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

The committee unanimously adopted the proposals by Mrs HEINISCH on the conclusion of the agreement reached during the EP/Council/Commission trilogue concerning the European year of education. The Council agreed, in particular, to provide the social partners with the opportunity of contributing to the promotion of continuing training by means of collective agreements, whilst the Commission agreed to promote the mutual recognition of qualifications and to give special consideration to the problems of exclusion in implementing the European year of education. �