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Mr Alavanos's question concerns the Lisbon targets and whether or not Greece will be able to attain them. First, the target of full employment set in Lisbon was a political commitment by leaders of the Member States, not a binding legal commitment. Except that the political commitment was also highly significant and all the national action plans for employment have been drawn up and submitted on the basis of that commitment.
In Greece, the second Community Support Framework applied over the last five years was completed in December 2001, so it is difficult to make an overall evaluation of it. Naturally, the job market was reformed and training and proactive employment policy structures and mechanisms were created during the course of the second Community Support Framework. The problem lies with the employment services which Greece started to reform at the end of the second Community Support Framework.
As far as the third Community Support Framework is concerned, Greece is one of the few Member States which has set quantitative national targets under its national action plan, having announced a target of 61.5% for 2005. The third Community Support Framework includes a hefty 2.9 trillion drachmas to fund pro-active employment policies and reforms. The implementation of the third Community Support Framework is a huge challenge if Greece is to introduce the mechanisms needed for employment policy, such as an individualised approach, because the Greek national employment agencies need to be completely overhauled and training mechanisms need to work more efficiently and be geared to regional development objectives.
The Commission is working closely with all the Member States and, as you know, it repeats the guidelines every year so that the Member States can take account of European agreements on the application of employment policies."@en1
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