Official Journal of the European Communities - 23. 4. 88 No L 104/38 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION of 18 April 1988 | establishing a second Community action programme _for disabled people (Helios) : : - (88/231/EEC) THE. COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 128 and 235 thereof, ' Having regard to Council Decision 63/266/EEC of 2 April 1963 laying down general principles for implementing a common vocational training policy ('), and in particular the tenth principle thereof, Having regard to the proposals from the Commission (), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (®), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (*), Whereas the tenth principle set out in Decision 63/266/EEC states that special measures may be taken in respect of special problems concerning specific sectors of activity or specific categories of persons; Whereas people with disabilities have specific needs in the fields of vocational training and rehabilitation and economic - integration and are accordingly a specific category of persons for the purposes of the said principle ; Whereas the objectives of the Community include the accelerated raising of the standard of living; () OJ No 63, 20. 4. 1963, p. 1338/63. () OJ No C 257, 28. 9. 1987, pp. 28 and 32. () OJ No C 305, 16. 11. 1987, p. 158. () O No C 347, 22. 12. 1987, p. 12. Whereas the present programme is designed to contribute to that objective through the implementation of a number of specific actions to promote the social integration and independent way of life of people with disabilities ; Whereas the Council resolution of 21 January 1974 concerning a social action programme () provides for, inter alia, the implementation of a programme for the vocational and social integration of handicapped persons ; Whereas the Council resolution of 27 June 1974 establishing an initial Community action programme for the vocational training of handicapped persons (%) defines rehabilitation as ‘a whole set of measures aimed at establishing and maintaining the most satisfactory relation possible * between the individual and his environment after the appearance of a handicap or an injury or illness resulting in a handicap’; Whereas the European Parliament, in its resolution of 11 March 1981(), stressed the need to promote at Community level the economic, social and vocational integration of disabled people ; ' 1 rWhereas‘ the resolution of the Council and of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, of 21 December 1981 on the social integration of handicapped people (f) established a first action programme to promote such integration which is now due for prolongation and development; () OJ No C 13, 12. 2. 1974, p. 1. (9 OJ No C 80, 9. 7. 1974, p. 30. ) OJ No C 77, 6. 4. 1981, p. 27. () OJ No C 347, 31. 12. 1981, p. 1.