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RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013
Amendments (217)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
Having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to which the European Union and all its Member States are parties,
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) At Union level, the European Semester of economic policy coordination is the framework to identify national reform priorities and monitor their implementation. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support of those reform priorities. Those strategies should be developed in partnership between national, regional and local authorities and presented alongside the yearly National Reform Programmes as a way to outline and coordinate priority investment projects to be supported by national and/or Union funding. They should also serve to use Union funding in a coherent manner and to maximise the added value of the financial support to be received notably from the programmes supported by the Union under the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, the European Investment Stabilisation Function and InvestEU, where relevant.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to which the European Union and all its Member States are parties,
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The Council of […] adopted revised guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States to align the text with the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, with a view to improving Europe's competitiveness and making it a better place to invest, create jobs and foster social cohesion. In order to ensure the full alignment of the ESF+ with the objectives of these guidelines, particularly as regards employment, education, training and the fight against social exclusion, poverty and discrimination, the ESF+ should support Member States, taking account of the relevant Integrated Guidelines and relevant country-specific recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU and, where appropriate, at national level, the national reform programmes underpinned by national strategies. The ESF+ should also contribute to relevant aspects of the implementation of key Union initiatives and activities, in particular the "Skills Agenda for Europe" and the European Education Area, relevant Council Recommendations and other initiatives such as the Youth Guarantee, Upskilling Pathways and on Integration of the long- term unemployed. To strengthen the European dimension of the programme, the ESF+ should also support transnational actions and activities, in order to foster peer learning and the exchange of good practices.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from social inequalities, economic globalisation, the management of migration flows and the increased security threatrelated integration challenges, clean energy transition, technological change and, demographic challenges, unequal access to education, an increasingly ageing workforce and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions, experienced especially by SMEs. Taking into account the changing realities of the world of work, the Union should be prepared for the current and future challenges by investing in quality and inclusive education and training, lifelong learning and relevant skills, making growthlabour markets more inclusive and by improving employment, education and social policies, including in view of labour mobility.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) On 17 November 2017, the European Pillar of Social Rights was jointly proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission as a response to social challenges in Europe. The European Pillar of Social Rights sets out obligations for the Member States as regards social protection, social inclusion, decent working conditions, equal opportunities and access to the labour market. The twenty key principles of the pillar are structured around three categories: equal opportunities and access to the labour market; fair working conditions; social protection and inclusion. The twenty principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights should guide the actions under the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). In order to contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights the ESF+ should support investments in people and systems in the policy areas of employment, education and social inclusion, thereby supporting economic, territorial and social cohesion in accordance with Article 174 TFEU.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) On 17 November 2017, the European Pillar of Social Rights was jointly proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission as a response to social challenges in Europe. The European Pillar of Social Rights sets out obligations for the Member States as regards social protection, social inclusion, decent working conditions, equal opportunities and access to the labour market. The twenty key principles of the pillar are structured around three categories: equal opportunities and access to the labour market; fair working conditions; social protection and inclusion. The twenty principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights should guide the actions under the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). In order to contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights the ESF+ should support investments in people and systems in the policy areas of employment, education and social inclusion, thereby supporting economic, territorial and social cohesion in accordance with Article 174 TFEU.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) At Union level, the European Semester of economic policy coordination is the framework to identify national reform priorities and monitor their implementation. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support of those reform priorities. Those strategies should be developed in partnership between national, regional and local authorities, include a gender perspective and be presented alongside the yearly National Reform Programmes as a way to outline and coordinate priority investment projects to be supported by national and/or Union funding. They should also serve to use Union funding in a coherent manner and to maximise the added value of the financial support to be received notably from the programmes supported by the Union under the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, the European Investment Stabilisation Function and InvestEU, where relevant.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) On 20 June 2017, the Council endorsed the Union response to the 'UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ - a sustainable European future. The Council underlined the importance of achieving sustainable development across the three dimensions (economic, social and environmental), in a balanced and integrated way. It is vital that sustainable development is mainstreamed into all Union internal and external policy areas, and that the Union is ambitious in the policies it uses to address global challenges. The Council welcomed the Commission Communication on "Next steps for a sustainable European future" of 22 November 2016 as a first step in mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals and applying sustainable development as an essential guiding principle for all Union policies, including through its financing instruments. The ESF+ can make a particular contribution to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals by halving relative poverty and eradicating extreme forms of poverty (goal 1); quality and inclusive education (goal 4), promoting gender equality (goal 5), promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (goal 8), and reducing inequality (goal 10) as well as the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The ESF+ should aim to promote high-quality employment through active interventions enabling (re)integration into the labour market, notably for youth, persons with disabilities and people with chronic diseases, the long-term unemployed and the economically inactive, as well as through promoting self– employment and the social economy. The ESF+ should aim to improve the functioning of labour markets by supporting the modernisation and flexibility towards various target groups of labour market institutions such as the Public Employment Services in order to improve their capacity to provide intensified targeted and individual counselling and guidance during the job search and the transition to employment and to enhance workers’ mobility. The ESF+ should promote women's participation in the labour market through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, improved work/life balance and access to childcareaffordable quality childcare and other care services or support. The ESF + should also aim to provide a healthy and well- adapted working environment in order to respond to health risks related to changing forms of work and the needs of the ageing workforce. The ESF+ should also support measures aimed to ease young people’s transition from education to employment.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) At Union level, the European Semester of economic policy coordination is the framework to identify national reform priorities and monitor their implementation. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support of those reform priorities. Those strategies should be developed in partnership between national, regional and local authorities, include a gender perspective and be presented alongside the yearly National Reform Programmes as a way to outline and coordinate priority investment projects to be supported by national and/or Union funding. They should also serve to use Union funding in a coherent manner and to maximise the added value of the financial support to be received notably from the programmes supported by the Union under the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, the European Investment Stabilisation Function and InvestEU, where relevant.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from social inequalities, economic globalisation, the management of migration flows and the increased security threatrelated inclusion challenges, clean energy transition, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce, demographic challenges, unequal access to education and social protection, unbalanced distribution of care responsibilities, an increasingly ageing workforce, lack of employment opportunities and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions, experienced especially by SMEs. Taking into account the changing realities of the world of work, the Union should be prepared for the current and future challenges by investing in relevantengaging in the just transition, investing in quality and inclusive education and training, lifelong learning and skills, making growthlabour markets more inclusive and by improving employment, education and social policies, including in view of labour mobility and by fighting against gender gaps and women’s discrimination.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) In view of this wider scope of the ESF+ it is appropriate to foresee that the aims to enhance the effectiveness of inclusive and gender-equal labour markets and promote access to quality employment, to improve the access to and the quality of education and, training and care, as well as to promote social inclusion and health and to reduceradicate poverty are not only implemented under shared management, but also under direct and indirect management under the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands for actions required at Union level.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The ESF+ should provide support to improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems in order to facilitate the acquisition of key competences notably as regards digital and transversal skills which all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. The ESF+ should help progression and flexibility within education and training and transition to work, support lifelong learning and employability, and contribute to competitivenesssocial cohesion and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This could be achieved for example through high-quality work-based learning and apprenticeships, lifelong guidance, skills anticipation in cooperation with industry, up-to-date training materials, forecasting and graduate tracking, training of educators, validation of learning outcomes and recognition of qualifications and prior learning.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The Council of […] adopted revised guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States to align the text with the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, with a view to improving Europe’s competitiveness and making it a better place to invest, create jobs and foster social cohesion. In order to ensure the full alignment of the ESF+ with the objectives of these guidelines, particularly as regards employment, education, training and the fight against social exclusion, poverty and discrimination, the ESF+ should support Member States, taking account of the relevant Integrated Guidelines and relevant country-specific recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU and, where appropriate, at national level, the national reform programmes underpinned by national strategies. The ESF+ should also contribute to relevant aspects of the implementation of key Union initiatives and activities, in particular the “Skills Agenda for Europe” and, the European Education Area and the Action Plan on the integration of third-country nationals, relevant Council Recommendations and other initiatives such as the Youth Guarantee, Upskilling Pathways and on Integration of the long- term unemployed.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Support through the ESF+ should be used to promote equal access for all, in particular for disadvantaged groups, to quality, non-segregated and inclusive education and training, from early childhood education and care through general and vocational education and training and to tertiary level, as well as adult education and learning, thereby fostering permeability between education and training sectors, preventing early school leaving, improving health literacy, reinforcing links with non-formal and informal learning and facilitating learning mobility for all. Synergies with the Erasmus programme, to upscale innovative practices and notably to facilitate the participation of disadvantaged learners and young people in vulnerable situations in learning mobility, should be supported within this context. Policy coherence between the bodies responsible for the Erasmus programme and the ESF+ programme should ensure a decent support to design and implement measures such as learning mobility for disadvantaged learners, particularly adult learners and persons with disabilities or chronic diseases.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The ESF+ should aim to promote high-quality employment through active interventions enabling (re)integration into the labour market, notably for youth, persons with disabilities and people with chronic diseases, the long-term unemployed and the economically inactive, as well as those facing multiple forms of discrimination through promoting self– employment and the social economy. The ESF+ should aim to improve the functioning of labour markets by supporting the modernisation of labour market institutions such as the Public Employment Services in order to improve their capacity to provide intensified targeted counselling and guidance during the job search and the transition to employment and to enhance workers’ mobility. The ESF+ should promote women's participation in the labour market through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, improved work/life balance and access to childcareparticipation of women and sustainable employment that guarantees equal opportunities with special attention to single mothers in the labour market through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, the respect of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value, improved work/life balance and access to affordable childcare and other care services or support to foster gender equality. The ESF + should also aim to provide a healthy and well-adapted working environment in order to respond to health risks related to changing forms of work and the needs of the ageing workforce.