15 Amendments of Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI related to 2017/0102(COD)
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In its Communication “A European Solidarity Corps” of 7 December 201618 , the Commission emphasised the need to strengthen the foundations for solidarity work across Europe, to provide young people with more and better opportunities for solidarity activities covering a broad range of areas, and to support national and local governmental and/or not for profit actors, in their efforts to cope with different challenges and crises. The Communication launched a first phase of the European Solidarity Corps whereby different Union programmes have been mobilised to offer volunteering, traineeship or job opportunities to young people across the EU. These activities, whether implemented before or after the entry into force of this Regulation, should continue to apply the rules and conditions set by the respective Union programmes that have financed them under the first phase of the European Solidarity Corps. __________________ 18 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions A European Solidarity Corps, COM(2016) 942 final of 7.12.2016.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Young people should be provided with easily accessible opportunities to engage in solidarity activities, which cwould bring positive effects to society while also enableing them on the one hand to express their commitment to the benefit of communities whileand on the other hand to acquiringe useful experience, skills and competences for their personal, educational, social, civic and professional development, thereby improvienhancing their occupational streng their employability on solidarity- related work for later life. Those activities would also support the mobility of young volunteers, trainees and workers.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The solidarity activities offered to young people should be of high quality, in the sense that they shouldhelp respond to unmet societal needs, and contribute to strengthening communities, offer young people the opportunity to acquire valuable knowledge and competences, be financially accessible to young people, and be implemented in safe and healthy conditionand should therefore be of high quality and effectively accessible to young people, offering them the opportunity to acquire valuable knowledge and competences and to have their efforts recognised, and be implemented in safe and healthy conditions. Particular efforts should be made to ensure the effective inclusiveness and accessibility of the solidarity activities offered, notably in relation to disadvantaged young people. The solidarity activities should not be included to for-profit actors' unpaid traineeship programmes.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The European Solidarity Corps would provide a singlemain entry point for solidarity activities undertaken by young people throughout the Union. Consistency and complementarity of that framework should be ensured with other relevant Union policies and programmes. The European Solidarity Corps should build on the strengths and synergies of existing programmes, notably the European Voluntary Service. It should also complement the efforts made by Member States to support young people andin accessing volunteering opportunities and those developed to ease their school-to- work transition under the Youth Guarantee19 by providing them with additional opportunities to make a start on the labour market in the form of traineeships or jobs in solidarity-related areas within their respective Member State or across borders. Complementarity with existing Union level networks pertinent to the activities under the European Solidarity Corps, such as the European Network of Public Employment Services, EURES and the Eurodesk network, should also be ensured. Furthermore, complementarity between existing related schemes, in particular national solidarity schemes and mobility schemes for young people, and the European Solidarity Corps should be ensured, building on good practices where appropriate. __________________ 19 Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee (2013/C 120/01).
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The European Solidarity Corps should open up new opportunities for young people to carry out volunteering, traineeship or job placements in solidarity- related areas as well as to devise and develop solidarity projects based on their own initiative. Those opportunities should contribute to enhancing their personal, educational, social, civic and professional development. The European Solidarity Corps should also support networking activities for European Solidarity Corps participants and organisations as well as measures to ensure the quality of the supported activities and to enhance the validation of their learning outcomes. It should also contribute to supporting and strengthening existing organisations implementing solidarity actions.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Young people’s spirit of initiative is an important asset for society and for the labour market. The European Solidarity Corps should contribute to fostering this aspect by offering young people the opportunity to devise and implement their own projects aimed at addressing specific challenges to the benefit of their local communities. Those projects should be an opportunity to try out ideadevelop innovative solutions and support young people to be themselves drivers of solidarity actions. They could also serve as a springboard for further engagement in solidarity activities and could be a first step towards encouraging European Solidarity Corps participants to engage in self- employmentocial entrepreneurship or setting up associations, NGOs or other bodies active in the solidarity, non-profit and youth sectors. Necessary administrational support should be given to young people and youth and student organizations, for achieving effective development for the initiatives.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Particular attention should be paid to ensuring the quality of the placements and other opportunities offered under the European Solidarity Corps, in particular by offering training, language support, insurance, tools to support the recognition of the non-formal learning, administrative and post- placement support to participants as well as the validation of the knowledge, skills and competences acquired through their European Solidarity Corps experience.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) A quality label respectively for volunteering and for traineeships and jobs should be put in place to ensure compliance of the participating organisations with the principles and requirements of the European Solidarity Corps Charter, as regards their rights and responsibilities during all stages of the solidarity experience. Obtaining a quality label should be a precondition for participation but should not automatically lead to funding under the European Solidarity Corps. An ex-ante conditionality should also be developed within the European Solidarity Corps work programme to ensure that European funding is not made available to institutional health services, in line with the ESIF regulation.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) A European Solidarity Corps Portal should continuously be developed in order to ensure easy access to the European Solidarity Corps and to provide a one-stop shop for both interested individuals and organisations as regards, inter alia, registration, identification and matching of profiles and opportunities, networking and virtual exchanges, information on existing solidarity placements or projects and on participating organisations, social partners, relevant European and national contact points, online training, language and pre and post-placement support, direct feedback mechanisms as well as other useful functionalities, which may arise in the future. Particular attention will be made for the Portal to be fully accessible by all young people regardless of their abilities.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) A European Solidarity Corps Portal should continuously be developed in order to ensure easy access to the European Solidarity Corps and to provide a one-stop shop for both interested individuals and organisations as regards, inter alia, registration, identification and matching of profiles and opportunities, networking and virtual exchanges, online training, language and post-placement support, peer reviews of the placements, as well as other useful functionalities, which may arise in the future.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) It is essential for the good functioning of the programme and the timely deployment of the actions that mechanisms are put in place within the European Solidarity Corps work programmes to guarantee that offers are presented to registered young people within a reasonable and relatively predictable amount of time. Periodic information and updates on available placements and actively involved participating organisations should therefore be sent to registered individual in order to stimulate their engagement with the European Solidarity Corps after their registration, while also offering them the opportunity to directly get in touch with the actors involved in the field of solidarity at both national and European level.
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
(11) “quality label” means the certification attributed to a public or private entity or an international organisation willing to provide placements under the European Solidarity Corps following a procedure aimed at ensuring compliance with the principles and requirements of the European Solidarity Corps Charter; a separate quality label for volunteering placements and for traineeship and job placements shall be established;
Amendment 205 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) increasing the inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities in the Corps by creating adapted formats and promoting special guidance and support measures with a dedicated budget;
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the development and maintenance of a quality label for entities willing to provide placements for the European Solidarity Corps in order to ensure compliance with the principles and requirements of the European Solidarity Corps Charter; A separate accreditation procedure for entities wanting to provide volunteering placements and entities wanting to provide job and traineeship placements with different evaluation criteria, limiting the access to the programme to the actions they are accredited for;
Amendment 233 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 3
Article 13 – paragraph 3
3. As a result of the assessment the entity may be attributed the European Solidarity Corps quality label. The obtained label shall be re-assessed periodically and may be revokedis valid for the whole duration of a programming period. The labelled organisations are subject to periodical monitoring by the Erasmus+ National Agencies, EACEA and EURES, based on random sampling and/or targeted checks (for instance as a result of participants' feedback), and the result of the checks may lead to the withdrawal of the Quality label or its suspension.