Vocational training policy: Community action programme 1995-1999, LEONARDO DA VINCI

The European Parliament changed the Council's common position with 32 amendments seeking mainly to: - develop the promotion of equivalence and the mutual recognition of diplomas between Member States; - promote real equality as regards access to training by disadvantaged persons and between men and women; - make the common framework of objectives a reference framework for Member States' policies; - make the Commission responsible for supporting the European network of operational structures and agencies set up within the framework of the Comett, Eurotecnet, Force, Petra and Iris programmes; - delete all estimates of the funds needed to implement the programme; - set up an advisory committee of representatives of the Member States and representatives of the social partners; - make the Commission responsible for overall coherence with other Community programmes and initiatives for young people and disadvantaged groups and in relation to grants from the Structural Funds.