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) On 20 June 2017, the Council endorsed the Union response to the ‘UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ - a sustainable European future. The Council underlined the importance of achieving sustainable development across the three dimensions (economic, social and environmental), in a balanced and integrated way. It is vital that sustainable development is mainstreamed into all Union internal and external policy areas, and that the Union is ambitious in the policies it uses to address global challenges. The Council welcomed the Commission Communication on “Next steps for a sustainable European future” of 22 November 2016 as a first step in mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals and applying sustainable development as an essential guiding principle for all Union policies, including through its financing instruments. The ESF+ can make a particular contribution to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals by halving relative poverty and eradicating extreme forms of poverty (goal 1); quality and inclusive education (goal 4), promoting gender equality (goal 5), promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (goal 8), and reducing inequality (goal 10) as well as the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The ESF+ should promote flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all, notably through formal and non-formal education providers, including by developing digital skills and key enabling technologies, with a view to providing people with skills adjusted to digitalisation, technological change, innovation and social and economic change, facilitating transitions from education to employment, career transitions, mobility and supporting in particular low-skilled, persons with disabilities or chronic diseases and/or poorly qualified adults, in line with the Skills Agenda for Europe.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The ESF+ should provide support to improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevancaccessibility and non-discriminatory nature of education and training systems in order to facilitate the acquisition of key competences notably as regards digital skills which all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. The ESF+ should help progression within education and training and transition to work, support lifelong learning and employability, and contribute to competitivenesssocial cohesion, the reduction of horizontal and vertical segregation and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This could be achieved for example through high-quality work-based learning and apprenticeships, lifelong guidance, skills anticipation in cooperation with industry, up-to-date training materials, forecasting and graduate tracking, training of educators, support for informal and non- formal learning, validation of learning outcomes and recognition of qualifications and prior learning.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) The Union and its Member States, having in mind the European Social Charter signed at Turin on 18 October 1961, should have in their objectives the promotion of employment, improved living and working conditions, with a view to lasting high levels of employment and combating exclusion, in accordance with Article 151 TFEU.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from social inequalities, economic globalisation, the management of migration flows and the increased security threatrelated inclusion challenges, clean energy transition, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce, demographic challenges, unequal access to education and social protection, unbalanced distribution of care responsibilities, an increasingly ageing workforce, lack of employment opportunities and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions, experienced especially by SMEs. Taking into account the changing realities of the world of work, the Union should be prepared for the current and future challenges by investing in relevantengaging in the just transition, investing in quality and inclusive education and training, lifelong learning and skills, making growthlabour markets more inclusive and by improving employment, education and social policies, including in view of labour mobility. and by fighting against gender gaps and women’s discrimination.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Synergies with the Horizon Europe programme should ensure that the ESF+ can mainstream and scale up innovative curricula supported by Horizon Europe in order to equip people with the skills and competences needed for the jobs of the future and to address current and future societal challenges.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The ESF+ should support Member States’ efforts at all levels of government, including regional and local authorities, to tackle poverty with a view to breaking the cycle of disadvantage across generations and promote social inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities for all, tackling discrimination and addressing health inequalities and homelessness. This implies mobilising a range of policies targeting the most disadvantaged people regardless of their age, including children, marginalised communities such as the Roma, and the working poorpeople with illness and chronic conditions, the working poor, the homeless, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, and all other people facing multiple social challenges. The ESF+ should promote the active inclusion of people far from the labour market with a view to ensuring their socio-economic integration and full participation in society. The ESF+ should be also used to enhance social rights through timely and equal access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services such as healthcounselling, healthcare, childcare and long-term care, in particular family and community-based care services, and services guiding access to decent social or affordable housing. The ESF+ should contribute to the modernisation of social protection systems and social services with a view in particular to promoting their accessibility and coverage.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15 a) The Commission and the Member States shall ensure that gender equality and the integration of the gender perspective is a binding principle in all phases of programming, from shaping the priorities of the operational programmes to the implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and that key actions for gender mainstreaming receive support.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 b (new)
Recital 15 b (new)
(15 b) Synergies with the Asylum and Migration Fund should ensure that the ESF+ can mainstream and upscale equal access to high-quality, non-segregated and inclusive education and training, as well as social inclusion, integration into the labour market and access to healthcare for third-country nationals with special attention to the needs of women and children.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The ESF+ should support Member States’ efforts to tackle poverty with a view to breaking the cycle of disadvantage across generations and promote social inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities for all, tackling discrimination and addressing health inequalities and housing deprivation, including homelessness, while putting special emphasis on combatting the feminisation of poverty. This implies mobilising a range of policies targeting the most disadvantaged people regardless of their age, including children, marginalised communities such as the Roma, and the working poorpeople with disability, illness and/or chronic conditions, the working poor, the homeless, third-country nationals, including refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and stateless persons, and all other people facing multiple social challenges and multiple forms of discrimination. The ESF+ should promote the active inclusion of people far from the labour market with a view to ensuring their socio-economic integrationclusion and full participation in society. The ESF+ should be also used to enhance social rights through timely and equal access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services such as healthcarecounselling, healthcare, childcare and early childhood education and long-term care, in particular family and community-based care services, and access to decent energy-efficient affordable housing, including social housing. The ESF+ should contribute to the modernisation of social protection systems and social services with a view in particular to promoting their accessibility and coverage.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) To anticipate challenges and take concrete steps towards a socially and environmentally sustainable economy, just transition roadmaps, developed in cooperation with local and regional governments and stakeholders, should be included in the operational programmes, outlining regional and local strategies towards a climate-friendly and resource efficient future, with the aim of social inclusion, quality job creation, sustainability and investment geared towards supporting future-oriented local development.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22 a) All Member States have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which constitutes the standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child. The promotion of children’s rights is an explicit objective of Union policies, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union requires that the best interests of the child be a primary consideration in all Union action. The ESF+ should support actions promoting effective interventions that contribute to the realisation of children’s rights.
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The types of financing and the methods of implementation under this Regulation should be chosen on the basis of their ability to achieve the specific objectives of the actions and to deliver results, taking into account, in particular, the costs of controls, the administrative burden, and the expected risk of non- compliance. For grants, this should include consideration of the use of lump sums, flat rates and unit costs, as well as financing not linked to costs as envisaged in Article 125(1) of the Financial Regulation. To implement measures linked to the socio- economic integratclusion of third country nationals, and in accordance with Article 88 of the Common Provisions Regulation, the Commission may reimburse Member States using simplified cost options including the use of lump sums.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) Efficient and effective implementation of actions supported by the ESF+ depends on good governance and partnership between all actors at the relevant territorial levels and the socio- economic actors, in particular regional and local authorities, the social partners and civil society. It is therefore essential that Member States encourage the participation of social partners and civil society in the implementation of the ESF+ under shared management with special emphasis on NGOs delivering employment, care, education and social services and working in the field of anti-discrimination and/or defending human rights. It is therefore essential that Member States ensure the meaningful participation of regional and local authorities, social partners and civil society in the strategic governance of the ESF+ under shared management from shaping priorities for operational programmes to implementing, monitoring and evaluating the results and impact. Furthermore, for the sake of safeguarding non-discrimination and equal opportunities, it is vital that equality bodies and national human rights institutions are also involved in each stage.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In order to streamline and simplify the funding landscape and create additional opportunities for synergies through integrated funding approaches, the actions which were supported by the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (‘FEAD’), the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation and the Programme for the Union’s action in the field of health should be integrated into one ESF+. The ESF+ should therefore include three strands: the ESF+ strand under shared management, the Employment and Social Innovation strand, and the Health strand. This should contribute to reducing the administrative burden linked to the management of different funds, in particular for Member States and beneficiaries, whilst maintaining simpler rules for simpler operations such as the distribution of food and/or basic material assistance.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) In light of the persistent need to enhance efforts to address the management of the migration flows in the Union as a whole and in order to ensure a coherent, strong and consistent support to the solidarity and responsibility-sharing efforts, the ESF+ should provide support to promote the socio-economic integration of third country nationals, including refugees and asylum seekers, complementary to the actions financed under the Asylum and Migration Fund. Member States should allocate an appropriate amount of ESF+ resources to local authorities in order to meet the needs for integration of migrants at local level.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) The Member States and the Commission should ensure that ESF+ contributes to the promotion of equality between women and men in accordance with Article 8 TFEU to foster equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men in all areas, including regarding participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment and career progression. They should also as well as the economic independence of women, education and skills upgrading and the reintegration of female victims of violence into society and into the labour market. Synergies and policy coherence with the Rights and Values programme in this should ensure that ESF+ can mainstream and upscale actions. The Commission and the Member States should ensure that the ESF+ promotes equal opportunities for all, without discrimination in accordance with Article 10 TFEU and promotes the inclusion in society of persons with disabilities on equal basis with others and contributes to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These principles should be taken into account in all dimensions and in all stages of the preparation, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of programmes, in a timely and consistent manner while ensuring that specific actions are taken to promote gender equality and equal opportunities. The ESF+ should also promote the transition from residential/institutional care to family and community-based care, in particular for those who face multiple discrimination. The ESF+ should not support any action that does not respect fundamental rights as set out in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and, in particular, actions that contributes to segregation or to social exclusion. or the reproduction of gender stereotypes. Regulation (EU) No [future CPR] provides that rules on eligibility of expenditure are to be established at national level, with certain exceptions for which it is necessary to lay down specific provisions with regard to the ESF+ strand under shared management.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) In view of this wider scope of the ESF+ it is appropriate to foresee that the aims to enhance the effectiveness of inclusive and gender-equal labour markets and promote access to quality employment, to improve the access to and the quality of education and, training and care, as well as to promote social inclusion and health and to reduceradicate poverty are not only implemented under shared management, but also under direct and indirect management under the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands for actions required at Union level.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The ESF+ should support policy and system reforms in the fields of employment, high-quality green jobs, social inclusion, healthcare and long-term care, and education and training. In order to strengthen alignment with the European Semester, Member States should allocate an appropriate amount of their resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to implement relevant country-specific recommendations relating to structural challenges which it is appropriate to address through multiannual investments falling within the scope of the ESF+. The Commission and the Member States should involve local and regional authorities meaningfully in the process to ensure coherence, coordination and complementarity between all levels of government and the shared- management and Health strands of ESF+ and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrumentas well as the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, the Commission and the Member State should ensure, in all stages of the process, effective coordination in order to safeguard the consistency, coherence, complementarity and synergy among sources of funding, including technical assistance thereof, with respect to the Partnership Principle.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) ESF+ lays down provisions intended to achieve freedom of movement for workers on a non-discriminatory basis by ensuring the close cooperation of the central employment services of Member States with one another and with the Commission. The European network of employment services should promote a better functioning of the labour markets by facilitating the cross-border mobility of workers and a greater transparency, with gender-disaggregated data of information on the labour markets as well as greater skills recognition. The ESF+ scope also includes developing and supporting targeted mobility schemes with a view to filling vacancies where labour market shortcomings have been identified.
