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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1304/annex-I/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1304",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1304/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the European Social Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1081/2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1304",
  "path": "annex/I/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(1)",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Common output indicators for participants\n‘Participants’ refers to persons benefiting directly from an ESF intervention who can be identified and asked for their characteristics, and for whom specific expenditure is earmarked. Other persons shall not be classified as participants. All data shall be broken down by gender.\nThe common output indicators for participants are:\nunemployed, including long-term unemployed*,\nlong-term unemployed*,\ninactive*,\ninactive, not in education or training*,\nemployed, including self-employed*,\nbelow 25 years of age*\nabove 54 years of age*,\nabove 54 years of age who are unemployed, including long-term unemployed, or inactive not in education or training*,\nwith primary (ISCED 1) or lower secondary education (ISCED 2)*,\nwith upper secondary (ISCED 3) or post-secondary education (ISCED 4)*,\nwith tertiary education (ISCED 5 to 8)*,\nmigrants, participants with a foreign background, minorities (including marginalised communities such as the Roma)**,\nparticipants with disabilities**,\nother disadvantaged**.\nThe total number of participants will be calculated automatically on the basis of the output indicators.\nThese data on participants entering an ESF supported operation shall be provided in the annual implementation reports as specified in Article 50(1) and (2) and Article 111(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013.\nThe following data on participants will be provided in the annual implementation reports as specified in Article 50 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013:\nhomeless or affected by housing exclusion*,\nfrom rural areas*\nThe data of those two indicators shall be collected based on a representative sample of participants within each investment priority. Internal validity shall be ensured in such a way that the data can be generalised at the level of the investment priority.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "( + ) Managing authorities shall establish a system that records and stores individual participant data in computerised form as set out in Article 125(2)(d) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013. The data processing arrangements put in place by the Member States shall be in line with Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data ( OJ L 281, 23.11.1995, p. 31 ), in particular Articles 7 and 8 thereof. Data reported under the indicators marked with* are personal data according to Article 7 of Directive 95/46/EC. Their processing is necessary for compliance with the legal obligation to which the controller is subject (Article 7(c) of Directive 95/46/EC). For the definition of controller, see Article 2 of Directive 95/46/EC. Data reported under the indicators marked with** are a special category of data according to Article 8 of Directive 95/46/EC. Subject to the provision of suitable safeguards, Member States may, for reasons of substantial public interest, lay down exemptions in addition to those laid down in Article 8(2) of Directive 95/46/EC, either by national law or by decision of the supervisory authority (Article 8(4) of Directive 95/46/EC)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "( ++ ) The data shall be collected at the level of smaller administrative units (local administrative units 2), in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) ( OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1 )."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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