Recital (7) · Regulation (EU) 2026/1047

(7)The EU Talent Pool aims to provide information to jobseekers from third countries and to participating employers and other participating entities that are lawfully established in the participating Member States. For the purposes of this Regulation, an employer or other entity is to be considered to be lawfully established in a Member State where it pursues a genuine substantial economic activity in compliance with the national laws and administrative requirements of that Member State. The concept of ‘other participating entity’ should refer to a temporary work agency, a private employment agency or a labour market intermediary. The term ‘temporary work agency’ is to be understood as the term defined in Article 3(1), point (b), of Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council^note. The term ‘private employment agency’ is to be understood as the term defined in the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181) of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

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job vacancy
means a paid position which would allow the jobseeker from a third country who has been selected to enter into an employment relationship in the participating Member State where the participating employer or the other participating entity is established and where the jobseeker from a third country will habitually work.
jobseeker from a third country
means a natural person residing outside the Union who, under the national law or practice of the relevant participating Member State, has reached the age of majority and who is not a citizen of the Union within the meaning of Article 20(1) TFEU and who is seeking employment in the Union;
other participating entity
means a temporary work agency, private employment agency or a labour market intermediary whose job vacancies are available on the IT Platform as transmitted by the National Contact Point of the Member State where the other participating entity is lawfully established;
participating employer
means an employer who is lawfully established in a participating Member State and whose job vacancies are available on the IT Platform as transmitted by the National Contact Point of the Member State where the employer is established;
participating Member State
means a Member State participating in the EU Talent Pool;
profile
means the information provided by a jobseeker from a third country in a standard data format for the purpose of seeking employment through the IT Platform;
registered jobseeker from a third country
means a jobseeker from a third country who has registered on the IT Platform in accordance with Article 11;
single coordinated channel
means the IT service for the transmission of job vacancies from the participating Member States to the IT Platform in accordance with a uniform system and using the necessary technical infrastructure;