21 Amendments of Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO related to 2015/2223(INI)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas financially vulnerable groups, such as unemployed, students, single-parent families, low-income families, widowed, permanently ill, suffer particularly of high level on living costs;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the European Parliament in its resolution 'Towards a genuine Economic and Monetary Union' of 20 November 2012 (Thyssen report) called for a European Social Pact as the fifth pillar of the EMU in order to promote amongst others decent living wages with minimum incomes preventing in-work poverty;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
D b. Housing deprivation and energy poverty are higher in countries with a lower share of social rental housing i.e. Eastern and Mediterranean countries;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to clarify the problem of fuel poverty in the EU and support the Member States in developing planning;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 1 a (new)
- taking measures to address extreme forms of poverty that currently fall beyond the scope of the target, namely homelessness;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5
Paragraph 5 – indent 5
- ending anyWelcoming social factors as part of economic governance and implementing effective social impact assessment to prevent EU policies in other policy areas that may lead to increase poverty;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 – indent 5 a (new)
- taking note of the situation of people suffering the effects of the economic crisis and as a result of this end up with extremely poverty and debt burden; encouraging Member States to prepare their legislation in a way that it prevents the formulation of the housing bubble, for example being able to change loan conditions;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop, adopt and implement an EU framework to reduce poverty and social exclusion in line with the Europe 2020 Strategy, consisting of concrete measures and actions, including housing exclusion, homelessness and energy poverty;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide information and help to people at risk of poverty and social exclusion to make educated choices regarding their energy consumption and support non-governmental actors working towards this goal;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9 b. Calls on the Member States to oblige energy providers to include information in their energy bills to households regarding measures to reduce energy consumption and to increase energy efficiency with the aim to reduce energy poverty;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9 c. Recalls the European Economic and Social Committee's opinion entitled 'For coordinated European measures to prevent and combat energy poverty' and supports in this context the idea of a European energy security and solidarity commitment as well as the setting up of a European poverty observatory and a European fund with the specific aim of eradicating energy poverty;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Calls for a comprehensive strategy to fight poverty based on access to decent jobs leading to quality employment, services, and the activation of minimum income and social protection according to the subsidiarity principle;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls upon Member States to take into account the fluctuations of living costs in their national support schemes for financially vulnerable groups such as unemployed, students, single-parent families, low-income families, widowed, permanently ill;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls the Commission to come up with a definition of vulnerable consumers; ask the Commission to gather impact assessments and collection of best practices of measures taken at national level to fight energy poverty;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. Emphasises that energy must be made affordable to all citizens of the EU; considers that avoiding unnecessary consumption by undertaking efficiency improvements, stronger interconnections, higher market integration and sustainable energy investment, particularly in buildings, would enable many households to access on equal conditions a single, sustainable, competitive and secure energy market and escape energy poverty, which in 2012 affected one in four EU citizens; invites the Commission to present a communication on energy poverty in Europe, accompanied by an action plan to fight against it, which contains a definition and indicators of energy poverty;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls that targeting Union funding towards reducing energy costs of poor households living in inefficient housing an poor quality by investing in renewables or energy efficiency has multiple positive effects: at household level, it improves living conditions and the health of those concerned as well as decreasing household costs and therefore provides budgetary relief for poor families; at regional and local level, funding will provide for local investment, which will create jobs; at Union level it helps to both decrease poverty, improve energy efficiency and, decrease energy emissions and reduce unemployment; highlights the importance of targeting the Investment Fund towards such initiatives;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to exploit the full potential of the European Funds with regard to tackling energy poverty;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17 b. Considers that as part of any review of the retail energy markets, serious consideration should be given to further measures to protect consumers;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that stakeholders have identified twohree major obstacles in targeting energy poverty via the ESI Funds: firstly, relating to project size, where smaller beneficiaries are faced with funds intended for larger scale projects such as the Cohesion Fund; secondly, that operational programs do not make full use of the option to orient the ESI Funds towards energy poverty; thirdly, there is a lack of information concerning these funds and the application requirements;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Member States not to exempt the energy intensive industries from taxes, but to use these revenues forto make measures that benefit low-income households, including social tariffs for vulnerable households targeted energy efficiency measures and financing of social security systems, which can in turn reduce the burden on labour costs; considers that such an offsetting mechanism could be an integral element of a socially equitable tax shift as proposed by the Commission in the current employment guidelines; underlines that effective social policy should be the main tool to prevent energy poverty;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Member States to sign up to a European winter heating and electricity disconnection moratorium so as to ensure that during a defined winter period no household can be cut off from energy or that those who are must be reconnected to energy needed for heating that meets World Health Organisation (WHO) standards for adequate housing temperature; points out that such a moratorium aims to decrease excess winter mortality, supporting the most vulnerable groups, especially young children, the elderly and permanently sick and disabled people so as to protect their health and well-being;