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Date: 1973-11-16
Title: Proposal for a DECISION OF THE COUNCIL on action by the European Social Fund to assist the socail and occupational integration of handicapped persons#Proposal for a DECISION OF THE COUNCIL concerning action by the European Social Fund to assist workers moving from one community country to another#Proposal for a DECISION OF THE COUNCIL on further types of aid for workers moving community country to another (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                    COM(73 ) 195S final
                                                   Brussels . 16 November 1973
                                   Proposal for a
                            DECISION OF THE COUNCIL
            on action "by the European Social Fund to assist the
            socail and occupational integration of handicapped
                                        persons
                     j             Proposal f or a                    • , ■
                            DEC I SI PIT OF THE COUNCIL
            concerning action by the European Social Fund to assist
            workers moving from one community country to another
                                   Proposal for a
                            DECISION OF THE COUNCIL
            on futher types of aid for workers moving community
                              country to another
                  ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
  COM(73)1958 final
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   EÏÏROPEAN SOCIAL FUND
Proposal for a decision of the
Council on action by the European
Social Fund to assist the social
and occupational integration of
handicapped persons
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                                EXPLANATORY MEMORAM)UM
Handicapped Persons – A Political Problem
 1.   In the countries of the European Community responsible circles are
"becoming increasingly aware of the problems of handicapped persons .
      The number of persons whose working capacity is reduced because of
a handicap is increasing .       Although no precise statistics exist , reliable
estimates indicate that there are several million handicapped persons which
represents a substantial percentage of the working population .        In
economic terms the existence of such a large number is a considerable
burden .  ITon-rehabi 1 i tat ed handicapped persons do not contribute to the
production process ,      they   are  below average consumers , they do not
pay taxes and they account for a considerable share of the social budget .
The integration of handicapped persons into active life makes it possible
to reduce these di sadvantages and provides a considerable contribution
to the labour force .
     Finally , and most important , vocational and social integration , by
giving handicapped persons fresh motivation and new dynamism , helps to
make them more independent and responsible .       This is one of the major
factors in a social policy to help these people .
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The encouraging results of rehabilitation .     ,
2.   An assessment of the respective costs , "based on measures which have
produced, excellent results in the Community , shows that not only is the
cost of rehabilitation largely compensated for by savings in social
expenditure , but that it is a highly productive investment because of the
contribution to the national product which results from- the integration
of handicapped persons into economic activity .
     According to the calculations based on disability insurance provisions
in the Federal Republic of Germany , made by the Heidelberg Institute to
Encourage Readaptation the ratio cost/saving in Social Security expenditure
is 1 to 9 , the ratio cost/contribution to the national product 1 to 32 .
     These economic statistics are very significant .   They justify a
policy of human and social objectives whioh are in any case fundamental
and which are no longer 'characterized solely by assistance to handicapped
persons but by training actions designed to achieve their complete social
and vocational integration *
3.   However , these results can only be attained if sufficient staff ,
premises and funds make it possible to utilize the real advances made in
the fields of research, equipment , nursing and rehabilitation methods .
     Taking into account the increase in the number of handicapped persons
and the higher qualitative requirements of integration, optimal use must
be made of the means which are available now and will become available .
Hence the idea that is steadily gaining ground , of helping make best use
of these resources by putting into effect a joint Action Programme by
the nine Member States .
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 Toward 8 Joint Action
4*     This' was the" reason why the Council , in March 1969 » requested the
 Commission to submit a joint Action Programme on the social , vocational
 and medical integration of handicapped persons ( 1 ).
      This request led to various developments , of which the following are
the most important
      i)      In December 1970 a first memorandum was sent from the Commission
              to the Council on the problems of the social , vocational and
              medical integration of handicapped persons ,
     ii )     A colloquium was organized by the Commission on vocational
              rehabilitation and job placings for handicapped persons
              ( Luxembourg, May 1971 )•
    iii )     A seminar was held by the Commission on the vocational re­
              habilitation of handicapped persons ( Heidelberg, June 1972 ).
     iv)      In January 1973 "the interim report on the work carried out by
              the working party set up by the Commission was sent to the
              Council in the form of a working document . This working party
              was responsible for drawing up a draft long term programme en
              the social , vocational and medical integration of handicapped
              persons .
