Amended Proposal for a Council Decision on the programme relating to the Community framework strategy on gender equality (2001-2005) (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 250 (2) of the EC Treaty)
Date: 2000-11-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU programme, European social policy, equal treatment, gender equality

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Amended proposal

for a Council Decision on the Programme relating to the Community
framework strategy on gender equality (2001-2005) (1)

(2001/C 96 E/13)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(2000) 793 final (cid:151) 2000/0143(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty on 27 November 2000)

(1) OJ C 337 E, 28.11.2000, p. 196.

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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 13 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions,

Whereas:

(1) The principle of equal treatment for women and men is a
fundamental principle of Community law and the
Directives and other acts adopted in keeping with it
have played a major part in improving the situation of
women.

(2) Experience of action at Community level has shown that
promoting gender equality in practice calls for a combi-
nation of measures and, in particular, of legislation and
practical action designed to reinforce each other

(3) The persistence of

inequality the

continuation and

strengthening of Community action in the field

action designed

(2) Experience of action at Community level has shown that
promoting gender equality in practice calls for a combi-
nation of measures and, in particular, of legislation and
practical
each other.
Experience has also shown that Community action in
this field should be pursuit through the combination of
gender mainstreaming and specific actions.
is also
role of men for attaining
recognised the important
gender equality.

to reinforce

It

(3) The persistence of gender discrimination of a structural
nature, of double (cid:151) and often multiple (cid:151) discrimination
affecting numerous women as well as the persistence of
gender
and
strengthening of Community action in the field and the
adoption of new methods and approaches to the problem.

continuation

inequality

justify

the

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(4) The European Parliament, in its resolution on the interim
report on the implementation of
the medium-term
Community action programme on equal opportunities
for men and women (1996-2000) (1), has called on the
Commission to submit a proposal
for a fifth action
programme.

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(5) The Council, in its conclusions of 22 October 1999 has
stressed the importance of a new action programme to
promote equality for women and men.

(6) The declaration and Platform for action adopted at the UN
Fourth World Conference on Women called upon
the international community and civil
Governments,
society to take strategic action to eliminate discrimination
against women and remove obstacles to gender equality.
The Special Session of the UN general Assemble held in
June 2000 (cid:150)Beijing +5- confirmed the need of a full and
to accelerated implementation of the Beijing Platform for
action.

(7) The European Council meetings in Lisbon, on 23-24
March 2000, and in Santa Maria da Feira, on 19-20
June 2000, urged the Commission and the Member
States to further all aspects of equal opportunities in
employment policy, for example by reducing occupational
segregation and making it easier to reconcile working life
and family life, in particular by setting a new benchmark
for improved childcare provision. The Council also set
quantitative
in the
including
employment rate for women from the present 51 % to
60 % by the year 2010.

an increase

targets,

(8) The new Community strategy for gender equality (2) his
Programme will provide the structure for the horizontal
and co-ordinating activities necessary to ensure coherence
and to develop synergies with regard to the gender related
activities of all Community policies.

(8) The new Community framework strategy for gender
equality (3) will embrace all activities of the Community,
in line with Article 3.2 of
the Treaty, which aims to
eliminate inequalities and to promote equality between
women and men. This Programme will provide the
structure for the horizontal and co-ordinating activities
necessary to ensure coherence and to develop synergies
with regard to the implementation of
the framework
strategy.

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(1) A4-0194/99-PE 230.041/DEF (OJ C 279, 1.10.1999, p. 88).
(2) COM(2000) 335 final.

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(3) COM(2000) 335 final.

