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16 Amendments of Jérôme LAVRILLEUX related to 2018/0206(COD)

Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from economic globalisation, the management of migration flows and the increased security threat, clean energy transition, technological change, unemployment in general and youth unemployment, and 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 relevant skills, making growth more inclusive and by improving employment and social policies, including in view of labour mobility.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) The ESF+ shouldGiven that it is the main Union instrument focused on employment and skills, it is essential that the ESF+ is able to contribute to social, economic, and territorial cohesion in all parts of Europe. To that end it must 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 skills which all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. The ESF+ shouldmust help progression within education and training and transition to work, support lifelong learning and employability, and contribute to competitiveness and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This couldan be achieved for example through 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.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) Given the differences in levels of development within Europe as a whole, ESF+ assistance must always be flexible enough to allow for specific regional and territorial characteristics.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
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 should ensure coherence, coordination and complementarity between the shared- management and Health strands of ESF+ and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrument, as well as the European Pillar of Social Rights. In particular, the Commission and the Member States 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.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 a (new)
(23a) Disparities are growing at subregional level, including in more prosperous regions where there are pockets of poverty.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a regulation
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 levelthe European institutions and national, regional, and local authorities and the socio- economic actors, in particular the social partners and civil society. It is therefore essential that Member States encourage the participation of sinvolve regional and locial partners and civil societyauthorities in the implementation of the ESF+ under shared management. , while also encouraging the participation of social partners and civil society.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47
(47) Pursuant to Article [94 of Council Decision 2013/755/EU19], persons and entities established in Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) are to be eligible for funding subject to the rules and objectives of the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands and possible arrangements applicable to the Member State to which the relevant OCTs are linked. The programme will need to allow for the particular constraints affecting persons and entities established in those territories in order to provide for proper access to those strands. __________________ 19 Council Decision 2013/755/EU of 25 November 2013 on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Union ( ‘Overseas Association Decision’) (OJ L 344, 19.12.2013, p. 1).
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 18 a (new)
(18a) ‘overseas countries and territories’ means overseas countries and territories to which the provisions of Part Four of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union apply and which are listed in Annex II to that Treaty;
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 283 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The ESF+ aims to support Member States, at national, regional and local level, to achieve high employment levels, 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.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) under shared management, whereby the programming and implementation shall be delegated to the Member States and the regions, for the part of the assistance which corresponds to the specific objectives indicated in Article 4(1) (the ‘ESF+ strand under shared management’), and
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 304 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The ESF+ shall support the following specific objectives in the policy areas of employment, education, mobility, 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]:
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 357 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vii
(vii) fostering active social inclusion with a view to promoting equal opportunities and active participation, and improving employability;
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 363 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii a (new)
(viiia) promoting equal opportunities for all European citizens, including the most remote, by supporting mobility.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 386 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. The part of the financial envelope for the ESF+ strand under shared management under the Investment for Jobs and Growth goal shall be EUR 100 000 000 000 in current prices or EUR 88 646 194 590 in 2018 prices of which EUR 200 000 000 in current prices or EUR 175 000 000 in 2018 prices shall be allocated for transnational cooperation supporting innovative solutions as referred to in Article 23(i) and EUR 400 000 000 in current prices or EUR 376 928 934 in 2018 prices as additional funding to the outermost regions identified in Article 349 TFEU and the NUTS level 2 regions fulfilling the criteria laid down in Article 2 of Protocol No 6 to the 1994 Act of Accession. The specific allocation for the outermost regions referred to in Article 349 TFEU provides for compensation of the additional costs connected with one or more permanent constraints hampering their development. In particular, it supports mobility actions.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 502 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall ensure adequate participation of regional and local authorities, social partners and civil society organisations in the delivery of employment, education and social inclusion policies supported by the ESF+ strand under shared management.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 534 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Regulation No 2018/0206
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 and, where appropriate the Commission, shall foster synergies and ensure coordination, complementarity and coherence between these specific priorities and the European Pillar of Social Rights.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL