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The news section consists of 6 subsections:

• News Messages
• Events
• Hot Items
• CoESS Newsletters
• Articles
• Photo Gallery

Latest additions:

• The Regulation of Manned Private Security - A Transnational Survey of Structure and Focus. Downloadable here as a PDF file.
• CoESS is sad to announce that one of its pioneers, Frank Mauersberger, has passed away.
• CoESS Annual Report 2004 (PDF - 560 KB)
• Madrid: 4th European Conference on Private Security: Towards a European Model.
• CoESS signs Joint Position Paper with UNI-Europa on Draft Proposal for a Directive on Services. - Text available in English and French.
• New studies and statistics.
• Newsletter 14 (PDF - 328 KB)
• "Selecting best value - A Manual for organisations awarding contracts for private guarding services": Manual + excel sheet + instructions in 12 languages. See documents page.
• Maritime Security Feasibility Report. See Members' Section.
• CoESS warmly welcomes the member federations of the new EU Member States as active members (02/05/2004)
• New Working Committee on Maritime Security established (01/05/2004)
• Documents on "Health and sagety in the private security sector: identifying the risks" in several languages. ) See documents page.
• Newsletter 13 (PDF - 243 KB)
• DIRECTIVE 2003/88/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 4 November 2003 concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time
• MEMO 04/1 of 5 January 2004 - Frequently asked questions about Working Time
• Economically dependent / quasi-subordinate (parasubordinate) employment:
  legal, social and economic aspects
• Working conditions in the acceding and candidate countries
• Revised Statutes - Corfu, 26/09/2003
• Newsletter 12 (PDF - 444 KB)