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2344 Amendments of Martina DLABAJOVÁ

Amendment 10 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
(5 a) Whereas the use of supercomputers for Artificial Intelligence (AI), requires a higher usage of data, and current datacentres are progressively reaching their storage capacity limits due to the surge in digitalization and the adoption of new technologies, it is essential that supercomputers dedicated for AI are either located nearby or are connected via high-speed networks to an existing datacentre, or future planned datacentre, that is not overloaded and possesses available storage capacities. Furthermore, such datacentres should be interconnected with the Common European Data Spaces to facilitate the training of models in key sectorial domains.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 12 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 b (new)
(5 b) Whereas the deployment of Artificial Intelligence applications requires a significant increase in computational power, which in turn leads to a greater consumption of electrical energy, it is imperative that both new supercomputers dedicated for AI and existing ones being upgraded for AI purposes ensure a stable and secure grid connection and electricity supply to prevent these supercomputers from being underutilized due to potential energy supply constraints. The Joint Undertaking shall regularly monitor and report on the energy consumption of these facilities.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 13 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 c (new)
(5 c) Whereas the deployment and advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) necessitate substantial computational power and specialized support, AI Factories will provide comprehensive supercomputing support services to AI startups, small innovative companies, and the broader research and innovation ecosystem. These services are crucial for facilitating access to supercomputers, offering dedicated programming facilities and algorithmic support for the development, testing, evaluation, and validation of AI training models and systems. Furthermore, they will assist in the creation of novel use cases and emerging applications across the European strategic areas including robotics and manufacturing, new materials and batteries, connected and automated driving, health and care, biotech, climate change and adaptation, complex system dynamics, virtual worlds and Digital Twins, cybersecurity, aerospace, agricultural practices, research and innovation and public sector among others.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 14 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 d (new)
(5 d) AI Factories are committed to promoting innovation and knowledge in AI technology by working in close partnership with startups, SMEs, universities, research centres, and key industrial sectors. This collaboration aims to attract, retain, and develop talent capable of leveraging new technologies, bringing the scientific community closer to AI through specialized support and training, and enhancing access to AI innovations. Supporting the establishment of new enterprises and facilitating joint innovation projects, including the development of human-in-the-loop AI systems for responsible applications, addressing the challenges faced by the AI startup, research, and innovation ecosystem. This effort will promote synergies, encourage collaboration and innovation, and foster the development of a vibrant and sustainable AI ecosystem, thus contributing to the advancement of society and various industrial sectors.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 15 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 e (new)
(5 e) Whereas the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) is established to serve as a singular contact point at the EU level, directing startups, small companies, and interested users to specific service centres with fair and transparent access procedures, it plays a key role in establishing a one-stop shop to simplify access to its support services for hosting entities. This one-stop shop will represent the principles of open and easy access, ensuring that users can fully leverage the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in supercomputing. The opportunities provided by the 'AI Factories' will be widely communicated to startups, SMEs, the innovation ecosystem and researchers engaged in European programmes, highlighting the numerous benefits that AI can offer in supercomputing applications. Additionally, the Union-level cooperation of 'AI Factories' will make computing power available as a service across the Union, essential to the support services offered, further easing access to this critical infrastructure. This will also serve to develop demand-oriented EuroHPC supercomputers, ensuring that the infrastructure meets the evolving needs of users and sectors across the Union.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 16 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 f (new)
(5 f) Whereas the training of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models heavily relies on specialized AI chips, which are predominantly designed and developed outside the European Union, addressing the design and development of a new generation of microprocessors and AI accelerators is critical. This effort is essential to fully power the first European post-exascale supercomputer, thereby reducing dependency on non-EU technologies and enhancing the Union's technological sovereignty. Furthermore, promoting initiatives such as RISC-V is crucial in fostering open-source and innovative microprocessor technologies within the EU. The Commission should assess the procurement of European technology in selection criteria when such technology is developed within Europe.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 17 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 g (new)
(5 g) Implementing 'Second Life' agreements for IT equipment becomes essential when the ratio of 'Computational Power' to 'Energy Consumed' becomes too unfavourable for its original purpose, indicating that an upgrade to more energy-efficient equipment is advisable, or when there are upgrades due to technological improvements. Agreements to implement recycling at the end of the supercomputers' lifecycle are also necessary. Such practices would not only enhance efficiency but also contribute to reducing European dependencies.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 22 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 2, point 3c
(3c) ‘Artificial Intelligence Factory’ means a centralised or distributed entity providing an Artificial Intelligence supercomputing service infrastructure which is composed of an Artificial Intelligence-dedicated supercomputer or Artificial Intelligence partition of supercomputer or EuroHPC supercomputer upgraded for Artificial Intelligence, an associated data centre, dedicated access and artificial intelligence- oriented supercomputing services and attracting, developing and pooling talent to provide the competences required in using theassist and guide users in the utilization of the supercomputers for Artificial Intelligence and providing the services required for their maintenance of supercomputers forusing Artificial Intelligence;;
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 36 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(iv) the operation of centralised or distributed Artificial Intelligence-oriented supercomputing service centres in support of the Artificial Intelligence startup and research and innovation ecosystem, assisting and guiding users, providing algorithmic support, support for the further development, training, testing, evaluation and validation of Artificial Intelligence training models and systems, and support for the development of emerging large- scale Artificial Intelligence applications in strategic areas such as health and care, climate change, robotics, energy or connected and automated driving.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 45 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 4, paragraph 1, point h, new subpoint (viii a)
(viii a) The maintenance and optimization of supercomputers with artificial intelligence capabilities, ensuring their reliability and performance for advanced computational tasks.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 47 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 9, paragraph 5, point g, subpoint (i)
(i) proximity with an established datacentre that has available storage data, or connection to it via very high speed networks, or proximity to a datacentre that is expected to be constructed within one year following the expression of interest, provided that detailed plans and commitments are presented to demonstrate the feasibility and timeline of the construction;
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 51 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 9, paragraph 5, point g, subpoint (ii)
(ii) vision, plans and capability of the hosting entity to address the challenges of the Artificial Intelligence startup and research and innovation ecosystem and the Artificial Intelligence user community enhancing this ecosystem by promoting synergies and innovation; and providing a supportive centralised or distributed Artificial Intelligence-oriented supercomputing service;
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 53 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 9, paragraph 5, point g, subpoint (v)
(v) existing capabilities and future plans of the hosting entity to contribute to the development of the talent pool and attracting and retaining talent in the field;
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 59 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 9, paragraph 5, new point (g a)
(g a) An existing hosting entity selected by the Governing Board after a call for expressions of interest shall meet through a fair and transparent process the criteria referred to in Article 9(5) point g to become an Artificial Intelligence Factory.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 62 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 9– paragraph (6a)
(6a) For the Artificial Intelligence dedicatedEuroHPC supercomputers referred to in Article 12as 11, 12, 12a, 14, 15, the hosting entity shall create a one-stop shop for the startups, small size companies and other users to facilitate access to its support services.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 65 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 10 – paragraph 2, point (1)
(l) the specific conditions applicable when the hosting entity operates a EuroHPC supercomputer for industrial usage, or anfor Artificial Intelligence- dedicated supercomputer. purposes;
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 67 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 12a – paragraph 7
7. Without prejudice to the winding up of the Joint Undertaking, as referred to in Article 23(4) of the Statutes, at the earliest fourive years after the successful acceptance test by the Artificial Intelligence-dedicated supercomputer installed in a hosting entity, the ownership of the Artificial Intelligence-dedicated supercomputer may be transferred to that hosting entity, sold to another entity or decommissioned upon decision of the Governing Board and in accordance with the hosting agreement. In the case of transfer of ownership of a Artificial Intelligence-dedicated supercomputer, the hosting entity shall reimburse the Joint Undertaking the residual value of the supercomputer that is transferred. If there is no transfer of ownership to the hosting entity but a decision for decommissioning, the relevant costs shall be shared equally by the Joint Undertaking and the hosting entity. The Joint Undertaking shall not be liable for any costs incurred after the transfer of ownership of the Artificial Intelligence-dedicated supercomputer or after its sale or decommissioning.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 68 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 15 – paragraph 5
5. The percentage of the Union’s financial contribution for the acquisition costs of the upgrade shall be the same as the percentage of the Union’s financial contribution for the original EuroHPC supercomputer, depreciated over the expected remaining lifetime of the original supercomputer. The percentage of the Union’s financial contribution for the additionaldifference in the operational costs of the upgrade, whether increased or decreased, shall be the same as the percentage of the Union’s financial contribution for the original EuroHPC supercomputer.’;
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 70 #

2024/0016(CNS)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2021/1173
Article 16, paragraph 2b
2b. The Governing Board shall define specithe general access conditions for the Artificial Intelligence-dedicated supercomputers and the EuroHPC supercomputers upgraded for Artificial Intelligence capabilities in accordance with Article 17 taking into account the specific needs of the Artificial Intelligence startup and research ecosystem. This shall include dedicated access to startups and small companies. Only proposals for developing trustworthy and ethical Artificial Intelligence models, systems and applications that arein line with EU valueensuring a high level of protection of health, safety, fundamental rights enshrined in the article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights shall be eligible for access.
2024/02/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 25 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, to propose harmonised definitions of a start- up and a scale-up respectively, taking into account how they differ from one another and the clear distinction between them andir particular status relative to SMEs;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 34 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Is worried that the failure to adopt proper definitions hinders the effectiveness of existing policies and legislation; notes that, although start-ups and SMEs have some overlapping interests, they differ substantially once they enter the fundraising and growth phase; believes, therefore, that simply classing start-ups as SMEs, without a clear sub-division, limits their growth, access to markets and investment opportunities;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 36 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Is convinced that dedicated definitions will increase the opportunities for support through measures that are tailored to the specific features of start-ups and scale-ups and boost their access to European capital markets and private investors; calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive European start- up and scale-up strategy that addresses the challenges faced by start-ups and scale-ups in the EU, such as unnecessary administrative burdens; however, emphasizes the crucial need to avoid a narrow definition of start-ups and scale- ups, which risks distorting competition for some European businesses;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 75 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the creation of the European Innovation Council Fund to support innovative start-ups; emphasizes the need for sufficient funding to boost start-ups in the EU;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 90 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission to enhance the funding mechanisms for start-ups and scale-ups, including public procurement and the provision of grants, loans and venture capital, access to capital through crowdfunding, and to explore the possibility of establishing a dedicated European start-up and scale-up fund;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 135 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission to include start-ups and scale-ups in its skills and talent programmes and to highlight the opportunities that start-ups and scale-ups provide for young graduates, including employment; highlights the current need to attract skilled workers to start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs, including possibly from outside the EU; in this regard, acknowledges the potential in simplifying procedures in Member States for qualified, skilled workers applying for jobs in sectors with low unemployment;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 155 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Encourages the Commission to consider further measures to open up government and public sector data sets, always protecting personal data, enabling real-time data insights that empower better decision-making and drive innovation for start-ups and scale-ups;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 159 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Urges the Commission to consider additional measures to ensure that start-ups and scale-ups are able to access and use data for research and to apply AI technology to solve day-to-day challenges, and that they benefit from the widest possible range of public and private data sets, whilst protecting data of a sensitive nature;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 162 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Highlights the importance of streamlining and implementing the ‘once only’ principle for data sharing between administrations and the ‘digital by default’ principle in administrative procedures, both at EU and Member State level; believes the standardisation and digitalisation of procedures and forms, in line with these principles, will significantly help start-ups and scale-ups by reducing administrative burdens in the long-term; calls on the Commission and Member States to make progress on implementing these principles;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 166 #

2023/2110(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Implores the Commission to develop and adopt a ‘Start-up Test’, along the same lines as the SME Test that it adopted in 2021, in order to better assess the impact of legislation focusing on innovation, financing and competitiveness; welcomes the Commission President’s proposal to establish a competitiveness check by an independent board for new EU legislation; insists that this competitiveness check focusses explicitly and separately on start-ups, scale ups and SMEs;
2023/10/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 1 #

2023/0373(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
(32) Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the pellet supply chain should comply with the relevant obligations laid down in this Regulation, however they could face proportionally higher costs and difficulties when complying with some of the obligations. The Commission should raise awareness among economic operators and carriers regarding the necessity of preventing pellet losses. Additionally, the Commission should develop training materials to assist them in fulfilling their obligations, particularly with respect to the requirements of the risk assessment. Member States should provide access to information and assistance regarding compliance with obligations and the risk assessment requirements. Regarding the assistance of Member States, this could include technical and financial support as well as specialised training to SMEs. Member States actions should be taken in respect of applicable State aid rulesall be exempted from the relevant obligations laid down in this regulation.
2023/12/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 17 #

2023/0373(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the pellet supply chain shall be exempted from the relevant obligations laid down in this regulation.
2023/12/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 20 #

2023/0373(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) the specific needs ofexemptions provided to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
2023/12/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 138 #

2023/0323(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – title
Payment periods between public authorities and undertakings
2023/12/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 152 #

2023/0323(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. In commercial transactions between public authorities and undertakings, where the public authority is the debtor, the payment period shall not exceed 30 calendar days, from the date of the receipt of the invoice or an equivalent request for payment by the debtor, provided that the debtor has received the goods or services. This period shall apply both to the transactions between undertakings and between public authorities and undertakings. The same payment period shall also apply to the supply of non- perishable agricultural and food products on a regular and non-regular basis as referred to in Articles 3(1)(a), point (i), second indent and 3(1)(a), point (ii), second indent of Directive (EU) 2019/633, unless Member States provide for a shorter payment period for such products.
2023/12/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 203 #

2023/0323(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3a Payment periods between undertakings 1. In commercial transactions between undertakings, the maximum payment period shall be 30 calendar days starting from the day the payment request has been received by the debtor, under the condition that the goods or services have been received by the debtor. Payment periods may be extended beyond the 30 calendar days limit under the condition that sufficient justification and a mutual agreement on this by the parties are included in the contract without any ambiguities. Unless Member States provide for a shorter payment period for such products, the same payment period shall apply on a regular as well as non- regular basis to the supply of non- perishable agricultural and food products as referred to in Articles 3(1)(a), point (i), second indent and 3(1)(a), point (ii), second indent of Directive (EU) 2019/633. 2. Member States' national laws may provide for procedures of acceptance or verification only in cases where the specific nature of the goods or services necessitates them. If that is the case, detailed information on the procedure of acceptance or verification, including its duration, shall be included in the contract. 3. If the contract includes a procedure of acceptance or verification, in line with paragraph 2, the maximum duration of the procedure shall not exceed 30 calendar days starting from the date the debtor receives the goods or services, including in cases where these goods or services are supplied before the request for payment. Verification periods may exceed 30 calendar days under the condition that sufficient justification and a mutual agreement by the parties is clearly stated in the contract without any ambiguities. The procedure for acceptance or verification shall be initiated by the debtor immediately after receiving the goods and/or the services that are the object of the commercial transaction. The maximum payment period shall be 30 calendar days starting from the date such procedure has taken place, with the exception of different terms agreed under paragraph 1. 4. The payment period as set out in paragraph 1 is without prejudice to any shorter periods provided by Member States' national law.
2023/12/18
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 128 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) The net-zero transformation is already causing huge industrial, economic, and geopolitical shifts across the globe, which will become ever more pronounced as the world advances in its decarbonisation efforts. The road to net zero translates into strong opportunities for the expansion of Union’s net-zero industry, making use of the strength of the Single Market, by promoting investment in technologies in the field of renewable energy technologiclean energy sources , electricity and heat storage technologies, heat pumps, grid technologiesnergy storage, energy efficiency, renewable fuels of non- biological origin technologies, electrolysers and fuel cells, fusion, small modular reactors and related best-in-class fuels, carbon capture, utilisation,rgy infrastructure, energy transformation, greenhouse gas capture, use and storage technologies, and energy-system related energy efficiency technologies, clean transportation, industrial emission reduction, and their supply chains, allowing for the decarbonisation of our economic sectors, from energy supply to transport, buildings, and industry. A strong net zero industry within the European Union can help significantly in reaching the Union’s climate and energy targets effectively, as well as in supporting other Green Deal objectives, while creating jobs and growth.
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 237 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
(21) In order to maintain competitiveness and reduce current strategic import dependencies in key net- zero technology products and their supply chains, while avoiding the formation of new ones, the Union needs to continue strengthening its net zero industrial base and become more competitive and innovation friendly. The Union needs to enable the development of manufacturing capacity faster, simpler and in a more predictable way and to reduce administrative burden and level the playing field with international competitors.
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 372 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55
(55) Net-zero technology manufacturing projects undergo lengthy and complex permitting procedures of 2-7 years, depending on the Member State, technology and value chain segment. Considering the size of required investments – in particular for gigafactory- size projects which are needed to reach the expected economies of scale – inadequate permitting creates an additional and often detrimental barrier to increase net-zero technology manufacturing capacity in the Union. In order to provide project promoters and other investors with the security and clarity needed to increase development of net-zero technologies manufacturing projects, Member States should ensure that the permit-granting process related to such projects does not exceed pre-set time limits. For Net Zero Strategic Projects the length of the permit- granting process should not exceed twelve9 months for facilities with a yearly production output of more than 1 GW, and 96 months for those with a yearly production output of less than 1 GW. For all other net-zero technology manufacturing projects, the length of the permit-granting process should not exceed eighteen12 months for facilities with a yearly production output of more than 1 GW, and twelve9 months for those with a yearly production output of less than 1 GW. For net-zero technologies for which the GW metric is not relevant, such as grids and carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon capture and usage (CCU) technologies, the upper limits of the aforementioned deadlines should apply. For the expansion of existing production lines, each of the aforementioned time limits should be halved.
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 470 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
This Regulation applies to net-zero technologies, except for Articles 26 and 27 of this Regulaincluding their essential components, materials and machinery that are indispensable to their production and functioning, which apply to innovative net-zero technologies. Raw materials processed materials or components falling under the scope of Regulation (EU) …/… [add footnote with publication references of the Critical Raw Materials Regulation] shall be excluded from the scope of this Regulation.
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 685 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) 129 months for the construction of net-zero technology manufacturing projects with a yearly manufacturing capacity of less than 1 GW;
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 692 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) 182 months for the construction of net-zero technology manufacturing projects, with a yearly manufacturing capacity of more than 1 GW.
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 699 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. For net-zero technology manufacturing projects for which a yearly manufacturing capacity is not measured in GW, the permit-granting process shall not exceed a time limit of 182 months.
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 810 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b – point iv a (new)
(iva) it contributes to increase the competitiveness of SMEs.
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 916 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) 96 months for the construction of net-zero strategic projects with a yearly manufacturing capacity of less than 1 GW;
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 920 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) 129 months for the construction of net-zero strategic projects, with a yearly manufacturing capacity of more than 1 GW;
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 926 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2
2. For net-zero strategic technologies for which a yearly manufacturing capacity is not measured in GW, the permit-granting process shall not exceed a time limit of 129 months.
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 1503 #

2023/0081(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. the number of SMEs that are part of net-zero technology manufacturing projects;
2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 26 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) The REPowerEU Communication13 outlined a plan to make the Union independent from Russian fossil fuels well before the end of this decade. The Communication highlights the importance, among others, of further increasing the efficiency and reducing fossil consumption in the transport sector, where electrification can be combined with the use of fossil-freeCO2 neutral fuels, including hydrogen to replace fossil fuels. _________________ 13 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, REPowerEU Plan, COM(2022)230 final of 18.5.2022.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 31 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) The strengthened CO2 emission reduction requirements should incentivise an increasing share of zero-emission and low-emission vehicles being deployed on the Union market whilst providing benefits to users and citizens in terms of air quality and energy savings, as well as ensuring that innovation in the automotive value chain can be maintained. Zero-emission vehicles currently include battery electric vehicles, fuel-cell and other hydrogen-powered vehicles, and technological innovations are continuing. The automotive industry remains one of the pillars of the EU economy, contributing 7% of European GDP, providing 4.6 million jobs and remaining at the cutting edge of technological innovation with EUR 60 billion invested each year in research and development. The industry needs to be supported in its environmental and digital transition, as European manufacturers are now facing a triple bind, with tightened environmental regulations, increasing investment needs in innovation and heightened international competition. The strengthened CO2 emission reduction standards must become technology neutral in reaching the fleet-wide targets that they set. Zero and low-emission vehicles, which run on advanced biofuels or synthetic fuels as defined in Directive (EU) 2018/20011a. Zero-emission and low- emission vehicles currently include battery electric vehicles, fuel-cell and other hydrogen-powered vehicles, and technological innovations are continuing. _________________ 1a Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (recast)
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 44 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 – paragraph 1
The updated New Industrial Strategy14 foresees the co-creation of green and digital transition pathways in partnership with industry, public authorities, social partners and other stakeholders. In this context, a transition pathway is being developed for the mobility ecosystem to accompany the transition of the automotive value chain. The pathway takes particular heed of small and medium-sized enterprizes in the automotive supply chain, of the consultation of social partners including by Member States, and also build on the European Skills Agenda with initiatives like the Pact for Skills to mobilise the private sector and other stakeholders to up-skill and re-skill Europe’s workforce in view of the green and digital transitions and on the Talent Booster Mechanism in the framework of the Harnessing Talents in EU regions initiative. The appropriate actions and incentives at the European and national level to boost the affordability of zero- emission vehicles are also being addressed in the pathway. This could, for example, include the possibility for Member States to use the proposed Social Climate Fund to assist micro-enterprises in the purchasing of zero-emission trucks and lorries. Particular attention should be also given to the impact that this transition will have on SMEs along the supply chain. _________________ 14 Commission Communication on Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy: Building a stronger Single Market for Europe’s recovery, COM(2021) 350 final of 5 May 2021.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 70 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) With the stricter Union fleet-wide targets from 2030 onwards, manufacturers will have to deploy significantly more zero-emission vehicles on the Union market. In that context, the incentive mechanism for zero- and low- emission vehicles (‘ZLEV’) would no longer serve its original purpose and would risk undermining the effectiveness of Regulation (EU) 2019/1242. The ZLEV incentive mechanism should therefore be removed as of 2030.deleted
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 98 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
(28) The zero- and low-emission factor should last be applied for the reporting period of the year 2029, because it is no longer considered necessary after that time as an incentive39 to promote the market entrance of zero-emission vehicles in the heavy duty sector.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 110 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39 a (new)
(39a) In order to speed-up the transition a mechanism, based on a carbon correction factor is introduced that reflects the CO2 intensity and the share of CO2 neutral fuels.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 111 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39 b (new)
(39b) a new definition of "CO2 neutral fuels" is introduced to allow for renewable fuels as defined in Directive 2018/2001, including biofuels, biogas, bioliquids, biomass fuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin or recycled carbon fuels.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 147 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point i
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Article 3 – point 23 a (new)
(23a) "CO2 Neutral Fuels" means renewable fuels as defined in Directive 2018/20011a, including biofuels, bioliquids, biomass fuels nd renewable fuels of non-biological origin or recycled carbon fuels.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 153 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point i
Regulation 2019/1242
Article 3 – point 23 b (new)
(23b) "Carbon Correction Factor" means a factor reflecting the CO2 intensity and share of CO2 neutral fuels;
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 162 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Article 3a – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) for all vehicle sub-groups for the reporting periods of the years 2030 to 2034 by 435 %,
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 169 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Article 3 a – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) for all vehicle sub-groups for the reporting periods of the years 2035 to 2039 by 655 %,
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 174 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Article 3a – Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) for all vehicle sub-groups for the reporting periods of the years 2040 onwards by 9080 %.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 191 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Article 3b – paragraph 1
1. For vehicles referred to in point 4.2 of Annex I, manufacturers shall comply with the minimum shares of zero-emission vehicles in their fleet of new heavy-duty vehicles as laid down in point 4.3 of Annex I. For new urban buses the share of zero- emissions vehicles shall beaverage CO2 emissions shall be reduced by 80% as from the reporting period of the year 2030 and 100% as from the reporting period of the year 20305.;
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 229 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(5a) (a a) in Article 4, first paragraph, the following point (c) is inserted: the application of the Carbon Correction Factor (CCF) in accordance with paragraph 7 of Annex I
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 237 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Article 5 – Paragraph 1
Starting from 1 July 2020 and for each subsequent reporting period until the reporting period of the year 2029, the Commission shall determine for each manufacturer the zero- and low-emission factor for the preceding reporting period.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 263 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 17
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Article 14 – Paragraph 1
1. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 17 with a view to amending the following elements in Annex I to take into account technical progress, the evolution of freight transport logistics, necessary adjustments based on the application of this Regulation and amendments of the underlying type-approval legislation, in particular Regulations (EU) 2018/858 and (EU) 595/2009: (a) the criteria defining vehicle sub- groups set out in point 1.1; (b) the criteria defining vocational vehicles set out in point 1.2; (c) the criteria for the operational ranges of different powertrain technologies set out in point 1.3; (d) the list of mission profiles set out in point 1.4; (e) the weight of mission profiles set out in point 2.1; (f) the payloads, passenger numbers, passenger masses, technically permissible maximum payloads, technically permissible maximum passenger number and cargo volumes of vehicle sub-groups sg set out in point 2.5; (g) the annual mileage values set out in point 2.6.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 274 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Article 15 – first paragraph
The Commission shall, in 20287 and every year thereafter, review the effectiveness and impact of this Regulation and submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council with the result of the review. The Commission shall in particular annually assess the deployment of charging and refuelling infrastructure for heavy duty vehicles across the Union.
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 289 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 2 – point 2.3 – point 2.3.2 – paragraph 1
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Annex I – point 2.3.2 – title
Reporting periods from 2025 to 2029onwards
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 297 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 2 – point 2.3 – point 2.3.3
Regulation (EU) 2019/1242
Annex I – point 2 – point 2.3 – point 2.3.3
2.3.3 Reporting periods as from 2030 ZLEV = 1deleted
2023/07/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 319 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 2.1.
2.1 Calculation of the specific CO2 emissions of a new heavy-duty vehicle The specific emissions in g/km of a new heavy-duty vehicle v attributed to a sub-group sg or of its primary vehicle shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula: 𝐶𝑂2𝑣 = ∑𝑊 𝑚𝑝 𝑠𝑔,𝑚𝑝 × 𝐶𝑂2𝑣,𝑚𝑝 𝐶𝑂2p𝑣 = ∑𝑊 𝑚𝑝 𝑠𝑔,𝑚𝑝 × 𝐶𝑂2p𝑣,𝑚𝑝𝐶𝑂2𝑣 = ∑𝑚𝑝𝑊𝑠𝑔,𝑚𝑝 × 𝐶𝑂2𝑣,𝑚𝑝× (𝟏 − 𝑪𝑪𝑭𝒊 ) 𝐶𝑂2p𝑣 = ∑𝑚𝑝𝑊𝑠𝑔,𝑚𝑝 × 𝐶𝑂2p𝑣,𝑚𝑝× (𝟏 − 𝑪𝑪𝑭𝒊 ) Where, ∑𝑚𝑝 is the sum over all mission profiles mp listed in Table 2; sg is the sub-group to which the new heavy-duty vehicle v has been attributed according to Section 1 of this Annex; Wsg,mp, is the mission profile weight specified in points 2.1.1 to 2.1.3; CO2v,mp is the CO2 emissions in g/km of the new heavy-duty vehicle v determined for a mission profile mp, reported in accordance with Articles 13a and 13b and normalised pursuant to Annex III; CO2pv,mp is the CO2 emissions in g/km of the primary vehicle of the new heavy-duty vehicle v, determined for a mission profile mp, reported in accordance with Articles 13a and 13b; CCFi is the Carbon Correction Factor for the fuel i, as defined in Article 3) and calculated according to paragraph 7 of this Annex; For zero-emissions motor vehicles the values of CO2v,mp and CO2pv,mp shall be set to 0.
2023/07/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 331 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
ANNEX I – point 4.2.
4.2. Vehicle sub-groups included in the calculation of average specific CO2 emissions and specific emissions targets of manufacturers X = 2025 X= NO X = MCO2 X= MZE vehicle sub- sub-groups of sub-groups of sub-groups of transport of persons groups, subject transport of transport of vehicles, subject to zero-emissions to CO2 goods vehicles, persons vehicle targets according to Article emissions subject to CO2 vehicles, 3b 3b targets emissions subject to CO2 according to targets emissions Article 3a according to targets paragraph 1 (a) Article 3a according to paragraphs Article 3a 1(b), 1(c) and paragraphs 1(d) and 1(b), 1(c) and paragraph 3 1(d) 4-UD, 4-RD, All vehicle sub- 32-C 31-L2, 32-C32, 31-LF, 31-L1, 31-L2DD, 31-DD3-LF, 33-LF,1, 4-LH, 5-RD, 5- groups referred 32-DD, 342-C2, 33-L1, 33-L23, 32-DD, 33-DD, 35-FE, 39-FE LH, 9-RD, 9- to in points 34-C3, 34-DD, 33-L2, 34-C2, LH, 10-RD, 10- 1.1.1 and 1.1.3. 34-C3, 34-DD, LH
2023/07/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 337 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
ANNEX I – point 4.3.1.
4.3.1. The following CO2 emissions reduction targets rfsg and rfpsg pursuant to Article 3a shall apply to vehicles in the sub-group sg for different reporting periods: CO2 reduction targets rfsg and rfpsg groups sg Reporting period of the years Sub- 2025 – 2029 2030 – 2034 2035 – 2039 As from 2040 Medium lorries 53, 54 0 4320% 6455% 980% Heavy lorries > 7,4t 1s, 1, 2, 3 0 435% 6455% 980% Heavy lorries > 16 t 4-UD, 4-RD, 15% with 4x2 and 6x4 axle 4-LH, 5-RD, configurations 5-LH, 9-RD, 435% 6455% 980% 9-LH, 10-RD, 10-LH Heavy lorries > 16 t 11, 12, 16 0 with special axle 435% 6455% 980% configurations Coaches (rfsg) 32-C2, 32- 0 C3, 32-DD, 4320% 6455% 980% 34-C2, 34- C3, 34-DD Primary vehicles of 32-C2, 32- 0 coaches (rfpsg) C3, 32-DD, 4320% 6455% 980% 34-C2, 34- C3, 34-DD Trailers 0 7,5% 7,5% 7,5% Semi-trailers 0 15% 15% 15% Or. enJustification Alignment with the amendments on Article 3a. Additionally, for vehicle groups that will only have CO2 certification in place in 2025, the targets should be adjusted further.
2023/07/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 343 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
ANNEX I –point 4.3.2.
4.3.2. The following zero-emission vehicle targets zevMsg pursuant to Article 3b are applicable to vehicles in the sub-group sg for different reporting periods: Zero-emission vehicle mandates zevMsg Zero-emission vehicle mandates Reporting period of the years Sub- zevMsg before 2030 2030 – 2034 2035 – 2039 As from grou 2040 Urban heavy 31-LF, 31-L1, 31- 0 10 80% 100% 100% buses DD, 33-LF, 33- L1, 33-DD, 35- FE, 39-FE, 31-L2, 33-L2
2023/07/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 350 #

2023/0042(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 6a (new)
7. CALCULATION OF THE CARBON CORRECTION FACTOR (CCF) For each fuel or blend of fuels i, the CCFi shall be calculated according to the following method: 7.1. When the share of CO2 neutral fuels is 100%, CCFi = 1. 7.2. When the share of CO2 neutral fuels is 0%, CCFi = 0. 7.3. For blends of CO2 Neutral Fuels and conventional fuels, the CCFi shall be calculated according to the following formula: 𝑺𝑯𝑨𝑹𝑬𝑺𝒏;𝒊 𝑪𝑪𝑭𝒊 = 𝟏𝟎𝟎 Where: CCFi is the Carbon Correction Factor for a specific blend of CO2 neutral fuel i and conventional fuel. SHARESn;i is the percentage of CO2 neutral fuel i over the total consumption of fuel i, calculated from SHARES database.
2023/07/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 39 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
G a. (Recital H) whereas the need for structured support for innovation and technological progress should not oversee that innovation essentially comes about through competition and the spirit of research and not through bureaucratic planning;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 42 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
G b. (Recital I) whereas increased involvement of SME enhances the competitiveness in the security and defence sector;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 43 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
G c. (Recital J) whereas access to finance for the security and defence industry must not be restricted through EU regulations;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 44 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
G d. (Recital K) whereas data sharing is key to analysing strategic gaps and realizing the potential for technological progress, while the protection of intellectual property and sensitive business data must be guaranteed;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 45 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G e (new)
G e. (Recital L) whereas the cooperation with strategic partners outside the European Union, especially the NATO allies but also the associated and likeminded partners in the world is key for enhancing innovation and technological progress;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 58 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. (Point 3) Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to overcome the current devision between civil, defence and security research, development and innovation (RD&I); calls on the Commission to better connect civil, defence and security EU programmes and instruments with the relevant stakeholders in particular in the field of innovation; calls for better targeted investment in common research and development;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 67 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s setting up an observatory of critical technologies; calls on the Commission to fully integrate the findings of the observatory in its classified report to Member States on critical technologies and risks associated with strategic dependencies affecting security, space and defence; stresses the need for the Commissionemphasises that at all times the protection of intellectual property and sensitive business data must be guaranteed; stresses the need for the Commission in cooperation with the European Defence Agency to further coordinate and facilitate cooperation between the Member States in order to address the existing technology gaps;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 80 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the creation of an EU defence innovation scheme and the ongoing work with various tools relating to defence and new and dual-use technologies in order to help innovative start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises overcome high technological, administrative, regulatory and market entry hurdles; calls on the Commission to encourage Member States, as the end users, to fully utilise cross-border innovation networks; calls on the Commission to closely work together with the Hub on European Defence Innovation (HEDI) established in the European Defence Agency;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 86 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. (new point) Calls on the Commission to examine EU procurement directives with regard to barriers for start-ups and small businesses especially in the area of innovation with particular risks of project non-success and to encourage Member States to avoid such barriers in their implementation;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 90 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Acknowledges the need for close coordination with associated and like- minded partners such as the United States and NATO; welcomes the commitment by the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) to exploring EU-US cooperation in the context of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council; welcomes the Commission’s and the VP/HR’s commitment to exploring mutually agreed and beneficial interactions between the EU’s and NATO’s initiatives focused on new technologies;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 99 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. (new point) Stresses the importance that SMEs and start-ups play in innovation and development and calls for specific programs and instruments to include them into the future implementation of the roadmap for critical technologies in security and defence;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 102 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need for closer cooperation between the Member States on capability development to boost innovation in critical technologies for security and defence; calls on the relevant EU bodies to prioritize joint projects for EU financed und co-financed innovation in critical technology for security and defence and to act as catalysts and accelerators to encourage the Member States to coordinate their capability development programmes;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 127 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. (new point) Emphasises that the access to finance for the security and defence industry must not be restricted by EU regulation; notes that this could lead to a migration of investments away from the security and defence sector; refers to the Strategic Compass for Security and Defence that stated that initiatives on sustainable finance remain consistent with the European Union efforts to facilitate the European defence industry’s sufficient access to private finance and investment
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 135 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages innovation based on increased resource efficiency, development of new materials, promotion of secondary raw materials and more sustainable public procurement, and the use of environmentally sustainable technology solutions; calls on the Commission to explore in cooperation with the European Defence Agency the way forward on sustainable security and defence technologies and how the EU’s security and defence industries and the EU’s resilience could benefit;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 144 #

2022/2079(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Highlights that Russia’s war against Ukraine has repeatedly demonstrated the effectiveness of disruptive technologies that often come at relatively low cost while having a powerful impact on the battlefield against large weapon systems and formations; calls on the Commission to conduct a study in cooperation with the Ukranian Government and NATO- Partners on the lessons identified from the war in Ukraine with regard to critical technologies for security and defence;
2022/12/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 16 #

2022/2008(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the aim of the Industrial Strategy must also be to strengthen the Single Market and foster technological breakthroughs in order to make the EU a world leader in green and digital technologies;
2022/04/25
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 20 #

2022/2008(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas in a changing geopolitical world, strengthening strategic autonomy and reducing EU dependencies on critical materials, products and technologies is vital - through the application of circular economy principles wherever it is possible and economically feasible - , products and technologies is vital, while fostering open trade and strengthening the resilience of global supply chains;
2022/04/25
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 60 #

2022/2008(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the update of the industrial strategy; stresses that for the Green Deal to be a true growth strategy, reduce dependencies and maintain a level playing field for European industry during the transition, it needs to be accompanied by ambitious industrial policy and an ambitious R&;D policy, including a robust technology transfer policy in the framework of an EU-wide SME friendly business ecosystem;
2022/04/25
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 113 #

2022/2008(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to elaborate a strategy focused on the transition of the most carbon and energy intensive industries that would allow them to preserve their competitiveness and at the same time support greater EU strategic autonomy, as these industries are often of strategic importance;
2022/04/25
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 122 #