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States,

should

the Commission,

(9) In order to reinforce the added value of Community
in co-operation with the
action,
the
all
ensure,
Member
coherence and complementarity of actions implemented
this Decision and other relevant
in the framework of
Community
in
and
policies,
particular those under Articles 125 to 130 of the Treaty
concerning a co-ordinated strategy for employment, and
under the European Social Fund.

instruments

actions,

levels,

at

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experience

(10) Efforts to strengthen capacity of key players involved in
promoting gender equality should include exchange of
among
information,
and
networks,
Parliamentary
Committees for Equal Opportunities for Women and
Men in Member States and in the European Parliament
and the Commission’s experts’ networks. Promotion of
synergy among the members of the networks should be
a priority issue.

the network of

best practices

including

(11) It is necessary for the success of any Community action
for the results to be monitored and evaluated against the
aims.

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(12) In accordance with Article 2 of Council Decision
1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the
implementing powers
procedures
conferred on the Commission (1); measures
the
implementation of this Decision should be adopted by
use of the advisory procedure provided for in Article 3
of that Decision.

the exercise of

for

for

(13) Provision should be made to open up this Programme to
the applicant countries of Central and Eastern Europe, in
accordance with the conditions established in the Europe
in their additional protocols and in the
Agreements,
decisions of
to
the respective Association Councils,
Cyprus, Malta and Turkey, funded by additional appro-
priations
to be
in accordance with the procedures
agreed with those countries.

(14) In accordance with the principles of subsidiarity and
proportionality as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty, the
objective of
the proposed action by the Community,
namely to promote gender equality, cannot be sufficiently
achieved by the Member States by reason of, inter alia, the
need for multilateral partnerships, transnational exchange
information and Community-wide dissemination of
of
good practice, and can therefore, by reason of the scale
the action, be better achieved by the
and effects of
Community. This Decision
the
confines
minimum required in order to achieve that objective
that
and does not go beyond what
purpose,

is necessary for

itself

to

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(1) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

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(15) All Member States and candidate countries have signed
and ratified the UN Convention for the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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Article 1

Establishment of a Programme

This Decision establishes a Programme to promote, gender
equality, hereinafter referred to as (cid:145)the Programme(cid:146)
for the
period from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2005.

This Decision establishes a Programme to promote, assist and
the Community framework strategy on gender
support
equality, hereinafter referred to as (cid:145)the Programme(cid:146)
for the
period from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2005.

Article 2

Principles

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1.
The Programme is related to the Community’s overall
strategy on gender equality, which embraces all Community
policies geared to achieving gender equality, including gender
mainstreaming policies and specific actions targeted at women.

the Community’s overall

1.
The Programme is one of the necessary instruments to
strategy on gender
implement
equality, which embraces all Community policies and all
Community actions geared to achieving gender equality,
including gender mainstreaming policies and specific actions
targeted at all women.

2.
The Programme shall coordinate, support and finance
horizontal and coordinating activities under the fields of inter-
vention of the Community strategy on gender equality. These
are economic life, equal participation and representation, social
rights, civil life, gender roles and stereotypes. Gender equality
in the enlargement of the Community as well as the gender
dimension of the Community’s external relations and devel-
opment cooperation policies are horizontal issues which will
permeate all areas of intervention of the framework strategy.

2.
The Programme shall coordinate, support and finance the
implementation of horizontal activities under the fields of
intervention of the Community strategy on gender equality.
These are economic life, equal participation and representation,
social rights, civil
life, gender roles and stereotypes. Gender
equality in the enlargement of the Community as well as the
gender dimension of the Community’s external relations and
development cooperation policies are horizontal issues which
will permeate all areas of
the framework
strategy.

intervention of

Article 3

Objectives

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The Programme shall have the following objectives:

(a) To assist

implementation of
framework strategy on gender equality;

in the

the Community

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(b) To promote and disseminate the values and practices

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underlying gender equality;

(c) To improve the understanding of issues related to direct and
indirect gender discrimination, by determining where it
exists and to what extent and by evaluating the effectiveness
of policies and practice;

(c) To improve the understanding of issues related to direct and
indirect gender discrimination, including multiple discrimi-
nation affecting women, by determining where it exists and
to what extent and by evaluating the effectiveness of
policies and practice;

(d) To develop the capacity of key players (independent bodies
responsible for the promotion of gender equality, social
partners and non-governmental organisations, especially at
national,
to promote gender
in particular through support for the
equality effectively,
exchange of information and good practice and networking
at Community level.

regional and local

levels)

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(e) To assist the Community in assessing the need for further
initiatives, including, where necessary, legislation; to combat
gender discrimination and promote
equality between
women and men.

