17 Amendments of Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS related to 2014/2150(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the Commission’s commitment on cutting red tape and better regulation; believes that cutting red tape should deliver proportionate, evidence-based protection for workers, while ensuring that businesses can grow, create jobs and boost competitiveness; notes that deregulation and better regulation are not mutually exclusivebe evidence-based and under no circumstances diminish the protection for workers;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes efforts to identify genuine opportunities for simplification of legislation; stresses the need for simpler, clearly-worded rules that remove complexity and can be implemented in a simple manner in order to improve compliance, particularly in the area of health, safety and employment legislation;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Insists that legislation on employment and Health & Safety represents minimum standards of protection of workers which Member States can go beyond. The EU legislation will not be interpreted as maximum standards in situations in which these regulations can be seen as obstacles for competition in the single market;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Insists that a worker have the right to occupational health and safety protection and minimum working conditions regardless whether the workplace is in a small, medium-sized or large enterprise.
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomesCalls on the Commission’s indication that to continue negotiations on the maternity leave directive should be considered for withdrawal;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to increase the protection of workers; in particular, calls the Commission to present a proposal on muscular skeletal disorders, environmental tobacco smoke and make necessary updates to carcinogens and mutagens.
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Encourages the Commission to present a proposal on the health & safety hairdressers' agreement to respect the experience of European Employers' associations and European workers representation in this sector and their decision of protecting of workers and to respect the possibility provided by the Social Dialogue based in the Treaties.
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomesTakes note of the SME -test; calls on the Commission to use lighter regimes for micro-enterprises and SMEs and to consider exemptions for micro-enterprisesbelieves that micro-enterprises could be considered for exemption on a case-by-case -basis, while not compromising onleading to lower health, safety and employment standards;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for further measures to check that legislation is doing what it was intended to do and to identify areas where there are inconsistencies and ineffective measures; as a consequence legislation needs to be better enforced;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission to continue to improve the legislative cycle and to introduce sunsetprotection of workers via employment and Health and Safety standards and that revision clauses to ensure that employment legislation is periodically reviewed;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Opposes the setting of a net target for reducing regulatory costs, as this ignores the aim pursued by regulation and its corresponding benefits;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to prioritise action in the fields of what have been identified asnot to use the ‘Top Ten’ most burdensome laws for SMEs, including as justification to review the working time and temporary agency directives; because the protection of workers must be guaranteed regardless whether the workplace is in a small, medium sized or large enterprise.
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. There are no satisfactory criteria to measure "efficiency" and "costs; these terms are not adequate in terms of occupational accidents and disease. This could lead to decisions taken by administration and controllers thereby circumventing the legitimate democratic legislators;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the European Parliament to systematically review Commission impact assessments and review IMPAs analysis as early as possible in the legislative process, and to call for impact assessments on its own reports.
Amendment 156 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. "Simplification" and "burden reduction" are void of meaning in a situation which is ever more complex. New technologies and procedures could endanger the health of workers with requires new protection and this may be administrative burdens.
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Questions the balance of representation of the High Level Group of Administrative Burdens (HLG) and its recommendations (24 July 2014), rejects its recommendations and asks for recognition of the Dissenting Opinion of four members of the HLG;