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The ESF+ should aim to promote high-quality employment through active interventions enabling (re)integration into the labour market, notably for youth, persons with disabilities and people with chronic diseases, the long-term unemployed and the economically inactive, as well as those facing multiple forms of discrimination through promoting self– employment and the social economy. The ESF+ should aim to improve the functioning of labour markets by supporting the modernisation and flexibility towards various target groups of labour market institutions such as the Public Employment Services in order to improve their capacity to provide intensified targeted and individual counselling and guidance during the job search and the transition to employment and to enhance workers’ mobility. The ESF+ should promote women’s participation in the labour market through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, improved work/life balance and access to childcaresupport workers’ mobility. The ESF+ should aim at tackling precarious employment in order to ensure that all types of work contracts offer decent working conditions with proper social security coverage in line with Article 9 TFEU, the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, the European Social Charter and the ILO Decent Work Agenda. The ESF+ should promote participation of women and sustainable employment that guarantees equal opportunities with special attention to single mothers in the labour market through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, the respect of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value, improved work/life balance and access to affordable childcare and other care services or support to foster gender equality. The ESF + should also aim to provide a healthy and well-adapted working environment in order to respond to health risks related to changing forms of work and the needs of the ageing workforce. The ESF+ should also support measures aimed to facilitate the transition of young people between education and employment.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) To ensure that the social dimension of Europe as set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights is duly put forward and that a minimum amount of resources is targeting those most in need Member States should allocate at least 2530% of their national ESF+ resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to fostering social inclusion. and fighting poverty. Member States should use this allocation to address challenges beyond unemployment to support anti-poverty measures different than labour market activation measures.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) Since the objective of this Regulation, namely enhancing the effectiveness of labour markets and promoting access to quality employment, improving the access to and the quality of education and, training and care, promoting social inclusion, equal opportunities, and health and reducing poverty as well as the actions under the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(3) 'basic material assistance' means goods which fulfil the basic needs of a person for a life with dignity, such as clothing, hygiene goods, including female hygienic and care products, and school material;
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) In the light of persistently high levels of youth unemployment and inactivity in a number of Member States and regions, in particular affecting young people who are neither in employment, nor in education or training, it is necessary that those Member States continue to invest sufficient resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management towards actions to promote youth employment and young people’s access to high-quality jobs, including through the implementation of Youth Guarantee schemes. Building on the actions supported by the Youth Employment Initiative in the 2014-2020 programming period targeting individual persons, Member States should further promote employment and education reintegration pathways and outreach measures for young people by prioritising, where relevant, long-term unemployed, inactive and disadvantaged young people including through youth work. Member States should also invest in measures aimed at facilitating school-to-work transition as well as reforming and adapting employment services with a view to providing tailor-made support to young people and in particular young people in vulnerable situations. Member States concerned should therefore allocate at least 10% of their national resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to support youth employability.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The ESF+ aims to support Member States to achieve high employment levels,deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights and to enhance social inclusion and combat poverty and to achieve high levels of employment, job quality, education and training, equal opportunities for all, as well as fair social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the future world of work, in line with the principles set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on 17 November 2017. The ESF+ also aims to contribute to fulfilling the commitment of the Union and its Member States to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
The ESF+ shall support, complement and add value to the policies of the Member States to ensure gender equality, equal opportunities, access to the labour market, fair working conditions, social protection and inclusionnon- discrimination, social protection for all, access to basic services, including affordable energy efficient housing, inclusion, in particular of third-country nationals and marginalised communities, and a high level of human health protection.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The ESF+ should provide support to improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevancaccessibility and non-discriminatory nature of education and training systems in order to facilitate the acquisition of key competences notably as regards digital skills, including data protection and information governance and transversal skills which all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. The ESF+ should help progression and flexibility within education and training and transition to work, support lifelong learning and employability, and contribute to competitivenesssocial cohesion, the reduction of horizontal and vertical segregation and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This could be achieved for example through high-quality work-based learning and apprenticeships, lifelong guidance, skills anticipation in cooperation with industry, up-to-date training materials, forecasting and gratraining of educate tracking, training of educatorsors, support for informal and non- formal learning, validation of learning outcomes and recognition of qualifications and prior learning.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) modernising labour market institutions and services to assess and anticipate skills needs and ensure timely and tailor-made assistance and support to labour market matching, transitions across the life-cycle and mobility;
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) Efficient and effective implementation of actions supported by the ESF+ depends on good governance and partnership between all actors at the relevant territorial levels and the socio- economic actors, in particular regional and local authorities, the social partners and civil society. It is therefore essential that Member States encourage the participation ofsure the meaningful participation of regional and local authorities, social partners and civil society in the implementation and strategic governance of the ESF+ under shared management.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
(iii) promoting women’s labour market participationgender equality in all areas by ensuring women’s economic independence and labour market participation respecting the principle of equal pay for equal work and for work of equal value, and offering at least a living wage, a better work/life balance including equal access to childcareaffordable, inclusive and non-segregated quality early childhood education and childcare and other care services or support, a healthy and well– adapted working environment addressing health risks and disease risk factors, adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, and active and healthy ageing;
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) With a view to rendering policies more responsive to social change and to encourage and support innovative solutions, support for social innovation is crucial. In particular, testing and evaluating innovative solutions at local level before scaling them up is instrumental in improving the efficiency of the policies and thus justifies specific support from the ESF+.
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) The Member States and the Commission, as well as implementing bodies, should ensure that ESF+ contributes to the promotion of equality between women and men in accordance with Article 8 TFEU to foster equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men in all areas, including regarding participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment and career progression. They should also ensure that the ESF+ promotes equal opportunities for all, without discrimination in accordance with Article 10 TFEU and promotes the inclusion in society of persons with disabilities and chronic diseases on equal basis with others and contributes to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These principles should be taken into account in all dimensions and in all stages of the preparation, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of programmes, in a timely and consistent manner while ensuring that specific actions are taken to promote gender equality and equal opportunities. The ESF+ should also promote the transition from residential/institutional care to family and community-based care, in particular for those who face multiple discrimination. Measures for the shift from residential/institutional to community-based care should be implemented through national deinstitutionalisation strategies and action plans. The ESF+ should not support any action that contributes to segregation or to social exclusion. Regulation (EU) No [future CPR] provides that rules on eligibility of expenditure are to be established at national level, with certain exceptions for which it is necessary to lay down specific provisions with regard to the ESF+ strand under shared management.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v
(v) promoting equal access to and completion of, quality, affordable, non- segregated and inclusive education and training, in particular for disadvantaged groups, from early childhood education and care through general and vocational education and training, and to tertiary level, as well as adult education and learning, including facilitating learning mobility for all;
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14 a (new)
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) The ESF+ should provide support to eradicate energy poverty and promote access to adequate and energy-efficient housing, including social housing, in line with the Commission Communication ‘The European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion: A European framework for social and territorial cohesion’ and Regulation (XX/XX) of the European Parliament and Council on the Governance Energy Union and Directive (XX/XX) of the European Parliament and Council amending Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency;
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) Social experimentation is a small- scale project testing which allows gathering evidence on the feasibility of social innovations. It should be possible and encouraged for feasible ideas to be pursued on a wider scale or intransferred to other contexts in different regions or Member States with financial support from the ESF+, as well as from other sources.
