6 Amendments of Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO related to 2016/0264(COD)
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) In the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy21 and the strengthening of economic governance, social indicators play an essential role in informing and supporting the Union’s key priorities for inclusive growth and job creation, social cohesion, the reduction of poverty, inequalities and social exclusion, skills, gender equality, mobility and the digital economy. In particular, social indicators must provide a sound statistical basis for developing and monitoring the policies introduced by the Union to address those priorities. __________________ 21 Communication from the Commission - EUROPE 2020 A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth COM (2010) 2020 of 3 March 2010.
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) In view of this, social indicators should be of the necessary high quality, in particular in terms of their robustness, their timeliness, their relevance, their adaptability to new users’ requests, as well as their comparability and efficiency. It is essential to ensure gender- and age- segregated data collection, including for people over 74, in order to identify gender and age specific issues, thus allowing for a solid factual basis to assess progress with regard to gender equality and tackling gender and age-based discrimination.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In order to better streamline and rationalise the reference framework for European social statistics collected from samples, existing legal provisions for European statistics on persons and households based on data at individual level should be brought together under one framework. This would guarantee that the European social statistics collected fromion of samples including the domains of labour marketforce, income and living conditions, health status, education and training- participation of adults in lifelong learning and use of information and communication technologies would be undertaken in a consistent, coherent and coordinated way. This should ensure the provision of relevant data regarding unemployment, in particular youth unemployment, new employment trends, in particular in the context of digital economy, poverty, including child poverty, social exclusion, access to health care, access to ICT, skills development and participation in education activities, consumption expenditure and purchasing power, for purposes of better policy making.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) The existing regulations dealing with social statistics data collection at individual level have been adopted to answer policy needs existing at the time of their adoption. Since then new social circumstances and phenomena have emerged, which will certainly change in the future. This Regulation should ensure an adequate coverage of present and future needs for social data. It is also essential that the content of the data collections is kept up to date with the needs of users and with technological changes. Therefore, flexibility for further evolution should be embedded in the legal architecture of this Regulation.
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Data collections in the domains of time use and consumption are currently carried out voluntarily by many Member States, on the basis of agreed general guidelines. These two domains including the collection of data should be modernised, so as to take full advantage of new technological advances. Data collections in these two domains should be organized in accordance with this Regulation so as to open possibilities and create opportunities for further developments in the future, ensuring data that are more timely and relevant, and produced more efficiently. In the meantime, the Member States’' current approaches should not be changed.
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Social statistics are no longer considered as just one of many sources of information for policy-making purposes, but instead play a central role in the decision-making processplay a central role in the decision-making process in particular for policies aiming to improve socio-economic conditions and the life and well-being of citizens by ensuring non-discrimination and gender equality. Evidence-based decision-making requires statistics that meet high-quality criteria, as set out in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council25 , in accordance with the purposes they are serving. __________________ 25 Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities (OJ L 87, 31.3.2009, p. 164).