      These points for consideration are being examined jointly by the
Council authorities and Commission departments .
The Social Fund at the service of a joint action
      Several of the government delegations when comparing their view
points on the type of joint action clearly demonstrated their wish to use
the Fund to further new initiatives within the framework of this indepen­
dent programme .     This is also the Commission's view.
(1
^ ' See annexed document No 1964/73/E - Community Action Programme «•
      "employment of handicapped persons in the open labour market ". This
      document constitutes the first part of a joint Action Programme on the
      social , - vocational and medical . integration of handicapped persons ..
      This Programme will be extended to include the employment of handi~
      capped persons in a protected labour market at a later date .
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The Fund * s■■■ ■activities
–                      ■
                            in the
                            -   ■
                                   field of rehabilitation
                                               - -        ι
                                                            ofι ιhandicapped
                                                                  ,,
                                                                                  workers
                                                                       -- ζ- * -- " ----
6.   Pursuant to Article 5 of the Council Decision of 1 February 1971 , the
Fund may intervene in favour of handicapped persons considered capable
to pursue a professional activity after functional rehabilitation and
adaptation or vocational retraining .
     The Fund will be responsible in particular for the expenditure
necessary for the adaptation of jobs and the funotional rehabilitation of
handicapped persons with a view to their acquiring professional skills ,
but excluding medical expenses .
7.   Besides the elimination of long-term and structural unemployment and
underemployment , the Fund can , pursuant to Article 5 » take action to
train a highly skilled labour force and for the benefit of other
particularly unfavoured categories of persons , such as elderly workers ,
women and unqualified young people .
     Thus , one is faced with the problem of selecting which operations
should reoeive aid and on the basis of what criteria .
     It is necessary to provide for specific intervention by the Fund in
order to make it , talcing its task into account , an instrument for
supporting the promotion of the methods and means which are best adapted
to encourage the social and vocational integration of handicapped persons ,
and so that the action which the Member States have unanimously agreed to
carry out within the framework of a Community programme , i.e. the
employment of handicapped persons in an open labour market ,, is as
effective as possible .
     For this reason , the Commission propose that the Council takes a
specific Decision, based on Article 4 of the Council Decision of
1 February 1971 » making it possible for the Fund to assist the social and
vocational integration of handicapped persons , following the objectives
and methods indicated below .
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The objectives of intervention "by -the Fund
8.    The Pond, should not intervene in all operations to assist the
rehabilitation of handicapped persons in the Member States .
      Its tasks in this field should be linked with the objectives which
the Community Action Programme proposes to achieve in the social ,
vocational and medical integration of handicapped persons .
      The Fund 's action should take into account the situation in the
different Member States with regard to the quantitative and qualitative
objectives of the joint Action Programme .   Thus the Fund would only
intervene in favour of operations carried out by centres or establishments
for which funds are normally available and where the quality of the
benefits , recoguizcd by the Member States is satisfactory .
     Assistance from the Fund should aim to bring the level of vocational
retraining for handicapped persons in each State up to the threshold
recognized as desirable and practicable by the joint Action Programme .
This would be dene by taking over part of the expenditure in order to
eliminate the obstacles to the implementation of a retraining policy
which would conform with the joint Action Programme and particularly
to finance the practical application of the progress made in the fields
of research equipment , nursing and retraining methods .
9.   In cases where there is a lack of financial resources the Fund
should contribute to-.fards putting into effect new practices which have
given good results , which are based on a process of general and continuous
integration extending from the handicapped persons to the job , and which
emphasize vocational and social advancement , the handicapped person
himself talcing responsibility for the integration process and the non-
segregation of handicapped persons .
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     The Fund, would contribute particularly where th^re is a need for
the training of instructors and technical personnel .
The se ope of the Fund' s intervention
10 . Assistance from the Fund could he granted to handicapped persons
who are to have a paid or unpaid occupation ( excluding those who are
subject to compulsory schooling).
     The Fund would intervene irrespective of the origin or nature of the
handicap – whether it effects movement , sensory functions , internal
functions or mental or physical functions .
     The Fund would be concentrated on adaptation and vocational retrain­
ing.  It seems that vocational retraining is one of the different stages
in the integration process that has been explored most thoroughly up
until now and as such offers the best opportunity for effective action .
