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Eurociett GA

11 December 2014

Eurociett GA meeting

11th December 2014 Brussels

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Agenda

1. Welcome & apologies 2. Approval of the minutes 3. Eurociett priorities for 2015 4. Financial issues 5. Institutional issues 6. Implementation of the Agency Work Directive 7. Update on other European Public Affairs 8. Social Dialogue 9. PR & Communications

• 10. Research
• 11. Ciett issues
• 12. AOB

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Eurociett priorities for 2015

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Eurociett priorities for 2015

General framework

Implementation Strategic Priorities

Partnerships with

• ther European RH

associations Better link Private Employment Services to Business Services

Operational Activities

Public Affairs PR & Communications Social Dialogue Research & data collection Membership development & quality standards

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Implementation strategic priorities

Update on European HR associations

HR Service Key facts Budget Activities Eurociett action

Permanent Recruitment

• Est. 2004 located in Brussels

7 members/countries: French, German, Italian. Belgium, Spain UK Quality standards + research + training + lobbying Meeting to be

• rganised with

Etienne Deroure (Pdt) Outplacement & coaching

• Est. 1996 located in London

4 countries representing 175 companies Information sharing + quality standards +lobbying Meeting to be

• rganised

(TBC)

EFIP

European Forum of Independant Professionnals N/A Lobbying EU + delivering information on profile of ipros Meeting on 24/10/2014 with Marco Torregrossa (MD) Umbrella companies Located in Brussels 100 members (companies) Info sharing + lobbying Meeting on 20/11/2014 with Guillaume Cairou (Pdt) Training Est 1997 located in Brussels 32 members from 18 countries (public/private VET providers & companies related to VET) 700,000€ & 4 staff Lobbying EU level + conference 4 key issues: training employment, innovation, entrepreneurship Not an immediate priority Management Consultants

• Est. 1960 located in Brussels

14 national associations = 3,000 firms Networking + lobbying + quality standards + market info + marketing + annual conference Not an immediate priority Services to individuals

• Est. 2006 located in Brussels

National federations (5) + Multinational companies 100,000€ & 1 staff Lobbying + market info + annual conference (on Personal and Household Services) Not an immediate priority

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Implementation strategic priorities

Better link PrES to Business Services

• EBSRT: European Business Services Roundtable
• Founded in 2002 as a platform gathering EU associations of business services (no corporate

members)

• Gathers around 20 associations (10 of them being active within EBSRT, Eurociett a member

since 2005):

• Cleaning, Facility Management, Engineering, Textile Services, Consultancies, Lawyers,

Architects, IT, private security, Accountants

• Legally established as a private limited company established in the UK and chaired by Norman

Rose

• Recognised as a forum for discussions with the European Institutions
• Good relationships with European Commission
• Norman Rose vice-chair of EU High Level Group on Business Services
• Meet 3 times a year
• Main activities = networking & voicing the business services (but lack of control)
• Eurociett taking the lead of a working group to try to turn the EBSRT into a more visible,

transparent and professional organisation

• Membership fees to be established
• Review of list of members
• Legal status to be revised
• Action plan to be prepared (key issues to lobby on)
• If not possible/successful, Eurociett will liaise with other European Business Services

associations to set up a new platform

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Eurociett 2015 priorities

Public Affairs

• CJEU Legal case (Finland) to be followed-up, other legal cases (?)
• Political lobbying for a full/better implementation: DG Employment + DG Market
• Dialogue with trade unions on restrictions faced by the industry (law/CLAs)

Appropriate Regulation I – Agency Work Directive

• Renewed discussions on the Posting of Workers Directive / Transposition of the Enforcement Directive,

Membership in Expert Group

• Ongoing Reform of the job mobility scheme EURES (DG Employment + MEPs)

Appropriate Regulation II – Work Mobility (Posting of Workers + EURES)

• Making the most of Commission President Junker's commitment to deepen the EU single market
• Use the single market debate to call for the lifting of unjustified restrictions on TAW

Appropriation Regulation III – EU Single Market

• EU platform to be established in 2015 (DG Employment, national experts + MEPs)
• Eurociett aims to contribute to the platform (knowledge sharing and expertise)

Appropriate Regulation IV – Prevention of Undeclared Work

• Showcasing and proving the stepping-stone function and transition role of agency work (DG

Employment, DG Education and Culture), MEPs

• Contributing to the EU skills debate (changing qualifications, changing world of work)

Labour Market Policies – Youth and Skills

• Promoting cooperation between public and private employment services (DG Employment)
• Contributing to the EU debates and policies on business services (DG Enterprise)

Employment Services and Business Services

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Eurociett 2015 priorities

PR & Communications

• Primarily a Ciett exercise, Eurociett to follow
• Leading to new corporate identity, way to describe our industry, name & logo?
• Secretariat supported by Ciett Taskforce + external agency
• First proposals at Ciett WEC, May 2015

Branding & positioning

• Database on best practices and key facts & figures
• Communications flows to be reviewed (e.g. webinars, thematic workshops)

Increase communications capacity with/between members

• Twitter followers doubled in 2014 => continue trend
• Further develop use of video (professional as well as low-cost) & youtube

Develop further use of Social Media in communications

• Way to Work events (European Parliament)
• MEP awards
• Changing World of Work quarterly lunch debates

Position Eurociett as Labour Market expert

• Better Ciett/Eurociett synergy in PR (via Sam Rowe)
• Aim to have one major quote/opinion/interview each month
• Continue to build our profile as labour market experts: have them call us for comment!

