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The Union Aquis (Principle 1)
Description
a) The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
Article 14 of the Charter gives everyone the right to education and to have access to vocational and continuing training. This right includes the possibility to receive free compulsory education.
b) The legislative powers and their limits
According to Article 165 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the Union is empowered to contribute to the development of quality education by encouraging policy cooperation between the Member States and, if necessary, by supporting and implementing their action while fully respecting the responsibility of the Member States for the content of teaching and their cultural and linguistic diversity.
Article 166 TFEU empowers the Union to implement a vocational training policy which supports and supplements the actions of the Member States while fully respecting the responsibility of the Member States for the content and organisation of vocational training.
c) Existing measures
Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee(1) calls on Member States to ensure that all young people under the age of 25 years receive an offer of employment of good quality, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education.
Recommendation 2006/962/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning(2) identifies the knowledge, skills and attitudes for personal fulfilment, active citizenship, social cohesion and employability.
Council Recommendation of 28 June 2011 on policies to reduce early school leaving(3) invited the Member States to develop comprehensive strategies to support young people in completing upper secondary education and to achieve the Europe 2020 headline target on reducing the rate of early school leaving to less than 10% by 2020.
Recommendation 2006/143/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 on further European cooperation in quality assurance in higher education identifies actions that could be taken at national and EU level to support the development and accreditation of high quality higher education.
Recommendation 2009/C 155/01 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on the establishment of a European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training(4) provides common tools for the management of quality to promote better vocational education and training.
Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on the establishment of the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning(5) sets out a basis for measuring educational achievement based on learning outcomes. Council Recommendation of 20 December 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning(6) calls on the Member States to provide arrangements to identify, document, assess and certify learning outcomes leading to a qualification.
The New Skills Agenda for Europe(7) , adopted in June 2016, launched a number of actions to improve the quality and relevance of skills formation, make skills more visible and comparable, and improve skills intelligence. These include the Council Recommendation of 19 December 2016 on Upskilling Pathways: New Opportunities for Adults(8) which calls on the Member States to offer adults support for acquiring a minimum level of literacy, numeracy and digital competence and for progressing towards a secondary qualification and the blueprint for sectoral cooperation on skills.
Article 14 of the Charter gives everyone the right to education and to have access to vocational and continuing training. This right includes the possibility to receive free compulsory education.
b) The legislative powers and their limits
According to Article 165 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the Union is empowered to contribute to the development of quality education by encouraging policy cooperation between the Member States and, if necessary, by supporting and implementing their action while fully respecting the responsibility of the Member States for the content of teaching and their cultural and linguistic diversity.
Article 166 TFEU empowers the Union to implement a vocational training policy which supports and supplements the actions of the Member States while fully respecting the responsibility of the Member States for the content and organisation of vocational training.
c) Existing measures
Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee(1) calls on Member States to ensure that all young people under the age of 25 years receive an offer of employment of good quality, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education.
Recommendation 2006/962/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning(2) identifies the knowledge, skills and attitudes for personal fulfilment, active citizenship, social cohesion and employability.
Council Recommendation of 28 June 2011 on policies to reduce early school leaving(3) invited the Member States to develop comprehensive strategies to support young people in completing upper secondary education and to achieve the Europe 2020 headline target on reducing the rate of early school leaving to less than 10% by 2020.
Recommendation 2006/143/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 on further European cooperation in quality assurance in higher education identifies actions that could be taken at national and EU level to support the development and accreditation of high quality higher education.
Recommendation 2009/C 155/01 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on the establishment of a European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training(4) provides common tools for the management of quality to promote better vocational education and training.
Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on the establishment of the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning(5) sets out a basis for measuring educational achievement based on learning outcomes. Council Recommendation of 20 December 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning(6) calls on the Member States to provide arrangements to identify, document, assess and certify learning outcomes leading to a qualification.
The New Skills Agenda for Europe(7) , adopted in June 2016, launched a number of actions to improve the quality and relevance of skills formation, make skills more visible and comparable, and improve skills intelligence. These include the Council Recommendation of 19 December 2016 on Upskilling Pathways: New Opportunities for Adults(8) which calls on the Member States to offer adults support for acquiring a minimum level of literacy, numeracy and digital competence and for progressing towards a secondary qualification and the blueprint for sectoral cooperation on skills.
Importance
High
Additional information
(1) Council Recommendation of 22 April 2013 on establishing a Youth Guarantee, OJ C120, 26.4.2013, p.1.
(2) Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 10.
(3) Council Recommendation of 28 June 2011 on policies to reduce early school leaving, OJ C 191, 1.7.2011, p. 1.
(4) Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on the establishment of a European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training, OJ C 155, 8.7.2009, p. 1.
(5) Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on the establishment of the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning, OJ C 111, 6.5.2008, p. 1.
(6) Council Recommendation of 20 December 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning, OJ C 398, 22.12.2012, p. 1.
(7) Communication from the Commission, A New Skills Agenda for Europe, COM(2016) 381 final, 10.6.2016
(8) OJ C484, 24.12.2016, p.1.
(2) Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning OJ L 394, 30.12.2006, p. 10.
(3) Council Recommendation of 28 June 2011 on policies to reduce early school leaving, OJ C 191, 1.7.2011, p. 1.
(4) Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on the establishment of a European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training, OJ C 155, 8.7.2009, p. 1.
(5) Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on the establishment of the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning, OJ C 111, 6.5.2008, p. 1.
(6) Council Recommendation of 20 December 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning, OJ C 398, 22.12.2012, p. 1.
(7) Communication from the Commission, A New Skills Agenda for Europe, COM(2016) 381 final, 10.6.2016
(8) OJ C484, 24.12.2016, p.1.