Expresses disappointment over the lack of effective proposals to promote, monitor closely and evaluate the progress of gender equality and the lack of policy measures aimed at facilitating the reconciliation of work and family life, helping those who support persons who are unable to work and generally increasing the flexibility of working time; calls on the Commission to monitor compliance with existing legislation more strictly and, where necessary, to make proposals for its amendment, including the imposition of penalties; calls on the Commission to draw up a specific action plan for equality between men and women with a specific emphasis on eliminating the wage gap; calls on the Commission, in this context, to declare 31 March the European day of action for 'equal pay for equal work';
Kestävä kehitys ja yhteisen kauppapolitiikan vaikutukset kehitysmaihin ovat tärkeässä asemassa marraskuussa # aloitetulla Dohan kierroksellanot-set not-set