Media relations

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Eurociett 2015 priorities

Social Dialogue

• Finalise the report with case studies and joint recommendations
• Launch of the results in Feb 2015 at the pan-European Conference in Brussels
• Joint declaration to be reached with UNI on main findings

Finalisation of the 2014 Joint Project

• Inclusion of panel discussions with bipartite funds in regular SSDC meetings
• Organisation of new roundtables (Turkey)
• Continue to focus on EU priorities, AWD and labour mobility

Adoption of new work programme 2015-2016

• New project on the innovative solutions of the sector to enhance conditions of agency

workers (training, social funds, portability of rights, etc.) undertaken both by the industry and with the social partners Undertake a new joint project (2015-2016)

• Work with Eurofound on the update of the Representativeness study on TAW of 2004
• Closely monitor that TAW remains defined as sector according to the NACE code

Eurofound representativeness study on TAW

• Informally continue dialogue with other ETUFs but shifting more responsibilities onto

them (so far Eurociett has been doing the heavy lifting) Continue the informal dialogue with other ETUFs

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Eurociett 2015 priorities

Research & data collection

• 2015 edition to be published in Jan 2015 with some data on other HR services
• Economic report 2016 to consolidate this approach with more data collected from our own members.
• 2016 edition also to include an update of the labour market efficiency index (Adapting to Change)

Economic report

• Stakeholder conference Jan/Feb
• Several key elements of research already included in Economic Report 2015

Present joint research UNI-Europa (IDEA consult) and leverage results

• Theme: Inclusiveness of labour markets
• Exploring issues on 3 levels: labour market => company level => worker level
• More interactive approach, more time for discussion, not overly academic

Flexwork Research Conference 22/23 October 2015

• Staffing Industry Analysts (further improve working relations)
• OECD
• Eurofound
• Think Tanks (e.g. IZA, CEPS, Bertelmans Foundation)

Key stakeholders we continue to work with:

• Job quality
• Work mobility
• Undeclared work
• Youth (un-)employment
• Changing World of Work

Key topics to follow & explore:

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Eurociett 2015 priorities

Membership development & quality standards

• Countries : Serbia + Croatia
• Corporate Members: Michael Page, Hays, Crit, CDI, AdCorp, Career

International Membership development

• New format to be adopted in 2015, focusing on Eurociett added value

and performance Activity Report

• Survey on best practices in place within the industry (conducted jointly

with the ILO)

• Session dedicated during Ciett WEC 2015

Quality Standards

• Revision of Code in order to reflect changes at Ciett level
• Need to better cover cross-border recruitment practices

Eurociett Code of Conduct

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Financial issues

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Audited 2013 accounts

• Incomes = 599,066€ (+5% compared to budget)
• Additional incomes from EU Project = 61,736€
• No new member gained but loss of Allegis (Regional Corporate Member): only paid

half fees in 2013 (-11,586€)

• Late payment of 2012 membership fees: AETT /Spain for 11,537€
• However, some membership fees not yet paid (7,406€)
• Countries include Macedonia + Bulgaria + Slovenia
• Expenses = 625,533€ (+10% compared to budget)
• Increase of wages due to James Gribben’s leave (severance pay) and new

recruitment

• Several functioning expenses overspent: Auditors fees (+64%), Communications

(+83%), Bank & Insurance (+91%)

• Operational costs under-spent:
• Editing, website, legal support, surveys
• Some operational expenses over-spent
• PA/PR activities, Transport & Accommodation, Consultancy fees,
• Deficit for 2013
• 26,467€

Eurociett financial reserves = 273,000€ (31/12/2013)

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2013 Effective 30 DECEMBER 2013 2013 Effective 30 DECEMBER 2013

Member subscriptions Functioning expenses* National federations (1) 289.024 266.566 92% Wages + social charges (7) 271.000 289.442 107% Company car 13.000 15.351 118% Corporate members (2) 278.064 266.482 96% Offices renting 19.755 18.339 93% Offices related costs (electricity, building maintenance, kitchen, copying machines) 25.373 26.614 105% New member subscriptions Outsourced services to Federgon (accounting, HR, ICT, reception, secretariat) 37.340 38.123 102% Taxes 1.000 0% National federations (3) Office equipments 2.000 218 11% IT equipments 6.500 2.590 40% Corporate members (4) Bank & Insurances fees 3.000 5.721 191% Auditors fees 1.200 1.964 164% Associate members (5) Communication expenses (phone, post) 5.000 9.173 183% Total subscriptions 567.088 533.048 94% Total functioning costs 385.168 407.534 106% Other incomes Operational expenses Financial revenues/interests 3.000 151 5% PA/PR activities 40.000 48.353 121% Transport & Accomodation 12.000 26.017 217% Unpaid membership fees 2013

• 7.406

Lunch expenses 3.000 3.956 132% Membership events (Boards, GAs, Conferences) 18.000 18.315 102% Membership fees 2012 11.537 Legal support fees 10.000 0% Consultancy fees 5.000 8.288 166% EU-Projet 61.736 Website 20.000 16.831 84% Editing/publishing 10.000 8.803 88% Surveys 5.000 0% FlexWorkResearch 50.000 30.728 61% Translation 1.000 0% Documentation & club memberships 5.000 5.142 103% Image campaign Miscellaneous 3.100 391 13% EU-Projet 51.175 Total other incomes 3.000 66.018 Total operational costs 182.100 217.998 120% TOTAL 570.088 599.066 105% TOTAL 567.268 625.533 110%

7) Wages based on 4 FTE with 3% increase

Budget Effective 31/12/2013

• 26.467

3) No new Eurociett national federations expected in 2013 5) No new Eurociett Associate Member expected in 2013 6) In 2012, deferred BCG payment for UK