(f) To support and promote the applicant countries’ efforts to

achieve gender equality.

Article 4

Community actions

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1. With a view to achieving the objectives set out in Article
3, the following actions will be implemented within a trans-
national framework:

(a) Awareness-raising

Primarily by emphasising the Community dimension of the
promotion of gender equality and by publicising the results
through publications,
in particular
the Programme,
of
campaigns and events.

(b) Analysis and evaluation

tools

Analysis of factors and policies relating to gender equality,
including the collection of statistics, studies, gender impact
of
and mechanisms,
assessment,
indicators and benchmarks and effective dissemination of
results. This will also include monitoring of the implemen-
tation and application of Community equality law by
evaluating legislation and practice in order to assess their
impact and effectiveness.

development

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(c) Capacity building

Transnational cooperation between key players through the
promotion of networking and exchange of experiences at
Community level between national, authorities,
social
partners and non-governmental organisations.

Transnational cooperation between key players through the
promotion of networking and exchange of experiences at
Community level between national, regional and local auth-
orities, social partners and non-governmental organisations.

Arrangements for

2.
described in paragraph 1 are set out in the Annex.

the implementation of

the actions

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Article 5

Implementation of the Programme and cooperation with
Member States

1.

The Commission shall:

(a) ensure the implementation of

the Community actions
covered by this Programme in accordance with the Annex;

(b) regularly exchange views with the Members of

the
Committee referred to in Article 6, with representatives
of social partners at Community level and non-govern-
mental
and
follow-up of the Programme and on related policy orien-
tations.

implementation

organisations

the

on

(b) regularly exchange views with the Members of

the
Committee referred to in Article 6, with representatives
of social partners at Community level and non-govern-
mental
and
follow-up of the Programme and on related policy orien-
tations. To this end, the Commission shall make relevant
information available to the non-governmental organi-
sations and to the social partners

implementation

organisations

the

on

(c) promote active partnership and dialogue between all the
partners
to
encourage an integrated and coordinated approach to
promote gender equality.

involved in the

Programme,

inter

alia

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The Commission, in cooperation with the Member States,

2.
shall take the necessary steps to:

(a) promote the involvement

in the Programme of all

the

parties concerned;

(b) ensure the dissemination of

the results of

the actions

undertaken within this Programme;

(c) provide appropriate information, publicity and follow-up
with regard to actions supported by this Programme.

Article 6

Committee

The Commission shall be assisted by a committee
1.
composed of
the Member States and
chaired by the representative of the Commission (hereinafter
referred to as (cid:145)the Committee(cid:146)).

representatives of

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2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, the advisory
procedure laid down in Article 3 of Decision 1999/468/EC
shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 7 thereof.

The representative of the Commission shall in particular

3.
consult the Committee on:

(a) the general guidelines

for

the implementation of

the

Programme;

(b) the annual budgets and the distribution of funding between

measures;

(c) the annual plan of work for the implementation of the

Programme’s actions.

4.
The representative of the Commission shall also consult
the Committee on other appropriate matters concerning the
implementation of this Programme.

5.
To ensure the consistency and complementarity of this
Programme with other measures referred to in Article 7, the
Commission shall keep the Committee regularly informed
about other Community action contributing to promote
the Commission shall
gender equality. Where appropriate,
establish regular and structured cooperation between this
Committee and the monitoring committees established for
other relevant policies, instruments and actions.

