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On 1st May 2004, the 2003 Infopoint project became a fully integrated part of the mission of the Social Development Agency (SDA).

The mission of the INFOPOINT - Information Point - project, under the responsibility of the SDA-asbl, consists in responding to the priority objectives of the 04030303 budget line, as voted by the European Parliament for 2008 and administered by DG Employment and Social Affairs of the European Commission relating to the creation of an information and observation point.
The duration of the action proposed extends on the period from 16 November 2007 to 15 November 2008.
This period will be characterised by two main activity axles:
  • To contribute to the preparation, to the launching and the monitoring of transnational co-operation projects in the fields of information, consultation and participation of workers ;
  • To analyse and evaluate the results obtained in the set-up of representative transnational bodies, at company's level as well as the degree of effective enforcement of the objectives fixed in the field of information, consultation and participation through such bodies.


And more particularly:

  1. The first axle aims at contributing to the preparation, the launching and the monitoring of transnational co-operation projects in the fields of information, consultation and participation of workers. The objective of this field of activity is essentially:
  • To inform the promoters eligible for the budget line (that is the management of companies and/or groups of companies, the European Works Councils, the national and European Industry Federations) with a particular attention for the applicants from the new Member States;

  • To examine the projects and help the promoters mount them and collect the administrative elements necessary to the submission of such projects;

  • To put at the potential promoters' disposal an updated "Vademecum on the enforcement of a project on the 04030303 Budget heading" in accordance with the new orientations and forms imposed within the framework of the 03… budget line in 2007;

  • To support the promoters - both as regards the contents and the management aspects - during the phases of enforcement of their actions, but also in their capacity to report on the measures planned in the projects;

  • To help promoters write the final technical and financial reports.


See: http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/emplweb/tenders/tenders_en.cfm?id=2785

  1. The second axle concerns the analysis and the evaluation - in co-ordination with the ETUC - of the results attained in the enforcement of the acquis communautaire in the fields of worker information and consultation rights in companies with transnational dimensions and of enforcement and operation of European Works Councils (EWC) and more generally of workers' transnational representation bodies.


In this framework, the ETUC requests the SDA to carry on four different action lines and to achieve a special project.

Actions :

  1. the permanent collection of data and information on EWC (EWC Agreements Database);
  2. the analysis / evaluation of the results obtained in the enforcement and the operation of the workers' representation bodies at transnational level ;
  3. the assistance of experts to the members of such representative bodies;
  4. the broadcasting of this information and of theses analyses.

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