On March 11^th, 2005, the European Commission adopted a Recommendation concerning the European Charter for Researchers and a Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. By this Recommendation, the European Commission has urged the Member States of the European Union to develop and implement suitable strategies and systems to ensure the development of sustainable careers for researchers.

Through the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers, the European Commission Recommendation, dated March 11^th, 2005, provided Member States, employers, funders and researchers with a series of principles and guidelines useful for undertaking, on a voluntary basis, new actions to improve and consolidate the professional prospects of researchers in the European Union and to create an open labor market for researchers in the European Research Area.

The intention of the European Commission is that the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers must make it possible to achieve the political objective of developing an attractive, open and sustainable European labor market for researchers, in which the underlying conditions enable high-quality researchers to be hired and retained in environments that are truly conducive to performance and productivity.