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DRAFT OPINION (COM(2023)0161 – C90062/2023 – 2023/0081(COD)) 2023-05-31
On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act)
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs · Rapporteur: MariePierre Vedrenne
SHORT JUSTIFICATION
Equipping people with the right skills and preparing the workforce to the net-zero technologies is an essential piece of the green transition puzzle. Ensuring Europe’s competitiveness in the industries of the future while moving towards climate neutrality can only become real if the EU and its Member States invest massively in people and in the right skills. Having the knowledge to design, produce, install, update and recycle net-zero technologies is a matter of strategic autonomy and while competition from other regions of the world is on the rise, it is high time for the EU to act on this.
Strategic autonomy and Made in Europe
The current labour shortages in several strategic sectors in Europe hinder its industrial capacities. The EU is currently a net importer of key components and technologies and this dependency is a threat to the EU’s economy and prosperity. While there has been high demands from citizens and national initiatives to boost EU made technologies, the answers provided so far still lack an appropriate coordination between an industry strategy and skills- related policies. In addition, and despite their global nature, the industrial policies implemented on other continents can be seen as protectionist, thus reinforcing the need for the EU to act
The Rapporteur welcomes the proposal put forward by the Commission and its attempt to put the skills dimension as an integral part of the net-zero industry act. An ambitious chapter on skills is key to contribute to the EU’s open strategy autonomy by ensuring that the workforce can match the EU’s ambitions towards a climate neutral economy with high social standards. To achieve this objective, it is necessary to ensure that this new Regulation is supported by a fact-based approach, sufficient financial means, a solid governance structure involving the relevant stakeholders and is well coordinated with other relevant EU policies and instruments. Only that way can the investment in net-zero technologies pays off and be deployed massively across the Union’s territory.
Deploying the learning content of the Academies
The creation of the Net Zero Academies building up on the expertise and knowledge of the best European actors in each sector. is a timely answer to the need for a better skilled workforce, To be successful, the Rapporteur wants the Net Zero Academies to be based on a mapping exercise assessing the shortage in net-zero technologies according to the principle of technology neutrality and analysing the lack of training opportunities in such technologies across the EU. In addition, the Academies shall cover the value chain of the concerned sectors and support all workers, regardless of their age, gender or education. Their design and the learning content that they will produce shall facilitate upskilling, reskilling, adult education and long-term training, as well as be adequate for apprenticeships. A special emphasis to make the Net Zero academies and the corresponding careers more attractive to women, young and older workers is also necessary, as well as making them affordable and accessible. Reinforcing attractiveness of the net-zero industries and deploying adequate learning programmes to all workers today will contribute to counter the labour shortage of tomorrow. Mobility should also be seen as key to the success of this regulation, and should be encouraged and facilitated notably through the recognition of diploma, training certificates, and micro credentials.
Attracting talents
Providing mobility opportunities will not only help workers move where jobs are located but it will also make the EU more attractive for outside talents and boost the competitiveness of the EU’s economy. Europe must be able to attract and train skilled workers it needs from third countries to support its net-zero-emission industries through national or European talent schemes. Europe’s competitiveness is at stake: Europe needs to strengthen its market share in sectors with very high added value, which are currently dominated by competitors on other continents,
Appropriate funding
To match this ambition, appropriate funding should be allocated to the Net-Zero Academies. While they should, in the long run, thrive towards being self-sufficient and receive private funding, the EU shall support their launch and implementation, while ensuring their close coordination with relevant EU funding instruments, such as the ESF +. Given the urgency for the EU industrial sector, Net Zero Academies should be running and providing content by the end of 2025.
Governance structure
Net Zero Academies must reflect the diversity and richness of our continent and sectorial actors. Universities, training centres, and enterprises, including SMEs and start-ups, ideally from different member states and with linguistic diversity should come together to train the EU workforce in the best way possible, and end the current shortage of a skilled workforce. All this work shall be coordinated by a well-governed net-zero Europe platform ensuring a proper link with national efforts in deploying the learning content of the Academies. Proper monitoring shall also be an essential component of this platform, which shall keep a close look at and report on the results achieved in the Member States, while allowing for an update of the scope and content of the Academies.