It also constitutes the culmination of the process , i.e. at the same time
the precondition for integration and the means of effecting it .
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PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION OF THE COUNCIL ON ACTION BY' THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FJND
   TO ASSIST THE SOCIAL AND OCCUPATIONAL INTEGRATION OP HANDICAPPED PERSONS
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard, to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Con.niunity ;
Having regard to the Council Decision of 1 February 1971^" on the reform of
the European Social Fund , and in particular Article 4 thereof;
Having regard, to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas the operations and working methods of the Fund axe laid down in
Council Regulation (EEC ) No 2396/71     8 November 1971 implementing the
Council Decision of 1 February 1971 on the reform of the European Social
Fund ;
Whereas the employment1 situation of handicapped persons shows clearly trhat
there is a need to undertake specific joint action designed to secure a
better matching of supply and demand for labour within the Community ;
Whereas the reforms made by the Council allow the European Social Fund to
contribute to the cost of action undertaken in the Member States for the
purpose of facilitating the employment of handicapped persons , and increasing
the geographical and occupational mobility of such persons ;
Whereas the Council has adopted a programme for Community action entitled
"Employment of handicapped persons in a free economy", which deals with the
social , occupational and medical integration of handicapped persons ;
                                                                        •A "
 OJ No L 28 , 4 February 1971 » p. 15
20J No L 249f 10 November 1971, p. 54
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Whereas , in view of the encouraging results obtained through the use of
suitable methods and means of occupational adaptation or readaptation ,
action by the Fund should not be "based on any discrimination as to the
origin or nature of the handicap ;
                                      <
Whereas in certain cases the skills of handicapped persons are better
suited to work in a self-employed capacity ?
Whereas the purpose of action by the Fund should be to raise the level of
occupational adaptation or readaptation of handicapped persons in each
Member State to that recognized as desirable and possible in the Community
action programme ;
Whereas the guidelines for joint action indicate that contributions should -
be begun at once to the financing of programmes designed to disseminate
knowledge of suitable methods and means of occupational adaptation or
readaptation and to develop schemes for establishing an overall and con­
tinuous process of occupational adaptation or readaptation ;
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                   Article 1
1 . " The following shall qualify for assistance from the Fund under Article 4
of the Council Decision of 1 February 1971s measures to facilitate the
employment and geographical and occupational mobility of handicapped persons
covered by the Community action programme adopted by the Council , entitled
"Employment of handicapped persons in a free economy".
Action by the Fund in this connection shall be carried out irrespective of
the origin or nature of thei handicap concerned and for the benefit of
persons considered capablej after rehabilitation and occupational adaptation
or readaptation, of working in paid employment .
                                                                     7.
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 2#    Measures to assist handicapped persons covered "by the Community action
programme who are obliged to work in a self-employed capacity shall also
qualify for assistance from the Fund as provided in paragraph 1 .
                                     Article 2
Of the measures provided for in the Community action programme referred to
in Article 1 the following shall qualify for assistance from the Fund :
those which contribute to the implementation of a specific programme drawn
up with' a view to :
(i)       the organization , in approved centres or institutions , a list of
          which shall be
                       J
                         drawn up annually by the Commission , acting in con-
          junction with the Member States , of training courses designed to
          disseminate knowledge of suitable methods and means of occupational
          adaptation and readaptationj
( ii )    the development at local and regional level of schemes for occupation­
          al adaptation or readaptation designed to establish an overall and
          continuous process of occupational adaptation or readaptation , ex­
          tending from the handicap to the job , and to aohieve lasting coordina­
          tion on the part of the authorities concerned , while not isolating
          handicapped persons from others } for the first three years priority
          in allocating the funds set aside for such schemes may be given ,
          according to need , to schemes for the training cr further training of
          the necessary instructors and technical staff .
                                      Article 3
Aids qualifying for assistance from the Fund under this Deoision shall be all
the tjrpes cf aid listed in Council Regulation (E3C ) NO 2397/71 of 8 November
1971 °n aid which may qualify for assistance from the European Social Fundi
                                                                        ./.
