Youth Employment Initiative: Implementation Appraisal

Briefing 12-05-2015

This implementation appraisal focuses on Regulation (EU) 1304/2013 on the functioning of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), in force since 21 December 2013. The European Commission announced in its annual Work Programme (CWP) for 2015 that the provisions concerning the YEI, Chapter IV of Regulation (EU) 1304/2013, will be updated by a new proposal, which it tabled on 4 February 2015. 'Implementation Appraisals' aim to provide a succinct overview of material publicly available on the implementation, application and effectiveness of an EU law to date - drawing on available in-puts from, inter alia, the EU institutions and advisory committees, national parliaments, and relevant external consultation and outreach exercises. They are provided to assist parliamentary committees in their consideration of the new Commission proposal, once tabled.