Jaarverslag 2003 - Databank Milieu

The upward trend in the number of notifications did not continue in 2003.
As of 31 December in the year under review, 3,060 notifications had been
received, with an investment amount totalling € 96,998,720.
Act to Stimulate the Labour Market Participation of Ethnic Minorities
[Stimulering Arbeidsdeelname Minderheden: SAMEN]
The Labour Inspectorate monitors compliance with the SAMEN Act, which
requires employers with 35 or more staff to submit annual reports to the
regional offices of the Centre for Work and Income (CWI). Once a year the
Labour Inspectorate produces a list of companies that were required to
submit an annual report under the SAMEN Act for the preceding year but
have failed to do so. The AI sends these companies a reminder.11,770
reports were submitted for 2002, a decline relative to 2001, when 13,521
reports were submitted. This probably has to do with the expiry of the Act
on 1 January 2004.
International affairs
The Labour Inspectorate’s international activities focused on four main
issues in 2003:
+ enhanced coordination of the monitoring of European OHS regulations
by participating in the EU’s Senior Labour Inspectorate Committee
(SLIC);
+ assisting the labour inspectorates of EU candidate countries, particularly
Hungary;
+ cooperating with the International Labour Organisation in achieving
basic social rights for workers, and in particular combating child
labour;
+ supporting the world organisation of labour inspectorates, the International
Association of Labour Inspection.
Management
The AI’s new organisational structure and the related introduction of
team-based working had a strong impact on management and activities in
2003. The adoption of two amendments submitted by MP Verburg means
that the AI’s inspection capacity has to be expanded. For this reason, a
comprehensive recruitment drive was carried out and training provided.
On the automation front, work has started on the design of a newly integrated
information system to replace the current Integrated Labour
Inspectorate Information System. It is anticipated that the new system will
allow inspections to be processed more quickly, and enable the activities
of the LMF and MHC directorates to be monitored and managed more
efficiently.
Resources
The Labour Inspectorate spent almost € 56 million on staff and tangible
costs in 2003. This is a rise of about € 3.8 million on the 2002 fiscal year.
Income rose by almost € 0.5 million on 2002, reaching a total of € 6.15
million. Most of the additional income came from administrative fines.
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