Net profit 2.820

2) Based on 5 Global and 2 Regional (USG & Allegis) corporate members

STATEMENT OF REVENUE & EXPENSES INCOMES EXPENSES

1) Membership fees increased by 3%

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Eurociett Membership fees for 2015

Update of calculation

• For Eurociett National Federations (NFs), an update of the

calculation of the membership fees has been done (using the table agreed in 2006)

• 10 countries should be upgraded to a new Class
• 4 from Class A to B (Czech, Hungary, Luxembourg, Turkey) for +13,700€
• 5 from Class B to C (Austria, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland) for +101,000€
• 1 from Class C to D (Italy) for + 12,500€
• 1 country should be downgraded
• Denmark from Class B to A (- 3,500€)
• Resulting in a theoretical increase of Eurociett NFs’ contribution to:
• Eurociett budget (80%) = from 292,500€ to 408,300€ (+39%)
• Ciett budget (20%) = from 74,000€ to 103,500€ (+39%)

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Eurociett Membership fees 2014

A Federations B Federations C Federations D Federations Number of points 3 to 5 6 to 7 8 to 9 10 to 12 Eurociett Ciett Eurociett Ciett Eurociett Ciett Eurociett Ciett Annual fees in €* 3,525 881 6,267 1,567 22,438 5,610 32,486 8,122 Countries Bulgaria Czech Republic Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (as 1 joint membership) Greece Hungary Luxembourg Macedonia Norway Romania Slovakia Slovenia Turkey Austria Denmark Finland Ireland Poland Portugal Russia Sweden Switzerland Belgium Italy Spain France Germany Netherlands UK

* In case of several National Federations represent the same country within Ciett/Eurociett, each federation must pay the full amount of fees

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Eurociett Membership fees 2015 (theoritical)

A Federations B Federations C Federations D Federations Number of points 3 to 5 6 to 7 8 to 9 10 to 12 Eurociett Ciett Eurociett Ciett Eurociett Ciett Eurociett Ciett Annual fees in €* 3,525 881 6,267 1,567 22,438 5,610 32,486 8,122 Countries Bulgaria Denmark Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (as 1 joint membership) Greece Macedonia Norway Romania Slovakia Slovenia Czech Republic Finland Hungary Ireland Luxembourg Sweden Turkey Austria Belgium Poland Portugal Russia Spain Switzerland France Germany Italy Netherlands UK

* In case of several National Federations represent the same country within Ciett/Eurociett, each federation must pay the full amount of fees

Green: countries being upgraded Red: country being downgraded

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Eurociett budget

Suggestions for a longer term perspective

• Ciett/Eurociett Budget & Funding Taskforce appointed
• Comprised of Herwig Muyldermans (Treasurer), Kevin Green (Chair NFC), and

Denis Pennel (MD)

• Main task will be to review membership fee table but also potential additional

sources of funding

• Reviewing Membership fee table
• Need to review the 80/20% rule between Ciett & Eurociett
• Need to amend 50/50% rule between NF & CMC?
• Need to change/add criteria for NF?
• Need to add a new class of national federation?
• Additional sources of funding
• Significant increase of membership fees will only come from new corporate

members

• EU subsidies: Social Dialogue budget line + Youth Employment = additional

100,000€ per year?

• Commercial activities to be developed?
• First proposal to be made during Eurociett GA in May 2015

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Preparation of Eurociett 2015 budget

Background

Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

% of fee increase +2% +3.5% 0% +3.5% +3% +2%

Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Operating result +58,428€ +53,841€ +45,057€

• 247,058€

+4,627€

• 26,467€

Ciett Eurociett

Budget in € 245,000 580,000

• Contribution CMs

41% 48%

• Contribution NFs

59% 52% = 100% = 100%

Should Be 50/50%

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Preparation of Eurociett 2015 budget

Incomes = 595,276€ (+2% compared to 2014)

• Membership fees increased by 3% for National Federations
• Membership fees increased by 8% for Corporate Members (but 80/20% rule

will only apply to Regional Corporate Members as need to provide extra fund to Ciett)

• 1 new national federation expected: Croatia (but paying 1/3 regular fees)

Expenses = 594,000€ (+2% compared to 2014)

• Functioning expenses (+1%): flat for all lines but wages (+2%)
• Operational expenses (+6%)
• Legal support fees maintained for AWD legal case
• PA/PR budget line for external consultancy (Sam Rowe), organising

events (MEPs, conferences), social media strategy

• FlexWorkResearch budget increasing due to organisation of international

conference (+67%)

• crease of Website budget line (-67%)
• Expected surplus of 1,276€ in 2015 (vs 1,569€ budgeted for 2014)

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2015 2014 evolution 2015 2014 evolution

Member subscriptions Functioning expenses* National federations (1) 306.041 295.962 3% Wages + social charges (7) 302.600 296.686 2% Company car 14.000 14.000 0% Corporate members (2) 287.622 259.988 11% Offices renting 20.000 20.000 0% Offices related costs (electricity, building maintenance, kitchen, copying machines) 25.600 25.600 0% New member subscriptions Outsourced services to Federgon (accounting, HR, ICT, reception, secretariat) 37.800 37.800 0% Taxes 0% National federations (3) 1.513 1.469 3% Office equipments 1.000 1.000 0% IT equipments 4.000 6.000