Article 7

Consistency and complementarity

1.
The Commission shall, in cooperation with the Member
States, ensure overall consistency with other Union and
Community policies, instruments and actions, in particular by
appropriate mechanisms
the
establishing
activities of
in
this Programme with relevant
particular relating toresearch, employment, non-discrimination
social, inclusion, education, training and youth policy, justice
and home affairs and in the field of enlargement and of the
Community’s external relations,

coordinate

activities

to

1.
The Commission shall, in cooperation with the Member
States, ensure overall consistency with other Union and
Community policies, instruments and actions, in particular by
i.e.: gender
establishing appropriate mechanisms and tools,
impact assessments, monitoring tools and benchmarks to coor-
dinate the activities of this Programme with relevant activities
of particular relevance for the advancement of women, such as
the fight against
research, employment, non-discrimination,
poverty and social exclusion, health, education, training and
youth policy, culture,
justice and home affairs and in the
field of enlargement and of the Community’s external relations,
(including the Community activities in the area of human
rights).

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this Programme

2.
The Commission and the Member States shall ensure
consistency and complementarity between action undertaken
relevant Union and
under
Community actions, in particular under the Structural Funds,
the Community Initiative EQUAL, and the Community action
programme to combat discrimination (2001-2006).

and other

and other

this Programme

2.
The Commission and the Member States shall ensure
consistency and complementarity between action undertaken
relevant Union and
under
Community actions, in particular under the Structural Funds,
the Community Initiative EQUAL, DAPHNE, STOP, PHARE and
MEDA programmes, the research Framework programme, the
fight against poverty and social exclusion, the social agenda
and the Community action programme to combat discrimi-
nation (2001-2006).

3.
The Member States shall make all possible efforts to
ensure consistency and complementarity between activities
under this Programme those carried out at national, regional
and local levels.

3.
The Member States shall facilitate and make all possible
efforts to ensure that the activities under this Programme are
consistent with and complement those carried out at national,
regional and local levels.

Article 8

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Participation of EFTA/EEA countries, the associated
countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Cyprus,
Malta and Turkey

This Programme shall be open to the participation of:

(a) the EFTA/EEA countries in accordance with the conditions

established in the EEA Agreement;

(b) the applicant countries of Central and Eastern Europe
(CEECs) in accordance with the conditions established in
the European Agreements,
in their additional protocols
and in the decisions of the respective Association Councils;

(c) Cyprus, Malta and Turkey,

funded by additional appro-
priations in accordance with procedures to be agreed
with those countries.

Article 9

Monitoring and evaluation

The Commission shall regularly monitor this Programme

1.
in cooperation with the committee referred to in Article 6.

the end of

The Programme shall be evaluated by the Commission at
2.
its mid-term and at
the Programme with the
assistance of independent experts. The evaluation will assess
the relevance and effectiveness of actions implemented with
regard to the objectives referred to in Article 2. It will also
examine the impact of
the Programme as a whole. The
evaluation will also examine the complementarity between
action under this Programme and that pursued under other
relevant Community policies, instruments and actions.

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The Commission shall

3.
submit an interim evaluation
report by 31 December 2003 at the latest to the European
Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee
and the Committee of Regions.

The Commission shall submit a final evaluation report on
4.
the Framework Strategy and the Programme to the European
Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee
and the Committee of the Regions by 31 December 2006 at
the latest.

All evaluation reports shall

(4a)
indicate to what extent
funds have been made available to Member States and govern-
mental bodies and to what extent to NGOs

Article 10

Addressees

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

I. AREAS OF ACTION

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ANNEX

The Programme may operate in one or more of the following fields
of intervention:

1. Economic life

The area relates to the remaining gender gaps in the labour
market and the ways to tackle them. The aims are to increase
the employment rate of women, to reduce the unemployment
rates among women,
the labour
market and the gender pay gap.

the gender segregation of

2. Equal participation and representation

The area addresses
the lack of women’s participation in
decision-making bodies. The actions deal with strategies to
promote women in political, economic and social decision-
making,
including activities in external relations and devel-
opment cooperation

The area addresses
the lack of women’s participation in
decision-making bodies. The actions deal with strategies to
promote women in political, economic and social decision-
making, at all
i.e.: Community, national, regional and
local, including activities in external relations and development
cooperation (such as women’s participation and role in inter-
national missions).

