FCES Standouts

RECOMMENDATION ABOUT SOCIAL DIALOGUE STRENGTHENING AND PARTICIPATION IN MERCOSUR.16th September 2008. It proposes to strengthen social dialogue and participation spaces, at national and regional level, and the communication and cooperation means among them, as tools for the consolidation of the MERCOSUR�s civil society democratic participation and for the contribution to the regional integration process transparency, among others.[PDF File]

RECOMMENDATION MERCOSUR-FCES 01/08 ABOUT CERTIFICATION OF STUDIES, DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES OF MIDDLE EDUCATION/TECHNICAL SECONDARY SCHOOL.20th February 2008. It calls for the design and implementation of fast means to update equivalences and their middle education/technical secondary school study competences, in order to enlarge the certification of such degrees and certificates in the MERCOSUR�s Members States and partners.[PDF File]

MAIN ASSIGNMENTS OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSULTING FORUM.The following commitments arise from the Internal Regulation of the Economic and Social Consulting Forum:

1°)To pronounce itself in the area of its competence, issuing recommendations, both for its own will or about consultations that, accompanying enough information, are carried out by the Common Market Group and other MERCOSUR�s organisations. Such recommendations can refer to internal MERCOSUR�s affairs, or to its relation with other countries, international organisations, and other integration processes;

2°)To cooperate actively in order to promote economical and social development of MERCOSUR, aiming to the creation of a common market and its economical and social cohesion;

3°) To follow, analyse and evaluate the social and economic impact proceeding from policies that are aimed to the integration process and to the different stages of their implementation, at a sectorial, national, regional or international level;

4°) To propose economic and social standards and policies regarding integration;

5°) To carry out researches, studies, seminars or similar events about economic and social affairs that are relevant for MERCOSUR;

6°) To establish relations and make consultations with national or international public or private institutions, whenever it is necessary or convenient for the accomplishment of their aims;

7°) To contribute to a greater participation of society in the regional integration process, promoting the actual integration in MERCOSUR and spreading its social and economic dimension and

8°) To attend any other affair related to the integration process.