18 Amendments of Sven SCHULZE related to 2017/0102(COD)
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Title 1
Title 1
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL laying down the legal framework of the European Voluntary and Solidarity CorpsService and amending Regulations (EU) No 1288/2013, (EU) No 1293/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1305/2013, (EU) No 1306/2013 and Decision No 1313/2013/EU
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Young people should be provided with easily accessible opportunities to engage in solidarity activities, which could enable them to express their commitment to the benefit of communities while acquiring useful experience, skills and competences for their personal, educational, social, civic and professional development, thereby improving their which may also lead to improved employability. Those activities would also support the mobility of young volunteers, trainees and workers.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The solidarity activities offered to young people should be of high quality, in the sense that they should respond to unmesuitably tackle significant societal needchallenges, contributeing to the strengthening of communities and citizenship, respond to personal and professional development needs of the participants, offer young people the opportunity to acquire valuable knowledge and competences, be financially accessible to young people, and be implemented in safe and healthy conditions.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The European Solidarity Corps would provide a single entry point for solidarity activities throughout the Union. Consistency and complementarity of that framework should be ensured with other relevant Union policies and programmes. The European Voluntary and Solidarity CorpsService should build on the strengths and synergies of existing programmes, notably the European Voluntary Service. It should also complement the efforts made by Member States to support young people and ease their school-to-work transition under the Youth Guarantee19 by providing them with additional opportunities to make a start on the labour market in the form of traineeships or jobs in solidarity-related areas within their respective Member State or across borders. Complementarity with existing Union level networks pertinent to the activities under the European Solidarity Corps, such as the European Network of Public Employment Services, EURES and the Eurodesk network, should also be ensured. Furthermore, cComplementarity between existing related schemes, in particular national solidarity schemes and mobility schemes for young people, and the European Voluntary and Solidarity CorpsService should be ensured, building on good practices where appropriate. __________________ 19 Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee (2013/C 120/01).
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) The European Voluntary and Solidarity CorpsService should target young people aged 18-30. Participation in the activities offered by the European Voluntary and Solidarity CorpsService should require prior registration in the European Solidarity Corps PortalVoluntary and Solidarity Service Portal. The Online Platform should benefit from Prior Erasmus+ (EVS) experience and knowledge and include them in the registration process of participants and organisations.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) “solidarity activity” means an activity aimed at addressing unmetackling significant societal needchallenges to the benefit of a community and the society as a whole while also fostering the individual’s personal, educational, social, civic and professional development, which may take the form of placements, projects or networking activities, developed in relation to different areas, such as education and training, employment, gender equality, entrepreneurship, in particular social entrepreneurship, citizenship and democratic participation, environment and nature protection, climate action, disaster prevention, preparedness and recovery, agriculture and rural development, provision of food and non- food items, health and wellbeing, creativity and culture, physical education and sport, social assistance, social inclusion and welfare, reception and integration of third- country nationals, territorial cooperation and cohesion;
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(6) “volunteering” means a full-time32 an unpaid voluntary serviceplacement for a period of uptwo to twelve months, either on a full-time basis or on a flexible basis of at least 20 hours per week, which provides young people with the opportunity to contribute to the daily work of organisnon-for- profit organizations such as youth organizations active in solidarity-related fields, to the ultimate benefit of the communities within which the activities are carried out, including a solid learning and trainingorientation dimension in order to enable the young volunteer(s) to gain skills and competences, which will be useful for their personal, educational, social and professional development, and which will also contribute to improving their employability; __________________ 32 As a general principle, an activity carried out continuously, 5 days a week for 7 hours a day.
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 14
(14) "European Voluntary and Solidarity CorpsService Portal" means a multilingual web-based tool that provides relevant online services to the European Voluntary and Solidarity CorpsService participants and participating organisations, including providing information about the European Voluntary and Solidarity CorpsService, registering participants, searching for participants for placements, advertising and searching for placements, searching for potential project partners, managing contacts and offers for placements and projects, training, communication and networking activities, informing and notifying about opportunities providing feedback mechanisms regarding the quality of placements, as well as other relevant developments related to the European Voluntary and Solidarity CorpsService.
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to provide young people, with the support of participating organisations, with easily accessible opportunities for engagement in solidarity activities while improving their skills and competences for personal, educational, social, civic and professional development, as well as their employability and facilitating transition into the labour market, including by supporting the mobility of young volunteers, trainees and workerswhich may also lead to improved employability;
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) solidarity placements in the form of cross- border volunteering, traineeships or jobs, including individual cross-border and in- country placements as well as volunteering teams’ placements;
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Amendment 240 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c