26 Amendments of Ana MIRANDA PAZ related to 2018/0206(COD)
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from economic globalisation, themigration management of migration flows and the increasedand integration, ensuring security threat, clean energy transition, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions, experienced especially by SMEs. Taking into account the changing realities of the world of work, the Union should be prepared for the current and future challenges by investing in relevant skills, making growth more inclusive and by improving employment and social policies, including in view of labour mobility.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The types of financing and the methods of implementation under this Regulation should be chosen on the basis of their ability to achieve the specific objectives of the actions and to deliver results, taking into account, in particular, the costs of controls, the administrative burden, and the expected risk of non- compliance. For grants, this should include consideration of the use of lump sums, flat rates and unit costs, as well as financing not linked to costs as envisaged in Article 125(1) of the Financial Regulation. To implement measures linked to the socio- economic integration of third country nationals, and in accordance with Article 88 of the Common Provisions Regulation, the Commission may reimburse Member States using simplified cost options including the use of lump sums. Given the key role of local and regional authorities in ensuring high levels of employment, education and training, health, social inclusion, including access to services and long-term integration of third-country nationals in the host communities and active participation in society, direct access to this fund should be granted to local and regional authorities.
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) In view of this wider scope of the ESF+ it is appropriate to foresee that the aims to enhance the effectiveness of labour markets and promote access to quality employment, to improve the access to and the quality of education and training as well as to promote social inclusion and health and to reduceradicate poverty are not only implemented under shared management, but also under direct and indirect management under the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands for actions required at Union level.
Amendment 73 #
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 at promoting youth employment through specific actions, including by supporting fair and voluntary mobility and fostering early integration into the labour market. 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 enhance workers’ mobility. The ESF+ should aim at tackling precarious employment, in order to ensure that all types of work contracts offer decent working conditions with proper social security coverage, in line with the ILO Decent Work Agenda, Article 9 TFEU, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the European Social Charter. 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 82 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) Synergies with the Asylum and Migration Fund should ensure that ESF+ can mainstream and scale up equal access to quality-non segregated and inclusive education and training, as well as ensuring social inclusion, integration into the labour market and access to healthcare for third country nationals.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 b (new)
Recital 17 b (new)
(17 b) Synergies with the Rights and Values programme should ensure that ESF+ can mainstream and scale up actions to prevent and combat discrimination, racism, xenophobia, anti- Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred and other forms of intolerance, as well as devoting specific actions to prevent hatred, segregation and stigmatisation, including bullying, harassment and intolerant treatment.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The ESF+ should contribute to the reduction of poverty by supporting national schemes aiming to alleviate food and material deprivation and promote social integration of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and the most deprived. With a view that at Union level at least 4% of the resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management supports the most deprived, Member States should allocate at least 2% of their national resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to address the forms of extreme poverty with the greatest social exclusion impact, such as homelessness, child poverty and food deprivation. Due to the nature of the operations and the type of end recipients, it is necessary that simpler rules, include direct access to funding for local and regional authorities, apply to support which addresses material deprivation of the most deprived.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) In light of the persistent need to enhance efforts to address the management of the migration flowsimprove migration management in the Union as a whole and in order to ensure a coherent, strong and consistent support to the solidarity and responsibility- sharing efforts, the ESF+ should provide support to promote the socio-economic integration of third country nationals complementary to the actions financed under the Asylum and Migration Fund.
Amendment 104 #
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 2530% of their national ESF+ resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to fostering social inclusion.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) ESF+ lays down provisions intended to achieve freedom of movement for workers on a non-discriminatory basis by ensuring the close cooperation of the central employment services of Member States with one another and with the Commission. The European network of employment services should promote a better functioning of the labour markets by facilitating the cross-border mobility of workers and, a greater transparency of information on the labour markets and greater skills and qualifications recognition. The ESF+ scope also includes developing and supporting targeted mobility schemes with a view to facilitating voluntary labour mobility and filling vacancies where labour market shortcomings have been identified.
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
(13) 'most deprived persons' means natural persons, whether individuals, families, households or groups composed of such persons, whose need for assistance has been established according to the objective criteria set by the national competent authorities in consultation with local and regional authorities and relevant stakeholders, while avoiding conflicts of interest and which are approved by those national competent authorities and which may include elements that allow the targeting of the most deprived persons in certain geographical areas;
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The ESF+ aims to support Member States to achieve high employment levels, fairadequate social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the future world of work, in line with the principles set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on 17 November 2017.
Amendment 132 #
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 and long- term unemployed, women aged 45 or more and marginalised persons, and of inactive people, promoting self-employment and the social economy;
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point ii
(ii) modernising labour market institutions and services to assess and anticipate skills needs and ensure timely and tailor-made assistance and support to labour market matching, transitions and mobility, including through improved skills and qualifications recognition across Member States;
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point v
(v) promoting equal access to and completion of, quality and inclusive education and training, in particular for disadvantaged groups, including migrant children irrespective of their residence status, from early childhood education and care through general and vocational education and training, and to tertiary level, as well as adult education and learning, including facilitating learning mobility for all and recognition of qualifications obtained across Member States;
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Resources allocated to Member States under shared management may, at their request or at the Commission's request and with the Member State's agreement, be transferred only to the Rights and Values Programme or to the Justice Programme under the Justice, Rights and Values Fund. The Commission shall manage those resources directly in accordance with Article 62(1)(a) of the Financial Regulation or indirectly in accordance with Article 62(1)(c).
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall concentrate the ESF+ resources under shared management on interventions that address the challenges identified in their national reform programmes, in the European Semester as well as in the relevant country-specific recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU, and take into accountbuild on principles and rights set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States and, where appropriate the Commission, shall foster synergies and ensure coordination, complementarity and coherence between the ESF+ and other Union funds, programmes and instruments such as Erasmus, the Asylum and Migration Fund, the Rights and Values programme and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrument, both in the planning phase and during implementation. Member States and, where appropriate the Commission, shall optimise mechanisms for coordination to avoid duplication of effort and ensure close cooperation between those responsible for implementation to deliver coherent and streamlined support actions.
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall allocate at least 2530% of their ESF+ resources under shared management to the specific objectives for the social inclusion policy area set out in points (vii) to (xi) of Article 4(1), including the promotion of the socio- economic integration of third country nationals.
Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b – point ii a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b – point ii a (new)
(ii a) recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate access to the labour market and labour mobility
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point d – point iii
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point d – point iii
(iii) information systems collecting, analysing and disseminating evidence and data related to the fields referred to in Article 4(1);
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point d – point iv
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point d – point iv
(iv) Council PresidencyRelevant civil society and NGO events, conferences and seminars.
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands shall be implemented directly as provided for by the Financial Regulation or indirectly with bodies referred to in Article [61(1)(c)] of the Financial Regulation. Local and regional authorities shall have direct access to the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands.
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – point 1a – indent 10 a (new)
Annex I – point 1 – point 1a – indent 10 a (new)
- third country nationals*,
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – point 1b – paragraph 1 – indent 2
Annex I – point 1 – point 1b – paragraph 1 – indent 2
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 2 – indent 2 a (new)
Annex I – point 2 – indent 2 a (new)
- number of supported civil society service providers at national, regional or local level.