• 33%

Corporate members (4) 23.636 Bank & Insurances fees 4.500 4.500 0% Auditors fees 2.000 2.000 0% Associate members Communication expenses (phone, post) 8.000 8.000 0% Total subscriptions 595.176 581.055 2% Total functioning costs 419.500 415.586 1% Other incomes Operational expenses Financial revenues/interests 100 100 0% PA/PR activities 40.000 40.000 0% Transport & Accomodation 13.000 12.000 8% Provisions from financial reserves Lunch expenses 3.000 3.000 0% Membership events (Boards, GAs, Conferences) 18.000 18.000 0% Legal support fees 20.000 20.000 0% Late payment of 2013 membership fees: Consultancy fees 7.000 7.000 0% National federations (5) Website 5.000 15.000

• 67%

Editing/publishing 11.000 11.000 0% Surveys 0% FlexWorkResearch 50.000 30.000 67% Translation 2.000 2.000 0% Documentation & club memberships 4.500 4.000 13% Miscellaneous 1.000 2.000

• 50%

Total other incomes 100 100 0% Total operational costs 174.500 164.000 6% TOTAL 595.276 581.155 2% TOTAL 594.000 579.586 2%

7) Wages based on 4 part-time staff (= 2.6 FTE) with 2% increase

2014 2015

2) Based on 5 Global and 2 Regional corporate members (USG People & Trenkwalder)

STATEMENT OF REVENUE & EXPENSES INCOMES EXPENSES

1) Membership fees increased by 3%

1.276

3) 1 new national federations in 2015 (Croatia) paying 1/3 of regular fees 4) No new Eurociett Regional Corporate Member in 2015 5) To be checked

Net profit 1.569

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Institutional Issues

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Eurociett Board members to be re-elected (1 year term)

President Annemarie Muntz Member François Roux (Prisme – France) Treasurer Herwig Muyldermans (Federgon – Belgium) Vice-President Alain Dehaze Representative of Corporate Members Sieto de Leeuw Member Thomas Hetz (BAP – Germany) Member Tom Hadley (REC – UK) Member Anna Wicha (Forum HR – Poland) Member Henrik Bäckström (Almega - Sweden) Member Dinette Koolhaas (Kelly Services) Secretary of the Board Aart van der Gaag (ABU – Netherlands) Member Hans Vink (Manpower) Member Antonio Bonardo (Assolavoro – Italy)

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Implementation of the AWD: Lifting unjustified restrictions

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AWD: State of play of the Finnish legal case

Case of Shell aviation vs. Finish transport union. Key focus is direct legal effect of Article 4, paragraph 1, as well as maximum length of assignment and reason for use restrictions in CLAs. Advocate General of the CJEU presented its opinion on 20th November, Court judgment expected mid-2015, followed by a ruling of the Finnish national court Eurociett has been monitoring the process closely and provided input via the Finnish central employers

• rganisation EK
• Eurociett took part in the Court hearing (as observer)
• Press Release issued following the Advocate General Opinion
• Eurociett Litigation Taskforce has been used to share information

and coordinate actions

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ECJ Advocate General Conclusions

Eurociett Assessment

Positive Elements

• Recognition of the dual objective of

the Directive: Lifting unjustified restrictions and equal treatment

• Recognition of the contribution of

agency work to a better functioning labour market

• Article 4 not only obligation to review,

but also to lift unjustified restrictions

• Legal basis of the Directive does not

limit the scope and effect of Article 4, paragraph 1

• Article 4 prohibits the maintenance and

introduction of unjustified restrictions

• General bans and quotas are not

permissable without specific aim/goal

• Responsibility of national courts to test

compliance with Article 4, paragraph 1 Critical/ negative elements

• Focus on the temporary nature of

agency work to justify maximum length of

• assignments. National legislator has

broad freedom to regulate

• Insufficient recognition of the option of

long-term employment relationships for agency workers based on open- ended contracts

• Maximum length of assignment

restrictions may be justified due to the temporary character of temporary agency work

Overall, Advocate General Conclusions are much more favourable than expected

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Eurociett actions linked to the Finnish case:

January to July 2015 Independence of the EU Court of Justice, no direct influence on proceeding, but four main avenues of action: More comprehensive, legal assessment and monitoring of related, national debates (Litigation Taskforce) PR campaign to stress the positive elements of the AJ Conclusions and PA contacts with EU policy makers Counter-fighting and containing trade union arguments and campaigns Information and advice to Eurociett members on

• utcomes and implications of the case

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AWD : Evolution of regulation after implementation phase

2012- 2014

Conditions & restrictions added Restrictions lifted

UK + Ireland: Equal pay applied Germany: Stricter regulation on Equal Pay (2013) based on sectoral/branch pay supplements. Political commitment of the coalition government to introduce maximum length of assignments for agency work industry and regulation on equal pay after qualifying period (2013).

Greece: Reasons for use lifted, restrictions after redundancies eased and less discrimination against blue colour workers (2014) Italy: use of TAW eased for vulnerable workers, reasons for use and maximum length of assignments lifted (2014) Romania: sectoral bans lifted + extension maximum length assignment, more balanced licensing system (2013) Spain: Permanent recruitment + cooperation with PES (2012) + Legal bans in Public and construction sector lifted (2012) (but still closed due to CLA and lack of implementation decree), Specific training and learning contracts for agency workers (2013), apprenticeship contracts (2013) Belgium: Political commitment of the coalition government to lift the public sector ban at federal level (2014) France: Open-ended contracts for TAW (2014)

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Agency Work Directive Action Plan 2015

More appropriate and less restrictive regulation on AW in Europe

Litigation / legal cases, focus on direct effect Art. 4 paragraph 1 AWD

Pending legal case: Finland Legal case in preparation: Sweden Potential legal cases in other countries under consideration (including Netherlands and Germany)

Political lobbying: Economic & social benefits

• f less restrictive agency work regulation

Economic and social rationale for lifting unjustified restrictions: Impact on growth, job creation and competitiveness (NF economic analysis, facts & figures) Follow-up of Application Review Report Europe 2020 European Semester country-specific recommendations Agenda of the new COM: Internal Market, Business Services as drivers of growth

Reforms at national level leading to growth in the AW industry and strengthening its job creation potential Court of Justice of the EU EU Commission, EU Expert Group on TAW, EP, national governments, BusinessEurope, national employers’ organisations

Eurociett AWD Litigation Taskforce to coordinate, exchange legal information and provide legal advice for action Eurociett PA Committee to coordinate, exchange information and provide advice for action.

