Activities of Eva ORTIZ VILELLA related to 2013/2173(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on: Are tools in place to monitor the effectiveness of European Social Fund spending on older workers? (Court of Auditors Special Report 25/2012) PDF (181 KB) DOC (97 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas several years of economic and financial crisis have meant that the European Social Fund’s (ESF) measures are more important than ever as one of the tools for tackling high unemployment, and lessons learned from implementing previous measures will be vital when the new programmes are put in place from 2014;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas older workers account for less than 5 % of participants in the lifelong learning activities of the ESF, which is evidence of lower levels of participation in training programmes but not of a lack of training or qualifications on the part of those workers;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets the fact that in the OPs for the period 2007-2013, the definition of ‘older workers’ is not used consistently; notes that many MAs do not use in their respective OPs the definition of ‘older workers’ as defined in the Lisbon Agenda, namely any person of working age between 55 and 64 years old, but instead use different age groups;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that no priority theme dealing with initiatives for older workers, such as ‘encouraging active ageing and prolonging working lives’, is included in the OPs for the period 2007-2013, mainly because of differing interpretations of the form a priority of this kind should take;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is concerned about the fact that, in the OPs for the period under assessment, ‘older workers’, although identified as a target group, did not always have their own indicators or target values, leading to a situation where it is difficult or even impossible to assess the effectiveness of the measures addressing the needs of older workers; notes that, when indicators are in fact present in projects, they refer mostly to output such as the number of participants, and results rather than to any specific impacts;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Welcomes the fact that the new focus of the Common Strategic Framework funds for the next programming period 2014-2020 is on results, under which any measure proposed must be designed to achieve a specific objective;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Stresses that setting clear priorities in the new programmes with a view to achieving results will enable synergies to be found between the various funds and other sources of financing, thereby helping to ensure that measures to achieve the proposed objectives are as effective as possible at both national and transnational level;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Believes it necessary for the indicators used under the new OPs to include alerts in respect of financial and physical factors, and welcomes the fact that these are subject to special monitoring so that the reasons for any deviation from a given threshold in respect of the programmed objectives is analysed by the evaluation unit in cooperation with the intermediary bodies for the programmes, with a view to determining whether the deviations are caused by temporary situations or structural problems requiring more in-depth analysis or, where necessary, modifications to the programme;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Believes it also necessary to monitor whether or not changes occur in the socio-economic context and in the national and/or Community priorities, and whether problems arise when the programmes are being implemented which require a programme to be evaluated and substantially modified;