Council Decision of 6 March 2003 renewing the Management Board of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Date: 2003-03-06
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Cedefop, appointment of staff, board of directors

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COUNCIL DECISION

of 6 March 2003

renewing the Management Board of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational
Training

(2003/C 64/03)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/75 of 10 February 1975 establishing the European
Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, and in particular Article 4 thereof (1),

Having regard to the lists of nominees submitted to the Council by the Governments of the Member States
as regards their representatives and by the Commission as regards the employees' and employers' represen-
tatives,

Whereas:

(1) By its Decision of 17 December 1999 (2), the Council appointed the members of the Management
Board of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training for the period from 17
December 1999 to 16 December 2002.

(2) The members of the Management Board of that Centre should be appointed for a period of three years,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

The following are hereby appointed members of the Management Board of the European Centre for the
Development of Vocational Training for the period from 6 March 2003 to 5 March 2006:

I. GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

. . .

Mr Villy HOVARD PEDERSEN

Mr Peter THIELE

Mr George KATROUGALOS

Ms María Dolores CANO RATIA

Mr Pierre LE DOUARON

Mr Eamonn DARCY

Ms Aviana BULGARELLI

Mr Gilles ESTGEN

. . .

Mr Peter KREIML

. . .

Ms Eija ALHOJÄRVI

Ms Carina LINDÉN

United Kingdom

Ms Franki ORD

(1) OJ L 39, 13.2.1975, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 354/95 (OJ L 41, 23.2.1995, p. 1).
(2) OJ C 4, 7.1.2000, p. 4.

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II. REPRESENTATIVES OF EMPLOYEES' ORGANISATIONS

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

. . .

Ms Astrid DAHL

Mr Jochen LAUX

Mr George DASSIS

Ms Mar RODRÍGUEZ TORRES

Mr Jean-Claude QUENTIN

Mr Peter RIGNEY

Mr Pietro GELARDI

Mr Nico HOFFMAN

Mr Bart BRUGGEMAN

Mr Alexander PRISCHL

Mr Augusto PRAÇA

Mr Jari-Pekka JYRKÄNNE

Ms Jessica MANN

United Kingdom

Mr Paul MACKNEY

III. REPRESENTATIVES OF EMPLOYERS' ORGANISATIONS

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

Mr Alfons DE VADDER

Ms Lise SKANTING

Ms Barbara DORN

Mr Evangelos BOUMIS

Mr Juan María MENÉNDEZ-VALDÉS ÁLVAREZ

Mr Alain DUMONT

Mr Pat O'TOOLE

. . .

Mr Ted MATHGEN

Mr Jan BOERSMA

Mr Gerhard RIEMER

Mr José SANCHEZ RAMIREZ

Mr Manu ALTONEN

Mr Gert ASSEMARK

United Kingdom

Ms Margaret MURRAY

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Article 2

The Council shall appoint at a later date the members not yet nominated from Belgium,
Netherlands and Portugal.

Italy, the

Article 3

This Decision shall be published, for information, in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 6 March 2003.

For the Council

The President

D. REPPAS

COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS

of 3 March 2003

on the promotion of entrepreneurship and small firms

(2003/C 64/04)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

1. RECALLING:

— the Conclusions of the Lisbon European Council on the
strategy for making the EU the world's most competitive
capable of
and dynamic knowledge-based economy,
sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs
and greater social cohesion by 2010 and the further elab-
oration of this strategy by the Stockholm, Gothenburg and
Barcelona European Councils;

— the European Charter for Small Enterprises, which calls for
the creation of the best possible environment for small
enterprises;

— the Maribor Declaration, which commits the candidate
for

to implementing the European Charter

countries
Small Enterprises;

— the Conclusions of

the European Charter

the Barcelona European Council,
inviting Member States to speed up the implementation
for Small Enterprises and to
of
the Council will
learn from best practice, stating that
meet before every Spring European Council
to assess
progress in creating a more favourable environment for
entrepreneurship and the competitiveness of small enter-
prises;

and the Council Conclusions of 30 September 2002 on
simpler legislation;

— the Council Decision on a Multiannual Programme for
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, and in particular
for
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) (2001-2005) (1);

— the Council Conclusions of 26 November 2002 on a more

competitive environment for enterprises.

2. WELCOMES:

— the Green Paper ‘Entrepreneurship in Europe’;

— the 2003 Report from the Commission on the implemen-
tation of the European Charter for Small Enterprises;

— the Communication from the Commission ‘Thinking small
in an enlarging Europe’ and related Staff Working Papers,
which point
to the need for providing a constantly
improving environment for small businesses and exploiting
the entrepreneurial potential in an enlarging Europe.

3. EMPHASISES:

— the Conclusions of

the Seville European Council which
welcomed the communications from the Commission on
better lawmaking and,
in particular, the Action Plan for
simplifying and improving the regulatory environment;

— that the Green Paper on ‘Entrepreneurship in Europe’ is the
starting point for an important, wide-ranging debate on the
future of entrepreneurship policy;

(1) OJ L 333, 29.12.2000, p. 84.