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) ESF+ lays down provisions intended to achieve freedom of movement for workers on a non-discriminatory basis by ensuring the close cooperation of the central and public employment services of Member States with one another and with the Commission. The European network of employment services, with the involvement of the social partners should promote a better functioning of the labour markets by facilitating the cross-border mobility of workers under fair conditions and a greater transparency of information on the labour markets. The ESF+ scope also includes developing and supporting targeted mobility schemes with a view to filling high-quality vacancies where labour market shortcomings have been identified. Furthermore, the scope of the ESF+ covers cross-border partnerships between regional public employment services and social partners and their activities to promote voluntary and fair mobility, as well as transparency and integration of cross-border labour markets through information, advice and placement. In many border regions they play an important role in the development of a genuine European labour market.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Support through the ESF+ should be used to promote equal access for all, in particular for disadvantaged groups, to high-quality, non-segregated and inclusive education and training, from early childhood education and care through general and vocational education and training and to tertiary level, as well as adult education and learning, with special attention to children and young people coming from a disadvantaged background, such as children in institutional care and children experiencing homelessness or housing deprivation, thereby fostering permeability between education and training sectors, preventing early school leaving, improving health literacy, reinforcing links with non- formal and informal learning and facilitating learning mobility for all. Synergies with the Erasmus programme, to upscale innovative practices and notably to facilitate the participation of disadvantaged learners and young people in vulnerable situations in learning mobility, should be supported within this context. Policy coherence and complementarity between the Erasmus programme and the ESF+ should ensure a decent support to design and implement measures such as learning mobility for disadvantaged learners, particularly adult learners and persons with disabilities or chronic diseases.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) The Commission and the Member States should ensure that gender equality and the integration of the gender perspective is a binding principle in all phases of programming, from shaping the priorities of the operational programmes to the implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and that key actions for gender mainstreaming receive support.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – title
Article 6 – title
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. All programmes implemented under the ESF+ strand under shared management, as well as the operations supported by the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands shall ensure equality between men and womenof all genders throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. These operations include increasing the participation and progress of women in employment, combating the feminisation of poverty, gender stereotypes and intersecting discrimination in the labour market and in education and training in the frame of gender mainstreaming obligations. They shall also promote equal opportunities and accessibility for all, without discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluationnationality, residence or employment status, religion or belief, disability, chronic diseases, age, sexual orientation, sex caracteristics, gender expression or gender identity throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. They shall also aim to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities, as set out in Article 9 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including access to the labour market.
Amendment 100 #
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 b (new)
Recital 15 b (new)
(15b) Synergies with the Asylum and Migration Fund should ensure that the ESF+ can mainstream and upscale equal access to high-quality, non-segregated and inclusive education and training, as well as social inclusion, integration into the labour market and access to healthcare for third-country nationals with special attention to the needs of women and children.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The Member States and the Commission shall support specific targeted actions aimed at, in particular, increasing the long-term participation of women in working life, respecting the principle of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value and being paid at least a living wage, and at improving their professional development, combating the feminisation of poverty, reducing gender segregation and gender stereotypes in education and training, the labour market and beyond, and to promote a work-life balance for all, including more balanced sharing of care responsibilities between all genders.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The ESF+ should promote flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all, notably through formal and non-formal education providers, including by developing digital skills and key enabling technologies, with a view to providing people with skills adjusted to digitalisation, technological change, innovation and social and economic change, facilitating the transition between education and employment, career transitions, mobility and supporting in particular low-skilled, persons with disabilities or chronic diseases and/or poorly qualified adults, in line with the Skills Agenda for Europe.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. The Member States shall integrate the gender perpective into all phases of programming, from shaping the priorities of the operational programmes to the delivery, monitoring and evaluation and enhance their commitment to gender budgeting by establishing specific targets with their corresponding budget allocations. Gender budgeting shall be recognised as an important instrument of equal opportunities policy in order to make gender gaps in equal participation transparent, thereby strengthening gender equality in the ESF+.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 c (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. The Member States and the Commission shall promote equal opportunities for all, without discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sex caracteristics, gender expression and gender identity or sexual orientation through mainstreaming the principle of non-discrimination, as referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013. Through the ESF+, the Member States and the Commission shall also support specific actions that aim to combat all forms of discrimination as well as to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities and for those facing multiple discrimination, thereby enhancing social inclusion and reducing inequalities.
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(3) 'basic material assistance' means goods which fulfil the basic needs of a person for a life with dignity, such as housing, clothing, hygiene goods and school material;
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Synergies with the Horizon Europe programme should ensure that the ESF+ can mainstream and scale up innovative curricula supported by Horizon Europe in order to equip people with the skills and competences needed for the jobs of the future and to address current and future societal challenges.
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a Investing in children The resources refered to in point 5(a) of Article 7 shall be programmed under a dedicated priority or programme. Member States shall ensure that the amount of resources targetted at children programmed under point (iii) through (v) and/or (ix) and/or (x) of Article 4(1) are in line with the 2013 European Commission Recommendation on Investing in children.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13 a (new)
(13a) ‘social inclusion’ means the improvement of the terms of participation in society, particularly for people who are disadvantaged, through enhancing opportunities, access to resources, voice and respect for rights.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The ESF+ should support Member States’ efforts at all levels of government including at regional and local level to tackle poverty with a view to breaking the cycle of disadvantage across generations and promote social inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities for all, tackling discrimination and addressing health inequalities and housing deprivation, including homelessness, while putting special emphasis on combatting the feminisation of poverty. This implies mobilising a range of policies targeting the most disadvantaged people regardless of their age, including children, marginalised communities such as the Roma, and the working poorpeople with disability, illness and/or chronic conditions, the working poor, the homeless, third-country nationals, including refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and stateless persons, and all other people facing multiple social challenges and multiple forms of discrimination. The ESF+ should promote the active inclusion of people far from the labour market with a view to ensuring their socio-economic integrationclusion and full participation in society. The ESF+ should be also used to enhance social rights through timely and equal access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services such as healthcarecounselling, healthcare, childcare and early childhood education and long-term care, in particular family and community-based care services, and access to decent energy-efficient affordable housing, including social housing. The ESF+ should contribute to the modernisation of social protection systems and social services with a view in particular to promoting their accessibility. and coverage.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18 a (new)
(18a) ‘lifelong learning’ means in all its forms (formal, non-formal and informal learning) taking place at all stages in life, including early childhood education and care, general education, vocational education, and adult education, and resulting in an improvement in knowledge, skills and attitudes or participation in society in a personal, civic, cultural, social and/or employment related perspective, including the provision of counselling and guidance services.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 6
Article 15 – paragraph 6
6. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38 to amend the indicators in Annex I where considered necessary to ensure effective assessment of progress in the implementation of programmes which shall include a gender impact assessment to monitor the implementation of the ESF+ programmes with regard to gender equality.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18 b (new)
(18b) ‘cross-border partnerships’ means permanent structures of cooperation between public employment services and social partners in border areas of at least two Member States;
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The ESF+ aims to support Member States to achieve high employment levelsenhance social inclusion and combat poverty and to achieve high levels of employment, job quality, green employment creation, fair social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the future world of work, in line with the principles and rights set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on 17 November 2017, in order to strengthen the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the Union.
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I a (new)
Annex I a (new)
Common indicators for ESF+ support to promote social inclusion of people threatened by poverty or social exclusion Every personal data collected should be broken down according to gender (female, male, non-binary).In case of irrelevance of results, the data at hand does not need to be surveyed and transmitted.The provision of this data is voluntarily and, in case of non-provision, does not lead to any disadvantage for the participant or the provider of the activity or measure. - deprived group the participant belongs to - participants below the age of 18 - participants below the age of 30 - participants above the age of 54
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
The ESF+ shall support, complement and add value to the policies of the Member States to ensure equal opportunities, gender equality, access to the labour market, fair working conditions, social protection and inclusion, and a high level of human health protection.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The ESF+ shall support the following specific objectives in the policy areas of employment, education, fighting poverty, social inclusion and health and thereby also contributing to the policy objective for “A more social Europe - Implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights” set out in Article [4] of the [future CPR]:
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The ESF+ should contribute to the reduction of poverty by supporting national schemes aiming to alleviate food and material deprivation and promote social integratclusion of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and the most deprived. With a view that at Union level at least 4% of the resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management supports the most deprived, Member States should allocate at least 24% of their national resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to address the forms of extreme poverty with the greatest social exclusion impact, such as homelessness, child poverty and food deprivation. Due to the nature of the operations and the type of end recipients, it is necessary that simpler rules apply to support which addresses material deprivation of the most deprived.
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) improving access to high-quality employment of all jobseekers, in particular youth and long- term unemployed, disadvantaged groups such as Roma and refugees, and of inactive people, promoting self-employment, sustainable development and the social economy;
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) modernising labour market institutions and services to assess and anticipate skills needs and ensure timely and tailor-made assistance and support to labour market matching, transitions across the life-cycle and mobility;
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) In light of the persistent need to enhance efforts to address the management of the migration flows in the Union as a whole and in order to ensure a coherent, strong and consistent support to the solidarity and responsibility-sharing efforts, the ESF+ should provide support to promote the socio-economic integratclusion of third country nationals, including refugees and asylum seekers, complementary to the actions financed under the Asylum and Migration Fund. Member States should allocate 2% of their ESF+ resources to the inclusion of third-country nationals and/or marginalised communities at local level.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
(iii) promoting women’s labour market participation, gender equality, a better work/life balance including access to childcare, a healthy and well–adapted working environment addressing health risks, adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, and active and healthy ageing;
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems, to support acquisition of key competences including digital skills while promoting e-inclusion and recognising the relevance of non-formal and informal learning and the value of cooperation with social partners and civil society;
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v a (new)
(va) supporting the sustainable integration of young people into the labour market, in particular of those not in employment, education or training, including through the implementation of the Youth Guarantee;
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The ESF+ should support policy and system reforms in the fields of employment, social inclusion, healthcare and long-term care, and education and training. In order to strengthen alignment with the European Semester, Member States should allocate an appropriate amount of their resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to implement relevant country-specific recommendations relating to structural challenges which it is appropriate to address through multiannual investments falling within the scope of the ESF+. The Commission and the Member States shouldshould review the operational programmes to assess whether they sufficiently address the country-specific recommendations. The Commission and the Member States should involve local and regional authorities meaningfully in the process to ensure coherence, coordination and complementarity between all levels of government and between the shared- management and the EaSI and Health strands of ESF+ and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrument. In particular, the Commission and the Member State should ensure, in all stages of the process, effective coordination in order to safeguard the consistency, coherence, complementarity and synergy among sources of funding, including technical assistance thereof respecting the partnership principle.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) promoting lifelong learning as well as informal and non-formal learning, notably flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all taking into account digital skills, better anticipating change and new skills requirements based on labour market needs, facilitating career transitions and promoting professional mobility, fostering participation in society and tackling societal challenges;
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
(viii) promoting socio-economic integration of third country nationals, including refugees and asylum seekers, and of marginalised communities such as the Roma;
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) To ensure that the social dimension of Europe as set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights is duly put forward and that a minimum amount of resources is targeting those most in need Member States should allocate at least 2530% of their national ESF+ resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to fostering social inclusion and fighting poverty. Member States should use this allocation to address challenges beyond unemployment with measures different than labour market activation measures to support anti-poverty and inclusion.
