In any event, proceeding on the assumption that citizens of the EU read the OJ in their mother tongue and that that language is one of the official languages, a potential candidate whose mother tongue was not one of the three languages of full publication of the notice would have had to obtain the OJ in one of those languages and to read it in that language before deciding to make an application.

If the language chosen, in accordance with paragraph 5, for the notice of opposition or the application for revocation or invalidity is neither the language of the application for a trade mark nor the second language indicated when the application was filed, the opposing party or the party seeking revocation or invalidity shall be required to produce, at his own expense, a translation of his application either into the language of the application for a trade mark, provided that it is a language of the Office, or into the second language indicated when the application was filed.

The Commission: will use EU programmes to support teaching of more languages through lifelong learning, teacher and student mobility, language teacher training, school partnerships, and research and development of innovative methods adapted to different target groups. will draw up an inventory of best practice in language learning and teaching in the field of multilingualism and make it available to the Member States The Member States are invited to: provide genuine opportunities for all to master the national language(s) and two other languages make a wider range of languages available to learners to allow individual choice and match lo ...[+++]cal needs in the languages that can be learned enhance the training of all teachers and others involved in language teaching promote mobility among language teachers to enhance their language and intercultural skills |

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 accordanc ...[+++]e 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 population 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 ...

We might debate how we're supposed to deal with the feminization of poverty, but there is a feminization of poverty.

Representation of women on top management teams averaged 20.3 per cent in the top-quartile companies and less than 2 per cent in the bottom- quartile companies.