Study on the representativeness o the social partner organisations in the professional football players sector

A portada: Université catholique de Louvain. Institut des sciences du travailResearch project conducted on behalf of the Employment and Social Affairs DG of the European CommissionThe aim of the report is to produce a study that sets out both brief descriptions of the way that social dialogue functions in the countries concerned, and descriptions of the various workers' and employers' organisations involved in social dialogue at sector level. This study may be seen as a tool to help understand these quantitative and qualitative factors. It will also make it possible to understand the various systems of industrial relations in different countries, and to introduce the actors involved in social dialogue

Study on the representativeness of the social partner organisations in the extractive industry

Tipus de projecte: Projecte europeuA portada: Universite catholique de Louvain. Institut de sciences du travailResearch project conducted on behalf of the Employment and Social Affairs DG of the European Commissio

Study on the representativeness of the social partner organisations in the extractive industry

Tipus de projecte: Projecte europeuA portada: Universite catholique de Louvain. Institut de sciences du travailResearch project conducted on behalf of the Employment and Social Affairs DG of the European Commissio

Study on the representativeness of the social partner organisations in the chemical industry

A portada: Universite catholique de Louvain. Institut de sciences du travailTipus de projecte: Projecte europeuResearch project conducted on behalf of the Employment and Social Affairs DG of the European Commissio

Study on the representativeness of the social partner organisations in the fishing industry EU 25

Tipus de projecte: Projecte europeuA portada: Universite catholique de Louvain. Institut de sciences du travailResearch project conducted on behalf of the Employment and Social Affairs Directorate-General of the European Commissio

Study on the representativeness of the social partner organisations in the chemical industry

A portada: Universite catholique de Louvain. Institut de sciences du travailTipus de projecte: Projecte europeuResearch project conducted on behalf of the Employment and Social Affairs DG of the European Commissio

The Collective negociation and its actors in the culture & media sector : (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom)

Tipus de projecte: Projecte europeuA portada: Universite catholique de Louvain. Institut de sciences du travail.Research project conducted on behalf of the Employment and Social Affairs DG of the European CommissionThis report aims to examine the process of social dialogue and to present the actors participating in that dialogue in the "C&M" sector in the 15 states member of the European Union (when we cite "the 15 states member of the European Union" or "UE15", please understand "the 15 states member of the European Union before the enlargement of the 1st May 2004"). The object of this comparative study can be resumed under three main points : 1. Description of the structuring of the whole of the C&M fields through certain key aspects which make it easier to compare one EU country with another. 2. Provision of an overview of the principal characteristics of the established professional relationships and the process of CB in the member states of the EU in this sector. 3. Provision of an overview of the main protagonists operating in this sector. The topics are the description of the sector (activities, organizations, employment and evolution), professional relations and collective negotiation (social dialogue, evolution and trends) and the players of the sector (employers' organizations and trade unions). We laid great stress on the importance to note the type of difficulty or obstacle the national experts could find in the collect of data. This study is intended to be an introduction to a subsequent piece of work, which will be concerned more specifically with the protagonists in the CB process for the CULTURE & MEDIA sector and their representatives in the UE15

Institutional representativeness of trade unions and employers' organisations in the industrial cleaning sector

Tipus de projecte: Projecte europeuA portada: Universite catholique de Louvain. Institut de sciences du travail.Research project conducted on behalf of the Employment and Social Affairs DG of the European CommissionThis report was drawn up within the framework of a study on the institutional representativeness of the social partners in the European Union UE15 and the situation of trade unions and employers' organisations in the new member States and in the candidate countries. The study is carried out by the Institut des Sciences du Travail de l'Université catholique de Louvain (IST) at the request of the European Commission's DG Employment and Social Affairs (Call for tenders No. VT/2002/83). This report aims to examine the process of social dialogue and the representativeness of the social partners participating in that dialogue in the industrial cleaning sector in the countries of the European Union UE15. The study focuses on social dialogue and organisations in the countries member of the European Union before the 1st of May 2004

Spearfishing Regulation Benefits Artisanal Fisheries: The ReGS Indicator and Its Application to a Multiple-Use Mediterranean Marine Protected Area

The development of fishing efficiency coupled with an increase of fishing effort led to the overexploitation of numerous natural marine resources. In addition to this commercial pressure, the impact of recreational activities on fish assemblages remains barely known. Here we examined the impact of spearfishing limitation on resources in a marine protected area (MPA) and the benefit it provides for the local artisanal fishery through the use of a novel indicator. We analysed trends in the fish assemblage composition using artisanal fisheries data collected in the Bonifacio Strait Natural Reserve (BSNR), a Mediterranean MPA where the spearfishing activity has been forbidden over 15% of its area. Fish species were pooled into three response groups according to their target level by spearfishing. We developed the new flexible ReGS indicator reflecting shifts in species assemblages according to the relative abundance of each response group facing external pressure. The catch per unit effort (CPUE) increased by ca. 60% in the BSNR between 2000 and 2007, while the MPA was established in 1999. The gain of CPUE strongly depended on the considered response group: for the highly targeted group, the CPUE doubled while the CPUE of the untargeted group increased by only 15.5%. The ReGS value significantly increased from 0.31 to 0.45 (on a scale between 0 and 1) in the general perimeter of this MPA while it has reached a threshold of 0.43, considered as a reference point, in the area protected from spearfishing since 1982. Our results demonstrated that limiting recreational fishing by appropriate zoning in multiple-use MPAs represents a real benefit for artisanal fisheries. More generally we showed how our new indicator may reveal a wide range of impacts on coastal ecosystems such as global change or habitat degradation