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 1
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 1
1. a smarter Europe through the development of skills for smart specialisation, skills for key enabling technologies, industrial transition, green jobs and sustainable development, sectorial cooperation on skills and entrepreneurship, the training of researchers, networking activities and partnerships between higher education institutions, vocational and educational training (VET) institutions, research and technological centres and enterprises and clusters, support to micro, small and medium sized enterprises and the social economy;
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2
2. a greener, low carbon Europe through the improvement of education and training systems necessary for raising awareness of climate change, the adaptation of skills and qualifications, the upskilling of all, including the labour force, the creation of new green jobs in sectors related to the environment, climate and energy, circular economy and the bioeconomy.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) All Member States have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which constitutes the standard in the promotion and protection of the rights of the child. The promotion of children’s rights is an explicit objective of Union policies, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union requires that the best interests of the child be a primary consideration in all Union action. The ESF+ should support actions promoting effective interventions that contribute to the realisation of children’s rights.
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22 b (new)
Recital 22 b (new)
(22b) Given the persistently high levels of child poverty and social exclusion in the Union, and having regard to principle 11 of the European Pillar of Social Rights which states that children have the right to protection from poverty, and children from disadvantaged backgrounds have the right to specific measures to enhance equal opportunities, Member States should allocate 10% of their ESF+ resources under shared management for the eradication of child poverty and social exclusion. Investing early in children yields significant returns for children and society as a whole and is crucial to break the cycle of disadvantage in early years and is key to reduce the risk of poverty and social exclusion for the entire society. Supporting children to develop skills and capabilities enables them to develop their full potential, bringing them the best educational and health outcomes, to become active members of society and to increase their chances on the labour market.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Member States shall enhance their commitment to gender budgeting with fixed target values within the framework of budget management and evaluation of their operational programmes. Gender budgeting shall be recognised as an important instrument of equal opportunities policy in order to make gender gaps in equal participation transparent, thereby strengthening gender equality in the ESF+.
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. The Member States and the Commission shall also support specific targeted actions and the development of national strategies and action plans to promote the principles referred to in paragraph 1 within any of the objectives of the ESF+, including the transition from residential/institutional care to family and community-based care.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States and managing bodies at all levels shall concentrate the ESF+ resources under shared management on interventions that address the challenges identified in their national reform programmes, in the European Semester as well as in the relevant country-specific recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU, and take into account principles and rights set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights. and in line with the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) In the light of persistently high levels of youth unemployment and inactivity in a number of Member States and regions, in particular affecting young people who are neither in employment, nor in education or training, it is necessary that those Member States continue to invest sufficient resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management towards actions to promote youth employment and young people’s access to high-quality jobs, including through the implementation of Youth Guarantee schemes. Building on the actions supported by the Youth Employment Initiative in the 2014-2020 programming period targeting individual persons, Member States should further promote employment and education reintegration pathways and outreach measures for young people by prioritising, where relevant, long-term unemployed, inactive and disadvantaged young people including through youth work. Member States should also invest in measures aimed at facilitating school-to-work transition as well as reforming and adapting employment services with a view to providing tailor-made support to young people and in particular young people in vulnerable situations. Member States concerned should therefore allocate at least 10% of their national resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to support youth employability.
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States and, where appropriate the Commission, shall foster synergies and ensure coordination, complementarity and coherence between the ESF+ and other Union funds, European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund, programmes and instruments such as Erasmus, the Asylum and Migration Fund and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrument, both in the planning phase and during implementation. Member States and, where appropriate the Commission, shall optimise mechanisms for coordination to avoid duplication of effort and ensure close cooperation between those managing authorities responsible for implementation to deliver integrated approaches, coherent and streamlined support actions.
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall allocate an appropriate amount of their ESF+ resources under shared management to address challenges identified in relevant country-specific recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU and in the European Semester falling within the scope of the ESF+ as set out in Article 4. This will be complemented by sufficient flexibility at managing authority level to identify priorities and areas for ESF+ investments in line with the specific local or regional challenges.
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) Efficient and effective implementation of actions supported by the ESF+ depends on good governance and partnership between all actors at the relevant territorial levels and the socio- economic actors, in particular regional and local authorities, the social partners and civil society. It is therefore essential that Member States encourage the participation of social partners and civil society in the implementation of the ESF+ under shared management with special emphasis on NGOs delivering employment, care, education and social services and working in the field of anti-discrimination and/or defending human rights. It is therefore essential that Member States ensure the meaningful participation of regional and local authorities, social partners and civil society in the strategic governance of the ESF+ under shared management from shaping priorities for operational programmes to implementing, monitoring and evaluating the results and impact. Furthermore, for the sake of safeguarding non-discrimination and equal opportunities, it is vital that equality bodies and national human rights institutions are also involved in each stage.
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall allocate at least 2530% of their ESF+ resources under shared management to the specific objectives for the social inclusion policy area set out in points (vii) to (xi) of Article 4(1), including the promotion of the socio- economic integration of third country nationals. The Member States shall use this allocation to address challenges different than unemployment to support anti-poverty measures that go beyond labour market activation measures.
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall allocate at least 24% of their ESF+ resources under shared management to the specific objective of addressing social inclusion of the most deprived and/or material deprivation set out in point (xi) of Article 4(1). These resources shall be complementary to the 30% ESF+ resources allocated to social inclusion.
Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) With a view to rendering policies more responsive to social change and to encourage and support innovative solutions, support for social innovation is crucial. In particular, testing and evaluating innovative solutions at local level before scaling them up is instrumental in improving the efficiency of the policies and thus justifies specific support from the ESF+.
Amendment 196 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27 a (new)
Recital 27 a (new)
(27a) With a view to fully tapping into the potential of cross-sectorial cooperation and to improving synergies and coherence with other policy fields to achieve the general objectives of the ESF+, sport and physical activity should be used as a tool in ESF+ actions aimed, in particular, at fighting youth unemployment, improving social inclusion of marginalised groups, health promotion, and disease prevention.
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) The Member States and the Commission should ensure that ESF+ contributes to the promotion of equality between women and men in accordance with Article 8 TFEU to foster equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men in all areas, including regarding participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment and career progression. They should also as well as the economic independence of women, education and skills upgrading and the reintegration of female victims of violence into society and into the labour market. Synergies and policy coherence with the Rights and Values programme in this should ensure that ESF+ can mainstream and upscale actions. The Commission and the Member States should ensure that the ESF+ promotes equal opportunities for all, without discrimination in accordance with Article 10 TFEU and promotes the inclusion in society of persons with disabilities and chronic diseases on equal basis with others and contributes to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with regard to, inter alia, education, work, employment and accessibility. These principles should be taken into account in all dimensions and in all stages of the preparation, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of programmes, in a timely and consistent manner while ensuring that specific actions are taken to promote gender equality and equal opportunities. The ESF+ should also promote accessibility in line withe the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the transition from residential/institutional care to family and community-based care, in particular for those who face multiple discrimination. The ESF+ should not support any actionMeasures for the shift from institutional to family and community-based care should be implemented through national deinstitutionalisation strategies and action plans. The ESF+ should not support any action that does not respect fundamental rights as set out in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and, in particular, actions that contributes to segregation or to social exclusion or the reproduction of gender stereotypes. Regulation (EU) No [future CPR] provides that rules on eligibility of expenditure are to be established at national level, with certain exceptions for which it is necessary to lay down specific provisions with regard to the ESF+ strand under shared management.
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall ensure adequate participation of social partners and civil society organisations in the delivery, in accordance with Article 6 of the Common Provision Regulation xx/xx and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU)No 240/2014, meaningful participation of local and regional authorities, social partners and civil society organisations in the strategic governance of the ESF+ in all phases of programming, from shaping the priorities of the operational programmes to the delivery, monitoring and evaluation of employment, education and social inclusion policies supported by the ESF+ strand under shared management.
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall allocate an appropriate amountt least 2% of ESF+ resources under shared management in each programme for the capacity building of local and regional authorities, social partners and civil society organisations.
Amendment 205 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) Social experimentation is a small- scale project testing which allows gathering evidence on the feasibility of social innovations. It should be possible and encouraged for ideas to be tested at local level and for feasible ones ideas to be pursued on a wider scale or intransferred to other contexts in different regions or Member States with financial support from the ESF+, as well as from or in combination with other sources.
