Training, education: establishment of a European Year of Lifelong Learning, 1996

The rapporteur highlighted two compromise amendments that sought to involve the social partners in planning. The proposal aimed to train the teachers responsible for this training. According to Mrs HEINISCH, minimum standards were required for the recognition of lifelong learning. Commissioner CRESSON stated that some of the amendments could not be taken over for reasons of subsidiarity. However, the Commission could take over the other amendments that sought to emphasise the involvement of the social partners in the education and training programmes. The Commission would ensure, in particular, that priority was given to actions concerning the disadvantaged.