Coordinated Strategy for Employment
Coordinated Strategy for Employment : he Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) introduces the concept of a coordinated strategy for employment that follows on from the integrated strategy for employment launched at the Essen European Council in December 1994. In Essen the European Council asked the European Union (EU) Member States to draw up multi-annual programmes for employment (MAPs) and to provide the European Commission with reports on their implementation. These reports describe the main measures taken by the governments to apply their multi-annual programmes over the last 12 months, assess the impact of these measures on employment - in certain cases - and announce major changes or new initiatives in this field. The "Essen strategy" was refined by the European Council in Madrid (December 1995) and Dublin (December 1996), on both occasions on the basis of a joint report by the Commission and the Council summarizing the reports on the implementation of the MAPs. In Florence (June 1996) and Amsterdam (June 1997), the European Council received a more succinct interim joint report. With the Treaty of Amsterdam, a new title on employment has been written into the EC Treaty, introducing the concepts of a coordinated strategy and guidelines for employment. In practical terms, there are two main innovations: the Council draws up guidelines for employment each year that are compatible with the broad lines of economic policy; it does so acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the Employment Committee; the Council can also make recommendations to the EU Member States in the light of its annual review of their employment policies, acting by a qualified majority on a recommendation from the Commission. The Amsterdam European Council decided that the relevant provisions of the new title on employment should be put into effect immediately and they have been applied since June 1997. See: Employment; Employment General Principles; Treaty of Amsterdam
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