Activities of Jutta STEINRUCK related to 2011/0268(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Common provisions on European funds - European Social Fund - European Regional Development Fund and the 'investment for growth and jobs' goal - European Regional Development Fund and the 'European territorial cooperation' goal - Cohesion Fund - European grouping of territorial cooperation (debate)
Amendments (21)
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The ESF shouldmust improve employment opportunities, promote education and life- long learning and develop and support active inclusion policies and policies to combat poverty in accordance with the tasks entrusted to the ESF by Article 162 of the Treaty, and thereby contribute to economic, social and territorial cohesion in accordance with Article 174 of the Treaty. In accordance with Article 9 of the Treaty, the ESF shouldmust take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training and protection of human health. All measures should take care to ensure that they help to promote quality employment and do not support precarious employment.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The European Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from economic globalisation, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions. They have been compounded by the recent economic and financial crisis, which has resulted in increased levels of unemployment, hitting in particular young people and other vulnerable groups, such as migrants. The ESF shouldmust aim to promote employment, create and preserve quality jobs and support voluntary labour mobility, invest in education, skills and life-long learning, promote social inclusion and combat poverty. In promoting the better functioning of labour markets by enhancing the voluntary transnational geographical mobility of workers, the ESF should, in particular, support European Employment Services (EURES activities) in relation to recruitment and the related information, advice and guidance services at national and cross-border level and supplement the financial resources provided in the EURES axis of the Programme for Social Change and Innovation.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Efficient and effective implementation of actions supported by the ESF depends on good governance and partnership between all relevant territorial and socio- economic actors, in particular the local and regional authorities, the social partners and non-governmental organisations. It is therefore necessary that Member States encourage the participation of local and regional authorities, social partners and non-governmental organisations in the implementplanning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the ESF.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Support for social innovation is crucial for making policies more responsive to social change and to encourage and support innovative social enterprises. Social innovation should provide responses to social needs that are unmet or insufficiently met in terms of combating poverty and social exclusion, promoting a high level of quality employment and decent work, guaranteeing adequate and poverty preventing social protection, and improving working conditions, thereby contributing to social progress. In particular, testing and evaluating innovative solutions before scaling them up is instrumental in improving the efficiency of the policies and thus justifies specific support from the ESF. Further, successful social policy experimentations, financed through the Programme for Social Change and Innovation, should be pursued on a wider scale with financial support from the ESF.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) The ESF shall complement other Union programmes, while acknowledging that each instrument shall work according to its own specific procedures. The same eligible costs shall not receive double funding, and close synergies shall be developed between the ESF, other Union programmes and the Structural Funds, in particular the Programme for Social Change and Innovation.
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. The ESF shall promote high levels of employment and jobthe creation and preservation of quality jobs, support the voluntary geographical and occupational mobility of workers, facilitate their adaptation to change, encourage a high level of education and training, promote gender equality, equal opportunities and non- discrimination, enhance social inclusion and combat poverty, thereby contributing to the priorities of the European Union as regards strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion.
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3
Article 2 – paragraph 3
3. The ESF shall benefit people, including disadvantaged groups such as the long- term unemployed, people with disabilities, migrants, ethnic minorities, marginalised communities and people facing or at risk of social exclusion and poverty. The ESF shall also provide support to enterprises, systems and structures with a view to facilitating their adaptation to new challenges and promoting good governance and the implementation of reforms, in particular in the fields of employment, education and social policies.
