10. Firmly believes that each Member State should be required to draw up a register of certified translators and one of certified interpreters, which should allow access to the registers of the other Member States and that, furthermore, each Member State should set up a national accreditation body responsible for administering a scheme providing for the accreditation, renewable registration and in-service training of specialist legal translators and interpreters, in cooperation with the Ministries of Justice and the Interior; these registers would be amalgamated in due course into an EU-wide register with common minimum standards; cons ...[+++]iders moreover that suitable technical training courses should be provided for specialist interpreters and translators to ensure that they understand the legal procedures and terminology of the systems within which they are working, and that all professional practitioners involved in criminal procedures, including police, lawyers, prosecutors and judges, should receive training in working with and through an interpreter;

11. Firmly believes that each Member State should be required to draw up a register of certified translators and one of certified interpreters and that it should have access to the registers of the other Member States and that, furthermore, each Member State should set up a national accreditation body responsible for administering a scheme providing for the accreditation, renewable registration and in-service training of specialist legal translators and interpreters, with these registers being amalgamated in due course into an EU-wide Register with minimum common standards; considers moreover that suitable technical training courses should be provided for specialist interpreters and translators to ensure that they understand the legal proc ...[+++]edures and terminology of the systems within which they are working, and that all professional practitioners involved in criminal procedures, including police, lawyers, prosecutors and judges, should receive training in working with and through an interpreter;

According to recent figures published in the Greek press, the vast majority (35%) of Community education and training programmes in Greece are carried out by only 4% of the vocational training centres certified by the competent ministry to carry out measures funded by the European Social Fund. There is therefore concern that underutilisation of the other vocational training centres will affect the quality of the services they provide.

According to recent figures published in the Greek press, the vast majority (35%) of Community education and training programmes in Greece are carried out by only 4% of the vocational training centres certified by the competent ministry to carry out measures funded by the European Social Fund. There is therefore concern that underutilisation of the other vocational training centres will affect the quality of the services they provide.

* Austria: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, Luxembourg: Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training and Sport.

France designated a single body at national level (the national agency for "Socrates" and "Leonardo da Vinci"), but set up a network of regional contact points: two bodies per region, each dealing with vocational education and training provision within the remit, on the one hand, of the ministries for education and agriculture, on the other of the labour ministry.