Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

CHAPTER V EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND PROGRAMMING CYCLE

Article 29 Exchange of information on flows and patterns

The Commission and the Member States shall monitor and make public labour-mobility flows and patterns in the Union on the basis of Eurostat statistics and available national data.

Article 30 Exchange of information between Member States

1. Each Member State shall, in particular, collect and analyse gender-disaggregated information on:

(a) labour shortages and labour surpluses on national and sectoral labour markets, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable groups in the labour market and the regions most affected by unemployment;

(b) EURES activities at national and, where appropriate, cross-border level.

2. The NCOs shall be responsible for sharing the available information within the EURES network and contributing to the joint analysis.

3. Member States shall carry out the programming referred to in Article 31, taking into account the exchange of information and the joint analysis referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article.

4. The European Coordination Office shall make practical arrangements to facilitate the exchange of information between the NCOs and the development of joint analysis.

Article 31 Programming

1. The NCOs shall draw up annual national work programmes for the activities of the EURES network in their Member States.

2. The annual national work programmes shall specify:

(a) the main activities to be carried out within the EURES network, at national level as a whole, and, where appropriate, at cross-border level;

(b) the overall human and financial resources allocated for their implementation;

(c) the arrangements for the monitoring and evaluation of the activities planned, and, where necessary, for updating them.

3. The NCOs and the European Coordination Office shall be given the opportunity to review together all draft national work programmes. Upon finalisation of that review, the national work programmes shall be adopted by the respective NCOs.

4. The representatives of the social partners at Union level participating in the Coordination Group shall be given the opportunity to comment on the draft national work programmes.

5. The Commission shall establish, by means of implementing acts, the necessary templates and procedures for the exchange of information on the national work programmes at Union level. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 37(2).

Article 32 Data collection and analysis

1. Member States shall ensure that procedures are in place to collect data on the following areas of EURES activity carried out at national level:

(a) information and guidance by the EURES network, on the basis of the number of contacts that the case handlers of the EURES Members and Partners have with workers and employers;

(b) employment performance, including placement and recruitment resulting from EURES activity, on the basis of the number of vacancies, job applications, CVs handled and processed by case handlers of the EURES Members and Partners and the number of workers recruited in another Member State accordingly, as known to those case handlers or, where available, on the basis of surveys;

(c) customer satisfaction with the EURES network, obtained, inter alia, through the use of surveys.

2. The European Coordination Office shall be responsible for collecting data about the EURES portal and the development of the cooperation on the clearance under this Regulation.

3. On the basis of the information referred to in paragraph 1 and within the areas of EURES activity specified in that paragraph, the Commission shall adopt, by means of implementing acts, the uniform detailed specifications for data collection and analysis to monitor and evaluate the functioning of the EURES network. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 37(3).

4. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 36 to modify the areas specified in paragraph 1 of this Article or add to that paragraph other areas of EURES activity undertaken at national level within the framework of this Regulation.

Article 33 Reports on EURES activity

Taking into account the information gathered as referred to in this Chapter, the Commission shall, every two years, submit a report on EURES activity to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.

Until submission of the report referred to in Article 35, the report referred to in the first subparagraph of this Article shall include a description on the state of play of the application of this Regulation.