Activities of José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA related to 2017/2039(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on implementation of the Youth Employment Initiative in the Member States
Amendments (12)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
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 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
whereas the YG and the YEI cover different actions, with the YG being intended to encourage structural reform in education while the YEI is a funding instrument and serve as a short-term measure to combat youth unemployment, while the YEI is a funding instrument; whereas the YG is financed through the European Social Fund (ESF), national budgets and the YEI, while the YEI can finance the direct provision of jobs, apprenticeships, traineeships or continued education for the YEI target group in the eligible regions; whereas while the YG applies to all 28 Member States, only 20 Member States are eligible for YEI support; whereas, finally, YEI intervention has no predefined duration, while the YG requires an offer to be made within four months; 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
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
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 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 b (new)
Citation 2 b (new)
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 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 c (new)
Citation 2 c (new)
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 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the fact that the YEI main objectives are to boost job creation for young people and to assist Member States into establishing proper systems for identifying young peoples’ needs and corresponding support; stresses, therefore, that the effectiveness of the YG and YEI should, in future, be assessed on the basis of progresachievements towards creating or improving Member States’ systems for supporting young people in the school-to- work transition; takes the view that, for the Youth Guarantee to function properly, local public employment services must also function effectively;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. 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 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the existence of delays in the implementation of the YEI caused by the late appointment of the relevant managing authoritiein the Member States, chiefly for procedural reasons; considers this a shortcoming of the YEI legal basis that should be overcome by the Member States through speedy implementation of frontloaded financing;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. RegretNotes that mostit would be desirable for Member States that have not established a comprehensiveyet done so to establish a definition of a ‘quality offer’; urges the Member States and the Commission to use the existing networks to developwork on the development of commonly agreed criteria forharacteristics of this concept, taking into consideration the various existing sources and involving cooperation withe relevant stakeholders12; stresses that thisbased on characteristics such as an offer shouldthat matches participants’ qualification level, profile and labour market needs, provideoffering opportunities for work that enable them to earn a living income and, to enjoy social protections and to be offered prospects for development, leading to sustainable, well- matched integration into the labour market;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. 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 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that a lack of information on the potential cost of implementing a scheme in a Member State can result in inadequate funding for implementing the scheme and achieving its objectives, therefore 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; calls on the Member States to make an ex-ante analysis and to establish an overview of the cost of implementing the YG;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Believes that, 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;