9 Amendments of Victor NEGRESCU related to 2023/0404(COD)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Union and individual Member States are facing shortages in a wide range of sectors and occupations, including in those relevant for the green and digital transitions. Extensive shortages in construction, healthcare, hospitality, transport, information and communications technology and in science technology, engineering and mathematics, education, agriculture, are long- standing and have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the acceleration of the green and digital transitions. Labour shortages are expected to persist and potentially aggravate in the light of demographic challenges.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Addressing labour shortages requires a comprehensive approach at Union and national level which includes, as a priority, better realising the full potential of groups with lower labour market participation, reskilling and upskilling the existing workforce, facilitating intra-EU labour mobility, as well as improving working conditions and the attractiveness of certain occupations. Due to the current scale of the labour market shortages, the changing nature of work and the demographic trends, measures targeting the domestic and Union workforce alone are likely to be insufficient to address existing and future labour and skills shortages. Therefore, legal migration is key to complement those actions and must be part of the solution to fully support the twin transition.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In order to facilitate international recruitment and provide opportunities for third-country nationals to work in EU-wide shortage occupations, an EU Talent Pool should be established in the form of a Union-wide platform that brings together and supports the matching of profiles of registered jobseekers from third countries residing outside the Union and job vacancies of employers established in the participating Member States. In addition, the EU Talent Pool should address the non-EU jobseekers in relation to intra-EU labour mobility in order to create a fair and harmonized EU labour market, while addressing shortages, job reconversion and the future of work in an integrated and systemic way.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The EU Talent Pool should aim at supporting participating Member States to address existing and future skills and labour shortages via the recruitment of third country nationals to the extent the activation of the domestic workforce and intra-EU mobility are not sufficient to achieve this objective. As a voluntary tool to facilitate international recruitment, the EU Talent Pool should offer additional support at Union level to interested Member States. To this end, complementarity and interoperability with existing national initiatives and platforms should be ensured. Member States’ specific needs should be taken into account in the development of the EU Talent Pool in order to ensure the widest participation possible. Hence, ‘Talent’ is an encompassing term referring to the entire range of skills that might be needed by the Member States’ labour markets. The concept of ‘Talent’ should also take into account labour market trends related to the future of work, such as the transformational effects of technology (automation, AI, robotics), the digital and green transformation, the purpose driven work, new organisation of work and improved work-life balance.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) An EU Talent Pool IT platform should be developed by using existing Commission-owned IT infrastructure to the extent possible. The IT infrastructure developed in the framework of EURES could be partially re-used for the EU Talent Pool IT platform, including the single coordinated channel and the automated matching tool with relevant adaptations, including to duly take into account the ‘EU Talent Partnership pass’. Existing IT infrastructure should be adapted beyond labour needs and take into account also other types of information related to the ‘talent’ issue, such as reconversion, reskilling and upskilling. From a strategic perspective, the EU Talent Pool IT platform should create synergies between both dimensions and needs, intra-EU labour mobility and international recruitment. To maximise effects and adopt a systemic perspective, the two dimensions should not be treated separately.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Synergies shouldall be ensured, where appropriate, between the EU Talent Pool IT platform and other relevant instruments and services at Union level, including with regard to access to training materials such as the EU Academy and the Interoperable Europe Academy. The EU Talent Pool IT platform should be quickly and regularly adapted to new practices in technology and provide state-of-the-art IT services by introducing innovative features and tools. For the EU Talent Pool to properly work, it needs accurate, transparent and real- time information about labour needs and working conditions across the Member States, including infringements of EU and international laws.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The EU Talent Pool should contribute to the objective of discouraging irregular migration including by facilitating access to existing legal pathways. Jobseekers from third countries who are subject to a judicial or administrative decision refusing the entry or stay in a Member State or an entry ban in accordance with Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council11 , should not be allowed to register their profiles in the EU Talent Pool IT platform, given that they will not be permitted to enter and stay in the Union. To this end, jobseekers from third countries should be required, before registering their profiles in the EU Talent Pool, to declare that they are not currently subject to a refusal of entry or stay in a Member State or an entry ban to the territory of the Union. Information should also be provided on the consequences for making a false declaration in this respect. At the same time, distinction should be made between addressing the EU's shortages on one hand, and assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants on the other hand. Synergies must be clearly addressed but the issues should be treated differently. The EU Talent Pool should also contribute to ensure a fair, inclusive labour market across EU member states, with equal opportunities and rights for all. In addition, the EU Talent Pool should contribute to address undeclared work and labour exploitation. _________________ 11 Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (OJ L 348, 24.12.2008, p. 98, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2008/115/oj).
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(b a) The technical infrastructure enabling Member States to correlate EU- intra labour mobility data and recruitment from third countries.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) providing support to the EU Talent Pool Secretariat in the planning and coordination of the activities of the EU Talent Pool, including facilitating exchanges and synergies with intra-EU labour mobility authorities;