  OJ No L 249 , 10 November 1971 , p. 53
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                                  Article 4
Without prejudice to Article 11 of the Council Decision of 1 February 1971 »
the Commission shall examine whether, on the expiry of a term of six years
from the date of entry into force of this Decision , it should be allowed ,
either wholly or in part , to continue in force . It shall , where appropriate ,
submit proposals to the Council .
                                  Article 5
This Decision shall enter into force on the fifth day following its publica­
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
                                        Done at Brussels , ;   ,           1973
                                        For the Council
                                        The President
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               EURCPEAN SOCIAL PUND
Proposal for a Council Decision on Action 'oy the
  European Social Fund to assist workers moving
      from one Community country to another
                                                         /
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                            EXPLANATORY MEEjORflNDOM
      The employment situation within the Community in recent years has
been marked by an increasingly larger imbalance between supply and
denand .   This imbalance has caused a constant increase in the number of
workers leaving under-developed regions to seelc employment in industrial­
ized areas .   The migrant labour force , excluding migratory trends within
countries , which was employed in the nine Member States , was assessed at
some 6,200,000 persons at the beginning of 1973 .           ■
      The problem , of migration is , however , not sol'ely a question of ,
labour .  If , in the immediate future , these movements help solve the .
problems of unemployment and under-employment in the regions of origin ,
they risk , at the same time , seriously hindering the possibility of
accelerated development in these regions , as the section of the labour
force which emigrates is very often the youngest and the most dynamic .
      The nature of these movements are such that they create problems in
the industrial host countries , where some of the negative aspects inherent
in the presence of an increasingly large quota of migrant workers seem to
raise doubts on the longer term profitability of this trend .
      Therefore , whether it is at the level of employment policy in •
general or within the more restricted framework of action by the Social
Fund , Community action can no longer be conceived as just a policy for
accepting or continuing existing migratory trends .       On the contrary ,
any action in favour of migrant workers must constitute a part of a more
global policy , a policy which linked the employment aspects to the
priorities of industrial and regional development and which aimed in
particular at achieving the follov/ing objectives
–     the improvement of the conditions Tinder which the movement of
      workers takes place and their integration into the new working
      environment , by setting up assistance facilities to link the
      various stages of migration ;
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••      the optimal use of the labour force for the benefit of an economy
        which balances the growth needs of central areas with the develop­
        ment priorities of under-developed areas , which mainly implies the
        mobilization of capital to encourage investments in the latter areas .
        At the present stage of its development , the Community has not yet
given itself the means for a coordinated policy on migration , nor has it
advanced sufficiently along the path which would enable it to integrate
such a policy in Community policies on industrial and regional development .
On the other hand , it can now, with the Social Fund and in particular
pursuant to Article 4 of the Council Decision of 1 February 1971 » under­
take a " specific joint aotion", in whose actions in favour of migrant
workers attention is paid to the selection criteria arising from the
objectives thereof .
      . In talcing specific joint - action pursuant to Article 4 » it is
necessary first of all to promote operations which constitute a part of
the integrated Action Programmes in favour of workers moving from one
country to another within the Community#       This choice implies that a
priority, will be granted to operations which ensure both the effectiveness
and the continuity of the action linking the various stages of migration ,
extending from preparation for emigration to the return to the country of
origin.    Such operations must also guarantee that all measures taken in
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respect of the labour force nrust be consistent with the objectives of
the Community 's regional and industrial development policy . Furthermore ,
it is desirable that the Social Fund avoids becoming an instrument
which encourages migration instead of regulating it , by i»ciisaai£g the
facilities for aid . Neither the migrant workers nor the harmonious
development of' the' Cbmmunity would profit from such a policy.'
      This choice is in keeping with the guidelines which the Council and
the representatives of the Governments of the Meirber States decided on in
June 1972 when they asked the Commission in -the "Conclusions and
Considerations " in respect' of the Italian Memorandum on employment
policy within' the Community , to examine the possibility of action by
the Fund in favour of assisted migration programmes .
      In order to support to the greatest extent possible the operations
which constitute a part of the ihtegrated programmes , ' it ' would be
necessary to allow them to benefit from all of the aids provided for
in Regulation No 2397/71 »' as well as the new aids which are the subject
of an additional Regulation , in accordance with those which are proposed
in the document annexed to this Proposal .