AMENDMENTS
The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs calls on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, as the committee responsible, to take the following into account:
Amendment 1
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 64
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (64) The scaling up of European net-zero technology industries requires significant additional skilled workers which implies important investment needs in re-skilling and upskilling, including in the field of vocational education and training. This should contribute to the creation of quality jobs in line with the targets for employment and training of the European Pillar of Social Rights. The energy transition will require a significant increase in the number of skilled workers in a range of sectors, including renewable energy and energy storage, and has a great potential for quality job creation. The skill needs for the fuel cell hydrogen sub-sector in manufacturing alone are estimated at 180.000 trained workers, technicians and engineers by the year 2030, according to the Commission’s European Strategic Energy Technology Plan65 . In the photo-voltaic solar energy sector, up to 66.000 jobs would be needed in manufacturing alone. The European network of employment services (EURES) is providing information, advice and recruitment or placement for the benefit of workers and employers, including across internal market borders. | (64) The scaling up of European net-zero technology industries as well as ensuring Europe’s open strategic autonomy require significant additional skilled workers which implies important investment needs in re-skilling and upskilling, including in the field of vocational education and training. This should contribute to the creation of quality jobs in line with the targets for employment and training of the European Pillar of Social Rights. The energy transition will require a significant increase in the number of skilled workers in a range of sectors, including renewable energy and energy storage, grid technologies and battery production, and has a great potential for quality job creation. There is nevertheless a mismatch between the skills of European workers and current open positions in the industrial sector. The skill needs for the fuel cell hydrogen sub-sector in manufacturing alone are estimated at 180.000 trained workers, technicians and engineers by the year 2030, according to the Commission’s European Strategic Energy Technology Plan 65 . In the photo-voltaic solar energy sector, up to 66.000 jobs would be needed in manufacturing alone. It is therefore of outmost importance to make these positions attractive and reachable, especially technical careers including through EU campaigns to promote technical and vocational education. Workers from third countries should also be targeted as the Union only attracts a small share of qualified migrants. Responding to these needs while reaching the Union’s objectives in terms of climate neutrality requires a value chain approach whereby all successive industrial phases are taken into account, from the design of the product (or the service), to the manufacturing phase, including the recycling and reuse of materials, and whereby all the different professions across the value chain are considered. The European network of employment services (EURES) is providing information, advice and recruitment or placement for the benefit of workers and employers, including across internal market borders. The network can play a significant role in using the learning content of training programmes delivered by the skills academies in the creation and deployment of European occupation profiles and by providing information to national employment services about them. |
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| 65 European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Joint Research Centre, The strategic energy technology (SET) plan, Publications Office, 2019, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/04888. | 65 European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Joint Research Centre, The strategic energy technology (SET) plan, Publications Office, 2019, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/04888. |
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Amendment 2
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 65
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (65) Since strengthening the manufacturing capacity of key net-zero technologies in the Union will not be possible without a sizeable skilled workforce, it is necessary to introduce measures to boost the activation of more people to the labour market, notably women and young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), including via skills first approaches as a complement to qualifications-based recruitment. In addition, in line with the objectives of the Council Recommendation on ensuring a fair transition towards climate-neutrality, specific support for job-to-job transition for workers in redundant and declining sectors are important. This means investing in skills and in quality job creation required for net-zero technologies in the Union. Building on and fully taking into account existing initiatives such as the EU Pact for Skills, EU level activities on skills intelligence and forecasting, such as by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and the European Labour Authority, and the Blueprints for sectoral cooperation on skills, the objective is to mobilise all actors: Member States authorities, including at regional and local levels, education and training providers, social partners and industry, in particular SMEs, to identify skills needs, develop education and training programmes and deploy these at large scale in a fast and operational manner. Net-zero strategic projects have a key role to play in this regard. Member States and the Commission may ensure financial support including by leveraging the possibilities of the Union budget through instruments such as the European Social Fund Plus, Just Transition Fund, European Regional Development Funds, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Modernisation Fund, REPowerEU and the Single Market Programme. | (65) Since strengthening the manufacturing capacity of key net-zero technologies in the Union will not be possible without a sizeable skilled workforce, it is necessary to introduce measures to boost the activation of more people to the labour market, and to make these sectors and the technical careers concerned by this regulation more attractive, especially to women as the gender balance in these sectors is far from being reached, to young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), and to legally residing migrant workers including via skills first approaches as a complement to qualifications-based recruitment. In addition, in line with the objectives of the Council Recommendation on ensuring a fair transition towards climate-neutrality, specific support for job-to-job transition and with a view to favour lifelong learning