Methods of monitoring and the assessment of application Given the methods of application that have been decided upon for each company, monitoring and assessment of the agreement will be carried out on two levels. Firstly, each company involved will carry out its own annual assessment in a special meeting between management representatives and trade unions or, in default thereof, employee representatives, in appropriate dialogue conditions. Secondly, at Group level, the following arrangements will be adopted: - a specific follow-up committee will be created and chaired by the Chairman of the Group or his representative; the committee will include a representative from each signing trade union organisation, a representative from the Sustainable Development Division, a representative from the Human Resources Division, and the Group’s ethical delegate. - The follow-up committee will ensure that the conditions for the implementation of the agreement are in place, and will draw up a report on the application thereof and evaluate the results. To this end, the signing parties agree to meet within a period of six months from the date of the signing of the agreement, in order to determine which of the indicators available within the group are the most relevant with respect to this agreement, for evaluating the initial steps in the implementation of the agreement, and to prepare for the annual assessment meeting. The follow-up committee meets at least once a year. On this occasion, it will draw up an assessment of its activities. An extraordinary committee meeting may be held by agreement with the Chairman. - An annual report on the implementation of the agreement must be filed each year. Subject to the unanimous agreement of the parties, it may be communicated appropriately as part of the Sustainable Development report. The Gaz de France Group firmly believes that it is essential to provide all parties concerned with relevant, consistent and reliable information on its extra-financial performance. To this end, the Gaz de France Group obtains an independent evaluation of its report from an outside party and adopts best practices as well as the specifications that are the most suitable for its area of activity, particularly the GRI. - The implementation assessment will be presented every year to the European Works Council. - The organisation costs for meetings of the follow-up committee and the preparation thereof, where necessary, (room reservation, accommodation, translation, etc.) will ...