2022/2008(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the EU is outperformed by other economic powers in research and development (R&D) expenditures as a percentage of GDP; reiterates the importance of an ambitious level of investment in R&D; regrets that the target of 3 % of GDP investments in R&D has still not been achieved in the vast majority of Member States; calls on the Commission to coordinate Member States' efforts in further committing to increased R&D investment targets at national level, in particular for national public and private funding for industrial innovation and research;
2022/04/25
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 185 #

2022/2008(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the importance of including education, upskilling and reskilling in the transition pathways as important tools in the transformation of EU industry and in the effort to achieve higher productivity; calls on the Commission to develop a strategy for vocational education and business- education partnerships within regional industrial clusters to boost skills and enhance the uptake of ready-for-market innovations by SMEs; highlights the need to strengthen cooperation between R&D and industry, especially in the form of technology transfers to SMEs;
2022/04/25
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 197 #

2022/2008(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that SMEs and start-ups are playing a central role in the EU industrial ecosystem and especially in the digitalisation of the EU and are a critical source of innovation; stresses the need to improve their access to financing; highlights the need to address existing barriers in the Single Market that are hindering the growth of SMEs and start- ups in Europe, as well as the need for an improved legal and regulatory framework;
2022/04/25
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 213 #

2022/2008(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need for regulatory stability and predictabilityto modernize and future-proof the regulatory framework to ensure regulatory stability and predictability; underlines the need to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens for companies and especially for SMEs, while maintaining adequate social, labour and environmental standards; calls on the Commission to include roadmaps in the transition pathways to reduce administrative burdens for European businesses, especially SMEs, by at least 30 %; stresses the ‘one in, one out’ principle;
2022/04/25
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 308 #

2022/2008(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Underlines that recycling can play a critical role in increasing the supply of raw and secondary materials, thereby reducing EU reliance on third country imports;
2022/04/25
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 102 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) The technical requirements for the type-approval of motor vehicles, engines and replacement parts with regard to emissions (‘emission type-approval’) are currently set out in two Regulations that apply to emission type-approval for light- duty and heavy-duty vehicles respectively, i.e. Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘Euro 6’)44and Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘Euro VI’)45. The reason for having two Regulations was that the emissions of heavy-duty vehicles were checked based on engine testing, while for light-duty vehicles the basis was whole vehicle testing. Since then, methodologies have been developed that allow testing of both light- and heavy-duty vehicles on the road. It is therefore no longer necessary to base type-approval on engine testing. _________________ 44 Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2007 on type-approval of motor vehicles with respect to emissions from light passenger and commercial vehicles (Euro 5 and Euro 6) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information (OJ L 171, 29.6.2007, p. 1). 45 Regulation (EC) No 595/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to emissions from heavy duty vehicles (Euro VI) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information and amending Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 and Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directives 80/1269/EEC, 2005/55/EC and 2005/78/EC (OJ L 188, 18.7.2009, p. 1).
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 110 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) In order to ensure that the emissions for both light and heavy duty vehicles are limited in real life, testing vehicles in real conditions of use with a minimumrelevant set of restrictions, boundaries and other driving requirements and not only in the laboratory is required. This on-road testing should exclude biased driving and rare driving conditions.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 119 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) Non-exhaust emissions consist of particles emitted by tyres and brakes of vehicles. Emissions from tyres is estimated to be the largest source of microplastics to the environment. As shown in the Impact Assessment, it is expected that by 2050, non-exhaust emissions will constitute up to 90% of all particles emitted by road transport, because exhaust particles will diminish due to vehicle electrification. Those non-exhaust emissions should therefore be measured and limited. The Commission should prepare a report on tyre abrasion by the end of 2024 to review the measurement methods and state-of-the- art in order to propose tyre abrasion limitscurrently under discussion in the relevant working groups of the UN World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations (WP29).
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 127 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) Manufacturers may opt to produce vehicles which comply with lower emission limits or with better battery durability than what is required in this Regulation, or which include advanced options including geofencing and adaptive controls. Consumers and national authorities should be able to identify such vehicles through appropriate documentation. An environmental vehicle passport (EVP) should therefore be made available.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 129 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
(18) In case the CommissionThe decarbonisation of the transport sector requires a technologically open framework. The Commission should thus deliver on its promise to makes a proposal for registering after 2035 new light-dutynew vehicles running exclusively on CO2 neutral fuels outside the scope of the CO2 fleet standards, and in conformity with Union law and the Union´s climate neutrality objective, t. This Regulation will need to be amended to include the possibility to type approve such vehicles. should introduce the possibility for manufacturers to designate vehicles equipped with internal combustion engines running on CO2 neutral fuels, either exclusively or as a blend. For the purpose of the CO2 fleet standards for light and heavy duty vehicles, the CO2 tailpipe emissions from vehicles running exclusively on CO2 neutral fuels should be considered zero.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 135 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
(22) In order to amend or supplement, as appropriate, non-essential elements of this Regulation, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of test conditions based on data collected when testing Euro 7 vehicles, brakes or tyres; test requirements, in particular taking into account technical progress and data collected when testing Euro 7 vehicles; introducing vehicle options and designations based on innovative technologies for manufacturers but also setting out brake particle emission limits and abrasion limits for tyre types as well as minimum performance requirements of batteries and durability multipliers based on data collected when testing Euro 7 vehicles and setting out definitions and special rules for small volume manufacturers for vehicles of categories M2, M3, N2, N3, It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making51. In particular, in order to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. _________________ 51 OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1.deleted
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 138 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) It is important to grant Member States, national type-approval authorities and economic operators enough time to prepare for the application of the new rules introduced by this Regulation. The date of application should therefore be deferred. While for light duty vehicles the date of application should be as soon as technically possible, for heavy duty vehicles and trailers the date of application may be further delayed by two years, since the transition to zero-emission vehicles will be longer for heavy duty vehicles until all relevant secondary legislation has been adopted. Additionally, from this point in time, three years lead time for new types and five years lead time for all types enables a smooth transition.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 150 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 37
(37) ‘on-board diagnostic system’ or ‘OBD’ means a system that can generate vehicle on-board diagnostic (OBD) information, as defined in Article 3, point 49, of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 and is capable of communicating that information via the OBD port and over the air;
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 153 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 38
(38) ‘on-board monitoring system’ or ‘OBM’ means a system on board a vehicle that is capable of detecting either emission exceedances or when a vehicle is in zero emission mode if applicable, and capable of indicatmonitoring emissions withing the occurrence of such exceedances by means of information stored in the vehicle,measurement tolerance and of communicating that information via the OBD port and over the air;
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 161 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 42
(42) ‘real driving emissions’ or ‘RDE’ means the emissions of a vehicle under normal driving conditions and one extended conditions at the same time as specified in Tables 1 and 2 of Annex III;
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 175 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 78 a (new)
(78a) "CO2 Neutral Fuels" means renewable fuels as defined in Directive 2018/2001, including biofuels, bioliquids, biomass fuels and renewable fuels of non- biological origin or recycled carbon fuels;
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 177 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point 78 b (new)
(78b) "Carbon Correction Factor (CCF)" means a factor reflecting the CO2 intensity and share of CO2 neutral fuels;
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 182 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Manufacturers shall design, construct and assemble vehicles to comply with this Regulation, including complying with the emission limits set out in Annex I under the testing conditions set out in Annex III and respecting the values declared in the certificate of conformity and in the type- approval documentation for the lifetime of the vehicle as set out in table 1 of Annex IV. These vehicles shall be designated as “Euro 7” vehicles.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 186 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
When verifying compliance with the exhaust emission limits, where the testing is performed in one extended driving conditions, the emissions shall be divided by the extended driving divider set out in Annex III.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 188 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Manufacturers shall design and construct components or separate technical units, including engines, traction batteries, brake systems and replacement pollution control systems to comply with this Regulation, including complying with the emission limits set out in Annex I under the testing conditions set out in Annex III.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 191 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 6 – point b
(b) OBM systems capable of detectmonitoring emissions above the emission limits due to malfunctions, increased degradation or other situations that increase emissionswithin the measurement tolerance;
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 195 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 6 – point g
(g) devices communicating vehicle generated data used for compliance with this regulation and OBFCM data, for the purpose of periodic roadworthiness tests and technical roadside inspection over the air, and for the purposes of communicating with recharging infrastructure and stationary power systems capable of supporting smart and bidirectional charging functionalities.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 197 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 8
8. The manufacturer shall prevent the possibility of exploiting vulnerabilities referred to in paragraph 7, based on state of the art technology at the time of type approval. When such a vulnerability is found, the manufacturer shall take measures to remove the vulnerability, by software update or any other appropriate means.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 204 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Manufacturers may designate the vehicles they manufacture as “Euro 7+ vehicle” where those vehicles comply with the following: (a) for ICEV and NOVC-HEV by declaring compliance with at least 20 % lower emission limits than those set out in Annex I for gaseous pollutants and one order of magnitude lower emission limits for particle number emissions; (b) for OVC-HEV by declaring compliance with at least 20 % lower emission limits than those set out in Annex I for gaseous pollutants, one order of magnitude lower emission limits for particle number emissions and battery durability that is at least 10 percentage points higher than the requirements set out in Annex II; (c) for PEV by declaring battery durability that is at least 10 percentage points higher than the requirements set out in Annex II.deleted
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 210 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. Compliance of these vehicles with the requirements under paragraph 1 shall be checked against the declared values.deleted
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 213 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. Manufacturers may designate vehicles as “Euro 7G vehicle” where those vehicles are equipped with internal combustion engines with geofencing technologies. The manufacturer shall install a driver warning system on those vehicles to inform the user when the traction batteries are nearly empty and to stop the vehicle if not charged within 5 km from the first warning while on zero- emission mode. The application of such geofencing technologies may be verified during the lifetime of the vehicle.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 214 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Manufacturers may designate vehicles as "Euro 7CN vehicle" where those vehicles are equipped with internal combustion engines running on CO2 neutral fuels, as defined in Art. 3 (78a), either exclusively or as a blend. The tailpipe CO2 emissions from Euro 7CN vehicles running exclusively on CO2 neutral fuels are considered zero for the purpose of Regulation (EU) 2023/851 and [Revision of Regulation 2019/1242]. The tailpipe C02 emissions from Euro 7CN vehicles running on a blend of fossil and CO2 neutral fuels are calculated in accordance with the carbon correction factor, as defined in Art. 3 (78b), for the purpose of Regulation (EU) 2023/851 and [Revision of Regulation 2019/1242].
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 216 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5
5. Manufacturers may construct vehicles combining two or more of the characteristics referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 or 3 and designate them using a combination of symbols and letters such as “Euro 7+ACN”, “Euro 7+GCN”, “Euro 7+AGCN” or “Euro 7AG” vehicles.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 222 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. The OBM systems installed by the manufacturer in these vehicles shall be capable of monitoring emissions within the measurement tolerance and of communicating this data via the OBD port and optionally of the following:ver the air, including for the purpose of roadworthiness tests and technical roadside inspections;
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 223 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6 – point a
(a) registering the magnitude and duration of all emission exceedances;deleted
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 225 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6 – point b
(b) communicating the data of the emission behaviour of the vehicle, including pollutant sensor and exhaust flow data, via the OBD port and over the air, including for the purpose of roadworthiness tests and technical roadside inspections55,56; _________________ 55 Directive 2014/47/ EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the technical roadside inspection of the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles circulating in the Union and repealing Directive 2000/30/EC (OJ L 127, 29.4.2014, p. 134). 56 Directive 2014/45/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on periodic roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers and repealing Directive 2009/40/EC (OJ L 127, 29.4.2014, p. 129)deleted
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 227 #

2022/0365(COD)

(c) triggering repair of the vehicle when the driver warning system notifies significantly excess emissions.deleted
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 230 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 7
7. The OBFCM devices installed by the manufacturer in these vehicles shall be capable of communicating the vehicle data they record via the OBD port and over the air, respecting the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 243 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. As regards pollutant emissions, small volume manufacturers may substitute tests set out in tables 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 of Annex V with declarations of conformity. The compliance of vehicles constructed and put into the market by small volume manufacturers may be tested for in service conformity and market surveillance in accordance with tables 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 of Annex V. Conformity of production tests set out in Annex V shall not be required. Article 4(46) point (b) shall not apply to small volume manufacturers.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 250 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. With effect from … [OP please insert the date = the date of entry into force of this Reguall relevant secondary legislation], where a manufacturer so requests, the national approval authorities shall not refuse to grant EU emission type-approval or national emission type-approval for a new type of vehicle or engine, or prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of a new vehicle complying with this regulation.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 254 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4
4. With effect from 1 July 2025... [OP please insert the date = three years after the date of entry into force of all relevant secondary legislation], national authorities shall, in the case of new M1, N1 vehicles, in respect to new vehicle types, which do not comply with this Regulation consider certificates of conformity to be no longer valid for the purposes of registration and shall, on grounds relating to CO2 and pollutant emissions, fuel and energy consumption or battery durability, prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of such vehicles. With effect from ... [OP please insert the date = five years after the date of entry into force of all relevant secondary legislation], national authorities shall, in the case of all new M1, N1 vehicles, which do not comply with this Regulation consider certificates of conformity to be no longer valid for the purposes of registration and shall, on grounds relating to CO2 and pollutant emissions, fuel and energy consumption or battery durability, prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of such vehicles.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 264 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5
5. With effect from 1 July 2027... [OP please insert the date = three years after the date of entry into force of all relevant secondary legislation], national authorities shall, in the case of new M2, M3, N2, N3 vehicles and new O3, O4 trailers, in respect to new vehicle or trailer types, which do not comply with this Regulation consider certificates of conformity to be no longer valid for the purposes of registration and shall, on grounds relating to CO2 and pollutant emissions, fuel and energy consumption, energy efficiency or battery durability, prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of such vehicles. With effect from ... [OP please insert the date = five years after the date of entry into force of all relevant secondary legislation], national authorities shall, in the case of all new M2, M3, N2, N3 vehicles and all new O3, O4 trailers, which do not comply with this Regulation consider certificates of conformity to be no longer valid for the purposes of registration and shall, on grounds relating to CO2 and pollutant emissions, fuel and energy consumption, energy efficiency or battery durability, prohibit the registration, sale or entry into service of such vehicles.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 301 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the methods to measure exhaust emissions in the lab and on the road, including random and worst-casemeasures to prevent biased driving during RDE test cyclesing, the use of portable emissions measurement systems for verifying real driving emissions, and idle emissions;
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 314 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point w a (new)
(wa) the laboratory and in-service conformity test procedures laid down in Regulation (EC) 595/2009 for category M2, M3, N2 and N3 vehicles.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 318 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) Annex III, as regards the test conditions for M2, M3, N2, N3 vehicles, based on data collected when testing Euro 7 vehicles;deleted
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 319 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) Annex III, as regards the test conditions, based on data coldelected when testing Euro 7 brakes or tyres;
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 320 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) Annex V, as regards the application of test requirements and declarations, based on technical progress;deleted
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 323 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) Article 5 by introducing options and designations based on innovative technologies for manufacturers, including for vehicles equipped with an internal combustion engine running on CO2 neutral fuels, either exclusively or as a blend.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 325 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) setting out brake particle emission limits in Annex I referring to the work performed inafter the completion and taking into account the work of the task force on Brake Emissions conducted under the auspices of the UN World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations (WP29);
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 326 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) setting out abrasion limits for tyre types in Annex I referring to the work performed inafter the completion and taking into account the work of the task force on tyre abrasion conducted under the auspices of the UN World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations (WP29);
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 340 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Regulation (EC) 715/2007 is repealed with effect from 1 July 2025the date specified in Article 10(4).
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 345 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Regulation (EC) 595/2009 is repealed with effect from 1 July 2027the date specified in Article 10(5).
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 352 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2
It shall apply from 1 July 2025 for M1, N1 vehicles and components and separa... [OP please insert the date = three years after technical units for those vehicles and from 1 July 2027 forhe date of entry into force of all relevant secondary legislation] for M1, M2, M3, N1, N2, N3 vehicles and components and separate technical units for those vehicles and for O3, O4 trailers.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 362 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – table 1
Euro 7 exhaust emission limits for M1, N1 vehicles with internal combustion engine Pollutant M1, N1 Only for N1 Emission Emission emissions vehicles vehicles budget for budget for with power all trips less all trips less to mass than 10 km than 10 km ratio1 less for M1, N1 only for N1 than 3544 vehicles vehicles kW/t with power to mass ratio less than 35 44 kW/t per km per km per trip per trip NOx in mg 60 75 150 600 751500 PM in mg 4.5 4.5 45 450 PN10 in # 6×1011 6×1011 6×1012 6×1012 CO in mg 500 63750 5000 637500 THC in mg 100 1350 1000 13500 NMHC in 68 90 100 680 91000 mg NH3 in mg 20 240 200 2400 ______________________ 1. Measured in accordance with paragraph 5.3.2. of UN/ECE Regulation No 85 in the case of ICEVs and PEVs, or, in all other cases, measured in accordance with one of the test procedures laid down in paragraph 6 of UN Global Technical Regulation 21
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 365 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – table 2
Euro 7 exhaust emission limits for M2, M3, N2 and N3 vehicles with internal combustion engine and internal combustion engines used in those vehicles Pollutant Hot emissions3 Emission budget Optional idle emissions ColWHSC (CI) and WHTC (CI and RDE for all trips less emission limits4 emissions2 than 3*WHTC emissions PI) NOx in 250 long per kWh per kWh 375 per mg/kWh per hour NOx in mgPM in 350 90 1508 5000 PM in mg 12 8 mg/kWh 10 PN10 in # 5x1011 2x1011 36x1011 CO in mg 3500 200 2700 NMOG 9x1011 #/kWh CO in 50 1600 75 2400 mg NH3 in mg 65 65 70mg/kWh CH4NH3 in mg ppm 500 3510 500 N2O in mg 160 100 140 H5 CHO4 in 30 500 30 mg ______________________ 2. Cold emissions refers to the 100th percentile of moving windows (MW) of 1 WHTC for vehicles, or WHTCcold for engines 3. Hot emission refers to the 90th percentile of moving windows (MW) of 1 WHTC for vehicles or WHTChot for engines 4. Applicable only if a system is not present that automatically shuts down the engine after 300 seconds of continuous idling operation (once the vehicle is stopped and brakes applied) 750 mg/kWh
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 375 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – table 1
Conditions for testing compliance of M1, N1 vehicles with exhaust emission limits with any market fuel and lubricant within the specifications issued by the manufacturer of the vehicle Parameter Normal driving conditions Extended driving conditions* - 1.6 (applies to measured emissions only during the time Extended driving divider when one of the conditions set out in this column applies)when one of the conditions set out in this column applies; data optained when more than one of the conditions set out in this column apply, shall be excluded from the test) Ambient temperature 0°C to 35°C -10°C to 0°C or 35°C to 45°C 700 m More than 700 m and below 1 Maximum altitude 800 m 800 m Maximum speed Up to 145 km/h Between 145 and 160 km/h Not allowed Allowed according to Towing/aerodynamic manufacturer specifications and modifications up to the regulated speed. Auxiliaries Possible as per normal use - - Maximum average wheel Lower than 20% of Higher than 20% of maximum Between 20% and 30% of power during first 2 km maximum wheel power maximum wheel power after cold start Trip composition Any Any, excluding biased Any, excluding biased driving Trip composition -driving Minimum mileage 10 000 km Between 3 000 and 10 000 km ______________________ * The same emission strategy shall be used when a vehicle is run outside those conditions, unless there is a technical reason approved by the type approval authority.
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 376 #

2022/0365(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – table 2
[…]deleted
2023/05/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 119 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Where the Commission, taking into consideration the opinion provided by the advisory group,duly reflecting the decision provided by the advisory group, considers that the threat referred to in Article 3(2) is present, it shall activate the vigilance mode for a maximum duration of six months by means of an implementing act. Where the Commission considers that the threat referred to in Article 3(2) is present, despite the advisory group stating otherwise in its decision, it shall activate the vigilance mode for a maximum duration of six months by means of an implementing act adopted by an unanimous decision. Such an implementing act shall contain the following:
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 136 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 a (new)
Article9a 3. The Commission shall transmit the opinion provided by the advisory group that led to the activation of the vigilance mode simultaneously to the European Parliament and the Council without undue delay.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 137 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 b (new)
Article9b 4. In order to ensure greater transparency and accountability, the competent committee of the European Parliament may invite the Commission to provide information about the state of play of the vigilance mode.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 146 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Commission may, among the goods of strategic importance listed in an implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 9(1),, identify those for which it may be necessary to build a reserve in order to prepare for a Single Market emergency, taking into account the probability and impact of shortages. The Commission shall give a detailed reason for this identification and for the need to build a reserve and inform the Member States thereof.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 159 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall report to the Commission the approximate levels of strategic reserves of goods of strategiccritical importance held by them, and the levels of other stocks of such goods held on their territory, where such information is known. Such information shall be confidential.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 173 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
Following such an assessment, where the Commission establishes, supported by objective data, that (a) the needs for the good in question remain unchanged or have increased compared to the situation at the time the target referred to in paragraph 4 was first set or last amended pursuant to paragraph 4, (b) access to the concerned good is indispensable to ensure preparedness for a Single Market emergency (c) the Member State concerned has not provided sufficient evidence to explain the failure to meet the individual target, and (d) exceptional circumstances exist, in that the failure by that Member State, considering its importance to the supply chain concerned, to build up such strategic reserves gravely imperils the Union’s preparedness in the face of an impending threat of a Single Market emergency, the Commission may adopt an implementing act, requiring the Member State in question to build up its strategic reserves of the goods concerned by a set deadline.deleted
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 196 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2
2. If an economic operator does not accept and prioritise priority rated orders, the Commission may, following a positive decision of the advisory group, at its own initiative or at the request of 14 Member States, assess the necessity and proportionality of resorting to priority rated orders in such cases, the Commission shall give the economic operator concerned as well as any parties demonstrably affected by the potential priority rated order, the opportunity to state their position within a reasonable time limit set by the Commission in light of the circumstances of the case. In exceptional circumstances, following such an assessment, the Commission may following a positive decision of the advisory group, address an implementing act to the economic operator concerned, requiring it to either accept and prioritise the priority rated orders specified in the implementing act or explain why it is not possible or appropriate for that operator to do so. The Commission’s decision shall be based on objective data showing that such prioritisation is indispensable to ensure the maintenance of vital societal economic activities in the Single Market emergency and may only be adopted where the crisis-relevent goods cannot be procured in accordance with Articles 34, 37 and 38.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 200 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Where tThe economic operator to which the decision referred to in paragraph 2 is addressed declines to accept the requirement to accept and prioritise the ordersmay decide to decline the requirement specified in the decision, i. It shall providereply to the Commission, within 10 days from the notification of the decision, a reasoned explanation setting out duly justified reasons why it is not possible or appropriate, in light of the objectives of this provision, for it to comply with the requirement. Such reasons include the inability of the operator to perform the priority rated order on account of insufficient production capacity or a serious risk that accepting the order would entail particular hardship or economic burden for the operator, or other considerations of comparable gravity.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 202 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
The Commission may make such reasoned explanation or parts of it public, with due regard to business confidentiality.deleted
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 207 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 6
6. The Commission shall take the decision referred to in paragraph 2 in accordance with applicable Union law, including the principles of necessity and proportionality, and the Union’s obligations under international law. The decision shall in particular take into account the legitimate interests of the economic operator concerned and any available information concerning the cost and effort required for any change in production sequence. It shall state the legal basis for its adoption, fix the time limits within which the priority rated order is to be performed and, where applicable, specify the product and quantity. It shall state the fines provided for in Article 28 for failure to comply with the decision. The priority rated order shall be placed at a fair and reasonablemarket price.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 208 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 7
7. Where an economic operator accepts and prioritises a priority rated order, it shall not be liable for any breach of contractual obligations governed by the law of a Member State that is required to comply with the priority rated order. Liability shall be excluded only to the extent the violation of contractual obligations is necessary for compliance with the required prioritisation. Entities and persons affected by the necessary breach of the contractual obligations for compliance with the required prioritisation shall also not be liable themselves for any breach of contractual obligations derived from the original breach.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 215 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 2
2. Fines imposed in the cases referred to in paragraph 1 (ab) and (b)shall not exceed 200 000 EUR. The maximum fine imposed in the cases referred to in paragraph 1(b) for economic operators that are SMEs as defined in Recommendation 2003/361/EC shall not exceed 2005 000 EUR.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 217 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 3
3. Fines imposed in the cases referred to in paragraph 1 (c) shall not exceed 0,5 % of the average daily turnover in the preceding business year for each working day of non-compliance with the obligation pursuant to Article 27 (priority rated orders) calculated from the date established in the decision not exceeding 0,5 % of total turnover in the preceding business year. The maximum fine imposed in the cases referred to in paragraph 1(c) for economic operators that are SMEs as defined in Recommendation 2003/361/EC shall not exceed 0.1 % of the average daily turnover in the preceding business year for each working day of non- compliance with the obligation pursuant to Article 27 (priority rated orders) calculated from the date established in the decision but not exceeding 0.1% of total turnover in the preceding business year.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 225 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall assess the utility, necessity and proportionality of the request. If the Commission decides to launch a procurement on behalf of the Member States, it shall inform the advisory group and the Member States concerned about its intention to carry out such procurement. Where the Commission intends not to follow the request, it shall inform the Member States concerned and the advisory group referred to in Article 4 and give reasons for its refusal. The Commission shall launch a call for other Member States to participate in the request.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 230 #

2022/0278(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. 3 a. If the Commission is unable to award the contract to a suitable economic operator, the Commission shall immediately inform the Member States. Member States shall have a right to initiate their own procurement processes without delay.
2023/04/27
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 16 #

2022/0212(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the full use of Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation to allocate all available decommitments from 2020 and 2021 to the HEU; firmly rejects the misuse of that Article and insists on alternative solutions to provide additional funding for the Digital Europe Programme under the European Chips Act;
2022/09/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 21 #

2022/0212(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Rejects the use of the HEU budget to fund new initiatives like the EU Chips Act and the Secure Connectivity Initiative;and strongly supports the principle that new initiatives should come with a fresh budget.
2022/09/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 25 #

2022/0212(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Believes strongly that new initiatives and programmes, such as the EU Chips Act, the Secure Connectivity Initiative and others should come with their own funding and not jeopardise other Union programmes and projects;
2022/09/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 27 #

2022/0212(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Deeply regrets Council's position to cut EUR 120 million from the Union contribution to ITER, which would negatively impact the overall implementation of the project, even though fusion energy could provide Member States with cheap, reliable and climate neutral energy.
2022/09/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 36 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
(3) The Versailles Declaration of 10-11 March 2022 of the Heads of States and Governments invited the Commission to propose by the end of May a REPowerEU plan to phase out the dependency on Russian fossil fuel imports, which was subsequently reiterated in the European Council Conclusions of 24-25 March 2022. This should be done well before 2030 in a way that is consistent with the EU’s Green Deal and the climate objectives for 2030 and 2050 enshrined in the European Climate Law. Regulation (EU) 2021/241 should therefore be amended to enhance its ability to support reforms and investments dedicated to diversifying energy supplies, in particular fossil fuels, thereby strengthening the strategic autonomy of the Union alongside an open economy. Support should also be given to reforms and investments increasing the energy efficiency and energy savings of the Member States’ economies through fast revision and better coherence with the Renewable Energy Directive, the Energy Efficiency Directive, the Energy Performance Buildings Directive and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.
2022/09/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 42 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) The REPowerEU chapter should include new reforms and investments contributing to the REPowerEU aims. Furthermore, that chapter should contain an outline of other measures, financed from sources other than the Recovery and Resilience Facility, contributing to the energy-related objectives outlined in recital (3). The outline should cover measures whose implementation should take place between 1 February 2022 to 31 December 2026, the period during which the objectives set by this Regulation are to be achieved. As regards natural gas infrastructure, the investments and reforms of the REPowerEU chapters to diversify supply away from Russia should build on the needs currently identified through the assessment conducted and agreed by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG), established in the spirit of solidarity as regards security of supply and take into account the reinforced preparedness measures taken to adapt to new geopolitical threats. To this end, additional support could be ensured by complimentary recommendations for possible cross-border and trans national projects granting added European value. Finally, the REPowerEU chapters should provide an explanation and a quantification of the effects of the combination of the reforms and investments financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the other measures financed by other sources than the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
2022/09/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 58 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) Further incentives should be provided for Member States to request loans, through the clarification of tha quick, accessible and unburdensome loan allocation procedure. In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/241, Member States may request loans until 31 August 2023. An intention to submit a loan request should be communicated to the Commission 30 days after the entry into force of this Regulation so that the redistribution of the remaining funds can be conducted in an orderly manner.
2022/09/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 59 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) In addition, to incentivise a high level of ambition for reforms and investments to be included in the REPowerEU chapter, new dedicated funding sources should be provided to secure better and more effective use of the loans of the Members States, as well as more efficient and flexible mobilising of the existing funds.
2022/09/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 61 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council6 should be amended to provide for the possibility to transfer up to 7.5% of resources of shared management programmes governed by that Regulation to the Facility for the achievement of the REPowerEU objectives, in addition to the existing transfer possibility of up to 5%. Such a possibility is justified by the need to cover REPowerEU objectives, providing Member States with additional flexibility to address those urgent needs by establishing conditions for easier permitting process and lesser administrative burden. Furthermore, the Facility allows for a fast disbursement of funds, making it particularly well suited for financing of urgent energy-related measures. Such transfers should be justified by a higher financial need linked to additional reforms and investments included in the REPowerEU chapter. _________________ 6 Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, the Just Transition Fund and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund and financial rules for those and for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Internal Security Fund and the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 159).
2022/09/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 64 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
(21) The Commission should monitor the implementation of reforms and investments outlined in the REPowerEU chapter and their contribution to the REPowerEU objectives, as established in Regulation (EU) 2021/241. Where needed, the Commission could grant technical support to the Member States for faster and more targeted implementation.
2022/09/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 66 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. In line with the six pillars referred in Article 3 of this Regulation, the coherence and synergies they generate, and in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, the general objective of the Facility shall be to promote the Union’s economic, social and territorial cohesion by improving the resilience, crisis preparedness, adjustment capacity and growth potential of the Member States, by mitigating the social and economic impact of that crisis, in particular on women, vulnerable groups and SMEs by quick adoption of the Social Climate Fund, by contributing to the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, by supporting the green transition, by contributing to the achievement of the Union’s 2030 climate targets set out in point (11) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999,and by complying with the objective of EU climate neutrality by 2050 and of the digital transition, by increasing the resilience of the Union energy system through a decrease of dependence on fossil fuels and diversification of energy supplies at Union level (‘REPowerEU objectives’) thereby contributing to the upward economic and social convergence, restoring and promoting sustainable growth and the integration of the economies of the Union, fostering high quality employment creation, and contributing to the strategic autonomy of the Union alongside an open economy and generating European added value.
2022/09/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 87 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 21c – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) boosting energy efficiency in buildings by broadening the use of sustainable construction materials and products, decarbonising industry, increasing production and uptake of sustainable biomethane and renewable or fossil-free hydrogen and increasing the share of renewable energy,
2022/09/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 98 #

2022/0164(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 21c – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) an explanation on how the combination of the measures referred to in paragraph 1 and points (a) and (b) of this paragraph is coherent, effective and expected to contribute to the REPowerEU objectives, including a quantification of the energy savings. and proof that the national measures and objectives in line with the cohesion policy and common agriculture policy support the goals of the REPowerEU.
2022/09/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 259 #

2022/0051(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) ‘valuesupply chain’ means activities related to the production of goods or the provision of services by a company, including the development of the product or the service and the use and disposal of the product as well as the related activities of upstream and downstream established business relationships of the company. As regards companies within the meaning of point (a)(iv), ‘valuesupply chain’ with respect to the provision of these specific services shall only include the activities of the clients receiving such loan, credit, and other financial services and of other companies belonging to the same group whose activities are linked to the contract in question. The value chain of such regulated financial undertakings does not cover SMEs receiving loan, credit, financing, insurance or reinsurance of such entitiesSMEs are not part of the supply chain thus exempted from obligations of this Directive;
2022/10/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 30 #

2022/0039(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) This Regulation lays down a financial envelope, which is to constitute the prime reference amount, within the meaning of point 18 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources22 , for the European Parliament and the Council during the annual budgetary procedure. The Programme is a new initiative that was not envisaged when the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021- 2027 was established. In order to avoid any reduction of the amounts awarded to other Union programmes, the financial envelope allocated to the Programme should be drawn, to the extent possible, from the unallocated margins under the MFF ceilings or mobilised through the non-thematic MFF special instruments. _________________ 22 OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 28.
2022/05/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 32 #

2022/0039(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25 a (new)
(25 a) The next revision of the MFF should provide adequate funding for the Programme, to ensure its coherence, ambition and long-term financing.
2022/05/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 34 #

2022/0039(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28 a (new)
(28 a) In order to ensure that the Programme is implemented successfully, it is important to ensure that sufficient resources are available. Member States should therefore make a financial contribution to the Programme that would be additional to the amount available through the Union budget. It should also be possible for Member States to make in- kind contributions to the Programme. Additional financial contributions and in- kind contributions from other parties should also be possible.
2022/05/23
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 7 #

2021/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that while funding in the EU budget for the NEB pilot phase in 2021-22 totals some EUR 85 million, the scale and provenance of financing from 2023 onwards remains unclear; asks the Commission to clarify its budgetary approach for continuation of the NEB after the pilot phase; regrets the fact that, contrary to Parliament’s long-standing position, fresh resources have not been committed yet for what is a new initiative;
2022/02/07
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 17 #

2021/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to conduct a thorough impact assessment of the NEB at the end of the pilot phase; underlines that, if continued, after the pilot phase the NEB must be designed to ensure democratic oversight and safeguard the role of the budgetary authority; insists that any decision to develop the NEB into a longer- term initiative or programme requires fresh resources as part of the necessary mid-term revision of the MFF; asks the Commission to assess the possibility of using Simplified Cost Options in future NEB design under different types of funding schemes, thus ensuring harmonisation and reducing administrative costs and burden.
2022/02/07
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 21 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas Energy Efficiency First is a guiding principle of the European Energy policy to make energy demand and energy supply more efficient, in particular by means of cost-effective end- use energy savings and more efficient conversion, transmission and distribution of energy;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 46 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that provisions in Article 2(a) of the EPBD will need to be strengthened and effectively implemented in order to achieve 2050 climate-neutrality;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 50 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the EPBD, and detailed LTRSs, should be a driving force to increase the scale and, speed and quality of the renovation of the EU’s building stock through new innovative policy measures, as suggested in the ‘Renovation Wave’;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 51 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the fact that some Member States submitted their LTRSs late and that twoone haves not yet submitted theirits LTRSs at all; points out that, as a result, comparability among the plans from Member States is difficult, as; highlights that late submissions include links with national recovery plans adopted becausein the framework of the COVID- 19 crisis and the latest EU policy initiatives, such as the Renovation Wave; calls on Member States to make the most of the financial resources made available through Next Generation EU (NGEU) in the area of renovation and energy performance and efficiency of buildings;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 55 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recalls the importance of putting in place adequate incentives for the renovation of buildings as well as financial measures conditional on energy efficiency improvements and energy savings, in accordance with Article 10 (6) of the EPDB;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 79 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the importance of sustainability in material use and resource consumption of a building’s lifecycle, from material extraction, construction and use, to end of use and demolition, including renewable and sustainable nature-based materials such as wood; stresses that sustainability must go hand in hand with addressing fire safety and risks related to intense seismic activity, which affect the energy efficiency and the lifetime of buildings, as well as with high health standards;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 103 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Reiterates its calls for an EU skills initiative that, along with national efforts, with the objective of enablesing intermediaries such as installers, architects or contractors to advise, prescribe or install relevant solutions, including digital ones, for energy efficiency programmes and a decarbonised building stock; as well as focussing on the upskilling and reskilling of all actors involved in the construction sector;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 127 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. CStresses that EPBD is crucial to delivering successfully on the Renovation wave and emissions reduction; calls on the Member States to ensure the proper implementation of the EPBD in all its aspects; calls on the Commission to continue monitoring this implementation and, where possible, take action in the event of non-compliance;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 135 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to investigate how to formulate a standard template that Member States could use to ensure that they address all the requirements of Article 2(a) and harmonise objectives and requirements to allow for better comparability of results;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 137 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Recalls that public buildings must lead the way by example in renovation rates and in achieving decarbonisation, energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness, thus contributing to raising awareness and acceptance within the wider public;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 140 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to consider how to facilitate further the development of one-stop shops, including through more stringent measures in the EPBD; stresses that one-stop shops can play a big role in addressing the issue of long and cumbersome permitting procedures as well as in fostering access to funding for building renovation, contributing to spreading information on terms and conditions;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 143 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Is convinced that additional guidance and support measures, notably technical assistance, information campaigns, trainings, project financing, among others, can lead to a greater renovation rate, which is currently too low to meet the 2030 and 2050 climate targets;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 149 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that the revision of the EPBD should serve to further promote smart buildings technologies and foster a data-centric approachConsiders that digitalisation of buildings and construction technologies, where feasible and especially for new buildings, can play an important role for increased energy efficiency; believes that the revision of the EPBD should serve to further promote smart buildings technologies and foster a data-centric approach, with the aim of ensuring a wider availability of aggregated and anonymised data to homeowners, tenants and for statistical and research purposes; encourages the use and deployment of emergent technologies, such as 3D modelling and simulation and artificial intelligence, to drive carbon emissions reduction at every stage of a building’s lifecycle;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 164 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that the LTRSs should provide more details on long-term actions to create a more stable and attractive environment for investors, developers, homeowners and tenants; stresses that Member States must improve access to a range of financial and fiscal mechanisms to support the mobilisation of private investments and foster public and private partnerships;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 186 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Encourages more Member States to introduce minimum energy performance standards, duly taking into account the specificity of the different buildings stocks and notably buildings that have special architectural or historical merit;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 192 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to link the LTRSs with the relevant provisions of the Energy Efficiency Directive and the Renewable Energy Directive on efficient district heating and cooling and on the promotion of renewable energy in the building sector, such as solar thermal and geothermal as well as a bigger role for energy storage and locally available resources, while recognising that fossil fuels, especially natural gas, currently play a roleare employed in heating systems for buildings;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 198 #