Amendment 208 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) ESF+ lays down provisions intended to achieve freedom of movement for workers on a non-discriminatory basis by ensuring the close cooperation of the central. The public employment services of Member States with one anoth, the social partners and with the Commission should work closely together. The European network of employment services, with the involvement of the social partners and relevant civil-society organisations, should promote a better functioning of the labour markets by facilitating the cross-border mobility of workers under fair conditions and a greater transparency, with gender- disaggregated data of information on the labour markets as well as greater skills recognition. The ESF+ scope also includes developing and supporting targeted mobility schemes with a view to filling vacancies where labour market shortcomings have been identified. Furthermore, the scope of the ESF+ covers cross-border partnerships between regional public employment services and social partners and their activities to promote voluntary and fair mobility, as well as transparency and integration of cross-border labour markets through information, advice and placement. In many border regions they play an important role in the development of a genuine European labour market.
Amendment 208 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
The resources referred to in Article 7(4) shall be programmed under a dedicated priority or programme. The co-financing rate for this priority or programme is set at 85%.
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
The actions addressing the challenges identified in relevant country-specific recommendations and in the European Semester as referred to in Article 7(2) shall be programmed under one or more dedicated priorities. Member States shall ensure consistency, coherence and synergies of these priorities with the European Pillar of Social Rights, Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Sufficient flexibility shall be ensured at managing authority level to identify priorities and areas for ESF+ investments in line with the specific local or regional challenges.
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – title
Article 13 – title
Amendment 221 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34 a (new)
Recital 34 a (new)
(34a) Transnational cooperation has significant added value and should therefore be supported by all Member States with the exception of duly justified cases taking account of the principle of proportionality. It is also necessary to reinforce the Commission’s role in facilitating exchanges of experience and coordinating implementation of relevant initiatives.
Amendment 226 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46
Recital 46
(46) Reflecting the importance of tackling climate change and the just transition in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this Regulation will contribute to mainstream climate action in the Union’s policies and to the achievement of an overall target of 25 % of the EU budget expenditures supporting climate objectives. Relevant actions will be identified during the preparation and implementation, and reassessed in the context of the mid-term evaluation.
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) Since the objective of this Regulation, namely enhancing the effectiveness of labour markets and promoting access to quality employment, improving the access to and the quality of education and, training and care, promoting social inclusion, equal opportunities, and health and reducing poverty as well as the actions under the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(3) 'basic material assistance' means goods which fulfil the basic needs of a person for a life with dignity, such as clothing, hygiene goods, including female hygienic and care products, and school material;
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)
(9a) ‘just transition roadmap’ means a strategy outlining regional actions towards a climate-friendly and resource- efficient economy;
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
(13) 'most deprived persons' means natural persons, whether individuals, families, households or groups composed of such persons, including children whose need for assistance has been established according to their living situation, including homelessness, or the objective criteria set by the national competent authorities in consultation with relevant stakeholders, while avoiding conflicts of interest and which are approved by those national competent authorities and which may include elements that allow the targeting of the most deprived persons in certain geographical areas;
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 – introductory part
(15) 'social enterprise' means an undertaking, regardless of its legal form, or a natural person whichose
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 – point a
(a) in accordance with its Articles of Association, Statutes or with any other legal document that may result in liability under the rules of the Member State where it is located, has as its primary social objective the achievement of measurable, positive social impacts rather than generating profitsocial or societal objective of the common good is the reason for the commercial activity, often in the form other purposes, and wf a hicgh provides services or goods that generate a social return, and/or employs methods of production of goods or services that embodies social objectiveslevel of social innovation;
Amendment 254 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 – point b
(b) uses its profits first and foremost to achieve its primary social objective, and has predefined procedures and rules covering any distribution of profits that ensure that such distribution does not undermine the primaryprofits are mainly reinvested to achieve this social objective;
Amendment 257 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 – point c
(c) is managed in an entrepreneurial, accountablmethod of organisation or the ownership system reflects the aund transparent way, in particular by involving workers, customers and stakeholders impacted by its business activitiesertaking’s mission, using democratic or participatory principles or focusing on social justice;
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
(15a) ‘social innovation means the improvement of the terms of participation in society, particularly for people who are disadvantaged, through enhancing opportunities, access to resources, voice and respect for rights;
Amendment 266 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18 a (new)
(18a) ‘lifelong learning’ means in all its forms (formal, non-formal and informal learning) taking place at all stages in life, including early childhood education and care, general education, vocational education, and adult education, and resulting in an improvement in knowledge, skills and attitudes or participation in society in a personal, civic, cultural, social and/or employment related perspective, including the provision of counselling and guidance services;
Amendment 268 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
(19a) 'third-country national' means any person who is not a citizen of the European Union within the meaning of Art. 20(1) of TFEU and who is not a person enjoying the European Union right to free movement, as defined in Art. 2(5) of the Regulation (EU) 2016/399 (Schengen Borders Code).
Amendment 274 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The ESF+ aims to support Member States to achieve high employment levels,deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights and to enhance social inclusion and combat poverty and to achieve high levels of employment, job quality, education and training, equal opportunities for all, as well as fair social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the future world of work, in line with the principles set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on 17 November 2017. The ESF+ also aims to contribute to fulfilling the commitment of the Union and its Member States to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
The ESF+ shall support, complement and add value to the policies of the Member States to ensure gender equality, equal opportunities, access to the labour market, fair working conditions, social protection and inclusionnon- discrimination, social protection for all, access to basic services, including affordable energy efficient housing, inclusion, in particular of third-country nationals and marginalised communities, and a high level of human health protection.
Amendment 302 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The ESF+ shall support all of the following specific objectives in the policy areas of employment, education, social inclusion, eradication of poverty, and health and thereby also contributing to the policy objective for “A more social Europe - Implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights” set out in Article [4] of the [future CPR]:
Amendment 305 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) improving access to high-quality employment of all jobseekers, in particular youth, including through the implementation of the Youth Guarantee, single parents and long- term unemployed, and of inactive people, promoting self-employment with particular attention to women and those who are furthest away from the labour market, and of economically inactive people and persons with disabilities or chronic diseases or other people that may be suffering from multiple forms of discrimination arising from their sex characteristics, gender expression or gender identity, including by promoting local employment initiatives, and supporting self-employment, entrepreneurship and the social economy;
Amendment 318 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) modernising labour market institutions and services to assess and anticipate skills needs and ensure timely and tailor-made assistance and support to labour market matching, transitions across the life-cycle and mobility;
Amendment 320 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii a (new)
(iia) transition to a climate-friendly, resource-efficient and sustainable economy along the regions’ just transition roadmaps;
Amendment 326 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
(iii) promoting women’s labour market participationgender equality in all areas by ensuring women’s economic independence and labour market participation respecting the principle of equal pay for equal work and for work of equal value, and offering at least a living wage, a better work/life balance including equal access to childcareaffordable, inclusive and non-segregated quality early childhood education and childcare and other care services or support, a healthy and well– adapted working environment addressing health risks and disease risk factors, adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, and active and healthy ageing;
Amendment 334 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) improving the quality, effectinclusiveness and labour market relevanceeffectiveness of education and training systems, to facilitate the transition between education and work and to support acquisition of key competences including digital skills while promoting e-inclusion and recognising the relevance of non-formal and informal learning and the value of cooperation with social partners and civil society;
Amendment 345 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v
(v) promoting equal access to and completion of, quality, affordable, non- segregated and inclusive education and training, in particular for disadvantaged groups, from early childhood education and care through general and vocational education and training, and to tertiary level, as well as adult education and learning, including facilitating learning mobility for all;
Amendment 348 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) promoting lifelong learning, notably flexible as well as informal and non-formal learning, notably flexible and learner-centred upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all taking into account digital skills, better anticipating change and new skills requirements based on labour market needs, facilitatguiding career transitions and promoting professional mobility, fostering democratic participation in society and tackling societal challenges;
Amendment 354 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vii
(vii) fostering active inclusion and full participation in society with a view to promoting equal opportunities, non- discrimination, democracy and active participation, and improving employabilitylabour opportunities and social inclusion;
Amendment 360 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
(viii) promoting socio-economic integratclusion of third country nationals, including refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants and stateless persons through targeted actions and of marginalised communities such as the Roma;
Amendment 364 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ix
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ix
(ix) enhancing the equal and timely access to quality, sustainable, accessible and affordable services; modernisinginvesting in social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection; improvingimproved access to social protection and reducing and preventing energy poverty and promoting access to affordable energy efficient housing, including social housing, with special attention to off-grid households; improving and investing into accessibility, effectiveness and resilience of healthcare systems and long-term care services;
Amendment 373 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi
(xi) addressing material deprivation through food and/or basic material assistance to the most deprived, including accompanying measures aiming at the social inclusion of the most deprived persons.
Amendment 380 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2
2. a greener, low carbon Europe through the improvement of education and training systems necessary for the adaptation of skills and qualifications, the upskilling of all, including the labour forceawareness-raising among the population about sustainable development and lifestyles, the creation of new high-quality jobs in sectors related to the environment, climate and energy, and the circular and bioeconomy.
Amendment 402 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – title
Article 6 – title
Gender Equality between men and women and equal opportunities, and non- discrimination
Amendment 403 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. All programmes implemented under the ESF+ strand under shared management, as well as the operations supported by the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands shall ensure equality between men and womenof all genders throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. These operations include increasing the participation and progress of women in employment, combating the feminisation of poverty, gender stereotypes and intersecting discrimination in the labour market and in education and training in the frame of gender mainstreaming obligations. They shall also promote equal opportunities and accessibility for all, without discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. nationality, residence or employment status, religion or belief, disability, chronic diseases, age, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, gender expression or gender identity throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. They shall also aim to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities, as set out in Article 9 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including access to the labour market.