      Actions by the Boflial Fund provided with a view to preparing the
emigration from the country of origin J.and to facilitate the return are ,
under the texts in force , only possible within the Community . It does
not , however , appear justified to exclude all migrant workers , - for
example those coming from third countries , who have difficulties in
gaining access to assisted migration programmes , from benefiting from
certain measures intended to facilitate integration into the new social
and working environment . This is why all migrant workers within the
Community can benefit , even outside the framework of an assisted
migration programme , from aids intended to facilitate their integration
and that of their families in the working environment and in the host country .
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     In order that all of the aids – including the new aids - referred
to in the previous paragraphes can be fully and efficiently used , it is
essential to be able to rely on a competent staff in the key positions
which carry a responsability for migrants . The Social Fund is the most
successful means of assisting the training1 of persons on whom the
success of every operation organized for migrant workers depends ,
whether they are integrated programmes or integration measures for the
welfare workers and the teaching staff for adaptation courses .
     The distance covered by migrant workers inevitably puts him in
contact with a variety of public , semi-public or charitable organisations ,
who specialize in aid for such workers . The activities of these bodies
include such various tasks as practical information , psycho-medical and
social assistance , material aid , assistance in finding employment ,
workers education , for which it is assumed that the staff of these
organisations have wide ranging qualifications . Any action aimed at
encouraging the training of such staff could contribute directly to ,
improving the quality and the effectivsnces of the assistance facilities
and would , at the same time , facilitate the setting up of competent
consultants who could assist in the preparation of operations , in the
financing of which , the Social Fund would be asked to partucupate .
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     It is also essential to facilitate the basis and advanced training
of teachers responsible for adaptation classes for the children of
migrants . This measure is the logical complement tp the proposal
concerning the reimbursement of expenditure for adapted courses ,
special courses for late beginners and initiatio classes , etc ... for
the children of migrants by the Fund * This proposal is contained in
the annexed document on the new aids for migrant workers . Aids A 10
to 23 and aids 3 10 to 22 , provided for in Regulation ( EEC ) No 2397/71
are well adapted to facilitate training Pleasures for these persons .
     Operations benefiting workers migrating within their country will
be excluded from the application of Article k of the Fund . These
workers already benefit from more uniform integration measures' which
are ensured by the-^respousible bodies in. their own country ( and
operations for the benefiting of these persons could constitute an
important aspect of measures coming under Article 5 ).
                                                                      \
     Frontier workers who , for the most part , maintain close links
and almost always a family base in the country of origin and for whom
the disadvantages of moving are not so acute , should also be excluded
from benefiting under Article k .
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PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION CONCERNING ACTION BY THU EUROPEAN SOCIAL
 ■   FUND TO ASSIST WORKERS " MOVING FROM ONE COMMUNITY" ■ 'COUNTRY TO -ANOTHER
IT-IE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to "the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ;
Having regard to the Council Decision^" of 1 February 1971 on the reform of
the European Social Fund , and in particular Article 4(1 ) thereof;
Having regard io the proposal from tho Commission ;                ;      ■
Whereas the operations arid working methods of the Fund are defined in Council
                               O
Regulation (EEC ) No 2396/ 71 of 8 November 1971 implementing the Council
Decision of 1 February 1971 on the reform of the European Social Fund ;
                                                                              Ν
Whereas , at the Council meeting held on 12 June 1972 , the Council and th3
representatives of the Governments of the Member States expressed their
views and reached certain conclusions concerning the memorandum from the
Italian Government cn employment policy within the Community and ask?d the
Commission to examine the possibility cf action by the European Social Fond
in favour of certain forms of assisted free mcvemsnt and of action to im­
prove the conditions of workers moving from one Member State to another;
Whereas the imbalance in employment: within the Community is such that many
workers are obliged to emigrate ;
Whereas the extent of this movement of labour and its consequences both on
the manpower situation and on industrial and regional development requires
that specific joint action be taken to assist the workers concerned ;
   GJ No 23, 4 February 1971 , p. 15
10J No 249i 10 November 1971, P* 54
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Whereas such specific joint action , "by taking account "both of the growth-
needs of the host countries and of the development needs of the countries
of origin , will enable better use to be made of migrant labour j
Khereas , furthermore , the social and human conditions under which migration
takes place should be improved and equality of treatment between host
country nationals and foreign workers progressively attained ;
Whereas , in order to ensure that action by the Fund to assist workers moving
from one country to another withiu the Community is fully effective and
uninterrupted' over the various stages of migration , operations to which the
Fund contributes must form part of an integrated programme ;
Where?s it is also desirable to facilitate the integration of migrant workers
end their families into their social and working environment , particularly
by measures to assist the training of welfare workers and of teauhers re­
sponsible for special classes for the children of migrant workers ;
Whereas the reforms made by the Counoil allow the European Social Fund to
contribute to the cost of action undertaken in the Member States for the
purpose of facilitating employment and increasing the geographical and
occupational mobility of labours
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
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Article 1 - INTEGRATED PROGRAMMES
1 . The following shall qualify for assistance from the Fund under Article 4
    of the Council Decision of 1 February 1971 :     measures carried out under
    an integrated programme designed to facilitate employment and geographical
    mobility for persons - other than workers residing in frontier areas -
    moving or having moved from one Community country to another in order to
    take up employment .
