Activities of Gilles LEBRETON related to 2018/0206(COD)
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Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
having regard to Article 4 TFEU, under which the EU has shared competence with the Member States in the fields of social policy, employment policy and public health, having regard to Article 5 TFEU, which empowers the EU to define the arrangements under which the Member States may coordinate their action in these areas, with due regard for the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, having regard to Article 6 TFEU, which assigns shared competence to the EU to support, coordinate or supplement the actions of the Member States, with due regard for the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality,
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) On 17 November 2017, the European Pillar of Social Rights was jointly proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission as a response to social challenges in Europe. The twenty key principles of the pillar are structured around three categories: equal opportunities and access to the labour market; fair working conditions; social protection and inclusion.; The twenty principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights should guide the actions under the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). In order to contribute to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights the ESF+ should support investments in people and systems in the policy areas of employment, education and social inclusion, thereby supporting economic, territorial and social cohesion in accordance with Article 174 TFEU. As social and employment policy, as well as health and assimilation policy, fall primarily within the competence of the Member States, the ESF + supports and complements their actions.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The Council of […] adopted revised guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States to align the text with the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, with a view to improving Europe's competitiveness and making it a better place to invest, create jobs and foster social cohesion. In order to ensure the full alignment of the ESF+ with the objectives of these guidelines, particularly as regards employment, education, training and the fight against social exclusion, poverty and discrimination, the ESF+ should support Member States, taking account of the relevant Integrated Guidelines and relevant country-specific recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU and, where appropriate, at national level, the national reform programmes underpinned by national strategies. The ESF+ should also contribute to relevant aspects of the implementation of key Union initiatives and activities, in particular the "“Skills Agenda for Europe"” and the European Education Area, relevant Council Recommendations and other initiatives such as the Youth Guarantee, Upskilling Pathways and on Integration of the long- term unemployed, without prejudice to the principles of subsidiarity, proportionality and division of responsibilities.
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from economic globalisation, the management of migration flows and the increased security threat, clean energy transition, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions, experienced especially by SMEs. Taking into account the changing realities of the world of work, the Union should be prepared for the current and future challenges by investing in relevant skills, making growth more inclusive and by improving employment and social policies, including in view of labour mobility. As social and employment policy is primarily the responsibility of the Member States, EU funds support and complement their actions.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Regulation (EU) No […] establisheslays down details of the framework for action by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), the Cohesion Fund, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), the Asylum and Migration Fund (AMIF), Internal Security Fund (ISF) and the Border Management and Visa Instrument (BMVI) as a part of the Integrated Border Management Fund (IBMF), and lays downcoordinates, in particular, the policy objectives and the rules concerning programming, monitoring and evaluation, management and control for Union funds implemented under shared management. It is therefore necessary to specify the general objectives of the ESF+, and to lay down specific provisions concerning the type of activities that may be financed by the ESF+.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) In view of this wider scope of the ESF+ it is appropriate to foresee that the aims to enhance the effectiveness of labour markets and promote access to quality employment, to improve the access to and the quality of education and training as well as to promote social inclusion and, to promote health and to reduce poverty are not only implemented under shared management, but also under direct and indirect management under the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands for permitted actions required at Union level.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The ESF+ should aim to support, coordinate or supplement actions to promote employment through active interventions enabling (re)integration into the labour market, notably for youth, the long-term unemployed and the inactive, as well as throughactions to promotinge self– employment and the social economy. The ESF+ should aim to improve the functioning of labour markets by supporting the modernisation of labour market institutions such as the Public Employment Services in order to improve their capacity to provide intensified targeted counselling and guidance during the job search and the transition to employment and to enhance workers’ mobility. The ESF+ should promote women's participation in the labour market through measures aiming to ensure, amongst others, improved work/life balance and access to childcare. The ESF + should also aim to provide a healthy and well-adapted working environment in order to respond to health risks related to changing forms of work and the needs of the ageing workforce.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The ESF+ should promotesupport the promotion of flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all, notably digital skills and key enabling technologies, with a view to providing people with skills adjusted to digitalisation, technological change, innovation and social and economic change, facilitating career transitions, mobility and supporting in particular low-skilled and/or poorly qualified adults, in line with the Skills Agenda for Europe.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The ESF+ should support policy and system reforms in the fields of employment, social inclusion, healthcare and long-term care, and education and training. In order to strengthen alignment with the European Semester, Member States should remain free to allocate an appropriate amount of their resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to implement relevant country-specific recommendations relating to structural challenges which it is appropriate to address through multiannual investments falling within the scope of the ESF+. The Commission and the Member States should ensure coherence, coordination and complementarity between the shared- management and Health strands of ESF+ and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrument. In particular, the Commission and the Member States should ensure, in all stages of the process, effective coordinationrespect the principle of sincere cooperation, as laid down in the Treaties, in order to safeguard the consistency, coherence, complementarity and synergy among sources of funding, including technical assistance thereof.
