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To realize its Intentions the Labour Market Agency runs programmes whlch can be divided into four main types: training, employment creation (wagę subsidies ais well as Iow interest credit facilities), apprenticeship and youth training programs, and assistance to the handicapped.

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The most centralized type is employment creation. In this area, it is the Minister and his special advisory board who direct the allocation of funds. The freąuency and intensity of the use of labour market policy Instruments vary according to the political situation. Policy measures can be amended and brought up to datę when they are no longer appropriate to the problems at hand.

On the basis of such amendraents, the Labour Market Agency then tries to plan the optimal use of Instruments by integrating long- and short-term eleraents in its programme.

Each year a new list of policy measures is worked out to take into account both current problems and the implementation of long-term goals. The programme is examined and endorsed by the Advisory Council.

These policy measure programmes are viewed as declarations of intent and provide an orientation for the allocation of budget funds for individual instruments of labour market policy. For the authorities subordinate to the Labour Market Agency, they serve as an interpretation of current problem-saving strategies.