The Agency should apply the relevant Community legislation concerning public access to documents as set out in Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents , the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data as set out in Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal ...[+++] data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data , and concerning languages as set out in Regulation No 1 of 15 April 1958 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community and Regulation (EC) No 2965/94 of 28 November 1994 setting up a Translation Centre for bodies of the European Union

the development of the Indicator should fully respect the responsibility of Member States for the organisation of their education systems and should not impose undue administrative or financial burdens on the organisation and institutions concerned; the method for data-gathering should take account of previous work in the field at international, Union and Member State level, and be devised and implemented in a cost-effective manner; the European Indicator of Language Competence shall be put in place as soon as possible, in accordance with the following terms of reference: data should be gathered on competences in first and second foreign languages: via a common suite of tests administered to a representative sample of the target populatio ...[+++]n in each Member State; from a representative sample of pupils in education and training at the end of ISCED level 2; where a second foreign language is not taught before the end of ISCED 2, Member States may, in the first round of data-gathering, choose to gather data for the second foreign language from pupils at the level of ISCED 3; for those languages for which there exists a suitable representative sample of learners in a given Member State; test scores should be based on the scales of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ; because respect for linguistic diversity is a core value of the European Union, the Indicator should be based upon data concerning the knowledge of all the official languages of the European Union taught as foreign languages in the Union; but for practical reasons it would be advisable, in the first round of data-gathering, for tests to be made available in those official languages of the European Union that are most widely taught in the Member States, to the extent that they provide a sufficiently large sample of testees ; Member States shall themselves determine which of those official languages are to be tested; the Indicator should assess competence in the four productive a ...

measures are needed to remedy the current absence of reliable comparative data on the outcomes of foreign language teaching and learning; such measures must be based upon the gathering of data through objective tests of language skills, developed and administered in such a way as to ensure the reliability, accuracy and validity of those data; such data have the potential to help identify and share good practice in language education policies and language teaching methods through an enhanced exchange of information and experience; Member States need a clearer picture of the practical and financial arrangements they will each need to ma ...[+++]ke in order to implement the European Indicator of Language Competence;

Action Line 1: Supporting the construction of an infrastructure for European language resources Language resources such as dictionaries, terminological databanks, grammar books, collections of texts and voice recordings are an essential raw material for linguistic research, the development of language-processing tools integrated into data processing systems and for improving translation services.

We would like to make the following recommendations: that the 2014 health accord include a clause recognizing Canada’s linguistic duality and the commitment of all governments to take linguistic duality into account when planning and funding the health of the population and the available health services; that the federal government continue to support our organization during the upcoming period of financial support, 2013-2018, and continue to support the consortium in order to improve upon the fruits of our labour over the last 10 years and take advantage of including the linguistic variable in data collection as we have recommended; a ...[+++]nd that the governments undertake to systematically compile data on the language spoken by patients and health professionals in order to be able to measure the results of efforts to improve access to services and the health of francophones, and to more effectively plan for the future.

PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH REGARD TO DATA PROCESSING The Council noted that there was agreement, with the United Kingdom delegation abstaining, a scrutiny reservation by Sweden and a linguistic reservation by Finland, on the common position on the Directive on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.