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This is the letter EFES - the European Federation of Employee
Share Ownership - is sending to all European governments.
October 1, 2001
Dear
Mister Prime Minister,
On
behalf of EFES I would like to invite you to nominate a representative of your
government to participate in the international conference on employee ownership
on Friday 23 November 2001, which is being hosted by the Belgian Presidency of
the European Union.
You
will be aware of the positive impact that employee share ownership
and participation have on productivity, in particular, and economic and social
development and employment, in general. This factor can be of high
importance,
since
it is estimated at 1% a year additional growth of the GDP. In terms of
employment in Europe, this is potentially thousands of additional jobs.
In
this context, the Social Agenda agreed by you at the Lisbon Summit in 2000
invited the European Commission to publish an Action Plan and Communication on
Financial Participation before the end of 2001.
To
this end, the Commission has just launched a consultation procedure and your
government was invited to respond.
The
document of consultation of the Commission is available on our web site www.efesonline.org and we opened a forum on the site to
discuss the matter.
We
draw your attention to the “European Action Programme” which our Federation
based on the Resolution of the European Parliament adopted in January 1998.
We
look forward to you and your government´s support for these efforts and
encouragement of the European Commission to advance this work.
Yours
sincerely
Marc Mathieu
Secretary General
EFES - EUROPEAN
FEDERATION OF EMPLOYEE SHAREOWNERSHIP
FEAS - FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DE
L'ACTIONNARIAT SALARIE
Avenue Voltaire 135, B-1030 Brussels
Tel/fax: +32
(0)2 242 64 30
E-mail: marc.mathieu@ping.be
See our web site:
http://www.efesonline.org
EFES'
objective is to act as the umbrella organization of employee owners and all
persons, companies, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions looking to
promote employee ownership and participation in
Europe.
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