Employment: guidelines for Member States' policies, review. Employment package

LEGISLATIVE ACT : Council Recommendation 2003/579/EC on the implementation of Member States' employment policies. CONTENT : the Council adopted a Recommendation, on the basis of a Commission's proposal, providing Member States with individualised guidance on how to implement the employment guidelines, focusing on the most urgent and serious issues in each country. The amount and type of recommendations vary from country to country. However, the recommendations follow on closely from the set of ten priorities mentioned in the Council's Decision on Guidelines for the Employment Policies of the Member States. The Commission has been addressing such recommendations to the Member States since the year 2000. The Recommendations to each Member State are set out in an Annex to the document. More than half of the Member States, as in previous years, are singled out for recommendations in the fields of active ageing and labour supply, gender equality, and lifelong learning.