2021/2077(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls its demand for the next revision to evaluate the need to reviewincrease the charging infrastructure requirements in the EPBD, taking into account the need to ensure the grid stability, for instance by putting in place smart charging functionalities, with a view to fostering sustainable mobility, as well as include an integrated, systematic and circular approach for both urban and rural developments;
2021/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 8 #

2021/2006(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the EU strategy to reduce methane (CH4) emissions; as it is the second biggest contributor to the climate change after CO2; underlines that according to the UNEP´s Global Methane Assessment (2021) "reducing human- caused methane emissions is one of the most cost-effective strategies to rapidly reduce the rate of warming and contribute significantly to global efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C"; notes that energy sector alone is responsible for around 1/5 of EU methane emissions, supports a clear pathway and framework to address methane emissions in a more comprehensive fashion across Europe, by fostering synergies between sectors to strengthen the business case for capturing methane emiss, which has commercial value and could be monetised directly; stresses the importance of further development and deployment of emission reducing technologies and innovations;
2021/06/02
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 107 #

2021/2006(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. AgreStresses thate improved top-down data from satellites in the framework of the Copernicus programme, as well asortance of the Copernicus programme and its Atmosphere Monitoring Service in detecting and monitoring global super emitters as well as smaller scale sources; underlines that aerial monitoring, wi equally assists in targeting leak detection; strongly supports the sharing of information and technologies among stakeholders on EU and global level in order to catalyse abatement efforts; believes that independent, comparable, verifiable and transparent emissions data are key to gain knowledge about the size of the emission problem and to combat under-estimation of the size and amount of leaks;
2021/06/02
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 138 #

2021/2006(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Considers it important to promote biogas production in order to reduce methane emissions; supports solutions for the industrial production of biogas from non-recyclable waste, in particular agricultural waste, for the purposes of clean transport and the production of bio- based materials and biochemical intermediates in biorefineries.
2021/06/02
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 219 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13 a (new)
(13 a) ‘quantification’ means operations to determine the quantity of methane emissions, based on direct measurements, engineering calculations, simulations, models, or estimation through generic or specific emission factors.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 398 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. By … [24 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation], operators shall also submit a report to the competent authorities containing direct measurementsquantification of source-level methane emissions for operated assets. Reporting at such level may involve the use of source- level measurement and sampling as the basis for establishing specific emission factors used for emissions estimationWhen emission factors are used, the quantification shall involve specific emission factors.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 415 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
By … [36 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation] and by 30 March every year thereafter, operators shall submit a report to the competent authorities containing direct measurementsquantification of source-level methane emissions for operated assets referred to in paragraph 2, complemented by measurements of site- level methane emissions, thereby allowing assessment and verification of the source- level estimates aggregated by site. If the technologies for site-level measurement do not reach satisfactory technology readiness levels or market availability an operator can request the competent authority to postpone site-level measurements by one year.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 491 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 8
8. In the case of significant discrepancies between the emissions quantified using source-level methods and those resulting from site-level measurement, additional measurements shall be carried ouoperators shall provide reasoning for the discrepancy. If the discrepancy is not due to the technological limits of employed quantification methods, the competent authority may request an additional measurement within the same reporting period.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 592 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Operators shall repair or replace all components found to be emitting 500 parts per million or more of methanemake a first attempt to repair all detected leaks no later than five days after detection.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 599 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
TWhe repair or replacement of the components the first attempt referred to in the first subparagraph shall take place immediately after detection, or as soon as possible thereafter but no later than five days after detection, provided operators can demonstrate that safety or technical considerations do not allow immediate action and providedis not successful or possible due to safety, administrative, or technical considerations, the operators shall establish a repair and monitoring schedule no later than [30] days after detection.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 610 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Safety and technical considerations that do not allow immediate action, asThe repair and monitoring schedule referred to in the second subparagraph, shall be limited to taking into account safety to personnel and humans in proximity, environmental impacts, concentration of methane loss, accessibility to component, availability of replacement of the component. Environmental impact considerations may include instances whereby repair could lead to a higher level of methane emissions than in the absence of the repairfollow the existing European standards and guarantee that the environmental impact is minimized, while respecting safety, administrative, and technical considerations.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 619 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4
Where a system shutdown is required before the repair or replacement can be undertaken, operators shall minimise the leak within one day of detection and shall repair the leak by the end of the next scheduled system shutdown or within a year, whichever is sooner.Safety, administrative and technical considerations, as referred to in the second and third subparagraph, shall be limited to taking into account:
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 624 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4 – point a (new)
(a) safety to humans and objects in proximity,
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 625 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4 – point b (new)
(b) significant deterioration of the gas supply,
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 626 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4 – point c (new)
(c) continuity of supply to end consumers,
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 627 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4 – point d (new)
(d) administrative authorizations,
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 628 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4 – point e (new)
(e) accessibility to component,
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 629 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4 – point f (new)
(f) availability of parts necessary for the repair.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 630 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 4 a (new)
Where the emission abatement cost for a repair is higher than the limit set by ACER, the operators shall postpone the repair provided that they disclose to the competent authority the calculation details in the repair and monitoring schedule.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 778 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Where implementing venting or flaring provisions leads to an abatement cost higher than the limit set by ACER, the operators shall minimize the vented emissions by other available more cost- efficient means and include the justification in the report according to Article 17.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 794 #

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Where implementing venting or flaring provisions requires an approval of relevant authorities, permitting, procuring, and installing new equipment, operators shall proceed at the fastest possible schedule. The competent authorities may request the details of the schedule and request modifications.
2022/10/24
Committee: ENVIITRE
Amendment 177 #

2021/0293(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 30
(30) Multi-Country Projects involving several Member States should allow for large-scale intervention in key areas necessary for the achievement of the digital targets, notably by pooling resources from the Union, Member States, and where appropriate private sources. Where necessary for the achievement of the digital targets, Member States can decide to involve the participation of Union associated countries in Multi-Country Projects. They should be implemented in a coordinated manner, in close cooperation between the Commission and Member States. For that reason, the Commission should play a central role in accelerating the deployment of Multi-Country Projects through the identification of Multi-Country projects ready for implementation among the projects categories indicatively included in Annex, in advising Member States on the choice of implementation mechanism, on the choice of the sources of funding and their combination, on other strategic matters related to the implementation of those projects, and on the selection of a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) as an implementation mechanism, where appropriate.
2022/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 179 #

2021/0293(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 32
(32) Multi-Country Projects should be able to attract and combine, in an efficient manner, various sources of Union and Member States’, and where applicable Union associated countries’ funding. Notably, the combination of the funds from centrally managed Union programme with resources committed by Member States should be possible, including, under certain conditions, contributions from the Recovery and Resilience Facility, as explained in Part 3 of the Commission guidance to Member States on Recovery and Resilience Plans44 , as well as contributions from European Regional Development and Cohesion funds. Whenever justified by the nature of a given Multi-Country Project, it should also be open to contributions from entities other than the Union and Member States, including private contributions. _________________ 44 Brussels, 22.1.2021 SWD(2021) 12 final.
2022/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 203 #

2021/0293(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) reinforce Member States’ collective resilience and bridge the digital divide notably by promoting continuous opportunities for each individual, at all levels and in all fields of society, to develop basic and specialised digital skills for all andand competences as well as by fostering the development of horizontal high- performing digital education and training systems;
2022/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 221 #

2021/0293(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(d a) develop a comprehensive and sustainable ecosystem of interoperable digital infrastructures where high performance computing, cloud, quantum, artificial intelligence, data management and network connectivity work in convergence, to create opportunities for growth and jobs through research and innovation;
2022/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 324 #

2021/0293(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point c
(c) at least 8100% of Union citizens usehave access to a digital identification (ID) solution. recognised throughout the Union and ensuring the users’ full control of their personal data
2022/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 407 #

2021/0293(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(2 a) A Union associated country can be involved in the participation of a Multi- Country Project, where this participation is necessary to facilitate the achievement of the digital targets of the Union and of the Member States. The participation of the associated country, including its financial contributions, shall respect the rules arising from the Union programmes and investment schemes deployed in the Multi-Country Project.
2022/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 416 #

2021/0293(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 17 – paragraph 4
(4) An EDIC may be open to the participation of entities other than Member States, which may include inter alia Union associated countries, international organizations and private entities, as specified in the Statutes. If this is the case, Member States shall hold jointly the majority of the voting rights in the assembly of members regardless of the amount of contributions from entities other than Member States.
2022/03/29
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 24 #

2021/0227(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the need to support research and innovation in the context of the current pandemic and the EU’s green and digital ambitions; Calls for making available to Horizon Europe Programme the research decommitments from 2020 in line with Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation; calls for the expenditure on health research from the Union budget to be at least equal to that in the 2021 general budget, given the evolving pandemic situation; calls for allocation of Next Generation EU funds to sectors hard hit by the crisis and to instruments that can contribute directly to the recovery of the European economy; underlines the role of the EIC and EIT in supporting research and innovation in the Union, and the need to increase their financial resources in 2022;
2021/09/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 37 #

2021/0227(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for sufficient staffing for all agencies in line with their tasks and responsibilities; underlines in particular the need to substantially reinforce ACER and the EIT which have been understaffed for many years, as well as ensure sufficient budget for ENISA and BEREC to fulfil their missions; welcomes the addition of new establishment plan posts in the EUSPA, but calls for a gradual reduction of external personnel in order to prevent disruptions in security related activities.
2021/09/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 56 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) A Social Climate (‘the Fund’) should therefore be established to provide funds to the Member States to support their policies to address the social impacts of the emissions trading for buildings and road transport on vulnerable households, vulnerable SMEs, micro-enterprises and on vulnerable transport users. This should be achieved notably through temporary income support and measures and investments intended to reduce reliance on fossil fuels through increased energy efficiency of buildings, decarbonisation of heating and cooling of buildings, including the integration and storage of energy from renewable sources, and granting improved access to zero- and low-emission mobility and transport to the benefit of vulnerable households, vulnerable SMEs, micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users.
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 79 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) Ensuring that the measures and investments are particularly targeted towards energy poor or vulnerable households, vulnerable SMEs, micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users is key for a just transition towards climate neutrality. Support measures to promote reductions in greenhouse gas emissions should help Member States to address the social impacts arising from the emissions trading for the sectors of buildings and road transport.
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 86 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) Pending the impact of those investments on reducing costs and emissions, well targeted direct income support in exceptional duly justified cases for the most vulnerable would help the just transition. Such support should be understood to be a temporary measure accompanying the decarbonisation of the housing and transport sectors. It would not be permanent as it does not address the root causes of energy and transport poverty. Such support should only concern direct impacts of the inclusion of building and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC, not electricity or heating costs related to the inclusion of power and heat production in the scope of that Directive. Eligibility for such direct income support should be limited in time.
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 96 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
(21) The Fund and the Plans should be coherent with and framed by the reforms planned and the commitments made by the Member States under their updated integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, under Directive [yyyy/nnn] of the European Parliament and the Council [Proposal for recast of Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency]36 , the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan37 , the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) established by Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 of the European Parliament and of the Council38 , the Just Transition Plans pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2021/1056 of the European Parliament and of the Council39 and the Member States long-term buildings renovation strategies pursuant to Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council40 . To ensure administrative efficiency while not adding any extra administrative burden, where applicable, the information included in the Plans should be consistent with the legislation and plans listed above. _________________ 36 [Add ref] 37Endorsed by the European Council on 24 and 25 June 2021. 38Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 establishing the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1296/2013 (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 21). 39Regulation (EU) 2021/1056 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 establishing the Just Transition Fund (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 1). 40Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings (OJ L 153, 18.6.2010, p. 13).
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 100 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
(22) The Union should support Member States with financial means along with technical support to implement their Plans through the Social Climate Fund. Payments from the Social Climate Fund should be made conditional on achievement of the milestones and targets included in the Plans. This would allow efficiently taking into account national circumstances and priorities while simplifying financing and facilitating its integration with other national spending programmes while guaranteeing the impact and the integrity of EU spending.
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 124 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3
The measures and investments supported by the Fund shall benefit households, vulnerable SMEs and micro-enterprises and transport users, which are vulnerable and particularly affected by the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC, especially households in energy poverty and citizens without public transport alternative to individual cars (in remote and rural areas).
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 132 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 4
The general objective of the Fund is to contribute to the green and digital twin transition towards climate neutrality by addressing the social impacts of the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC. The specific objective of the Fund is to support vulnerable households, vulnerable SMEs and micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport users through temporary direct income support and through measures and investments intended to increase energy efficiency of buildings, using sustainable construction materials, decarbonisation of heating and cooling of buildings, including the integration and storage of energy from renewable sources, and granting improved access to zero- and low-emission mobility and transport.
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 228 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) an estimate of the likely effects of that increase in prices on households, and in particular on incidence of energy poverty, on SMEs, micro-enterprises and on transport users, comprising in particular an estimate and the identification of vulnerable households, vulnerable SMEs, vulnerable micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users; these impacts are to be analysed with a sufficient level of regional disaggregation, taking into account elements such as access to public transport and basic services and identifying the areas mostly affected, particularly territories which are remote and rural;
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 233 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) where the Plan provides for measures referred to in Article 3(2), the criteria for the identification of eligible final recipients, the indication of the envisaged time limit for the measures in question and their justification on the basis of a quantitative estimate and a qualitative explanation of how the measures in the Plan are expected to reduce energy and transport poverty and the vulnerability of households, SMEs, micro-enterprises and transport users to an increase of road transport and heating fuel prices;
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 251 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. The Plans shall be consistent with the information included and the commitments made by the Member States under the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) established by Regulation (EU) 2021/1057, under their cohesion policy operational programmes under Regulation (EU) 2021/105855 , under their Recovery and Resilience Plans in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council56 , under their long-term buildings renovation strategies pursuant to Directive 2010/31/EU and under their updated integrated national energy and climate plans under Regulation (EU) 2018/1999. They shall also be complementary to the Just Transition Plans pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2021/1056 of the European Parliament and of the Council57 and therefore all these financial instruments shall increase the synergy of the measures while preventing and avoiding any possibility of double funding. _________________ 55Regulation (EU) 2021/1058 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 on the European Regional Development Fund and on the Cohesion Fund (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 60). 56Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 February 2021 establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility (OJ L 57, 18.2.2021, p. 17). 57Regulation (EU) 2021/1056 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 establishing the Just Transition Fund (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 1).
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 288 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States may include the costs of the following measures and investments in the estimated total costs of the Plans, provided they principally benefit vulnerable households, vulnerable SMEs and micro- enterprises or vulnerable transport users and intend to:
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 295 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) contribute to the decarbonisation, including the electrification, digitalisation of heating and cooling of, and cooking in, buildings and the integration and storage of energy from renewable sources that contribute to the achievements of energy savings;
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 301 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) support public and private entities in developing and providing affordable energy efficiency renovation solutions including those using sustainable and innovative construction materials fully in line with the circularity economy principle and appropriate funding instruments in line with the social goals of the Fund;
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 377 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a – point i
(i) whether the Plan represents a response to the social impact on and challenges faced by vulnerable households, vulnerable SMEs, vulnerable micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users in the Member State concerned from establishing the emission trading system for buildings and road transport established pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC, especially households in energy poverty, duly taking into account the challenges identified in the assessments of the Commission of the update of the concerned Member State’s integrated national energy and climate plan and of its progress pursuant to Article 9(3), and Articles 13 and 29 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, as well as in the Commission recommendations to Member States issued pursuant to Article 34 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 in view of the long-term objective of climate neutrality in the Union by 2050. This shall take into account the specific challenges and the financial allocation of the Member State concerned;
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 379 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii
(iii) whether the Plan contains innovative measures and investments in digitized solutions that contribute to the green transition, including to addressing the challenges resulting therefrom and in particular to the achievement of the 2030 climate and energy objectives of the Union and the 2030 milestones of the Mobility Strategy.
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 385 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point b – point i
(i) whether the Plan is expected to have a lasting impact on the challenges addressed by that Plan and in particular on vulnerable households, vulnerable SMEs, vulnerable micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users, especially households in energy poverty, in the Member State concerned;
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 389 #

2021/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point b – point ii a (new)
(ii a) whether the proposed measures are sufficiently effective at national level and are not adding any additional administrative burden;
2022/02/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 28 #

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) In order to contribute to the increased ambition to reduce greenhouse gas net emissions from at least 40 % to at least 55 % below 1990 levels, binding annual targets for net greenhouse gas removals should be set out for each Member State in the land use, land use change and forestry sector in the period from 2026 to 2030 (in analogy to the annual emission allocations set out in Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council32 ), resulting in a target of 310 millions of tonnes CO2 equivalent of net removals for the Union as a whole in 2030. The methodology used to establish the national targets for 2030 should take into account the average greenhouse gas emissions and removals from the years 2016, 2017 and 2018, reported by each Member State, and reflect the current mitigation performance of the land use, land use change and forestry sector, and each Member State’s share of the managed land area in the Union, taking into account the capacity of that Member State to improve its performance in the sector via land management practices or changes in land use that benefit the climate and biodiversity and should strengthen sustainable forest management which allows for the adaptation of forests to climate change in long term. __________________ 32Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 contributing to climate action to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 26).
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 43 #

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) The land sector has the potential to become rapidly climate-neutral by 2035 in a cost-effective manner, and subsequently generatthrough reducing emissions, maintaining and enhancing sinks and carbon stocks, replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy from forest biomass and by harnessing the removal potential of organic materials from sustainable mfore greenhouse gas removals than emissionsst management. The bioeconomy and bioenergy are indispensable for a fossil- free economy. A collective commitment aiming to achieve climate-neutrality in the land sector in 2035 at EU level can provide the needed planning certainty to drive land- based mitigation action in the short term, considering that it can take many years for such action to deliver the desired mitigation outcomes. Moreover, the land sector is projected to become the largest sector in the EU greenhouse gas flux profile in 2050. It is therefore particularly important to anchor that sector to a trajectory that can effectively deliver net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By mid-2024, the Member States should submit their updated integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council34 . The plans should include relevant measures by which each Member State best contributes to the collective target of climate neutrality in the land sector at EU level in 2035. On the basis of these plans, the Commission should propose national targets, ensuring that the Union-wide greenhouse gas emissions and removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector and the emissions from the agriculture non-CO2 sectors are at least balanced by 2035. Contrary to the EU level target of climate neutrality for the land sector by 2035, such national targets will be binding and enforceable on each Member State. __________________ 34Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p.1).
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 46 #

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) The land sector has the potential to become rapidly climate-neutral by 2035 in a cost-effective manner, and subsequently generate more greenhouse gas removals than emissions. A collective commitment aiming to achieve climate-neutrality in the land sector in 2035 at EU level can provide the needed planning certainty to drive land- based mitigation action in the short term, considering that it can take many years for such action to deliver the desired mitigation outcomes. Moreover, the land sector is projected to become the largest sector in the EU greenhouse gas flux profile in 2050. It is therefore particularly important to anchor that sector to a trajectory that can effectively deliver net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By mid-2024, the Member States should submit their updated integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council34 . The plans should include relevant measures by which each Member State best contributes to the collective target of climate neutrality in the land sector at EU level in 2035. On the basis of these plans, the Commission should propose national targets that are fairly distributed among sectors and Member States, ensuring that the Union-wide greenhouse gas emissions and removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector and the emissions from the agriculture non-CO2 sectors are at least balanced by 2035. Contrary to the EU level target of climate neutrality for the land sector by 2035, such national targets will be binding and enforceable on each Member State. __________________ 34Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p.1).
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 52 #

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) The accounting rules set out in Articles 6, 7, 8 and 10 of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 were designed to determine the extent to which mitigation performance in the land use, land use change and forestry sector could contribute to the 2030 EU target for reduction of greenhouse gas net emissions of 40 %, which did not include the land use, land use change and forestry sector. In order to simplify the regulatory framework for that sector, the current accounting rules should not apply after 2025, and the compliance with national targets of the Member States should be verified on the basis of reported greenhouse gas emissions and removals. This ensures methodological consistency with Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council35 , Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council36 , and the determination of the new target for reduction of greenhouse gas net emissions of at least 55 %, which also includes the land use, land use change and forestry sector). In order to ensure better regulation and a predictable operating environment for industry, the accounting rules only applies to the land use, land use change and forestry sector’s greenhouse gas accounting. __________________ 35Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Councils of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading with the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32) as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/410 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2018 amending Directive 2003/87/EC to enhance cost-effective emission reductions and low-carbon investments, and Decision (EU) 2015/1814 (OJ L 76, 19.3.2018, p. 3). 36Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 contributing to climate action to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 26).
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 59 #

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) In order to enhance greenhouse gas removals, individual farmers or forest managers need a direct incentive to store more carbon on their land and their forests. New business models based on carbon farming incentives and on the certification of carbon removals need to be increasingly deployed in the period until 2030. Such incentives and business models will enhance climate mitigation in the bio- economy, including through the use of durable harvested wood products, in full respect of ecological principles fostering biodiversity and the circular economy. Hence, new categories of carbon storage products should be introduced in addition to the harvested wood products. The European bioeconomy can increase the production of carbon storage products while strengthening carbon sinks and improving forest health. Increasing the usage of carbon storage products is important to replace usage of fossil emission intensive products made from non-renewable resources and to achieve the goals of the European Green Deal. The emerging business models, farming and land management practices to enhance removals contribute to a balanced territorial development and economic growth in rural areas. They also create opportunities for new jobs and provide incentives for relevant training, reskilling and upskilling.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 61 #

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) In order to enhance greenhouse gas removals, individual farmers or forest managers need a direct incentive to store more carbon on their land and their forests. New business models based on carbon farming incentives and on the certification of carbon removals need to be increasingly deployed in the period until 2030. Such incentives and business models will enhance climate mitigation in the bio- economy, including through the use of durable harvested wood products and through substitution of fossil-based raw materials, in full respect of ecological principles fostering biodiversity and the circular economy. Hence, new categories of carbon storage products should be introduced in addition to the harvested wood products and ensure new innovative solutions. The emerging business models, farming and land management practices to enhance removals contribute to a balanced territorial development and economic growth in rural areas. They also create opportunities for new jobs and provide incentives for relevant training, reskilling and upskilling.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 91 #

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) Due to the change to reporting- based targets, the greenhouse gas emissions and removals need to be estimated with a higher level of accuracy. Moreover, the Communication from the Commission on EU Biodiversity Strategy for 203038 , the Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system39 , the EU Soil Strategy 39a the EU Forest Strategy40 , the revised Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council41 and the Communication from the Commission on Forging a climate-resilient Europe - the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change42 will all require enhanced monitoring of land, thereby helping to protect and enhance the resilience of nature-based carbon removals throughout the Union. The satellite and on site monitoring and reporting of emissions and removals needs to be upgraded, making full use of already existing tools such as LUCAS statistical survey, using advanced technologies available under Union programmes, such as Copernicus, and digital data collected under the Common Agricultural Policy, applying the twin transition of green and digital innovation. __________________ 38 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 - Bringing nature back into our lives (COM(2020) 380 final). 39 COM/2020/381 final. 39a Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions EU Soil Strategy for 2030 Reaping the benefits of healthy soils for people, food, nature and climate COM(2021) 699 final 40 […] 41Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82). 42 COM/2021/82 final.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 176 #

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 in order to amend paragraph 1 of this Article and Annex V by adding new categories of carbon storage products, including short and long-life harvested wood products, that have a carbon sequestration effect, and by introducing a life-cycle assessment of those products, including recycled products based on IPCC Guidelines as adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC or the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, and ensuring environmental integrity.;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 190 #

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point a
(a) paragraph 3 is deleted;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 274 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) ‘artificial intelligence system’ (AI system) means software that is developed with one or more of the techniques and approaches listed in Annex I anda machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, generate outputs such as content,make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing the environments they interact withreal or virtual environments; AI systems can be designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and can be developed with one or more of the techniques and approaches listed in Annex I;
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 320 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 73 to amend the list of techniques and approaches listed in Annex I within the scope of the definition of an AI system as provided for in Article 3(1), in order to update that list to market and technological developments on the basis of characteristics that are similar to the techniques and approaches listed therein.
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 399 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. High-risk AI systems which make use of techniques involving the training of models with data shall be developed on the basis of training, assessment, validation and testing data sets that meet the quality criteria referred to in paragraphs 2 to 5.
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 402 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The common practices standards for a high-risk AI system assessment shall be developed by the European Artificial Intelligence Board.
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 405 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Training, assessment, validation and testing data sets shall be subject to appropriate data governance and management practices. Those practices shall concern in particular, the following elements:
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 458 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The definition of "appropriate level" in terms of cybersecurity shall be provided by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) in line with Article 42(2).
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 459 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2
2. The levels of accuracy and the relevant accuracy metrics of high-risk AI systems shall be declared in the accompanying instructions of use. European Artificial Intelligence Board shall define a common methodology for the definition and communication of these metrics also referred to in Article 9(7).
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 510 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 42 – paragraph 1
1. Taking into account their intended purpose and based on the risk evaluation, high-risk AI systems that have been trained and tested on data concerning the specific geographical, behavioural and functional setting within which they are intended to be used shall be presumed to be in compliance with the requirement set out in Article 10(4).
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 573 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 55 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) provide small-scale providers andSME providers, including start-ups with priority access to the AI regulatory sandboxes to the extent that they fulfil the eligibility conditions;
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 575 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 55 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) organise specific awareness raising and enhanced digital skills development activities about the application of this Regulation tailored to the needs of the small-scale providerSME providers, including start-ups and users;
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 577 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 55 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) where appropriate, establish a dedicated channel for communication with small-scale providersSME providers, including start-ups, and user and other innovators to provide guidance and respond to queries about the implementation of this Regulation.
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 579 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 55 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. ‘Regulatory sandbox’ means a facility established by the Commission in collaboration with one or more Member States competent authorities or the European Data Protection Supervisor that provides an appropriate controlled and flexible environment that facilitates the safe development, testing and validation of innovative AI systems for a limited time before their placement on the market or putting into service pursuant to a specific plan.
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 580 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 55 – paragraph 2
2. The specific interests and needs of the small-scale providersSME providers, including start-ups, shall be taken into account when setting the fees for conformity assessment under Article 43, reducing those fees proportionately to their development stage, size and market size.
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 582 #

2021/0106(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 55 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Commission shall regularly assess the certification and compliance costs for SMEs, including start-ups, through consultations with the SME providers, start-ups and users.
2022/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 43 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 2 a (new)
(2 a) The Metrology Partnership should implement its mission and objectives in a clear, simple and flexible way in order to increase attractiveness towards industry, SMEs and all relevant stakeholders.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 46 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 5
(5) Horizon Europe introduces a more strategic, coherent and impact-driven approach to European Partnerships, building on the lessons learned from the Horizon 2020 interim evaluation. Horizon Europe Regulation intends to make a more effective use of Institutionalised European Partnerships notably by focusing on clear objectives, outcomes and impact that can be achieved by 2030, and by ensuring a clear contribution to the related Union policy priorities and policies. Close collaboration and synergies with other relevant initiatives at Union, national and regional level, in particular with other European Partnerships, will be key in achieving greater impact and ensuring that the results are used. In line with this approach, and given the importance of metrology in enabling and supporting other research areas, technological development in areas such as digitalisation and artificial intelligence, as well as civil society services from smart health to autonomous traffic and circular economy, the Metrology Partnership should ensure appropriate collaboration with the other European Partnerships and other relevant initiatives.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 47 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 9
(9) The objective of this Decision is the participation of the Union in the Metrology Partnership in order to support its general objectives. The requirements of metrology are of such a scale and complexity that investments are needed that go beyond the core research budgets of the NMIs and DIs. The excellence required for research and the development of cutting-edge metrology solutions is spread across national borders and hence cannot be attained at national level only. The Metrology Partnership should also strive to ensure that the results of its actions are taken up and deployed by the industry and innovators. Since the objectives of this Decision cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, but can be better achieved at Union level by integrating national efforts into a consistent European approach, by bringing together compartmentalised national research programmes, by helping design common research and funding strategies across national borders, and by achieving the critical mass of actors and investments required, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality as set out in that same Article, this Decision does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 50 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 11
(11) The Metrology Partnership’s activities should be in line with the objectives and research and innovation priorities of Horizon Europe and with the general principles and conditions laid down in Article XXX of Regulation (EU) [Horizon Europe Regulation], notably regarding developing and promoting scientific excellence, fostering innovation and facilitating technological development and supporting the access to and uptake of innovative solutions in European industry, in particular SMEs.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 57 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 18
(18) In order to ensure transparency and accessibility for the programme, calls for proposals by the Metrology Partnership should also be published on the single portal for participants as well as through other Horizon Europe electronic means of dissemination managed by the Commission. Due attention should be paid that the calls for proposals are attractive and accessible to a wide range of research and industry players, including SMEs.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 93 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b – indent 2
— (ii) actions for the dissemination and exploitation of results, including in the industry, of metrology research;
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 96 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. Before identifying the topics of each call for proposals referred to in paragraph 1, point (a), EURAMET shall invite individuals or organisations from the metrology research community, industry, including SMEs, and the general metrology value chain to suggest potential research topics.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 100 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 8 – paragraph 3
3. EURAMET shall ensure appropriate interactions with NMIs and DIs in the indirect actions referred to in Article 6(1), point (a), according to the designation by the appropriate national authority. EURAMET shall also encourage and support the participation of other entities, including SMEs, in all calls.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 112 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Commission shall set up a Steering Group. The Steering Group shall be an advisory body of the Metrology Partnership and it shall give advice to the Metrology Partnership on the emerging priorities for metrology research at European level, and advise the Metrology Partnership on how to increase the impact of its research on European industry and economy and society. It shall in particular:
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 113 #

2021/0049(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) identify emerging technologies and, markets and industrial applications where metrology research and innovation could become relevant in the future;
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 126 #

2021/0049(COD)

