Translation of "évaluation du travail " (French → English) :

25. || Part-Time Work and Fixed Term Work || Evaluation || Evaluation of Directive 97/81/EC of 15 December 1997 concerning the Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC. Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP. Results expected for 2015.

1. The Commission or the relevant funding body shall provide a transparent evaluation review procedure for applicants which consider that the evaluation of their proposal has not been carried out in accordance with the procedures set out in this Regulation, the relevant work programme, work plan or the call for proposals.

Draws particular attention to the lack of research on the subject of precarious work; calls on the Commission and Eurofound to cooperate with the European Institute for Gender Equality and to initiate targeted research in order to assess, inter alia, the cost of the de-skilling and welfare loss resulting from precarious employment, taking into account the gender aspect; emphasises that future European research programmes should have a greater focus on social issues, such as precarious employment;

Forest management practices: forest use plans, annual work plans including maps and equipment permit, minutes of consultation meetings with communities living in and around permit area required for the development of the annual work plans, forest timber exploitation work plan and annexes, Environmental Impact Assessment documents and minutes of public consultation meetings required for the development of the Environmental Impact Assessment reports, log production reports, and stand inventory data in state-owned forest land.

The Commission Communication on the ‘Evaluation of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work’, prepared in accordance with Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 and based on an external evaluation carried out in 2001, as well as on the contributions of the Administrative Board and of the Commission Advisory Committee for Safety and Health at Work, underlines the need to amend Regulation (EC) No 2062/94 in order to maintain and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Agency and its management structures.

The overall attractiveness of a job covers a number of dimensions: satisfaction with pay and working conditions; health and safety at the workplace (public authorities and employers need to assess and control the risk factors relating to an increasingly ageing work force); balance between flexibility and security in contractual relationships (high rates of voluntary part-time work are associated with higher participation rates among women and older workers; conversely, involuntary part-time work and fixed-term contracts are associated with higher exit rates into either unemployment (15%) or inactivity (10%).); productivity improvements; flexible work organisation and worki ...[+++]ng time arrangements that improve access and choice especially of women and older workers.