and training for workers in redundant and declining sectors are important. This means investing in skills for all, while aiming at greater labour market and social inclusion requires a targeted approach towards people who need it the most. This includes people who are excluded from the labour market, have limited access to training opportunities or are in professions which are either at risk of disappearing or whose content and tasks are being highly transformed by new technologies. The end objective should be the creation of quality job creation required for net-zero technologies in the Union. Building on and fully taking into account existing initiatives such as the EU Pact for Skills, EU level activities on skills intelligence and forecasting, such as by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and the European Labour Authority (ELA), and the Blueprints for sectoral cooperation on skills, the objective is to mobilise all actors: Member States authorities, including at regional and local levels, universities, including universities of applied sciences, education and training providers, social partners and industry, in particular SMEs and start ups, to identify skills needs, develop education and training programmes and deploy these at large scale in a fast and operational manner also targeting technical education and careers. Net-zero strategic projects have a key role to play in this regard. Member States and the Commission should ensure financial support to deploy the impact and outreach of the Academies and by leveraging the possibilities of the Union budget through instruments such as the European Social Fund Plus, Just Transition Fund, European Regional Development Funds, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Modernisation Fund, REPowerEU and the Single Market Programme. |
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Amendment 3
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 66
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (66) Building on previous experiences, such as the EU Pact for Skills and the European Battery Alliance, European Net-Zero Industry Academies should develop and deploy education and training content to upskill and reskill workers required for key net-zero technology value chains, such as solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies, renewable hydrogen technologies and raw materials. The academies would aim to enable the training and education of 100.000 learners each, within three years of their establishment, to contribute to the availability of skills required for the net-zero technologies, including in small and medium-sized enterprises. That content should be developed and deployed with education and training providers in Member States, relevant Member States authorities and social partners. Education and training providers, industry and other actors involved in up- and reskilling in the Member States, such as Public Employment Services, should deliver the content produced by the academies. To ensure skills transparency and portability and the mobility of workers, the European Net-Zero Industry Academies will develop and deploy credentials, including micro-credentials, covering learning achievements. They should be issued in the format of European credentials for learning and could be integrated in EUROPASS and, where relevant, included in National Qualifications Frameworks. Member States are encouraged to support the continuous reskilling and upskilling offered via the academies and the relevant education and training providers in their territories through national programmes and Union funding, including from the European Social Fund Plus, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the European Regional Development Fund, the Just Transition Mechanism, the Modernisation Fund and the Technical Support Instrument. The Net-Zero Europe Platform should assist in guiding the work of the Academies and providing oversight. | (66) Building on previous experiences, such as the EU Pact for Skills and the European Battery Alliance, European Net-Zero Industry Academies (hereafter the academies) should develop and deploy education and training content to upskill and reskill workers required for key net-zero technology value chains, such as solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies, renewable hydrogen technologies and raw materials. The scope and number of the academies should be determined by the Commission, the Member States and the social partners in the framework of the Net Zero Platform on the basis of existing and objective studies in line with the prinicple of technological neutrality as well as based on a mapping exercise of current and forecasted needs in net-zero industries. Such a mapping exercise should provide information about current and upcoming labour shortages in key net-zero industries across the Union as well as an overview of how training opportunities are provided in such industries so as to enable an effective and affordable access to training for those who need it the most. Additionally, following the mapping exercise, the Commission should commit to issue a call for projects as soon as a certain threshold is reached in terms of labour shortage in a strategic sector. A first mapping exercise should already take place in 2024. Based on that mapping exercise, the Commission should also determine the number and scope of the academies that are likely to be created in order to ensure that funding is available to all of them. The academies should benefit from Union funding. A strong governance is needed to make the Academies operational as fast as possible to ensure the deployment of qualified workers. Unless another actor is more relevant in a specific sector, the Commission should have the lead to set up a call for projects to create academies, following consultation of the Net Zero Platform. This should be without prejudice to the determining role that social partners and universities can also play in the creation of such academies, as it was the case in the Battery Alliance. One of the aims of the academies will be to reindustrialise the Union and secure its own production in sensitive and strategic sectors. The academies would participate to the Union’s open strategic autonomy and would contribute to fulfilling the demands towards more EU demand for made-in-EU technologies with high social and climate standards. The academies should already be established by the end of 2024 and should aim to achieve geographical balance between its concerned actors, and respect linguistic diversity. They should start providing and disseminating initial learning content in 2025. The academies would aim to enable the training and education of 100.000 learners each, within three years of their establishment, to contribute to the availability of skills required for the net-zero technologies, including in small and medium-sized enterprises and would contribute to reduce the disparities among Member States. That content should be developed and deployed with education and training providers in Member States, relevant