ESCO Maintenance Committee

1 Role and responsibilities
2 Working methods
3 History
- 3.1 First ESCO Maintenance Committee (2011-2013)
- 3.2 Second ESCO Maintenance Committee (2014-2017)
- 3.3 Third ESCO Maintenance Committee (2018-2022)
4 Composition

Role and responsibilities

The ESCO Maintenance Committee was a Commission expert group. It provided advice on the continuous technical and conceptual improvement of ESCO. It formulated opinions on the approach for technical implementation, on quality control principles and on the revision of ESCO data. Additionally, the Committee advised the Commission on the implementation of ESCO in processes and software applications (e.g. use of ESCO by the Public Employment Services, within EURES, by private job boards, for career guidance, for big data analysis and for a better linking of employment with education and training).

The ESCO Maintenance Committee was in particular responsible for:

Providing expertise concerning the continuous updating, improvement, management and dissemination of the ESCO classification;
Advising on the methodological approach to ESCO requirements and its compliance with stakeholders' requirements;
Advising on how ESCO can add most value through its use in applications;
Monitoring the progress of the revision of the ESCO content;
Contributing to the quality assurance process;
For each proposal for a new ESCO release: i) review the proposal and the quality assurance process applied in its development, and ii) provide an opinion on the release of the proposal to the Commission.

Working methods

The ESCO Maintenance Committee scheduled meetings to provide advice on the technical and conceptual improvement of ESCO. It met four to six times per year. Meetings of the ESCO Maintenance Committee were held in English. Results of the meetings were documented in minutes and published on the ESCO Portal.

In ESCO documents, the ESCO Maintenance Committee is abbreviated as MAI.

History

First ESCO Maintenance Committee (2011-2013)

The Commission and the ESCO Board established the ESCO Maintenance Committee in 2011. The mandate of the first ESCO Maintenance Committee covered the years 2011 to 2013. A major achievement during this mandate was the Go Live of ESCO v0 on 23 October 2013. The first ESCO Maintenance Committee held ten regular meetings and one transition meeting in early 2014, all of them in Brussels:

1st ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 12-13 October 2011
2nd ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 18-19 January 2012
3rd ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 18-19 April 2012
4th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 20-21 June 2012
5th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 19-20 September 2012
6th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 5-6 December 2012
7th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 20-21 February 2013
8th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 19-20 June 2013
9th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 18-19 September 2013
10th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 11-12 December 2013
11th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 19-20 March 2014
12th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 18-19 June 2014

Second ESCO Maintenance Committee (2014-2017)

The Commission services have launched the second term of the ESCO Maintenance Committee under the new Terms of Reference. It will cover the period 2014 to 2017. The second ESCO Maintenance Committee held the following regular meeting, all of them in Brussels:

13th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 17-18 September 2014
14th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 10-11 December 2014
15th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 18-19 March 2015
16th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 16-17 June 2015
17th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 16-17 September 2015
18th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 09-10 December 2015
19th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 16-17 March 2016
20th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 11-12 July 2016
Joint meeting of the ESCO Maintenance Committee and the ESCO Board, 12 July 2016
21st ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 14-15 September 2016
22nd ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 7-8 December 2016
23rd ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 15-16 March 2017
24th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 15 June 2017

Third ESCO Maintenance Committee (2018-2022)

The Commission services have launched the third term of the ESCO Maintenance Committee under the new Terms of Reference. It covered the period 2018 to 2022 and its members provided technical advice on ESCO's implementation in software applications, on quality control and technical and conceptual improvement of ESCO. The third ESCO Maintenance Committee held the following regular meetings, in Brussels or online:

25th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 23 April 2018
26th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 05 June 2018
27th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 24 September 2018
28th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 20 November 2018
29th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 26 March 2019
30th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 24 May 2019
31st ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 20 September 2019
32nd ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 12 November 2019
Joint ESCO MSWG/MAI meeting, 2 October 2020
34th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 22 October 2020
35th ESCO Maintenance Committee meeting, 27 April 2021

Composition

The ESCO Maintenance Committee consisted of experts for classification systems and terminology of the labour market and of education and training. Members of the ESCO Maintenance Committee were appointed on the basis of their personal expertise and were not officially represent organisations or Member States.