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Thank you very much, Mr President. I would like to respond to several points. Of course I should begin by expressing my thanks for the support given to the concept and to the process itself. EUROPASS is a good initiative and I am convinced that it will bear fruit.
Our actual approach has a deadline of next year but as early as tomorrow morning I am travelling to Maastricht, which is hosting a large conference of ministers of education and vocational training. This will be followed by a conference with our economic and social partners, the aim of which is to promote still further the Copenhagen process, which is a constituent part of the Lisbon Strategy. In January, under the Luxembourg Presidency, we want to launch a campaign to apply EUROPASS in the individual Member States. The current network of so-called experts and consultants for EUROPASS correspondents will be changed to a network of national centres for EUROPASS. Our agencies in the various countries will be required to prepare for the transition to national EUROPASS centres. I believe that the resources which the Commission has earmarked for the years 2005 and 2006, although modest, have been directed precisely towards support for the concept of EUROPASS. The sum of EUR 2 million per annum will not only help us to visualise this possibility but will increase its effect in that it will start to be used as a credible document for the transparency of qualifications within the European Union. As Mr Beazley said, the single market does indeed demand much greater opportunities for the movement of labour and also for the movement of students, those people who are in the process of gaining qualifications. I am sure that this further step taken towards the recognition of qualifications other than the regulated ones should not take as long as some of the processes did in the past in building up compatibility in the single market area. I would also like to add to what Mrs Prets said, namely that support for intercultural dialogue will increase and that anyone who can find their feet in a broader cultural environment and who masters the language and culture of a particular country will have the same comparative advantage. The enlarged European Union needs all of this to become a reality. I think I have said enough. I would like to thank you once more for allowing me the opportunity to participate in this discussion and I would like to wish you and all of us every success. Thank you very much
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