Amendment 412 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Member States and the Commission shall support specific targeted actions aimed at, in particular, increasing the long-term participation of women in working life, respecting the principle of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value and being paid at least a living wage, and at improving their professional development, combating the feminisation of poverty, reducing gender segregation and gender stereotypes in education and training, the labour market and beyond, and to promote a work-life balance for all, including more balanced sharing of care responsibilities between all genders.
Amendment 414 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. The Member States shall integrate the gender perspective into all phases of programming, from shaping the priorities of the operational programmes to the delivery, monitoring and evaluation and enhance their commitment to gender budgeting by establishing specific targets with their corresponding budget allocations. Gender budgeting shall be recognised as an important instrument of equal opportunities policy in order to make gender gaps in equal participation transparent, thereby strengthening gender equality in the ESF+.
Amendment 415 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 c (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. The Member States and the Commission shall promote equal opportunities for all, without discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sex characteristics, gender expression and gender identity or sexual orientation through mainstreaming the principle of non-discrimination, as referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013. Through the ESF+, the Member States and the Commission shall also support specific actions that aim to combat all forms of discrimination as well as to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities and for those facing multiple discrimination, thereby enhancing social inclusion and reducing inequalities.
Amendment 416 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. The Member States and the Commission shall also support specific targeted actions and the development of national strategies and action plans to promote the principles referred to in paragraphs 1 to 1(c) within any of the objectives of the ESF+, including improving accessibility for all and the transition from residential/institutional care to family and community-based care.
Amendment 431 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall concentrate the ESF+ resources under shared management on interventions that address the principles and rights set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights and take into account the social challenges identified, among others, in their national reform programmes, in the European Semester as well as in the relevant country- reports and country- specific social recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU, and take i as well as and in line with the Paris Agreemento account principles and rights set out in the European Pillar of Social Rightsnd the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Member States may only create additional obligations on beneficiaries where these are justified to deliver towards the objectives of the ESF+ and their implementation.
Amendment 439 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States and, where appropriate the Commission, shall foster synergies and ensure coordination, complementarity and coherence between the ESF+ and other Union funds, programmes and instruments such as the ERDF, InvestEU, the Rights and Values Instrument, Erasmus, the Asylum and Migration Fund and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrument, both in the planning phase and during implementation. Member States and, where appropriate the Commission, shall optimise mechanisms for coordination to avoid duplication of effort and ensure close cooperation between those managing authorities responsible for implementation to deliver integrated approaches, coherent and streamlined support actions.
Amendment 455 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall allocate an appropriate amount of their ESF+ resources under shared management to address challenges identified in relevant country reports and country-specific social recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU and in the European Semester falling within the scope of the ESF+ as set out in Article 4 and in line with the requirements as set out in Article 11.
Amendment 457 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall allocate at least 2530% of their ESF+ resources under shared management to the specific objectives for the social inclusion policy area set out in points (vii) to (xi) of Article 4(1), including the promotion of the socio- economic integration of third country nationalsclusion of third country nationals. The Member States shall only use this allocation to address challenges different than unemployment with measures that go beyond labour market activation to support anti-poverty and inclusion.
Amendment 465 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 468 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall allocate at least 24% of their ESF+ resources under shared management to the specific objective of addressing social inclusion of the most deprived and/or material deprivation set out in point (x) and (xi) of Article 4(1). These resources shall be complementary to the 30% ESF+ resources allocated to social inclusion.
Amendment 476 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
In duly justified cases, the resources allocated to the specific objective set out in point (x) of Article 4(1) and targeting the most deprived mayshall be taken into account for verifying compliance with the minimum allocation of at least 24% set out in the first subparagraph of this paragraph.
Amendment 482 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Member States having a rate of young people aged 15 to 29 not in employment, education or training above the Union average in 2019 on the basis of Eurostat data or faced a sudden increase of at least 10% in 2019, shall allocate at least 10% of their ESF+ resources under shared management for the years 2021 to 2025 to targeted actions and structural reforms to support youth employment and school-to-work transition, pathways to reintegrate into education or training and second chance education, in particular in the context of implementing Youth Guarantee schemes.
Amendment 488 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
When programming the ESF+ resources under shared management for 2026 and 2027 at mid-term in accordance with Article [14] of [the future CPR], Member States having a rate of young people aged 15 to 29 not in employment, education or training above the Union average in 2024 on the basis of Eurostat data or faced a sudden increase of at least 10% in 2024, shall allocate at least 10% of their ESF+ resources under shared management for the years 2026 to 2027 to these actions.
Amendment 491 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Member States shall allocate at least 10% of their ESF+ resources under shared management to targeted actions and reforms supporting the eradication of child poverty and inclusion measures targeted at children in line with Article 10 (a) (new).
Amendment 492 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 a (new)
Article 7 a (new)
Article 7 a Respect for fundamental rights The Member States and the Commission shall ensure respect for fundamental rights and compliance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union in the implementation of the funds. Any cost incurrent for action that is not in line with the European Charter of Fundamental Rights shall not be eligible in accordance with Article 58(2) of the Common Provisions Regulation xx/xx and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 240/2014.
Amendment 493 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – title
Article 8 – title
Partnership and multi-level governance
Amendment 497 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall ensure adequate participation of social partners and civil society organisations in the delivery of employment, education and social inclusion, in accordance with Article 6 of the Common Provisions Regulation xx/xx and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 240/2014, meaningful participation of local and regional authorities, social partners and civil society organisations and service users in the strategic governance of the ESF+ in all phases of programming, from shaping the priorities of the operational programmes to the delivery, monitoring and evaluation of all policies supported by the ESF+ strand under shared management.
Amendment 511 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall allocate at least 2% an appropriate amount of ESF+ resources under shared management in each programme for the capacity building of social partners and civil society organisations.
Amendment 523 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a Investing in children The resources referred to in point 5(a) of Article 7 shall be programmed under a dedicated priority or programme. Member States shall ensure that the amount of resources targeted at children programmed under point (iii) through (v) and/or (ix) and/or (x) of Article 4(1) are in line with the 2013 European Commission Recommendation on Investing in children.
Amendment 525 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 b (new)
Article 10 b (new)
Article 10 b Inclusion of third-country nationals and marginalised communities The resources referred to in point 3(a) of Article 7 shall be programmed under a dedicated priority or programme.
Amendment 526 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 c (new)
Article 10 c (new)
Article 10 c Energy poverty and housing Member States shall ensure that the actions programmed under point (ix) of Article 4(1) in line with point 3 of Article 7 related to housing contribute to the achievement of the national action plans on energy poverty as set out in Article 3 of the Governance of the Energy Union Regulation (xx/xx) and shall be programmed under a dedicated priority or programme.
Amendment 529 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – title
Article 11 – title
Support to relevant country-specific recomthe social dimension of the European Semester and the implemendtation of the European Pillar of Social Rights
Amendment 533 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
The actions addressing the social challenges identified in relevant country reports and country-specific social recommendations and in the European Semester as referred to in Article 7(2) shall be programmed under one or more dedicated priorities. Member States shall ensure consistency, coherence and synergies of these priorities with the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals, taking into account local and regional challenges. The Commission shall undertake yearly reviews and assess whether the proposed operational programmes are sufficient to address the problems identified in the country-specific social recommendations with a view of implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights. Where the operational programmes or the corrective actions proposed by the Member States are insufficient, the Commission shall propose their readjustment.
Amendment 543 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
This Chapter applies to ESF+ support under points (i) to (x) of Article 4(1) when implemented under shared management (the ‘general support of the ESF+ strand under shared management’). Article 13 applies also to ESF+ support under point (xi) of Article 4(1).
Amendment 547 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – title
Article 13 – title
Amendment 550 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall support actions of social innovation and social experimentations, or strengthen using bottom-up approaches based on partnerships involving public authorities, in particular local authorities, the private sector, and civil society such as the Local Action Groups designing and implementing community-led local development strategies.
Amendment 576 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4
Article 14 – paragraph 4
4. Direct staff costs shall be eligible for a contribution from the general support of the ESF+ strand under shared management provided that their level is not higher than 100% of the usual remuneration for the profession concerned in the Member State as demonstrated by Eurostat data unless collective agreements apply.
Amendment 584 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 6
Article 15 – paragraph 6
6. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38 to amend the indicators in Annex I where considered necessary to ensure effective assessment of progress in the implementation of programmes which shall include a gender impact assessment to monitor the implementation of the ESF+ programmes with regard to gender equality.
Amendment 588 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Member States and beneficiaries shall choose the food and/or the basic material assistance on the basis of objective criteria related to the needs of the most deprived persons. The selection criteria for the food products, and where appropriate for goods, shall also take into consideration climatic and environmental aspects, in particular with a view to reduction of food waste. Where appropriate, t and single-use plastics. The choice of the type of food products to be distributed shall be made having considered their contribution to the balanced diet of the most deprived persons.
Amendment 590 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
The food and/or basic material assistance may be provided directly to the most deprived persons or indirectly through electronic vouchers or cards, provided that they can only be redeemed against food and/or basic material assistance as set out in Article 2(3) and that they are not replacing any existing social benefit or counted towards eligibility of social benefits.
Amendment 594 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 4
Article 17 – paragraph 4
4. The delivery of food and/or material assistance mayshall be complemented with re-orientation towards competent services and other accompanying measures aiming at the social inclusion of the most deprived persons.
