21 Amendments of Javi LÓPEZ related to 2016/2242(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas from a quantitative perspective, the take-up of the Youth Guarantee (YG) is encouraging in some Member States but implementation of integration services listed under the YG is often only partial and dependent on the existing capacity and efficiency of public employment services (PES); whereas Member States should continue their efforts to strengthen and reform their PES;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the ECA's report shows that progress have been made in the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and that some results have been achieved; whereas, however, the current situation does not reflect the expectations created by the introduction of the Youth Guarantee, i.e. to ensure that all NEETs receive, within four months, a quality offer of training or employment;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas there is a serious problem related with the so-called "skill mismatch", defined as a mismatch between candidates' skills and labour market requirements; whereas it would be useful to create a network in order to correct the dysfunctions of current national training systems;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the composition of the NEET population ( young people aged between 15 and 24 years old) is not uniform across the EU Member States, and that a more accurate definition of NEET would be fundamental;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses thate need for effective mechanisms to discuss and resolveand binding mechanisms between European authorities and all stakeholders (national, regional and local authorities, social partners, NGOs and civil society) so as to resolve flexibly and effectively difficulties experienced when implementing YG schemes are needed, together with; underlines the pressing need for a strong commitment by the Member States to implement the scope of the YG in full, including partnership-building, ensuring an effective outreach, enabling skills enhancementby ensuring the quality of job offers, further education and training, as the European Court of Auditors has requested, and ensuring an effective outreach to beneficiaries, helping them enhance their skills and join the labour market, facilitating the transition from education into the labour force and putting in place proper evaluation structures;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that effective mechanisms to discuss and resolve difficulties experienced when implementing YG schemes are needed, together with a strong commitment by the Member States to implement the scope of the YG in full, including partnership-building, ensuring an effective outreach, enabling skills enhancement and putting in place proper evaluation structures;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that the implementation of the YG should be geared according to national, regional and local circumstances, while stressing the need to maintain flexibility in designing and managing the national youth employment policies on the basis of needs and priorities of Member States;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Notes the inefficiencies of regional or sub-regional monitoring system; therefore asks Member States and Regions to continue strengthening the monitoring system and to develop a more accurate picture of the resources needed to successfully implement the Youth Guarantee, through the publication of periodic reports to facilitate data analysis and the overall evaluation of the program;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that preventive interventions andogressive structural reform efforts by the Member States are needed, with a view to ensuring the quality of the services and offers provided under the YG, in order to reap the benefits of the YG and ensure the success of school-to-work transitions of young people; stresses in this regard the importance of reforming public employment offices, endowing them with greater resources and training PEStheir personnel, capacity building and cooperation with NGOs to devise special services for personalised attention and act in an integrated manner together with all other stakeholders who could potentially be involved in implementing the YG , such as departments of regional and local authorities, social services, NGOs active in civil society, where relevant;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that preventive interventions and structural reform efforts by the Member States are needed in order to reap the benefits of the YG and ensure the success of school-to-work transitions of young people; stresses in this regard the importance of training PES personnel, capacity building and cooperation with NGOs, where relevant;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to create a network to correct the dysfunctions of current national training systems, by identifying the competences needed to close the skill mismatch from the individual profiles of the beneficiaries;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to propose, in collaboration of EMCO, standards for quality criteria for offers to be made under the YG;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the full potential of exchanging best practices among Member States has not yet been realised; notes in this respect the importance of mutual learning aimed at the activation of the most vulnerable groups; Calls on the Commission to identify and diffuse good practices in monitoring and reporting based on its overview of the existing systems across Member States;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to bind budget allocations to objective criteria and to design the individual path of the candidate through subjective criteria, giving to national public employment services the minimum flexibility they need to adjust profiling models; believes that profiling young unemployed should be the first step for a full integration and an anticipatory use of different sources of available data, in order to promote the systematic identification of most disadvantaged people;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to establish appropriate outreach strategies to identify the entire NEET population with the objective of registering them; Calls on the Member States to establish a complete overview of the cost of implementing the Youth Guarantee for the entire NEET population and prioritise the related measures to be implemented according to available financing;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to ensure the provision of follow-up data to assess the long-term sustainability of outcomes; Calls on the Member States to ensure more transparency in the data collection, taking into account gender perspective, according to harmonized procedures in order to obtain consistent data in all the Member States; for this purpose it would be appropriate to establish a transparent mechanism for matching actions by different financial instruments;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring and reporting systems in order to regularly provide quality data to facilitate the development of more evidence-based youth policies, in particular, the capacity to follow-up the participants that exit the Youth Guarantee in order to reduce the number of unknown exits to the extent possible;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to revise its guidance on data collection to minimise the risk of overstatement of results. Member States should revise their baselines and targets accordingly;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Cautions against the repeated take-up of the YG which goes against the spirit of labour market activation and the aim of transition into permanent employment. lls on the Commission and the Council to make a wholehearted commitment to the Youth Employment Initiative, and the YG in particular, as a long-term European public policy ensuring the integration of young people into the world of work, and in particular to take advantage of the review of the Multiannual Financial Framework to allocate greater resources to the Youth Guarantee – up to EUR 20 billion for 2017-2020 – with a view to improving expenditure oversight mechanisms and, above all to adapting the programme to facilitate take-up of its resources by authorities and increasing its coverage, explicitly including young people up to the age of 30; also calls on the Commission to be flexible in interpreting rules for the funding and reimbursement of activities carried out by authorities under the umbrella of the YG, given the delays experienced in the early years of the programme and the initial difficulties in take-up of funding, so as to ensure that authorities do not encounter financial problems as a result of their participating in the YG.
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to monitor the individual situation of young people leaving the Youth Guarantee schemes at specific intervals of 6, 12 and 18 months in order to promote the sustainable integration of NEET into the labour market;