2. The evaluations shall examine how the Metrology Partnership fulfils its mission and objectives, cover all its activities and evaluate its European added value, effectiveness, efficiency, including its openness and transparency, the relevance of the activities pursued, including for industry and SMEs, and their coherence and/or complementarity with relevant regional, national and Union policies, including synergies with other parts of Horizon Europe (such as missions, clusters or thematic/specific programmes). The evaluations shall take into account the views of stakeholders, at both European and national level and shall, where relevant, also include an assessment of the long-term scientific, societal, economic, technological impacts of the preceding initiatives. They shall include, where relevant, an assessment of the most effective policy intervention mode for any future action, as well as the relevance and coherence of any possible renewal of the Metrology Partnership, given the overall policy priorities and the research and innovation support landscape, including the positioning against other initiatives supported through the Horizon Europe framework programme.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 202 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 3
(3) To deliver on priorities and impact, European partnerships should be developed through a broad involvement of relevant stakeholders across Europe including industry, SMEs and start-ups, research organisations, bodies with a public service mission at local, regional, national or international level, and civil society organisations such as foundations that support and/or carry out research and innovation. They should also be one of the measures to strengthen cooperation between private and/or public sector partners at the international level including by joining up research and innovation programmes and cross-border investment in research and innovation bringing mutual benefits to people and businesses while ensuring that the Union can uphold its interests in strategic areasdevelop its strategic autonomy alongside an open economy.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 212 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 12
(12) Following the identification of synergies between them, joint undertakings should aim to determine budget shares which should be used for complementary or joint activities between joint undertakings. Moreover, this Regulation aims at achieving improved efficiencies and harmonisation of the rules through intensified operational collaboration and by exploring economies of scale, including the establishment of apossibility of establishing common back office functions, which should provide horizontal support functions to the joint undertakings. The common back officefunctions should make it easier to achieve greater impact and harmonisation on common points while retaining a certain degree of flexibility to meet the specific needs of each joint undertaking. The structure should be established using service level agreements to be concluded jointly by the joint undertakings. The common back office functions should cover coordination and administrative support functions in areas where its screening has proved efficient and cost-effective and should take into account the compliance with the requirement of accountability of each individual authorising officer. The legal setup should be designed to best serve the common needs of the joint undertakings, to ensure their close collaboration and to explore all possible synergies among the European partnerships and, as a consequence, between the various parts of the Horizon Europe programme as well as between the other programmes managed by the joint undertakings.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 215 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 14
(14) Horizon Europe introduces a more strategic, coherent and impact-driven approach to European partnerships, building on the lessons learned from the Horizon 2020 interim evaluation. In line with the new ambition, this Regulation aims at a more effective use of institutionalised European partnerships notably by focusing on clear objectives, outcomes and impact that can be achieved by 2030, and by ensuring a clear contribution to the related Union policy priorities and policies. The joint undertaking should implement their missions and objectives in a clear, simple and flexible way in order to increase attractiveness towards industry, SMEs, research organisations and all relevant stakeholders. Close collaboration and synergies with other relevant initiatives at Union, national and regional level, in particular with other European partnerships, are key in achieving greater impact and ensuring take up of results. In assessing the overall impact, broader investments beyond the contributions from partners and triggered by the joint undertakings that contribute to achieving their objectives should be taken into account.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 220 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 15
(15) This Regulation is based on the principles and criteria set out in the Horizon Europe Regulation, including excellence, openness and transparency, a strong leverage effect and long-term commitments of all the involved parties. One of the objectives of this Regulation is to ensure the openness of the initiatives to a broad range of entities, including newcomers. The partnerships should be open to any entity that is willing and capable to work towards the common goal, and promote broad and active participation of stakeholders in their activities, membership and governance, and to ensure that the results would be for the benefit of all Europeans, notably through a broad dissemination of results and pre- deployment activities across the Union.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 231 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 22
(22) It is appropriate that the members other than the Union commit to the implementation of this Regulation by means of a letter of commitment. Those letters of commitment should be legally valid throughout the lifetime of the initiative and closely monitored by the joint undertaking and the Commission. Joint undertakings should create a legal and organisational environment that enables members to deliver on their commitments while ensuring continuous openness of the initiative and transparency during their implementation, notably for priority setting and for participation in calls for proposals. Joint undertakings should, where appropriate, identify calls for proposal where a coordinating role for SME participants is promoted.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 241 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 25
(25) The governance of joint undertakings should ensure that their decision-making processes are fit to keep pace with fast-changing socio-economic and technological environment and global challenges. Joint undertakings should benefit from the expertise, advice and support from all relevant stakeholders, including but not limited to universities and other research organisations, representatives of industry and SMEs, in order to effectively implement their tasks and ensure synergies at Union and national level. Therefore, joint undertakings should be empowered to set up advisory bodies with a view to providing them with expert advice and carrying out any other task of an advisory nature that is necessary for the achievement of the joint undertakings' objectives. In setting up the advisory bodies, joint undertakings should ensure a balanced representation of experts within the scope of the activities of the joint undertaking, including with respect to gender balance. The advice provided by these bodies should bring in scientific perspectives as well as those of national and regional authorities and of other stakeholders of joint undertakings.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 256 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 32
(32) Participation in indirect actions funded by the joint undertakings under Horizon Europe should comply with the rules set out in the Horizon Europe Regulation. However, in order to encourage the participation of SMEs, joint undertakings should be able to apply different reimbursement rates for the Union funding within an action depending on the type of participant. The reimbursement rates should be indicated in the work programme. The joint undertakings should ensure consistent application of those rules based on relevant measures adopted by the Commission. The joint undertakings should use the corporate model grant agreement prepared by the Commission. In relation to the period to object to transfers of ownership of results referred to in [Article 36(4)] of the Horizon Europe Regulation, the duration of innovation cycles in the areas covered by the respective joint undertakings should be taken into account.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 260 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 33
(33) One of the main purposes of joint undertakings is to foster the Union’s competitiveness, economic capacities and in particular its scientific and technological sovereignty. Moreover, the post pandemic recovery highlights the need to invest in key technologies such as 5G and 6G, AI, cloud, cybersecurity and green tech and the valorisation, deployment and commercialisation of these technologies in the Union. Results generated by all participants will play an important role in this respect and all participants will benefit from the Union funding through the results generated in the project and access rights thereto, even those participants not having received Union funding. Therefore, to protect the Union interests, the right for joint undertakings to object to transfers of ownership of results or to grants of an exclusive licence regarding results should also apply to participants not having received Union funding. In exercising this right to object the joint undertaking should strike a fair balance between the Union interests and protection of fundamental rights on the results of the participants without funding in accordance with the principle of proportionality, taking into account that these participants did not receive any Union funding for the action from which the results were generated.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 267 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 39
(39) In the context of the European Commission’s priority of “A European Green Deal”13 supported by the revised Union Bioeconomy Strategy14 , the EU Biodiversity Strategy15 , the Clean Planet for All Communication16 , the Circular Economy Action Plan17 and the new Farm to Fork communication18 , the European bio-based sector, including SMEs, regions and primary producers should become climate neutral, more circular and more sustainable while remaining competitive on the global scale. A strong, resource efficient and competitive bio-based innovation ecosystem can decrease dependency on and accelerate the substitution of non-renewable fossil raw materials and mineral resources. It can develop renewable bio-based products, materials, processes and nutrients, including bioenergy, from waste and biomass through sustainability and circularity-driven innovation. Such ecosystem can also create value from local feedstock – including waste, residues and side-streams – to deliver jobs, economic growth and development throughout the Union not only in urban areas but also in rural and coastal territories where biomass is produced and that are often peripheral regions that rarely benefit from industrial development. _________________ 13 https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities- 2019-2024/european-green-deal_en 14 COM(2018)673 final 15 COM/2020/380 final 16https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52018 DC0773&from=EN 17 COM(2020)98 final 18 COM(2020)381 final
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 337 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Recital 88
(88) In the context of the European Commission’s priorities for 2019-2024 “A Europe fit for the digital age”, “An economy that works for people” and the policy objectives set out in the context of its Communications on “Shaping Europe’s digital future”, Europe needs to develop the critical digital infrastructures based on 5G networks and build its knowledge base and technological capacities towards 6G with a time horizon 2030. In this context the Commission has emphasized the strategic importance of a European Partnership for Smart Networks and Services to provide secure connectivity-based services to consumers and businesses. Those priorities can be achieved by bringing together the key players, that is to say industry, academia and public authorities, under the umbrella of a European partnership that builds on the achievements of the 5G PPP initiative, which successfully developed 5G technology and standards.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 358 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) strengthening and integrating the Union’s scientific and technological capacities to support the creation and diffusion of high-quality new knowledge notably with a view to deliver on global challenges, securing and enhancing Union competitiveness, sustainability and contributing to the a reinforced European Research Area;
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 360 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) securing sustainability-driven global leadership of Union value chains and Union open strategic autonomy in key technologies and industries in line with the industrial strategy for Europe as updated in May 2021 and the SME strategy; ;
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 404 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) provide financial support, mainly in the form of grants, to research and innovation indirect actions, selected following open, transparent and competitive calls, unless otherwise specified in their work programme;
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 415 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point e a (new)
(e a) identify calls, where appropriate, where a coordinating role is reserved for SME participants;
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 471 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 12 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Joint undertakings shallmay, within one year following the adoption of this Regulation, conclude service level agreements on common back office functions, unless specified otherwise in Part Two and subject to the need to guarantee an equivalent level of protection of the Union’s financial interest when entrusting budgetary implementation tasks to joint undertakings. Such functions shallmay include the following areas, subject to confirmation of viability and following screening of resources:
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 474 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. The common back office functions referred to in paragraph 1 shallmay be provided by one or more selected joint undertakings to all others. Interrelated functions shall be kept within the same joint undertaking in order to ensure a coherent organisational structure.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 475 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 12 – paragraph 4
4. Without prejudice to the reassignment to other tasks within the joint undertaking, or to other administrative arrangements, which do not impact contracts of employment, staff assigned to the common functions transferred to the common back office, hosted by another joint undertaking, may be transferred to that joint undertaking. Where a member of the staff concerned expresses his or her refusal in writing, the contract of that member of staff, may be terminated by the joint undertaking under the conditions referred to in Article 47 of the CEOS.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 476 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 12 – paragraph 5
5. Staff referred to in paragraph 4, who is transferred to the joint undertaking hosting the common back officefunctions, shall keep the same type of contract and function group and grade, and shall be deemed to have served their entire service in that joint undertaking.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 496 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) ensure close and timely monitoring of the progress of the joint undertaking’s research and innovation programme and individual actions in relation to the priorities of the CommissUnion and the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and take corrective measures where needed to ensure that the joint undertaking meets its objectives;
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 575 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 20 – paragraph 5
5. The chairperson of the states’ representatives group may invite other persons to attend its meetings as observers, in particular representatives of relevant federal or regional authorities within the Union, representatives of industry and SME associations and representatives of other bodies of the joint undertaking.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 593 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 22 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. In accordance with [Article 13(1)] of the Horizon Europe Regulation and by way of derogation from [Article 30] of that Regulation, the joint undertakings may apply different reimbursement rates for the Union funding within an action depending on the type of participant, namely SMEs and non-profit legal entities, and the type of action. The reimbursement rates shall be indicated in the work programme.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 608 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 34 – paragraph 1
1. The joint undertaking shall provide the Union institutions and Union bodies, offices or agencies access to all information related to the indirect actions it funds. Such information shall include results of beneficiaries participating in indirect actions of the joint undertaking or any other information deemed necessary for developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating Union policies or programmes. Such access rights are limited to non-commercial and non-competitive use and shall comply with applicable confidentiality rules as well as the principles of necessity and proportionality.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 711 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 65 – paragraph 2
2. The Technical Committee shall be co-chaired by a representative of the founding members, rotating on a two- yearly basis, andand shall be co-chaired by a representative of the Commission. It shall report to the Governing Board and its secretariat shall be provided by the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking’s programme office.
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 929 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 124 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) build a dynamic Union-wide ecosystem based on digital value-chains with simplified access to newcomers start- ups and SMEs;
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 975 #

2021/0048(NLE)


Article 159 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) align strategic roadmaps of a wider range of industrial players, including start- ups and SMEs and including not only the telecommmunication industry, but also actors from the Internet of Things, cloud, as well as components and devices;
2021/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 49 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas hydrogen today represents around 2% of EU’s energy mix, of which 95% is produced by fossil fuels, releasing 70 - 100 million tonnes of CO2 annually;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 70 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to maintain and further develop European technological leadership in cleanrenewable hydrogen13 through a competitive and sustainable hydrogen economy with an integrated hydrogen market; emphasises the necessity of a European hydrogen strategy that covers the whole hydrogen value chain, including the demand and supply sectors, and is coordinated with national efforts to bring down the costs of clearenewable and low- carbon hydrogen; welcomes, therefore, the hydrogen strategy for a climate-neutral Europe proposed by the Commission; _________________ 13According to the Commission, ʻclean hydrogenʼ refers to hydrogen produced through electrolysis of water with electricity from renewable sources. It may also be produced through reforming of biogas or biochemical conversion of biomass, if in compliance with sustainability requirements.
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 81 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines thate importance of both the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle prevails and that direct electrification, where possible, is the preferable option for decarbonisation as it is more cost- and energy-efficient than the use of clean hydrogenand the ‘technology neutrality’ principle; recognises that hydrogen and direct electrification both present important pathways towards decarbonisation and that both are necessary for achieving climate-neutrality;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 90 #

2020/2242(INI)

3. Is convinced that only cleanrenewable hydrogen is key to Europe’s energy transition as it will sustainably contribute ing to achieving climate neutrality in the long term; recognises the transitional role low-carbon hydrogen will play for meeting the EU’s climate targets in 2030 and 2050;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 116 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the urgent need for European standards, certification and labelling systems for clean hydrogen and guarantees of origin for renewable electricity; believes that clean hydroge, and preferably global, terminology, standards, labelling and certification for renewable and low- carbon hydrogen; believes that guarantees of origin should be determined according to an independent, science-based review of its greenhouse gas lifecycle emissions; calls on the Commission to provide a regulatory framework as early as possible in 2021;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 141 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s ambitious goals of increasing the capacity of renewable hydrogen electrolysers and hydrogen production; urges the Commission and the Member States to incentivise the value chain and market uptake of cleanrenewable hydrogen in order to make it technologically mature and competitive with fossil-based and low- carbon hydrogen14 ; _________________ 14According to the Commission, ʻlow- carbon hydrogenʼ encompasses fossil- based hydrogen with carbon capture and electricity-based hydrogen, with significantly reduced full life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to existing hydrogen production.
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 151 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights that for a functioning and predictable internal hydrogen market, regulatory barriers need to be overcome and a coherent and comprehensive regulatory framework createdshould be created swiftly; believes that the gas market regulatory framework and the Clean Energy Package could serve as blueprints for that purpose, while taking into account that the hydrogen market is not yet mature and needs to be scaled up;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 156 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission to ensure a level playing field and to future-proof the regulatory framework for hydrogen in the upcoming revision of Directive 2018/2001 [REDII]; notes the inclusion of the production, transportation and storage of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and carbon capture and storage in the draft Delegated Act on the Taxonomy Regulation;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 161 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that, in order to build up a sustainable hydrogen economy fast enough to reach ourthe EU's climate targets and environmental goals, low-carbon hydrogen canproduced by natural gas will play a transitional role; calls on the Commission to assess by when and for how long low- carbon hydrogen will be cost-competitive and how much of this hydrogen would beis needed approximately for decarbonisation purposes until solely cleanrenewable hydrogen can play this role; underlines that the Commission and Member States should be able to support carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) and other low-carbon technologies for the rapid scaling up of the hydrogen production and the decarbonisation of the economy;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 209 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Emphasises the timely need for hydrogen production and, transport and storage infrastructure and the parallel development of demand and supply; welcomes, in this respect, the Commission’s intention to review Regulation No 347/2013 of 17 April 2013 on guidelines for trans- European energy infrastructure (the TEN-E Regulation)15 ; notes that, despite the concentration on industrial clusters in the first phase, the planning of infrastructure for transmission over longer distances and its regulation should already be undertaken; _________________ 15 OJ L 115, 25.4.2013, p. 39.
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 217 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Notes that, besides the focus on industrial clusters, including ‘hydrogen valleys’, in the first phase, the planning and construction of infrastructure for transmission over longer distances and its regulation should already be undertaken; encourages the Commission and the Member States to assess the possibility of repurposing existing gas pipelines for the transport of pure hydrogen in order to maximise cost efficiency and minimise investment costs and levelised costs of transmission; urges the Commission to allow funding through the CEF and the TEN-E regulation for the realisation of the hydrogen infrastructure;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 225 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to assess the possibility of repurposing existing gas pipelines for the transport of pure hydrogen in order to maximise cost efficiency and minimise investment costs and levelised costs of transmission;deleted
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 264 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that, it is necessary to boost hydrogen demand in order to achieve a fast market uptake of clean hydrogen and to avoid carbon lock-ins, demand for clean hydrogen must increaserenewable hydrogen; acknowledges that the initial focus of hydrogen demand should be on sectors for which the use of hydrogen is close to competitive or that currently cannot be decarbonised by other means; agrees with the Commission that the main lead markets for hydrogen demand are industry and heavy-duty transport; believes that for these sectors roadmaps for demand development, investment and research needs should be established at European level; agrees withwelcomes the Commission that demand-side policies such as quotas for the use of clean hydrogen in specific sectors and carbon contracts for difference (ʻCCfDʼ) are necessary to promote decarbonisation through clean hydrogen’s consideration of various options for incentives at the demand side;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 289 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the importance of research, development and innovation along the whole value chain and of demonstration projects on an industrial scale in order to make cleanrenewable hydrogen competitive; believes that involving SMEs and equipping wcalls on the Commission to stimulate research and innovation efforts for the implementation of large scale high impact projects, including under Horizon Europe, in orkders with adequate knowledge about to secure technology transfer across the entire hydrogen value chain; believes that involving SMEs and focusing on the upskilling and reskilling of the workforce in relation to hydrogen are of the utmost importance;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 311 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Emphasises that European programmes and financing instruments such as Horizon Europe, the Connecting Europe Facility, InvestEU, the European Regional Development fund, the Cohesion fund, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Just Transition Fund, the strategic European Investment window, and the ETS Innovation Fund offer the financial potential to support investments in the green transition and have a key role to play in the realisation of the hydrogen economy; underlines the need to streamline the synergies between all available investment funds, horizontal programmes and financial instruments to ensure cooperation between public and private stakeholders in order to stimulate investments in a large range of projects;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 315 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Commission to develop a coordinated investment strategy for hydrogen and to include the role of SMEs in this strategy;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 316 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Emphasises that Europe is leading in the manufacturing of electrolysers and needs to maintain and advance this competitive edge; notes that Europe is currently behind in the development of other promising hydrogen technologies; believes that European research and development efforts in hydrogen should focus on a wide range of hydrogen technologies;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 325 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Welcomes the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance and the Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) as important means to enhance investment in crenewable an hydrogend low-carbon hydrogen; urges the Commission to accelerate the implementing work of the Alliance; encourages the Alliance to come up with an investment agenda and a project pipeline that can ensure the implementation of the hydrogen goals set by the Commission as soon as possible; welcomes the Commission’s plan to revise the State aid guidelines to include clearenewable and low-carbon hydrogen;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 338 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses the work of the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU); asks the Commission to use it as a competence centre for clean hydrogen; highlights that this renewed partnership should bundle R&D activities across the value chain to ensure cost-efficient use of funding for hydrogen and better coordination;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 344 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that the importing of cleanrenewable hydrogen may become necessary to csater toisfy European demand; calls on the Commission and Member States to establish mutually beneficial cooperation with neighbouring regions and to quickly develop strategic partnerships with countries throughout the world to safeguard Europe’s strategic interests, while ensuring fair competition between imported and locally produced renewable hydrogen and compliance with the EU’s sustainability ambitions, while taking into account environmental impacts in other regions as well; calls on the Commission and Member States to invest in the necessary new import infrastructure in ports and in cross border connections;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 370 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Is convinced that the EU should try toUnderlines the importance of the development of international standards, including in relation to sustainability; considers international standards and guarantees of origin a prerequisite for a fair and open hydrogen market and the wide adoption of hydrogen technologies; is convinced that the EU should promote its standards on hydrogen internationally and thus make hydrogen a part of its international cooperation;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 376 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Emphasises the opportunity hydrogen presents to promote European industrial leadership and innovation on a global level while reinforcing the EU’s role as a global climate leader;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 381 #

2020/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines the need for an integrated energy system in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2050; believes that the integration of the electricity, gas and hydrogen grids is beneficial for a well-functioning hydrogen and energy market; welcomes the inclusion of hydrogen in the Commission’s Strategy for Energy System Integration; believes that crenewable and low-carbon hydrogen canwill play a key role in terms ofdecarbonising hard- to-abate sectors and in energy storage to balance intermittent renewable energy supply and demand;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 6 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 19 November 2020 entitled 'an EU Strategy to harness the potential of offshore renewable energy for a climate-neutral future' (COM(2020)741),
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 19 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have endorsed the goal of a climate-neutral economy by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 25 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission has proposed a common greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction objective of at least 55% by 2050, while the Parliament has endorsed the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 30 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the 2020 State of the Energy Union report has shown that the energy demand is overall decreasing in the EU but is increasing in certain sectors, such as transport;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 31 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas 70% of the primary energy used in the EU came from fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal) in 20174b; _________________ 4b Eurostat
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 32 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
B c. whereas the International Energy Agency estimates that approximately one third of the global methane emissions come from the energy sector;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 38 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the twin green and digital transition of the energy networks will require unprecedented public and private investments in infrastructure modernisation and new infrastructure deployment when necessary, as well as investments in buildings renovation, and research and development;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 50 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has shown that it is crucial to be able to rely on a safe and flexible energy system;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 58 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Supports the direction set out by the Commission in its Communication on a strategy for energy system integration; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that it is implemented rapidly in a spirit of solidarity; encouragesunderlines that the private sector to contribute towill play a key role in its success;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 69 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recalls the importance of taking into account the diversity of national energy systems and challenges; encourages the Commission to maintain an approach that is as neutral as possible to allow each Member State to use the most efficient decarbonisation solutions according to their needs and resources;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 77 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates its support for the energy efficiency first principle and recalls that the most sustainable energy is the energy whichthat is not consumed;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 93 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Deplores the insufficient progress made by Member States, as set out on energy efficiency and renovation, as presented in the 2020 Energy Efficiency Progress Report; encourages the Commission to propose more ambitious targetstakes note of the decision of the Commission to revise Directive (EU) 2018/2002 on Energy Efficiency, taking into account its recommendations as part of the Energy Union governance process; welcomes, in this regard, the renovation wave strategy and the upcoming revision of Directive (EU) 2018/844 on the Energy Performance of Buildings;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 100 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to extend the principle of energy efficiency to the entire value chain and to all end-uses; underlines the potential of circularity and reuse of waste, energy and waste heat from industrial processes, buildings and data centres; draws attention to the modernisation of heat networks, which can play a significant role in heat decarbonisation; stresses the potential of digital tools for smart energy managementcalls on the Commission to propose concrete initiatives to reduce energy losses along the transmission and distribution networks, through the revision of Regulation (EU) 347/2013 on a trans- European energy infrastructure and Regulation (EU) 2017/1938 on the security of gas supply;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 106 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the new EU Methane Strategy; recalls that it is essential to rapidly deploy methane emissions monitoring systems, relying on satellite observation technologies such as the ones developed through the Copernicus programme; welcomes the private initiatives undertaken to reduce methane emissions, such as the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership and the Methane Guiding Principles;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 109 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Underlines the potential of circular economy solutions to reduce final energy demand, such as the reuse of waste, energy and waste heat from industrial processes, buildings and data centres; calls on the Commission to propose measures to incentivise the reuse of waste energy and heat in the revision of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste reduction; underlines that sustainably produced biogas, including biomethane, can help reuse waste stemming from agriculture, food consumption and forestry;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 122 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the importance of assessing ex-ante and anticipating the need for new energy production, transmission, distribution and conversion infrastructure in order to optimise its usethe energy system in a climate- neutral economy and towhile ensureing its economic viability; underlines the importance of observing the principle of technology neutrality, as most of the technologies that will be needed in the foreseeable future still require investments in research and development;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 129 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Welcomes the publication of the new EU Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy; stresses that the rapid development of offshore energy islands is crucial to achieve our renewable energy capacity objective by 2030; to this end, calls for a comprehensive revision of the EU legislation on energy infrastructure and a targeted revision of the relevant State Aid guidelines;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 131 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to use the revision of Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 on a trans-European energy infrastructure as an opportunity to include decarbonisation, digitalisation and energy system integration in the Regulation’s objectives and the 10-year network development planning; stresses that investments to digitalise existing infrastructure can significantly improve its management through the use of digital twins, algorithms or Artificial Intelligence; supports the widening of the scope of the Regulation to energy infrastructure such as storage, hydrogen and CO2 infrastructure; calls for an integrated, coordinated network plan that includes progressively all energy carriers and infrastructure;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 142 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the mass deployment of renewable and decarbonised energy; encourages the Commission to proposeassess the feasibility of advancing more ambitious targets in order to increase the share of such energy in electricity generation, heavy industry, transport, construction, heating and cooling in the revision of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 on the promotion of renewable energy;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 153 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the adoption of the European Hydrogen Strategy; is convinced that hydrogen produced from renewable and decarbonised hydrogenelectricity can help reduce persistent emissions from industrial processes and heavy transport which cannot be decarbonised through the use of zero-carbon electricity; recalls also the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen productiodirect use of electricity; notes that renewable hydrogen must be deployed along with increased renewable electricity capacity in the EU; stresses that fossil-based low- carbon hydrogen can play a transitional role in supporting the expansion of hydrogen applications and demand; recalls the need to decarbonise existing hydrogen production; supports the launch of Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on hydrogen;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 165 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Notes that renewable, carbon-free or low-carbon hydrogen can be converted to other types of gases, such as methanol or ammonia, which can be used as fuel for heavy-duty transport;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 166 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Calls on the Commission to elaborate a clear common terminology for hydrogen, based on the GHG emission reduction on the life cycle compared to the fossil equivalent, according to the approach set out by Article 25(2) of Directive (UE) 2018/2001 on the promotion of renewable energy;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 178 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need to accelerate research and development on technologies for CO2 capture, storage and reuse; underlines the importance of guaranteeing safe storage for CO2 and incentivising the reuse of CO2, in line with the idea of circularity; notes that the economic viability of these technologies will largely depend on the price of CO2 quotas under the Emissions Trading Scheme;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 185 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to propose ambitious targets for the decarbonisation of road, maritime, rail and air transport; welcomes the Commission’s announcement of the deployment of one million charging points for electric vehicles; stresses the need to adapt the electrification networks for Europe’s vehicle fleet in the revision of Directive 2014/94/EU on deployment of alternative refuelling infrastructure; stresses the need to adapt the electrification networks for Europe’s vehicle fleet; underlines the potential for internal cooperation on the decarbonisation of transport across borders; highlights in this respect the critical role of the Transport Community to create synergies with neighbouring countries and accelerate the transfer of EU standards on transport emissions;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 205 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Stresses that interconnections are more important than ever to ensure the transport of renewable energy to the areas where demand will be the strongest and balance the energy system as a whole; stresses the need to implement the obligation to use a minimum of 70% of the existing interconnection capacity set out by Article16(8) of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 on the internal electricity market;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 210 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14 b. Regrets that a number of Member States have not yet reached their 10% electric interconnection target by 2020; calls on the Commission to better support national investments through the list of Projects of Common Interest; encourages the Commission to relaunch the work of the expert group on interconnection targets;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 214 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers, improve access to capital and further support energy storage projects along transmission and distributiReiterates that the European energy storage capacity is an essential source of flexibility; highlights the need to reduce regulatory barriers to the installation of storage equipment; calls on the Commission to assess how to eliminate the potential double taxation on storage projects in its forthcoming revision of Directive 2003/96/EC on Enetworks and at consumption sitesrgy Taxation;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 218 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Calls on Member States to improve access to capital for all energy storage projects, with an emphasis on the modernisation of existing infrastructure; calls on the Commission to further take into consideration the need for deployment of storage infrastructure in the next list of Project of Common Interest and in the revision of the Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 220 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. Stresses the need to maintain a technology-neutral approach on sustainable storage; nevertheless, notes with concern the large dependence of the EU on imports of lithium-ion batteries; welcomes therefore the approach identified in the strategic action plan for batteries, notably the diversification of sources of raw materials, the full use of the EU trade policy to ensure sustainable and secure supply, and the development of incentives for circularity, as well as the establishment of the European Battery Alliance;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 229 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Recalliterates the role that green hydrogenPower-to-X technologies can play in balancing grids by using any, in particular by storing surplus renewable electricity production;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 232 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Stresses that there are various cost-efficient economic models for production, transport and consumption of hydrogen; calls on the Commission to consider this diversity of needs in its forthcoming legislative proposals; calls on the Commission to guarantee a fair and efficient competition between hydrogen that is imported from international partners and hydrogen that is produced in the EU;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 239 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls the importance of interconnectors and cooperation between network operators; welcomes the establishment of regional coordination centres under Regulation (EU) 2019/943 on the internal market for electricity;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 252 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Underlines the storage and flexibility potential of the deployment of 'vehicle-to-grid' technologies and notes that it will require the interoperability of energy systems and electric vehicles;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 255 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that a more decentralised and better integrated energy system requires better forecasting of energy demand; highlights, in this regard, the crucial role of statistical and meteorological data; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop an internal market for digital energy technologies; stresses that this will require more common standards for data exchange; underlines the growing need to ensure data privacy and cybersecurity in an increasingly smart energy system;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 258 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Reiterates the crucial role of the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) in the energy system integration and the implementation of the EU energy legislation; calls on the Commission and Member States to make sure that the agency is provided with sufficient means to carry out its missions;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 306 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the importance of increasing the competitiveness of European technologies to ensure the autonomy of the Union in the strategic energy sector; calls on the Commission to support research and innovation through the various structural and sectoral funds; recalls the Union’s global leadership in satellite emission measurement technologies; , and in particular the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service; recalls the expertise of the European Centre for Medium- Range Weather Forecasts in predicting weather and therefore anticipating fluctuations in the energy demand;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 309 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Notes with concern that the conclusions of the 2020 Report on the State of the Energy Union highlight a decrease in research and innovation investments in clean energy technologies; reiterates the crucial role of the EU support for research and innovation, and particularly disruptive innovation; welcomes the increased budget for research in the Horizon Europe programme that was voted by the European Parliament, and the establishment of the European Research Area;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 315 #

2020/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Welcomes the initiatives undertaken for strategic value chains; calls for the establishment of an alliance for decarbonised energy technologies; calls on the Commission to encourage the participation of SMEs in theseEU alliances in order to involve more Member States;
2020/12/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 2 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the Member States Joint Declaration on Cloud of 15 October 2020;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 11 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas digitalisation hakeeps transformeding the economy, society and citizens’ daily lives, and whereas data, which is duplicated every 18 months, is at the heart of this transformation;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 21 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas data is an essential resource for economic growth, job creation and societal progress and is a key enabler of the transition to green and climate- neutral societies as well as in boosting Europe's global competitiveness;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 25 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas incentivising the use of data and increasing data access and availability, together with more legal certainty, will represent a competitive advantage for micro, SMEs and start-ups in order to reap the benefits of the digital transition;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 55 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas the Union should be an active global player in setting rules and standards based on its values;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 66 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the EU to acquire a leading role in the data economy and for the viability of European industries and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a democratic data society, which will bring better services, growth and jobs;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 71 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Underlines that Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies on high-quality and increased data availability to create data sets able to train algorithms and improve their performance;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 75 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis has highlights the role of real-time dated how crucial the digital transformation and the availability of a wide range of technologies is for our economy and society, notably preserving continuity of all activities, and the role of real-time data; stresses that the ongoing emergency situation is showing shortcomings and vulnerabilities both at EU and Member States' level in the digital area;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 79 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recalls the role Recovery and Resilience Facility should play in contributing to the digital agenda and supports the proposed 20% earmarking for digital for each national plan; calls on Member States to provide adequate resources for EU relevant programmes such as Digital Europe Programme, Connecting Europe Facility and Horizon Europe to support digital priorities, in order to improve Europe's competitiveness in the global digital economy and reinforce the Union’s strategic autonomy;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 84 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Stresses the need to continue addressing effectively the digital divide both across and within Member States, including by improving access to broadband and ICT services, thus promoting cohesion and economic and social development; regrets that currently only 60% of European remote and rural areas have access to high-speed broadband connections and highlights the role that satellites and other space-based assets and services will play in providing connectivity in those areas, building the preconditions for a full digital transformation;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 92 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the Union’s aim must be an EU-governed, human-centric, data- driven economy and society builtased on trust andhe EU values of privacy, transparency and respect of fundamental rights; and freedoms and thus built on trust and in the interests of European citizens and businesses, in compliance with data protection, competition law and intellectual property rights;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 99 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that the data economy and the cloud infrastructure market is currently dominated by a restricted number of non-European players, acting as de facto rule-setters; stresses that this raises concerns over compliance with EU rules on data protection, market practices, security and users' control over strategic data;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 111 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that a well-built data society21st century data- driven society should be designed in a way to benefits all, empowers workers instead of lowering their working conditions, and does not lead toing citizens, consumers, workers, entrepreneurs, researchers and to prevent inequality or digital gaps;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 113 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, sharing, storage and processing of industrial and public data in the Union is a source of growth and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field and strong multi-player fair market economy, competitive and open market economy; considers it crucial to ensure legal consistency of future proposals related to data with relevant existing legislation and international rules;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 120 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must support and contribute as much as possible to sustainability, the Green Deal and Union’s climate targets; urges to take appropriate measures to reduce the ICT sector's environmental footprint and greenhouse gas emissions, accompanied by detailed impact assessments, including by preventing planned obsolescence and by improving the energy efficiency of data centres; stresses that the Union's data strategy must also be in line with the objectives of the SME and Industrial Strategy to make sure that our industries are at the forefront of the digital transformation and are able to compete fully at global level;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 141 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses that the deployment of European data spaces should prioritise crucial economic sectors, the public sector and other areas of public interest and calls on the Commission to assess the addition of further data spaces in the future; considers that European data spaces should serve as an example for transparency and proper balance between all interests at stake;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 150 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Insists that the data governance model be built on a decentralised data operating environmenCalls on the Commission to assess thoroughly how to build the data governance model; notes that both centralised and decentralised data operating environments entail advantages and risks; acknowledges that the decentralised model offers more guarantees in terms of privacy safeguards and data minimisation, as less data is stored in central servers; stresses that the assessment should duly take into account the cybersecurity aspect;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 162 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission to build interoperable sectoral data spaces that follow common guidelines to avoid creating silos and preventing cross-sectoral innovations; stresses that the management of sectorial data spaces should complement or be in line with requirements and procedures foreseen in sectorial existing legislation in order to guarantee legal certainty;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 177 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Notes the need to help private and public sector actors to identify the data they possess and catalogue and increaseat guidelines and frameworks resulting from the European data strategy should ensure that both private and public sector actors are able to capitalise on the data they generate and possess, increasing and incentivising the findability of data to fuel data spaces; calls on the Commission to fundexplore initiatives to improve the findability of metadata within data spaces;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 180 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls the key role that will be played by "data intermediaries" as structural enabler to pool data and organise data flows; Welcomes the Commission’s plans for intermediatorries labelling/certification for creation of interoperable and non-discriminatory data ecosystems and markets open to all actors, notably in those sectors that will not be covered under the scope of Common data spaces;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 185 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that personal and non- personal data, such as industrial data, are not always separable or difficult and costly to separate with the result that a high amount of data remains currently unused; urges the Commission to define guidance on andlawful processing of data and on practices in the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data, such as standardised criteria to ensure sufficient levels of anonymisation and aggregation, in accordance with data protection legislation; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross- cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 207 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Encourages the Commission to facilitate voluntary data sharing schemeincrease legal certainty for data sharing and facilitate voluntary schemes as well as more standardised contractual agreements, building on existing models and best practices, to incentivise the exchange of data, particularly for micro, SMEs and start-ups while taking duly into account the legitimate interests of companies related to trade secrets, sensitive data and Intellectual Property rights;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 219 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Considers it important to guarantee that technical support is provided to companies, especially micro, SMEs and start-ups, both at national and European level to enhance the use and sharing of data;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 222 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to examine actors’ rights to access data they have been involved in generating and improve their awareness;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 227 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commissall EU Institutions and the Member States as well as local and regional administrations to lead by example and provide real-time services and a policy based on real-time data; stresses that digitisalisation represents an opportunity for Public Administrations (PAs) to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens and existing silos among public bodies and authorities, in order to manage effectively citizens' data;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 231 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for more and better secondary uses of anonymised personal data, especially in G2B/G2G exchanges, to boost innovation, and research and servicesimprove services in the public interest;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 244 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. RemindsCalls on the Member States to fully implement the Open Data Directive, including by improving the publication of data, in terms of quality, timing and categories, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to respect Open Data Directiveits objectives when negotiating the implementing act on high-value data sets; Stresses the importance both for economy and society of wide reuse of public sector data free of charge which should be - to the extent possible - 'real-time' or at least up-to-date, easy to access and process thanks to machine-readable and user- friendly formats; calls for these data sets to include inter alia a list of company and business registers;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 260 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the Union’s technological sovereignty, to work on technologies that, including high capacity infrastructures that boost connectivity and facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to invest in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation and deployment of digital technologies;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 271 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6G, quantum, edge computing, block chain and high-performance computing; recalls that increased connectivity exposes to increased cyber threats and crime and in this context supports the joint and coordinated approach on the EU toolbox on 5G cybersecurity and the secure 5G deployment in the EU;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 289 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to co-invest in and create synergies among different spending programmes for the European cloud federation and for the deployment of the underlying high capacity connectivity infrastructures (e.g. submarine cables);
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 301 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Welcomes the upcoming launch of a European Alliance for Industrial Data and Clouds and welcomes the efforts towards creating a European Alliance of Processors;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 305 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Emphasises the importance of trust and cybersecurity for a stable data economy, notably in countering cyber threats against trade secrets; urges the Commission to present solutions suited to market players of all sizes, especially to micro and SMEs;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 311 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Welcomes the upcoming review of the Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive) in order to improve cyber resilience and respond more effectively to cyber-attacks;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 317 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Recognises the potential of data access to accelerate scientific research; welcomes the Commission’s work in enabling the sharing of data for research; in the light of the current sanitary crisis, considers it crucial to speed up the creation of a European Health Data Space, which will improve research and enhance the ability to use data, including creating diagnostics that better match patients and medicines; welcomes the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as an open, trusted and federated environment in Europe to store, share and re-use research data across borders;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 335 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for public and private funding for micro and SMEs to fully capitalise on data economy’s potential;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 345 #

2020/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well- being of the workforce and invest in upskilling and reskilling;
2020/11/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 7 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Considers that greater attention should be paid to relevance and coherence, particularly in the context of overlapping areas of competence, when setting up future agencies;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Believes that resources should be allocated more flexibly based on need or urgency;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 17 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. insists on better combating overlapping subjects and areas of competence between the different agencies;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Calls on the agencies to continue to develop their synergies, increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other Union agencies with a view to improve efficiency (human resources, building management, IT services and security);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Recalls the importance to increase the digitalisation of the agencies in terms of internal operation and management but also in order to speed up the digitalisation of procedures; stresses the need for the Agency to continue to be proactive in this regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10 d. Believes that it would be necessary to strengthen the role of the agencies as centers of expertise and network;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 22 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 e (new)
10 e. Believes that clear rules should be put in place concerning the evolution and termination of agencies' missions;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 23 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 f (new)
10 f. Believes that an impact assessment should be carried out for each agency and that a review clause on the interest of the agency should be added systematically;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 24 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that the 32 decentralised agencies employed a total of 7 880 members of staff, comprising officials, temporary agents, contract agents and seconded national experts, in 2019 (compared to 7 626 in 2018), representing an important increase of 3,33 % compared with the previous year;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 32 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Underlines the important effect of turnover within the staff of the Union agencies, calls for the implementation of human and social policies to remedy it;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Encourages the agencies to pursue the development of a long term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 37 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. Regrets that some Member States have requested and succeeded in having an agency on their territory, without providing facilities for their installation and without taking measures to increase the attractiveness of staff recruitment;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 38 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15 c. Is concerned about the large size of some agency boards of directors deemed too big by the Court and therefore making it difficult to take decisions and generating considerable administrative costs;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 48 #

2020/2194(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Welcomes the increased use of e- procurement tools by Union agencies; notes that the most common e-PRIOR modules used by agencies are e-tendering, e-submission and e-invoicing; calls on the Network of Procurement Officers (NAPO) to accelerate the provision of the Public Procurement Management Tool (PPMT) of JRC to agencies;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas Parliament is not involved in establishing and allocating EDF resources compared to other development instruments;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
A b. Whereas effective pre- conditionalities and regular checks are key components in ensuring the effectiveness and sound financial management of the EDF
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are core objectives to be pursued in cooperation instruments;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
C a. Whereas the prerequisite for sustainable development is a transparent, inclusive and efficient participatory policy framing process;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas budget support, for sustainable development while playing a key role in driving change and in addressing the main development challenges, carries a considerable governance risk and should be granted only if the beneficiary state is able to demonstrate a sufficient level of transparency, accountability and human rights prior to receiving budget support assistance;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Agrees with the Court of Auditors that the controls carried out abroad remain insufficient;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 22 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Regrets that, as in previous years, the Commission made more errors in transactions relating to estimates, grants, contribution agreements concluded with international organisations and delegation agreements concluded with the cooperation agencies of the EU Member States;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 23 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12 c. Strongly regrets that additional measures are not being taken to increase ex ante controls;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 25 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Notes with concern that out of the 28 payments with quantifiable errors, in 9 cases (32 %) the Commission had sufficient information to prevent, or to detect and correct, the error before accepting the expenditure; calls on the Commission to substantially improve its processes to verify legality and regularity of transactions and to make sure the verifications are properly followed-up; Regrets to note that this lack of verification is similar to previous years.
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 34 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Reiterates the necessity to ensure full transparency and access to data, in accordance with existing Union legislation, on projects implemented by international organisations and civil society organisations, as well as providing clear rules on governing control and monitoring;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 35 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Recallunderlines that entities entrusted with the implementation of Union funds must, as a general principle, respect the principles of sound financial management and transparency; stresses that any entity must fully contribute to the protection of the financial interests of the Union and must, as a condition for receiving the funds, grant the necessary rights and access required for that the authorising officer responsible, for the Court and for the European Anti-Fraud Office; notes, in that regard, the difficulty faced by the Court in getting visas for a duly announced and planned on-the-spot-visit to projects in Burundi and the resulting limitations faced by the Court; calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to raise that issue and remind their counterparts in Burundi of their obligations as recipients of Union funding;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 47 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32 b. Asks the Commission to carry out an evaluation on a country-by-country approach of the long-time on-going EDF financed projects in order to demonstrate their impact on the economic, social and sustainable development of the country and calls the Commission to limit and/or terminate further funding of ineffective projects;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 48 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35 b. Calls on the Commission to encourage international institutions, in particular in the case of co-funded and multi-donor initiatives, to approximate their results management frameworks with the Union;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 49 #

