INFORMATION, CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF UNDERTAKINGS (deadlines: 9 april en 3 september)

For the financial year 2010 two categories of projects will be supported under this budget line
Type I: Transnational cooperation projects;
Type II: Information and observation points;
1.2. Priority objectives and types of actions

1.2.1 Regarding transnational cooperation projects, priority objectives are the following:
• a) to promote actions designed to prepare the setting up of information, consultation and participation structures in the context of the European Company, the European Co-operative Society and the limited liability Companies issued of cross-border mergers, as per article 16 of Directive 2005/56/EC;
• b) to promote the exchange of information and good practice aimed at creating favourable conditions for the setting up of information, consultation and participation structures within undertakings as foreseen in Directive 2002 / 14 / EC;
 c) to promote action aiming to familiarize the social partners and actors at company level with the content of Directive 2009/38/EC on European Works Councils as well as to promote the  setting up of new European Works Councils and to improve transnational information and consultation processes in Community-scale undertakings and Community –scale groups of undertakings;
• d) to promote transnational actions involving representatives of the new member States and of Candidate Countries in the field of information, consultation and participation of workers; • e) to promote actions aiming to enable the social partners to exercise their rights and their
duties as regards information, consultation and participation in Community scale undertakings, especially within the framework of their European work councils;
• f) to promote action aiming to familiarize the actors represented at company level with transnational company agreements and to strengthen their cooperation within the Community framework;
• g) to promote innovative actions relating to the management of information, consultation and participation, with the view of supporting the anticipation of change and the prevention and resolution of disputes in the context of corporate restructuring, mergers, take-overs and relocation in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings ;

Regarding information and observation points, priority objectives are the following:
• h) to provide support to the preparation, launching and monitoring of transnational cooperation projects in the field of information, consultation and participation of workers;
• i) to monitor, analyse and assess the experience regarding the establishment of transnational representative bodies at enterprise level and the extent to which the objectives regarding information consultation and participation have been effectively fulfilled within such bodies.