6 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2015/0026(COD)
Amendment 1 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Unemployment among young people has reached record levels at EU and national level: 23.3% across the EU and up to 60% in some Member States.
Amendment 2 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) One of the EU’s main objectives, referred to in, for example, the Europe 2020 strategy, is to combat unemployment and social exclusion, and in particular to combat youth unemployment.
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 c (new)
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) This high level of youth unemployment is a direct consequence of recent European austerity policies and the lack of correspondence between the jobs available and proposals for training in the EU.
Amendment 4 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The budgetary constraints faced by Member states, which stem from the recent austerity policies imposed by the EU, and the lack of available funding at the initial stage of the programming period have caused significant delays in the implementation of the YEI. Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 establishes the levels for the initial pre- financing amount to be paid to ensure that Member States have the means to provide support to beneficiaries from the start of implementation of operational programmes. In the context of the YEI these amounts have been considered insufficient to provide the necessary payments to beneficiaries for the implementation of operations.
Amendment 5 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The budgetary constraints faced by Member states and the lack of available funding at the initial stage of the programming period have caused significant delays in the implementation of the YEI. Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 establishes the levels for the initial pre- financing amount to be paid to ensure that Member States have the means to provide support to beneficiaries from the start of implementation of operational programmes. In the context of the YEI these amounts have been considered insufficient to provide the necessary payments to beneficiaries for the implementation of operations and thus to set up projects which might have created employment for young people, which is essential for economic recovery.
Amendment 7 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In order to address the budgetary constraints faced by Member States at the initial stage of the programming period and, taking into account the urgent need– a consequence of the austerity policies imposed by the EU – and, taking into account the urgent need, resulting from choices made by the EU, to address youth unemployment and the specific features of the YEI, it is appropriate to lay down provisions in order to complement Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, with a view to increase the level of the initial pre- financing paid to operational programmes supported by the YEI in 2015. To ensure that Member States have sufficient means to provide payments to beneficiaries responsible for the implementation of operations that target youth unemployment, an additional initial pre-financing amount from the specific allocation for the YEI should be paid in 2015 for operational programmes supported by the YEI, in order to complement the pre-financing amounts paid in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013.