CELEX: 51985PC0451
Language: en
Date: 1985-07-31
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) AMENDING REGULATION NO 2950/83 ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DECISION 83/516/EEC ON THE TASKS OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND

No C 237/6                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                18. 9. 85
             Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation No 2950/83 on the implementation of
                               Decision 83/516/EEC on the tasks of the European Social Fund
                                                      COM(85) 451 final
                               (Submitted to the Council by the Commission on 19 August 1985)
                                                        (85/C 237/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                         Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular Article 127                  Article 1 (c) of Regulation (EEC) N o 2950/83 is
thereof,                                                           replaced by the following:
                                                                       (c) the granting, for a period not exceeding 12
Having regard to the Council Decision of 17 October
                                                                           months per person, of aid for recruitment to
1983 on the tasks of European Social Fund (*),
                                                                           additional jobs or for employment in projects for
                                                                           the creation of additional jobs which fulfil a
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                         public need, and of income support in connection
                                                                           with the creation of jobs for self-employed
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                          persons, for young people under 25 who are
liament,                                                                   seeking employment and long-term unemployed;
                                                                           the jobs referred to must be stable or likely to
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                           provide additional training or experience with a
Social Committee,                                                          vocational content giving access to the labour
                                                                           market and facilitating employment in a stable
Whereas the Community objective of reducing the                            job;
number of unemployed persons can be achieved equally
well by assisting the creation of jobs for self-employed                                      Article 2
persons as by creating jobs for employed persons;
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
                                                                   following its publication in the Official Journal of the
Whereas in consequence the scope of Article 1 (c) of
                                                                   European Communities.
Regulation (EEC) No 2950/83 (2) should be extended to
include assistance towards the creation of jobs for self-          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
employed persons,                                                  directly applicable in all Member States.
0) OJ No L 289, 11. 10. 1983, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 289, 22. 10. 1983, p. 38.