Creation of mapping tables
Article 3
1. Member States that use national, regional or sectoral classifications when recording information related to occupations, skills or competences in national systems for job vacancies or job seeker profiles connected to the single coordinated channel, within the meaning of Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2016/589, shall, in order to make them available to the EURES portal in accordance with Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/589, create and use machine-readable mapping tables between each of these national, regional and sectoral classifications and the European classification adopted pursuant to Article 19(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/589. 2. Member States shall create these tables in accordance with common technical standards and formats in order to enable an effective operation of the automated matching through the common IT platform as referred to in Article 19(6) of Regulation (EU) 2016/589. 3. The technical standards and formats referred to in paragraph 2 shall consist of: (a) the set of information to be included in the mapping tables; (b) a syntax to express this set of information. 4. The European Coordination Office for EURES shall communicate and make available the technical standards and formats referred to in paragraph 2 on the EURES portal Extranet ( 3 ) . 5. As provided for in Article 19(5) of Regulation (EU) 2016/589, the European Commission and the European Coordination Office for EURES shall provide support to the Member States for their mapping. In particular, it shall make available an application to help establish and update inventories and mapping tables. 6. Member States using the European classification at national level, according to Article 19(4) of Regulation (EU) 2016/589, do not need to create mapping tables as referred to in this Decision. 7. Following the procedures laid down in Article 6, the European Coordination Office for EURES may update the technical standards and formats.