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3
Article 2 – paragraph 3
3. The ESF shall benefit people, including disadvantaged groups such as the long- term unemployed, people with disabilities, migrants, asylum-seekers, ethnic minorities, marginalised communities and people facing social exclusion. The ESF shall also provide support to enterprises, systems and structures with a view to facilitating their adaptation to new challenges and promoting good governance and the implementation of reforms, in particular in the fields of employment, education and social policies.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
(i) Access to employment for job-seekers and inactive people, including local employment initiatives and support for voluntary labour mobility;
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
(ii) Sustainable integration of young people not in employment, education or training into the labour market or into training;
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iv
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iv
(iv) Equality between men and women and reconciliation between work and family and private life, including through part- time skills training for single parents;
Amendment 215 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
(iii) Enhancing non-discriminatory access to lifelong learning, upgrading the skills and competences of the workforce and increasing the labour market relevance of education and training systems; this should include consideration of, inter alia: - Action to reduce the shortage of skilled workers in the commercial and non- commercial area of the social economy through further training and by attracting young people to enter social economy professions; - Innovative training projects; - Training placement services in all sectors, including the social economy; - Measures to support simplified access to training in the care sector;
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii a (new)
(iiia) Better links between education and training systems and the labour market in order to enhance skills in a more targeted way and identify the modern labour markets' demand for well-qualified workers, and facilitate lifelong learning, in particular through the further development, reform and expansion of a dual training system.
Amendment 239 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c – point i
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c – point i
(i) Active inclusion; in that connection, the following objectives must be taken into account: (a) social and professional integration of persons who have become accustomed to long-term unemployment and have exceptionally poor job prospects, (b) social and professional integration of personally and socially disadvantaged young people as part of an inclusive approach to preventing and combating poverty, (c) social and professional integration of women who are long-term unemployed, and social and professional integration of excluded persons from all age groups who face particular social problems, such as the homeless, offenders, etc., (d) social and professional integration of unemployed persons with health problems, in particular persons suffering from chronic illnesses, mental illnesses or addictions, (e) measures to promote health, (f) training in everyday life skills.
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c – point vi
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c – point vi
(vi) Community-led local development strategies; in that connection, the following should be taken into account: (a) strategies to combat isolation and exclusion; (b) the availability of social amenities which can help to overcome social exclusion; (c) strategies to improve the situation of single parents and carers; (d) support for neighbourhood services;
Amendment 314 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – second subparagraph (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – second subparagraph (new)
Within the operational programmes, Member States shall be granted some leeway to set investment priorities.
Amendment 326 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. The involvement of the social partners and other stakeholders, in particular non- governmental organisations, in the planning, implementation, monitoring and assessment of operational programmes, as referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No […], may take the form of global grants as defined in Article 113(7) of Regulation (EU) No […]. In such a case, the operational programme shall identify the part of the programme concerned by the global grant, including an indicative financial allocation from each priority axis to it.
Amendment 333 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. To encourage adequate participation of the social partners in actions supported by the ESF, managing authorities of an operational programme in a region as defined in Article 82(2)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EU) No […] or in Member States eligible for Cohesion Fund support shall ensure that an appropriate amount of ESF resources is allocated to capacity- building activities, in the form of training, networking measures, and strengthening of the social dialogue, and to activities jointly undertaken by the social partners.
Amendment 339 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. To encourage adequate participation of and access by non-governmental organisations to actions supported by the ESF, notably in the fields of social inclusion, gender equality and equal opportunities, the managing authorities of an operational programme in a region as defined in Article 82(2)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EU) No […] or in Member States eligible for Cohesion Fund support shall ensure that an appropriate amount2 % of ESF resources is allocated to capacity-building for, to training and networking measures and to joint measures taken by non-governmental organisations.
Amendment 358 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The ESF shall promote social innovation within all areas falling under the scope of the ESF, as defined in Article 3 of this Regulation, in particular with the aim of testing, assessing and scaling up innovative solutions to address social needs. With a view to achieving the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy in the areas of employment, education and poverty eradication, all stakeholders shall be involved in implementing the solutions, in particular on the basis of close cooperation with the social partners, social organisations and educational establishments.
Amendment 359 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. 'Social innovation' means new interventions that are social both in their ends and their means and provide more effective, efficient, sustainable and/or just responses to social needs that are unmet or insufficiently met in terms of combating poverty and social exclusion, promoting a high level of quality employment and decent work, guaranteeing adequate and poverty preventing social protection, and improving working conditions, thereby contributing to social progress. Social innovation shall improve the quality of life and work. It shall not be judged primarily on the basis of economic criteria but, rather, on the basis of its added value for society as a whole.