CELEX: 31974D0327
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-27 00:00:00
Title: 74/327/EEC: Council Decision of 27 June 1974 on action by the European Social Fund for migrant workers

No L 185/ 20                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               9 . 7 . 74
                                                    COUNCIL DECISION
                                                        of 27 June 1974
                           on action by the European Social Fund for migrant workers
                                                          (74/327/ EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         conditions of migrant workers and members of their
COMMUNITIES,                                                        families ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                    Whereas , in order to ensure that action to assist
Economic Community ;
                                                                    migrant workers in the Community is more fully effec­
Having regard to the Council Decision of 1 February                 tive and remains uninterrupted throughout the various
1971 (') on the reform of the European Social Fund,                 stages of migration, it is necessary that operations
and in particular Article 4 thereof ;                               which are to benefit from the Fund, form part of inte­
                                                                    grated programmes having regard both to the labour
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                 requirements of the host country and the develop­
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­                ment requirements of the country of origin ;
ment (2) ;
                                                                    Whereas operations facilitating the reception and inte­
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and                    gration into the social and vocational environment of
Social Committee ;
                                                                    the host country of persons who have left their
Whereas the means of action and operation of the                    country of origin should also qualify for assistance
Fund are defined by Council Regulation ( EEC) No                    from the Fund ;
2396/71 (3) of 8 November 1971 implementing the
Council Decision of 1 February 1971 on the reform                   Whereas operations facilitating the training of welfare
of the European Social Fund ;                                       workers and teaching staff should also qualify for assis­
                                                                    tance from the Fund ;
Whereas, in its resolution of 21 January 1974 (4)
concerning a social action programme, the Council
                                                                    Whereas the reform of the European Social Fund
considered that, to achieve the proposed actions
                                                                    decided on by the Council enables a contribution to
successfully in the social field, the necessary resources
                                                                    be made to the costs resulting from plans under deve­
should be provided, in particular by strengthening the
                                                                     lopment or to be developed in the Member States
role of the European Social Fund ;
                                                                    with the aim of stimulating the employment and
Whereas the aforesaid resolution provides for an                    geographical and professional mobility of migrant
action programme for migrant workers and members                    workers,
of their families ;
Whereas, at the Council meeting held on 12 June
 1972, the Council and the representatives of the                    HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
Governments of the Member States meeting within
the Council adopted certain considerations and                                              Article 1
conclusions concerning employment policy and
invited the Commission to examine the possibility of
action by the European Social Fund to improve the                                   Integrated programmes
conditions of the free movement of workers ;
                                                                     1 . Operations forming part of an integrated
Whereas the cost of measures for migrant workers                     programme designated to facilitate the employment
must be borne primarily by the host country ;                        and geographical and professional mobility of persons,
Whereas the imbalance noted in the field of employ­                  other than frontier workers, moving or having moved
 ment within the Community reveals the need for                      from one Community country to another in order to
specific joint action to assist migrant workers and                  take up employment therein shall be eligible to
 members of their families ;                                         receive assistance from the Fund under Article 4 of
                                                                     the Council Decision of 1 February 1971 .
Whereas the purpose of such specific joint action
 must be, in particular, to improve the social and living            An integrated programme shall be taken to mean all
                                                                     the measures necessary to ensure the effectiveness and
(') OJ No L 28 , 4 . 2 . 1971 , p. 15 .                              continuity of action throughout successive phases of
(2) OJ No C 23 , 8 . 3 . 1974, p. 15 .
(3 ) OJ No L 249, 10 . II . 1971 , p. 54 .                           migration , which may run from preparation for
h) OJ No C 13, 12. 2. 1974, p. 1 .                                   emigration to return to the country of origin .
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Integrated programmes must be consistent with the              for integration courses for migrant workers or their
objectives of industrial and regional development              children shall also be eligible to receive assistance
policy laid down in the joint actions decided upon by           from the Fund under Article 4 of the Council Deci­
the Community.                                                 sion of 1 February 1971 .
2.     Those aids which feature on the list established
by Council Regulation ( EEC) No 2397/71 (') of 8                2. Aids A 10 to A 23 and B 10 to B 22 provided for
November 1971 on aid which may qualify for assis­               in Regulation (EEC) No 2397/71 may receive assis­
tance from the European Social Fund, as amended by              tance from the Fund under paragraph 1 .
Regulation ( EEC) No 1 761 /74 (2), may receive assis­
tance from the European Social Fund under para­
graph 1 .                                                                               Article 4
                         Article 2                                                Final provisions
                 Integration measures
                                                                This Decision shall enter into force on the fifth day
1 . Operations which, although not part of an inte­             following that of its publication in the Official
grated programme, are intended to facilitate the recep­        Journal of the European Communities.
tion and integration into their social and working'envi­
ronment of persons, other than frontier workers, who
have left their country of origin to take up employ­            It shall apply to operations of which the draft has
ment in a Community country, and of members of                  received the approval of the Commission, before the
their families shall also be eligible to receive assis­         expiry of a period of three years after the entry into
                                                                force of this Decision .
tance from the Fund under Article 4 of the Council
Decision of 1 February 1971 .
2. Aids B 20 to B 24 provided for in Regulation
(EEC) No 2397/71 may receive assistance from the
Fund under paragraph 1 .                                        Done at Luxembourg, 27 June 1974.
                         Article 3
                                                                                             For the Council
            Welfare workers and teachers
                                                                                              The President
 1 . Operations to facilitate the basic and advanced
training of welfare workers and teachers responsible                                         K. GSCHEIDLE
(') OJ No L 249, 10 . 11 . 1971 , p. 58 .
(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal .