Activities of Evelyn REGNER related to 2016/2242(INI)
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Amendments (22)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas from a quantitative perspective, the take-up of the Youth Guarantee (YG) is encouraging in some Member States but implementation of integration services listed under the YG is often only partial and dependent on the existing capacity and efficiency of public employment services (PES); whereas Member States should continue their efforts to strengthen and reform their PES;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas in April 2013 EU Member States committed to ensure a successful transition of young people into the labour market through the establishment of Youth Guarantee schemes, and that the audit carried out by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has been premature as the period subject to the investigation is too close to the launch of national guarantee schemes and limited only to certain Member States; whereas for this purpose it would have been more useful to perform an initial assessment of their implementation, and then carry on the audit;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the ECA's report shows that progress have been made in the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and that some results have been achieved; whereas, however, the current situation does not reflect the expectations created by the introduction of the Youth Guarantee, i.e. to ensure that all NEETs receive, within four months, a quality offer of training or employment;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas there is a serious problem related with the so-called "skill mismatch", defined as a mismatch between candidates' skills and labour market requirements; whereas it would be useful to create a network in order to correct the dysfunctions of current national training systems;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the composition of the NEET population ( young people aged between 15 and 24 years old) is not uniform across the EU Member States, and that a more accurate definition of NEET would be fundamental;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that effective mechanisms to discuss and resolve difficulties experienced when implementing YG schemes are needed, together with a strong commitment by the Member States to implement the scope of the YG in full, including partnership-building, ensuring an effective outreach, enabling skills enhancement and putting in place proper evaluation structures;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the planned increase in funding for the Youth Employment initiative; at the same time stresses that funding is currently not sufficient to guarantee that all NEETs will be given an apprenticeship, a traineeship and continued education; in this context, calls on the Member States to ensure that the ESF funds available do not replace public spending;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that the implementation of the YG should be geared according to national, regional and local circumstances, while stressing the need to maintain flexibility in designing and managing the national youth employment policies on the basis of needs and priorities of Member States;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underlines that in order for the EU Youth Guarantee measures to be successfully implemented, the necessary funds need to be allocated and the overall funding needs to be assessed, taking into account that the assessment of funding may be affected by the difficulty to distinguish between the types of measures addressed to young people by Member States;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Notes the inefficiencies of regional or sub-regional monitoring system; therefore asks Member States and Regions to continue strengthening the monitoring system and to develop a more accurate picture of the resources needed to successfully implement the Youth Guarantee, through the publication of periodic reports to facilitate data analysis and the overall evaluation of the program;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that preventive interventions and structural reform efforts by the Member States are needed in order to reap the benefits of the YG and ensure the success of school-to-work transitions of young people; stresses in this regard the importance of training PES personnel, capacity building and cooperation with NGOs, where relevant;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to create a network to correct the dysfunctions of current national training systems, by identifying the competences needed to close the skill mismatch from the individual profiles of the beneficiaries;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to propose, in collaboration of EMCO, standards for quality criteria for offers to be made under the YG;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the full potential of exchanging best practices among Member States has not yet been realised; notes in this respect the importance of mutual learning aimed at the activation of the most vulnerable groups; refers in particular to the combined vocational education and training model, which is not sufficiently well known yet can make a significant contribution to training professionals in shortage occupations by ensuring a smooth transition from school and training to professional life;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the full potential of exchanging best practices among Member States has not yet been realised; notes in this respect the importance of mutual learning aimed at the activation of the most vulnerable groups; Calls on the Commission to identify and diffuse good practices in monitoring and reporting based on its overview of the existing systems across Member States;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Member States to bind budget allocations to objective criteria and to design the individual path of the candidate through subjective criteria, giving to national public employment services the minimum flexibility they need to adjust profiling models; believes that profiling young unemployed should be the first step for a full integration and an anticipatory use of different sources of available data, in order to promote the systematic identification of most disadvantaged people;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Member States to establish appropriate outreach strategies to identify the entire NEET population with the objective of registering them; Calls on the Member States to establish a complete overview of the cost of implementing the Youth Guarantee for the entire NEET population and prioritise the related measures to be implemented according to available financing;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to ensure the provision of follow-up data to assess the long-term sustainability of outcomes; Calls on the Member States to ensure more transparency in the data collection, taking into account gender perspective, according to harmonized procedures in order to obtain consistent data in all the Member States; for this purpose it would be appropriate to establish a transparent mechanism for matching actions by different financial instruments;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to improve their monitoring and reporting systems in order to regularly provide quality data to facilitate the development of more evidence-based youth policies, in particular, the capacity to follow-up the participants that exit the Youth Guarantee in order to reduce the number of unknown exits to the extent possible;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to revise its guidance on data collection to minimise the risk of overstatement of results. Member States should revise their baselines and targets accordingly;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to monitor the individual situation of young people leaving the Youth Guarantee schemes at specific intervals of 6, 12 and 18 months in order to promote the sustainable integration of NEET into the labour market;