Traduction de «Aide à la création d'activités indépendantes » (Français → Anglais) :

The proposal for a directive provided for significant advances from the point of view of guaranteeing equal treatment of men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity, assisting spouses included. It sought, for example, to deal with the obstacles preventing women from taking up a self-employed occupation and to that end made provision for positive action or specific measures to enable the underrepresented sex to engage in such activity more readily. As regards the establishment of companies, Member States were calle ...[+++]d upon to take binding measures to ensure that national law would no longer rule out the possibility for businesses to be set up between spouses or life partners. Maternity protection was to be granted to self-employed women and assisting spouses or recognised partners (they were to be entitled to the maternity leave provided for in Directive 92/85/EEC and to an allowance at least equivalent to any sickness allowance payable under national law; and temporary replacement services were to be offered as an alternative to the allowance). Assisting spouses were to enjoy a level of social security at least equal to the provision for self-employed workers, and it was to be granted on the same terms. However, the proposal did not alter the system allowing the spouses of self-employed workers to join contribution-based schemes on a voluntary basis.

10. Emphatically supports the Commission’s call to the Member States to review their complex and bureaucratic tax and social benefit systems which have a negative effect on job creation, and where appropriate to adjust them, without calling into question workers' rights and the social transfers which help reduce social inequalities; in addition, the entrepreneurship of women wishing to found firms or become self-employed should be promoted; women must be given targeted support, inter alia by reducing the burden on businesses, (particularly at the start-up stage), simplifying the necessary formalities or setting up funds; measures to i ...[+++]ncrease workers’ employability achieve results when there is a demand for labour: such a demand will above all be created if more firms are started up and if quality jobs are created, in particular for women;

7. Draws attention in particular to Council Directive 86/613/EEC of 11 December 1986 on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity, including agriculture, in a self-employed capacity, and on the protection of self-employed women during pregnancy and motherhood and to its resolution of 21 February 1997 on the situation of assisting spouses of the self-employed , which recommended that this weakly worded and poorly applied directive be amended so as to establish a genuine framework l ...[+++]egal status covering the rights and independent social security entitlements of assisting spouses in family, craft, commercial and agricultural undertakings and in connection with self-employed non-manual workers;

7. Draws attention in particular to Council Directive 1986/613/EEC of 11 December 1986 on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity, including agriculture, in a self-employed capacity, and on the protection of self-employed women during pregnancy and motherhood and to its resolution on the situation of assisting spouses of the self-employed, which recommended that this weakly worded and poorly applied directive be amended so as to establish a genuine framework legal status covering the r ...[+++]ights and independent social security entitlements of assisting spouses in family, craft, commercial and agricultural undertakings and in connection with self-employed non-manual workers;

11. encourage the development of self employment by examining, with the aim of reducing, any obstacles which may exist, especially those within tax and social security regimes, to moving to self-employment and the setting up of small businesses as well as by promoting training for entrepreneurship and targeted support services for entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs.

Opening up the business creation process to all, together with access to start-up capital and a clear understanding of the requirements for setting up SMEs, self-employment and how to identify and exploit new opportunities for job creation in cities, towns and rural areas;