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) The Member States and the Commission should ensure that ESF+ contributes to the promotion of equality between women and men in accordance with Article 8 TFEU to foster equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men in all areas, including regarding participation in the labour market, terms and conditions of employment and career progression. They should also ensure that the ESF+ promotes equal opportunities for all, without discrimination in accordance with Article 10 TFEU and promotes the inclusion in society of persons with disabilities on equal basis with others and contributes to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These principles should be taken into account in all dimensions and in all stages of the preparation, monitoring, implementation and evaluation of programmes, in a timely and consistent manner while ensuring that specific actions are taken to promote gender equality and equal opportunities. The ESF+ should also promote the transition from residential/institutional care to family and community-based care, in particular for those who face multiple discrimination. The ESF+ should not support any action that contributes to segregation or to social exclusion. Regulation (EU) No [future CPR] provides that rules on eligibility of expenditure are to be established at national level, with certain exceptions for which it is necessary to lay down specific provisions with regard to the ESF+ strand under shared management.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) In order to reduce the administrative burden for the collection of data, Member States should, where such data are available in registers, allow managing authorities to collect data from registers, provided that the GDPR is properly applied.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) Since the objective of this Regulation, — namely enhancingto support, coordinate, supplement and promote the effectiveness of labour markets and promoting, access to quality employment, improving the access to and the quality of education and training, promoting social inclusion and health and reducing povertyhealth, poverty reduction, as well as the actions under the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands, - cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, iwithout the Union's having the power to provide support, coordination and funding. (Sic - translator's note) In accordance with the principles of subsidiarity as set outnd proportionality, as provided for in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve thatose objectives.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article premier – paragraph 2
Article premier – paragraph 2
It lays down the objectives of the ESF+, the budget for the period 2021-2027, the methods of implementation, the forms of Union funding and the rules for providing such funding. As social and employment policy, and health and assimilation policy, fall primarily within the competence of the Member States, EU funding supports and complements their actions. The Union may encourage Member States to take measures to promote the assimilation of third-country nationals residing in their territory and support them in their actions. However, there is no provision for harmonising the laws and regulations of the Member States in these areas.
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The ESF+ aims to, in the context of shared competences, to coordinate and support Member States to achieve high employment levels, fair social protection and a skilled and resilient workforce ready for the future world of work, in line with the principles set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on 17 November 2017.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
The ESF+ shall support, complement and help to add value to the policies of the Member States to ensure equal opportunities, access to the labour market, fair working conditions, social protection and inclusion, and a high level of human health protection.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The ESF+ shall support the following specific objectives in the policy areas of employment, education, social inclusion and health and thereby also contributing tohelping Member States to attain the policy objective for “A more social Europe - Implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights” set out in Article [4] of the [future CPR]:
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point viii
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point 2
2. a gmore enervironmentally minded, low carbon Europe through the improvement of education and training systems necessary for the adaptation of skills and qualifications, the upskilling of all, including the labour force, the creation of new jobs in sectors related to the environment, climate and energy, and the bioeconomy.
