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EUROPE 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Subject of the Policy document

EUROPE 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Reference data

Adopted/Released by European Commission

Year of adoption 2010

Reference number COM(2010) 2020 final

Available at http:// http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/documents/related-document-type/index_en.htm

Available in English at http:// http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2010:2020:FIN:EN:PDF

1. Additional narrative description of the reference to Lifelong Guidance

While the strategy makes no explicit reference to lifelong guidance, the paper and its flagship initiatives (Youth on the Move, The Agenda for New Skills and Jobs, Innovation Union, and A European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion) emphasise the active role of citizens' acquisition of lifelong career management skills.

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ELGPN, legislation, policy, access, adult education, ageing population, career guidance, co-operation, communication, drop-out, early childhood education, higher education, informal learning, non-formal learning, schools, strategy, tertiary education, VET, vocational education, mobility, modernisation, European union, career management skills, co-operation and co-ordination, quality assurance and evidence-base, employment, social inclusion

Anti-Discrimination Act

Subject of the Policy document

Anti-Discrimination Act

Reference data

Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament

Year of adoption 2008

Reference number Official Gazette 85/08

Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_07_85_2728.html

Available in English at http://

1. Additional narrative description of the reference to Lifelong Guidance

Article 8.
This Act shall apply to the conduct of all state bodies, bodies of local and regional self-government units, legal persons vested with public authority, and to the conduct of all legal and natural persons, especially in the following areas:
1. work and working conditions; access to self-employment and occupation, including selection criteria, recruiting and promotion conditions; access to all types of vocational guidance, vocational training, professional improvement and retraining;
2. education, science and sports;
3. social security, including social welfare, pension and health insurance and unemployment insurance;
4. health protection;
5. judiciary and administration;
6. housing;
7. public informing and the media;
8. access to goods and services and their providing;
9. membership and activities in trade unions, civil society organisations, political parties or any other organisations;
10. access to participation in the cultural and artistic creation.

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policy, professional improvement and retraining, vocational training, access, self-employment, selection criteria, recruiting and promotion conditions, public authority, local and regional self-government units, pension and health insurance, social security, civil society organisations, housing, public informing and media, social welfare, education, science, sports, services, goods, Croatia, legislation, career management skills, co-operation and co-ordination, quality assurance and evidence-base, schools, VET, higher education, adult education, employment, social inclusion

Psychological Activity Act

Subject of the Policy document

Psychological Activity Act

Reference data

Adopted/Released by The Croatian Parliament

Year of adoption 2003

Reference number Official Gazette 47/03

Available at http:// narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/305170.html

Available in English at http://

1. Additional narrative description of the reference to Lifelong Guidance

Article 3
A general purpose of psychological activities is to improve quality of life of individuals, groups and communities. Psychological activities are included in all areas of human life, especially in areas which relate to work and organization of work, employment and career guidance, communication and market, education, research and analysis, health care, sport, social care, transport, judiciary, military and police.

Article 7
Implementation of psychological activity which is not covered by undergraduate education and it covers more demanding forms of work in the area of clinical, health, penological, forensic, military, pedagogical and educational psychology, psychology of work, sports, special care, career guidance and medicine of work requires of each psychologist, in additional to the basic working permit, a special certificate.

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policy, psychological activities, quality of life, work, organization of work, employment, career guidance, communication and market, education, research and analysis, health care, sport, social care, transport, judiciary, military and police, Croatia, legislation, career management skills, access, co-operation and co-ordination, quality assurance and evidence-base, schools, VET, higher education, adult education, social inclusion