    An " integrated programme" means a programme comprising all the measures
    necessary to ensure the effectiveness and continuity of action linking
    together the successive stages of migration ! it may extend from pre­
    paration fcr emigration, to return to the country ;of origin . „■ Such' pro*».
    grammes must be consistent with the objectives of regional and industrial
    development policy laid down in connection with the programmes for joint
    action drawn up by the Community .
2 . Aids qualifying under paragraph 1 of this Article for assistance from the
    European Social Fund shall be all the types of aid listed in Council
    Regulation (EEC ) No 2397/71"'" of 8 November 1971 on aid which may qualify
    for assistance from the European Social Fund , amended by Regulation No
Article 2 - INTEGRATION MEASURES
1 . The following shall also qualify for assistance from the Fund under
    Artxele 4 of the Council Decision of 1 February 1971s measures which ,
    although not part of an integrated programme , are intended to facilitate
                                                                           ■/.
"OJ No L 249 , 10 November 1971 . p. 58
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    the reception and integration into their social and working environment
    of persons - other than workers residing in frontier areas - who have left
    their countries of origin to take up employment in a Community country ,
    and of members of the families of such persons .
2. Aids qualifying under paragraph 1 for assistance from the Fund shall be
    aids B 20 to 25 of Regulation (EEC ) No 2397/71 .
Article 3 - WELFARE WORKERS AND TEACHERS
1 . The following . shall also qualify for assistance from the i'und under
    Article 4 of - the Council Decision of 1 February 1971 : measures to fa­
    cilitate the training or   further training of welfare workers and of
    teachers responsible for   special integration courses for migrant workers
    and their children .
2 . Aids qualifying under paragraph 1 shall be aids A 10 to 23 and B 10 to 22
    provided for in Regulation (EEC ) No 2397/71 *
Article 4 -
This Decision shall enter into force on the fifth day following its publica­
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
Done at Brussels .
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         EjROPEâN social fukd
 J
Proposal for council regulation , or farther types
of aid for workers moving community country
to another .
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                             EXPLANATORY MJORA1TOUM
      Increased migration over the last ten years and the resultant problems
which affect employment and industrial and regional development within the
 countries of the Community has led the Commission to propose to the Council
that assistance from the European Social Fund be granted for operations
benefiting workers moving within the Community under the framework of
 specific Joint actions pursuant to Article 4 of the basic Decision on the
reform of the European Social Fundi
      In order to facilitate the achievement of the objectives of such
specific joint actions , the Commission considers that the possibilities
for intervention provided for in the list of aids drawn up in
Regulation No 2397/71 should be supplemented by aids to assist the education
of the children cf migrant workers and to provide accommodation on their
arrival •
Children * s Educati on
     It has been observed that migrant workers have shown a growing
tendency in recent years to become established in the host country .    This
is seen in prolonged stays abroad and in the increase in the number of
family regroupings .    There are an estimated two million children of school-
going age residing within the Community .,
     The educational backwardness of these children is most apparent when
they commence their working lives .
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      This ■backwardness is , in particular , caused by the lack of continuity
in education as these children must ohange schools frequently .
