13 Amendments of Andrey NOVAKOV related to 2015/2284(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) is a valuable instrument through which the EU expresses its solidarity withdelivers support to workers and which should continue to operate outside the MFF;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, between 2007 and 2014, 134 funding applications for a total amount of EUR 561.1 million were submitted by 20 Member States to provide support toargeting 122 121 workers;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that in the period between 2007 and 2014 8 Member States did not utilise the available EGF support; calls on the Commission to examine all cases where regulatory, administrative capacity or other barriers obstructed EGF participation and to propose action to lift such obstacles;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to use the scope for implementing the EGF budget more flexibly, with clear focus on outcomes, impact, value added and therefore more effectively;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that in many EGF cases there are significant differences between workers targeted and workers helped; calls on the Commission in cooperation with the Member States to improve the actual impact - percentage of workers helped by the EGF contribution;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for greater coordinationsynergy and additionality with the ESF and, the ERDF, and proposes that applications for EGF funding should be submitted by the authorities that manage the Structural Funds in each Member Statemeasures funded by national or regional budgets;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that in some EGF cases the number of targeted beneficiaries is too low as compared to the total number of eligible beneficiaries, which leads to suboptimal local or regional positive impact of the invested funds.
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Regrets that in some EGF cases actions under Article 7(4) of the EGF Regulation - preparatory activities, management, information and publicity and control and reporting - represent a relatively high share of the total costs, which leads to EU investment being absorbed by administrative procedures, instead of being targeted at more beneficiaries.
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that implementation of the EGF budget varies greatly between cases and often leads to significant amounts of unspent EGF funding, subject to reimbursement to the Commission; calls on the latter to improve the budget implementation by targeting existing bottlenecks;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Observes that in a number of implemented EGF measures intervention criteria under Article 4 (1) and (2) of Regulation 1309/2013 may be considered too flexible, which compromises the clear objectives of the funding instrument locally and regionally;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Notes that in a number of EGF cases there are higher costs for actions under Article 7(4) of the EGF Regulation represent which weakens the overall impact of the EGF investment; Calls on the Commission to tackle the issue of such costs through implementation of limits;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to step up communication withimprove the existing technical assistance to the Member States on the forms of assistance available under the EGF;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Takes the view that the derogation relating to persons who are neither in employment nor in education or training (NEET) should be extended beyond 2017 after qualitative and quantitative analysis of the EGF support, especially in view of the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and needed synergies between national budgets, the ESF and the YEI;