Examples of performance remuneration systems used within the EEC/EU are piece-wage and tariff systems, multi-factor remuneration, contract remuneration, productivity bonus systems, profit sharing and shareholdings. The cafeteria agreement offers individual employees the possibility of choosing from various packages of working conditions or of putting together their own packages out of a set of elements that are considered equivalent. The merit pay system is being applied mostly in the UK, France and Italy, for the major part in the private services sector but also in industrial enterprises.