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Mr President, despite the fact that I was born next to the Murcia region, it is difficult for me to analyse, in Community terms, the problems of the precarious employment there. Therefore, allow me to make a rather more general comment. The assessment of the labour market reforms which have resulted from the processes we have established in the Union – the Luxembourg process and the broad guidelines for economic policy – demonstrates that the reforms of the regulations on the labour market in the different countries are making a positive and significant contribution to greater economic growth and to promoting the creation of employment and the greater participation of men and women in the labour market.
The broad guidelines of economic policy and the recommendations for employment have never advocated a simple deregulation of the labour market, as the question states. Together with the reform of certain labour market regulations, they also include, for example, the need to adopt measures which will promote entrepreneurial spirit or active labour market policies – and we state this quite deliberately – to improve employment opportunities.
The measures adopted in each Member State must be adapted to the problems and reality of each of them. It is also quite normal for the Commission to insist on the need to hold debates and make agreements with social partners so that they may actively participate in the changes to the labour market in each country.
As well as a significant and lasting increase in the levels of employment, one of the key priorities of the employment strategy is to improve the quality of jobs. The recent Lisbon Summit gave a new impulse to the Union’s economic and social agenda and we have also insisted on this point by talking of more and better employment.
I would also like to highlight, as a fundamental contribution to the consolidation of the progress made until now, the promotion and maintenance of rigorous regulations on health and safety at work, which has been one of the most prominent issues in the debate held in the Commission, which advocates better jobs in Europe. Labour market reforms directed at improving employment opportunities and workers’ ability to adapt to these new opportunities in no way seek to undermine working conditions or health and safety at work.
In accordance with its legal competence as laid down in the Treaty, the Commission has kept up the necessary efforts to implement and propose various legal instruments and monitor the incorporation of the
in this area.
With regard to your specific question and the case of Spain, it is Spain’s responsibility, like the other Members, to apply the Commission’s directives. It is also the responsibility of the Member States to monitor the application of these directives in all of their regions. The Commission must guarantee that those directives are transposed into national law correctly and, clearly, to monitor all the issues relating to its application, which is the responsibility of the national authorities."@en1
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