Recital 14 of the Directive gives some indication of what might constitute a threat to public policy and public security, but otherwise it is left to Member States to set their standards in line with the general principle of proportionality and the horizontal Article 17 obliging them to take account of the nature and solidity of the persons’ relationship and duration of residence, weighing it against the severity and type of offence against public policy or security.

Since the measures necessary for implementing this Directive are measures of a general scope within the meaning of Article 2 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission(7), such measures should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure provided for in Article 5 of that Decision.

There is positive interaction between operations financed under Objective 4 and LEONARDO, the European Community's action programme on the implementation of a vocational training policy, and the Community's ADAPT initiative. 4. The salient features of the programming documents The measures envisaged with a view to implementing Objective 4 are set against four priorities which are common to the various programming documents: - anticipation of labour market trends and vocational qualification requirements; - vocational training and retraining, guidance and ...[+++] counselling; - improvement and development of appropriate training systems - technical assistance or horizontal measures relating to the CSF as a whole.

Total Community aid for the six years 1994-1999 is 20.7 million ECU.

Priority 5 Measures to support the training and integration structures, with horizontal applicability.

In this connection, the Council has decided on a comprehensive programme incorporating the following objectives: Internally: 1. keep a close watch on the textile and clothing industry's adjustment problems in the regions most seriously affected by the crisis in the textile industry and/or the opening-up of the Community market to third countries; 2. strengthen the economic recovery of those regions, in particular by promoting their diversification, inter alia through use in suitable cases of the RETEX initiative; 3. make it easier for workers and managers to adapt to industrial change and improve the know-how of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their economic and technical environment by means of broader action co-financed by ...[+++] the Structural Funds, while complying with the powers that the Regulations on the Structural Funds confer on the Member States.