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European Community (EC)

17-Mar-2006

The OECD and its 30 member countries are committed to encouraging and developing a global "culture of security". This page collates EC's initiatives to implement the OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks: Towards a Culture of Security.

Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2006: Progress in Responding to the 2005 Policy Priorities - European Union Country Note

07-Feb-2006

This note, taken from Chapter 2 of Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth 2006, contains information about the progress in implementing reforms in line with the 2005 priorities for the European Union. ...

Competition Law and Policy in the European Union

06-Jan-2006

This report, prepared by the Secretariat of the OECD was the basis for a peer review examination of the European Commission in the OECD Competition Committee on 19 October 2005.

Consumer Protection Authorities

15-Dec-2005

Links to the consumer protection authority (or authorities) of the countries represented on the OECD Committee on Consumer Policy.

Co-operation between the European Commission and the OECD LEED Programme

08-Nov-2005

A summary of the co-operation between the European Commission (DG Employment and Social Affairs) and the OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme.

European Commission: Competition Law and Policy in 2004

17-Oct-2005

In this report, the European commission summarizes the main developments in competition law and policy in 2004.

House prices and inflation in the Euro Area

12-Oct-2005

Boris Cournède

May the cost of living in the euro area differ from the main inflation index because of housing costs?  Economics Department Working Paper 450.

Welfare Reform in European Countries (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 28)

30-Sep-2005

Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Emmanuel Saez

This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal tax rates on earnings.