Employment and Social Legislation, Social Dialogue Labour Law

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

2013
VP/2013/008

PROGRESS is the EU employment and social solidarity programme, set up for the period 2007- 2013 to provide financial support for the attainment of the European Union’s objectives in employment, social affairs and equal opportunities and of the Europe 2020 Strategy.

The general objective is to further improve transnational administrative cooperation between national competent bodies and social partners involved in the monitoring and correct application of Posting of Workers Directive and increase mutual trust among stakeholders, including promoting exchanges of relevant officials and training, as well as developing, facilitating and promoting best practice initiatives in the area of posting of workers in the framework of temporary provision of services. In order to achieve this objective, it is intended with this Call for Proposals to fund transnational cooperation initiatives between at least 3 Member States  responsible authorities and/or social partners.

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=630&langId=en&callId=379&furtherCalls=yes

Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion

Call for proposals no. VP/2013/007 – EESSI Pool of Excellence

The objective of the call is to conclude a single Framework Partnership Agreement with multiple beneficiaries for the setting-up and implementation of an Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information ( EESSI) Pool of Excellence, covering the Member States, EEA countries and Croatia for a duration of four years, to allow Member States and participating countries to:

·      develop common tools, share experience, best practise and know-how;

·      collect and share direct feed-back from a user-perspective;

·      strengthen their own, national competences related to EESSI.

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=630&langId=en&callId=380&furtherCalls=yes 

Croatia becomes the 28th Member State of the European Union

WELCOME CROATIA

On the eve of Croatia's accession, President Barroso said:

"Croatia's accession to the European Union is a historic event, which returns the country to its rightful place at the heart of Europe. I look forward to Croatia's contribution to the EU, which will be a success story – to the benefit of the Union, of the people of Croatia and of South East Europe as whole."

European Commission/Press release/Reference: IP/13/625