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Volunteering and voluntary activity in Europe

2013/2064(INI)·7th term·CULT·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): SCURRIA Marco (PPE)
Summary

This own-initiative report concerns volunteering and voluntary activity in Europe. The amendments describe volunteering as a facet of active citizenship, democracy and social cohesion, note bureaucratic, financial and legal barriers and disparities between Member States, and call for legal recognition, a European statute for voluntary organisations, validation of skills via tools such as the European Skills Passport, measurement of volunteer work along ILO lines, and address gender disparities in participation.

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Amendments
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17
Members
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Committee(s)
5 Sep 2013
Dates

Official amendment documents