Activites

• 1999/06/21 Final act published in Official Journal
• 1999/03/09 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0149/1999 summary

    The Parliament adopted its report on youth policy, drafted by Ms. Armelle GUINEBERTIERE (UPE, France), without debate. It calls on the Member States, since they bear the main responsibility for bringing about an effective youth policy to pursue a comprehensive policy in this area, fund it more generously, and frame their individual youth policies in such a way as to make for coherence, co-ordination and complementarity. It points out that the socio-economic situation of young people unfortunately also raises concerns in addition to the specific problem of education and training and that there is a lack of properly co-ordinated consideration of these political priorities at European level. It hopes that the programme for young people, which essentially concerns a combination of the Youth for Europe and European Voluntary Service programmes, will receive financial backing commensurate with its importance and will allocate a greater proportion of funding to supporting initiatives put forward by young people themselves. It calls on the Commission and the Member States to comply with the Vienna conclusions on employment policy in the Union by giving consideration to comprehensive professional integration measures that can, for example, promote partnerships with EU businesses liable to provide young Europeans with employment. It encourages the Member States and the Commission to: - pursue a coherent policy by taking the necessary steps to combat educational failure and to reduce the number of young people dropping out of the educational system without basic qualifications and to provide more generous support for second chance schools; - move rapidly towards the validation of knowledge acquired through informal education and recognition thereof on the labour market. It calls on the Member States to promote health and sex education in schools. It calls on the Commission and the Member States more systematically to organise forms of consultation for young people on policies that affect them in order to involve them in the decision-making process and subsequently ensure that their proposals are taken up. It also calls on the Commission to ensure that all young people have access to information about the EU institutions and the workings of the Union, since this would deepen their understanding of Europe and pave the way for their involvement in European policies, especially youth policy.�

• 1999/02/23 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0100/1999
• 1998/07/17 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading

Documents

• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A4-0100/1999
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0149/1999

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)