15 Amendments of Edouard MARTIN related to 2018/0206(COD)
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) The Union endorsed the objectives of the Paris Agreement in 2015 and has adopted in 2018 new rules on the Governance of the Energy Union as a first step to implement this Agreement. The rules on the Governance of the Energy Union constitute a legally binding framework to identify national and European energy and climate related measures across the entire political spectrum to achieve a socially acceptable and just transition to a sustainable low carbon economy, taking into consideration citizens and regions which would be involved in this transition, so that the local and collective skills and welfare level is not adversely impacted, with the objective of maintaining the territorial production of added-value. Achieving greenhouse gas emission reduction should in particular go hand- in-hand with the creation of sustainable, local jobs and should lead to improvements of public health. The rules on the Governance of the Energy Union foresee the adoption of integrated national climate and energy plans based on a wide consultation with, inter alia, social partners and civil society (the same stakeholders already involved in ESF governance) and the issue of recommendations to the Members States in order to achieve EU agreed targets. The climate and Energy framework is as important as the European Semester of economic policy coordination and should serve on equal footing and in a coherent manner with the European Semester of economic policy coordination to the use of Union funding.
Amendment 55 #
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 and just 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.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The ESF+ should provide support to improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems in order to facilitate the acquisition or maintenance of key competences notably as regards digital skills and those induced by a just transition to a low carbon economy which all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development, employment, social inclusion and active citizenship. The ESF+ should help progression within education and training and a just transition to work, support lifelong learning and employability, and contribute to competitiveness and societal and economic innovation by supporting scalable and sustainable initiatives in these fields. This could be achieved for example through work-based learning and apprenticeships, lifelong guidance, skills anticipation in cooperation with industry and trade unions, up-to-date training materials, forecasting and graduate tracking, training of educators, validation of learning outcomes and recognition of qualifications.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The ESF+ should promote flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all, notably digital skills and key enabling technologies, with a view to providing people and local communities with skills adjusted to digitalisation, technological change, innovation and social and economic change notably the ones induced by the transition to a low carbon economy, facilitating career transitions, mobility and supporting in particular low- skilled and/or poorly qualified adults, in line with the Skills Agenda for Europe.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) The ESF+ should support Member States’ efforts to tackle poverty, including energy poverty as foreseen in the newly agreed rules on the Governance of the Energy Union, with a view to breaking the cycle of disadvantage across generations and promote social inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities for all, tackling discrimination and addressing health inequalities. This implies mobilising a range of policies targeting the most disadvantaged people regardless of their age, including children, marginalised communities such as the Roma, and the working poor. The ESF+ should promote the active inclusion of people far from the labour market with a view to ensuring their socio-economic integration. The ESF+ should be also used to enhance timely and equal access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services such as healthcare and long-term care, in particular family and community-based care services. The ESF+ should contribute to the modernisation of social protection systems with a view in particular to promoting their accessibility.
Amendment 144 #
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 and the new rules on the Governance of the Energy Union, Member States should allocate an appropriate amount of their resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to implement in a just transition way relevant country-specific recommendations relating to structural, including climate and energy, 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 State should ensure, in all stages of the process, effective coordination in order to safeguard the consistency, coherence, complementarity and synergy among sources of funding, including technical assistance thereof.
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) Efficient and effective implementation of actions supported by the ESF+ depends on good governance and partnership between all actors at the relevant territorial levels and the socio- economic actors, in particular the social partners and civil society. It is therefore essential that Member States encourageforesee clear and binding rules on the participation of social partners and civil society in the implementation of the ESF+ under shared management, with a view to establishing a more strategic view of challenges and solutions at the level of local labour and living areas.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46
Recital 46
(46) Reflecting the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this Regulation will contribute to mainstream climate action to ensure a socially acceptable and just transition to a sustainable low carbon economy in the Union’s policies and to the achievement of an overall target of 2530 % of the EU budget expenditures supporting climate objectives. Relevant actions will be identified during the preparation and implementation, and reassessed in the context of the mid-term evaluation.
Amendment 335 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems, to support acquisition of key competences including digital skills and those linked to the just transition towards a low carbon and circular economy;
Amendment 350 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) promoting lifelong learning, notably flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all taking into account digital skills, better anticipating change including those entailed by a just transition to a low carbon and circular economy and new skills requirements based on labour market needs, facilitating career transitions and promoting professional mobility;
Amendment 382 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. In order to ensure that the transition to a low carbon and circular economy is just, these specific objectives shall be implemented by taking fully into account the needs and specificities of citizens, communities and territories which would be involved in this transition, so that the local and collective skills and welfare level are not adversely impacted.
Amendment 432 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall concentrate the ESF+ resources under shared management on interventions that address the challenges identified in their national reform programmes, in the European Semester as well as in the relevant country-specific recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU, and take into account principles and rights set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights, as well as their integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with article 9 of the Regulation of the European Parliament and Council on the Governance of the Energy Union (soon to be published in the OJ).
Amendment 453 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall allocate an appropriate amount of their ESF+ resources under shared management to address challenges identified in a coherent and consistent way relevant country- specific recommendations adopted in accordance with Article 121(2) TFEU and Article 148(4) TFEU and in the European Semester falling within the scope of the ESF+ as well as the recommendations to Member States according to article 28 of the Regulation of the European Parliament and Council on the Governance of the Energy Union (soon to be published in the OJ) as set out in Article 4.
Amendment 494 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall adopt binding rules to ensure adequate participation of social partners and civil society organisations in the delivery of employment, education and social inclusion policies supported by the ESF+ strand under shared management.
Amendment 539 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
The actions addressing the challenges identified in relevant country-specific recommendations and in the European Semester as well as the ones related to the Governance of the Energy Union as referred to in Article 7(2) shall be programmed under one or more dedicated priorities.