16 Amendments of Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that growth is the key to morebust recovery and sustainable growth are key factors to create quality jobs and, to increased prosperity and to boost upward social convergence and that it is necessary to direct the European structural and investment funds more effectively towards promoting growthinclusive growth, fostering social cohesion and reducing inequalities; recalls that the EU budget should financially support the achievement of the Europe 2020 targets in the social and employment area;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Calls for maintaining the EU support to sports policy, the sports chapter of the Erasmus+ programme and the financing of Special Events, such as the Special Olympics in 2017;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that the 2018 budget must play a key role in enhancing the Union’s contribution to sustainable and inclusive growth and quality jobs, especially in combating youth unemploymenand long- term unemployment, poverty including in- work poverty, rising inequalities and social exclusion; in this regard, stresses that the budget 2018 can not be understood out of the MFF 2014-2020 which needs to be revised upwards by the end of this year at the latest;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Highlights the necessity to provide resources for combating poverty, especially child poverty and for supporting measures addressing children's basic needs such as food supplies, housing, education and healthcare;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Insists that adequate commitment and especially payment appropriations are ensured in Budget 2018 for the European Social Fund given that the ESF is entering a period of intense implementation and payment requests by Member States will increase;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Stresses, as stated by OECD, that more educated people contribute to more democratic societies and sustainable economies, and are less dependent on public aid and less vulnerable to economic downturns; therefore points out that the EU budget should foster investment in quality education, vocational training and innovation as a key not only to fight unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, but also for the EU to compete successfully in the global markets;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Underlines the importance of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) for tackling poverty and social exclusion and asks for appropriate resources to be allocated in the Budget 2018 to allow needs of the target groups and Fund's objectives to be adequately met;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the importance of sufficient funding and good budgetary management of the programmes within the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework that aim to address unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, such as the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the different axes of the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) with a special regard to the Eures axis, the three autonomous Budget Headings in support for European Social Dialogue and Workers' Organisations and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); insists, therefore, that for 2018 these programmes’ resources should be increased or at least be maintained at the levels of the previous EU budget;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls also on the Commission to examine funding possibilities to help every Member State to establish a minimum income scheme and to set up an appropriate European Fund, if necessary, in a temporary way, to work as an instrument of cohesion policy and European solidarity;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that the EU budget should also support vocational training and professional qualification measures; highlights, in this respect, that proper funding for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) is paramount promoting in particular the Upskilling Pathways initiative recently adopted by the Council (targeting low-skilled adults) as well as to promote mobility among apprentices, as is already being done for students under the Erasmus programme;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Highlights the important contribution that all the employment and social affairs Agencies (CEDEFOP, ETF, Eurofound, EU-OSHA) have when dealing with EMPL related issues, as well as their potential to address a wide range of problems such as quality job creation, new forms of employment, vocational training support and professional qualification measures or ocuppational safety and health and safety, therefore calls for sufficient financial resources to be ensured for both the Agencies and staff;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, including social enterprises, are a major source of employment in the Union and that one of the main problems in setting up such enterprises and keeping them going is that of obtaining finance; underlines that the 2018 budget should support measures promoting entrepreneurship in those enterprises, including social entrepreneurship and innovative social enterprises, employee financial participation and self-employment; stresses, in this respect, that the budget 2018 should in particular facilitate access to micro- credits available through the microfinance and social entrepreneurship axis of the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) programme; stresses that the amount of grants available for SMEs and social enterprises should be guaranteed in order to maintain their competitiveness and potential for job- creation;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges that financial support be provided for programmes creating jobs foradequate conditions (job creation and support measures) so that those with multiple disadvantages on the labour market, such as women, the long-term unemployed, the elderly unemployed, people with disabilities and people from minority backgrounds, can find and maintain employment; recommends that sufficient funding through the ESF and EaSI be provided for the implementation of the measures identified in the Council's Recommendation on the integration of the long-term unemployed in the labour market;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Reiterates that pilot projects and preparatory actions are very valuable tools to initiate new activities and policies; stresses that several ideas of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs have been implemented successfully in the past as pilot projects/preparatory actions; calls on the Commission to continue with this "think out of the box" approach when selecting the PP/PAs with European added value; is of the opinion, therefore, that that committee will make further use of those instruments in 2018; encourages the full use of the margins available under each heading; calls for Parliament to be given regular, detailed updates on the various stages in the implementation of pilot projects and preparatory actions by the Commission.; calls on the Commission in the implementation of the PP and PAs to respect their content as agreed and approved by the EP and the Council;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Regrets the decision of the Commission to transform the Preparatory Action "Child Guarantee Scheme", adopted in the Budget 2017, into project under EaSI and to transfer to EaSI the appropriations dedicated to this Preparatory Action; asks in this regard the Commission to present its Working Programme for EaSI 2018 before the EMPL vote on draft budget 2018;