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DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SECURITY APPOINTED CHAIRPERSON OF THE GOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER
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31/10/2001
31/10/2001
| The Governmental Committee of the European Social | Charter of the Council of Europe held its 99th meeting in Strasbourg between the 22nd and 26th. October 2001. During this session the committee unanimously elected as its Chairperson, Mr. Edward Gatt who is the Director of Social Security. The Governmental Committee is the leading supervisory machinery, which is entrusted with ensuring that member countries who are contracting parties to the Charter and the revised Charter comply with the fundamental social rights of European citizens in accordance with the provisions of the Charter. Moreover, the Committee is also entrusted with the task of striving towards promoting higher social benefits within member countries. |
| During Malta’s tenure of the office of Chairperson, | which is for the next two years, the Governments’ reports submitted by a number of Eastern/Central European countries who have recently ratified the revised Charter will be examined. Most of these countries are developing free market economies, thereby setting up new social protection systems. It is expected that Malta as the new trustee of the Chairmanship of the committee will have a delicate task in providing guidance so as to ensure a fair assessment of the social situation of these countries. |
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