Activities of Ramona STRUGARIU related to 2021/2107(DEC)
Plenary speeches (1)
Discharge 2020 (debate)
Amendments (18)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. WelcomNotes the fact that Strasbourg part-sessions were suspended for the most part in the year 2020 and that digitalised processes included the organisation of remote meetings and remote voting systems in plenary and parliamentary committees, allowing the Parliament to continue its work; calls on the President of the Parliament to allow for athe option of remote participation of Members until the COVID- 19 pandemic is brought to safe levels;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses the serious risks of hearing problems as a result of extended working arrangements for Parliament’s interpreters having to rely on often very poor sound coming from remote-mode interventions; underlines the efforts made by the interpreters in that regard and calls on the Bureau to ensure that thea good sound quality on the remote participation tool fulfils all relevant ISO standards without any further delay and, if necessary, make the use of adequate hearing and speaking equipment a precondition for participants’ contributions in meetings to be interpreted; calls on Members to use the professional microphones issued by the Parliament;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Regretcalls that voting remotely is currently not provided for under Parliament’s Rules of Procedure unless the President establishes the existence of extraordinary circumstances;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Welcomes Parliament’s efforts, and particularly the personal engagement of former President Sassoli in this issue, to provide daily solidarity meals and shelters for vulnerable women in the three places of work, as decided by the Bureau; further welcomes the fact that around 65 drivers volunteered to drive doctors, nurses and other medical staff to their night shifts in hospital in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Stresses that Parliament needs to be at the forefront of adopting more digital, flexible and energy-efficient working methods and meeting practices, learning from the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and capitalising on the technology investments already implemented which contribute to a significantly reduced need for office space, electricity, water consumption and emissions due to less daily commuting, while also balancing the advantages of in- person work in Parliament;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Recalls that nearly two thirds of Parliament’s carbon footprint originates from the transport of people; calls for reflection on the expansion of voluntary teleworking to more days and functions; calls for a preference to be given to hybrid or fully remote events and meetings, including for the provision of interpretation and for remote interpretation whenever possible; calls for a revision of mission rules by the end of 2022 to ensure a proper needs- based approval and a specific justification for authorisation for all missions, including requirements for low carbon transport modealso calls to prioritise low carbon transport modes for missions;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Calls for an appropriate increase in the number of car parking spaces reserved exclusively for electric vehicles; calls on Parliament to set up an incentive scheme covering the full price of an annual Brussels public transport ticket for all staff in return for their car parking vignette, followed by a reassessment of the overall number of parking spaces needed and the use of unused car parking to be turned into additional bicycle parking spacefor the creation of additional bicycle parking spaces; calls for the creation of adequate cargo bike parking spaces to ensure the regular bike parking spaces are accessible for regular bike riders;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Welcomes the introduction of a wider and more sustainable food choice, including the introduction of a greater variety of vegetarian and vegan products, in Parliament’s canteens; reiterates that plant-based food not only has health advantages but also has a much lower carbon footprint; calls on Parliament to increase the variety of vegetarian and vegan meals further and incentivise the consumption of such meals with a view to reducing the consumption of meat, fish and other animal-based products in Parliament’s canteens as much as possible;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Recalls the support by the vast majority of Parliament for a single seat to ensure efficient spending of Union taxpayers’ money and to assume its institutional responsibility to reduce its carbon footprint; recalls that Parliament’s plenary has previously requested a debate on its right to determine its own working arrangements and committed itself to initiating an ordinary treaty revision procedure under Article 48 ofat according to the Treaty on the European Union with a view to proposing changes necessary to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Protocol 6 to allow it to decide on the location of its seat and its internal organisation4 ; _________________ 4Report A7-0350/2013 available at https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/A-7-2013-0350_EN.pdf, Strasbourg is the seat of Parliament;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Strongly supports Parliament’s services’ ongoing project to make plenary voting records available on a dedicated space where users will have access to clear and reader-friendly documents, and welcomes the new layout for the roll-call votes in which the individual voting record of each Member will be published, giving the option to visualise the distribution of votes according to inter alia political group affiliation and/or nationality; regrets that it is not yet technically possible for Parliament’s services to allow for the display of the text of each amendment along with the voting record as it is offered by several private providers; calls on Parliamentary services to make available all amendments and roll-call voting records at committee level and to include them in the new layout; further asks Parliament’s services to provide the possibility to Members to test a beta version of the new tool and provide feedback to be taken into account during the development of the tool;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
Paragraph 66
66. Notes that creating the permanent possibility for members of staff to telework from anywhere, under conditions to be specified, entails a great number of advantages for both members of staff and institutions including the improvement of staff well-being and increasing Parliament’s attractiveness as an employer, financial savings made through, inter alia, a reduced need for office space, a reduced environmental impact from staff commutes and a closer link between the Union institutions and citizens in Member States other than Belgium, France and Luxembourg; calls on Parliament to enter into an inter-institutional discussion with a view to reviewing the decision obliging staff to telework exclusively from their place of employment in exceptional circumstances, e.g. under the condition of temporarily forfeiting their expat allowance;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 a (new)
Paragraph 69 a (new)
69 a. Proposes that, in line with the fact that promoting equal opportunities remains a key component of Parliament's human resource management policy, a greater focus is placed on equal opportunities for all, notably for example increasing the number of people with disabilities working in the Parliament administration; notes that within the Bureau a high-level group on gender and diversity already exists and requests that it conduct a study of effective measures taken in Member States and internationally to increase the participation of people with disabilities in the work place, including legislative measures; requests that the high-level group reports back to the Bureau with concrete suggestions once the study has been undertaken and the results analysed; calls for ambitious targets to be urgently set and for them to be achieved over a short time frame;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 a (new)
Paragraph 69 a (new)
69 a. Reiterates its call to the Secretary- General to insist on the importance of all recruitment being based on competency, while also respecting the need for geographical balance of all Member States at all levels of staff; calls for a geographical balance to be reached to ensure a proper representation of nationals from all Member States, including at management level;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Regrets that sometimes political, rather than purely competency criteria seem to determincan influence the outcome the internal “passerelle” competitions; calls on Parliament to ensure in future competitions that candidates are chosen based on skills and competence rather than political affiliation;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
Paragraph 74
74. Notes that neither an inspection of the national service 'Contrôle des lois sociales/Direction de Bruxelles' (2020) nor an analysis by the psychosocial department of the external service for prevention and protection at work in Brussels (2020) found any legal breaches related to social laws and working conditions for cleaning staff; supports the launch of internal surveys, by the end of 2021, aiming to reflect the actual state of the company’s employee satisfaction levels, engagement, commitment, loyalty, motivation, etc. and to identify weaknesses, problems or opportunities for improvement within the current cleaning company Köse; calls on Parliament to take all necessary precautions to ensure that the highest standards of labour law for cleaning staff, are being upheld by external contractors, in particular as regards psychological pressure and working conditions;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
Paragraph 79
79. Calls for a debate on the space needs of Parliament in light of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, current and future increase in teleworking and, if appropriate, for the adaptation of its long- term building strategy; requests, in particular, that the building policy be reviewed to ensure a dedicated office space for each staff member, as this policy would result in significant office space being unused during large parts of the working week; considers that e.g. two staff members teleworking for 3 days a week should be able to share one work stationencourages the administration to pool workstations as much as possible in accordance with staff’s teleworking";
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85 a (new)
Paragraph 85 a (new)
85 a. Recalls that there is a standing rapporteur in the Committee on Budgets, which is competent for buildings within Parliament;