With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to social and medical assistance, the Contracting Parties undertake: 1 to ensure that any person who is without adequate resources and who is unable to secure such resources either by his own efforts or from other sources, in particular by benefits under a social security scheme, be granted adequate assistance, and, in case of sickness, the care necessitated by his condition; 2 to ensure that persons receiving such assistance shall not, for that reason, suffer from a diminution of their political or social rights; 3 to provide that everyone may receive by appropriate public or private services such advice and personal help as may be required to prevent, to remove, or to alleviate personal or family want; 4 to apply the provisions referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this article on an equal footing with their nationals to nationals of other Contracting Parties lawfully within their territories, in accordance with their obligations under the European Convention on Social and Medical Assistance, signed at Paris on 11th December 1953. Article 14 – The right to benefit from social welfare services With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to benefit from social welfare services, the Contracting Parties undertake: 1 2 to promote or provide services which, by using methods of social work, would contribute to the welfare and development of both individuals and groups in the community, and to their adjustment to the social environment; to encourage the participation of individuals and voluntary or other organisations in the establishment and maintenance of such services. Article 15 – The right of physically or mentally disabled persons to vocational training, rehabilitation and social resettlement With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of the physically or mentally disabled to vocational training, rehabilitation and resettlement, the Contracting Parties undertake: 1 to take adequate measures for the provision of training facilities, including, where necessary, specialised institutions, public or private; 2 to take adequate measures for the placing of disabled persons in employment, such as specialised placing services, facilities for sheltered employment and measures to encourage employers to admit disabled persons to employment. Article 16 – The right of the family to social, legal and economic protection With a view to ensuring the necessary conditions for the full development of the family, which is a fundamental unit of society, the Contracting Parties undertake to promote the economic, legal and social protection of family life by such means as social and family benefits, fiscal arrangements, provision of family housing, benefits for the newly married, and other appropriate means. Article 17 – The right of mothers and children to social and economic protection With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of mothers and children to social and economic protection, the Contracting Parties will take all appropriate and necessary measures to that end, including the establishment or maintenance of appropriate institutions or services. Article 18 – The right to engage in a gainful occupation in the territory of other Contracting Parties With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to engage in a gainful occupation in the territory of any other Contracting Party, the Contracting Parties undertake: 1 to apply existing regulations in a spirit of liberality; 2 to simplify existing formalities and to reduce or abolish chancery dues and other charges payable by foreign workers or their employers; 3 to liberalise, individually or collectively, regulations governing the employment of foreign workers; and recognise: 4 the right of their nationals to leave the country to engage in a gainful occupation in the territories of the other Contracting Parties. Article 19 – The right of migrant workers and their families to protection and assistance With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right of migrant workers and their families to protection and assistance in the territory of any other Contracting Party, the Contracting Parties undertake: 1 to maintain or to satisfy themselves that there are maintained adequate and free services to assist such workers, particularly in obtaining accurate information, and to take all appropriate steps, so far as national laws and regulations permit, against misleading propaganda relating to emigration and immigration; 2 to adopt appropriate measures within their own jurisdiction to facilitate the departure, journey and reception of such workers and their families, and to provide, within their own jurisdiction, appropriate services for health, medical attention and good hygienic conditions during the journey; 3 to promote co operation, as appropriate, between social services, public and private, in emigration and immigration countries; 4 to secure for such workers lawfully within their territories, insofar as such matters are regulated by law or regulations or are subject to the control of administrative authorities, treatment not less favourable than that of their own nationals in respect of the following matters: a remuneration and other employment and working conditions; b membership of trade unions and enjoyment of the benefits of collective bargaining; c accommodation; 5 to secure for such workers lawfully within their territories treatment not less favourable than that of their own nationals with regard to employment taxes, dues or contributions payable in respect of employed persons; 6 to facilitate as far as possible the reunion of the family of a foreign worker permitted to establish himself in the territory; 7 to secure for such workers lawfully within their territories treatment not less favourable than that of their own nationals in respect of legal proceedings relating to matters referred to in this article; 8 to secure that such workers lawfully residing within their territories are not expelled unless they endanger national security or offend against public interest or morality; 9 to permit, within legal limits, the transfer of such parts of the earnings and savings of such workers as they may desire;