Member States authorities, and industry representatives including from the SMEs and companies involved as well as social partners. Such content should take into account already existing learning programmes developed in the framework of the local Pact for Skills and the centres of professional excellence and should target all level of education and all workers, including apprenticees, along the value chain in the sectors concerned. Education and training providers, industry and other actors involved in up- and reskilling in the Member States, such as Public Employment Services, should deliver the content produced by the academies. Member States should also use the learning content developed by the academies in other existing instruments such as in the reinforced Youth Guarantee whose one of its objectives is to provide education and training to NEETs. To ensure skills transparency and portability and the mobility of workers, the European Net-Zero Industry Academies will develop and deploy credentials, including micro-credentials, covering learning achievements. They should be issued in the format of European credentials for learning and could be integrated in EUROPASS and, where relevant, included in National Qualifications Frameworks. Member States are encouraged to support the continuous reskilling and upskilling offered via the academies and the relevant education and training providers in their territories through national programmes and Union funding, including from the European Social Fund Plus, the reinforced Youth Guarantee, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the European Regional Development Fund, the Just Transition Mechanism, the Modernisation Fund and the Technical Support Instrument. The Net-Zero Europe Platform should assist in guiding the work of the Academies ensuring that the scope of the academies are in line with the conclusions of the mapping exercise and providing oversight. Where the Platform deals with skills related topics, Member States should ensure that the appointed national representative can act as a bridge between the relevant national ministries and competent authorities of the Member States as well as the national social partners and industry representatives. The Platform should collect information on the progress made by the different academies and produce by the end of 2026 an overview report on the deployment of the learning programmes, the number of targeted learners within each academy and across different levels of qualification. |
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Amendment 4
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b – introductory part
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (b) the net-zero technology manufacturing project has positive impact on the Union’s net-zero industry supply chain or downstream sectors, beyond the project promoter and the Member States concerned, contributing to the competitiveness and quality job creation of the Union’s net-zero industry supply chain, according to at least three of the following criteria: | (b) the net-zero technology manufacturing project has positive impact on the Union’s net-zero industry supply chain or downstream sectors, beyond the project promoter and the Member States concerned, contributing to the competitiveness and quality job creation of the Union’s net-zero industry supply chain, according to at least two of the following criteria: |
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Amendment 5
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iii
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (iii) it puts into place measures to attract, upskill or reskill a workforce required for net-zero technologies, including through apprenticeships, in close cooperation with social partners; | (iii) training and lifelong learning; |
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Amendment 6
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| In line with Chapter V of this Regulation, it puts into place measures to attract, upskill or reskill a workforce, and especially women and young people, through training and lifelong learning programmes required for net-zero technologies, including through apprenticeships, in close cooperation with social partners including those representing SMEs. |
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Amendment 7
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| 1. The Commission shall support, including through the provision of seed-funding, the establishment of European Net Zero Industry Academies, which have as their objectives to: | 1. Based on a mapping exercise, the Commission shall support the establishment of European Net Zero Industry Academies, which have as their objectives to: |
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Amendment 8
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point a
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (a) develop learning programmes, content and learning and training materials for training and education on developing, producing, installing, commissioning, operating, maintaining and recycling net-zero technologies, on raw materials, as well as to support the capacities of public authorities competent to issue permits and authorisations referred to in Chapter II and contracting authorities referred to in Chapter IV of this Regulation; | (a) develop learning programmes, content and learning and training materials for training and education on developing, producing, installing, commissioning, operating, maintaining and recycling net-zero technologies, on raw materials, or related to net zero industries that have been identified by the mapping exercise, as well as to support the capacities of public authorities competent to issue permits and authorisations referred to in Chapter II and contracting authorities referred to in Chapter IV of this Regulation; |
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Amendment 9
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point b
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (b) enable and promote the use of the learning programmes, content and materials by education and training providers in the Member States, among others by training trainers and develop mechanisms to ensure the quality of the training offered by education and training providers in the Member States based on the above learning programmes, content and materials; | (b) enable and promote the use of the learning programmes, content and materials by universities, including universities of applied sciences, education and training providers in the Member States, among others by training trainers and develop mechanisms to ensure the quality of the training offered by universities, education and training providers, as well as companies including SMES and startups in the Member States based on the above learning programmes, content and materials; encourage lifelong learning and upskilling or reskilling, including through apprenticeship and long duration training programmes; |
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Amendment 10
