CELEX: 51989PC0194(02)
Language: en
Date: 1989-05-23
Title: AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AS PART OF THE LINGUA PROGRAMME

18. 7. 89                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No C 181/13
                      ORIGINAL PROPOSAL                                                          AMENDED PROPOSAL
Article 5 (i)
(i) encourage young people to acquire (i) a working                         (i) promote the acquisition by young people of           a
     knowledge of two Community languages in addition                           working knowledge of two foreign languages          in
     to their mother tongue/s as a component of their                           addition to their mother tongue/s as a component    of
     initial vocational education and training and in their                     their initial vocational education and training and in
     preparation for working life;                                              their preparation for working life;
                                       A r t i c l e 5 i n d e n t s (ii) to (v) U n c h a n g e d
                                                    A r t i c l e 7 to 12 U n c h a n g e d
                                                   A c t i o n s I and II U n c h a n g e d
                                       Actions III, points A and B U n c h a n g e d
Action III, point C.l
C.l. In collaboration with representatives of the relevant                  C.l. In collaboration with representatives of the relevant
      profession or economic sector, support will be given                       profession or economic sector, support will be given
      to institutions responsible for curriculum devel-                          to institutions responsible for curriculum devel-
      opment and certification in Member States, for the                         opment and certification in Member States, for the
      development of foreign language qualifications                             development of foreign language qualifications
      specific to that profession or sector, and of the                          specific to that profession or sector, and of the
      courses and materials leading to those qualifi-                            courses and materials leading to those qualifi-
      cations.                                                                   cations, as well as foreign language teaching for
                                                                                 trainers in vocational training.
               Proposed Council Decision for the promotion of the teaching and learning of foreign languages
                             in the European Communities as part of the Lingua programme (')
                                                                COM(89) 194 final
               (Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 149 (3) of the EEC Treaty on 26 May 1989)
                                                                   (89/C 181/12)
               (•) OJ No C 51, 28. 2. 1989, p. 13.
                      ORIGINAL PROPOSAL                                                           AMENDED PROPOSAL
                                                    Title, citations, Unchanged
                                                    R e c i t a l s 1 to 7 U n c h a n g e d
 New recital 8                                                              Whereas the achievement of the internal market and of a
                                                                            People's Europe must also take full account of the
                                                                            importance of preserving the rich cultural and linguistic
                                                                            diversity of the Community;
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                      ORIGINAL PROPOSAL                                                                  AMENDED PROPOSAL
                                                     R e c i t a l s 9 to 13 U n c h a n g e d
                                                            Article 1 Unchanged
Article 2
Foreign language training in the context of this Decision                          Foreign language training in the context of this Decision
shall refer only to training in the official languages of the                      shall refer to training in the Danish, Dutch, English,
Community.                                                                         French, German, Greek, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Luxem-
                                                                                   bourgish, Portuguese and Spanish languages, when taught
                                                                                   as foreign languages.
                                        A r t i c l e 3, i n t r o d u c t i o n 3 (a) U n c h a n g e d
Article 3 (b)
(b) to ensure effective measures towards the provision,                            (b) to ensure effective measures towards the provision,
     for the benefit of enterprises in the European                                     for the benefit of the present and future workforce in
     Community, of the necessary levels of foreign                                      the European Community, of the necessary levels of
     language expertise in the present and future                                       foreign language expertise in order to enable them to
     workforce in order to enable those enterprises to                                  take full advantage of the internal market. These
     take full advantage of the internal market;                                        measures, which are of benefit to enterprises, should
                                                                                        be geared in particular to the requirements of SMU
                                                                                        and to the needs of the peripheral and less-developed
                                                                                        regions in the Community.
                                                    A r t i c l e 3 (i), (ii) U n c h a n g e d
                                                            Article 4 Unchanged
                                              A r t i c l e 5, i n t r o d u c t i o n   Unchanged
Article 5 (i)
(i) that all young people shall be encouraged to study at                          (i) that all young people shall be encouraged to learn
     least one foreign language during the period of                                    one foreign language during the initial period of their
     full-time compulsory education, with a view to                                     education so as to acquire adequate communication
     acquiring the necessary skills of communication, and                               skills and that they be encouraged before the end of
     that measures will be promoted to provide young                                    their secondary education to acquire a working
     people who so wish with the opportunity to acquire                                 knowledge of two foreign languages in addition to
     a working knowledge of two Community languages                                     their mother tongue;
     in addition to their mother tongue/s during this
     period;
                                       A r t i c l e 5, i n d e n t s (ii) to (iv) U n c h a n g e d
                                                     A r t i c l e s 6 to 11 U n c h a n g e d
                                                             Action I Unchanged
                                   A c t i o n I I , p o i n t s 1, 2, 3 (a) to (c) U n c h a n g e d
Action II, point 3 (d)
(d) the provision for the teaching of extra-Community                              (d) the provision for the teaching of extra-Community
     languages, particularly in the light of ( the                                      languages, particularly in the light of the
     Community's developing trading and cultural                                        Community's developing trading and cultural
     relations with the rest of the world.                                              relations with the rest of the world and the need for
                                                                                        cultural and linguistic variety in the Community.