Hrvoje Butković proposed partnership with member states on growth and jobs and introduced a Community Lisbon Programme(CLP) that outlines actions to be taken at the EU level under three key policy areas: making Europe a more attractive place to invest and work; knowledge innovation for growth; and creating more and better jobs. On the level of the member states National Reform Programmes (NRPs) have been introduced as a major reporting tool on economic and employment measures for the achievement of the Lisbon Strategy goals by the member states. Furthermore, the spring Council in 2005 decided on a new policy-making instrument for the development and implementation of the revised Lisbon Strategy involving the adoption by the Council of Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs(IGs). These IGs become the basis for member states to produce their NRPs. Sapir Report The Sapir Report“An Agenda for a Growing Europe- Making the EU Economic System Deliver”, is a document drawn up in 2003 by a group of independent experts under the chairmanship of André Sapir. The Sapir Report examines all facets of the EU economic system: homogenous market and related microeconomic policies as well as macroeconomic policy(monetary union and EU budget). The report has the status of an agenda-setter. It proposed a six-point agenda with a view to achieving the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy and making enlargement a success: to make a single market more dynamic; to boost investment in knowledge; to improve the macroeconomic policy framework; to redesign policies for convergence and restructuring; to achieve effectiveness in decision-taking and regulation; and to refocus the EU budget. Stability and Growth Pact The Stability and Growth Pact is an agreement by European Union member states related to the conduct of fiscal policy. The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) pertains to the third stage of Economic and Monetary Union(EMU), which began on 1 January 1999. It strengthened the EC Treaty provisions on fiscal discipline in the EMU foreseen by the Treaty art. 99 and 104 with the intention to ensure that the member states maintain budgetary discipline after the single currency has been introduced. In formal terms, the pact consists of a European Council resolution(adopted at Amsterdam on 17 June 1997) and two Council regulations of 7 July 1997 laying down detailed technical arrangements (one on the surveillance of budgetary positions and the coordination of economic policies and the other on implementing the excessive deficit 182