pting measures providing for specific advantages in order to make
it easier for women to pursue a vocational activity or to prevent or
compensate for disadvantages in their professional careers.
ARTICLE 7
The Commission shall draw up a report each year on progress in
achieving the objective of Article 1, including the demographic
situation in the Community. It shall forward the report to the European
Parliament, the Council and the Economic and Social Committee.
The European Parliament may invite the Commission to draw up
reports on particular problems concerning the social situation.
DECLARATIONS
1. Declaration on Article 2(2)
The eleven High Contracting Parties note that in the discussions on
Article 2(2) of the Agreement it was agreed that the Community does
not intend, in laying down minimum requirements for the protection of
the safety and health of employees, to discriminate in a manner
unjustified by the circumstances against employees in small and
medium-sized undertakings.
2. Declaration on Article 4(2)
The eleven High Contracting Parties declare that the first of the
arrangements for application of the agreements between management
and labour at Community level - referred to in Article 4(2) - will consist
in developing, by collective bargaining according to the rules of each
Member State, the content of the agreements, and that consequently
this arrangement implies no obligation on the Member States to apply
the agreements directly or to work out rules for their transposition, or
any obligation to amend national legislation in force to facilitate their
implementation.

PROTOCOL
ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COHESION THE HIGH CONTRACTING
PARTIES,
RECALLING that the Union has set itself the objective of promoting
economic and social progress, inter alia, through the strengthening of
economic and social cohesion;
RECALLING that Article 2 of the Treaty establishing the European
Community includes the task of promoting economic and social
cohesion and solidarity between Member States and that the
strengthening of economic and social cohesion figures among the
activities of the Community listed in Article 3;
RECALLING that the provisions of Part Three, Title XIV, on economic
and social cohesion as a whole provide the legal basis for
consolidating and further developing the Community's action in the
field of economic and social cohesion, including the creation of a new
fund;
RECALLING that the provisions of Part Thr