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European Commission Spokesman's Briefing for 04-06-14
From: EUROPA, the European Commission Server at <http://europa.eu.int>
CONTENTS / CONTENU
[01] L'UE contribue pour 10,7 millions d'€ ŕ la promotion des produits
agricoles de qualité
[02] Extra time for farmers to ask for EU support in the new Member States
[03] More women engineering graduates, but they still face poor employment
prospects
[04] Autre matériel diffusé
Midday Express of 2004-06-14
Reference: MEX/04/0614
Date: 14/06/2004
EXME04 / 14.6
MIDDAY EXPRESS
News from the Press and Communication Directorate General's midday briefing
Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi de la Direction Général Presse etb
Communication
14/06/04
[01] L'UE contribue pour 10,7 millions d'€ ŕ la promotion des produits
agricoles de qualité
La Commission européenne a approuvé 26 programmes établis dans 12 Etats
membres pour faire connaître les produits agricoles de qualité et pour en
promouvoir la commercialisation dans l'Union européenne. Ces programmes
sont dotés d'un budget total de 21,5 millions d'€, cofinancé pour
moitié par l'UE.
[02] Extra time for farmers to ask for EU support in the new Member States
The European Commission has adopted an amendment of the Single Area Payment
Scheme (SAPS), the transitional scheme to grant direct payments that is
used in all the new Member States with the exception of Slovenia and Malta.
The amendment extends the period in which farmers can make aid applications
until 15 July. Normally, farmers in the new Member States using SAPS have
to submit a request for aid before a date that is set by the Member State
but that has to be before 15 June. However, it seems that in this first
year of accession not all farmers are familiar with the EU procedures. In
some of the new Member States a substantial number of farmers have not yet
asked for EU-support. To allow the new Member States concerned to give
farmers maximum opportunity to lodge requests for EU support the decision
has been taken to allow the new Member States to set a later date than the
15 of June but not later than 15 July. "We have extended the deadline to
ensure that EU farm subsidies available are used by farmers in the new
Member States", Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler said.
[03] More women engineering graduates, but they still face poor employment
prospects
Latest Eurostat data show that although women are still significantly under-
represented in scientific and engineering disciplines, the numbers of
female graduates in these fields have increased over the last few years.
The new figures on "Women, science and technology: Measuring recent
progress towards gender equality" provide continuing evidence of a
narrowing of the gender gap for graduates in "hard sciences", especially in
engineering. From 1998-2001, the numbers of graduates in engineering and
related subjects increased by 8% to 340,000, but this increase was far more
marked for women – 31%. In fact, although women only represent just over
20% of engineering graduates, they accounted for 56.5% of the increase
during this period in the EU-15 countries, and for 35.6% in the EU-25.
However, this positive trend is not reflected in science and engineering
employment where the current 69% share of men is set to increase even
further.
[04] Autre matériel diffusé
Note on results of Telecom Council (10/06)
Note sur les résultats du Conseil Transports (11/06)
Speech by David Byrne : "Driving Public Health in Europe – The role of
Workplace Health Promotion" at 4th European Conference on Promoting
Workplace Health (Dublin)
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