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Mr President, Commissioner Figel, ladies and gentlemen.
The Commission and the Member States will ensure that both at Community level and at a national level appropriate actions are taken to introduce Europass and to keep citizens, education and training providers, social partners and enterprises informed about it. The Commission will also report regularly to Parliament and the Council as to the implementation of such actions.
The first report and evaluation will be three years after the document comes into effect. The report period thereafter will be every four years. Given that education is the basis of the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy, Europass documents will greatly improve the mobility of European citizens in the field of education and employment and will allow closer cooperation between the peoples of Europe.
The intention behind the introduction of Europass is the formation of a single framework of European Union documents to achieve greater transparency of qualifications and competences of citizens. It would also be a contribution to the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy and at the same time it would help to improve the quality of education in Europe.
The Europass documents are: the Europass curriculum vitae, the Europass mobility pass, which records periods of education abroad, the Europass diploma supplement, which contains information about the holder's achievements at a university level, the Europass language pass, which shows language knowledge, and the Europass certificate supplement, which shows the qualifications and competence defined by a vocational training certificate.
Citizens are free to use individual Europass documents or the entire dossier of documents. In future years it will be possible to add new documents, particularly in the field of information technology.
The European Parliament gave its opinion on the legislative proposal at first reading under the codecision procedure on 21 April 2004 and 14 amendments were tabled, almost all of which were taken up. The European Council reached a political agreement on the draft at its meeting on 27 and 28 May.
After the draft document had been discussed in the Committee on Culture and Education it was unanimously decided (with one abstention) to accept Europass with immediate effect at the plenary session of the European Parliament.
As the rapporteur, I support the Europass proposal and I am in favour of its rapid entry into force. Assuring that the advantages and benefits of the use of this document is in the interests of the citizens of the European Union, as well as the Commission and the Netherlands Presidency. The proposed date of entry into force is 1 January 2005. The early introduction of the proposed Europass will also enable the early establishment of all the procedures for its realisation.
According to the proposal, each Member State is responsible for implementation at a national level. To that end each Member State will establish a national Europass Centre, responsible for coordinating activities in this area. A European network of national Europass Centres will also be established. Their activities will be coordinated by the Commission.
It will be the task of national Europass Centres to coordinate, in cooperation with the appropriate state bodies, activities related to the availability and issue of Europass documents, to establish and manage a national information system, to encourage the use of Europass, to ensure, in cooperation with the appropriate state bodies, that relevant guidelines and information about Europass are available to every citizen, to provide information about possibilities for study in Europe and about the structure of educational and training systems, to manage all activities connected to this at a national level with the financial support of the Community, and to participate in the European network of National Centres. The National Centre functions as an executive body at the national level."@en1
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