Eurociett dialogue with trade unions (IndustriAll Europe, Uni-Europa)

Social Dialogue Legal + CLA restrictions Inventory of restrictions and assessment of their economic and social impact (by Eurociett national federations)

EU SSDC on TAW

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Agency Work Directive:

Review and endorsement of position paper

Position Paper is linked to the second pillar of the new Action Plan (political lobbying and advocacy) Several purposes of the paper:

• Commenting on the Agency Work Directive Application Review Report

and its main findings

• Providing input for the new European Commission and the Employment

and Social Affairs Commissioner Marianne Thyssen

• Changing the argumentation on the Directive by using much more

economic and social aspects to call for the removal of restrictions (also requested by DG Employment)

• Position Paper builds on the Survey launched to Eurociett members in

July and uses the input obtained, presenting several case studies

• Position Paper has been endorsed by the PA Committee

EU Expert Group meeting took place in 10 December, meeting with EU Commissioner Thyssen early 2015 (TBC)

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Update on other European Affairs

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New European Commission

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New European Commission

Commissioners of interest to Eurociett Jean-Claude Juncker Commission President Jyrki Katainen

Vice-President Jobs, Growth & Competitiveness

Valdis Dombrowskis

The Euro and Social Dialogue

Marianne Thyssen

Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Mobility

Elisabeta Bienkoska

Internal Market, industry, Entreneurship & SME‘s

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New European Commission

EU Commission took office on 1st November Currently re-organisation of the different Directorate Generals and preparation of a Work Programme for 2015 Eurociett actions and next steps:

• Eurociett letters sent to the Commission President and several Commissioners,

reply letter received from Commission President Juncker’s cabinet in December

• Eurociett opinion piece published “Mrs Thyssen, let’s start creating jobs right

now!”

• Request for a meeting with Commissioner Thyssen (potentially

January/February 2015)

• Meeting with Cabinet member of Commissioner Thyssen in the context of the

Dutch national day in December

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DG Employment update

Initiatives Update

EURES

• EU job mobility scheme. Obligation to open-up EURES to PrES
• EURES reform currently under discussion includes several

worrying elements (option for Member States to limit involvement of PrES based on accreditation system, burdensome obligations, etc.)

• Eurociett in close contact with DG Employment and EP

Employment Committee

PARES

• Cooperation between public and private employment services

remains high on the agenda

• PARES Initiative (2011-2014) is coming to an end
• New network of public employment services includes a focus
• n PrES-PES cooperation

ESCO

• EU Taxonomy on skills, competences and occupations
• 1st test version of ESCO (V.0) is online, improvements planned
• Eurociett provides input and advice as ESCO Board member

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EU Platform on the prevention of undeclared work

Platform has several key objectives, which are supported by Eurociett: Exchange of information and best-practices, improve compliance and controls, awareness raising on issues linked to undeclared work Platform will gather representatives of EU Member States and EU Social Partners. 8 seats for cross- industry EU Social Partners, 10 seats for sectoral social partners of sectors with high share of undeclared work Eurociett actions:

• Contribution to the two EU Social Partners‘

consultations

• Delegation (MF + MB) met with the EP Rapporteur
• n the platform, further meetings with shadow-

rapporteurs and involved MEPs

• Eurociett letter sent to DG Employment requesting to

participate in the platform

• Way to Work lunch event on 3 Dec. 2014, with

leading MEPs, more than 20 participants and a lively, constructive debate “How to turn undeclared work into regular jobs?”

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Social dialogue

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Background on the current project

In the context of the SSDC, a series of joint projects have been carried out to improve knowledge on specific issues relating to agency workers Since February 2014 Eurociett and UNI Europa are working on a project on comparing temporary agency work with other forms of employment, mainly focusing on fixed-term and self-employment. The comparison looks at different dimensions, including:

• Market share of temporary agency work vs. these forms of employment
• Regulation
• Access to healthcare, unemployment and sick benefits
• Occupational health and safety
• Access to training
• Social dialogue and collective labour agreements
• The impact in terms of labour market participation

The research will also put forward some specific topics, with an in-depth look at selected countries (ES, DE, NL, FR, BE, and IT) As part of the project, Eurociett and UNI Europa will issue a report with the findings of the research and will launch the result and their joint recommendations in a pan-European conference in Brussels in February 2015

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Where we are and next steps

IDEA Consult is working on the first draft of the full report based on desk research and

• n:
• The responses of a joint questionnaire circulated to Eurociett and UNI Europa in the summer,
• The input of the Steering Committee members (DE, BE, FR for Eurociett and IT, ES and NL

for UNI Europa)

• The input at the EU stakeholders’ meeting on 6 October in Brussels

Identified 6 topics for case studies, which will be dealt more in depth:

