Traduction de «format ministre » (Français → Anglais) :

Physical Activity Guidelines adopted recently by Sports Ministers and transferred to Health Ministers, the fight against doping, a European qualifications framework for lifelong learning and a European credit system for vocational education and training, where sport is one of the first areas used as a pilot area for testing.

– having regard to the declaration of the European Ministers of Vocational Education and training, and the Commission, who met in Copenhagen on 29 and 30 November 2002, on enhanced European cooperation in vocational education and training - "The Copenhagen Declaration" - aiming to increase voluntary cooperation in vocational education and training, in order to promote mutual trust, transparency and recognition of competences and qualifications, and thereby establishing a basis for increasing mobility and facilitating access to lifelong learning,

– having regard to the first meetings of the Permanent Partnership Council (PPC) in the Foreign Ministers (27 April 2004) and Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (26 October 2004) formations, aiming at strengthening the Cooperation Council which existed until May 2004,

Subsequent to the adoption of Leonardo da Vinci II in April 1999, a number of policy initiatives have been launched with a major impact on vocational training policy and consequently on Leonardo da Vinci II : the Lisbon strategy of March 2000, which accords an important role to education and training for the achievement of its goals [4]; the communication of the Commission on 'Making a European Area of Lifelong Learning a Reality' [5], setting a new paradigm for education and training; the report of the Education Council and the European Commission on the common objectives of education and training systems [6], and the subsequent detailed work programme [7]; the Council resolution of November 2002 on enhanced European co-operation in Voc ...[+++]ational Education and Training (VET) [8] extended by the subsequent Copenhagen declaration that was adopted by 31 Ministers, the Commission and the social partners at European level; the Action Plan for the promotion of language learning and linguistic diversity [9], adopted by the Commission in July 2003 and based on the experience of the European Year of languages.

At this meeting, Ministers gave a mandate for a follow-up report on "Quality indicators of lifelong learning", which will be presented at the meeting of Education Ministers in Bratislava in June 2002.

In particular, we support the measures to increase transparency (making Council debates public when it is meeting in legislative formation), to refocus the role of the European Council on providing impetus for the Union's development, to increase efficiency by separating the current General Affairs Council (GAC) into two formations: a General Coordination Council (with the national ministers for Europe) and a Foreign Affairs Council (with the ministers for foreign affairs).