent medicines, ten-years of data protection for new studies awarded via a Paediatric Use Marketing Authorisation (P.U.M.A); increased safety monitoring for children’s medicines and compulsory submission by industry of existing studies in children; an EU inventory of the therapeutic needs of children and an EU network of investigators and trial centres to conduct the studies required; a system of free scientific advice for the industry, provided by the European Medicines Agency.

7. Notes that the evaluation concludes that cooperation between the two Agencies is satisfactory and that, at present, ETF makes appropriate use of Cedefop as a resource centre;

Regarding endocrine disrupters, the Commission and WHO, through the International Programme for Chemical Safety, are already cooperating on the maintenance of a global research inventory which is housed at the Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra and on the compilation of a global state-of-the-science assessment report.

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 UNDERTAKINGS 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 exi ...[+++]sting 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.