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12,500workposts.Furthermore,twoprocesseswereapprovedwithinthescopeoftheIntegrated Systems of Incentives for Business Modernisation and Revitalisation(SIRME) 14 and91withinthescopeoftheExtrajudicialConciliationProcedure(PEC) 15 .In relation to AGIIRE, focus goes to the intervention of the Rapid and PersonalisedIntervention Nuclei. In this context, it is also important to mention the role of theconsultancy‐training programmes for micro and small companies, which have beenpromotedbyvariouspublicandprivatebodies(e.g.businessassociations)asisthecasewiththeGERIRProgrammeandREDEProgramme.Thegoaloftheseprogrammesis to contribute towards increasing management capacity and improving thecompanies’organisationandcompetitiveness.Currently,thisformofinterventionhasbeenconsideredasanexampleofgoodpracticesinthetrainingareaforthissegment,which represents a large portion of the business fabric and which traditionally hasgreatdifficultyinandevenresistancetoaccessinginformation.Withaviewtoimprovingtheeffectivenessandefficiencyofthesemeasures,arevisionprocess of the general principles of employment policies is under way, including itsconcentrationintoareducedsetofprogrammeswithinternalcoherenceandclarityinrelation to recipients and operators, making it more transparent and known andaiming to increase its scope and effectiveness in combating unemployment. At thesame time, it seeks to guarantee the flexibility required to bring it in line with thespecificities of the different target groups and territories, combining preventive andcorrective aid. This process is currently in the final discussion phase in the socialdialogue, after which the respective legislative framework will be altered, a newpromotion and monitoring system will be introduced together with the periodicevaluation of the respective measures (at least biannually) in order to guaranteelabourmarketneedsandeffectivenessarepermanentlybeingupgradedinlinewiththeresults.Thus,theproposaloftheschemeofactiveemploymentpoliciesisbasedonthreetypesofprogrammes:i)Generalprogrammes;ii)Specificprogrammesandiii)Territory‐based programmes. The general programmes cover the whole country andall groups and sectors, using the following types of intervention: a) Programme forstimulatingthecreationofself‐employmentandentrepreneurship;b)Programmeforstimulating the quality of third‐party work and; c) Programme for stimulating jobseeking.Thespecificprogrammesareaimedatparticularsegmentsoftheunemployedpopulation,whiletheterritory‐basedprogrammesareaimedatspecificregions/areas.3.3. ImprovedworkingconditionsThe modernisation effort and the reform of the labour relations system started in2006werecontinued.TheconstantdiagnosisoftheGreenBookonLabourRelationsand the identification of the principal problems of the Portuguese labour relationssystem,expressedintheWhiteBookonLabourRelations,representthekeybasesfor14 Assumed as a financial instrument based on the Fund for the Revitalisation and Modernisation of the BusinessCommunity,whichintervenesasafinancialpartnerintheacquisitionormergingofcompanies.15Forsituationsinwhichthecompaniesareconfrontedbydebtsituations,thePEC,mediatedbyIAPMEI,directsitsactiontowards enabling an agreement between the company and its creditors, so as to render its recuperation viable. Thisinstrumentisonlydestinedforcompanieswhichareincircumstancesoflegallyrequestinsolvency,inthetermsoftheCodeofInsolvencyandRecoveryofCompanies.68