- improve initial and continuing vocational training in order to facilitate
vocational integration and reintegration into the labour market;
- facilitate access to vocational training and encourage mobility of
instructors and trainees and particularly young people;
- stimulate co-operation on training between educational or training
establishments and firms;
- develop exchanges of information and experience on issues
common to the training systems of the Member States.
3. The Community and the Member States shall foster co-operation
with third countries and the competent international organizations in
the sphere of vocational training.
4. The Council, acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in
Article 189c and after consulting the Economic and Social Committee,
shall adopt measures to contribute to the achievement of the
objectives referred to in this Article, excluding any harmonization of
the laws and regulations of the Member States."
37) The following shall be inserted:
"TITLE IX
Culture
ARTICLE 128
1. The Community shall contribute to the flowering of the cultures of
the Member States, while respecting their national and regional
diversity and at the same time bringing the common cultural heritage
to the fore.
2. Action by the Community shall be aimed at encouraging co-
operation between Member States and, if necessary, supporting and
supplementing their action in the following areas:
- improvement of the knowledge and dissemination of the culture and
history of the European peoples;
- conservation and safeguarding of cultural heritage of European
significance;
- non-commercial cultural exchanges;
- artistic and literary creation, including in the audiovisual sector.
3. The Community and the Member States shall foster co-operation
with third countries and the competent international organizations in
the sphere of culture, in particular the Council of Europe.
4. The Community shall take cultural aspects into account in its action
under other provisions of this Treaty.
5. In order to contribute to the achievement of the objectives referred
to in this Article, the Council:
- acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 189b
and after consulting the Committee of the Regions, shall adopt
incentive measures, excluding any harmonization of the laws and
regulations of the Member States. The Council shall act unanimously
throughout the procedures referred to in Article 189b;
- acting