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3. Social rights

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Effective gender mainstreaming needs to be applied to all policy
areas which have an impact on women’s daily life such as
transport, public health and the fight against discrimination
on other grounds. The actions will aim at
improving the
application of Community legislation in particular on social
protection and in the areas of parental
leave, maternity
protection and working time

Effective gender mainstreaming needs to be applied to all policy
areas which have an impact on women’s daily life such as
transport, public health and the fight against discrimination
on other grounds. There shall be coordination with the
action programme against discrimination as well as other
relevant programmes. The actions will aim at improving the
application of Community legislation in particular on social
protection and in the areas of parental
leave, maternity
protection and working time and at finding ways and means
for making it easier to reconcile working life and family life, in
particular be setting benchmarks
improved provisions
for
concerning childcare and care of elderly.

4. Civil life

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The area addresses the enforcement of the human rights of
women. The actions will promote the recognition of human
equal opportunity rights and
rights of women,
strengthen the fight against gender related violence and traf-
ficking in women.

enforce

5. Gender roles and stereotypes

The area addresses the stereotyped images of women and men
and the need to change behaviour, attitudes, norms and values
which define and influence gender roles in the society. The
actions cover gender mainstreaming in particular in education,
training, culture, science, media and sport policies.

II. TYPES OF ACTION

The following measures may be supported by the Programme, in a
transnational framework:

Strand 1 (cid:151) Awareness raising

1. The organisation of conferences,

seminars and events at

European level;

2. The organisation of a European Equality week at Community
level and in each Member State at the same time under the same
topic coordinated by the Commission and conducted by the
responsible authority in each individual Member State.

2. The organisation of a European Equality week at Community
level and in each Member State and in applicant countries in
compliance with Article 8, at the same time under the same
topic coordinated by the Commission and conducted by the
responsible authority in each individual Member State. One
such topic could be combating violence against women and
children;

the transnational exchange of

3. The organisation of European media campaigns and events to
information and the
support
including
identification and dissemination of good practice,
the award of an annual prize to companies successful
in
promoting gender equality and with a view to strengthen the
visibility of gender issues;

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4. The publication of materials to disseminate the results of the
including the construction of an Internet Site
Programme,
providing examples of good practice,
the
exchange of ideas and a database of potential partners for trans-
national exchange actions as well as e-links to the existing
relevant web-sites in the Member States;

forum for

a

5. The

campaigns,

transnational

implementation of
seminars,

such as
meetings,
topics
approved annually, after discussion with the Committee of the
Programme. The aim of
these activities is to support and
improve the synergy among national policies on gender
equality and to develop a Community added value;

etc, on particular

initiatives

6. Organisation of seminars, in support of the implementation of

Community law in the field of gender equality,

6. Organisation of seminars, and dissemination of

information
about and in support of the implementation of Community
law in the field of gender equality, with particular attention to
the needs and requirements of the accession countries.

Strand 2 (cid:151) Analysis and evaluation

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1. The development and dissemination of comparable statistics,
broken down by sex, statistical series on women and men’s
situation in different policy areas;

1. The development and dissemination of comparable statistics,
broken down by sex, statistical series on women and men’s
including pay statistics for
situation in different policy areas,
women and men performing equivalent work;

2. The development and dissemination of methodologies and
indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of gender equality
policies and practice (benchmarking);

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3. The analysis of: women’s

situation in the labour market,
implementation of equality legislation in the Member States,
influence and impact of social protection and taxation on
women and men, and advancement of women in decision
making levels will be carried out and the results and lessons
learn will be disseminated

