RA Index – Construction Clause Samples

RA Index – Construction. In this sub-section, we focus on the construction sector in the 13 Member States. This includes architecture, engineering, specialised and other construction professions/occupations. For each of these 4 subsectors, we use the summary data on the reservation of tasks that has been gathered. For each of these four areas, an excel sheet summarises information on the 16 reserved tasks that have been analysed: in the architecture field, 9 reserved tasks were considered, in engineering 10 tasks, in specialised construction 18 tasks, plus 3 other tasks Table 3.4 shows the results of the calculations for the weighted index of reserves of activities (RA Index). In addition to the “score” of each country in the subsectors architecture, engineering, specialised and other construction there is also a combined index of all four subsectors aggregated together70. In the sub- tables, the index values are on a scale between 0 and 1: the higher the value the higher the degree of restrictiveness in terms of exclusivity of the reservations of activities. CZ 9 7 11 7 11 DE 10 8 13 13 13 DK 4 1 9 1 4 EL 12 12 8 7 12 ES 11 9 7 7 9 FI 1 4 1 1 2 FR 13 1 12 1 10 NL 1 4 5 1 3 PT 7 11 4 7 6 UK 1 1 1 1 1 Ranks show order of lowest reservation effect The relative position of Member States in terms of the index values is shown. It should be noted that the highest rank (=1) in each column has been given to the country which shows the least degree of exclusivity in the index. Among the findings at the country level were that there are major differences between countries in regulatory approach vis-à-vis the use of reserved activities. UK exhibits the lowest average degree of reserved activities in each sub-sector, and thus overall. Finland also occupied the least restrictive position among the 13 Member States for architecture, specialised and other construction. Conversely, Germany is ranked according to the RA Index as the most restrictive for the specialised craft occupations, other construction and for all 4 sub-sectors combined. Member States that are near the median position in many subsectors are exemplified by Italy and Spain. The low overall values of indexes for the UK is influenced by the absence of reserves of activities in architecture (along with Finland and Netherlands), engineering (along with Denmark and France and other construction (along with the aforementioned Member States plus Poland). The combined weighted index values for restrictiveness of reservation in the 13 Me...
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