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Madam President, Mrs Ghilardotti has already referred to the importance of this issue, to its complexity, to the experiments that have already been conducted in countries such as Australia and South Africa and to the experiments that we have also started in the Union.
The Commission indeed first raised the issue at a technical seminar held in October 2001 and in 2002 the Consultative Committee on Equal Opportunities was instructed to look at current experiences and to study how Member States view the gender perspective and how they propose to integrate it into their budgets. This committee delivered an opinion which is available to this Parliament, distributed by the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities. Clearly, on the basis of this document, the committee is willing to draw up the pamphlet to which you referred and which could be useful in providing this information.
We now have some good practices in place in various fields, such as the European Employment Strategy, social protection, science and research and cooperation development and – perhaps the most interesting example – in the Structural Funds. All of this demonstrates that gender equality is being addressed more effectively in the current programmes than in the previous period.
Clearly, much remains to be done, but we are continuing to make progress in this field. The Commission Communication on integrating gender equality into the programming documents for the Structural Funds recommends that the Member States clearly indicate which funds are allocated to specific equality-related actions. The Member States will provide us with the relevant information, with precise indicators, as part of this year’s review.
Member States are also being urged to ensure that actions pursued under the Structural Funds use gender impact assessments and statistics broken down by gender and, at the same time, the Commission emphasises that specific funds, in most of the programmes, should be maintained and even increased for activities dedicated to ensuring gender equality.
The Commission will continue to develop methodologies and tools to implement the integration of gender into the budget, but this means continuing with our discussions on exchanging experiences and all cooperating with one another. Consequently its report on integrating the gender perspective makes an, in our opinion, enormously useful contribution to improving the principle of gender integration.
The fruitful cooperation between Parliament, Member States and the Commission must remain in place and be stepped up if we are to achieve the aims that we all wish to attain."@en1
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