{"id":11951,"date":"2025-09-19T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2025\/09\/regulation-eu-2025-1913-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-of-18-september-2025-amending-regulation-eu-2021-1057-establishing-the-european-social-fund-plus-esf-as-regards-specific-me\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:19:25","slug":"regulation-eu-2025-1913-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-of-18-september-2025-amending-regulation-eu-2021-1057-establishing-the-european-social-fund-plus-esf-as-regards-specific-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2025\/09\/regulation-eu-2025-1913-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council-of-18-september-2025-amending-regulation-eu-2021-1057-establishing-the-european-social-fund-plus-esf-as-regards-specific-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation (EU) 2025\/1913 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2021\/1057 establishing the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Regulation (EU) 2025\/1913 amends Regulation (EU) 2021\/1057, which established the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). The amendment introduces specific measures to address emerging strategic challenges, including skills development in the defence industry and adaptation to changes linked to decarbonisation. It provides increased flexibility for Member States to reallocate ESF+ resources to these new priorities, simplifies policy delivery, and adjusts deadlines for expenditure eligibility and decommitment. The Regulation aims to ensure that the ESF+ can respond effectively to geopolitical and economic shifts without undermining its core social objectives.<\/p>\n

The Regulation consists of three articles. Article 1 introduces several amendments to Regulation (EU) 2021\/1057, including inserting a new Article 5a that outlines specific provisions linked to the mid-term review and related flexibility of the ESF+ strand under shared management. It also amends Article 12a regarding support for the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) objectives and inserts new Articles 12c and 12d to provide support for skills development in civil preparedness, the defence industry, cybersecurity, and adaptation linked to decarbonisation. Article 2 restricts programme amendments and transfers for amounts suspended due to non-compliance with horizontal enabling conditions or measures adopted under Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020\/2092. Article 3 stipulates that the Regulation enters into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.<\/p>\n

Several provisions of this act are particularly important. The introduction of Article 5a provides additional one-off pre-financing for programmes, especially those covering regions bordering Russia, Belarus, or Ukraine, contingent on reallocating at least 10% of financial resources to dedicated priorities. This article also extends the final date for expenditure eligibility and decommitment to 31 December 2030 under certain conditions. Furthermore, the insertion of Articles 12c and 12d allows Member States to use ESF+ funds to support skills development in critical areas such as civil preparedness, the defence industry, cybersecurity, and decarbonisation, offering increased co-financing rates and exceptional pre-financing for these dedicated priorities. ****<\/p>\n

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This Regulation (EU) 2025\/1913 amends Regulation (EU) 2021\/1057, which established the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). The amendment introduces specific measures to address emerging strategic challenges, including skills development in the defence industry and adaptation to changes linked to decarbonisation. It provides increased flexibility for Member States to reallocate ESF+ resources to these new priorities,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu-legislation-general-en","category-eu-legislation-important","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}