European cooperation in vocational counseling is today no longer a matter for specialists alone. Parents, teachers, and trainers are increasingly finding themselves confronted with young people considering the option of taking a traineeship or employment abroad. The counseling available in such cases, however, is often still inadequate. A large number of obstacles on the path toward the "Euro-conseiller," the European counselor, have already been removed, but there are still many hurdles to cross. It is not merely a matter of the national vocational counseling services having the explicit desire to cooperate. Much also depends on the awareness of a "European labour market" and the demand for "European" vocational counseling from parents, teachers, trainers, and all the other persons engaged in some way in initial and continuing training. Recomendations made in 1986 were mainly concerned with the formal framework for institutionalized cooperation. In 1990, it is recommended that projects, studies, and conferences on themes of shared interest be supported. Topics proposed included the following: the structures and operating models of counseling services and their respective advantages and disadvantages; the use of electronic data processing; the establishment of an information system on vocational counseling issues; and the establishment of transnational counseling and placement systems and the preparation of printed counseling documentation based on an analysis of pilot projects in border regions. (CML)