Allocation of the reserve for Community initiatives Employment-inclusion and Adapt until the end of 1999

OBJECTIVE: integration into the Community initiative ADAPT (Adaptation of the Workforce to Industrial Change) of a further priority, ADAPT-BIS (Building the Information Society) covering the planning period 1997-1999. SUBSTANCE: it is proposed that the ADAPT initiative will also promote actions concerned with identifying and articulating a positive social policy framework for the information society. The ADAPT-BIS priorities will reinforce the transition into the information society by providing practical information to the key social, economic and political actors of its effects on employment. The actions will make it possible in particular: - to evaluate and anticipate labour market developments related to the emerging information society; - to develop strategies to help the labour force adapt to the new demands of the information society; - to develop and test policies and schemes which will support the adaptation of work organization and employment practices to the information society. The additional contribution of the Structural Funds to ADAPT-BIS for 1997-1999 is estimated at ECU 170 million. �