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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-618/annex/division-Guidelines/division-3/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2008/618",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 15 July 2008 on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (2008/618/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-618",
  "path": "annex/division/Guidelines/division/3/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Overview of targets and benchmarks set in the framework of the European Employment Strategy",
  "text": "The following targets and benchmarks have been agreed in the context of the European Employment Strategy:\nthat every unemployed person is offered a job, apprenticeship, additional training or other employability measure; in the case of young persons who have left school within no more than 4 months by 2010 and in the case of adults within no more than 12 months,\nthat 25 % of long-term unemployment should participate by 2010 in an active measure in the form of training, retraining, work practice, or other employability measure, with the aim of achieving the average of the three most advanced Member States,\nthat jobseekers throughout the EU are able to consult all job vacancies advertised through Member States’ employment services,\nan increase by five years, at EU level, of the effective average exit age from the labour market by 2010 compared to 2001,\nthe provision of childcare by 2010 to at least 90 % of children between 3 years old and the mandatory school age and at least 33 % of children under 3 years of age,\nan EU average rate of no more than 10 % early school leavers,\nat least 85 % of 22-year olds in the EU should have completed upper secondary education by 2010,\nthat the EU average level of participation in lifelong learning should be at least 12,5 % of the adult working-age population (25 to 64 age group).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/618/annex/division/Guidelines/division/3/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:45.397501+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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