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European Union Regulations on Youth Policy

European Union Regulations on Youth Policy

In the section below we list all the regulations adopted by the European Union in the past 50 years about youth and youth empowerment. First, we must mention that regulations are the most direct form of EU law - as soon as they are passed, they have binding legal force throughout every Member State, on a par with national laws. National governments do not have to take action to implement EU regulations. Regulations are passed either by the Council and European Parliament, or by the Commission alone. 1

Due to the fact that youth policies and education policies have not been transferred to the European Community level, this area is not highly regulated as far as regulations are concerned. National governments still hold the power when it comes to policies and decisions about education, youth empowerment and other fields involving the youth. "Erasmus+" was the most important program adopted by the European Union that affects young people and their education.

1978
• Council Regulation (EEC) No 3039/78 of 18 December 1978: On the creation of two new types of aid for young people from the European Social Fund.
The main goal of this regulation was to promote young employment, for instance by the aid of the State of Public Authorities or by giving young people experience in order to help them to find a stable job. 2

1990
• Regulation (EEC) No 1360/90 establishing a European Training Foundation: The Foundation shall work in the training field, covering initial and continuing vocational training as well as retraining for young people and adults, including in particular management training. 3 Three amendments have been done regarding this regulation from 1990 until now:
1994: Council Regulation (EC) No 2063/94 of 27 July 1994 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1360/90 establishing a European Training Foundation 4
1998: Council Regulation (EC) No 1572/98 of 17 July 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1360/90 establishing a European Training Foundation 5
2003: Council Regulation (EC) No 1648/2003 of 18 June 2003 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1360/90 establishing a European Training Foundation 6

2008
• Regulation (EC) No 1339/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 establishing a European Training Foundation (recast): The objective of the Foundation is to contribute, in the context of EU external relations policies, to improving human capital development. One of the goals was facilitating access to vocational training and encouraging the mobility of instructors and trainees and particularly young people. 7

• Commission regulation (EC) No 207/2008 of 5 March 2008: Adopting the specifications of the 2009 ad hoc module on the entry of young people into the labor market provided for by Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98. 8

2013
• Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 of the European parliament and of the council of 11 December 2013: Establishing 'Erasmus+': the Union program for education, training, youth and sport and repealing Decisions No 1719/2006/EC, No 1720/2006/EC and No 1298/2008/EC. 9
This Regulation establishes a program for Union action in the field of education, training, youth and sport to be implemented for the period from January the 1st of 2014 to December the 31st of 2020. The program covers fields such as education and training at all levels, in a lifelong learning perspective, youth (Youth in Action), particularly in the context of non-formal and informal learning and sport. The education and training field implies the well-known mobilities and placements for school education (Comenius), higher education (Erasmus), international higher education (Erasmus Mundus), vocational education and training (Leonardo da Vinci) and adult learning (Grundtvig).

1 European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/eu_law/introduction/what_regulation_en.htm [Accessed: 18.03.2014]

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