2020/2190(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Believes that a better focus on local SMEs, private sector and civil society organisations should be a core axis of cooperation in the management of the Union delegations’ pipelines of projects; stresses that, given the funding gap required to reach the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, strategic dialogue with the private sector and civil society organisations must play a crucial role for the development of local economies;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2020/2180(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. NotWelcomes the appointment of a new executive director on 16 June 2019; welcomes the detailed follow-up report by the Office on the observations of Parliament for the financial year 2019, in particular the steps made in the area of procurement with the successful conclusion of the framework contract for temporary agency workers in Italy that was awarded in 2019 and its full compliance with Union procurement rules;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2020/2180(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes with satisfaction that during 2019 EASO continued the improvement towards a fully effective and efficient internal control system, tackling control environments, risk management, control activities, information and communication and monitoring activities; welcomes the conclusion of the internal control self-assessment that compared to 2018 the overall status of internal control systems in 2019 had significantly improved;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2020/2180(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes with appreciation the progress achieved by the Office in 2019 in implementing its Annual Work Programme; notes that the Office successfully achieved 82% of the 347 pre- established annual targets, exceeding expectations on 43% of KPIs, achieving 31% of KPIs, nearly achieving 8% and not achieving 8% of KPIs;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2020/2180(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Encourages the Office to pursue the development of a long term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2020/2180(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Calls on the Office to continue to increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other European agencies with a view to improve efficiency (human resources, building management, IT services and security);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2020/2178(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the BEREC Office to continue to develop its synergies, increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other Union agencies with a view to improve efficiency (human resources, building management, IT services and security);
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2020/2178(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Stresses the importance to increase the digitalisation of the BEREC Office in terms of internal operations and management procedures; stresses the need for the BEREC Office to continue to be proactive in that regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the Union agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2020/2178(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Regrets that gender balance within the BEREC Office's management board members has not improved and the vast majority of the members are men; reiterates its call on the Commission and the Member States to take into account the importance of ensuring gender balance when presenting their nominations for members of the management board;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2020/2178(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Is concerned about the large size of the BEREC Office’s management board as this makes decision making process difficult and generates considerable administrative costs;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2020/2178(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Encourages the BEREC Office to pursue the development of a long term human resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of persons with disabilities;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2020/2177(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Agency to continue to develop its synergies, increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other Union agencies with a view to improve efficiency (human resources, building management, IT services and security);
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2020/2177(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Stresses the importance to increase the digitalisation of the Agency in terms of internal operations and management procedures; stresses the need for the Agency to continue to be proactive in that regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the Union agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2020/2177(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Reiterates its concern on the lack of gender balance among the Agency's senior and middle management members of staff (5 men and 1 women); raises concerns about the geographic imbalance as well; asks the Agency to take measures ensuring better gender and geographic balance in its senior and middle management;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2020/2177(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Notes with concern that according to the ECA Special Report on the Future of the Agencies the Agency faces the risk of limited resources which lead to deprioritisation of a long list of tasks;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2020/2177(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Is concerned about the large size of the Agency’s Administrative Board which makes decision making process difficult and generates considerable administrative costs;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2020/2177(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Encourages the Agency to pursue the development ofa long term human resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of persons with disabilities;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2020/2177(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 b (new)
Sustainability
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #

2020/2177(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 e. Regrets that the Agency has not set CO2 reduction targets; welcomes however the efforts made by the Agency to create an environment-friendly working frame and all the measures taken by the Agency to reduce its carbon footprint, its energy consumption and to develop a paperless workflow;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2020/2174(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern the Court's observation that the amended 2019 budget and the 2020 budget of the Authority do not contain adequate information on the new host Member State’s contributions to the Authority's running costs; calls on the Authority to correct this omission or to communicate the reasons for this omission to the discharge authority; calls on the Authority to present an overview of the contributions of the new host member state to the running costs;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2020/2174(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Authority to continue to develop its synergies, increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other European agencies with a view to improving efficiency (human resources, building management, IT services and security);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2020/2174(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses the importance to increase the digitalisation of the Authority in terms of internal operations and management procedures; stresses the need for the Authority to continue to be proactive in this regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2020/2174(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Encourages the Authority to pursue the development of along term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 28 #

2020/2174(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Notes the inquiry of the Ombudsman following the Authority’s decision not to forbid its former executive director from taking up a role in a financial industry lobby and the inquiry’s conclusion that there was maladministration by the Authority in not immediately withdrawing its executive director’s access to confidential information; notes the recommendations made by the Ombudsman and the Authority’s reply that the new staff policy addresses the recommendations; Underlines that post- public employment and ‘revolving door’ conflict- of-interest situations are a problem common to many bodies and agencies across the EU;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2020/2172(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Agency to continue to increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other European agencies with a view to improve efficiency (human resources, building management, IT services and security);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2020/2172(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes that in collaboration with eu-LISA, the Agency managed to integrate searches in SIS II into USE user interface and that further progress was achieved towards establishing access to VIS; deplores however the fact that the setting up of a SIRENE office within Europol did not materialise in 2019; encourages the Agency to step up its efforts towards advancing in aligning and coordinating the Agency's internal resources with the developments of the EU interoperability initiatives;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2020/2172(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Welcomes the fact that the scope of the existing e-recruitment tool was successfully expanded to also cover restricted posts; notes with appreciation that Europol publishes its vacancy notices on the website of the European Personnel Selection Office;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2020/2172(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Encourages the Agency to pursue the development of a long term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2020/2172(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Stresses the importance to increase the digitalisation of the Agency in terms of internal operations and management procedures; stresses the need for the Agency to continue to be proactive in this regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2020/2170(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Welcomes the efforts made by the Agency to create an environment-friendly working frame and all the measures taken by the Agency to reduce its carbon footprint, its energy consumption and to develop a paperless workflow and particularly the Director’s pledge to reach carbon neutrality by 2030;
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2020/2170(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Regrets the absence in the 2019- 2023 strategic plan of any pro-active measures and resourcing for speeding up, improving and quantifying reductions in the number of animal tests and their replacement by new approach methodologies; Reiterates the importance of the principles of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement) in animal testing; calls on the Agency to increase the impact of its support activities in this regard, such as checking that alternatives are considered before proposing new tests by industry, by facilitating access to existing safety data for new registrants and by continuing to addressing chemicals in groups; calls on the Agency to contribute to international activities aiming at promoting alternative test methods within its mandate and to regularly publish information on the use of alternative methods under REACH; refers toits recommendations in its resolution of 6 July 2020 on the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability1a that there should be a team established within the Agency exclusively dedicated to animal protection and the promotion of non-animal methods this should be regarded as complimentary to and supportive of the embedding of the promotion of non-animal methods; _________________ 1aNot yet published in the Official Journal.
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2020/2170(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the Agency to continue to develop its synergies, increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other European agencies with a view to improve efficiency (human resources, buildingmanagement, IT services and security);
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2020/2170(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Stresses the importance to increase the digitalisation of the Agency in terms of internal operations and management procedures; stresses the need for the Agency to continue to be proactive in this regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 17 #

2020/2170(DEC)

6 c. Recalls the importance for the Agency to develop greater visibility in the media, internet, and social media in order to make its work known;
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2020/2170(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes with concern the decreased gender balance in 2019 compared to 2018 with regard to the senior management positions (5 men and 2 women), as well as the lack of gender balance with regard management positions (22 men and 9 women); calls on the Agency to take pro- active measures to achieve gender balance among management positions;
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 26 #

2020/2170(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the development ofa long term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 35 #

2020/2170(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that the process of moving to the Agency’s new premises in Helsinki began on 21 December 2019 and the new building was open and operational for the Agency’s staff at the beginning of January 2020, concluding four years of preparations for relocating staff; notes that the move is due to the partial malfunctioning of its previous building, particularly as regards air quality;
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2020/2169(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the Agency implemented 99 % of its activities on time and that it fully implemented its annual communication strategy plan in 2019; highlights that in 2019 the Agency coordinated 32 381 fishing vessel inspections, which led to the detection of 1 487 suspected infringements, an increase, respectively, of 20.2% and 107.8% on the 2018 figures; takes the view that these figures show that inspections and follow- up activities remain an essential tool for ensuring that the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy are observed;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2020/2169(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes with satisfaction that in 2019 the Agency has significantly expanded the scope of its activities without additional resources; stresses in particular that the Agency has coordinated monitoring, control and surveillance measures applicable to approximately 45 additional fish species in European waters, including all species subject to landing requirements, and has extended these activities to recreational fisheries (cod in the Western Baltic Sea);
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2020/2169(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the Agency, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) adopted a tripartite working arrangement defining the cooperation between those agencies and the cooperation with national authorities carrying out coast guard functions by providing services, information, equipment and training, as well as by coordinating multipurpose operations; notes that, during 2019, the Agency extended operational cooperation with Europol and Eurojust in the framework of the European Multidisciplinary Platform against Criminal Threats, which covers illegal fishing activities; considers these arrangements as a successful example of synergy between EU agencies that should inspire agencies in other areas;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2020/2169(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Deplores the fact that women represent only 26% of the staff employed in grades AD 8 or above, while they represent almost half of the overall staff; notes with satisfaction, however, the improvement of this figure by 9 points compared to 2018 and by 2 points compared to 2017;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2020/2169(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Regrets that in 2019 the agency's Administrative Board was only composed of 29% of women, a figure down from 32% in 2018;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2020/2169(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Takes note of the policy of the Agency to promote equal treatment of staff and the objective of gender balance in terms of number, grade and level of responsibility;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2020/2169(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7 d. Invites the Agency to continue its efforts regarding its gender parity policy;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2020/2169(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Acknowledges the Agency’s existing measures and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevention and management of conflicts of interest, and whistle-blower protection; noteregrets that some of the Agency’s administrative board members’ CVs and declarations of interest are not published on the Agency’s website;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #

2020/2169(DEC)

10 a. Underlines the commitment made by the Agency to publish on its website the relevant meetings of the Executive Director and staff with interest representatives; regrets that this information appears in a section existing only on the English version of its website; invites the Agency to fulfil its commitment and to regularly update the page dedicated to this information in all language versions of its website;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2020/2169(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Welcomes the Agency's efforts to increase the visibility of its action both in the traditional press and on social networks; believes that the communication strategy implemented by the Agency contributes to a better understanding by the general public of the role, institutional organisation and action of the European Union in the field of fisheries control; invites the Agency to continue its efforts in this direction and to strengthen its links with civil society, in particular the scientific and academic community;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Authority to continue to develop its synergies, increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other Union agencies with a view to improve efficiency in areas such as human resources, building management, IT services and security;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes that according to the ECA Special Report on the Future of the Agencies the Agency has very limited autonomy in practice regarding its main task is to exploit the Galileo global satellite navigation system under a delegation agreement with the Commission; calls on the Commission to review the autonomy of the Agency particularly regarding its competencies on implementing the delegation agreement through a number of complex contracts with industrial partners and public sector entities; calls on the Agency to report back on the developments in this regard to the discharge authority;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2020/2168(DEC)

7 b. Notes that according to the ECA Special Report on the Future of the Agencies the Agency significantly needs to improve its cooperation with Member States, other agencies and internationally; calls on the Agency to build up better cooperation and knowledge sharing with all Member States; calls on the Agency to report back on the developments in this regard to the discharge authority;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Stresses the importance of increasing the digitalisation of the Agency in terms of internal operations and management procedures; stresses the need for the Agency to continue to be proactive in this regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed; recalls also the importance for the Agency to develop greater visibility in the media, internet, and social media in order to make its work known;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7 e. Regrets that on 10 July 2019, during a system upgrade, a service incident occurred in the Galileo ground infrastructure and that it resulted in a six- day interruption of the Galileo initial navigation and timing services; welcomes however that the Commission set up an independent Inquiry Board to investigate the incident and provide recommendations to avoid similar incidents in the future;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7 e. Recalls that the Inquiry Board found mishandling, a technical anomaly of an equipment, a non-standard configuration of the equipment that was subject to the anomaly, recalls that the Inquiry Board identified root causes of different nature, related to organisation and management of Galileo, human factors, complex and non-standard system configuration; calls on the Commission and the Agency to consistently follow up the recommendations of the Board, particularly regarding the continuity of service and optimising the Galileo’s governance as well as ensuring better institutional communication towards users and Member States for crisis situations; invites the Commission and the Agency to regularly inform the discharge authority about the follow up actions, and the Task Force;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Is concerned that according to ECA Special Report on the Future of the Agencies the Agency struggles to recruit staff with the necessary technical expertise and in order to compensate for a shortage of posts or national experts, the Agency increasingly outsources core tasks to private contractors, on whom it may then become dependent; calls on the Commission to examine the situation carefully and to provide the Agency with the necessary means to recruit the necessary staff; calls on the Commission to report back to the discharge authority on this matter;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Regrets the persisting geographical imbalances in the composition of the Agency`s staff, especially at middle and senior management levels; calls on the Agency to establish a proper representation of nationals from all Member States, while at the same time respecting the competencies and merits of the candidates like indicated in the Article 27 of the Staff Regulations of Officials;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2020/2168(DEC)

8 c. Encourages the Agency to pursue the development of a long term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8 d. Appreciates the efforts of the Agency to improve gender balance from 7% (2017) to 28%(2019) of female representatives in senior management positions; asks however the Agency to take additional measures with a view to ensuring better gender balance within its senior management;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8 e. Is concerned about the large size the agency’s management board which makes decision making difficult and generates considerable administrative costs;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 b (new)
Sustainability
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3 a (new)
Regrets that the Agency has not yet adopted CO2 reduction targets; calls on the Agency to create an environment- friendly working frame and to reduce its carbon footprint, its energy consumption and to develop a paperless workflow;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8 h. Regrets that the energy supplied via an operator which does not provide the share of energy sources in details, therefore the use of renewable energy by the Agency cannot be determined; invites the Agency to switch to an operator which is capable of providing the details on the energy sources;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 23 #

2020/2168(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Regrets that still not all CVs of the Administrative board members are published in the Agency’s website; calls on the Agency to report to the discharge authority on the actions taken in that regard;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2020/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. NotesWelcomes the fact that the Agency uses key performance indicators to measure its training activities and their impact, in particular the satisfaction level of the participants, in order to assess the added value provided by those activities, and uses performance indicators to improve its budget management;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2020/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Highlights that in 2019, the Agency received a high number of applications to the programmes it offers; underlines that the Agency was only able to accommodate 47% of this demand for the exchange programme and has had to decline 55% of the applicants for a course on cybercrime activities due to a shortage in human resources; calls on the Commission and co-legislators to further engage with the Agency in the process of allocating budgetary resources in order to address staff shortfalls and allow the Agency to fully implement its mandate;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2020/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Observes that, following its relocation from the United Kingdom to Hungary and the resulting lower correction coefficient applied to staff salaries, the staff turnover has been high and geographical balance has not always been maintained as applications from Member States other than the host country have decreased; notes that in 2019, the Agency continued to receive a significant number of applications from Hungarian citizens and host Member State nationals continued to be overrepresented in the total number of staff; notes with appreciation that in 2019, in order to reduce the high staff turnover, the Agency continued to implement staff retention and business continuity measures, for example, the Agency engaged a number of interim staff and seconded national experts, awaiting the completion of the recruitment of statutory staff, continued the reclassification of staff and functions and maintained social arrangements (e.g. schooling for staff’s children), teleworking and flexitime arrangements;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2020/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Highlights the difficulties faced by the Agency in the recruitment and retention of qualified staff; underlines that the correction coefficients vary significantly from one Member State to another, having a serious impact on the ability of agencies located in Member States with lower correction coefficients to recruit and retain staff and expertise; calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of setting up different correction coefficients based on a regional rather than national assessment; highlights that usually the headquarters of agencies located in Member States with lower correction coefficients are in capital cities where living and subsistence costs are significantly higher than in other parts of the countries;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2020/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Encourages the Agency to pursue the development of a long term human resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2020/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls from the Court’s report 2018 that the Agency had not yet introduced all the tools launched by the Commission aiming to introduce a single solution for the electronic exchange of information with third parties participating in public procurement procedures (e- procurement); notes with satisfaction that the Agency introduced e-invoicing and e- tendering in 2018 and introduced e- submission in 2019, thus fully implementing e-procurement;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 22 #

2020/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Notes with appreciation that ISO 29993 certification had been successfully obtained for four key residential activities and that in 2019 pre-course quality control was introduced for granted residential activities;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 23 #

2020/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. NotesDeplores the fact that the Agency does not have a policy regarding cyber security and protection of digital records in its possession which in current times is very important; acknowledges that in 2020 the Agency initiated the process to implement the advanced records management system (ARES) as a document management system together with the partner agency EIT; calls on the Agency to cooperate with other Union bodies, offices and agencies in developing and implementing a strong and reliable cybersecurity policy; calls on the Agency to report to the discharge authority regarding the progress of implementation;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 26 #

2020/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Welcomes the fact that the Agency has adopted the comprehensive strategy towards the digitalisation of the Agency, addressing its digitalisation needs with the objective of providing a holistic long term vision on the development of a technology-enhanced business model; encourages the Agency to further develop its digitalisation strategy;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2020/2165(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recalls the importance to increase the digitalisation of the agency in terms of internal operation and management but also in order to speed up the digitalisation of procedures; stresses the need for the agency to continue tobe proactive in this regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2020/2165(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Encourages the Centre to pursue the development of a long term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities.
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2020/2165(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Welcomes the efforts made by the Centre to create an environment-friendly working frame;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2020/2165(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Recalls the importance for the agency to develop greater visibility in the media and on the Internet in order to make its work known;
2021/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2020/2161(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Encourages the Agency to pursue the development of a long term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2020/2160(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes the fact that, since 2017, the tripartite working arrangement between the Agency, the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) and the European Borderand Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) has functioned well; considers the arrangement an example of synergy between EU agencies that should inspire agencies in other areas;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2020/2160(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Regrets that in 2019, the agency's administrative board was composed only of 21% of women; notes, however, that parity has been achieved in the management team, with 2 heads of department out of 4 being women;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2020/2160(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Welcomes the commitment made by the Agency to procure energy from 100% renewable sources by 2021;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2020/2160(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Invites the Agency to increase the availability of its website in languages other than English; considers that greater linguistic diversity will facilitate access to information for European citizens and thus enhance their understanding and knowledge of the European Union's action in terms of maritime safety ;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2020/2156(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Regrets that some of the founding regulations of the other agencies do not require them all to use the services of the CdT and recalls that the Translation Centre, based on its founding regulations, responds to the language service needs of EU agencies and other EU bodies;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2020/2156(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Wonders about the interest of having a management board composed of 72 people, which complicates decision- making;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2020/2156(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the Centre's willingness to develop synergies with other agencies such as the implementation of the e- recruitment tool systal;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2020/2156(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls on the agency to continue to develop its synergies, increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other European agencies with a view to improve efficiency (human resources, building management, IT services and security);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2020/2156(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Recalls the importance to increase the digitalisation of the CDT in terms of internal operation and management but also in order to speed up the digitalisation of procedures; stresses the need for the CDT to continue to be proactive in this regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2020/2156(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Encourages the Centre to pursue the development of a long term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2020/2156(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Welcomes the efforts made by the Centre to create an environment-friendly working framework and all the measures taken by the Centre to reduce its carbon footprint, its energy consumption and to develop a paperless workflow;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2020/2156(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14 b. Welcomes the efforts made by the Centre to encourage the use of the free public transport system in Luxembourg and the initiatives taken to preserve the biodiversity;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2020/2155(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the good collaboration between EU-OSHA, ETF, Cedefop, and Eurofound, in their work. This collaboration promotes the creation of synergies and helps to avoid overlaps; calls on the Agency to continue to develop its synergies, increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other Union agencies with a view to improve efficiency (human resources, building management, IT services and security);
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2020/2155(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses the importance to increase the digitalisation of the Agency in terms of internal operations and management procedures; stresses the need for the Agency to continue to be proactive in this regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to take all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2020/2155(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the development of a long term Human Resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/08
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2020/2150(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with huge concern from the Court’s report that the Centre did not apply the proper method for calculating the contributions for Iceland and Norway, resulting in a too low contribution;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2020/2150(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that the Centre has continued the cooperation with the European Training Foundation, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work; deeply welcomes the new Service Agreement with European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, in particular in the field of digitalisation, procurement, data protection and HR, and encourages the Centre to continue to pursue synergies;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2020/2150(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the fact that the Centre continues to develop its synergies, increase cooperation and exchange of good practices with other European agencies with a view to improving efficiency (human resources, building management, IT services and security);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2020/2150(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Welcomes the good collaboration between the Centre, Eurofound, EU- OSHA and ETF in their work, as such collaboration promotes the creation of synergies and helps to avoid overlaps;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2020/2150(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Welcomes the Centre on its actions to increase the digitalisation of the agency in terms of internal operation and management but also in order to speed up the digitalisation of procedures; stresses the need for the Centre to continue to be proactive in this regard in order to avoid a digital gap between the agencies at all costs; draws attention, however, to the need to continue all the necessary security measures to avoid any risk to the online security of the information processed;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2020/2150(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Encourages the Centre to pursue the development of a long term human resources policy framework which addresses the work-life balance, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of people with disabilities;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2020/2150(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Welcomes the efforts made by the Centre to create an environmentally friendly working framework and all the measures taken by the Centre to reduce its carbon footprint, its energy consumption and to develop a paperless workflow;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #

2020/2150(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Questions the need to maintain a Board of Directors composed of 84 people;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 88 #

2020/2145(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57 a (new)
57 a. notes the decisions taken by the general assembly of the Committee on 18 January 2021 and welcomes the adoption of a new code of conduct and the establishment of a framework dedicated to ethics and integrity.
2021/02/15
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2020/2144(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. States that the geographical proximity of France, Belgium and Germany to Luxembourg may be a reason why these three nationalities are generally overrepresented among the staff at the Court; notes, however, the Court’s firm position that when recruiting new staff members the Court acts solely in the interest of the service and without regard to nationality, as stipulated in Article 7 of the Staff Regulations; calls for actions that aim at improving the geographical balance of the staff, including at management level;
2021/02/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2020/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that the CJEU still overestimates some commitments as stated in the discharge resolution of 2017: for budget lines such as ‘missions for members’, budget line 104: EUR 299.750 committed versus EUR 34 340 paid; ‘missions persons working with institution’, budget line 162: EUR 498 500 committed versus EUR 272 898 paid; ‘training for members’, budget line 106: EUR 270 065 committed versus EUR 164 263 paid; and ‘training persons working with institution’, budget line 1612: EUR 1.528.061 committed versus EUR 706.717 paid; notes, however, that substantial amounts were paid in 2020 from the commitments carried forward; calls on the CJEU to pursue its efforts to ensure sound financial management for all budget lines in order to avoid significant discrepancies between commitments and payments;
2021/02/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2020/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for improvements in the context of geographical balance of staff, in particular for management positions, as at presentby mid-2020, 15 out of 58 heads of unit (25,8 %) and 2 out of 15 directors (13,3 %) come from Member States that have joined the Union since May 2004 (compared to 15 out of 57 heads of unit and 2 out of 13 directors in 2018); acknowledges that these figures have to be seen in the context of the percentage of CJEU staff coming from those member states (29 %); calls on the CJEU to strengthen its efforts in this regard;
2021/02/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2020/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Is concerned that only 46 8,5% of traineeships at the CJEU were paid in 2019; notes, however, that this share rose from 24,1 31,7% in 2018; recognises that 2019 was a transition year towards the gradual introduction of the new regime (CJEU’s decision of 3 December 2018, providing for the possibility of taking on trainees paid by the institutions); notes the estimation that for 2020 the CJEU will remunerate 75 % of its trainees; notes that all traineeships cancelled in the context of the COVID-19- crisis were unpaid traineeships; welcomes the fact that the CJEU foresees the possibility of increasing further the number of paid traineeships, highlights the fact that the possibility of hosting unpaid trainees should only be maintained in the case where such trainees receive payments from other sources, based on inter-institutional agreements signed by the CJEU;
2021/02/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 23 #

2020/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Encourages the CJEU to strengthen its efforts to finalise a general package of measures in relation to the code of conduct for staff; recalls that the last revised code of conduct for members entered into force on 1 January 2017; reiterates the need for detailed provisions related to issues such as conflicts of interest, outside activities, occupational activities after leaving service and gainful employment of spouses; notes that the additional workload owing to the current health situation has delayed the process;
2021/02/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 28 #

2020/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Appreciates that the CJEU is continuously improving its environmental performance by applying Regulation (EC) No 1221/20096 (EMAS III)which requires monitoring of the different environmental aspects based on indicators; welcomes the fact that most of the 2811 indicators, in the form of a ratio per FTE (Full-Time Equivalent), showed a favourable trend in 2019 compared to 2015, the base year of the CJEU’s EMAS system; _________________ 6Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS), repealing Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 and Commission Decisions 2001/681/EC and 2006/193/EC (EUT L 342 af 22.12.2009, s. 1).
2021/02/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 37 #

2020/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
39. Welcomes the completion of the third phase of structural reform in 2019, bringing significant structural changes at the General Court, in particular the creation of specialised chambers for intellectual property and staff cases, a greater involvement of the presidents and the vice-president in judicial work, the modernisation of systems for the statistical monitoring of the performance of the chambers and for the mid-term planning of the General Court;
2021/02/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2020/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Notes the factRegrets that not all actions hasve been taken in response to some of their recommendations in Parliament's resolution on discharge for 2018, and that the discharge follow-up document does not provide any justification for this; stresses the importance of having morat the Secretary-General should have frequentgular discussions with the Secretary-GeneraCommittee on Budgetary Control on issues concerning Parliament's budget and its implementation in Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control; considers that these should take place during the year and not only doing the discharge procedure;
2021/02/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 29 #

2020/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Regrets the difficulties for Members to recruit swiftly their assistants at the beginning of the term due to DG Pers' increased activity; calls for Parliament's administration teams responsible for the recruitment of APAs to be reinforced at the beginning of each new mandate, for the time necessary to enable Members to recruit their assistants and to provide comprehensive training beforehand and until the high work load has been completed;
2021/02/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2020/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Recalls nevertheless that the turnout remained too low in certain countries; considers that this type of communication campaign should be ongoing, with a particular focus on those countries;
2021/02/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 120 #

2020/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 79
79. Draws attention to the 6% staff reduction target, that in 2019 required Parliament to eliminate 59 posts from its administration establishment plan; acknowledges the simultaneous increase in the number of contractual agents; is concerned by the negative effects of this significant reduction on Parliament’s performance, both in the short and long term; calls for the reassessment of the staffing situation, while also ensuring responsible budgetary management and undertaking savings where appropriate; believes that further savings could be envisaged;
2021/02/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 132 #

2020/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80 a (new)
80 a. Asks the Secretary-General to find a solution for the fact that APAs' salaries can exclusively go to Belgian bank accounts which runs counter to the idea of a single monetary and payments union;
2021/02/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 190 #

2020/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92 a (new)
92 a. welcomes that 100% of all A4 paper used in Parliament's offices is recycled and welcomes the significant decrease of paper purchase in 2019 compared to 2018; welcomes the Parliament's efforts to increase the number of paperless meetings and calls for more training to be ofered to all Members, staff and APAs about the paperless tools which have been created to enable less documents to be printed and for further communication campaigns;
2021/02/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 192 #

2020/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92 b (new)
92 b. Calls for further ambitious actions to be undertaken swiftly and believes that the ultimate goal should be a Parliament free of single-use plastic;
2021/02/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 203 #

