Den ståndpunkt som ska intas på unionens vägnar i gemensamma EES-kommittén beträffande den föreslagna ändringen av protokoll 31 till EES-avtalet, om samarbete inom särskilda områden vid sidan om de fyra friheterna, ska grunda sig på det utkast till beslut av gemensamma EES-kommittén som åtföljer det här beslutet.
This also has an impact on the pension rights of women, most of whom will have experienced broken employment careers due to maternity and child/elder care, occupational segregation into insecure and low paying feminised professions and the gender pay gap all of which would reduce the length of time and quantity of contributions to retirement pension schemes and would only worsen women's economic prospects in retirement by prematurely truncating their paid employmentEuroParl2021 EuroParl2021