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"Madam President, let me start by thanking the rapporteur, Mr Traian Ungureanu, for his report on promoting worker mobility within the European Union.
The Commission welcomes this own-initiative report and agrees with the House that reaffirming a fundamental Treaty principle and promoting geographical mobility is vital. Mobility is among the best ways of reducing skill mismatches and boosting our economies, particularly in the current context of high unemployment and very uneven economic growth. It therefore represents a key element of the Europe 2020 strategy to which all Member States have signed up.
The Commission shares this House’s opinion of the positive impact of geographical mobility on Europe’s economies. Over the last 40-plus years, geographical mobility and the fundamental principle of freedom of movement for workers have contributed to European integration and the building of the Single Market. In addition, geographical mobility contributes to both employment and economic growth. This is particularly relevant at a time when high levels of unemployment coexist with labour shortages across sectors and regions.
Citizens must be encouraged and better informed if they are to undertake a cross-border career move with confidence. It calls, inter alia, for better knowledge of the job market situation. People need to know where the jobs are.
Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs are a top priority for the EU. That priority has been followed up by practical action and the development of new tools like the Job Vacancy Monitor, for example. These tools will also be helpful for the EURES network of European employment services.
EURES provides high-quality information, advice and recruitment services for workers and employers. It is a powerful resource available to the EU for promoting geographical mobility. EURES will be reformed next year to step up its matching and placement capacity and to develop mobility and employment in Europe, as the Commission announced in its communication ‘An Agenda for New Skills and Jobs’. The Commission will support targeted mobility schemes at EU level through EURES. One such scheme is Your First EURES Job. A preparatory version is currently under trial.
Despite the EU’s very extensive legislation in the area of free movement of workers, more effective channels of communication between mobile workers and state services are needed to give workers full access to information on their rights and obligations. To that end, I can inform you that, in response to your report, the Commission is assessing the advisability of adding an enforcement dimension to existing EU rules on equal treatment of mobile workers and what the best options for that would be.
The Commission has also given fresh impetus to Member State enforcement of the directive on freedom of movement for citizens (Directive 2004/38/EC) in response to concerns voiced on the topic. This rigorous policy of enforcement has produced substantial results: the majority of the Member States have amended their legislation – or announced their intention of amending it according to a clear calendar – to ensure full transposition of the Free Movement Directive.
The Commission is also committed to continuous monitoring of the Accession Treaties’ provisions with respect to the Member States which have opted temporarily to restrict free movement of workers.
In response to a request from Bulgaria and Romania on 20 June under the 2005 Act of Accession, before the end of this year, the Commission will present a new report on the way in which the transitional arrangements on the free movement of workers from those countries have functioned. The report will analyse the post-enlargement migration flows, the main characteristics of the intra-EU mobile persons, and the economic and labour market impact. While any decisions to maintain restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian workers in the third phase, from 1 January 2012, lie with the Member States, they will have to be notified to the Commission by the end of the year and be justified by serious labour market disturbances."@en1
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