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2013/2173(INI) Are tools in place to monitor the effectiveness of European Social Fund spending on older workers? Court of Auditors Special Report 25/2012
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Lead | CONT | BALČYTIS Zigmantas (S&D) | ORTIZ VILELLA Eva (EPP), THEURER Michael (ALDE), STAES Bart (Verts/ALE), CZARNECKI Ryszard (ECR), SØNDERGAARD Søren Bo (GUE/NGL), VANHECKE Frank (EFD) |
Opinion | EMPL | JAZŁOWIECKA Danuta (EPP) |
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2014/04/02
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- T7-0256/2014
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- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T7-0256/2014
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A7-0151/2014
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2013/2173(INI)
2013/11/14
EMPL
31 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas population ageing,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas the European Social Fund (ESF) is a key financial instrument intended to help Member States achieve EU employment policy and social inclusion objectives, and reliable data are necessary to assess how effectively ESF resources are spent;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Recital C C. whereas the European Social Fund (ESF), which during the programming period 2007- 2013 accounted for 8% of the EU total budget, is a key financial instrument intended to help Member States achieve EU employment policy objectives, and reliable data are necessary to assess how effectively ESF resources are spent;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas maintaining the employability of older workers as well as keeping a high proportion of the population remaining in work until later age is crucial to address demographic challenges and reach the EU target of 75% of the 20-64-year-old population in employment by 2020;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the lifelong learning measures promoted by the ESF are on the whole well suited to keeping people in employment (e.g. by employability training or retraining);
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that no complete and reliable data are available to assess the effectiveness of ESF spending on older workers; takes the view that the use of ESF appropriations must be transparent and that, when the annual financial statements are drawn up, this information must be available to citizens in an easily accessible manner on a public website, and must include the objectives of the funded programmes and the original amount budgeted, as well as indicators and the possibility of verifying, using easily accessible analytical tools, the achievement of the objectives and the distribution of the funds to their various purposes;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Regrets that no complete and reliable data, including data disaggregated by gender, are available to assess the effectiveness of ESF spending on older
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses that the implementation of the ESF must comply with the EU Financial Regulation and, in particular, with the fundamental principles of sound financial management such as effectiveness, which should be understood as attaining the specific objectives set and achieving the intended results;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States, for the next programming period, to apply and complement as appropriate the common indicators provided for in the ESF Regulation in order to establish how many older workers have
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Member States, for the next programming period, to apply and complement as appropriate the common indicators provided for in the ESF Regulation in order to establish how many older workers, disaggregated by gender, have gained new qualifications, improved their situation on the labour market or found a job after having benefited from projects financed by the ESF;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to rely more on quantitative and quality data when analysing the socioeconomic situation of older workers
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas population ageing, incentives for early retirement, the financial crisis
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to rely more on quantitative data when analysing the socioeconomic situation of older workers and to provide for a measurable causal link between actions identified within operational programmes and the objectives pursued;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to rely more on quantitative data when analysing the socioeconomic situation of older workers and to provide for a causal link between actions identified within operational programmes and the objectives pursued, which would facilitate verification of consistency between identified needs, chosen strategy and specific goals set ;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Member States to rely more on quantitative data when analysing the
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Invites Member States to consider introducing two different categories of older workers benefiting from ESF funding, such as workers aged 45- 55 and over 55, and adapting operational programmes to specific needs identified for these two age groups;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls for a tracking system whereby providers can monitor the progress of individual participants, enabling evaluation to take place at regular intervals so that strengths and weaknesses can be judged and improvements made;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Calls for measures to target not just employability but also progress in terms of skills (including ‘soft’ skills), higher self- esteem and greater motivation; notes that imparting life skills and providing informal training can make a major contribution in this respect;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Calls on the Member States to provide a broad range of activities enabling participants to make an individual choice; notes that the availability of choices forms an important part of the employment and reintegration process;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for all barriers that hamper active aging
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for all barriers that hamper active aging and life-long learning opportunities to be monitored and removed
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Recital A A.
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls for all barriers that hamper active aging and life-long learning opportunities among older women and men to be monitored and removed.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls, in the new operational programmes, for a more uniform approach to the choice of target groups and use of labour market data, in order to set ambitious but realistic targets; notes, given the future importance of the growing cohort of older workers, that preparations for the operational programmes should also include a dialogue on the prioritisation of target groups.
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Recital A A. whereas population ageing, incentives – which still unfortunately exist – for early retirement, the financial crisis and changes in production patterns require strong responses to enable older workers to remain active in the labour market;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas in 2012 the employment rate of people aged 55-64 was less than 50 % in the European Union and in certain Member States it dropped as low as around 30%;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas in 2012 the employment rate of people aged 55-64 was less than 50 % in the European Union and this could be caused by a number of factors such as outdated skills and qualifications, employers' attitudes towards older workers, difficulties with reconciliation of professional and family life or poorer health;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Recital B B. whereas in 2012 the employment rate of people aged 55-64 was less than 50 % in the European Union - 54.4% for men and 41.8% for women;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas an older labour force and longer working lives can make a positive contribution to recovery and future growth;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas older people are indispensable with a view to passing on knowledge and experience to future generations;
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