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This interim document provides the results of the joint activities of the Interinstitutional Terminology Group and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training in developing a standard vocational training terminology within the European Community (EC). The document presents a selection of basic vocational training concepts in six official languages from the nine Member States of the EC: Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. (The next edition will be published in nine languages and will include concepts from Greece, Portugal, and Spain.) The six sections of the document are the introduction, a table of concepts, definition sheets, references, a list of collaborators, and the English version of the definition sheets. The table of concepts includes 20 terms in vocational training in the 6 languages. The reference list includes 11 items from national sources, 8 items from EC sources, 22 monolingual specialized literature and reference books, and 14 multilingual specialized literature and reference books. (The 20 vocational training terms, in English, are general education, vocational training, continuing education, vocational education, basic education or primary education, basic training or prevocational training, initial training, continuing vocational training or adult vocational training, skill training or specialization, technical education, apprenticeship, retraining, further training or continued training or continuation training, refresher training, upgrading training, updating training, sandwich courses, adult education, and lifelong education or recurrent education.) (CML)