Activities of Agnieszka KOZŁOWSKA related to 2018/0206(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) (debate) PL
Amendments (19)
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The ESF+ should aim to promote employment through active interventions enabling (re)integration into the labour market, notably for youth, the long-term unemployed and the 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 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 enhancfacilitate 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 childcare. 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 92 #
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 entrepreneurial and 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 competitiveness and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This could 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.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The ESF+ should promote flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all, notably entrepreneurial and 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 career transitions, mobility and supporting in particular low-skilled and/or poorly qualified adults, in line with the Skills Agenda for Europe.
Amendment 117 #
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. This implies mobilising a range of policies and strategies targeting the most disadvantaged people regardless of their age, including children, people with disabilities, marginalised communities such as the Roma, and the working poor. The ESF+ should promote the active inclusion of people far from the labour market with a view to ensuring their socio-economic integration. The ESF+ should be also used to enhance timely and equal access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services such as healthcare and long-term care, in particular family and community- based care services. The ESF+ should contribute to the modernisation of social security institutions and public employment services and social protection systems with a view in particular to promoting their accessibility and effectiveness in responding to the changing realities of world of work.
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) improving access to employment of all jobseekers, in particular youth anddisadvantaged groups such as youth, older people, long- term unemployed, and ofpersons with disabilities, as well as inactive people, promoting self-employment and the social economy;
Amendment 339 #
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 entrepreneurial and digital skills;
Amendment 353 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) promoting lifelong learning, notably flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all taking into account entrepreneurial and digital skills, better anticipating change and new skills requirements based on labour market needs, facilitating career transitions and promoting professional mobility;
Amendment 367 #
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 and affordable services; modernising social security institutions and public employment services and social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection; improving accessibility, effectiveness and resilience of healthcare systems and long-term care services;
Amendment 375 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi a (new)
(xia) (xii) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration;
Amendment 377 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi b (new)
(xib) (xiii) increasing the socioeconomic integration of marginalised communities, migrants and disadvantaged groups, through integrated measures including housing and social services;
Amendment 378 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi c (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi c (new)
(xic) (xiv) improving accessibility to goods, services and physical environment in order to enable persons with disabilities to live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life, on an equal basis with others.
Amendment 381 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2 a (new)
2a. 3. a Europe closer to citizens through poverty reduction and social inclusion measures taking into account the specificities of urban, rural and coastal areas in view of tackling the socio- economic inequalities in cities and regions.
Amendment 454 #
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 535 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
The actions addressing the challenges identified in relevant country-specific recommendations (CSRs) and in the European Semester as referred to in Article 7(2) shall be programmed under one or more dedicated priorities. 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, due to annual character of CSRs and multiannual character of the ESF+ programming.
Amendment 541 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11a Integrated territorial development 1. The ESF+ may support integrated territorial development within programmes under both goals referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation(EU) 2018/xxxx [new CPR] in accordance with Chapter II of Title III of that Regulation[new CPR]. 2. Member States shall implement integrated territorial development, supported by the ESF+, exclusively through the forms referred to in Article [22] of Regulation (EU) 2018/xxxx [new CPR].
Amendment 554 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2
Article 13 – paragraph 2
2. Member States may support the upscaling of innovative approaches tested on a small-scale (social innovation and social experimentations) developed under the Employment and Social Innovation strand and other Union programmes.
Amendment 555 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 3
Article 13 – paragraph 3
3. Innovative actions and approaches may be programmed under any of the specific objectives set out in points (i) to (x) of Article 4(1).
Amendment 558 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4
Article 13 – paragraph 4
4. Each Member State shall dedicate at least one priority to the implementation of paragraphs 1 or 2 or to both. The maximum co-financing rate for these priorities may be increased to 95% for the allocation of maximum 5% of the national ESF+ allocation under shared management to such priorities. The implementing and audit rules for such actions shall be sufficiently flexible to allow risk-taking and creativity.
Amendment 593 #
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.