Appendix 2 to Strategic Plan 2007-2011

EBU's 6-point plan for implementing the European Employment Strategy set out at the "Views Ahead" Conference held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 27-30 October 2005



EBU should lobby at national level, with EDF and the European institutions for:

  Full acceptance of and practical support for the notion of the Employment Continuum;

  A specific disability guideline in the developing European Employment Strategy;

  Quantitative targets for the employment of disabled people;

  Disability leave;

  Recognition in public procurement legislation of the employment of disabled people as a positive additional factor in the awarding of public contracts;

  The full involvement of NGO's in the development of the European Employment Strategy.