Regulation 2016/589 - European network of employment services (EURES), workers' access to mobility services and the further integration of labour markets - Main contents

EURES: Job search services across the EU

SUMMARY OF:

Regulation (EU) 2016/589 – network of employment services (EURES), workers’ access to mobility services and greater integration of labour markets

WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE REGULATION?

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  It updates earlier rules on a European network of employment services (EURES) to take account of changing mobility patterns among workers and technological advances.
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  The network helps people exercise their right, under Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to seek work in another EU country.

KEY POINTS

The regulation sets out rules on:

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  organising and promoting the EURES network;
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  Europe-wide sharing of data on job vacancies, applications and CVs;
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  measures to achieve a better balance between supply and demand of workers, through better matching of skills and jobs;
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  support services for workers and employers.

The EURES service respects the principle of equal treatment and is available to all workers and employers in the EU.

The network helps to:

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  apply people's right of free movement in practice;
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  implement the EU’s coordinated employment strategy;
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  improve the operation and integration of national labour markets.

The network consists of coordination offices (both European and national) and designated public employment services in each EU country, each with their own specific responsibilities.

Under the new rules, EU governments must:

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  upload details of job vacancies and applications to the EURES website, which must be prominently promoted and easily searchable;
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  cooperate with each other and the European Commission on interoperability between national systems, using the European job classification system (ESCO);
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  establish inventories, to align their national, regional and sectoral classifications with ESCO;
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  ensure workers and employers can access national support services without undue delay (both online or bricks-and-mortar services);
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  monitor and make public labour mobility flows in their country, including shortages and surpluses in particular sectors;
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  collect data on the use made of the network, the placements achieved and the level of customer satisfaction.

EURES members and partners must:

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  help workers and employers register on the site and update, revise or withdraw the data concerned;
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  provide basic information and guidance, including any post-recruitment assistance, required;
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  refer requests for specific information to the relevant national authorities (issues like social security and taxes, etc.).

The Commission must:

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  manage the European Coordination Office, helping the EURES network carry out its activities, for example by operating the website and providing support for communication activities and training;
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  submit a report on EURES activities every 2 years;
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  provide a full evaluation report on the impact of this regulation by 13 May 2021.

FROM WHEN DOES THE REGULATION APPLY?

It has applied since 12 May 2016. Some rules only have applied from 13 May 2018, among which those on the standardised uploading of data to the website and access to job vacancies and CVs.

BACKGROUND

For more information, see:

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  EURES on the European Commission's website.

MAIN DOCUMENT

Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 April 2016 on a European network of employment services (EURES), workers' access to mobility services and the further integration of labour markets, and amending Regulations (EU) No 492/2011 and (EU) No 1296/2013 (OJ L 107, 22.4.2016, pp. 1-28)

RELATED DOCUMENT

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/170 of 2 February 2018 on uniform detailed specifications for data collection and analysis to monitor and evaluate the functioning of the EURES network (OJ L 31, 3.2.2018, pp. 104-113)

last update 29.11.2016

This summary has been adopted from EUR-Lex.