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Article 9, Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

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European Parliament and Council Regulation 1784/1999/EC on the European Social Fund, OJ 1999 No. L213/5. More particularly, the Regulation stipulated in Article 1 that ‘the Fund shall contribute to the actions undertaken in pursuance of the European Employment Strategy and the Annual Guidelines on Employment’.

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