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (ca) contribute in the long run to reindustrialise the Union and to ensure its open strategic autonomy as well as to fullfilling the demand for EU-made technologies. |
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Amendment 11
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| 2. European Net Zero Industry Academies shall counter gender stereotypes and pay particular attention to the need to activate more women and young people, who are not in education, employment or training for the labour market. | 2. European Net Zero Industry Academies shall counter gender stereotypes and be designed in a way that the learning content is adapted to women, young and older people, who are not in education, employment or training for the labour market, as well as workers in professions which are either at risk of disappearing or whose content and tasks are being highly transformed by new technologies. |
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Amendment 12
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 a (new)
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| Article 23a | |
| Set-up and governance of European Net Zero Industry Academies | |
| The mapping exercise referred to in Article 23 shall take place to determine the skills shortage in key industrial sectors and net-zero industries and to assess the access to training opportunities in such sectors by Member States. | |
| Based on this exercise, if a certain threshold is reached in terms of labour shortage in a strategic net-zero technology, the Commission shall set up a call for projects or to impulse interests for the creation of Net Zero Academies in relevant sectors. | |
| The Academies shall be composed by industries where the use of net -zero technologies is key and their value chains, as well as universities, education and training providers, and companies including SMES, and aim where possible for geographical balance across Member States and linguistic diversity. | |
| A financial envelope of EUR 102 million in current prices shall be made available for the set up and functioning of the Academies for the period from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2027. | |
| The amount shall be provided, each year, in form of EUR 3 million from the budget for the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, EUR 2.5 million from the budget of the Single Market Programme, SME pillar and EUR 20 million from European Social Fund+. | |
| The Net zero platform has a role to oversee the work of the Net Zero Academies and to provide a report by the end of 2026 on the deployment of the Academies' learning programmes. | |
| The Commission shall, in 2024, launch the mapping process and issue a first call for projects to create Net Zero Academies, which could benefit of the existing work and projects of relevant actors and Member States. The Net Zero Industry Academies shall be established by the end of 2024 and shall start providing and disseminating initial learning content in 2025. |
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Amendment 13
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 1
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| 1. By 31 December 2024 and every two years thereafter, Member States shall identify whether the learning programmes developed by the European net-zero industry academies are equivalent to the specific qualifications required by the host Member State to access regulated activities within the scope of a profession with particular interest for the net-zero industry. Member States shall ensure that the results of the assessments are made public and easily accessible online. | 1. By 31 December 2024 and every two years thereafter, Member States shall identify whether the learning programmes developed by the European net-zero industry academies are equivalent to the specific qualifications required by the host Member State to access regulated activities within the scope of a profession with particular interest for the net-zero industry with a view to harmonise the requested qualifications, including between technical and academic degrees. Member States shall ensure that the results of the assessments are made public and easily accessible online. In the event that the learning programmes are deemed not to be equivalent to the qualifications requested by the host Member State, it shall explain how they differ. |
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Amendment 14
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| 2. If a Member State concludes there is equivalence, as described in the first paragraph of this Article, it shall facilitate the recognition of credentials issued by education and training providers on the basis of the learning programmes developed by the academies, under Title III Chapter I of Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council74 , whenever a holder of such a credential requests access to a regulated profession within the meaning of Article 3(1)(a) of Directive 2005/36/EC, and of particular importance for the net-zero industry, by accepting the credential as sufficient evidence of formal qualifications. | 2. If a Member State concludes there is equivalence, as described in the first paragraph of this Article, it shall ensure the recognition of credentials issued by education and training providers on the basis of the learning programmes developed by the academies, under Title III Chapter I of Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council74 , whenever a holder of such a credential requests access to a regulated profession within the meaning of Article 3(1)(a) of Directive 2005/36/EC, and of particular importance for the net-zero industry, by accepting the credential as sufficient evidence of formal qualifications. |
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| 74 Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (Text with EEA relevance), (OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 22). | 74 Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (Text with EEA relevance), (OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 22). |
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Amendment 15
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 2
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (2) monitor the activity of the European Net-Zero Industry Academies and of education and training providers who offer the learning programmes developed by the Academies, foster synergies with other national and Union skills initiatives and projects, and provide oversight; | (2) monitor the activity of the European Net-Zero Industry Academies and, based on the data provided by Member States in accordance with Article 31, collect information on how many people have benefited from the learning programmes developed by the Academies and provide disaggregated data by industrial sectors and levels of qualification, foster synergies with other national and Union skills initiatives and projects, and provide oversight; |