Amendment 602 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. The food and/or basic material assistance provided to the most deprived persons may be purchased by or on behalf ofin consultation with the beneficiary or made available free of charge to the beneficiary.
Amendment 603 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Article 19 – paragraph 2
2. The food and/or basic material assistance shall be distributed free of charge to the most deprived persons, except in justified cases where projects may ask beneficiaries to contribute a symbolic sum to the project or service as a measure to safeguard the person’s dignity. Such a contribution shall not be seen as a payment for any aid provided.
Amendment 605 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) the costs of accompanying measures undertaken by or on behalf of beneficiaries and declared by the beneficiaries delivering the food and/or basic material assistance to the most deprived persons at a flat- rate of at least 5% of the costs referred to in point (a). Such support shall be available to deliveries of aid at the point of contact with users as well as other stakeholders.
Amendment 608 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 20 – paragraph 3 – point c
Amendment 609 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 a (new)
Article 20 a (new)
Article 20a The co-financing rate for actions programmed under Article 4(1) points (x) and (xi) is set at 85%.
Amendment 611 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. Priorities addressing material deprivation shall use common output and result indicators, as set out in Annex II to this Regulation to monitor progress in implementation. These programmes may also use programme-specific indicators. Reporting requirements towards measures addressing material deprivation shall be kept as simple as possible, due to the volunteers-based nature of these services and the need to respect the human dignity of the recipients.
Amendment 622 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) to develop and provide specific support services to workers, employers and job-seekers with a view to the development of integrated European labour markets, ranging from pre- recruitment preparation to post-placement assistance to fill vacancies in certain sectors, professions, countries, border regions or for particular groups (e.g. cross-border workers and persons in vulnerable peoplesituations);
Amendment 628 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) to support cross-border partnerships between public employment services, civil society and social partners to promote a cross-border labour market and cross-border mobility with fair conditions;
Amendment 632 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point d b (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point d b (new)
(db) to promote the voluntary mobility of workers on a fair basis and increase employment opportunities through the development of high-quality, accessible and inclusive labour markets while respecting workers’ rights throughout the Union;
Amendment 637 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) to support networking at Union level and dialogue with and among relevant stakeholders in the fields referred to in Article 4 and contribute to build up the institutional capacity of these stakeholders, including the public employment services (PES), social security institutions, microfinance institutions and institutions providing finance to social enterprises and social economy and non- governmental organisations;
Amendment 643 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) to support the development of social enterprises and the emergence of a social investment market, facilitating public and private interactions and the participation of foundations, civil-society organisations and philanthropic actors in that market;
Amendment 645 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) to provide guidancesupport for the development of social infrastructure (including, among others, energy-efficient housing, child care and education and training, health care and long term, long term care and elder care, as well as transitions from institutional to community-based care) needed for the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 649 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to support transnational cooperation to accelerate the transfer of, and to facilitate the scaling of, innovative solutions, in particular for the areas of combatting poverty, employment, skills and social inclusion, across Europe.
Amendment 653 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii a (new)
(iiia) recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate access to the labour market and labour mobility;
Amendment 656 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b – point i
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b – point i
(i) cross-border partnerships and support services providing information, advice and placement for workers, including apprentices, interns and trainees and commuters, as well as jobseekers and employers in cross-border regions;
Amendment 657 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b – point ii
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b – point ii
(ii) an EU-wide labour targeted mobility scheme at Union level to fill job vacancies where labour market shortcomings have been identified;
Amendment 659 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point c – point ii
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point c – point ii
(ii) of national contact points providing guidance, information and assistance related the implementation of the strand as well as of national platforms providing lifelong learning and adult education offers related to the specific objectives;
Amendment 661 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point c – point iii
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point c – point iii
(iii) of participating countries administrations, social security institutions and employment services responsible for promoting labour mobility, of career guidance services, of microfinance institutions and of institutions providing finance to social enterprises or other social investment actors, as well as networking;
Amendment 665 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point c – point iv
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point c – point iv
(iv) of social partners and other stakeholders in view of transnational and cross-border cooperation;
Amendment 666 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point d – point iv
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point d – point iv
Amendment 671 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 a (new)
Article 25 a (new)
Article 25a Governance 1. The Commission shall consult stakeholders within the Union, in particular social partners and civil society organisations, on the employment and social innovation work programmes, their priorities and strategic orientation and their implementation. 2. The Commission shall establish the necessary links with the Employment Committee, the Social Protection Committee, the Advisory Committee on Health and Safety at Work, the group of Directors-General for Industrial Relations and the Advisory Committee on Free Movement of Workers to ensure that they are regularly and appropriately informed about progress made in the implementation of the programme. The Commission shall also inform other committees dealing with strategies, instruments and actions relevant to the programme. 3. The results of the actions implemented under the employment and social innovation strand shall be communicated at regular intervals and in an appropriate form and transmitted to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, as well as the social partners and the public in order to maximise the impact, sustainability and added value of these results at Union level.
Amendment 686 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
The Employment and Social Innovation strand and Health strand shall be implemented by work programmes referred to in Article [108] of Financial Regulation. Work programmes shall set out, where applicable, the overall amount reserved for blending operations. For the employment and social innovation strand, multi- annual work programmes and funding agreements of the Union shall be provided for the project manager.
Amendment 711 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The ESF+ Committee may invite representatives of the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund as well as representatives of the relevant civil society organisations to its meetings.
Amendment 714 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 40 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) questions related to the ESF+ contribution to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, including country-specific recommendations and semester-related priorities (national reform programmes, country reports, etc.);
Amendment 715 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) questions related to the Commission’s assessment of the responsiveness of programming priorities as required in Article 11.
Amendment 716 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Article 40 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
The opinions of the ESF+ Committee shall be adopted by an absolute majority of the votes validly cast, and shall be communicated to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, for information. The Commission shall inform the ESF+ Committee in writing of the manner in which it has taken account of its opinions.
Amendment 717 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 6
Article 40 – paragraph 6
6. The ESF+ Committee mayshall set up working groups for each of the strands of the ESF+programming priorities as set out in Articles 9-10(c) (new). The ESF+ Committee may set up additional working groups.
Amendment 726 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1
Annex I – paragraph 1
All personal data are to be broken down by gender (female, male, 'non binary'). If certain results are not possiblerelevant, data for those results do not have to be collected and reported. Sensitive personal data can be surveyed anonymously.
Amendment 728 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 a – indent 5 a (new)
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 a – indent 5 a (new)
– not in education or training (NEET)*
Amendment 729 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 a – indent 5 b (new)
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 a – indent 5 b (new)
– single adult households with dependent child(ren)*
Amendment 730 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 a – indent 5 c (new)
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 a – indent 5 c (new)
– participants below 18 years of age*
Amendment 732 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 b – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 b – paragraph 1 – introductory part
If data for these indicators is not collected from data registers, values on these indicators can be determined based on informed estimates by the beneficiary. The provision of this data is voluntarily and, in case of non-provision, does not lead to any disadvantage for the participant or the provider of the activity or measure.
Amendment 745 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 b – paragraph 1 – indent 6 a (new)
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 b – paragraph 1 – indent 6 a (new)
– participants from geographical areas with high levels of poverty and social exclusion,
Amendment 749 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 b – paragraph 1 – indent 6 b (new)
Annex I – point 1 – point 1 b – paragraph 1 – indent 6 b (new)
– participants transitioning from institutional to family- and community- based care.
Amendment 752 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 3 – introductory part
Annex I – point 3 – introductory part
(3) The common immediate result indicators for participants are: If common output indicator data of participants of most deprived groups was surveyed anonymously, the following data will not be surveyed.
Amendment 753 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 3 – indent 4 a (new)
Annex I – point 3 – indent 4 a (new)
– participants in apprenticeship or traineeship,
Amendment 754 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – introductory part
Annex I – point 4 – introductory part
(4) Common longer-term result indicators for participants: If common output indicator data of participants of most deprived groups was surveyed anonymously, the following data will not be surveyed.
Amendment 757 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – indent 2
Annex I – point 4 – indent 2
Amendment 759 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – indent 2 a (new)
Annex I – point 4 – indent 2 a (new)
– participants above 54 years of age in employment, including self- employment, six months after leaving*
Amendment 760 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – indent 2 b (new)
Annex I – point 4 – indent 2 b (new)
– participants below 30 years of age in employment, including self- employment, six months after leaving *
Amendment 761 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – indent 2 c (new)
Annex I – point 4 – indent 2 c (new)
– participants below 30 years of age in continued education, training programmes leading to a formal qualification, an apprenticeship or a traineeship, six months after leaving*
Amendment 763 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I a (new)
Annex I a (new)
Common indicators for ESF+ support to promote social inclusion of people threatened by poverty or social exclusion Every personal data collected shall be broken down according to gender (female, male, non-binary). In case of irrelevance of results, the data at hand does not need to be surveyed and transmitted. The provision of this data is voluntarily and, in case of non-provision, does not lead to any disadvantage for the participant or the provider of the activity or measure. – deprived group the participant belongs to – participants below the age of 18 – participants below the age of 30 – participants above the age of 54
Amendment 766 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – title
Annex II – title
Output indicators on social inclusion assistance to the most deprived: (i) Total number of persons receiving social inclusion assistance; (ii) Total number of persons met during outreach activities and street work; (iii) Total number of consultations; (iv) Total number of referrals to: (a) other low threshold services (e.g. shelters, free medical aid, food distribution, debt counselling etc.) (b) public administration services (e.g. public employment services, social benefit support, housing services etc.).