2020/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 98 a (new)
98 a. Welcomes the significant increase of use of bicycles in Brussels in 2019 compared to 2018;
2021/02/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. when the Parliament grants B. discharge to the Commission, it verifies and evaluates whether or not funds have been used correctly and policy goals have been achieved after internal and external audits ;;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 17 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. the 2019 discharge procedure covers a year marked by political and institutional transition with elections to the European Parliament and a new legislature which commenced on 2 July 2019 and the appointment of a new Commission, which took office on 1 December 2019 and which set new political priorities, such as the European Green Deal and an increasing focus on digitalising the Union and the protection of its values and of the money of EU taxpayers;;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) did not require any adjustments to the figures reported in the 2019 Union annual accounts; however, in 2020 and in the years to come, the COVID-19 outbreak will have a significant global impact, as well as having important implications for the Union budget, and in this regard, we have to determine with a particular attention if Commission used with efficiency and transparency the Union budget, because as from 2020, the implementation of the Union’s immediate response initiatives will affect the recognition, measurement or reclassification of multiple assets and liabilities in the financial statements of the Union;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 55 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for the budgets of OLAF and EPPO to be increased in order to be able to fulfil their mission
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 58 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Endorses the recommendations from the Court of Auditors (the “Court”) and encourages strongly the Commission and other relevant parties to implement them as soon as possible while emphasising some of the most important and urgent recommendations below;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 62 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Make the utilisation of Arachne as a pre-condition for Member States to use Union Funds;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 96 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point b
b. that more than half (53,1 %) of the expenditure was materially affected by error, concerning mainly reimbursement- based expenditure, in which the level of error was as high as 4,9 % (compared to 4,5 % in 2018 and 3,7 % in 2017); notes that this increase is largely due to a rise in ‘Cohesion’ spending since expenditure under this field increased to EUR 66,9 billion in 2019;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 99 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Points out that, as in previous years, eligibility errors (namely ineligible costs in costs claims and ineligible projects, activities or beneficiaries) in reimbursement-based payments, where expenditure is often subject to complex rules, were again the main contributors to the 2019 estimated level of error for high- risk expenditure at 74% (compared to 68 % in 2018);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 130 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Points out that according to the Court, the overall absorption rate of ESIF (European Structural Investment Funds) was lower than in the corresponding year of the previous MFF, as by the end of 2019, out of the total ESIF allocations for the current MFF (EUR 465 billion), only 40 % had been paid out to Member States (compared with 46 % by the end of 2012); notes that only nine Member States had higher absorption rates under the current MFF than under the previous one, and that overall the speed of absorption in 2019 stayed almost exactly the same as in 2018; Isvery concerned by the weak level of absorption rates;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 133 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Regrets that greater technical assistance is not being put in place to increase the absorption rate in many States and also make it possible to reduce the backlog of outstanding commitments (RAL)
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 145 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that the current agreement between the Commission, the EIB and the Court concerning audits of operations which are financed or backed by the Union budget expires in 2020; viewsStrongly calls to take this an opportunity to ensure that the Court is enabled to audit on an annual basis the regularity and also the performance of all the EIB activities, which do not fall under a specific Union mandate;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 149 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. supports the request made by the Court to audit the EIB’s non-Union budget related operations
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 154 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 1
- call on the EIB to enable each year the Court to audit the regularity as well as the performance aspects of its financing activity, which does not fall under a specific Union mandate;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 162 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Notunderlines that the Court finds that the Commission has satisfactory procedures for the production of its annual management and performance report and programmes' performance overview; agrees with the Court that the Commission should continue to report on programme performance after the end of an MFF period;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 165 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Encourages deeply the Commission to continue to improve the reliability of performance information as a vital tool for assessing the success of programmes; this should include the dissemination of lessons learnt from the Regulatory Scrutiny Board, especially those concerning design and methodology;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 169 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission to include in its performance reports greater analysis of the efficiency and economy of programmes when information becomes available, more systematic analysis of the significant external factors affecting programme performance; clear assessments of all the performance indicators reported on as regards whether they are on track to meet their targets; clear and balanced assessments of performance, covering all programme objectives in appropriate detail; Urges the Commission to take these measures for the next discharge 2020 due to all programs adopted in the context of theCOVID-19 crisis; .
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 192 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 – indent 4 a (new)
- Regrets the persisting geographical imbalances in the composition of the Commission staff, especially at middle and senior management levels; Calls on the Commission to establish a proper representation of nationals from all Member States, while at the same time respecting the competencies and merits of the candidates like indicated in the Article 27 of the Staff Regulations of Officials;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 194 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39 a. Encourages the Commission and the ECA to accelerate the discharge process to N+1
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 195 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 b (new)
39 b. Calls on the Commission to continue promoting a better gender balance and gender budgeting approach in the allocated funds
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 212 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
49. Points out that of eight long- outstanding VAT reservations set by the Commission and examined by the the Court, five of them were related to infringement procedures against Member States on the grounds of possible non- compliance with the VAT Directive;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 229 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
61. Regrets that 60% of errors was made up by ‘ineligible direct personnel costs’; underlines that despite efforts at simplification of the rules for declaring personnel costs under H2020, their calculation remains a major source of error in the cost claims; supports the opinion of the Court that the methodology for calculating personnel costs has become more complex in some reaspects under H2020 and this has increased the risk of error (of the 24 transactions affected by quantifiable errors 23 involved incorrect application of the methodology for calculating personnel costs);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 233 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62 a (new)
62 a. Regrets the lake of concrete data on up take of projects awarded Seals of Excellence by ERDF programmes. Notes that the Commission has only partial information based on voluntary reporting frommanaging authorities and such schemes remains at the discretion of each county. Calls the Commission to work with the Member States under the new MFF, to improve programmes monitoring systems and to better capture this kind of information;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 236 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
65. UnderlineNotes with concerns that SMEs are more error-prone than other beneficiaries since more than half the quantifiable errors found (17 out of 28) involved funding for private beneficiaries, even though the transactions in question accounted for just 42 (32 %) of the 130 transactions in the sample (SMEs made up 12 % of the sample but accounted for 21 % of the quantifiable errors);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 247 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 – indent 1 a (new)
- increase and develop information and training sessions for applicants with a focus on new applicants for whom training should be mandatory
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 249 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 – indent 4
- address for H2020 the observations - that arose following the Court’s review of the ex post audits with regard to documentation, sampling consistency and the quality of audit procedures; as well as for the third round of contracted out audits, take appropriate measures to ensure that the auditors are fully aware of the H2020 rules, and verify the quality of their work; And verify the quality of their work
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 260 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 – indent 7
- further simplify tools, administration and guidance for SMEs (in such a way that they impose a minimal burden on SMEs, and especially on start- ups without the resources and staff to deal with their complexity);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 268 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 81 – indent 2
- encourage deeply complementarity between Union financial instruments and Union budgetary guarantees (in the context of the new MFF programmes, the Commission should propose that the Union financial instruments are coherent and complementary in terms of the respective policy objectives to be achieved, so as to avoid competition between instruments);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 290 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 89
89. Is verhighly concerned about the weaknesses found in the work of several audit authorities covered by the Court’s sample, which currently limit the reliance that can be placed on that work (the recalculated rate was above the 2 % materiality threshold in nine out of 20 assurance packages for the 2014-2020 period, the Commission adjusted the residual error rates for eight assurance packages to a figure above 2 %);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 319 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 94 – indent 1
- clarify fastly eligibility conditions (including by defining what is meant by ‘physically completed’ and/or ‘fully implemented’ operations, in order to help Member States to verify that operations comply with Article 65(6) of the CPR and avoid the non-detection of ineligible operations);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 320 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 94 – indent 1 a (new)
- Calls on the Commission to provide Parliament with an annual report setting out in detail the contribution of each budget item to the climate mainstreaming target and to biodiversity spending, in order to facilitate their monitoring;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 321 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 94 – indent 1 b (new)
- Calls on the Commission urgently to start working on an effective methodology, where relevant, and in accordance with sectoral legislation, for monitoring climate spending and its performance in view of achieving an overall target of at least30 % of the total amount of the 2021-2027 Union budget and Next Generation EU(NGEU) expenditures supporting climate objectives;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 350 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 95 b (new)
95 b. Regrets that not all Member States are using the Arachne data mining system to improve fraud detection; Points out that concerning fraud, both the Commission and the Member States are responsible for addressing fraud in Cohesion spending. They need to step up their efforts to prevent and detect fraud, in cooperation with EPPO and the anti- fraud office (OLAF)
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 367 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 102 a (new)
102 a. Is deeply concerned that since 2019 a growing number of Managing Authorities of European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in Poland have adopted resolutions declaring themselves free from so-called ‘LGBTI ideology’ or have adopted ‘Regional Charters of Family Rights’ discriminating in particular against single-parent and LGBTI families; Insists on the fact that, in line with Regulation No 1303/20131a, the use of EU funds must comply with the principle of non-discrimination; Highlights that the new Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) for shared management funds entered into force in 2021 further reinforces the need of compliance of EU funds with the anti- discrimination principle and the charter of fundamental rights; _________________ 1aRegulation laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 368 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 102 b (new)
102 b. Believes that there is a clear risk of breach of the anti-discrimination provisions regulating the use of EU funds in these municipalities and regions;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 369 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 102 c (new)
102 c. Calls on the Commission to carry an in-depth audit of the use of ESIF in these regions since 2019 and its compliance with EU law, in particular with the anti-discrimination provisions; Calls of the Commission to make use of every tool at its disposal, including financial corrections and fines, in case it finds clear evidence of misuse of funds on those grounds; Asks the Commission to report to the discharge authority the findings of this investigation;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 372 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106 a (new)
106 a. Acknowledges that COVID-19 crisis has provided a new and unexpected challenge that the EU and its Member States need to respond determinedly and provide solutions at the EU and national level; welcomes the increasing financial flexibility in cohesion spending which enables Member States to use the funds to finance crisis-related projects; underlines the necessity of fostering the continuity and deeper cooperation of all stakeholders relevant to cohesion policy, mainly SMEs, municipalities and regions, which will struggle with unemployment and healthcare in the coming months
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 373 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106 b (new)
106 b. welcomes the increasing financial flexibility in cohesion spending which enables Member States to use the funds to finance crisis-related projects; underlines the necessity of fostering the continuity and deeper cooperation of all stakeholders relevant to cohesion policy, mainly SMEs, municipalities and regions, which will struggle with unemployment and healthcare in the coming months
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 374 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 106 c (new)
106 c. Highlights the challenges that patients in the Union face in benefiting from the Directive on cross-border healthcare, as identified in the Court's Special Report 7/2019,particularly with regard to potential patients' awareness of their rights,problems and delays in exchanging patient health data electronically between Member States and access to healthcare for patients with rare diseases;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 381 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109 a (new)
109 a. Reiterates the Parliament’s request for the creation of a new budgetary line for Tourism, to support this sector severely hit by the Covid-19 crisis; welcomes that the Court has launched an audit to assess tourism projects co-funded with EUR 6.4 billion in2007-2013 and EUR 4 billion so far in 2014-2020 ERDF and Cohesion Fund money, which will help improving EU Tourism policies
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 382 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 109 b (new)
109 b. Notes that by the sixth year of the current programming period 2014-2020 only around 31% of the funds initially awarded had resulted in payments by January 2020, putting into question the full implementation of CEF; calls on Member States to significantly speed up investments and on the Commission to step up its monitoring in view of the urgent need for infrastructure investment for the speedy recovery from theCovid-19 related economic downturn;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 418 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 120
120. Regretnotes that 70 % of errors were made up by ‘Ineligible beneficiary/activity/project/expenditure’;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 428 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 126
126. Is concerned by the limitations in the reliability of the results of the certification bodies’ work, due to weaknesses the Court identified in some certification bodies’ checks and sampling methodologies; In view of the CAP new delivery model, in which certification bodies will play a more prominent role, calls on Commission to focus more on the reliability of the results they furnish
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 475 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 – indent 3 – point a
a. all three indicators linked to the general objective of viable food production (increasing agricultural factor income, increasing agricultural productivity, and limiting price variability) reflect macroeconomic developments. While these indicators show a positive trend, the CAP has little or no demonstrable impact on them;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 499 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 – indent 4 – point f
f. emissions from agriculture accounted for around 12,6 % of total Union greenhouse gas emissions in 2017. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture have fallen by more than 20 % since 1990, but have stalled since 2010 but they have been increasing in recent years;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 500 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 – indent 4 – point f a (new)
f a. underlines that agriculture can also remove the emissions from atmosphere naturally, through for example soil carbon sequestration.
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 507 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 – indent 5 – point d
d. young farmers can receive additional direct payments under the EAGF and one-off support from the EAFRD for setting up their first agricultural holding. The Court’s findings coincide with those of evaluation support studies16 : EAGF support for young farmers has little to no impact, while EAFRD support is more effective, mainly because it is better targeted. CAP generational renewal measures have been found to be effective in ‘cases where complementary national, regional and local governance institutions and fiscal policies also support and enhance’ those measures; New measures should be initiated to help young farmers especially in the frame of land acquisition. _________________ 16Evaluation of the impact of the CAP on generational renewal, local development and jobs in rural areas, 2019; ECA special report No 10/2017: EU support to young farmers should be better targeted to foster effective generational renewal; SURE- Farm: Impact of the Young Farmers payment on structural change, 2020.
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 509 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 – indent 5 – point e a (new)
e a. Deeply regrets that 40%of rural households still do not have high-speed internet access. Digitisation is not being speeded up in rural areas in order to develop employment there and also to support farms on a day-to-day basis.
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 510 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 – indent 5 – point e b (new)
e b. Deplores the low level of organic farming in Europe, which is only 7.5% given the resources invested
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 511 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 – indent 5 – point e c (new)
e c. Deeply regrets that the Arachne system is not used by all states and hopes that initiatives will be taken in this direction. Stresses the EC to use Arachne as a common data base and to promote strongly its use by all the Member states.
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 515 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128 – indent 5 – point e g (new)
e g. Propose that the Area Monitoring System (AMS) should be compulsory in the frame of the IACS (Integrated Administration and Control System) in the members states.
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 600 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 146
146. Is deeply concerned that the return rate for individuals who no longer have the right to stay on Union territory is structurally unsatisfactory (31,5 %);
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 624 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 149 a (new)
149 a. carefully monitor the efficiency of the actions led by Frontex in order to better protect the external borders of the European Union;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 642 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 156 a (new)
156 a. Notes that the Court found that EU aid helped to restore and maintain access to safe and good-quality education during humanitarian crises. Welcomes the relevance of projects regarding the problems identified. Notes that projects were able to achieve most of their objectives. Support the Court’s recommendation and calls the Commission to finetune its support for education in emergencies in order to reach a good level of efficiency and relevance
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 661 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 163 – indent 1
- strengthen the focus of Union budget support in Morocco, namely apply a more transparent and better documented method to allocate amounts to sectoral budget support programmes and continue to monitor the performance;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 664 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 163 – indent 6
- finally fastly conclude the readmission agreement for which the Council granted the Commission a negotiating mandate in 2000, especially as Morocco is one of the biggest beneficiaries of Union development support25 ; _________________ 25Question for written answer E- 000331/2020, Subject: EU-Morocco readmission agreement
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 690 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 169 a (new)
169 a. welcomes the Court’s finding about a generally positive trend in terms of poverty reduction, gender equality in education,number of agreements with neighbouring countries, expresses however concern about the worsening trend in terms of consolidation of democracy, rule of law and political stability
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 691 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 170 – indent 1 a (new)
- Requests the Commission to develop quickly guidance and strong criteria to identify NGOs in its accounting system and to verify the self-declared data submitted by the applicants;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 692 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 170 – indent 1 b (new)
- Calls on the Commission to propose a harmonized definition of NGOs and a specific control on the funds. Calls on the Commission to receive each year the list of the 50 largest beneficiaries;
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 702 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 170 a (new)
170 a. Highlights the importance of increasing visibility, transparency, effectiveness, complementarity and accountability of the EU external financing instruments in light of their current restructuring; points to the fact that the ENI’s performance has been more successful in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood, and in this light, calls for increased efforts be directed towards the EU’s Southern neighbourhood in order to address the challenges it faces
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 706 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171 – indent 2
- ‘European Parliament’, up to 19,6% of the heading budget or EUR 2,0 billion;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 707 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171 – indent 3
- ‘EEAS’, up to 9,2% of the heading budget or EUR 1,0 billion;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 708 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171 – indent 4
- ‘Council’, up to 5,4% of the heading budget or EUR 0,6 billion;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 709 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171 – indent 5
- ‘Court of Justice’, up to 4,0 % of the heading budget or EUR 0,4 billion;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 710 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171 – indent 6
- ‘Court’, up to 1,4% of the heading budget or EUR 0,1 billion;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 711 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171 – indent 7
- ‘EESC’, up to 1,3% of the heading budget or EUR 0,1 billion;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 712 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171 – indent 8
- ‘Others’, up to 1,2% of the heading budget or EUR 0,1 billion;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 725 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 174
174. Notes that no specific issue was identified concerning the Council, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Committee of the Regions, the European Ombudsman, the EDPS or the European External Action Service (EEAS);deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 729 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 175
175. Notes that on European Parliament level the Court detected errors in one payment to a European political party (non-compliance with the expenditure eligibility rules: no procurement procedure, no written contractual documents and no supporting evidence for costs actually incurred);deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 747 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 37
European Economic and Social Commitdeleteed
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 754 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 177
177. Points out that The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has not yet developed a sensitive functions policy in line with its internal control standards, specifically it has issued no definition of sensitive posts or functions, nor has it performed a risk analysis with a view to adopting mitigating controls and, ultimately, an internal mobility policy;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 756 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 178
178. Finds it worrying that the EESC has not carried out a comprehensive risk assessment since 2014, only one directorate has identified the risks to the achievement of its objectives, but without yet proposing mitigating controls that would reduce those risks to an acceptable level;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 795 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 187
187. Is very critical in relation to the increase in contract staff as a result to special or urgent situations, such as the migration crisis;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 802 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 188
188. Notes with curiosity the high number of closing days in the Union- institutions, for which staff do not have to use their annual leave;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 811 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 41 a (new)
Underlines the important effect of turnover within the staff of the agencies of the European Union, calls Commission to help them for the implementation of human and social policies to remedy it
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 827 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 192
192. Calls on the European Economic and Social Committee to: - implement a policy for dealing with sensitive functions, drawing on a comprehensive risk assessment leading to the identification of mitigating controls which take into account the Committee’s size and the nature of its work;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 832 #

2020/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 192 – indent 1
- implement a policy for dealing with sensitive functions, drawing on a comprehensive risk assessment leading to the identification of mitigating controls which take into account the Committee’s size and the nature of its work;deleted
2021/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 25 #

2020/2133(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines that the IEB should be in charge of prevention, monitoring, investigation and enforcement of the ethical framework for the protection of the EU’s financial interests; highlights that the IEB should be able to take disciplinary measures and impose financial sanctions in order to avoid abuse of the EU budget linked to unethical behaviour;
2021/02/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 29 #

2020/2133(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights that tasks transferred to the IEB can go beyond those currently exercised by the institutions; cCalls for the IEB to assess the implementation of ethics rules by the EU institutions and publish an annual report on its findings;
2021/02/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 32 #

2020/2133(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the IEB to lead by example on transparency by publishing all decisions and spending in a machine- readable open data format available to all citizens; strongly recommends that any software developed for upholding the ethical standards in EU public administration should be made available under a free and open-source software licence and should be shared with any institution in Europe wishing to use it;
2021/02/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2020/2133(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. WelcomEncourages the signing of an interinstitutional agreement (IIA) between EU institutions to set up the IEB; emphasises the importance of the Council, including the Member States’ representatives working in the Council, joining the IIA in view of the ECA’s and European Ombudsman’s repeated requests to enhance the institution’s working ethics and transparency; recalls the obligation of the Council to deal with high-level conflicts of interest, revolving doors and lobby transparency rules;
2021/02/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 28 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the Union requires a new industrial strategy that makes its industries more globally competitive, resilientinnovative, inclusive, resilient, digitalised and environmentally sustainable; whereas such a strategy should cover the transition of European industries to digitalisation and climate-neutrality, strengthen European leadership and competitiveness and decrease dependency from other parts of the world in strategic value chains, while preserving an open market, prioritising the ‘energy efficiency first’ principles, energy savings and decarbonised and renewable energy technologies;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 55 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the strategic autonomy and resiliency of the Union require technological leadership and a competitive industrial base; whereas investments in research, development and innovation are needed to industrial competitiveness, European companies will remain to depend on the well-functioning of the Single Market and market access abroad as a driver for competitiveness; whereas manufacturing and service companies in Europe are highly integrated into global value chains, companies are likely, post COVID-19, to strengthen and diversify the supply chains in order to reduce over-reliance on one market;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 72 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout have created an unprecedented economic downturn in Europe; whereas, all sectors of the economy have been impacted ,in particular SMEs across sectors, and some have come to a complete standstill; this is particularly the case for the tourism and catering industry, the creative and cultural industry, but also for more traditional industries (automotive, building, space, aeronautics, aluminium, steel, textiles, etc.); whereas in this context any future- looking industrial strategy should start by addressing industrial recovery while taking into account industrial long-term objectives;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 105 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Is of the opinion that digital and environmental transitions and technological leadership should be at the very core of all Unions strategies until 2050; in this context, calls on the Commission to define a comprehensive industrial strategy which manages these transitions, fosters transformation and guarantecreates long-term growth and global competitiveness through free trade and open markets and improves the Union´s strategic autonomy and resiliency;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 138 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Understands strategic autonomy as a concept in which technological leadership enables EU and Member States to be politically and economically self- determined, while respecting international rules and maintaining openness to international trade with the ambition to reach more free trade agreements; highlights that European industry is highly integrated into global value chains; further recognises that strategic autonomy is not achieved by cutting ties with global value chains; considers instead that strategic autonomy and the resiliency of the Union is achieved by strengthening and developing Europe’s industrial and technological capacities by means of investments in key technologies and ensuring a well-functioning Single Market, a level playing field and a regulatory environment where companies can thrive and compete globally;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 164 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the importance of coherent and coordinated EU approach in supporting European industries, in particular SMEs and safeguarding the employment in Europe for preserving and strengthening the Single market to the benefit of European citizens and businesses;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 173 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the measures taken by the Union to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, the injection of liquidity by the ECB, the relaxation of the rules of the Stability Pact, the increase in the EIB’s capital for SMEs and the SURE initiative to help Member States finance short-time working arrangements, maintain employment and protect workers; welcomes the Temporary State Aid framework as a way to promptly transfer liquidity where urgently needed; calls on the Commission nonetheless to ensure that the aid provided in the emergency phase is justified by the consequences of the pandemic, does not lead to permanent distortions in the single market; and that no strategic sector is neglected;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 188 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Welcomes the identification of 14 ecosystems by the Commission and the inclusive approach of bringing together all actors operating in a value chain in order to promote European leadership in strategic sectors and competitiveness on the global stage; underlines the need to ensure that SME will thrive within each ecosystem;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 189 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Welcomes the enhanced InvestEU, with its new window on strategic investments that should play a key role in the first phase of recovery for the strategic autonomy of the EU;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 239 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights that, during this critical phase, the Union shwhen an increased number of markets are concentrated aroulnd protect its market in strategic sectors and block takeovers and FDI that could further increase its dependency on foreign powerfew actors, customer benefit, innovation and efficiency can be undermined; Calls for continued competition monitoring and supervision in order to secure functional, dynamic and open markets that stimulates investments;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 245 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recognizes the importance of the Unions competition policy as a key driver of EU competitiveness; calls for a review of the definition of markets so as to allow for a more realistic and dynamic application of the rules; further, emphasizes the need to ensure sufficient speed, transparency and proportionate in the administrative and procedural framework of EU competition proceedings, particularly in EU merger control; underlines the importance of effective leniency policy for antitrust infringements;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 268 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the launch by the Commission of new industrial Alliances which have demonstrated their potential added value for EU competitiveness; Calls on the Commission to launch more new Alliances in the sectors of space, aeronautic health, critical raw materials, and renewable energies, medical equipment, medical personal protective equipment and vital pharmaceutical production for lowering EU dependence on import from third countries;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 274 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Considers innovation as the key driver for economic recovery and growth; Highlights that funding in research and innovation is essentials in this recovery phase; Calls on the Commission to encourage the pooling of resources on research and innovation on an EU-wide scale, increase entrepreneurial spirit and create a new ambitious, creative and innovative environment for European business and industrial projects;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 276 #

2020/2076(INI)

8c. Welcomes the Industrial Forum initiative of the Commission; calls on the Commission to ensure a continuous dialogue as well as an effective and fully transparent governance approach that oversees implementation and stimulates synergies between regulations, instruments and private funding;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 340 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to strengthen its impact assessment practice and to carry out a detailed impact assessment of the potential costs and burdens for European companies and SMEs before presenting new proposals for legislation or adopting new measures especially when a traditional industry has to adapt because of regulatory decisions; calls on the Commission to propose commensurate support to the affected sectors whenever a negative impact cannot be avoidedin order to keep a strong European industrial basis;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 350 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the strategic and fragile nature of the European space industry, 90% made up of SMEs, and the need for rapid support in order to avoid laborious reconstruction;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 375 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Highlights the need to increase market opportunities and investment in European value chains conducive to the massive deployment of green technologies, in sustainability and reparability of products and in the creation of markets for circular and climate-neutral products in accordance with the action plan for the circular economy. recalls in this regard the potential of the digital sector in reaching a European climate-neutral economy, and the need to reducing its carbon footprint;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 382 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the potential of the circular economy for modernising the Union’s economy, reducing its energy and resource consumption, providing incentives for innovation and transforming whole industrial sectors and their value chains, with a huge potential to create jobs at local level; encourages the development of new ecodesigned technologies and solutions to prevent environmental impacts; stresses the need to implement the new circular economy action plan and encourage sustainable production;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 403 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Highlights the potential of Green Mobility to create new jobs, boost European industry, and reduce emissions from the transport sector; calls for more investments in high-speed trains and renovation of inter-city rail networks and for more investments in public transport through fuel cells and hydrogen; stresses the need to promote green mobility by investing in better infrastructure such as more widespread charging stations; considers a higher density of charging stations will allow the market for electric vehicles to expand significantly, faster, causing a positive impact on our carbon footprint; calls, therefore, on the Commission to submit a large scale strategy for the rollout of fast EV- charging infrastructure to secure uptake of EVs by consumers, giving them certainty of the technology’s potential and access to a close-knit net of compatible charging infrastructure and to support European-based car manufacturing;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 503 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the need to support a just transition, and believes that a well- designed Just Transition Mechanism, including a Just Transition Fund, would be an important tool to facilitate the transition and reach ambitious climate targetsclimate neutrality while addressing social impacts; stresses that robust financing of this instrument, including additional budgetary resources, would be a key element for the successful implementation of the European Green Deal and a fair and equitable sharing of financial support between the regions most affected, would be a key element for the successful implementation of the European Green Deal; in this regard, welcomes the revaluation of the Just Transition Fund within the framework of Next Generation EU;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 532 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Highlights that the competitiveness of European industry can only be backed by an efficient infrastructure network; calls for a long-term investment policy for equipping and renovating infrastructure and for reducing the administrative barriers which hinder the progress of the trans-European networks; calls for more funding for Connecting Europe Facility in order to boost investments in electricity infrastructures, interconnections, digitalisation and smart grids; stresses the need to expedite green Projects of Common Interest (PCI), and revise the Trans-European Energy Networks (TEN- E) Regulation as soon as possible. In particular, in the expected revision of the TEN-E, the Commission should recognise investment in building renovations, including public buildings, as a PCI;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 538 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Highlights the need to support production of batteries and the recycling of metal in Europe; stresses the need to ensure that the industrial strategy will be aligned with the upcoming initiative of the Commission on batteries;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 539 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Considers it imperative to digitalise the Union’s industries, including traditional ones; calls on the Commission to invest, inter alia, in the data economy, artificial intelligence, smart production, mobility, and resilient and secure very high-speed networks; invites the Commission, in this respect,the Union requires an innovative industrial strategy that accelerate the digitisation of our industries and SMEs including traditional ones, enhance the EU industrial capacity in critical digital infrastructures and strengthen the digital and data single market; considers the Union must support businesses in the automation and digitisation of their know-how and training and investment in digital equipment (hardware and software) for businesses; underlines the importance of the Digital Europe -programme for improving the digital capabilities of SMEs and accelerating the adoption of enabling and emerging technologies in industries; encourages the creation of digital innovation hubs across the EU; calls on the Commission to invest, inter alia, in the data economy, artificial intelligence, smart production, mobility, supercomputing, cloud, quantum technology, resilient and secure very high-speed 5G and 6G networks, blockchain, robotics, batteries and satellite internet; invites therefore the Member States and the Commission, in this respect, to ensure a timely implementation of the relevant key measures recommended in the 5G cybersecurity toolbox and in particular to apply, where appropriate, the relevant restrictions on high risk suppliers for key assets defined as critical and sensitive in the EU coordinated risk assessments and to assess the effectiveness of co-financed National Tax Credit schemes that could complement or replace traditional ‘on demand’ grants/tender-based support, especially for SMEs; highlights the importance of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund (CF) in supporting job creation, business competitiveness, economic growth and sustainable development and calls for these funds to have a stronger focus on research and innovation and to be better linked with Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe Programme;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 556 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Highlights that EU industrial competitiveness relies on a fully functioning Single Market in Products and Services; underlines that the Commission must consider how to deepen the Single Marker as part of any revised set of priorities and address the existing regulatory and non-regulatory internal market barriers stemming from restrictive and complex national rules, limited administrative capacities, imperfect transposition of EU rules, as well as their inadequate enforcement; stresses the importance of more flexible and transparent governance of the internal market with more effective peer reviews to identify and address barriers and non- compliance, improved monitoring and performance tools such as Internal Market Scoreboard to better reflect market reality, as well as strengthened SOLVIT network;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 574 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to implement a single European digital and data market, to promote the secure exchange of data among companies and among public institutions, to develop and process data on European soil, in particular data from public bodies, to build a better digital taxation system in which profits are taxed where companies have significant interaction with users, and to further develop European standards on cybersecurity, in particular for critical infrastructure; and certification on cybersecurity and disruptive technologies, in particular for critical infrastructure; therefore the protection of critical European data in such critical infrastructures should be guaranteed through an assessment of service and technology providers to meet security as well as trustworthiness criteria modelled on the EU 5G toolbox. calls for the swift implementation of the European Data Strategy and the adoption of the Digital Services Act;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 594 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that industrial transformation requires the integration of new knowledge and innovation into existing markets and their use in the creation of new ones; regrets, in this respect, that the Union invests less in R&D as a percentage of GDP than its global competitors and that it suffers from a serious lack of innovative capacity in small and medium-sized enterprises due to a shortfall in the necessary risk capital; highlights the need to increase considerably spending on research, development and innovation as key element to achieve the twin transition, improve strategic leadership and autonomy and increase long-term competitiveness; calls on the Member States to uphold their commitment of reaching 3% of GDP on research and development; Considers an increase of the funding of Horizon Europe as well as Digital Europe programs and Connected Europe Facility (digital and energy) is needed to achieve the ambitious targets. recognise the effective support of European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) and calls to strengthen their missions; calls for a public-private collaboration to promote the transfer of knowledge and technology from research centres and universities to the industrial process, taking advantage of the industrial ecosystem scheme; calls on the Commission to increase the budget for those programmes that underpin the transformation of the Union’s industry, including Horizon Europe and Digital Europe (DEP), and to foster synergies between regional, national, European and private financial sources by taking advantage of synergies among all Union programmes; calls on the Commission to target as a priority the whole range of decarbonised and renewable industrial processes; acknowledges the importance of intellectual property protection to incentivise R&D investments necessary to ensure continued participation of EU industry in the development of key technologies like 5G and 6G, necessary to achieve the EU 2025 connectivity objectives;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 623 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. highlights the relevance of Institutional Partnerships under Horizon Europe as efficient tools to promote R&I efforts within strategic industrial ecosystems;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 648 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Highlights the potential role of the regions in achieving the European industrial ambitions; believes that interregional cooperation aimed at the sustainable and digital transformations, as in the Smart Specialisation strategies, are to be strengthened in order to stimulate regional ecosystems; therefore asks the Commission to support the development of tools which can provide a clear roadmap for regions with a tailor- made approach to secure industrial leadership;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 676 #

2020/2076(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to adopt a strong Key Performance Indicator (KPI) system to analyse the ex-ante impact of Union regulations and instruments, and to monitor progress and results taking into account the SME dimension; calls on the Commission for regular reporting progress to the Competitiveness Council and to the European Parliament;
2020/06/30
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 17 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas over 94% of today’s buildings will be standing in 2050;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 24 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the majority of buildings urgently need to be renovated to become energy efficient and climate neutral;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 28 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas increasing renovation rates to almost 3% will create around 1 million additional jobs in the construction sector and could be an important part of the recovery strategy after the COVID-19 crisis;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 47 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. DemandBelieves that building policies should be holistic and inclusive, and should include IRPs that integrate social services, mobility, industrial and, energy functions of buildings, and enable on-site and nearby renewables production and demand-side flexibility; is of the opinion that a European Solar rooftop programme could be a good example and play important role in the upcoming renovation wave;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 55 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned by the gentrification and ‘renoviction’ of neighbourhoods driven by investment capital interests, and by the rising numbers of citizens in energy poverty, gender disparity, and marginalisation; considers that a community approach in addition to safeguards at a regulatory level could reduce the level of destruction of existing communities;deleted
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 82 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a policy to facilitate IRPs at community level providing for deep renovations; calls on the Commission to step up work on the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and the EU City Facility;deleted
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 90 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to prioritise marginalised communities when designing IRPs;deleted
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 100 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to immediately launch inclusive IRP platforms, accompanied by EU initiatives circulating best practices on the replicability of programmes, the dissemination of capacities, and sector integration, and safeguards for communities in energy poverty;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 103 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)
Strategic planning and indicators for measurable progress
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 104 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers than long term renovation strategies should be recognised as a key instrument for planning, progress measuring and the achievement of energy objectives; (This new paragraph would be added under the new heading 'Strategic planning and indicators for measurable progress')
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 105 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Is convinced that the multi-level implementation platform for integrated building renovation strategies should engage local, regional, national and European authorities in all sectors in order to support Member States in the execution of their long term renovation strategies; (This new paragraph would be added under the new heading 'Strategic planning and indicators for measurable progress')
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 106 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Considers that Energy Efficiency First should be the leading principle when planning priorities and implementing processes; considers, in this regard, that there is a need to prioritise the different types of buildings within the framework of national programmes for renovation; (This new paragraph would be added under the new heading 'Strategic planning and indicators for measurable progress')
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 107 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Asks the Commission to adopt a policy which will facilitate IRPs at local and regional level providing for deep renovations; calls on the Commission to step up its work on the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and the EU City Facility; highlights in this respect also the major importance of the Urban Agenda and the Urban Partnership; (This new paragraph would be added under the new heading 'Strategic planning and indicators for measurable progress')
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 128 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Acknowledges the role of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in the financing of energy efficiency projects and in defining energy efficiency as a specific objective for regional development in the period 2021 - 2027;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 132 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create flexible models for the synergies of different financial programmes and instruments for financing energy efficiency in buildings;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 140 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Considers that the opportunity and the good practices in directing carbon revenues from the EU ETS into energy efficiency actions should be developed and promoted accordingly;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 144 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the need to increase absorption rates of funds by removing barriers, especially through technical assistance, as well as the necessity to provide continuous and stable financing for IRPs both from European and national sources without interruptions caused by different budget planning measures;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 179 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes and recognises the key role of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in providing financial support for energy efficiency and planning through strong measures such as the financing of up to 75% of eligible capital expenditure in energy efficiency in residential buildings; considers that EIB’s support for Renovation Wave will deliver for activating more public sector loans that will incentivise commercial banks, pension funds and private sector to further invest in the building renovation; calls to further develop and facilitate use of Public Private Partnership (PPPs);
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 181 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to revise EU State aid rules in order to foster IRPs;deleted
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 203 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Highlights the need to decrease costs, speed up duration, effectivity, reliability and integration to increase IRPs through creating open and competitive renovation markets, industrially produced, prefabricated elements, and to engage in serial and district renovations;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 206 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Highlights that the use of renewable energy plays a crucial role in decarbonisation and energy efficiency; calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to actively promote and incentivise full integration of renewable energies in the building sector;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 217 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines the importance of the energy efficiency first principle in decarbonising heating and cooling, other energy intensive systems, electrification of residual demand through renewable energy combined with heat pumps or efficient district heating systems, as well as in load management and flexibility; underlines the need to plan IRPs in order to achieve synergies;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 253 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Stresses that the new sustainable construction materials and technologies used to boost energy efficiency should be fire safe to safeguard circularity and resource efficiency; recalls that fire safety aspects should be considered during the design, construction, renovation and operation of buildings in prevention, detection, early suppression, evacuation, compartmentation, structural safety and fire-fighting;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 259 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the importance of co- benefits with renovation requirements at trigger points; highlights thatbelieves that deep renovation of the worst performing buildings should be prioritised by notably developing minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) for worst-performwhich are essential for investment ing rented buildings especially benefit occupants that are at risk of energy povertyovation and should apply horizontally, while based on the existing national energy labels; regrets extremely the low levels of deep renovations at an expected rate of 0.2%; calls on the Commission and Member States to examine and introduce where possible minimum binding renovation targets in order to meet 2050 climate neutrality targets;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 284 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Stresses the importance and potential of the Just Transition Fund within the context of the recovery plan after the COVID-19 crisis for trainings and qualification of workers of the construction and renovation sectors;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 304 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Considers that the digitalisation of the buildings and construction technologies are key drivers for greater energy efficiency; invites all local, regional, national and European actors involved to take pro-active part in the promotion of full digitalisation;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 308 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Underlines that the digitalisation of construction and renovation companies is a major step forward towards full digitalisation of the entire buildings sector;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 311 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27c. Underlines the role of digitalisation in planning, implementation, control and monitoring of the renovation plans’ results;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 313 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 d (new)
27d. Highlights the great potential integrated artificial intelligence could play in data analysis, monitoring, management and adjustment of energy consumption in buildings;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 334 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Recalls, in this respect, that the Renovation Wave is an integrated part of the EU Green Policy which can be implemented in full synergy with the Green Deal proposal, Industrial strategy, strategy for SMEs, Circular Economy Strategy and Clean Energy package;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 349 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the Member States’ long-term renovation strategies (LTRSs) in setting out milestones towards the climate neutrality objective; encourages governments to implement innovative policies to actively involve citizens in energy efficiency programmes;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 383 #

2020/2070(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to launch multinational, cross sectorial, country specific and tailored communication campaigns across EU on multiple opportunities and various benefits that could be obtained through improved energy efficiency of the European building stock;
2020/05/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 46 #

2020/2043(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the mechanism must comply with EU internal market regulations and not cause any additional unnecessary market distortions and red tape, which could limit fair, open and rule-based market competition and have a particularly adverse effect on SMEs or become a tool for protectionism;
2020/10/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 106 #

2020/2043(INI)

7. Calls on the Commission to conduct an impact assessment of different mechanisms and designs to incentivise international climate action and prevent carbon leakage before presenting a legislative proposal.; calls on the Commission, in its impact assessment, to identify measures for sectors where the risk of carbon leakage is highest;
2020/10/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 113 #

2020/2043(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for a special evaluation of the impact of the mechanism on SMEs and on competition within the internal market; calls for the creation, if needed, of a support mechanism for SMEs to successfully adjust to the new market reality, thereby preventing them from being victims of unfair practices by larger market players;
2020/10/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 119 #

2020/2043(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Underlines that the mechanism should reflect and be commensurate with the internal EU carbon price;
2020/10/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 139 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
(12 a) To enable sector integration, to acknowledge changes in consumer behaviour and to increase demand for green transport, charging infrastructure for electric vehicles should be eligible for the PCI Status;
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 142 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) The Commission’s communication on energy system integration underlines the need for integrated energy infrastructure planning across energy carriers, infrastructures, and consumption sectors. Such system integration starts from the point of departure of applying the energy efficiency first principle and taking a holistic approach in policy and beyond individual sectors. It also addresses the decarbonisation needs of the hard to abate sectors, such as parts of industry or certain modes of transport, where direct electrification is, currently, technically or economically challenging. Such investments include hydrogen and electrolysers, which are progressing towards commercial large-scale deployment. The Commission’s Hydrogen Strategy gives priority to hydrogen production from renewable electricity, which is the cleanest solution and is most compatible with the EU climate neutrality objective. In a transitional phase however, other forms of low-carbon hydrogen are needed to more rapidly replace existing hydrogen and kick-start an economy of scale.
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 153 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
(15 a) Moreover, a focus should equally be laid on flexibility and energy storage solutions to support investments that allow for the stability of the grid and enable further integration of renewable energy sources; energy storage will be a crucial feature of the power grid given the volatile nature of renewable energy sources on the one hand and our need for grid stability and security of supply on the other;
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 183 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
(22) To ensure voltage and frequency stability, particular attention should be given to the stability of the European electricity network under the changing conditions, for instance through exploring all possible sustainable energy storage solutions, especially in view of the growing share of renewable electricity.
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 195 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
(27) Projects of common interest should be implemented as quickly as possible and should be closely monitored and evaluated, while keeping the administrative burden for project promoters to a minimum. The Commission should nominate European coordinators for projects facing particular difficulties or delays. The progress in the implementation of the specific projects as well as the fulfilment of the obligations pertaining to this Regulation should be taken into account in the selection process for subsequent Union lists for the respective projects.
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 208 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40 a (new)
(40 a) The needs of an integrated energy market will go beyond a physical cross- border footprint of infrastructure projects in order to contribute to the TEN-E pillars, such as sustainability or security of supply. There will be an equal a need for cross-border and local projects that will have a positive effect on the Union's power grid, such as electrolysers, district heating and cooling networks or storage infrastructure of a certain capacity and ability to be replicable in more than one Member State.
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 258 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
(8) ‘smart electricity grid’ means an electricity network where the grid operator can digitally monitor the actions of the users connected to it, and information and communication technologies (ICT) for communicating with related grid operators, generators, energy storage, consumers and/or prosumers, with a view to transmitting electricity in a sustainable, cost-efficient and secure way;
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 313 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii
(ii) is located on the territory of one Member State and has a significantpositive cross- border impacteffect or is replicable as set out in point (1) of Annex IV, whereas ‘replicable’ requires both knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer of at least two Member States or regions. The replicability of a project shall contribute to, amongst others, decarbonisation, the energy efficiency first principle, increase of the share of renewable energies or improvement of sector integration.
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 363 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point b – point iii a (new)
(iii a) sector integration, through the improvement of the interaction of different energy vectors or energy sectors, for instance through the increase of synergies in adjacent sectors, such as transport and mobility;
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 418 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point f a (new)
(f a) for district heating and cooling networks falling under the energy infrastructure category set out in point [6 new] of Annex II the project is to contribute significantly to sustainability and to reaching the climate targets 2030 as well as climate neutrality 2050 through a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as well as an increase of the share of renewable energy in the heating and cooling sector, as well as a better integration and interlinking of the sectors.
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 632 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3
3. The integrated offshore network development plans shall be compatible with the latest Union-wide ten-Year Network Development Plans in order to ensure coherent development of onshore and offshore grid planning providing for an adequate and reliable transmission grid for transfer of electricity onshore as well as between coastal regions, regions inland, and landlocked Member States and to provide for a stable supply of electricity to centres of consumption or energy storage facilities.
2021/04/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 805 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part 4 – point 11 – introductory part
(11) Smart electricity grids deployment: adoption of smart grid technologies across the Union to efficiently integrate the behaviour and actions of all users connected to the electricity network, in particular the generation of large amounts of electricity from renewable or distributed energy sources and demand response by consumers, energy storage.
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 816 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – Part 4 – point 13 a (new)
(13 a) District Heating and Cooling:Upgrading and consolidation of district heating and district cooling networks to ensure a decarbonised supply of heat and cold and increase these sectors, as well as applying the energy efficiency first principle and sector integration through the use of waste heat and increasing flexibility for the energy system through power-to-heat. Member States concerned: all
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 826 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
(b) electricitnergy storage facilities used for storing electricitnergy on a permanent or temporary basis in above-ground or underground infrastructure or geological sites, provided they are directly connected to high-voltage transmission lines designed for a voltage of 110 kV or more; deferring the final use of electricity to a later moment than when it was generated or the conversion of electrical energy into a form of energy which can be stored, the storing of that energy, and the subsequent reconversion of that energy back into electrical energy or use as another energy carrier;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 829 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) charging infrastructure for electric vehicles;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 835 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point d
(d) systems and components integrating ICT, through operational digital platforms, control systems and sensor technologies both at transmission and, medium and low voltage distribution level, aiming at a more efficient and intelligent electricity transmission and distribution network, increased capacity to integrate new forms of generation, storage and consumption and facilitating new business models and market structures;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 854 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
(a) transmission pipelines for the transport of hydrogen, including the repurposed natural gas infrastructure, giving access to multiple network users on a transparent and non-discriminatory basis, which mainly contains high-pressure hydrogen pipelines, excluding pipelines for the local distribution of hydrogen;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 873 #