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Amendment 16
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 3
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (3) assist the mobilisation of stakeholders including industry, social partners and education and training providers for the roll-out of learning programs developed by the European Net-Zero Industry Academies; | (3) assist the mobilisation of stakeholders including industry, in particular companies, social partners and universities, including industrial branches, companies, social partners and universities of applied sciences as well as education and training providers for the roll-out of learning programmes developed by the European Net-Zero Industry Academies; |
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Amendment 17
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 4
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (4) assist the uptake and recognition of learning credentials of the European Net-Zero Industry Academies in the Member States to promote the recognition of skills and the matching of skills and jobs, inter alia by promoting the validity and acceptance of the credentials throughout the labour market of the European Union; | (4) assist the uptake and recognition of learning credentials of the European Net-Zero Industry Academies in the Member States to promote the recognition of skills and the matching of skills and jobs, inter alia by promoting the validity and acceptance of the credentials throughout the labour market of the European Union and putting emphasis on long duration training programmes and apprenticeships; |
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Amendment 18
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 6
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (6) promote adequate working conditions in jobs in net-zero technology industries, the activation of youth, women and seniors to the labour market for net-zero technology industries, and the attraction of skilled workers from third countries, and thereby achieve a more diverse workforce; | (6) promote adequate working conditions in jobs in net-zero technology industries the activation of youth, women and seniors to the labour market for net-zero technology industries, and the attraction of skilled workers from third countries through the European Blue Card and the EU Talent Pool Pilot, and thereby achieve a more diverse workforce; |
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Amendment 19
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (6a) encourage internal mobility across the Union through incentives and working on the promotion of open positions accross the Union; |
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Amendment 20
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – point 7
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (7) facilitate closer coordination and the exchange of best practices between Member States to enhance the availability of skills in the net-zero technologies, including by contributing to Union and Member States policies to attract new talents from third countries. | (7) facilitate closer coordination and the exchange of best practices between Member States to enhance the availability of skills in the net-zero technologies, including by contributing to Union and Member States policies to attract new talents from third countries and from all education levels. |
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Amendment 21
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 7
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| 7. The Platform shall invite representatives of the European Parliament to attend, as observers, its meetings, including of the standing or temporary sub-groups referred to in paragraph 6. | 7. The Platform shall invite representatives of the European Parliament to attend, as observers, its meetings, including of the standing or temporary sub-groups referred to in paragraph 6, and shall report to the European Parliament. |
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Amendment 22
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 8
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| 8. Where appropriate, the Platform or the Commission may invite experts and other third parties to Platform and sub-group meetings or to provide written contributions. | 8. Where appropriate, the Platform or the Commission may invite experts, social partners, and other third parties to Platform and sub-group meetings or to provide written contributions. |
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Amendment 23
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 9 a (new)
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| 9a. Prior to setting up the calls for projects to create the Academies, the Commission shall consult the Platform. |
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Amendment 24
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – title
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| Articulation with National Energy and Climate Plans | Articulation with National Energy and Climate Plans and national skills policies |
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Amendment 25
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| Member States shall take into consideration this Regulation when preparing their national energy and climate plans and their updates, submitted pursuant to Articles 3, 9, and 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, in particular as regards the dimension “research, innovation and competitiveness” of the Energy Union, and in the submission of their biennial progress reports in accordance with Article 17 of that Regulation. | Member States shall take into consideration this Regulation when preparing their national energy and climate plans and their updates, submitted pursuant to Articles 3, 9, and 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, in particular as regards the dimension “research, innovation and competitiveness” of the Energy Union, and in the submission of their biennial progress reports in accordance with Article 17 of that Regulation. Member States shall also take into account the conclusions of the mapping exercise referred to in Article 23a and the data provided in accordance with Article 31 in the design of their skills' policies, thus ensuring that net-zero training content reaches those who need it the most. |
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Amendment 26
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (ba) the outreach of the academies’ learning content. |
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Amendment 27
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – point h a (new)
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
| (ha) the deployment of the academies’ learning programmes with the number of learners benefiting from the academies’ programmes disaggregated by industrial sectors, gender, age and levels of qualification. |
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