The systematic review and renewal of Vocational Education and Training (VET) is crucial to ensuring its continued quality and labour-market relevance. A better understanding of the performance of VET graduates in the labour market is one of the key sources for assessing and improving the quality...

The 7th Environment Action Programme (7th EAP), adopted in 2013 by the European Parliament and the Council, mandates the European Commission, inter alia, to develop by 2018 "a Union strategy for a non-toxic environment that is conducive to innovation and the development of sustainable...

This study outlines an economic case for whistleblower protection in the European Union (EU). It focuses on the public procurement sector, a major component of the economy and an attractive hotspot for corruption. In this context, whistleblower protection can encourage the reporting of corrupt...

This summary presents the results of the collection of data on the number of Portable Documents A1 (PD A1) issued by the EU Member States and EFTA countries during reference year 2015. PD A1 is a formal statement on the applicable social security legislation. It proves, amongst others, that...

This report is an analysis of policy development in relation to population ageing, more specifically the ageing of the workforce in the European Union (EU) and the four European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, in the relevant policy areas, including occupational safety and health,...

This review has been carried out as part of a larger project of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), initiated by the European Parliament. The project, 'Safer and Healthier Work at Any Age', aims to enhance the implementation of existing recommendations; the exchange of...