13 Amendments of Morten PETERSEN related to 2018/0206(COD)
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
(20 a) To improve and reinforce the integration process in European societies, the ESF+ should facilitate legal migration to the Union in accordance with the economic and social needs of Member States.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 b (new)
Recital 20 b (new)
(20 b) In order to be efficient and achieve the greatest added value, the ESF+ should pursue a targeted approach, in support of consistent strategies specifically designed to promote the integration of third- country nationals at national, local or regional level, where appropriate. Those strategies should be implemented mainly by local or regional authorities and non- state actors, while not excluding national authorities, in particular where the specific governance structure of a Member State would so require, or where, in a Member State, integration actions fall within a competence shared between the national and the regional or local authorities. The implementing organisations should choose the measures most appropriate to their particular situation from a range of measures available.
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 c (new)
Recital 20 c (new)
(20 c) The actions to ensure successful socio-economic integration of third country nationals should be consistent with the Union’s Common Basic Principles on Integration.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 d (new)
Recital 20 d (new)
(20 d) The scope of the integration measures should also include beneficiaries of international protection in order to ensure a comprehensive approach to integration, taking into account the specificities of those target groups. Where integration measures are combined with reception measures, actions should, where appropriate, also allow applicants for international protection to be included
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 e (new)
Recital 20 e (new)
(20 e) The authorities of the Member States responsible for the implementation of ESF+ should be required to establish cooperation and coordination mechanisms with the authorities designated by Member States for the purpose of the management of the interventions of the ASylum and Migration Fund.
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 f (new)
Recital 20 f (new)
(20 f) For practical reasons, some actions may concern a group of people which can be more efficiently addressed as a whole, without distinguishing between its members. Member States that would so wish should therefore be able to provide in their national programmes that integration actions may include immediate relatives of third-country nationals, to the extent that it is necessary for the effective implementation of such actions. The term ‘immediate relative’ should be understood as meaning spouses, partners, and any person having direct family links in descending or ascending line with the third-country national targeted by the integration action, and who would otherwise not be covered by the scope of the ESF+.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 g (new)
Recital 20 g (new)
(20 g) The ESF+ should support Member States in setting up strategies to organise legal migration, enhancing their capacity to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate in general all immigration and integration strategies, policies and measures for third-country nationals, including Union legal acts. The ESF+ should also support the exchange of information, best practices and cooperation between different departments of administration within a Member State as well as between Member States.
Amendment 103 #
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 25% of their national ESF+ resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to fostering social inclusion and integration.
Amendment 126 #
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, access to the labour market, fair working conditions, social protection and inclusion, effective socio-economic integration of third country nationals, and a high level of human health protection.
Amendment 130 #
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, social inclusion, effective socio-economic integration of third country nationals, 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 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
(viii) promoting effective socio-economic integration of third country nationals and of marginalised communities such as the Roma;
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii a (new)
(viii a) supporting legal migration to the Member States in accordance with their economic and social needs, such as labour market needs, while safeguarding the integrity of the immigration systems of Member States, and promoting the effective integration of third-country nationals
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a Integration meassures ESF+ shall support actions which take place in the framework of consistent strategies, taking into account the integration needs of third-country nationals at local or regional level. In this context, the ESF+ shall support, in particular, the following actions focusing on third-country nationals who are residing legally in a Member State or, where appropriate, who are in the process of acquiring legal residence in a Member State: (a) setting up and developing integration strategies with the participation of local or regional actors, where appropriate, including needs analysis, the improvement of integration indicators, and evaluation, including participatory assessments, in order to identify best practices; (b) providing advice and assistance in areas such as housing, means of subsistence, administrative and legal guidance, health, psychological and social care, child care and family reunification; (c) actions introducing third-country nationals to the receiving society and actions enabling them to adapt to it, to inform them about their rights and obligations, to participate in civil and cultural life and to share the values enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; (d) measures focusing on education and training, including language training and preparatory actions to facilitate access to the labour market; (e) actions designed to promote self- empowerment and to enable third-country nationals to provide for themselves; (f) actions that promote meaningful contact and constructive dialogue between third-country nationals and the receiving society, and actions to promote acceptance by the receiving society, including through the involvement of the media; (g) actions promoting both equality of access and equality of outcomes in relation to third-country nationals’ dealings with public and private services, including adaptation of those services to dealing with third-country nationals;