Regulation (EU) 2018/1475 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilDangos y teitl llawn

CHAPTER II U.K. ACTIONS OF THE EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS

Article 6 U.K. Actions of the European Solidarity Corps

The European Solidarity Corps shall pursue its objectives through the following types of actions:

(a)

volunteering;

(b)

traineeships, jobs;

(c)

solidarity projects and networking activities; and

(d)

quality and support measures.

Article 7 U.K. Solidarity activities

1. The actions referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of Article 6 shall support solidarity activities in the form of:

(a) volunteering, traineeships and jobs, including both individual cross-border and in-country activities. For volunteering also activities involving teams of participants from different participating countries shall be supported;

(b) solidarity projects on the initiative of participants;

(c) networking activities for participants and participating organisations.

2. Volunteering under the European Voluntary Service shall continue to be carried out both under Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 and under this Regulation, as appropriate. References to the European Voluntary Service in legal acts of the Union, in particular Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1), shall be read as including volunteering under both Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 and this Regulation.

Article 8 U.K. Quality and support measures

The action referred to in point (d) of Article 6 shall support:

(a)

measures aimed at ensuring the quality and accessibility of volunteering, traineeships, jobs, or solidarity projects and equal opportunities for all young people across participating countries including offline and online training, language support, administrative support for participants and participating organisations, complementary insurance, support before and, where necessary, after the solidarity activity, as well as the further use of Youthpass to identify and document the competences acquired during the solidarity activities;

(b)

the development and maintenance of separate quality labels for entities willing to provide respectively volunteering or traineeships and jobs for the European Solidarity Corps in order to ensure compliance with the principles and requirements of the European Solidarity Corps;

(c)

the activities of the European Solidarity Corps Resource Centres to support and raise the quality of the implementation of the actions of the European Solidarity Corps and enhance the validation of their outcomes;

(d)

the establishment, maintenance and updating of the European Solidarity Corps Portal and other relevant online services as well as the necessary IT support systems and web-based tools, taking into account the need to overcome the digital divide.

(1)

Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of research, studies, training, voluntary service, pupil exchange schemes or educational programs and au pairing (OJ L 132, 21.5.2016, p. 21).