1. Troika of Directors General – Meeting 24 March Recent Developments in Social Dialogue Karin Thienel

2. Progress under the Luxembourg Presidency
Ministerial Resolutions
Mission to DGs to examine how the social dialogue can be developed
Welcomed the constitution of a common and pluralist delegation of trade union organizations
DGs affirmed their intention to take forward the mission given by the Ministers
First informal meeting between the DGs, the unified Trade Union Delegation and representatives of the European Commission

3. Progress under the UK Presidency
Introduction of an area of substantive discussion (equality and diversity)
Joint seminar in Gateshead
Joint statement on equality and diversity
Conference on equality and diversity in 2007 hosted by Denmark
Investigations by the ad hoc Social Dialogue Working Group and survey by the UK Presidency on national trade union collaboration
Mandate to the Troika: continue to examine the range of options and solutions for development of social Dialogue

4. Next Steps in Social Dialogue I
Paper drafted by the Austrian Presidency and adopted at the 1st Meeting of the Troika Secretariat Meeting on 11 January 2006
Based on
the Impulse Paper on Mobility by the incoming Austrian Presidency (handed over in Newcastle) and
the Trade Union Delegation’s response to this paper of 9 January 2006

5. Next Steps in Social Dialogue II
Main points and response of Trade Union Delegation of 6 February 2006
Participation of Representatives of the Trade Union Delegation in the Meeting of the Troika Secretariat on 6 March 2006
Trade Union Delegation welcomes rescheduling of the meeting with DGs (first day of the 46th DGs Meeting in Vienna)
Mobility as an area of substantive discussion: Trade Union Delegation contributed with proposals

6. Proposals for future areas and forms of cooperation
Inclusion of cooperation in settings and working procedures of EPAN
Trade Union Delegation accepted Troika Secretariat as common platform for the preparation of the incoming DGs Meeting with Trade Union Delegation
Options discussed during UK Presidency to be taken into account
Suggestion: incorporation of areas of cooperation in the Mid-Term Programme
Trade Union Delegation will contribute a “Road-Map”

7. Proposals for intensified cooperation during the Austrian Presidency
Decentralisation and Accountability
Participation of Trade Union Experts in the 2nd HRWG Meeting (21 April 2006)
Trade Union experts could also report on their own studies on decentralisation
To be approved by DG Troika
Cross-border Mobility of Public Sector Workers
Summary to be forwarded to the Trade Union Delegation for additional comments
Publication also of the more detailed results (replies of MS)?
Trade Union Delegation currently conducting a survey on the involvement of national Trade Unions in the definition of terms relevant for mobility (e.g. exercise of public authority,…)

8. Joint EPAN / Trade Union Seminar on Mobility (29 May 2006)
15:00 – 15:30
Welcoming Statement and Objectives
DG Emmerich Bachmayer – Chair EPAN
15:30 – 16:30
European Year of Workers´ Mobility Mobility, Portability of Social Rights in the European Labour Market
Jerôme Vignon – European Commission
Discussion
16:30 – 17:30
Cross-Border Mobility of Public Sector Workers
Presentation of the Results of the HRWG Survey carried out during the
Austrian Presidency NN – Presidency
Presentation of Trade Union Survey NN –Trade Union Delegation (Nadja Salson, EPSU, tbc)
17:30 – 18:00
Conclusions
Peter Waldorff – Trade Union Delegation
18:00
Close of Meeting

9. The Austrian Presidency outlined:
“These proposals are made in the full awareness that EPAN is an informal network of representatives of national administrations with differing competences, legislative backgrounds and differing principles of public service,
but these proposals aim at a better integration in the normal working procedures of the informal EPAN and efficient cooperation which does not result in a growth of new structures and duplication of work.”

10. The Trade Union Delegation pointed out:
“Since the positive achievements under the Luxembourg and UK Presidencies we are now at a consolidating phase of building trust and confidence between both sides. Substantive policy discussions on themes, jointly selected by both sides, will contribute, we hope, to the gradual process of establishing a European sectoral social dialogue committee in national administrations.”