Article 1
A Community programme is hereby adopted, the aims of which shall be: - to raise awareness of and stimulate provision of multilingual services in the Community, which make use of language technologies, resources and standards, - to create favourable conditions for the development of the language industries, - to reduce the cost of information transfer among languages, in particular for the sake of SMEs, - to contribute to the promotion of the linguistic diversity of the Community. For the purposes of this Decision: (a) multilingual services are defined as services allowing communication between users of different languages of the Community; (b) language industries are defined as companies, institutions and professionals that provide, or enable the provision of, monolingual or multilingual services, in fields such as information retrieval, translation, language engineering and electronic dictionaries.