1. agency workers under open-ended contracts 2. self-employment 3. fixed-term contracts 4. Profile and satisfaction of agency workers 5. Social dialogue and innovative solutions to improve agency workers conditions 6. stepping-stone function of TAW

Next steps

3rd Steering Committee meeting on 15/12: final round of review of the research report by all Eurociett members (Board, PA committee, SSDC, etc.) before its launch pan-European conference in February 2015: launch of the research + joint recommendations on the results

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Eurofound representativeness study

Regular studies that the European Commission mandates Eurofound to conduct to get more information on:

• Who the sectoral social partners are,
• if they can set up Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee
• Improve the management of the SSDC

The previous representativeness study for TAW was conducted in 2004 On 10 Oct Eurociett, together with UNI Europa, BUSINESSEUROPE, CEEPS, UEAPME and ETUC attended the kickoff meeting to discuss the methodology and the scope of the study

Assessment & next steps

The study may find that UNI Europa is not the only representative body for the SSDC, so there could be a change in how many unions we will face. Less change is expected from the employers’ side, where Eurociett is still the only representative body At the kickoff meeting Eurociett averted the risk of not defining TAW as a sector. After some discussion, TAW will be considered as a sector (according to the NACE code) as well as a form of employment. Eurociett will continue to monitor and provide input in the study to make sure that TAW remains defined as sector.

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Feedback from meeting with Oliver Röthig

The meeting with Oliver Röthig, Regional Secretary of UNI Europa, took place on 6 October The items discussed were:

• Priorities of the next work programme of the SSDC

2015/2016: he agreed that we continue with a new joint project, which represents a source of useful data

• On the current project comparing temporary agency

work with other forms of employment, it would be useful as a basis for a joint statement

• In the dialogue with other ETUFs, UNI Europa is still the

leading contact point, but they are open to including more ETUFs

Other priorities for UNI Europa were:

• EWCs,
• Rise of (bogus) self-employment

Overall the meeting was fruitful and showed that UNI Europa recognises that TAW is different from

• ther forms of flexible employment, and there is

willingness to have common action to positively differentiate TAW

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PR & Communications

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Eurociett recent PR developments

Eurociett advocacy video published

• +/- 200 views so far
• Embedded on website
• Early 2015 boosting it by further publication

through Euractiv/ViEUws

• Use in presentations etc.

New website section with columns

• Global Recruiter (monthly), staffing in Latin

America (monthly), other opinions/articles (ad hoc)

• Currently over 30 articles on some of our key

topics: NWOW, skills, public-private cooperation, undeclared work, quality standards, but also open letter to Comm. Thyssen etc.

Eurociett PR consultant Sam Rowe to also start work for Ciett

• Mainly in media relations & drafting
• Should provide more synergies between Eurociett

& Ciett work

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Ciett Branding & positioning

Ciett Board & GA decided Ciett should broaden the scope of services it represents & to align more with business services. Eurociett Board + GA decided to follow this

• movement. This means the Ciett/Eurociett corporate brand should also be updated.
• How we describe our industry
• How we describe what Ciett/Eurociett does and stands for

Key elements include for example:

• Employment & recruitment industry offering a range of services in a changing world of work
• Our sector as enabler of change for companies and workers, part of the solution to a number of

labour market problems

• A new identity allowing us to be easibly recognized as labour market experts

Ciett Branding & positioning taskforce to do the initial homework (Nov-May):

• Hans Leentjes - Chair (Ciett VP, Manpower)
• Kevin Green (NFC Chair/Ciett VP, REC)
• Mark De Smedt (Ciett VP, Adecco)
• Pam Berklich (Chair CMC/Ciett VP)
• Denis Pennel/Menno Bart (secretariat)

External agency to support & do the creative part

• New name/logo?
• Graphic elements/templates/website etc.

Presentation and/or feedback session at Ciett conference 2015 in May Final phasing in at a moment to be determined. Waiting for 2017 may in fact be too long?

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Selection of upcoming PR opportunities

January

• Publication Ciett Economic report
• Meeting EU Commissioner Thyssen?

February

• Denis at Global Recruiter UK Summit
• Presentation joint research project UNI Europa
• Way to Work event on work mobility/EURES?

March

• MEP Awards ceremony, Eurociett sponsoring Employment & social

affairs award April

• SIA conference in Amsterdam (TBD)

May

• Ciett WEC, Rome

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Assessment of Eurociett communication channels

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Available Eurociett communication channels

Part of the secretariat’s work is to interact with members to:

• Update members on developments at Eurociett level
• Get members’ input on policy dossiers
• Answer questions on cross-border issues

To this end, Eurociett has a broad range of communication channels available:

Internal focus

• Intranet
• Mailings
• Internal

meetings (GA, committee meetings etc.)

Mixed focus

• Website
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Annual

conference

External focus

• Press

releases

• Interviews
• Events (Way

to work events, MEP awards etc.)

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How we use the available channels

• Updates that every

member should get

• Requests for input
• Sending out internal

documents

Mailings

• Database of internal

documents

• Agenda of upcoming

meetings

• (outdated, time for

revision?)

Intranet

• Update on current

affairs

• Discussion & feedback

between members & secretariat

• Best practice sharing

between members

Meetings & conference

• Ad hoc updates on general

European affairs & specific TAW news

• Comments & positions
• Target audience:

“multipliers”

• Engaging /interactive
• Follow our stakeholder lists

& #hastags

Twitter

• Ciett members group for

internal discussion on industry related topics

• Way to Work Page more

for sending messages/ general Way to Work news.

LinkedIn

• Comprehensive

information & news source, library

• First point of contact for

all international matters.