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. Under the Health strand, the ESF+ shall support health promotion and disease prevention, contribute to effectiveness, accessibility and resiliencesoundness of health systems, and help to make healthcare safer, to reduce health inequalities, to protect citizens from cross-border health threats, and to support EU health legislation.
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. All programmes implemented under the ESF+ strand under shared management, as well as the operations supported by the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands shall ensurerespect the principle of equality between men and women throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. They shall also promote equal opportunities for all, without discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation throughout their preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 6
Article 15 – paragraph 6
6. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38 to amend the indicators in Annex I where considered necessary to ensure effective assessment of progress in the implementation of programmes. In accordance with Article 290 TFEU, these non-legislative delegated acts can only supplement the Annexes. They cannot alter the essential elements of the legislative act and shall refer only to the annexes forming part of the regulatory framework (judgments in Commission v Parliament and Council, C 427/12, EU:C:2014:170, paragraph 38, and Commission v Parliament and Council, C 88/14, EU:C:2015:499, paragraph 29). Parliament and the Council may revoke the delegation and/or object to the delegated act and/or stipulate that the delegated act may enter into force only if no objection has been expressed by Parliament or the Council within a period set by the legislative act.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 5
Article 21 – paragraph 5
5. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38 to amend the indicators in Annex II where considered necessary to ensure effective assessment of progress in the implementation of programmes. In accordance with Article 290 TFEU, these non-legislative delegated acts can only supplement the Annexes. They cannot alter the essential elements of the legislative act and shall refer only to the annexes forming part of the regulatory framework (judgments in Commission v Parliament and Council, C 427/12, EU:C:2014:170, paragraph 38, and Commission v Parliament and Council, C 88/14, EU:C:2015:499, paragraph 29). Parliament and the Council may revoke the delegation and/or object to the delegated act and/or stipulate that the delegated act may enter into force only if no objection has been expressed by Parliament or the Council within a period set by the legislative act.
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to developsupport and coordinate the development of high-quality comparative analytical knowledge in order to ensure that policies to achieve the specific objectives referred to in Article 4 are based on sound evidence and are relevant to needs, challenges and conditions in the associated countries;
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b – point i
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b – point i
(i) cross-border partnerships and support services in cross-border regDoes not affect the English versions;.)
Amendment 240 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point a – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point a – introductory part
(a) SHelp to strengthen crisis- preparedness, management and response in the Union to help protect citizens against cross-border health threats.
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point b – point iv
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point b – point iv
(iv) DSupport the development and implementation of approaches responding to future health system challenges.
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 3
Article 33 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38 to supplement or amend the indicators in Annex III where considered necessary to ensure effective assessment of progress in the implementation of the strands. In accordance with Article 290 TFEU, these non-legislative delegated acts can only supplement the Annexes. They cannot alter the essential elements of the legislative act and shall refer only to the annexes forming part of the regulatory framework (judgments in Commission v Parliament and Council, C 427/12, EU:C:2014:170, paragraph 38, and Commission v Parliament and Council, C 88/14, EU:C:2015:499, paragraph 29). Parliament and the Council may revoke the delegation and/or object to the delegated act and/or stipulate that the delegated act may enter into force only if no objection has been expressed by Parliament or the Council within a period set by the legislative act.
Amendment 243 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 2
2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 15(6), Article 21(5) and Article 33(3) shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of time from date of entry into force of this Regulation, and shall be exercised in accordance with Article 290 TFEU. In accordance with Article 290 TFEU, these non-legislative delegated acts can only supplement the Annexes. They cannot alter the essential elements of the legislative act and shall refer only to the annexes forming part of the regulatory framework (judgments in Commission v Parliament and Council, C 427/12, EU:C:2014:170, paragraph 38, and Commission v Parliament and Council, C 88/14, EU:C:2015:499, paragraph 29). Parliament and the Council may revoke the delegation and/or object to the delegated act and/or stipulate that the delegated act may enter into force only if no objection has been expressed by Parliament or the Council within a period set by the legislative act.
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 6
Article 38 – paragraph 6
6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 15(6), Article 21(5) and Article 33(3) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of twohree months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.