     As special efforts are necessary to limit these negative effects
which are a feature of migration for the second generation, various
initiatives have teen taken in the form of special courses for late
beginners or initiation classes intended to help the children to integrate
gradually ;   In this respect , certain people have pointed out the desirability
cf establishing "European" type schools providing a bi-cultural education
in areas of migrant populations .
     In addition to language teaching costs ( already provided for under
22B aid ), the Commission proposes that the Social Fund bears the cost of
adapted educational programmes intended to provide a better continuity
in education and to make the labour market , whether abroad or in the
country of origin , more accessible to these young people .
Aids for Accommodation
     The problem of accommodating migrant workers has remained . one of
the major problems faced by the host countries .     Most of . these countries
suffer from a housing shortage , in particular from a lack of public
sector housing or housing at a moderate rent in urban industrial centres .
This shortage has become more acute because of the influx of an increasing
number of migrant workers , their prolonged stay and , consequently, the
increasing pressure for them to bring in their families . For various
reasons , migrant workers are more affected by a housing shortage ,than the
nationals of host oountries .
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     The nam reasons are the levels of rent , low incomes , scarcity of
public sector housing in areas heavily populated by migrant workers ,
prejudices of the local population , etc .
     This scarcity of decent accommodation risks "becoming a permanent
source of discrimination "between national and migrant workers .  The
elimination of this is also a condition for encouraging the integration
of such persons in the new social environment .
     One may hesitate , however , in the choice of the type of aid best
suited to the immediate requirements of workers and their families .    The
Commission suggests to the Council that an aid of limited scope "be used
which extends the type of aid already provided for under B 21 ( cost of
allowances granted to hostels accommodating young people ) and vhich covers
the cost of allowances granted to hostels , transit or other houses , managed
by bodies specialized in the reception of migrant workers and their
families .
     In order to ensure that priority is given to needs on arrival ,
expenditure reimbursable by the European Social Fund should not exceed
the cost of accommodation over a six month period , dating from the
arrival in the host country .
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 PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ON FURTHER TYPES OF AID FOR WORKERS MOVING
                        COMMUNITY COUNTRY TO ANOTHER
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community 5
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) NO 2396/71^" of 8 November 1971
implementing the Council Decision cf 1 February 1971 en »he reform of the
European Social Fund f and in particular Article 3 thereof 5
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission 5 .        •
Whereas the Council f pursuant to Article 4 of its Decision of 1 February
1971 » has adopted a Decision on »>,«..                 relating to action by
the European Social Fund for the benefit of workers moving from one Community
                      2
country to another 5 as .a result it is necessary , in order that the *objectives
of the specific joint action provided for by the said Decision may be more
fully attainedj to supplement the list of aids set out i;n Regulation ( EEC )
No 2397/71 of 8 November 1971 on aid which may qualify for assistance from
the European Social Fund"^,
Whereas , in order to facilitate the reception and integration into their
social . and working environment of such persons and of members of their
families , provision should be made for aids designed to assist the children
of migrant workers in adjusting to their new educational environment and to
enable special accommodation to be provided for migrants . and their families
during the first months following their arrival in the host country *
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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     No L 249 f 10 November 1971 . p. 54
2               , .  .     ......
  OJ No         ( to be published )
^OJ No L 249 j 10 November 1971* p. 58
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                                      I
                                '  Article 1
The. list, provided for in Article 3(2 ) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 2396/ 71 °f
qualifying under Article 4 of the Council Decision of 1 February 1971 for
assistance from the Fund shall be amended "by the addition of the following :
B 24 - expenditure in respect of classes adapted to the special needs of
      ■ children of migrant workers $   assistance shall cover the additional
        cost occasioned by the special classes as compared with the cost of
        the normal teaching programme ;
B 25 - expenditure in respect of services provided by hostels providing
        initial accommodation for migrant workers and their families 5      such
        services shall be in respect of a period of six months reckoned from
        the date of arrival in the host country of the parsons concerned .
                                   Article 2
Aid "B 25" shall be inserted in Article 2 paragraph 2 of Regulation ( EEC )
No 2397/71 in the list of aids for which a maximum amount of - assistance from
the Fund is fixed .                         ,                     .
                                   Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the date on which the Council
Decision on action by the Fund to assist workers moving from one Community
country to another enters into force .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States .
Done at Brussels .                        1973
                                          For the Council
                                          The President