Website

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Questions for discussion

Do you feel you have enough tools/opportunities to exchange ideas and collaborate

• with secretariat staff?
• with other members?

In your opinion, how useful are the existing tools to engage with Eurociett staff & members: intranet, LinkedIn group and/or page, twitter, Eurociett website? In Eurociett internal communications, what is missing? What could be improved? Are you familiar with online ways of collaborating such as Google+, Yammer, etc.? Do you think they could help improve Eurociett (internal) communication? If we would revise the intranet or create a new web-based collaboration platform, what minimum requirements should it have to fit your needs?

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Research

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Market update - latest AWBI

European average moving between 1% - 5%. Preliminary y-o-y growth in September 2014 = 1.4% (after 5.0% in August – a record high since Oct 2011). Top performers include NL, IT, BE, DK, PL. Bad results from FR, DE, NO. CH bouncing up and down… Turnover results looking slightly better. In January we will include Finland in AWBI hours worked.

• 40%
• 20%

0% 20% 40% 60% Jan-08 Apr-08 Jul-08 Oct-08 Jan-09 Apr-09 Jul-09 Oct-09 Jan-10 Apr-10 Jul-10 Oct-10 Jan-11 Apr-11 Jul-11 Oct-11 Jan-12 Apr-12 Jul-12 Oct-12 Jan-13 Apr-13 Jul-13 Oct-13 Jan-14 Apr-14 Jul-14 Oct-14 France Belgium Netherlands Italy Germany Norway Switzerland Poland Denmark Europe (monthly)

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Data gathering/economic report 2015

First draft is ready

• Penetration rate Europe ↑ to 1,7% (TBC)
• 8,7 mln individuals in TAW (2012: 8 mln), 3.9 mln FTE’s (2012: 3.7 mln.)
• Turnover stable: TAW ≈ €108 bn, total including permanent recruitment etc. = €117 bn

New sections on permanent recruitment, outplacement, RPO, online recruitment (results to be further analyzed) More extensive glossary and list of resources/bibliography Timeline:

• Final version end Dec or early Jan
• Publication mid/end Jan

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Preparation FlexWorkResearch conference

FlexWorkResearch advisory board has now been expanded with representatives from IZA (Werner Eichhorst) and Eurofound (TBD), next to Rotterdam School of Management (Bas Koene), University of Amsterdam (Els Sol), ABU and Eurociett International Conference taking place 22-23 October 2015 (Rotterdam) Overall theme focusing on inclusive labour markets (precise title TBD) Conference will consist of three sessions, exploring issues on three levels:

1. Labour markets/policy makers 2. Companies & organisations 3. People/workers/jobseekers

Each session will have:

• A general keynote outlining the topic
• Two additional presentations digging in to two sub-topics
• One case study
• Ample opportunity for debate/questions etc.

The audience will also include practitioners from research institutes (IZW, SIA, OECD, etc.) and consultancies (PWC, Deloitte?)

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Ciett issues

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Ciett 2015 Conference

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The ILO has launched a strategy to fight human trafficking with key stakeholders (IOE, ITUC, Ciett and other international organisations) to improve working conditions in cross-border activities (project of 8.3M£ funded by UK & US governments) The strategy will be implemented through a series of projects over 5 years, focusing on:

• India, Bangladesh and Nepal and on the migration routes with the

Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan)

• Empowering women (gender dimension)

The expected outcomes are:

• Better regulation and law enforcement to eliminate illegal fees,
• Better action from sending and receiving governments against human

trafficking

• Bringing 100,000 women into decent work

Key activities relevant for our industry:

• Active promotion of ratification of C181 + Ciett code of conduct
• Establishment and strengthening of national federations to

professionalise PrEAs

• Capacity building and training modules for PrEAs

ILO:

Update on Fair Recruitment Initiative

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ILO:

Update on Fair Recruitment Initiative (2)

Actions and next steps:

Principles on fair international recruitment practices

• Ciett took part in 3-day meeting of stakeholders/partners at the ILO International Training

Centre in Turin to define the principles and benchmarks to measure and assess what can be considered as fair recruitment (April 2014)

• A second round of consultations will take place on 18-19 November in Bangkok (Steve

Shepherd representing Ciett)

• The benchmarks are still in draft and are based on existing international instruments. They

will go through the tripartite system of the ILO for adoption

Scoping visits to target countries: Nepal and India

• Ciett will undertake scoping visits to the target countries to assess the situation on the

ground with PrEAs and to identify PrEAs willing to commit to the Ciett code of conduct/ethical recruitment benchmarks

• A visit to Nepal is scheduled on the week of 15/12, a visit to India is scheduled at the

beginning of February 2015

• These visits will be done together with two non-governmental organisations specialised in

human and labour rights: Verité and the Institute for Human Rights and Business

• During these visits, Ciett will closely liaise with the ILO field offices

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IOM:

International Recruitment Integrity System (IRIS)

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is working on a project that aims at building an operational framework that ensures ethical international recruitment The International Recruitment Integrity System (IRIS) is on a voluntary basis and bridge international regulatory gaps governing labour recruitment in countries of origin and

• destination. IRIS aims to:
• Develop a voluntary accreditation system so that its members can be recognised as bonafide

fair recruiter/employers

• Build an information portal and publicly available list of accredited IRIS members

internationally

• Set up a complaints and referral mechanism to assist victims of unethical

Accreditation will be based on common principles on ethical recruitment – Ciett has been involved in the definition of these (draft) principles - meeting of experts last June Ciett has been included in the consultations leading to the establishment of IRIS

