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Mr President, the Committee on Women’s Rights expressed – and I thank the rapporteur, Mr Casaca, who has included them in his report – a series of considerations which I will point out. On the one hand, we are pleased with the efforts made by the Commission during 2001 to integrate the aspect of equal opportunities between men and women into the Union’s policies and particularly into new fields such as international trade, public contracts, asylum policy and the environment. This is a good way of working to achieve the objective of equal opportunities which, as you all know, is included in the Treaty as one of the objectives to be fulfilled in all Community activities.
In this regard, I must point out, as other Members have done, the problems which have arisen in the management of the Structural Funds. I have been responsible for an initiative report on compliance with the objective of equality in the Structural Funds, since it is a very important programme which is unfortunately not being implemented adequately and which leaves out such important criteria as this equal opportunities criterion. We hope that in the future more initiatives will be adopted and the procedures will be simplified, so that these Funds are used appropriately in order to achieve this objective.
We also believe it unacceptable that, although the European Social Fund has the established objective of 15% of total costs for the promotion of the employment of women, only 6% has been used for this purpose. Therefore, although 15% is not a particularly high percentage, we believe that the fact that not even half has been reached must be corrected in the future, since employment is always one of the most important instruments for the integration of men and women and for equality.
We are also pleased with the implementation of the Daphne programme, which ended at the end of 2002 and whose new phase is now underway. We have expressed a series of considerations on the extension of the Daphne programme, which will be taken into account in the Commission’s report and in the new phase of this programme, which is so important in the fight against violence against women and which has brought such good results, on which I congratulate the Commission.
Finally, we would like clear efforts to be made within the financial management of the Commission to channel a proportion of the budget for Community programmes towards equal opportunities between men and women. We hope that this will be taken into account during the next budgetary year."@en1
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