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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001
9:55 PM
Subject: EFES: EFES letter to all
European Governments, October 1, 2001
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.