No L 87/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 20. 4. 95 DECISION No 819/95/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 March 1995 THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles 126 and 127 thereof, ' ‘ Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions (%), Acting in accordance with the procedure referred to. in Article 189b of the Treaty (%), Whereas Article 3p of the Treaty stipulates that Community action should include a contribution to education and training of quality; whereas the Treaty - includes a Chapter 3, Title VIII, devoted specifically to education, vocational training and youth; Whereas pursuant to Article 126 (1) of the Treaty, the Community is to contribute to the development of quality education by encouraging cooperation between Member States and, if necessary, by supporting and supplementing their action, while fully respecting the responsibility of the Member States for the content of teaching and the organization of education systems and their cultural and linguistic diversity; Whereas in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity referred to in Article 3b of the Treaty, the Community is to take action only if and in so far as the objectives of the Socrates action programme cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can, therefore, by reason of the scale or effects of the said programme, be .better achieved by the Community; ' Whereas pursuant to Article 127 (1) of the Treaty, the Community is to implement a vocational training policy which supports and supplements the action of the (1) OJ No C 66, 3. 3. 1994, p. 3, and O] No C 164, 16. 6. 1994, p. 8. (?) OJ No C 195, 18. 7. 1994, p. 29. (3) O] No C 217, 6. 8. 1994, p. 18. (*) Opinion of the European Parliament of 22 April 1994 (O] No C 128, 9. 5. 1994, p. 479), Council common position of 18 July 1994 (O] No C 244, 31. 8. 1994, p. 51) and decision of the European Parliament of 26 October 1994 (O] No C 323, 21. 11. 1994, p. 50). Joint text of the Conciliation Committee of 31 January 1995. establishing the Community action programme ‘Socrates’ Member States, while fully respecting the responsibility of the Member States for the content and organization of vocational training; Whereas the Council, by its Decision 87/327/EEC (%), adopted the Erasmus programme to promote the mobility of university students and, by its Decision 89/489/EEC (%) adopted the Lingua programme to promote foreign language competence in the Community; Whereas the Council, by its Decision 94/819/EC (7), adopted a Decision establishing an action programme for the implementation of a European Community vocational - training policy (Leonardo da Vinci); whereas a programme should also be drawn up for education; whereas the two programmes are complementary; Whereas a part of the measures provided for in this Decision concern vocational training and therefore go beyond general education (including higher education) as covered by Article 126; whereas reference should also therefore be made to Article 127 of the Treaty for the said measures, without thereby implying that the Socrates programme can be considered as one of the measures for implementing vocational training policy within the meaning of Article 127; Whereas the reports evaluating the Erasmus and Lingua programmes, the conclusions of which are set out in the Commission report on the results and achievements of these programmes, point out that cooperation in the field of education significantly enhances the value of measures taken by Member States, and whereas Community action in this field is therefore of major importance; Whereas the Commission memorandum on higher education and the summary report of discussions within the Member States, together with the FEuropean Parliament resolution on this subject (%), place particular emphasis on the need for a Community strategy to promote the European dimension in courses followed by all students, whether in their own country or abroad, and {(°) O] No L 166, 25. 6. 1987, p. 20. Decision as amended by Decision 89/663/EEC (O] No L 395, 30. 12. 1989, p. 23). (®) O No L 239, 16. 8. 1989, p. 24. (7) O] No L 340, 29. 12. 1984, p. 8. (8) OJ No C 255, 20. 9. 1993, p. 161.