Traduction de «Fondé sur les compétences » (Français → Anglais) :

In that context, while recognising the benefits stemming from financial leverage via the use of innovative financial instruments, such as maximising viability of the projects by pooling funds and expertise, we should also recognise that the use of EU funds should always abide by best practices and rules as stipulated in the Financial Regulation and the Common Implementing Regulation.

Principally the interventions of the European Investment and Structural Funds - the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) - will inject over €30 billion to support skills development in the current period 2014-2020.

51. Notes that in times of crisis, it is essential to attract young people to the new types of jobs available and to ensure that skill programmes promote access to the labour market for young people, with a view to enabling them to make the most of their job potential, combating high unemployment among people under the age of 25 years and capitalising on the younger generation's skills in using new technologies;

1. Launch a major European employment support initiative a) The Commission is proposing to simplify criteria for European Social Fund (ESF) support and step up advance payments from early 2009, so that Member States have earlier access to up to € 1.8 bn in order to: Within flexicurity strategies, rapidly reinforce activation schemes, in particular for the low-skilled, involving personalised counselling, intensive (re-)training and up-skilling of workers, apprenticeships, subsidised employment as well as grants for self-employment, business start-up's and Refocus their programmes to concentrate support on the most vulnerable, and where necessary opt for full Community financing of projects during this period; Improve the monitoring and matc ...[+++]hing of skills development and upgrading with existing and anticipated job vacancies; this will be implemented in close cooperation with social partners, public employment services and universities; Working with Member States, the Commission proposes to re-programme ESF expenditure to ensure that immediate priorities are met. b) The Commission will also propose to revise the rules of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund so that it can intervene more rapidly in key sectors, either to co-finance training and job placements for those who are made redundant or to keep in the labour market skilled workers who will be needed once the economy starts to recover.

These mainly pertain to the new legal basis following the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam, the clarification of the scope and the possible scrapping of the annexes in which quite a few groups are mentioned which can be excluded or not, as the case may be, the new definition of the term ‘intervention’ and especially the new provisions establishing the guarantee fund that covers cross-border cases.

2.1. A prudent business plan shall be submitted by the co-financiers or sponsors of the fund specifying, inter alia, the targeted market, the criteria, terms and conditions of financing, the operational budget of the fund, the ownership and co-financing partners, the professionalism, competence and independence of the management, the fund's by-laws, the justification and intended utilisation of the Structural Funds' contribution, the investment exit policy, and the winding-up provisions of the fund, including the reutilisation of returns attributable to the contribution from the Structural Funds.