2020/0360(COD)

(c a) storage facilities connected to the electricity networks that enable integration with electricity sectors, enabling the operations of the energy systems across multiple energy carriers ;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 880 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point d – paragraph 1
Any of the assets listed in points (a), (b), (c), and (d) may be newly constructed assets or assets convertrepurposed from natural gas dedicated to hydrogen, or a combination of the two. Hydrogen infrastructure as listed in points (a), (b), (c), and (d) may be used in a transitional period for the purpose of blends of hydrogen with methane or methane.
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 891 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
(a) electrolysers that: (i) have at least 100 MW capacity, (ii) the production complies with the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions savings requirement of 70 % relative to a fossil fuel comparator of 94g CO2e/MJ as set out in Article 25(2) and Annex V of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.60 Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions savings are calculated using the methodology referred to in Article 28(5) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 or, alternatively, using ISO 14067 or ISO 14064-1 taking into account the carbon intensity of the electricity in the country of production. Quantified life-cycle GHG emission savings are verified in line with Article 30 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 where applicable, or by an independent third party, and (iii) have also a network-related function; _________________ 60 OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82.
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 906 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point b
(b) facilities for liquefaction and buffer storage of carbon dioxide in view of its further transportation. This does not include infrastructure within a geological formation used for the permanent geological storage of carbon dioxide pursuant to Directive 2009/31/EC and associated surface and injection facilities;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 911 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point b a (new)
(b a) equipment and infrastructure within a geological formation used for the permanent geological storage of carbon dioxide pursuant to Directive 2009/31/EC and associated surface and injection facilities;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 912 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
(5 a) concerning district heating and cooling: district heating and cooling systems meeting the following criteria: (a) at least 1000 MW installed capacity for heating or 100 MW installed capacity for cooling, (b) existence of a district heating network for the transport of hot steam or water or a distribution network for the transport of chilled liquids in at least one of the following categories: low cooling temperature (5-25 degrees Celsius), low temperature (30-40 degrees Celsius), average temperature (40-90 degrees Celsius) or high temperature (from 100 degrees Celsius), (c) heat generators producing heat or waste heat that can be injected in the district heating network pursuant to the definition of ‘waste heat and cold’ of (EU) 2018/2001; ‘highly efficient cogeneration of (EU) 2012/27, geothermal energy, heat pumps or bioenergy;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 921 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – Part 1 – point 1 – introductory part
(1) with regard to energy infrastructure falling under the competency of national regulatory authorities, each Group shall be composed of representatives of the Member States, national regulatory authorities, TSOs, DSOs, as well as the Commission, the Agency and the DSO- Entity and the ENTSO for Electricity or the ENTSO for Gas, as relevant.
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 951 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – introductory part
(1) a project with significant cross- border impacteffect or cross-border replicability is a project on the territory of a Member State, which fulfils the following conditions:
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 966 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – point c
(c) for smart electricity grids, the project is designed for equipment and installations at high-voltage and, medium- voltage and low-voltage level. It involves transmission system operators, transmission and distribution system operators or solely distribution system operators from at least two Member States. DProjects involving solely distribution system operators without the direct involvement of transmission system operators can be involved only with the support of the transmission system operators in the form of a letter of intent, of at least two Member States, that are closely associated to the project and ensure interoperability. A project covers at least 50000 users, generators, consumers or prosumers of electricity, in a consumption area of at least 300 Gigawatthours/year, of which at least 20 % originate from variable renewable resources ;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 977 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – point g
(g) for smart gas grids, a project involves transmission system operators, transmission and distribution system operators or solely distribution system operators from at least two Member States. DProjects involving solely distribution system operators without the direct involvement of transmission system operators can be involved only with the support of the transmission system operators in the form of a letter of intent, of at least two Member States, that are closely associated to the project and ensure interoperability.
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 980 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – point g a (new)
(g a) for district heating and cooling the project has at least 1000 Megawatt heat production capacity or 100 Megawatt cooling capacity.
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 999 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 3 – point a a (new)
(a a) level of sustainability measured as the greenhouse gas emission savings ;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 1002 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 3 – point b – point ii
(ii) or electricitnergy storage, comparing new capacity provided by the project with total existing capacity for the same storage technology in the area of analysis as defined in Annex V;
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 1005 #

2020/0360(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 3 – point c
(c) security of supply, interoperability and secure system operation measured in line with the analysis made in the latest available Union-wide ten-year network development plan in electricity, notably by assessing the impact of the project on the loss of load expectation for the area of analysis as defined in Annex V in terms of generation and transmission adequacy for a set of characteristic load periods, taking into account expected changes in climate- related extreme weather events and their impact on infrastructure resilience, expected changes in the economic and social development of the area and the expected significant increase in power demand from the transport sector, in particular for electric vehicles along highways and in urban areas.. Where applicable, the impact of the project on independent and reliable control of system operation and services shall be measured.
2021/04/23
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 129 #

2020/0359(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
(26) Given the importance of international cooperation on cybersecurity, CSIRTs should be able to participate in international cooperation networks, including with CSIRTs outside the Union, in addition to the CSIRTs network established by this Directive.
2021/06/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 161 #

2020/0359(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 48
(48) In order to streamline the legal obligations imposed on providers of public electronic communications networks or publicly available electronic communications services, and trust service providers related to the security of their network and information systems, as well as to enable those entities and their respective competent authorities to benefit from the legal framework established by this Directive (including designation of CSIRT responsible for risk and incident handling, participation of competent authorities and bodies in the work of the Cooperation Group and the CSIRT network), they should be included in the scope of application of this Directive. The corresponding provisions laid down in Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council22 and Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council23 related to the imposition of security and notification requirement on these types of entities should therefore be repealed. The rules on reporting obligations should be without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council24 . _________________ 22Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC (OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, p. 73). 23Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (OJ L 321, 17.12.2018, p. 36).rules on reporting obligations should be without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council24 . _________________ 24Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (Directive on privacy and electronic communications) (OJ L 201, 31.7.2002, p. 37).
2021/06/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 251 #

2020/0359(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 13
(13) ‘domain name system (DNS)’ means a hierarchical, distributed naming system which allows end-is usersd to reach identify Internet services and resources on the internet;, allowing end user devices to make use of Internet routing and connectivity services to reach those services and resources.
2021/06/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 300 #

2020/0359(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. A policy specifically addressing the ransomware threat and disrupting the ransomware business model.
2021/06/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 465 #

2020/0359(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. ENISA, in cooperation with the Cooperation Group, shall develop common notification templates by means of guidelines that would simplify and streamline the reporting information requested by Union law.
2021/06/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 591 #

2020/0359(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 39
Article 1939 deleted Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 is deleted.
2021/06/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 113 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) Over the last few years, digital technologies have transformed the economy and society, affecting all sectors of activity and daily life. Data is at the centre of this transformation: data-driven innovation will bring enormous benefits for citizens, for example through improved personalised medicine, new mobility, and its contribution to the European Green Deal23 . The data economy has to be built in a way to enable companies, especially micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to thrive, ensuring data access neutrality, portability and interoperability. In its Data Strategy24 , the Commission described the vision of a common European data space, a Single Market for data in which data could be used irrespective of its physical location of storage in the Union in compliance with applicable law, which can be pivotal for the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence technologies. It also called for the free and safe flow of data with third countries, subject to exceptions and restrictions for public security, public order and other legitimate public policy objectives of the European Union, in line with international obligations. In order to turn that vision into reality, it proposes to establish domain- specific common European data spaces, as the concrete arrangements in which data sharing and data pooling can happen. As foreseen in that strategy, such common European data spaces can cover areas such as health, mobility, manufacturing, financial services, energy, or agriculture or thematic areas, such as the European green deal or European data spaces for public administration or skills. _________________ 23Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the European Green Deal. Brussels, 11.12.2019. (COM(2019) 640 final) 24 COM (2020) 66 final.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 130 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) Action at Union level is necessary in order to address the barriers to a well- functioning data-driven economy and to create a. A Union-wide governance framework for data accessshould have the objective of building trust among individuals and companies for data access, control, sharing, use and re-use, in particular regarding the re-use of certain types of data held by the public sector, the provision of services by data sharing providers to business users and to data subjects, as well as the collection and processing of data made available for altruistic purposes by natural and legal persons.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 147 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) Prohibited exclusive agreements and other practices or arrangements between data holders and data re-userpertaining to the re-use of data held by public sector bodies which do not expressly grant exclusive rights but which can reasonably be expected to restrict the availability of data for re-use that have been concluded or have been already in place before the entry into force of this Regulation should not be renewed after the expiration of their term. In the case of indefinite or longer-term agreements, they should be terminated within three years from the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 153 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) Conditions for re-use of protected data that apply to public sector bodies competent under national law to allow re- use, and which should be without prejudice to rights or obligations concerning access to such data, should be laid down. Those conditions should be non-discriminatory, proportionate and, objectively justified, while not restricting and in line with competition law. In particular, public sector bodies allowing re- use should have in place the technical means necessary to ensure the protection of rights and interests of third parties. Conditions attached to the re-use of data should be limited to what is necessary to preserve the rights and interests of others in the data and the integrity of the information technology and communication systems of the public sector bodies. Public sector bodies should apply conditions which best serve the interests of the re-user without leading to a disproportionate effort for the public sector. Depending on the case at hand, before its transmission, personal data should be fully anonymised, so as to definitively not allow the identification of the data subjects, or data containing commercially confidential information modified in such a way that no confidential information is disclosed. Where provision of anonymised or modified data would not respond to the needs of the re-user, on- premise or remote re-use of the data within a secure processing environment could be permitted. Data analyses in such secure processing environments should be supervised by the public sector body, so as to protect the rights and interests of others. In particular, personal data should only be transmitted for re-use to a third party where a legal basis allows such transmission. The public sector body could make the use of such secure processing environment conditional on the signature by the re-user of a confidentiality agreement that prohibits the disclosure of any information that jeopardises the rights and interests of third parties that the re-user may have acquired despite the safeguards put in place. The public sector bodies, where relevant, should facilitate the re-use of data on the basis of consent of data subjects or permissions of legal persons on the re-use of data pertaining to them through adequate technical means. In this respect, the public sector body should support potential re-users in seeking such consent by establishing technical mechanisms that permit transmitting requests for consent from re-users, where practically feasible. No contact information should be given that allows re-users to contact data subjects or companies directly.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 184 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
(20) Public sector bodies should be able to charge fees for the re-use of data but. Such fees should be reasonable, transparent, published online and non-discriminatory. Public sector bodies should also be able to decide to make the data available at lower or no cost, for example for certain categories of re-uses such as non- commercial re-use, or re-use by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, so as to incentivise such re-use in order to stimulate research and innovation and support companies that are an important source of innovation and typically find it more difficult to collect relevant data themselves, in line with State aid rules. Such fees should be reasonable, transparent, published online and non- discriminatory. The list of categories of re- users for which discounted or no fees apply should be made public together with the criteria used to establish such list, in line with State aid rules and competition law.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 200 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
(24) Data cooperatives seek to strengthen the position of individuals in making informed choices before consenting to data use, influencing the terms and conditions of data user organisations attached to data use or potentially solving disputes between members of a group on how data can be used when such data pertain to several data subjects within that group. In this context it is important to acknowledge that the rights under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 can only be exercised by each individual and cannot be conferred or delegated to a data cooperative. Data cooperatives could also provide a useful means for one-person companies, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises that in terms of knowledge of data sharing, are often comparable to individuals. Upon request and informed consent of their associated members, cooperatives - which detain the data of their members for the realisation of their economic, social and cultural purposes - should be identifiable as "data cooperatives".
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 205 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) In order to increase trust in such data sharing services, in particular related to the use of data and the compliance with the conditions imposed by data holders, it is necessary to create a Union-level regulatory framework, which would set out highly harmonised requirements related to the trustworthy provision of such data sharing services. This will contribute to ensuring that data holders and data users have better control over the access to and use of their data, in accordance with Union law. Both in situations where data sharing occurs in a business-to-business context and where it occurs in a business-to- consumer context, data sharing providers should offer a novel, ‘European’ way of data governance, by providing a separation in the data economy between data provision, intermediation and use, which is at the core of increasing such trust among data holders, be they individuals or companies. Providers of data sharing services may also make available specific technical infrastructure for the interconnection of data holders and data users.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 250 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40
(40) In order to successfully implement the data governance framework, a European Data Innovation Board should be established, in the form of an expert group. The Board should consist of representatives of the Member States, the Commission and representatives of relevant data spaces and specific sectors (such as health, agriculture, transport and statistics), the EU SME Envoy or a representative appointed by the network of SME envoys and representatives of relevant Agencies. The European Data Protection Board should be invited to appoint a representative to the European Data Innovation Board. Representatives of national, trans-national or Common European data spaces, businesses, researchers and civil society should be invited regularly to participate in the work of the Board. The Board should meet in different configurations, depending on the subjects to be discussed.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 298 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) ‘personal data’ means any information relating to a data subject as defined in point (1) of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 299 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
(2 b) 'data subject' means an identified or identifiable natural person as referred to in point (1) of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 329 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a (new)
(10 a) 'data cooperative' means an organisation supporting its members, who are data subjects or one-person companies, micro, small and medium- sized enterprises, in making informed choices before consenting to data processing, or in negotiating terms and conditions for data processing and data sharing;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 331 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 b (new)
(10 b) 'purposes of general interest' means purposes established by national law and national competent authorities including and not limited to healthcare, official statistics, improving the provision of public services, supporting research;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 361 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1
(1) Public sector bodies which are (1) competent under national law to grant or refuse access for the re-use of one or more of the categories of data referred to in Article 3 (1) shall make publicly available the conditions for allowing such re-use and the procedure to request the re-use. In that task, they may be assisted by the competent bodies referred to in Article 7 (1).
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 366 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
(2) Conditions for re-use shall be non- discriminatory, proportionate and objectively justified with regard to categories of data and purposes of re-use and the nature of the data for which re-use is allowed. These conditions shall not be used to restrictbe in line with competition law.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 370 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3
(3) Public sector bodies may impose an obligation to re-use only pre-viously processed data where such pre-processing, performed by the public sector itself, aims to anonymize or pseudonymise personal data or delete commercially confidential information, including trade secrets. or content protected by Intellectual Property Rights;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 386 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5
(5) The public sector bodies shall impose conditions that preserve the integrity of the functioning of the technical systems of the secure processing environment used, including high level cybersecurity standards. The public sector body shall be able to verify any results of processing of data undertaken by the re- user and reserve the right to prohibit the use of results that contain information jeopardising the rights and interests of third parties.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 410 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 11
(11) Where specific Union acts adopted in accordance with a legislative procedure establish that certain non-personal data categories held by public sector bodies shall be deemed to be highly sensitive for the purposes of this Article, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 28 supplementing this Regulation by laying down special conditions applicable for transfers to third-countries. The conditions for the transfer to third-countries shall be based on the nature of data categories identified in the Union act and on the grounds for deeming them highly sensitive, non-discriminatory and limited to what is necessary to achieve the public policy objectives identified in the Union law act, such as safety and public health, as well as risks of re-identification of anonymized data for data subjects, in accordance with the Union’s international obligations. They may include terms applicable for the transfer or technical arrangements in this regard, limitations as regards the re-use of data in third-countries or categories of persons which are entitled to transfer such data to third countries or, in exceptional cases, restrictions as regards transfers to third- countriesshall be non-discriminatory, proportionate and limited to what is necessary to achieve the public policy objectives identified in the Union law act.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 422 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
(2) Any fees shall be non- discriminatory, proportionate and objectively justified and shall not restrictbe in line with competition law.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 429 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4
(4) Where they apply fees, public sector bodies shall take measures to incentivise the re-use of the categories of data referred to in Article 3 (1) for non- commercial purposes and bythe re-use by micro and small and medium-sized enterprises in line with State aid rules.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 430 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 a (new)
(4 a) Public sector bodies may set up a list of categories of re-users for which data is made available at reduced or no cost, which shall be published together with the criteria used to establish such list and which shall have the objective to foster a wider re-use of the categories of data referred to in Article 3(1) and accessibility by a wider range of re-users, in line with State aid rules and competition law;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 437 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) providing technical support in the application of tested techniques ensuring data processing in a manner that preserves privacy of the information contained in the data for which re-use is allowed, including techniques for pseudonymisation, anonymisation, generalisation, suppression and randomisation of personal data and the deletion of commercially confidential information, including trade secrets or content protected by Intellectual Property Rights;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 456 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3
(3) Requests for the re-use of the categories of data referred to in Article 3 (1) shall be granted or refused by the competent public sector bodies or the competent bodies referred to in Article 7 (1) within a reasonable timethe shortest delay, and in any case within two months from the date of the request.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 462 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) services of data cooperatives, that is to say services supporting data subjects or one-person companies or micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, who are members of the cooperative or who confer the power to the cooperative to negotiate terms and conditions for data processing before they consent, in making informed choices before consenting to data processing, and allowing for mechanisms to exchange views on data processing purposes and conditions that would best represent the interests of data subjects or legal persons.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 503 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) the metadata collected from the provision of the data sharing service may be used only for the development of that service and should be made available to the data holders upon request;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 512 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) the provider shall have procedures in place to prevent and monitor potential fraudulent or abusive practices in relation to access to data from parties seeking access through their services;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 514 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(6) the provider shall ensure a reasonable continuity of provision of its services and, in the case of services which ensure storage of data, shall have sufficient guarantees in place that allow data holders and data users to obtain access to and to retrieve their data in case of insolvency of the provider;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 521 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point 8
(8) the provider shall take measures to ensure a high level of security, including cybersecurity standards, for the storage and transmission of non-personal data;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 536 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3
(3) The designated competent authorities, the data protection authorities, the national competition authorities, the authorities in charge of cybersecurity, and other relevant sectorial authorities shall build up a strong cooperation and exchange the information which is necessary for the exercise of their tasks in relation to data sharing providers.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 539 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 3
(3) Where the competent authority finds that a provider of data sharing services does not comply with one or more of the requirements laid down in Article 10 or 11, it shall notify that provider of those findings and give it the opportunity to state its views, within a reasonable time limitthe shortest delay.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 607 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
(1) Any entity entered in the register of recognised data altruism organisations shall inform data holderssubjects and legal entities in a clear and easy-to-understand manner:
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 612 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) about the purposes of general interest for which it permits the processing of their data by a data user in an easy-to- understand manner;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 670 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1
(1) The Commission shall establish a European Data Innovation Board (“the Board”) in the form of an Expert Group, consisting of the representatives of competent authorities of all the Member States, the European Data Protection Board, the Commission, relevant data spacethe EU SME Envoy or a representative appointed by the network of SME envoys and other representatives of relevant Agencies or competent authorities in specific sectors.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 677 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
(2) Stakeholders and relevant third parties may, including representatives of national, trans-national or Common European data spaces, businesses, researchers, civil society shall be invited regularly to attend meetings of the Board and to participate in its work.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 692 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to advise and assist the Commission in developing a consistent practice of the competent authorities in the application of requirements applicable to data sharing providers and data altruism organisations;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 699 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) to assist the Commission in addressing fragmentation of the data economy in the single market by enhancing the interoperability of data as well as data sharing services between different sectors and domains, building on existing European, international or national standards, inter alia with the aim of encouraging the creation of Common European data spaces;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 713 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(e a) to advise the Commission in the decision of adopting implementing acts referred to in article 5 (9);
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 714 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point e b (new)
(e b) to assist the Commission in the discussions conducted at bilateral, plurilateral or multilateral level with third countries aimed at improving the regulatory environment for non-personal data, including standardisation, at global level;
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 737 #

2020/0340(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
By [fourtwo years after the data of application of this Regulation], the Commission shall carry out an evaluation of this Regulation, and submit a report on its main findings to the European Parliament and to the Council as well as to the European Economic and Social Committee. Member States shall provide the Commission with the information necessary for the preparation of that report.
2021/04/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 225 #

2020/0310(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
(16) In full respect of Article 153(5) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, this Directive neither aims to harmonise the level of minimum wages across the Union nor to establish an uniform mechanism for setting minimum wages. It does not interfere with the freedom of Member States to set statutory minimum wages or promote access to minimum wage protection provided by collective agreements, according to the traditions and specificities of each country and in full respect of national competences and social partners’ contractual freedom. This Directive does not impose an obligation on the Member States where minimum wage protection is ensured exclusively via collective agreements to introduce a statutory minimum wage nor to make the collective agreements universally applicable. Also, this Directive does not establish the level of pay, which falls within the contractual freedom of the social partners at national level and within the relevant competence of Member States. The purpose of this Directive is not to impose any obligation for Member States to take measures demanding the introduction of statutory minimum wages or measures implying that the social partners have an equivalent obligation. This Directive does not oblige Member States to grant access to minimum wage protection to all workers. Such an obligation would directly interfere with Article 153(5) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Nothing in this Directive should be construed as creating rights for individuals.
2021/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 372 #

2020/0310(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 29
(29) This Directive lays down minimum requirements, thus leaving untouched Member States' prerogative to introduce and maintain more favourable provisions. Rights acquired under the existing national legal framework in Sweden and Denmark should continue to apply, unless more favourable provisions are introduced by in accordance to the derogation in Article 1(3) and Article 16(2) of this Directive. The implementation of this Directive cannot be used to reduce existing rights for workers, nor can it constitute valid grounds for reducing the general level of protection afforded to workers in the field covered by this Directive.
2021/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 389 #

2020/0310(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. With a view to improving working and living conditions in the Union, this Directive establishes a framework for the promotion of:
2021/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 409 #

2020/0310(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) access of workers to minimum wage protection, in the form of wages set out byby promoting access to collective agreementsbargaining or in the form of a statutory minimum wage in Member States where it exists.
2021/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 421 #

2020/0310(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 3
3. Nothing in this Directive shall be construed as imposing an obligation on the Member States where wage setting is ensured exclusivemainly via collective agreements to introduce a statutory minimum wage nor to make the collective agreements universally applicable or affect the contractual freedom of the social partners to negotiate, monitor and set wages through collective agreements. This Directive does not oblige Member States to grant access to minimum wage protection to all workers, nor shall it create any obligation on the Member States as regards the level or conditions for the setting of wages.
2021/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 573 #

2020/0310(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The national criteria referred to in paragraph 1 shall include at least the following elementwhose relevance and relative weight shall be decided by Member States in accordance with their prevailing national socio-economic conditions:
2021/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 863 #

2020/0310(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that, without prejudice to specific forms of redress and dispute resolution provided for, where applicable, in collective agreements, workers, including those whose employment relationship has ended, have access to effective and impartial dispute resolution and a right to redress, including adequate compensation, in the case of infringements of their rightsexisting national law or collective agreements provide for relating to statutory minimum wages or minimum wage protection provided by collective agreements and such rights have been infringed.
2021/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 880 #

2020/0310(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall take the measures necessary to protect workers, including those who are workers’ representatives, from any adverse treatment by the employer and from any adverse consequences resulting from a complaint lodged with the employer or resulting from any proceedings initiated with the aim of enforcing compliance with the rights relating to statutory minimum wages or minimum wage protection provided by collective agreements.provided for in existing national law or collective agreements relating to minimum wage protection
2021/05/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 24 #

2020/0141(NLE)

Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Decision 2008/376/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 2
The Research Programme shall provide support for collaborative research in the coal and steel sectors. The Research Programme shall also provide support for clean steel breakthrough technologies leading to near zero-carbon steel making projects and research projects for managing the just transition of formerly operating coal mines or coal mines in the process of closure and related infrastructure in line with the Just Transition Mechanism and in compliance with Article 4(2) of Council Decision 2003/76/EC1a and shall be open for the participation of, inter alia, small and medium sized enterprises. The Research Programme shall be consistent with the political, scientific, and technological objectives of the Union, and shall complement the activities carried out in the Member States and within the existing EU research programmes, in particular the fHorizon Europe – the Framework pProgramme for rResearch, technological development and demonstration activities (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Research Framework Programme’ and Innovation (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Research Framework Programme’).; _________________ 1aCouncil Decision 2003/76/EC of 1 February 2003 establishing the measures necessary for the implementation of the Protocol, annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community, on the financial consequences of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty and on the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (OJ L 29, 5.2.2003).;
2021/01/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 35 #

2020/0141(NLE)

Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Decision 2008/376/EC
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point (b)
(b) use of geothermal energy on former coal sites and hydrogen production and storage;
2021/01/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 90 #

2020/0141(NLE)

Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
2008/376/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 1 –point (g)
(g) high-performance steels for applications like mobility, including sustainability, eco-design methods, retrofitting, lightweight design and/or safety solution, such as high-strength steels.;
2021/01/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 92 #

2020/0141(NLE)

Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
2008/376/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point (b)
(b) treatment of waste and recovery of valuable secondary raw materials, including slags, inside and outside the steel plant, as well as re-use of secondary raw materials, residues and by-products from other industries, such as biomass, for steel making and alloying;
2021/01/26
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 145 #

2020/0036(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) By 30 June 2021, the Commission shall review and propose to revise where necessary all policy and instruments relevant to the achievement of the Union´s 2030 climate target and to achieve the climate neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1). In this regard, the Unions increased targets require the EU Emissions Trading System to be fit for purpose, the Commission shall therefore rapidly review the ETS Directive and strengthen the Innovation Fund thereunder to further create financial incentives for new technology, boosting growth, competitiveness, support for clean technologies, while ensuring that the strengthening of the Innovation Fund contributes to the process of a Just Transition.
2020/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 249 #

2020/0036(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 9 to supplement this Regulation by setting outBy 31 May 2023 the Commission shall assess on the basis of the criteria set out in paragraph 3 of this Article, the structure and design of a trajectory at Union level to achieve the climate- neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) until 2050. At the latest wi, and make an appropriate legislative proposal to that effect. The Commission shall no later thian six months after each global stocktake referred to in Article 14 of the Paris Agreement, the Commission shall review the trajectory. The Commission shall make a legislative proposal to adjust the trajectory where is considers this appropriate as a result of the review.
2020/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 286 #

2020/0036(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) best available technology, while respecting the concept of technological neutrality and the need for research in or investments in mature new, promising technology, avoiding any possible lock-in effect;
2020/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 355 #

2020/0036(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j c (new)
(j c) compatibility with the national territorial just transition plans;
2020/06/09
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 63 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) The transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy constitutes one of the most important policy objectives for the Union. On 12 December 2019, the European Council endorsed the objective of achieving a climate-neutral Union by 2050, in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. While fighting climate change and environmental degradation will benefit all in the long term and provides opportunities and challenges for all in the medium term, not all regions and Member States start their transition from the same point or have the same capacity to respond. Some are more advanced than others, whereas the transition entails a wider social and economic impact for those regions that rely heavily on fossil fuels - especially coal, lignite, peat and oil shale - or greenhouse gas intensive industries or industries with products that are impacted by the transition to EU climate neutrality. Such a situation not only creates the risk of a variable speed transition in the Union as regards climate action, but also of growing disparities between regions, detrimental to the objectives of social, economic and territorial cohesion.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 82 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) This Regulation establishes the Just Transition Fund (‘JTF’) which is one of the pillars of the Just Transition Mechanism implemented under cohesion policy. The aim of the JTF is to mitigate the adverse effects of the climate transition by supporting the most affected territories and workers concerned, and by laying down the foundations for the transition towards climate neutrality and creating new employment opportunities for those affected by this transition. In line with the JTF specific objective, actions supported by the JTF should directly contribute to alleviate the impact of the transition by financing the diversification and modernisation of the local economy and by mitigating the negative repercussions on employment. This is reflected in the JTF specific objective, which is established at the same level and listed together with the policy objectives set out in Article [4] of Regulation EU [new CPR].
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 104 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) The resources from the JTF should complement the resources available under cohesion policy without cutting into the ERDF and ESF+ budget.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 111 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) Transitioning to a climate-neutral economy is a challenge for all Member States. It will be particularly demanding for those Member States and certain regions within those Member States that rely heavily on fossil fuels or greenhouse gas intensive industrial activities or industries with products that are impacted by the transition to EU climate neutrality, which need to be phased out or which need to adapt due to the transition towards climate neutrality and that lack the financial means to do so. The JTF should therefore cover all Member States, but the distribution of its financial means should reflect the capacity of Member States, at the same time leading to an increased risk of energy poverty. The JTF should therefore cover all Member States committed to the Union's 2050 climate neutrality target, but the distribution of its financial means should reflect the capacity starting position of Member States in the energy transition process as well as their capacity to finance the necessary investments to cope with the transition towards EU climate neutrality by 2050.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 126 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) This Regulation identifies types of investments for which expenditure may be supported by the JTF. All supported activities should be pursued in full respect of the climate and environmental priorities of the Union. The list of investments should include those that support local economies and are sustainable in the long- term, taking into account all the objectives of the Green Deal. The projects financed should contribute to a transition to a climate-neutral and circular economyprimarily focus on mitigating negative economic and social impacts of the transition and contribute to a transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy, while taking into account economic, social and energy characteristics of each Member State. Investments in transitional energy sources such as natural gas shall be eligible for support if such investments lead to a substantial reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and allow for the use of renewable gas as a sustainable alternative. For declining sectors, such as energy production based on coal, lignite, peat and oil shale or extraction activities for these solid fossil fuels, support should be linked to the phasing out of the activity and the corresponding reduction in the employment level. As regards transforming sectors with high greenhouse gas emission levels, support should promote new activities through the deployment of new technologies, new processes or products, leading to significant emission reduction, in line with the EU 2030 climate objectives and EU climate neutrality by 205013 while maintaining and enhancing employment and avoiding environmental degradation. Particular attention should also be given to activities enhancing innovation and research in advanced and sustainable technologies, as well as in the fields of digitalisation and connectivity and smart mobility, provided that such measures help mitigate the negative side effects of a transition towards, and contribute to, a climate- neutral and circular economy. __________________ 13 As set out in “A Clean Planet for all European strategic long-term vision for a prosperous, modern, competitive and climate neutral economy”, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank - COM(2018) 773 final.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 137 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) Many sectors other than the energy sector will undergo serious transformation with significant implications to their labour force. The automotive and vehicle production industries will be one of those hit hardest by the transition. In order to avoid significant work loss as a result of decreased or disrupted production, regions which depend heavily on the automotive industry should be eligible for JTF resources. While Europe is stepping up efforts to manufacture batteries locally as well as manufacturing low-pollution vehicles, the re-skilling and upskilling of automotive industry workers should go hand-in-hand with investment into transforming the automotive sector. As the share of automotive employment in the manufacturing sector is above 20%, in more than 14 regions across the EU, this would ensure that regions that are overdependent on the automotive industry are safeguarded in the increasingly likely event of a decline in the sector.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 142 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) To protect citizens who are most vulnerable to the climate transition, the JTF should also cover the up-skilling and reskilling of the affected workers, focusing on skills and qualifications that are compatible with the transition to a sustainable and digital economy, with the aim of helping them to adapt to new employment opportunities, as well as providing job-search assistance to jobseekers and their active inclusion into the labour market.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 150 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) In order to enhance the economic diversification and modernisation of territories impacted by the transition, the JTF should provide support to productive investment in SMEs. Productive investment should be understood as investment in fixed capital or immaterial assets of enterprises in view of producing goods and services thereby contributing to gross-capital formation and employment. In this regard, particular attention should be paid to SMEs operating in regions with higher unemployment rates. For enterprises other than SMEs, productive investments should only be supported if they are necessary for mitigating job losses resulting from the transition, by creating or protecting a significant number of jobs and they do not lead to or result from relocation. Investments in existing industrial facilities, including those covered by the Union Emissions Trading System, should be allowed if they contribute to the transition to a climate- neutral economy by 2050 and go substantially below the relevant benchmarks established for free allocation under Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council14 and if they result in the protection of a significant number of jobs. Any such investment should be justified accordingly in the relevant territorial just transition plan. In order to protect the integrity of the internal market and cohesion policy, support to undertakings should comply with Union State aid rules as set out in Articles 107 and 108 TFEU and, in particular, support to productive investments by enterprises other than SMEs should be limited to enterprises located in areas designated as assisted areas for the purposes of points (a) and (c) of Article 107(3) TFEU. All investments shall be made without prejudice to the energy efficiency first and polluter pays principles. __________________ 14Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32).
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 177 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) The territorial just transition plans should, after a thorough consultation process with local authorities and representatives, identify the territories most negatively affected, where JTF support should be concentrated and describe specific actions to be undertaken to reach aminimise the negative social impact while contributing to EU climate-neutral economy by 2050, notably as regards the conversion, modernisation, or closure of facilities involving fossil fuel production or other greenhouse gas intensive activities. or industries with products that are impacted by the transition to EU climate neutrality. Those territories should be precisely defined and correspond to NUTS level 3 regions or should be parts thereof. The plans should detail the challenges and needs of those territories and identify the type of operations needed in a manner that ensures the coherent development of climate-resilient economic activities that are also consistent with the transition to climate-neutrality and the objectives of the Green Deal. Only investments in accordance with the transition plans should receive financial support from the JTF. The territorial just transition plans should be part of the programmes (supported by the ERDF, the ESF+, the Cohesion Fund or the JTF, as the case may be) which are approved and monitored by the Commission.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 201 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes the Just Transition Fund (‘JTF’) to provide support to territories or economic activities facing serious socio-economic challenges deriving from the transition process towards a climate-neutral economy of the Union by 2050 and the Union's 2030 target.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 214 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article [4(1)] of Regulation (EU) [new CPR], the JTF shall contribute to the single specific objective ‘enabling regions, economic operators and people to address the social, economic and environmental impacts of the transition towards an EU climate- neutral economyand circular economy by 2050’.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 219 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The JTF shall support the Investment for jobs and growth goal in all Member States that are committed to the Union's 2050 climate neutrality target. The JTF should prioritise regions heavily dependent on solid fossil fuels, with greenhouse gas intensive industrial activities or industries with products that are impacted by the transition to EU climate neutrality.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 229 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The resources for the JTF under the Investment for jobs and growth goal available for budgetary commitment for the period 2021-2027 shall be EUR 17.588 billion in 2018 prices, which may be increased, as the case may be, by additional resources allocated in the Union budget, and by other resources in accordance with the applicable basic act.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 243 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
In accordance with paragraph 1, the JTF shall exclusively support the following activities:
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 266 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d
(d) investments in the deployment of technology and infrastructures for affordable clean energy, in greenhouse gas emission reduction, energy efficiency and renewable energy;charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, energy efficiency and renewable energy, including storage technologies to enable alternatives such as sustainable mobility, including freight transport in urban areas, or building renovation, among others.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 278 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) investments related to the production, processing, distribution, storage or combustion of gas, provided that it is used as a bridging technology replacing coal, lignite, peat, oil shale and delivers significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. These investments should allow for the use of renewable gas at a later stage.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 288 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) investments in district heating;
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 294 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d b (new)
(db) ensuring security of energy supply;
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 295 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d c (new)
(dc) investments in the deployment of technology and infrastructure for affordable clean and smart mobility contributing to greenhouse gas emission reduction and to the diversification of mobility solutions;
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 302 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point e
(e) investments in digitalisation and digital connectivity; in particular investments facilitating the transition towards a circular economy and climate neutrality, including using digital technologies and data in agriculture, farming, forestry and food industries, in particular for the upgrade of broadband in rural and remote areas.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 357 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the decommissioning or the construction of nuclear power stations;deleted
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 372 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) investment related to the production, processing, distribution, storage or combustion of solid fossil fuels;
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 415 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) a justification for identifying the territories or economic activities as most negatively affected by the transition process referred to in point (a) and to be supported by the JTF, in accordance with paragraph 1;
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 459 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Territorial just transition plans shall be publicly available.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 462 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3
3. Where a JTF priority supports the activities referred to in points (h), (i) or (j) of Article 4(2), data on the indicators for participants shall only be transmitted where all the data relating to that participant, required in accordance with Annex III are available, while ensuring strict data protection rules.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 467 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Where the Commission concludes, based on the examination of the final performance report of the programme, that there is a failure to achieve at least 675% of the target established for one or more output or result indicators for the JTF resources, it may make financial corrections pursuant to Article [98] of Regulation (EU) [new CPR] by reducing the support from the JTF to the priority concerned in proportion to the achievements.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 472 #

2020/0006(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4
4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State and conduct stakeholder consultation in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making.
2020/05/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 64 #

2019/2214(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Welcomes the idea that the Parliament is committed to create a built environment accessible to all users; stresses that works to improve the accessibility for peoplrsons with disabilities and those with reduced mobility already started in Strasbourg and that the projects will continue in 2021 in both Brussels and Strasbourg, but also in six EPLOs; asks to continue the renovation of its adaptations in all other buildings of the Parliament by committing to the functional accessibility requirements for the built environment laid down in Annex III of the Directive (EU) 2019/882, and by referring to relevant international and European standards to fulfil those requirements in procurement procedures so members, staff and visitors with disabilities and those with reduced mobility can access the buildings and make use of its facilities on an equal basis with others in line with the obligations set by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
2020/03/12
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 67 #

