In order to help achieve the objective laid down in the first paragraph, the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, in co-operation with the European Parliament and after consulting the Economic and Social Committee, shall adopt, by means of directives, minimum requirements for gradual implementation, having regard to the conditions and technical rules obtaining in each of the Member States.

Lesser representation of the Roma in the journalistic coverage may be attributed in part to the obstacles of an organizational nature: while social institutions have orderly relations and long established methods of communication with media houses, as well as effective public relations departments which shape public announcements, the Roma are much less organized, and consequently, their voice has more difficulty reaching journalists.

Once the Single European Act enters into force the Commission shall submit a comprehensive proposal to the Council, the purpose of which will be to make such amendments to the structure and operational rules of the existing structural Funds (European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guidance Section, European Social Fund, European Regional Development Fund) as are necessary to clarify and rationalize their tasks in order to contribute to the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 130a and Article 130c, to increase their efficiency and to coordinate their activities between themselves and with the operations of the existing financial instruments.

Articles 16, 17 and 18 of the Social Security Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975.';

In order to be included as a social benefit, the transfer must meet one of two criteria:

Family credit (Social Security Act 1986 of 25 July 1986, Sections 20 to 22, and Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 of 5 November 1986, Articles 21 to 23).

Income support (Social Security Act 1986 of 25 July 1986, Sections 20 to 22 and Section 23 and Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 of 5 November 1986, Articles 21 to 28).

Promote autonomous social dialogue, especially at the enterprise and sectoral level, in order to improve its coverage.

An amount equal to the value of the social contributions incurred by employers in order to secure for their employees the entitlement to social benefits needs to be recorded under compensation of employees.

DESIRING furthermore to contribute to the development of world trade in order to promote stronger economic growth and social progress;

Social insurance schemes are schemes in which social contributions are paid by employees or other individuals, or by employers on behalf of their employees, in order to secure entitlement to social insurance benefits for the employees or other contributors, their dependants or survivors.

any proposals concerning Community measures and policies which may need to be adopted in order to strengthen economic and social cohesion.

This should be turned into regular work in order to improve the overall business environment, the quality in work of those concerned, social cohesion and the sustainability of public finance and social protection systems.

Affirming their willingness to contribute to the expansion of international trade in order to achieve greater economic growth and social progress;

In order to balance the latter account, it is assumed that the households of employees pay back to the employers' sectors the employers' imputed social contributions which finance together with eventual employees' social contributions the direct social welfare benefits provided to them by these same employers.

Whereas the tasks of the European Social Fund (ESF) should be adjusted in order to take account of and to implement the European employment strategy;

In order to distinguish between different categories of social security benefits, `the risk covered` by each benefit must also be taken into consideration.

Employers and general government occasionally make extraordinary payments to private social insurance funds in order to increase the reserves of these funds.

DESIROUS of establishing cooperation, sustained by regular dialogue, on economic, social and cultural issues in order to achieve better mutual understanding;

The measures shall also take account of the need to promote education and the creation of jobs for young people in order to facilitate their social integration.

The first axis is to support socioeconomic equilibrium through improvement of the instruments in favour of social welfare, in order to address fundamental social needs and employment creation in the short term, as well as support for the housing sector.

They should be tackled through a broad approach involving actors at all levels in order to support economic and social cohesion, making use of the Community Structural Funds.

An environmental component needs also to be added to social statistics in order to reflect consumption patterns and possible health effects from pollution and use of chemicals.

RECOGNIZING that Mongolia is undertaking considerable efforts to restructure its society and economy in order to strengthen democracy and to promote economic and social progress,

Fiscal monopolies are public enterprises which have been granted a legal monopoly over the production or distribution of a particular kind of good or service in order to raise revenue and not in order to further the interests of public economic or social policy.

RECOGNISING the need to introduce new international rules in order to provide adequate solutions to the questions raised by economic, social, cultural and technological developments,

payments by social security funds or public agencies to unemployed persons to encourage them to move to another locality or change their occupation in order to seek or to obtain work,

whereas, in order to make the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services fully effective, the social security schemes for self-employed persons should be coordinated;

the expression 'earnings, contributions or increases' in Article 47 (1) (b) of the Regulation shall be construed as meaning surpluses in earnings factors as defined in the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 or, as the case may be, the Social Security Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975;

CONSIDERING the need to support the current process of economic reform in order to guarantee transition to a market economy, with due regard for the importance of the social development which should go hand in hand with economic development and the common commitment to respecting social rights;

(15) An adequate labour supply is needed in order to meet the demographic challenge, support economic growth, promote full employment, and support the sustainability of social protection systems.

The EEA Joint Committee shall take the necessary decisions in order to facilitate cooperation between the Contracting Parties in future programmes and activities of the Community in the social field.

RECOGNIZING the need to support the current process of economic reform in order to guarantee the Lao PDR's transition to a market economy, with due regard for the importance of the social development which should go hand in hand with economic development and the common commitment to respecting social rights;

ESA 95 explicitly requires there to be a social purpose and entitlements of individuals behind the payments in order for them not to be treated as a unrequited transfers to producers, i.e. as subsidies.

21 It therefore appears necessary to ascertain at the outset the nature of the allowance in question in order to determine whether it is a social security benefit to which Regulation No 1408/71 applies.

Article 130 a lays down that 'In order to promote its overall harmonious development, the Community shall develop and pursue its actions leading to the strengthening of its economic and social cohesion` fn,

The Contracting Parties shall establish cooperation in the field of social development in Macao in order to improve the standard of living and quality of life of the most disadvantaged sections of the population.

Member States should take suitable measures in order to guarantee access to and affordability of all publicly available telephone services at a fixed location for disabled users and users with special social needs.

The Contracting Parties may also conclude public service contracts with the railway undertakings in order to guarantee adequate rail transport services, taking particular account of social and environmental factors.

Improvement of the institutional structure, which must go hand in hand with a closer dialogue with partners, in order to make the economic, legislative, administrative and social climate more conducive to development;

Implement the social inclusion and anti-poverty national strategy (including data collection) and adopt secondary legislation in order to clarify institutional responsibilities of all bodies and authorities concerned.

for Syria, in order to accompany progressive economic liberalization, cooperation shall focus on upgrading of the administration, particularly in the public utilities and social services, local government and central ministries.

In order to alleviate the short-term costs of economic transition and better prepare societies for the future, it is particularly important that this process should be accompanied by appropriate measures in the field of social policy.

RECOGNISING the need to introduce new international rules and clarify the interpretation of certain existing rules in order to provide adequate solutions to the questions raised by new economic, social, cultural and technological developments,