CELEX: 51989PC0612
Language: en
Date: 1990-01-22
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION RELATING TO THE ADOPTION OF A COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMME IN THE FIELD OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE EUROTECNET II

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                         COM (89) 612 final
                                          Brussels, 22 January 1990
                   Amendment to the proposal for a
                           COUNCIL DECISION
                     relating to the adoption of a
              Community Action Programme in the field of
             Vocational Training and Technological Change
                            EUROTECNET II
         (presented by the Commission pursuant to the
          third paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty)
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                       Explanatory memorandum
The Commission accepted ten amendments proposed by the European
Parliament to the text of its proposal for a decision relating to the
adoption of a Community,action programme in the field of vocational
training and technological change (EUROTECNET II).
The first amendment adds a new recital referring to the need for
measures to guarantee the principle of economic and social cohesion.
The second amendment adds the words " with the help of the social
partners'' to the article which outlines the role of the programme vis a
vis the Member States.
The third amendment specifies the "application" rather than the "use" of
innovative approaches, and indicates that co-operation between Member
States should be on the transfer of methodologies.
The fourth amendment consists of minor rewording caused by the third
amendment.
The fifth amendment aims to involve the social partners in the research
and analytical work linked to the programme.
The sixth amendment re-enforces co-operation with the social partners at
all levels of the vocational training systems.
The seventh amendment ensures that the social partners will benefit from
the dissemination process.
The eighth amendment provides for better access by women to training
with a high technology content and to occupations in which they have
been traditionally under-represented.
The ninth amendment broadens the scope for assistance from CEDEFOP.
The tenth amendment aims to provide a report on the funding and
evaluation of the interim results of the programme
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 ---pagebreak---                       Amendment to the proposal for a
                              COUNCIL DECISION
     relating to the adoption of a Community action programme in the
         field of vocational training and technological change
                           EUROTECNET II
       Original text                             Amended text
     Recital no. 8 bis (new)
                                           whereas it is necessary for
                                           specific measures to be taken
                                           to guarantee the principle of
                                           economic and social cohesion:
                     Article 1, unchanged
                     Article 2, para 1 unchanged
     Article 2, para 2
The EUROTECNET II programme is             The EUROTECNET II programme is
designed to complement and                 designed to complement and
reinforce policies introduced              reinforce policies introduced
in Member States by:                       in Member States with the help
                                           of the social partners by:
     Article 2 (a)
(a) promoting the use of innovative        (a) promoting the application
approaches by identifying within           of innovative approaches by
each Member State a number of              identifying within each Member
relevant model demonstration               State relevant model demonstr-
projects and by setting up the             ation projects and by setting
linkages required for demonstration        up the linkages required for
projects to contribute to                  demonstration projects to
innovation and co-operation within         contribute to innovation and
and between Member States;                 co-operation within and
                                           between Member States on the
                                           transfer of methodologies:
                                                                      i
 ---pagebreak---      Article 2 (b)
(b) strengthening co-ooeration            .(b) encouraging the joint
between Member States on the              development of innovative
exchange and transfer of                   approaches and the improved
methodologies, the joint                   contacts between training
development of innovative                  specialists in this field;
approaches and the improved
contacts between training
specialists in this field;
     Article 2 (e)
(e) undertaking the necessary             undertaking, with in particular
research and analytical work in            the involvement of the social
the field of new skills and                partners, the necessary research
qualifications to enable future            and analytical work in the field
provision for basic and continuing        of new skills and qualifications
training to be adapted, and                to enable future provision for
contributing to the flexibility of         basic and continuing training to
training systems through a                 be adapted, and contributing to
stimulation of work on open and            the flexibility of training
flexible learning approaches and           systems though a stimulation of
other innovative methods                   work on open and flexible
identified during the course of            learning approaches and other
the programme;                             innovative methods identified
                                          during the course of the
                                           progn
                    Article 2 (f) unchanged
                    Article 3 unchanged
                    Article 4 perm 1 unchanged
 ---pagebreak---      Article 4 (a)
(a) strengthen co-operation at all        (a) strengthen co-operation at
levels between the vocational training    all levels between the vocational
systems. This co-operation should         training systems. This co-
include public and private provision      opérât ionj_e^taMj^heAjii.tiL_the
and the participation of the social       participation of the social
partners and all sectors of the           partners, should include public
economy, to ensure the adaptation of      and private provision of all
training systems to take account of       sectors of the economy;
technological change:
                    Article 4 (b), unchanged
      Article 4 (c)
(c) stimulate the development of        (c) stimulate the development of
innovative approaches through the       innovative approaches through the
establishment of experimental or        establishment of experimental or
demonstration training actions.         demonstration training actions.
Such actions should be designed         Such actions should be designed
to contribute to the development        to contribute to the development
and improvement of the provision        and improvement of the provision
for vocational training and             for vocational training and their
should also be widely disseminated:     results should be made known to
                                        the social partners and be widely
                                        disseminated;
                    Article 4 (d) unchanged
      Article 4 (e)
(e) promote equal opportunities         (e) promote equal opportunities
for men and women, in particular        for men and women, in particular
to facilitate the retraining            to facilitate:
or re-entry into employment of          - access by women to training
women whose careers are affected        programmes with a high technolog-
by technological change or who          ical content where they have
want to take up work again with         traditionally been under-
the necessary acquisition of hew        represented:
skills and qualifications;              - the retraining or re-entry into
                                        employment of women whose careers
                                        are affected by technological
                                        change or who want to take up work
                                        again with the necessary
                                        acquisition of new skills and
                                        qualifications;
                                                                            r
 ---pagebreak---                     Article 4 (f) and final para unchanged
                    Articles 5 and 6 unchanged
                    Article 7 1st para unchanged
      Article 7 para 2
The Commission shall draw as            The Commission shall draw upon the
appropriate upon the assistance         assistance of the European Centre
of the European Centre for the          for the Development of Vocational
Development of Vocational               Training (CEDEFOP) in the
Training (CEDEFOP) in the               implementation of this programme.
implementation of this programme.
                    Article 8 unchanged
     Article 9 paras 1 and 2
The Commission shall submit during      The Commission shall submit during
1992an interim report to the Council    the first half of 1992 an interim
and to the European Parliament on       report to the Council and to the
the implementation of EUROTECNET II     European Parliament on the
                                        implementation and arrangement for
                                        funding of EUROTECNET II and a
                                        report evaluating its results
                                        having regard to the objectives
                                        defined in Article 2.
The Commission shall by 30 June 1995    The Commission shall by 30 June
submit to the Council and the European  1995 submit to the Council and the
Parliament a final report on the        European Parliament a final report
experience and results of EUROTECNET    on the experience and results of
II having regard to the objectives      EUROTECNET II having regard to the
set out and defined in Article 2,       objectives set out and defined in
including an evaluation of its          Article 2.
operation.
                   Article 9 para 3 unchanged
                   Article 10 unchanged
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