Activities of José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA related to 2016/2242(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on control of spending and monitoring of EU Youth Guarantee schemes’ cost-effectiveness PDF (494 KB) DOC (90 KB)
Amendments (27)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas youth unemployment has been and continues to be a serious problem in a number of Member States, with more than 4 million young people aged between 15 and 24 unemployed in the EU in 2016;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas a large number of active employment policies have been put in place to tackle high youth unemployment, with varying results;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas there is another group of young people, whose number and composition vary significantly between Member States, who are not engaged in any form of education or professional training and who doare not actively seekin work (NEETs), whose number and composition vary greatly between Member Statesand who can be classified in two categories: unemployed NEETs, who are available to start work and are actively seeking a job, and inactive NEETs, young people who are not studying, are not receiving training and are not proactively seeking employment;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas since the introduction of the European employment strategy in 1997, the Commission has supported a number of measures designed to improve young people’s employment and education prospects4, and, since the crisis, the EU's efforts have placinged particular emphasis on the Youth Guarantee (YG), which was established by the Council in April 2013, and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), which was launched in late 2013; _________________ 4 Other measures include the ‘Youth on the Move’ initiative launched in September 2010, the ‘Youth Opportunities Initiative’ launched in December 2011 and the ‘Youth Action Teams’ launched in January 2012.
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the YEI is an initiative to support young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs), long-term unemployed youngsters and those not registered as job-seekers living in regions where youth unemployment was higher than 25% in 2012;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas in 2015, in order to speed up the mobilisation of YEI actions, a decision was taken to increase the resources made available to prefinance the initiative by EUR 1 billion, which represented a rise from the initial 1-1.5% to 30% for eligible Member States;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the Youth Guarantee has led to the implementation of structural reforms in the Member States, with a view to, notably, aligning their models of education and training with the labour market so as to achieve its objectives;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas external factors, such as the particular economic situation or the production model of each region, influence the achievement of the goals set in the Youth Guarantee;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)
Recital F c (new)
Fc. whereas the White Paper on the Future of Europe recognises that there is indeed 'a mismatch between expectations and the EU’s capacity to meet them';1 a _________________ 1aPage 12 of the Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the youth unemployment rate in the EU has decreased in the past few yearsin four years of the YG's implementation, from 2013 to 2017, the youth unemployment rate in the EU has decreased by more than 7 percentage points, from 23.8% in April 2013 to 16.6% in April 2017, which means that almost 2 million young people have ceased to be unemployed; notes that, since the implementation of Youth Guarantee schemes, more than 14 million young people have taken part in some type of YG scheme; regrets, however, that in mid- 2016 18.8 % of young people in the EU were still unemployed; urges the Member States to utilise available EU support in order to tackle this longstanding issue;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that the younger people are and the less training they have, the higher the rate of youth unemployment, and this trend has been accentuated with the crisis, which has also affected young adults over 25 without qualifications, who form a group that may be pushed into a situation of serious economic vulnerability unless investment is made in their training;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes that, despite the progress made, access for the most vulnerable unemployed young people to public employment services remains inadequate and this group, together with young graduates, are those least likely to register as jobseekers;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the integration of NEETs requires significantly more EU financing and that the Member States should mobilise additional resources from their national budgetsboth enhancing the effectiveness of the resources available and increasing those resources, as well as greater Member State involvement and mobilisation;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Takes the view that, for the Youth Guarantee to function properly, local public employment services must also function effectively;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the fact that the YEI was frontloaded in the years 2014 and 2015 and the increase of the initial pre-financing to EUR 1 billion designed to ensure a swift mobilisation of resources;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Welcomes the fact that YEI measures have provided support to more than 1.4 million young people and led to Member States consolidating operations amounting to over EUR 4 billion;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for specific expertise and administrative and all kinds of capacity to be developed in the Member States within public employment services (PES) in order to support people that cannot find a job within four months after becoming unemployed or leaving formal education;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Regrets that the majority of NEETs in the EU do not yet have access to any YG scheme, inter alia because they are generally not registered with public employment services; asks the Council to consider continuing a learning exchange within the existing PES network with a view to developing strategies based on best practices to reach and support NEET youth;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes with regret that mostthat it would be desirable for Member States that have not yet done so to established a definition of a ‘quality offer’; urges the Member States to use the existing networks to work on the development of commonly agreed characteristics of this concept; welcomes the ECA’s recommendation in its Special report No 5/2017 that more attention needs to be paid to improving the quality of offers;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that most issues causinge existence of some delays to implementation of the YEI byouth Employment Initiative in the Member States are of a, chiefly for procedural naturereasons; calls on the MS concerned to continue making effortCommission and Member States to make more efforts with regard to the remaining funds under the Initiative so as to improve itsthe implementation of schemes, boosting the level of procedural simplification and reducing administrative burdens;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recognises the significant efforts made by the Member States to implement the YG and notes that it has not been possible, in any country, to guarantee that all young people not in employment, education or training have an opportunity to take up an offer within the four-month period, basically owing to budget shortages; observes, however, that most reforms have not yet been fully implemented, in particular in the forging of partnerships with social partners and young people and in supporting those facing multiple barriers; concludes that considerable efforts and financial resources are needed in the long term to achieve the YG objectives;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that a cost estimation of the YG is a necessary contribution to assess, in order to assess the scheme's effectiveness, all aspects need to be evaluated, including the value for money of the scheme; takes note of previous estimates provided by the International Labour Organisation and Eurofound and asks the Commission to confirm or update these projections;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Stresses the need to set up a system of indicators and measures to assess and monitor the effectiveness of both public employment schemes and the Youth Guarantee, since even though provision was made for such a system from the start, there are still many shortcomings;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. (New heading:) Improvements to be made
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
19c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to manage expectations by setting realistic and achievable goals and targets, to assess disparities, to analyse the market before implementing schemes, to improve supervision and notification systems, and to improve the quality of data so that the results can be measured effectively;