{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1963-266/division-2",
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  "legislation": "eudn/1963/266",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 2 April 1963 laying down general principles for implementing a common vocational training policy (63/266/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-1963-266",
  "path": "division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Second principle",
  "text": "The common vocational training policy shall have the following fundamental objectives:\n(a) To bring about conditions that will guarantee adequate vocational training for all;\n(b) To organise in due course suitable training facilities to supply the labour forces required in the different sectors of economic activity;\n(c) To broaden vocational training on the basis of a general education, to an extent sufficient to encourage the harmonious development of the personality and to meet requirements arising from technical progress, new methods of production and social and economic developments;\n(d) To enable every person to acquire the technical knowledge and skill necessary to pursue a given occupation and to reach the highest possible level of training, whilst encouraging, particularly as regards young persons, intellectual and physical advancement, civic education and physical development;\n(e) To avoid any harmful interruption either between completion of general education and commencement of vocational training or during the latter;\n(f) To promote basic and advanced vocational training and, where appropriate, retraining, suitable for the various stages of working life;\n(g) To offer to every person, according to his inclinations and capabilities, working knowledge and experience, and by means of permanent facilities for vocational advancement, the opportunity to gain promotion or to receive instruction for a new and higher level of activity;\n(h) To relate closely the different forms of vocational training to the various sectors of the economy so that, on the one hand, vocational training best meets both the needs of the economy and the interests of the trainees and, on the other hand, problems presented by vocational training receive the attention which they deserve in business and professional circles everywhere.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/1963/266/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:22.462365+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}