• IRIS offers the opportunity to build a system that enable to differentiate ethical recruiters and

employers from malafide operators

• The ILO has also joined the initiative, despite its initial caution due to politics between the two
• rganisations

Ciett has some concerns regarding the operation ability

• f the current draft IRIS principles – will lobby IOM & IOE

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OECD:

Quality Jobs project

• Objective of the study is to define an analytical framework or tools that can be used

to account for job quality when assessing labour market performance and drawing policy recommendations

• Timeframe: Oct. 2013 – Oct. 2015
• First draft of indicators presented during OECD/EU high-level workshop Ciett

attended

• Outcome based on 3 main indicators:
• Earnings
• Labour market security
• Quality of the working environment
• The OECD was open-minded to amend/improve the indicators based on the

comments received during the workshop. Ciett made the following remarks

• Households situation should be included when assessing earnings (a single mother working

part-time is not in the same situation as a married person with a working partner)

• Satisfaction at work as expressed by the workers themselves should be considered (even

though it might be subjective)

• Voluntary vs involuntary choice should be looked at when it comes about employment

conditions (there are always trade-offs)

• Next steps:
• Two chapters in Employment Outlook 2015 “Promoting upward earnings mobility and

managing downward risks over the life-cycle” + “Tackling informal work in emerging economies”

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UN - Business and Human Rights

The discussion built on the previous two fora and addressed the progress made in the implementation of the Guiding Principles both by governments through their national action plans and by businesses Along with these themes, there was a discussion on the proposal of Ecuador and South Africa to adopt a binding treaty for business and human rights and the implication for business Ciett took part in the preparatory meeting of the IOE, taking place on 19/11, that helped coordinate the employers’ delegation at the forum. For Ciett is good to participate in the event as it allows us to monitor the discussion and make sure that the industry is not associated with negative exposure On 1-3 December, a Ciett delegation tookpart in the 3rd UN Forum on business and human rights

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OHCHR feedback on the meeting of experts

On 31 October Ciett spoke at a UN meeting of experts on recruitment practices and their impact on migrants’ rights The meeting was organised by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Mr François Crépeau, under the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and gathered together 30 experts representing the ILO, IOM, ITUC, governments and NGOs. Ciett highlighted the need for creating a level playing field for the industry in order to uphold the rights of all workers (including migrants) and discourage unfair competition from rogue operators. This could be achieved with adoption of Convention No. 181 and appropriate enforcement The Special Rapporteur will draft a report on this topic that will be presented in 2016 to the United Nations Human Rights Council Ciett will follow up on this dossier, which echoes the work done with the ILO and the IOM on fair recruitment practices. Two main issues are to be monitored:

1. the increasing complexity of labour supply chains 2. the risks of seeing a parallel development of private regulation on labour market intermediaries (through quality standards/accreditation systems developed by non governmental organisations).

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Australian G20 Declaration

G20 Summit took place n 15-16 November in Australia Final declaration stated that top priority is to raise “global growth to deliver better living standards and quality jobs” G20 take appropriate policy measures to stimulate growth (additional 2% GDP by 2018) which will create millions of quality jobs. Along with this, the G20 wants to increase women’s participation rate (25% by 2025), ensure that young people are in employment, education or training and to address informality. To achieve these ambitious goals, the G20 has set out an action plan to:

• Promote entrepreneurship and skills development,
• Strengthen linkage between education and work
• Address disadvantaged groups (disable people and long-term unemployment)
• Address underemployment and low-quality, insecure jobs in the informal economy
• Improve occupational health and safety policies
• Streamline labour market regulation

In addition, they recognise the need to enhance labour market flexibility in some advanced economies.

Assessment

Language of Declaration is quite high-level and could be used for some PR, however little concrete action comes from the G20. For the past three years, the priorities have been more or less the same (youth unemployment, helping vulnerable groups, etc.) Job creation is no longer enough, but quality jobs have to be created. This reflects the growing importance of the debate on job quality undertaken by many international organisations, notably ILO, OECD, Eurofound, etc. Next year the G20 will be chaired by Turkey, and among its priorities there will be informality and migration

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ILO Meeting of experts on non-standard forms of work

16-19th February 2015 - Geneva

• This tripartite meeting will bring together 24 experts (8 from Gvts, 8

from Employers, 8 from Workers) from around the world to gain a better understanding of

• the incidence and trends of non-standard forms of employment across different countries
• f the world,
• the reasons for its use,
• its effects on the labour market, firms and workers, including workers’ ability to realize

their fundamental rights

• Countries represented by experts should be: Algeria, Chile, France, Japan,

Norway, Philippines, South Africa and United States

• The meeting will also discuss national regulations with respect to

non-standard forms of employment and different regulatory responses

• The ultimate objective is to provide guidance to ILO activities on

this topic

• Ciett will be taking part in the meeting as observer
• Coordination has started with the International Organisation of

Employers (IOE) about key messages

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Revision of Ciett Code of Conduct

• Revision of Ciett Code of Conduct
• Need to better cover cross-border recruitment practices and

enforcement/complaint mechanisms

• To be presented to Ciett GA in May 2015
• Eurociett Code of Conduct will be amended accordingly by end of 2015
• Compilation of best practices from Ciett/Eurociett members

regarding self regulation & quality standards

• Questionnaire to be circulated to all Ciett/Eurociett members –

Compilation to be done with the support of the ILO

• To be used to promote best practices and as a PA/PR tool
• Establishment of a Ciett Complaint Procedure
• To define responsibilities between national, regional, global levels
• To be described on Ciett website
• Eurociett will also be involved

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Next Eurociett GA: 27th May 2015 - Rome