Article 15 — Adjustments to the list of Union-wide shortage occupations

1. The participating Member States may decide to add shortage occupations at the ISCO-08 4-digit level in order to satisfy their specific labour market needs and their policy objectives. They may also decide to remove shortage occupations from the Union-wide list where those shortage occupations do not correspond to their specific labour market needs at national or regional level or to their policy objectives. Such country-specific adjustments shall only affect the matching of job vacancies in the Member State concerned. The National Contact Point shall notify any country-specific adjustments to the list of Union-wide shortage occupations at the latest 3 months before the date from which the relevant Member State intends to participate in the EU Talent Pool referred to in Article 3(1). The National Contact Points may notify the Secretariat of further country-specific adjustments to the list of Union-wide shortage occupations every 6 months. Where the Annex is amended in accordance with Article 14(1), second subparagraph, the National Contact Points shall notify the Secretariat of any country-specific adjustments to the list of Union-wide shortage occupations within 3 months. 2. The Secretariat shall publish the country-specific adjustments to the list of Union-wide shortage occupations notified by the National Contact Points on the IT Platform.