Regulating domestic help

Subject Proposal to defer deployment of Pershing II and cruise missiles

Bringing the shadow economy out into the open

It's traditionally called the informal economy, the underground economy, the black market.

This whole underground economy therefore operates without restriction.

Subject Consular agreement between Greece and the GDR

Implement means to address the problem of the informal economy.

In some countries with economies in transition, there has been extensive growth of the shadow economy.

I like to call it the Global Shadow Economy, or McMafia, for short.

The illegal economy poses also a threat to the revenues of the social security and health funds.

Implement the April 2005 action plan to address the informal economy.

Now the German shadow economy could begin to gently reduce its skyrocketing.

2.3.3 Corruption is often connected with the informal economy and with organised crime.

3.5.1 The great diversity of taxation encourages fraud, corruption and the black economy.

The French report does not deal explicitly with the development of the black economy.

There are three months left before the end of 1983, the deadline set by the USA and NATO for the deployment of the Pershing II and cruise missiles, an act which would bring our whole continent to the brink of nuclear disaster.

Due to its informal nature, it is difficult to measure the size of the informal economy.

6.13 A consequence of seasonal fluctuation in requirements of labour is the emergence and presence of a black economy.

Poverty and sluggish social reform have led to an increase in crime and the growth of the shadow economy.

Member States' reports did not succeed in overcoming the difficulty of measuring the black economy.

The Member States reports failed to solve the problem of how to measure the black economy.

The European Commission s Green Paper on immigration looks like an invitation to join the underground economy.

More insidious is the malign influence of the grey economy which is fed by transit fraud and customs fraud in general.

So this goes on in the formal economy as well as the informal economy, so it's wrong of us to blame and I'm not singling out

In 1996, the Finnish Parliament approved its first programme designed to reduce economic crime and the shadow economy.

4.4.3 Undeclared work and the informal economy are a major issue and should be dealt with as a matter of urgency.

9 A high level of tax arrears, VAT fraud and the shadow economy are key challenges.

Reduce the grey economy by effective and non discriminatory enforcement of tax legislation and intensifying the fight against fiscal fraud.

Ensure that the strategy to combat the informal economy keeps pace with developments in the sector.

Greece s underground economy, estimated to be as large as 30 of GDP, is already one of Europe s biggest, and it is growing by the day.

Greece s underground economy, estimated to be as large as 30 of GDP, is already one of Europe s biggest, and it is growing by the day.

But informal output is of little use for debt service if it cannot be taxed.

Other efforts worthy of attention include formalizing the huge informal economy in states such as Ghana.

Nowadays, low salaries make many lives here miserable, pensions are a joke, and the shadow economy is vast.

Furthermore, people in the informal economy, the gray economy as time goes by, crime is happening around them.

3.14.3 The social partners have an important role to play in combating undeclared work and in reducing the informal economy.

3.2 A significant proportion of the losses to the tax collection system generated by the shadow economy arise from aggressive tax planning.

5.7 encourage States to support the growth of SMEs and cooperatives as a mechanism for reduction of the informal sector.

Some specific aspects, however, should be treated, such as young people, non declared work, the informal economy, the self employed and the false self employed.

The directive should also take the informal economy and atypical employment contracts into consideration.

(d) Raise awareness among relief agency personnel of the physical and health issues specific to older persons and of ways to adapt basic needs support to their requirements

Every week a 25 litre drum was taken away and the chef was given GBP 5, part of the black economy.

Put in place a strategy to combat informal economy in order to guarantee, amongst other things, fair competition between companies.

A possible counterargument is that Greece has a large informal economy, so its actual GDP is larger than the official figure.

4.7 In the EU27, the working conditions of women in undeclared work are, overall, less favourable than those of men.