Hrvoje Butković Integrated Guidelines(IGs) The Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs(IGs) are the central policy­making instrument for the development and implementation of the revised Lisbon Strategy. In 2005, following the Commission's adoption of the IGs they were later endorsed by the European Council and formally adopted by the Council after that. The IGs constituting the beginning of a new three-year governance cycle(the first one was 2005-2008), brought together the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines(BEPGs, Treaty art. 99) and the Employment Guidelines(EGs; Treaty art. 128). They simplified implementation of the Lisbon Strategy by integrating different policy guidelines, targets and reporting processes. The IGs foresee a three-year period of reforms(the period is to be revised annually). They provide the basic structure for presentation of the National Reform Programmes(NRPs), but they also leave sufficient space for member states to set national priorities according to their specific situations. The IGs deal with macroeconomic, microeconomic and employment issues and they are mainly based on the priority action areas as identified in the Kok Report. Like the earlier BEPGs and EGs, the IGs represent the soft law, i.e. they are not legally binding. Therefore peer pressure and financial incentives represent their main enforcement instruments. At the end of the current three-year governance cycle the IGs will be renewed. Kok Report The Kok Report is a short name for a document“Facing the Challenge- The Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Employment” drawn up between April and November 2004 under the chairmanship of the former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok. The report was presented to the European Commission and it suggested how to give new impetus to the Lisbon Process. Wim Kok was head of the review group established by the European Commission which consisted of 12 individuals representing different stakeholder groups. The remit of the report was to identify measures which together form a consistent strategy for the European economies to achieve the Lisbon objectives and targets. The report showed that the indicators used in the OMC had caused the Lisbon Strategy objectives to become muddled and that the results achieved had been unconvincing. The scenario for more growth and jobs was envisaged through urgent action across five policy areas: the knowledge society, the internal market, the business climate, the labour market and environmental sustainability. It was concluded that individual member states have made progress in one or more of these policy priority areas, but none has succeeded 178