Article 10 - The right to vocational training

With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to vocational training, the Parties undertake:

1 to provide or promote, as necessary, the technical and vocational training of all persons, including the handicapped, in consultation with employers' and workers' organisations, and to grant facilities for access to higher technical and university education, based solely on individual aptitude;

2 to provide or promote a system of apprenticeship and other systematic arrangements for training young boys and girls in their various employments;

3 to provide or promote, as necessary:

a adequate and readily available training facilities for adult workers;

b special facilities for the retraining of adult workers needed as a result of technological development or new trends in employment;

4 to provide or promote, as necessary, special measures for the retraining and reintegration of the long-term unemployed;

5 to encourage the full utilisation of the facilities provided by appropriate measures such as:

a reducing or abolishing any fees or charges;

b granting financial assistance in appropriate cases;

c including in the normal working hours time spent on supplementary training taken by the worker, at the request of his employer, during employment;

d ensuring, through adequate supervision, in consultation with the employers' and workers' organisations, the efficiency of apprenticeship and other training arrangements for young workers, and the adequate protection of young workers generally.

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	European Social Charter (Revised) (Strasbourg, 3.V.1996)