Job qualifications should be comparable EU wide by 2012

Job qualifications earned in any EU Member State should be comparable throughout the EU by 2012, but Member States should be given a year longer than planned to implement the proposed European Qualification Framework, and it should be accompanied by a system of vocational training credits, said the Employment Committee on Thursday. The EQF aims to ease cross-border mobility for workers and learners, and help meet labour market needs, by using a common language to describe qualifications.