4. The collection and evaluation of updated information and
initiatives, methods and techniques
including overcoming
and promoting positive portrayals of

experience on successful
related with women and the media,
gender
women and men in the media;

stereotypes

4. The collection and evaluation of updated information and
initiatives, methods and techniques
experience on successful
related with women and the media,
including overcoming
gender stereotypes and promoting varied positive portrayals of
women and men in the media;

5. The publication of an Annual Report on Gender Equality in the
European Union including the progress towards reaching of the
benchmarks and the evaluation of the results achieved;

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6. The

realisation of

areas
comparing and contrasting approaches within and across
Member States and applicant countries.

studies on the

thematic

target

in particular
In implementing this strand the Commission will
ensure
activities
consistency and complementarity with the
conducted by other Commission services or by European
the
agencies;
Improvement
the
living
of working
Community RTD Framework programme.

European Foundation for
and

in particular,

conditions

and

the

6. The realisation and dissemination of thematic studies on the
target areas comparing and contrasting approaches within and
across Member States and applicant countries.

in particular
In implementing this strand the Commission will
ensure
activities
consistency and complementarity with the
conducted by other Commission services or by European
agencies;
the
Improvement of working and living conditions, CEDEFOP, and
the Community RTD Framework programme.

European Foundation for

in particular,

the

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Strand 3 (cid:151) Strengthening capacity

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The following measures may be supported in order to improve the
capacity and effectiveness of key players involved in promoting
gender equality:

(cid:151) Transnational exchange actions,
to transfer information,

involving a wide range of
lessons learned and good
players,
practice. These activities may be conducted by NGOs or
social partners at European level and transnational networks
of regional or local authorities and of organisations which
aim to promote gender equality.

(cid:151) These activities may include comparison of the effectiveness of
processes, methods and tools related to the chosen themes,
mutual transfer and application of good practice, exchanges
of personnel,
joint development of products, processes,
strategy and methodology, adaptation to different contexts of
methods, tools and processes identified as good practice, and/or
dissemination of results, profile-raising materials and events.

III. METHOD OF PRESENTING APPLICATIONS FOR SUPPORT

Strand 1: Actions (2), (3) and (4) of this strand will be implemented
in response to open calls for tenders. Actions (5) and (6), to be
implemented by the Member State authorities in charge of gender
equality or by equality bodies, may be subsidised in response to
restricted calls for proposals addressed to the Member States.

Strand 2: Actions under this strand will be implemented via the
Commission, normally in response to calls for tenders. Action (1)
will be implemented following the relevant Eurostat procedures.

Strand 3: Strand 3 will be implemented in response to open calls
for proposals organised by the Commission, which will vet the
proposals. The actions may be implemented by NGOs or social
partners at European level, transnational networks of regional or
local authorities or by transnational networks of organisations,
which aim to promote gender equality

IV. CARRYING OUT THE ACTIONS

1. The actions to be taken may be funded by service contracts
following calls for tender or by subsidies for joint financing
with other sources.
financial
In the latter case,
assistance by the Commission may not exceed, as a general
rule, 80 % of the expenditure actually incurred by the recipient.

the level of

2. In carrying out the Programme, the Commission may require
additional
to experts. These
including recourse
requirements will be decided in the context of the Commission’s
ongoing assessment of resource allocation.

resources,

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3. In carrying out

the Programme,

the Commission may have
to the
recourse to technical and/or administrative assistance,
mutual benefit of
the beneficiaries,
the Commission and of
related to identification, preparation, management, monitoring,
audit and control.

4. The Commission may also undertake information, publication
and dissemination actions.
It may also undertake evaluation
studies and organise seminars, colloquia or other meetings of
experts.

5. The Commission will prepare annual work plans setting out the
priorities and actions to be undertaken. Moreover, it will also
specify the arrangements and criteria to be applied in selecting
and financing actions under this Programme. In so doing, it will
seek the opinion of the Committee mentioned in Article 6.

6. Actions undertaken will

fully respect

the principles of data

protection.