FIMITIC

Brussels, 09 September 2003

An adaptable skilled workforce, with access to training, career development, job mobility, flexible work organisation, and with a sense of job security is key to increasing productivity within Europe and encouraging job creation and higher employment rates.

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As o­ne of the activities in the European Year of Persons with Disabilities, the Croatian Union of Associations of Persons with Disabilities, member of which is also the Croatian Association of Disabled Workers, a member of FIMITIC, has held in Zagreb the Round Table o­n promoting the Social Model of Disabilities o­n 23rd July 2003.

Brussels, 03 October 2003.

As the second deadline this year approaches for putting EU rules on anti-discrimination into national law, the Commission is publishing independent research on legislation in candidate countries regarding discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation.

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Brussels, 24 September 2003

The European Commission is calling on Member States to take the necessary measures to prevent a number of illnesses that can be commonly linked to the workplace. Such measures should also enable sufferers to claim compensation.

The final update of the documents referring to the Conference have been made.
They can all be downloaded by clicking o­n the links below:

• Information (MS Word, 108 kB)
• Information (PDF, 211 kB)
• Registration form (MS Word, 28 kB)

You can also click "read more" to read the Information regarding the Conference.
 

In the run of its already traditional annual Lake Balaton training seminars of its leaders of the national associations, groupings and sections in August 21-23, 2003 MEOSZ met in Siofok again.

Something extra was offfered at the idyllic Siofok at the southern edge of the Lake Balaton by FIMITIC´s member association MEOSZ (National Federation of Associations of Physically Disabled Persons in Hungary) on August 21-23, 2003.

The FIMITIC Executive Board attended the International AHNR Seminar
entitled "Accessibility - A Matter of Dignity for the Whole Society", taking place on July 11, 2003 at Hotel Parc in Bucharest.

The FIMITIC Executive Board held its meeting on July 10 and 12 at Hotel Parc in Bucharest on invitation of its Romanian member, the Association of the Neuromotor Handicapped in Romania - AHNR -.

Marking FIMITIC´s fiftieth year in 2003 its Executive Board took the Bucharest meeting opportunity