Article 4 School Teachers' Pay and Conditions

In paragraph 1.2 at the appropriate place in alphabetical order there shall be inserted the following definitions—

• ““EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992^f1 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993^f2;”;

• ““European Economic Area” means the European Community and subject to the conditions laid down in the EEA Agreement the area comprising the Republic of Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway and the Principality of Leichtenstein;”;

• ““primary specialist” means a teacher in a school providing primary education who is employed to teach one or more shortage subjects to classes or groups other than his own;”;

• ““returners' course” means a training course designed to help qualified teachers refresh their skills before returning to teaching;”; and

• ““shortage subject” means mathematics, science, any modern language, Welsh, design and technology, information and communications technology or English (including drama);”.