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adjustments before the introduction<br />

of the new system, which will<br />

become operational during 2003.<br />

In order to encourage the maintenance<br />

of a good social climate, the<br />

Group is also applying a policy of<br />

constant dialogue with the trade<br />

union organizations and the personnel<br />

representative institutions.<br />

A company-wide agreement concerning<br />

the personnel representative<br />

institutions was signed giving them<br />

additional means.<br />

All the personnel are subject to the<br />

collective bargaining agreement<br />

applicable to “SEMCA”, i.e. semipublic<br />

motorway concession companies.<br />

Many company-wide<br />

agreements complete these<br />

Safety and working conditions<br />

contractual arrangements.<br />

<strong>ASF</strong> has in addition introduced an<br />

early retirement plan which allows<br />

non-executive status employees to<br />

take early retirement from March<br />

<strong>2002</strong>. In return, the company has<br />

undertaken to carry out compensatory<br />

hiring in the form of indefinite<br />

term employment contracts.<br />

The first Group agreement establishing<br />

a Group Partnership Plan for<br />

voluntary employee savings has<br />

been signed.<br />

Further negotiations have also<br />

been undertaken at Group level<br />

with the aim of the signature of<br />

incentive and profit sharing agreements<br />

from financial year 2003 for<br />

all Group companies.<br />

The Group has endeavoured to increase the awareness of its teams to their<br />

own safety. ESCOTA has undertaken a training program, and a certification<br />

booklet has been set up for agents who work on the open motorway,<br />

resulting, via a system of sponsoring, in a reinforcement of the safety culture<br />

of everyone like the operational safety controller existing in <strong>ASF</strong>. A Safety<br />

Manager has also been recruited. His task is more particularly directed<br />

towards the safety of women and men in their daily environment.<br />

The drawing up of this unique document, giving an evaluation of the risks for<br />

the employees’ health and safety, was the occasion for establishing a<br />

detailed assessment of all the potentially dangerous situations. This<br />

document is a valuable working tool to improve the safety of all even further.<br />

A major effort has been made for the safety of agents who have to work on<br />

the open motorway (see p. 44).

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