Replying to a question from Angela Billingham (PES, UK), Commissioner Mario Monti acknowledged that some two and a half years after the problem was first raised, British ski instructors were still barred from teaching in the French Alps.
Mrs Billingham complained that a French company had not been allowed to employ British-trained instructors. Talks were being held between the British and French ski federations and a law providing for the recognition of British qualifications had been passed in the French Parliament. But the problem, as Mr Monti explained, lay on the snow since the French instructors still refused to accept that British standards were up to French levels.