97. Emphasises that enabling young people to spend a period of education or training abroad is essential for the acquisition of new skills, including language skills, and hence increases their opportunities for integration into the labour market; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s intention to develop a ‘Youth on the move’ card which will help all young people to move to another Member State to study, as well as the creation of European student mobility loans to give more young Europeans, in particular the most disadvantaged among them, the opportunity to experience a period of study, training or job placement in another country;

5. Emphasises that enabling young people to spend a period of education or training abroad is essential for the acquisition of new skills, including language skills, and hence increases their opportunities for integration into the labour market; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s intention to develop a ‘Youth on the move’ card which will help all young people to move to another Member State to study, as well as the creation of European student mobility loans to give more young Europeans, in particular the most disadvantaged among them, the opportunity to experience a period of study, training or job placement in another country;

97. Emphasises that enabling young people to spend a period of education or training abroad is essential for the acquisition of new skills, including language skills, and hence increases their opportunities for integration into the labour market; welcomes, therefore, the Commission's intention to develop a ‘Youth on the move’ card which will help all young people to move to another Member State to study, as well as the creation of European student mobility loans to give more young Europeans, in particular the most disadvantaged among them, the opportunity to experience a period of study, training or job placement in another country;

It is recalled that when it endorsed the Action Plan on Skills and Mobility, the Barcelona European Council decided to create a European Health Card to replace, by a single personalised card, all the forms currently used for health treatment in another Member State while on a temporary stay.

The European health insurance card (hereinafter referred to as the "European card") shall progressively replace the forms provided for by Regulations (EEC) No 1408/71 and (EEC) No 574/72 giving entitlement to reimbursement of health care costs during a temporary stay in a Member State other than the competent State or the State of residence.

With effect from 1 June 2004, the European health insurance card (hereinafter referred to as the "European card") shall replace forms E 111 and E 111 B referred to in Decision No 187 for the purposes of entitlement to reimbursement of the cost of care provided during a temporary stay in a Member State other than the competent State or the State of residence.