Implementation of the Council Recommendation of 30 October 2020 on A Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee and replacing the Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 2Adopted

   Paragraph 75

   Tabled by Hristo Petrov · Renew

   75. Recommends the promotion of volunteering opportunities Removed: within RYG schemes Added: for RYG beneficiaries and the creation of a European quality framework for volunteering; emphasises that … vulnerable young people in a supportive and solidarity-focused environment; considers that the Removed: integration Added: promotion of volunteering opportunities Removed: into RYG schemes could be achieved by creating synergies with Erasmus+ Added: for RYG beneficiaries should occur as part of the Erasmus+ programme and its European Solidarity Corps volunteering strand and Removed: by ensuring that young people engaged with, or seeking to engage with, RYG schemes Removed: are also Added: should also be made aware of available Added: quality volunteering opportunities funded under different schemes; takes the view that Removed: RYG providers from the volunteering sector Added: civil society organisations should be supported by adequate resources for the delivery of Added: quality volunteering opportunities and Removed: other RYG offers, ensuring that existing funds for employment and training opportunities are not Removed: reallocated; Added: reallocated and avoiding the replacement of potential quality jobs and traineeships with unpaid volunteering;

2. Amendment 3Adopted

   Paragraph 55

   Tabled by Niels Geuking · PPE

   … to urgently increase the funding of the European Child Guarantee, which should Removed: have a dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion; Added: benefit from a substantial dedicated budget; insists that this dedicated budget be anchored in the next MFF and …

3. Amendment 4Rejected

   Paragraph 6

   Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Petr Bystron, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

   … footing with the support provided to NEETs who are registered as unemployed; Added: stresses that third-country nationals must not receive more favourable treatment under RYG schemes than citizens of the Member State financing and implementing the scheme; rejects quotas, positive discrimination and preferential treatment based on sex, race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation or migrant background; stresses that support must be allocated on the basis of objective socio-economic need and willingness to enter employment, education or training;

4. Amendment 5Rejected

   Paragraph 52 a (new)

   Tabled by Sarah Knafo, Milan Uhrík, Marcin Sypniewski +2 · ESN

   Added: 52a. Calls on the Member States to reduce the fiscal, regulatory and administrative barriers that hinder young people in establishing businesses;

5. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph 54

   Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Petr Bystron, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

   … support all children, parents, families and carers, which should lead to stronger Removed: families of all kinds; Added: families; recognises that the family founded on marriage between a woman and a man is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state; stresses that this integrated approach must aim to prevent the ‘care cliff’ …

6. Amendment 7Rejected

   Paragraph 57 a (new)

   Tabled by Sarah Knafo, Milan Uhrík, Marcin Sypniewski +2 · ESN

   Added: 57a. Stresses, however, that the establishment of a European label or degree must neither lead to the harmonisation of curricula, degree-awarding requirements or the governance of higher education institutions, nor result in a reduction in the autonomy of those institutions; recalls that the organisation of education systems and decisions on teaching content fall within the competence of the Member States;

7. Amendment 8Rejected

   Paragraph 59

   Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Petr Bystron, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

   … their communities; notes that for young people in vulnerable situations, the approach Removed: must be low threshold, without the need for registration or documentation; Added: should be low threshold and avoid excessive administrative burdens, while requiring verification of identity, eligibility and lawful residence, in accordance with national law; stresses that persons illegally staying in the territory of a Member State must not be eligible for publicly funded RYG schemes;

8. Amendment 9Rejected

   Paragraph 87

   Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Petr Bystron, Marcin Sypniewski +1 · ESN

   … to expand the use and reach of EU funds across all territories; Added: calls on the Member States to exclude from EU and national funding under RYG schemes any NGO or other organisation that facilitates illegal entry or illegal stay in the EU;

9. Amendment 10Rejected

   Paragraph 88

   Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Petr Bystron, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

   … status, and socio-economic background, as well as the impact of interventions on Removed: gender, Added: sex, disability and disadvantaged areas; Added: stresses that, for the purposes of data collection and evaluation under RYG schemes, sex means the biological sex of a person, female or male, and must not be replaced by categories based solely on self-declared gender identity; calls on the Commission to provide technical assistance to Member States with …

10. Amendment 11Adopted

    Paragraph 12 a (new)

    Tabled by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Estelle Ceulemans, Gabriele Bischoff · S&D

    Added: 12a. Recalls Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s commitment in 2019 to ensuring that every child in the EU at risk of poverty or social exclusion has access to the most basic of rights like healthcare and education, which was followed by the adoption of a Council Recommendation establishing a European Child Guarantee in 2021; stresses that the objectives of the European Child Guarantee cannot be achieved without an ambitious dedicated budget at both EU and national level; reiterates in this context its call for a substantial dedicated budget of at least EUR 20 billion for the European Child Guarantee; underlines the urgent need for this dedicated budget to be allocated in the next multiannual financial framework in order to respond to the growing challenge of child poverty and social exclusion;