Chapter III, Article 17 · Regulation (EU) 2016/589

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Article 17Organisation of the common IT platform#

1.To bring together job vacancies and job applications each Member State shall make available to the EURES portal:

(a)all job vacancies made publicly available through PES as well as those provided by the EURES Members and, where relevant, the EURES Partners in accordance with Article 12(3);

(b)all job applications and CVs available through PES as well as those provided by the other EURES Members and, where relevant, the EURES Partners, in accordance with Article 12(3), provided that the workers concerned have consented to making the information available to the EURES portal under the terms defined in paragraph 3 of this Article.

With regard to point (a) of the first subparagraph, Member States may introduce a mechanism allowing employers to opt not to have a vacancy published on the EURES portal if the request is duly justified on the basis of the skills and competence requirements relating to the job.

2.When making available job vacancy data to the EURES portal, Member States may exclude:

(a)job vacancies which due to their nature or to national rules are open only to citizens of a specific country;

(b)job vacancies relating to categories of apprenticeships and traineeships which, having mainly a learning component, are part of national education systems or which are funded publicly as part of a Member State's active labour market policies;

(c)other job vacancies as part of a Member State's active labour market policies.

3.The consent of workers referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 shall be explicit, unambiguous, freely given, specific and informed. Workers may, at any time, withdraw their consent and require the deletion or modification of any or all of the data made available. Workers may choose from a number of options to restrict access to their data or to certain attributes.

4.With regard to workers who are minors, their consent shall be provided together with that of their parents or legal guardians.

5.Member States shall have in place the appropriate mechanisms and standards necessary for ensuring the intrinsic and technical quality of job-vacancy, job-application and CV data.

6.Member States shall ensure that the sources of data can be traced for the purpose of monitoring the quality of those data.

7.To enable the matching of job vacancies with job applications and CVs each Member State shall ensure that the information referred to in paragraph 1 is provided in accordance with a uniform system and in a transparent manner.

8.The Commission shall adopt, by means of implementing acts, the necessary technical standards and formats aimed at reaching the uniform system referred to in paragraph 7. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 37(3).