ETS 163 – European Social Charter (Revised), 03.V.1996 __________________________________________________________________________________ 2 to provide or promote a system of apprenticeship and other systematic arrangements for training young boys and girls in their various employments; 3 to provide or promote, as necessary: a adequate and readily available training facilities for adult workers; b special facilities for the retraining of adult workers needed as a result of technological development or new trends in employment; 4 to provide or promote, as necessary, special measures for the retraining and reintegration of the long-term unemployed; 5 to encourage the full utilisation of the facilities provided by appropriate measures such as: a reducing or abolishing any fees or charges; b granting financial assistance in appropriate cases; c including in the normal working hours time spent on supplementary training taken by the worker, at the request of his employer, during employment; d ensuring, through adequate supervision, in consultation with the employers' and workers' organisations, the efficiency of apprenticeship and other training arrangements for young workers, and the adequate protection of young workers generally. Article 11 – The right to protection of health With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to protection of health, the Parties undertake, either directly or in cooperation with public or private organisations, to take appropriate measures designed inter alia: 1 to remove as far as possible the causes of ill-health; 2 to provide advisory and educational facilities for the promotion of health and the encouragement of individual responsibility in matters of health; 3 to prevent as far as possible epidemic, endemic and other diseases, as well as accidents. Article 12 – The right to social security With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to social security, the Parties undertake: 1 to establish or maintain a system of social security; 2 to maintain the social security system at a satisfactory level at least equal to that necessary for the ratification of the European Code of Social Security; 3 to endeavour to raise progressively the system of social security to a higher level; 4 to take steps, by the conclusion of appropriate bilateral and multilateral agreements or by other means, and subject to the conditions laid down in such agreements, in order to ensure: 7

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