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"Mr President, one year ago the European Commission adopted a proposal on the rationalisation of European instruments for the recognition of transparency of qualifications and competences. Europass is this initiative. It is a step towards a European learning area, as my predecessor said during the first reading. Europass will help people make their qualifications and competences clearly and easily understood throughout Europe. It will thus make it easier for citizens to find a job or move more easily from one country to another for studies or work.
The proposal brings together, in a coordinated portfolio called Europass, five existing transparency documents. These are the Europass-Curriculum Vitae, which will highlight personal competences; the Europass-Language Portfolio, which provides an accurate description of linguistic skills; Europass-Mobility, which records all mobility experiences for learning purposes and replaces existing Europass training while giving it wider scope; the Europass-Diploma Supplement; and lastly the Europass-Certificate Supplement. These last documents clarify respectively competences behind a higher education diploma and a vocational training certificate.
Europass is an open framework which in future could include other instruments, for instance to target specific competences such as computer-related skills. I am pleased to know that this essential feature was endorsed and enriched by Parliament, which stressed its importance, as well as by the Council, which defined a clear procedure to put it into practice. This illustrates how the proposal, without having been substantially changed, has been improved through the exchange of views between institutions, based on the widespread consensus on both its purpose and content.
I wish to stress the remarkable work achieved first by Mrs Zissener and now by Mrs Novak, in close contact with the Commission and the Council. This work has allowed us to reach this final stage.
The common position adopted by the Council responds to the concerns expressed by both legislative bodies, integrating the amendments proposed by Parliament with only two minor changes that leave their substance unchanged. As you know, the Commission accepts this common position. I am therefore pleased that Mrs Novak's report proposes accepting this common position, which would allow its entry into force on 1 January 2005.
I intend to go further, proposing to Member States and social partners an appropriate instrument to facilitate the transparency of qualifications. We hope the European Parliament will support the Commission in its efforts.
Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to the European Parliament, in particular the Committee on Culture and Education, for its efforts to speed up the process especially at this second reading phase. I also express my gratitude to both the Irish and Netherlands presidencies of the Council for all their work. Europass is a direct service to citizens."@en1
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