2019/2214(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Calls to undertake the additional necessary adaptation and renovation of the Parliament's buildings to ensure accessibility for persons with disabilities, and to ensure adequate budget to provide reasonable accommodations to persons with disabilities when necessary;
2020/03/12
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 2 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets that the Member States have so far not managed to reach an agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 and the reform of the own resources system, which puts at risk the timely start of the new programmes and thus the Union’s ability to achieve its political priorities; notes that the MFF is the basis for the annual budget and that, in the absence of an MFF regulation, guidelines on the 2021 budget can only reflect Parliament’s general position on the MFF;
2020/02/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 24 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the new Heading 1 (‘Single Market, Innovation and Digital’) will be instrumental for boosting innovation-led, sustainable economic growth and contributing to the transition towards a climate-neutral society in line with the Paris Agreement; highlights furthermore the importance of the new Heading 5 (‘Security and Defence’), which includes the new European Defence Fund and essential funds for nuclear safety and decommissioning;
2020/02/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 38 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls Parliament’s position on the overall financial envelope for Horizon Europe of EUR 120 billion (in 2018 prices); calls on the Commission in this regard to present the 2021 draft budget accordingly to ensure that research and innovation activities will continuebe ambitiously funded without disruption, including in areas that are essential for the EU’s strategic autonomy and benefit its citizens and society, such as digital transformation, healthcare and space; recalls in this context the importance of fundamental research;
2020/02/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 58 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that all areas of the budget, including its revenue side, need to contribute to the overall goals of the European Green Deal and the UN Sustainable Development Goals; recalls in this context the importance of the introduction of a Just Transition Fund to address societal, socio-economic and environmental impacts on workers and communities adversely affected by the transition from coal and carbon dependence, and calls for solid financing of the fund in order to maximise the leverage effect, but not at the expense of other EU programmes;
2020/02/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 71 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for an ambitious draft budget, in particular forwhich needs to become operational as soon as possible in order to help make the EU more competitive; recognises in particular the important role of new programmes such as the Digital Europe Programme, which needaims to become operational oost investments in vital future areas soonuch as possible in order to help make the EU more competsupercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and advanced digital skills, thereby maximising the benefits of digitalisation and strengthening the EU’s technological capacitives;
2020/02/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 78 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of SMEs as an essential part of the EU economy, as they provide a high number of jobs in the EU, account for a majority of new jobs created and play a vital role in research and innovation and in the uptake of R&I results; urges the Commission therefore to ensure a smooth transition from COSME to the new Single Market Programme and from the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and other financial instruments to InvestEU; stresses the need to facilitate access to finance for SMEs and recalls in this context the role of the European Innovation Council (EIC) in supporting top class innovators, entrepreneurs and small companies;
2020/02/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 87 #

2019/2213(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Recalls Parliament's position on the overall financial envelope of the space programme of EUR 15 billion (in 2018 prices); calls on the Commission in this regard to present the 2021 draft budget accordingly to ensure an ambitious EU space policy; underlines the need for sufficient funding of the European GNSS Agency (GSA) to guarantee it is able to carry out all the new missions it has been entrusted with;
2020/02/20
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 29 #

2019/2098(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Encourages the agencies to pursue the development of a real policy for the digitalization of its services
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2019/2098(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Encourages the Agencies to develop a long term Human Resources Policy Framework which addresses the work-life balance of its staff, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the non discrimination, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of disabled people;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 49 #

2019/2098(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Notes with concern that low correction coefficients applied to staff salaries create difficult situations that may hamper an agency's ability to effectively perform its daily duties and lead to high levels of staff turnover; stresses that Agencies located in countries where a low correction coefficient is applied should receive further support from the Commission for implementing complementary measures in order to make them more attractive to current and prospective staff, such as establishing European schools and other facilities; calls on the Commission to assess the impact and viability of applying salary correction coefficients in the future;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 52 #

2019/2098(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Notes with concern from the Court’s report that shortcomings were found related to excessive dependency on contractors, external consultancy and interims, to the use of inadequate award criteria and the conclusion of contracts with abnormally low tenderers without reasonable justification; notes that several agencies have outsourced, extensively, regular activities and occasionally core business activities, which weakens the internal expertise and control over contract execution, with some weaknesses in the procurement process which may impair fair competition and the achievement of best value for money procurements; notes that for six agencies the framework contract terms for the provision of IT maintenance and equipment were weak, as they allowed the purchase of items not specifically mentioned therein and not subject to an initial competitive procedure, and it also allowed the contractor to charge uplifts on the prices of items purchased from other suppliers; notes that although agencies have no power to change the basic contractual arrangements, their related ex - ante controls did not check the accuracy of the up-lifts charged by the contractor; calls on all agencies and bodies of the Union to strictly abide by public procurement rules; underlines that digitalisation is a great opportunity for the agencies to increase efficiency and transparency, including in the field of procurement; calls, therefore, on all agencies and bodies to rapidly finalize and implement e-tendering, e- submission, e-invoicing and e-forms for public procurement;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 58 #

2019/2098(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Notes with concern that not all agencies and bodies of the Union have published on their respective websites the declarations of interest for members of the management boards, executive leadership and seconded experts; regrets that some agencies still publish declarations of absence of conflict of interest; highlights that it is not up to the board members or executives to declare themselves out of conflict of interest; calls for a unified model of declarations of interest to be implemented by all agencies; stresses the importance of establishing an independent ethics body to assess conflict of interest and revolving doors situations throughout the institutions, agencies and other bodies of the Union; urges the Member States to ensure that all seconded experts publish their respective declarations of interest and CVs on the respective agency websites;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 61 #

2019/2098(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22 b. Notes that, in spite of whistle- blowing rules being in place in all agencies and other bodies of the Union, there are hardly any cases reported, raising concern of either staff not being aware of existing rules, or a lack of trust in the system; points out the necessity of an independent disclosure, advice and referral body, with sufficient budgetary resources, in order to support and ensure the proper implementation of whistle- blowing rules and procedures;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 63 #

2019/2098(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)
22 c. Considers regrettable that there are still no clear guidelines and a consolidated policy on the revolving doors issue; stresses the fact that this issue is of key importance, particularly in the case of those agencies working with the industries; calls on the Commission to provide stronger rules, better controls and clear guidelines on cooling-off periods for out-going staff and other revolving-doors related measures;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 73 #

2019/2098(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Encourages strongly the agencies to implement the court's recommendations
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2019/2094(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. notes with concern from the Court’s report that on 4 May 2018, the Office signed a framework contract with one company for the provision of clerical and secretarial support services for a duration of 4 years for a maximum amount of 433 000 euros (2018 payments: 27 655 euros) and as from June 2018 on average four of that company’s staff were working at the Office in addition to its own 27 employees. stresses that the use of this service contract for the provision of labour is not in compliance with Union's social and employment rules and exposes the Office to legal and reputational risks; calls on the Office to redress the situation and report back to the discharge authority;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2094(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Encourages the Office to pursue the digitalization of its services;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2019/2094(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Regrets the gender imbalance within the Office's management board members, with 24 out of 29 being male, 5 being female; asks in this regard the Commission and the Member States to take into account the importance of ensuring gender balance when presenting their nominations for members of the Board;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2019/2094(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes with concern that in 2017 the average employment period in the Office was only 2,7 years which is reflected in a high staff turnover; understands that the Office struggles to attract professionals, inter alia because of the low salary correction coefficient of the host country (74,9%); stresses that the high staff turnover highlights possible problems with the Office’s revolving door policy; calls on the Agency to re-evaluate its revolving policy; expresses its concern that the reduction of the posts authorised under the Union budget in recent years together with the additional tasks acquired have increased the workload of the Office’s staff; points out that this situation may pose risks to the implementation of its work programmes; observes that the Office works towards improving the employment conditions for its staff, and that in 2018 the Office started the implementation of an action plan for social welfare; calls on the Office to find further possibilities for improving the working and living conditions for the staff with the Latvian authorities aiming at the conclusion of a new Headquarters Agreement;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2019/2094(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Recognises that the Office has finally adopted its guidelines on whistleblowing on 7 December 2018;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2019/2093(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalization of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2093(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Reiterates its concern on the gender balance within the Agency's senior and middle management members (5 out of 6 members being male, 1 being female); raises concerns about the geographic imbalance as well; asks the Agency to take measures ensuring better gender and geographic balance within its senior and middle management;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2019/2093(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Asks the Agency to report back to the discharge authority on the figures of harassment cases in total and report back on results of closed harassment cases;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2019/2092(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, the Authority, in accordance with the related fees regulation, charges fees to credit rating agencies and such fees should exclusively cover the Authority’s expenditure related to the registration, certification and supervision of credit rating agencies; notes that, in 2017, the fees that the Authority charged credit rating agencies exceeded that expenditure by EUR 853 950 and the Authority spent that surplus on other activities, while in 2018, that expenditure exceeded the fees charged to credit rating agencies by EUR 224 664; notes that the cumulated deviation for the period from 2015 to 2018 amounts to EUR 540 412; observes, furthermore, that the Authority charges fees to trade repositories in accordance with the related fees regulation, and that such fees should exclusively cover expenditure related to the registration and supervision of trade repositories; notes that, in 2017, the Authority’s expenditure related to the registration and supervision of trade repositories exceeded the related fees charged by EUR 452 466, and that, in 2018, the Authority’s expenditure in that same field exceeded the related fees charged by EUR 30 882; notes that the cumulated deviation for the period from 2015 to 2018 amounts to EUR 545 735 (or 6 %); observes that, although the Authority followed the guidance provided by the Commission, surpluses and deficits can lead to an annual cross-financing of activities; notes the Authority’s reply that in 2017, it had to reallocate resources to work on a particular risk related to trade repositories, resulting in a gap between the collected fees and the actual expenditures, while always using the Commission’s guidance on the budgeting model for its fees, and that any short-term imbalance has to be offset in the long term; calls on the Authority to avoidcontinue limiting such cross- financing, for example by adjusting the annual fees with the surpluses as long as significandt deficits from previous years or by introducviations are not recurrent ing the assigned revenue model for fee-related activitiesAuthority’s budget;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2019/2092(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that the Authority’s workload is constantly evolving and includes both regulatory tasks and enforcing and applying Union law;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2019/2092(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Questions whether the resources allocated to the Authority are sufficient to enable it to fully fulfil its increasing tasks, for example in the fields of securitisation, Prospectus 3 and Money Market Funds (MMFs) where the workload increased but no new staff has been allocated;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2019/2092(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Questions whether the use of temporary workers and external consultancies rather than increasing the number of its own staff is the best use of resources in the long-term;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2092(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, in 2018, the Authority launched the procurement procedure for the renting of new office space in Paris; notes that initially the Authority had planned a joint procurement procedure with other Union bodies, such as EBA, which was, at the time, preparing for its relocation from London to Paris; notes that the Authorities came to the conclusion that the envisaged advantages of a joint procurement procedure would not materialise and that the Authority and EBA carried out separate procurement procedures for the renting of their office space and other related services, missing the opportunity for economies of scale and efficiency; calls on the Authority to cooper; calls on the Authority to strengthen cooperation with the EBA, and other agencies as appropriate, and to use joint procurement procedures wherever possible;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2019/2090(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Executive Director of the European Banking Authority discharge in respect of the implementation of the Authority’s budget for the financial year 2018 / Postpones its decision on granting the Executive Director of the European Banking Authority discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Authority for the financial year 2018;.
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2019/2090(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets that cooperation between the Authority and ESMA for the preparation of a joint procurement procedure for the renting of office space in Paris was stopped and that both authorities carried out separate procurement procedures, not only for office space but also for other related services; calls on the Authority to report to the discharge authority on the reasons behind that missed opportunity for economies of scale and efficiency gains and encourages the Authority and ESMA to resume cooperation in the future;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2090(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Acknowledges the measures the Authority already has in place and its ongoing efforts to secure transparency, to prevent and manage conflicts of interests, and to protect whistle-blowers; welcomnotes theat further steps takenare needed in order to prevent and manage conflicts of interest, enhance the transparency of the Authority’s activities by reporting on the meetings that the Authority’s staff have with external stakeholders, and making such reports available on the Authority’s website;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2019/2090(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Underlines that post-public employment and ‘revolving door’ conflict- of-interest situations are a problem common to many bodies and agencies across the EU;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #

2019/2090(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11 b. Underlines that post-public employment with no cooling-off period is not only affecting the reputation of EBA but of all the EU institutions;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2089(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Encourages the Institute to implement the Court's recommendations
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2019/2089(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Encourages the Institute to pursue the digitalization of its services
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2019/2088(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) discharge in respect of the implementation of Europol’s budget for the financial year 2018/ Postpones its decision on granting the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2018;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2019/2088(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with satisfaction that the Agency monitored its performance by means of 38 key performance indicators, 51 other performance indicators and the implementation of around 170 specific actions planned in its work programme, with the performance reporting framework in general aimed at assessing the added value the Agency’s activities and at enhancing its budget management;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2088(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalization of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2088(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes with concern that, according to the Court’s report, the Agency irregularly prolonged the duration of a framework contract for the provision of business travel services by signing amendment number 2 after the contract had expired and that, with the same amendment, the Agency also introduced new price aspects not covered by the competitive procurement procedure, making amendment number 2 and related 2018 payments irregular; notes the Agency’s reply that the framework contract extension had been initiated well in advance of its expiry and that the delay for the extension of the contract was due to the application of the principle of sound financial management; calls on the Agency to strengthen contract management and ex- ante controls;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2019/2088(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. NoAppreciates the Agency’s existing measures and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevention and management of conflicts of interest and whistle-blower protection; notes the potential conflict of interest case identified concerning a recruitment procedure in 2018; notes that no follow-up action was needed as the adviser recused himself; welcomes the publication on the Agency's website of CVs and declarations of interests for management board members and directorate;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2019/2087(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)
Cancellation of carryovers
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2019/2087(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Raises concerns that the cancellation rate of budget appropriations carried over from 2017 to 2018 is high, at 21 %, demonstrating unjustified commitments in the previous year; calls on the Agency to carry over budget appropriations only when justified;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2019/2087(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalization of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2019/2086(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the Agency has revenues coming from both fees and charges payable by industry and a balancing subsidy from the Union budget; notes with concern that, according to the Court’s report, as the third registration deadline under Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 expired in May 2018, income from fees and charges is expected to drop significantly from 2019 onwards; points out that there is a risk that relatively stable expenditure and much less predictable revenue may have a negative effect on the Agency’s operations and budget implementation; takes note, however, that according to the Agency’s reply, it haswelcomes the fact that the Agency has already initiated discussions with the Commission on a new, viable financing model; calls on the Agency and the Commission to keep the discharge authority updated on developments in this regard;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2086(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalisation of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 17 #

2019/2086(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Welcomes the fact that the Agency publishes on its website the CVs of all members of the Management Board and its Committees, including those of its chairs who are ECHA members of staff, the Executive Director and all members of the Board of Appeal;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2019/2086(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Welcomes the fact that the Agency collects annually updated declarations of interest from all staff and external experts, each of which is published on the website of the Agency;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2019/2084(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)
Cancellation of carry-overs
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2019/2084(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Welcomes the fact that the cancellation of carry-overs from 2017 to 2018 represents 3,25% of the total amount carried over after a decrease of 2,05% in comparison to 2017;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2084(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalisation of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2019/2084(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Acknowledges the efforts of the Agency to improve gender balance in that from 7% of female representatives in senior management positions in 2017, an increase to 14% and to 28% was registered in 2018 and 2019 respectively; asks however the Agency to take additional measures with a view to ensuring a better gender balance among its senior management;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2019/2084(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. RecallsWelcomes that the Agency adopted the suggestion of the Court toand it finally publishes the vacancy notices also on the website of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) in order to increase publicity; notes from the Agency’s reply that it intends to publish all vacancy notices on the Inter-Agencies portal, which is considered equivalent to EPSO from the Agencies’ perspective, and that additionally, the Agency publishes its vacancy notices in the specialised space sector;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2019/2084(DEC)

12 a. Regrets that the CVs of the Administrative board members have still not been published on the Agency's website; calls on the Agency to report to the discharge authority on the actions taken in that regard;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2019/2083(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Executive Director of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2018 / Postpones its decision on granting the Executive Director of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Agency for the financial year 2018;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2019/2083(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 2
Paragraph 1
1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency for the financial year 2018 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency for the financial year 2018;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2083(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes from the Court’s report that 3. in 2018 the Agency had financing agreements with cooperating countries for operational activities, representing 59 % of the Agency’s budget; notes the launch of a new simplified financing scheme based largely on unit costs for expenditure related to deployments of human resources, and, in late 2018, of a new ex-post control system covering all types of expenditure and also the modification of its system of ex-ante checks embedded in the financial circuits; highlights the Court’s emphasis that the reimbursement of equipment-related expenditure is still based on actual cost and that the project to move to unit-cost based reimbursements is still unsuccessful; furthermore, notes with concern the Court’s observation that since 2014 the proof of actual costs claimed by cooperating countries for equipment- related costs is still insufficient and that the Agency’s ex-ante verifications of these costs are ineffective if they are not substantiated by supporting documents; notes the absence of ex-post verifications on reimbursements by the Agency, further increasing the risk of unjustified cost reimbursements; notes with concern that the Agency allowed several reimbursements for expenditures claimed by cooperating countries in spite of the latter not providing the evidence indicated and required by the Agency; acknowledges from the Agency's reply that supporting documents indicating detailed costs were submitted by the cooperating countries in question; calls on the Agency to clearly indicate in the future the type of supporting documents it accepts as required evidence; further calls on the Agency to only reimburse legally justified expenditure; expects the Agency to rapidly introduce solid ex-post verifications on reimbursements and to report to the discharge authority on the progress made in this regard by June 2020;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2019/2083(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that in the context of the European integrated border management, the largest operational activities were the 12 joint operations at the external land, air and sea borders while the main operational focus in 2018 was on the Central, Eastern and Western Mediterranean areas which experienced the most significant migratory pressure; furthermore, notes thwelcomes the close interagency cooperation, especially in the field of coastguard function but also in the field of customs and law enforcement cooperation; notes that the Agency is working towards setting proper quantitative objectives and specific target values for the joint operations expected to be included in the Single Programming Document 2021-2023;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #

2019/2083(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes furthermore from the Court’s report that although the Agency continued further recruitment efforts and increased the number of staff from 526 to 630 in 2018, it still did not achieve the number of 760 staff authorised set out in its 2018 establishment plan; notes the Agency’s reply that a total of 187 vacant posts were filled, but that due to a high internal and external turnover, the net staff increase in 2018 as compared to 2017 was 117 since many posts had become vacant during the year; notes furthermore that the Agency faces challenges in attracting a large number of suitable external candidates and achieving a sound geographical balance mainly due to the low correction coefficient, which is the lowest among all the Union agencies; stresses that agencies located in countries where a low correction coefficient is applied should receive further support from the Commission in implementing complementary measures in order to make them more attractive to current and prospective staff; calls on the Commission to assess the impact and viability of applying salary correction coefficients in the future; notes that the Agency continues to have difficulties in maintaining a desirable sound geographical balance in staff deployed;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 28 #

2019/2083(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Notes with appreciation that the Agency participates actively in inter- institutional tenders led by other institutions, and that, in the procurement procedures of the maritime surveillance domain, the Agency seeks cooperation with Union agencies with similar activities and prepares the terms of reference accordingly; notes furthermore that in 2018 the Agency has handled its first Agency’s led inter-institutional tender procedure with the European Fisheries Control Agency;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 30 #

2019/2083(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Acknowledgppreciates the Agency’s existing measures and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevention and management of conflicts of interest, and whistle-blower protection; notes that the whistleblowing policy was adopted on 18 July 2019; welcomes the fact that the Agency provides staff with access to confidential counsellors and trainings concerning whistle-blowing procedures; furthermore, notes that with the aim of being more transparent, the Agency launched a multilingual version of its website in all 24 official languages of the Union and that the communication strategy will be adopted by the end of 2019; regrets however that the Agency publishes statements of commitment, declaring the absence of conflict of interest for the members of the management board, the executive director, and the deputy executive director, and not declarations of interest; recalls that it is not for the members of the management board, the executive director, and the deputy executive director to declare themselves in absence of conflict of interest; calls on the Agency, with the aim to increase transparency, to publish the CVs and declarations of interest for all members of its management board, the executive director, and the deputy executive director, by June 2020;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 32 #

2019/2083(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Notes with concern from the Court’s report that the Agency does not have a sensitive post policy that would identify sensitive functions, keep them updated and define appropriate measures to mitigate the risks of vested interests; calls on the Agency to adopt and implement such a policy to be in line with the Agency’s internal control standards; acknowledges from the Agency's reply that at the end of 2019 the Agency was finalising the process of adopting a sensitive post policy;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 34 #

2019/2083(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. ObservesWelcomes that, in light of comments and observations from the discharge authority related to the construction of the new headquarters building and the establishment of a European school in Warsaw, that in 2019 an adequate plot of land was attributed to the Agency by the Polish authorities and planning is ongoing to build a purpose- designed premises of the Agency’s headquarters by the end of 2024, and that the board of governors of European schools is to be proposed by Polish authorities in Autumn 2019 to consider accreditation of a Warsaw associate European school of type II, which would be operational partly as from the 2020- 2021 academic year;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2019/2081(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Encourages the Agency to implement the Court's recommendations
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2081(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalization of its services
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2019/2080(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalisation of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2080(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the handover process to new members of staff is currently being reviewed in order to better transfer knowledge to new staff in the future and that this process is considered to be included in the sensitive posts policy, currently being drafted with a view to its adoption in late 2019invites the Agency to inform the discharge authority of the adoption of the above document; ;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2019/2080(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Raises concern about the gender balance among the Agency's senior management, in that 7 out of 8 senior managers are male and only 1 is female; asks the Agency to take measures to ensure a better gender balance among its senior management;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2019/2080(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Notes the Agency’s existing measures on and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevention and management of conflicts of interests and notes that the CVs of the members of the management board and their declaration of conflicts of interests have now been published on the Agency’s website; recalls that the Agency does not publish the senior management members’ declaration of conflicts of interests on its website; reiterates its calls on the Agency to publish the CVs of all the members of the management board and the declarations of conflicts of interests of its senior management and to report to the discharge authority on the measures taken in this regard;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2019/2080(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Regrets that the Agency has not yet formalised a strategy to ensure an environment-friendly working place; notes, however, the Agency’s internal initiatives implemented with a view to reducing its impact on the environmentcalls on the Agency to do so as a matter of urgency;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2019/2077(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue its digitalization policy
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2019/2077(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. notes that the Agency joined the Commissions imitative ‘Women in Transport’ aiming to strengthen women’s employment opportunities at all levels; welcomes that the Agency has established a Gender Balance Task Force to make recommendations on redressing the important existing imbalance
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2019/2077(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Encourages the Agency to develop a long term Human Resources Policy Framework which addresses the work-life balance of its staff, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the non discrimination, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of disabled people;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2019/2076(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Encourages the Agency to implement the Court's recommendations
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2076(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the Agency cooperates withclosely with other Union agencies such as the European Fisheries Control Agency and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency for what concerns the European coastguard function;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2019/2076(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalisation of its services
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2019/2076(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Regrets the lack of information and details regarding the ‘Action Plan for Gender Balance at EMSA’;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2019/2075(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Encourages the Foundation to make further use of innovative digital solutions, including e-procurement;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2019/2075(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the Foundation achieved a 91 % activity completion rate with a timely completion rate of 94 %, and that it succeeded in reaching its targets; notes that for 14 out of the 15 KPIs the Foundation is above the target;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2075(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes that the Foundation has developed and implemented its own anti- fraud strategy since 2014, elaborated by the methodology developed by OLAF;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Administrative Director of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) discharge in respect of the implementation of Eurojust’s budget for the financial year 2018/ Postpones its decision on granting the Administrative Director of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) discharge in respect of the implementation of the Eurojust’s budget for the financial year 2018;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 2
Paragraph 1
1. Approves the closure of the accounts of Eurojust for the financial year 2018/ Postpones the closure of the accounts of the Eurojust for the financial year 2018;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with satisfaction that Eurojust uses quantitative and qualitative key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the achievements of its objectives for its annual activities and impact, outcome indicators, its activity/output indicators and its business/ technical/ operational indicators, as well as for its support/ management/ governance indicators in order to improve its budget management; notes that Eurojust was able to measure and assess the achievement of 98 of the 119 KPIs (82 %) set for 2018, of which 72 % of the initial targets were achieved or exceeded; notes that Eurojust has introduced a number of new indicators in the 2018 Annual Work Programme for which a baseline figure does not exist, and that consequently 15 % of KPIs could not be assessed; calls on Eurojust to address this issue and ensure that all indicators can be properly assessed, and to report to the discharge authority on the progress achieved by June 2020;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Encourages Eurojust to pursue the digitalisation of its services;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. NotesWelcomes the fact that Eurojust continues to develop strong operational cooperation with the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and with other justice and home affairs partners as well as with third countries; notes that in 2018 it started negotiations for a cooperation agreement with the European Borders and Coast Guard Agency; notes that Eurojust also cooperated with the European Anti-Fraud Office, and encourages national authorities to consider involving both bodies aswhere appropriate,; and furthermore encourages Eurojust to participate on joint procurement procedures with Europol and the European Medicines Agency;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. NotesAppreciates the fact that on 31 December 2018, the establishment plan was 99.04 % executed, with 207 temporary agents appointed out of 209 temporary agents authorised under the Union budget (compared with 208 authorised posts in 2017); notes that in addition, 15 contract agents and 16 seconded national experts worked for Eurojust in 2018;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Notes with appreciation that, following the Court’s suggestion of previous years, Eurojust has, since June 2019, been advertising vacancies on the website of the European Personnel Selection Office, making use of the capability to publish the titles of such vacancies in all the Union’s official languages with a link to the full text in the English language only;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes with satisfaction that, in light of the observations from the discharge authority, Eurojust will consider adopting a fundamental rights strategy, including a reference to fundamental rights in a code of conduct that could define the duties of its staff and training for staff, and that it shall do so in consultation with the Commission and other Union’s agencies in order to ensure a coordinated approach;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, Eurojust signed an IT framework contract with a company which provided the same service under a previous framework contract, without prior publication of a contract notice during the negotiated procurement procedure; notes that all payments made under that framework contract and all related specific contracts are irregular and that a simplified procedure is only acceptable under specific circumstances which were not substantiated by Eurojust; notesacknowledges from Eurojust’s reply that the negotiated procedure was done on the basis of Article 134 (f) of the Rules of Application of the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/246216 , which allow this procedure to be used where a change of supplier would result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical difficulties in operation and maintenance, and that, therefore, this solution was considered to be the most cost-effective; calls on Eurojust to ensure compliance with public procurement rules; _________________ 16Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2462 of 30 October 2015 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1268/2012 on the rules of application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (OJ L 342, 29 12 2015, p 7)
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Acknowledgppreciates Eurojust’s existing measures and its ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevention and management of conflicts of interest; notes that Eurojust adopted College Decision 2019-02 on the Eurojust’s guidelines on whistleblowing applicable to all staff; notes that, according to Eurojust, training on such rules was provided during 2019, as required;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 17 #

2019/2074(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. NotesWelcomes the fact that, in light of the observations from the discharge authority, the publication of declarations of interest in the draft Code of Ethics for the College of Eurojust are at present being addressed by the project team on Rules of Procedure in t; notes that for the time being Eurojust has published draft Code of Ethics for the College of Eurojusteclarations of absence of conflict of interest; calls on Eurojust to also publish the CVs of the management board members and of its executive leadership; notes that Eurojust adopted the updated anti-fraud strategy through College Decision 2018-19 of 6 November 2018;
2020/02/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2019/2073(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with concern that budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2018 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 89,14 %, representing a decrease of 1,91 % compared to 2017; notes furthermore that the payment appropriations execution rate was 73,64 %, representing a decrease of 2,98 % compared to 2017; calls on the Agency to improve its budget implementation and payment appropriation execution rate;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2073(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalisation of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2019/2073(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Acknowledges the Agency’s existing measures and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevent and manage conflicts of interest, and provide whistleblower protection; notes withis highly concerned that, in 2018, the Agency received 21 reports on cases of whistleblowing from an external source raising the problem of maladministration at the Agency, 5 of which were closed in 2017 and 17 cases are still ongoing; calls on the Agency to address the cases and the problems with the matter of urgency and report to the discharge authority on any developments in that regard; welcomes that the Agency has in place declaration of conflict of interest for management board members, for senior management and for experts and makes it available online;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2019/2073(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that the Court issued an emphasis of matter paragraph in relation to the two London-based agencies, concerning the United Kingdom’s decision to withdraw from the European Union; notes that the seat of the Agency moved to Amsterdam in March 2019 and that the Agency’s accounts at 31 December 2018, included provisions for related costs amounting to EUR 17 800 000; regrets that the lease agreement for the London based premises sets a rental period until 2039 with no exit clause; also regrets that on 20 February 2019, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled against EMA’s request to cancel the lease; notes, however, that the lease agreement allows reassignment or subletting of the premises to third parties, subject to the landlord’s consent; deeply regrets that the notes to the accounts at 31 December 2018 disclosed an amount of EUR 468 000 000 remaining rent until 2039, of which an amount of EUR 465 000 000 for the lease period after the Agency’s planned move to Amsterdam is disclosed as a contingent liability; urges the Agency to do its utmost to minimise the financial, administrative and operational impact of the unfavourable lease agreement and to report to the discharge authority on the developments in this regardhighlights that although the Agency’s sublease was concluded with effect from 1 July 2019 the future net cost of the uncancellable lease agreement was unknown; urges the Agency to do its utmost to minimise the financial, administrative and operational impact of the unfavourable lease agreement; calls on the Agency to involve the Commission’s legal service and the negotiating team for the United Kingdom's decision to withdraw from the European Union into the legal problem as it raises the legal and financial responsibility of the government of the United Kingdom for invoking Article 50 of the TEU as the High Court did not recognise the situation as a force majeure; calls on the Agency to report back to the discharge authority on the matter;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 22 #

2019/2073(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Is concerned that the Agency, being a Union public health agency, will have to manage commercial property in a third country and will remain liable for paying rent until June 2039; requests that solutions to release the Agency from its contractual and financial liabilities in respect of its former UK premises are sought in the ongoing negotiations between the Union and the UK if responsibility cannot be established;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2072(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Encourages the Centre to implement the Court's recommendations;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2019/2072(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Encourages the Centre to develop a long term Human Resources Policy Framework which addresses the work-life balance of its staff, the lifelong guidance and career development, the gender balance, the teleworking, the non discrimination, the geographical balance and the recruitment and integration of disabled people;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2019/2072(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Encourages the Centre to pursue the digitalization of its services;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2019/2070(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, according to the Agency, substantial progress was made in the sharing of resources on overlapping tasks among other agencies with similar activities; also notes that the Agency shared efforts with other science-based agencies including the European Chemicals Agency and the European Food Safety Authority on issues around human health; welcomes the fact that there is a growing interest for EEA information and data; is of the opinion that dissemination of environmental information is of key importance in light of dangers of climate change and the new Commission’s policies;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2070(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalization of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2019/2070(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Notes from the Court’s reportDeplores that, following the termination of a 1,4 million euro contract due to a contractor’s unsatisfactory performance, the Agency signed, a few months later, a new 2 million euro contract “in cascade” for the same type of service with the same contractor without inserting in the technical specifications elements to neutralise the risk of similar problems arising again under the new contract; calls on the Agency to award contracts only if satisfactory performance can be expectedis of the opinion that such contracting behaviour raises serious concerns on the agency’s sound financial management calls on the Agency to award contracts only if satisfactory performance can be expected; and asks EEA to report back to the ECA and the discharge authority on the performance of the contractor;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2019/2070(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes from the Court’s report that for the provision of Copernicus local land monitoring services, the Agency contracted services for an amount above the ceiling of the governing framework contract but did not formalise it through a contract amendment; notes from the Agency’s reply that it considers that the increase of the budget ceiling was made in accordance with the guidance from the Commission; despite of that calls the agency to formalise contract modifications only in line with public procurement provisions;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2019/2070(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Acknowledges the Agency’s existing measures and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevent and manage conflicts of interests, and provide whistleblower protection; raises concerns that the Agency does not put in place declarations of conflict of interest for in house experts;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2070(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Stresses that the publication of CVs and Declarations of interest of Management Board members should be obligatory and not done on a voluntary basis;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction discharge in respect of the implementation of the Centre’s budget for the financial year 2018 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Centre for the financial year 2018;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 2
Paragraph 1
1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2018 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction for the financial year 2018;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with appreciationWelcomes that the budget monitoring efforts during the financial year 2018 resulted in a budget implementation rate of 100 %, the same rate as in 2017; notes that the payment appropriations execution rate was 98;02 %, representing an increase of 3,31 % compared to the previous year;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Encourages the Centre to pursue the digitalization of its services;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Notes with satisfaction that the Centre has general provisions in place on building and sustaining a working culture based on dignity and respect to prevent and fight against harassment; acknowledges that it makes confidential counselling available;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Notes with appreciationWelcomes the fact that the Centre put in place a procurement plan in line with the Centre’s management plan, which was successfully executed in close collaboration with all units;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, the Centre did not attract a reasonable number of tenderers in low- value procurement procedures and that in five of these procedures only one candidate submitted a tender and two tenders were submitted in one procedure; notes that, according to the Centre’s reply, it duly invited the number of tenderers required by the applicable financial rules to ensure the necessary level of competition; calls on the Centre to pursue its ongoing efforts to ensure that all public procurement procedures are compliant with the principle of competition and to facilitate the participation in its procurement procedures for low-value contracts;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Acknowledges the Centre’s existing measures and ongoing efforts to secure transparency, prevent and manage conflicts of interest, and provide whistleblower protection; notes that the CVswith satisfaction that the CVs and declarations of interest of the Director and the members of the scientific committee are published on its website;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes with concern that, according to the Centre, several recommendations included in the 2015 IAS audit on IT project management have been only partly implemented and that, at the end of 2018, two recommendations were still outstanding; notes, however, that these two recommendations were expected to be implemented by mid-2019; calls on the Centre to report to the discharge authority on the progress achieved by June 2020;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2019/2069(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that, according to the Court’s report, pursuant to Directive 2008/104/EC17 and Portuguese labour law, interim workers should work under the same working conditions as workers employed directly by the user undertaking; notes, however, that the contracts did not require the temporary work agencies explicitly to respect those conditions and that there is no evidence that the Centre itself carried out any comparison between the working conditions for its own and interim staff, which causes litigation and reputational risks; notes that, according to the Centre’s reply, ithat the contract between the Centre and the temporary work agency refers to the obligation of the Centre to comply with all aspects of the applicable legislation and that, pursuant to that contract, the temporary work agency is the one exposed to the risks of litigation; highlights however that this type of situation still carries high reputational risks for the Centre; welcomes the fact that the EMCDDA is reassessing its policy for the use of temporary workers to further nationalise the latter in line with its operating needs and the legal framework; calls on the Centre to analyse the working conditions of its interim workers and ensure that they are in line with Union and national labour law; calls on the Centre to report to the discharge authority on the progress achieved by June 2020; _________________ 17Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on temporary agency work (OJ L 327, 5.12.2008, p. 9).
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2019/2068(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2018 / Postpones its decision on granting the Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2018;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2019/2068(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 2
Paragraph 1
1. Approves the closure of the accounts of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year 2018 / Postpones the closure of the accounts of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights for the financial year 2018;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2068(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, according to the Court’s report carry-overs of committed appropriations were high for operating expenditure, mainly due to the nature of the activities which include financing studies that span several months and often beyond year-end; notes that the Agency has introduced planning procedures to monitor the inevitable delays between the signing of contracts, deliveries and payments; notes that, according to the Agency’s reply, the deviation between the initial planned amount and the final amount carried over was of around 10 %, within the margin of tolerance and that the old application for the monitoring of the budget consumption has been replaced by a new one; calls on the Agency to improve its budget planning;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2019/2068(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. NotWelcomes the Agency’s cooperation with other agencies, in particular the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, the European Institute for Gender Equality, the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, and the European Asylum Support Office, in order to achieve common policy objectives; welcomes the fact that, in addition, the Agency regularly supports other Union agencies to reflect obligations stemming from the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’) in their work;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2019/2068(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Encourages the Agency to pursue the digitalisation of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2068(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes, in light of the related comments made by the discharge authority, that e-procurement tools have been compulsory only as of 2019 and that the Agency has introduced all e-procurement tools with the exception of e-submission, which iwas expected to be implemented in the fourth quarter of 2019; calls on the Agency to report to the discharge authority on the progress made in this regard by June 2020;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #

2019/2068(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. AcknowledgWelcomes the Agency’s existing measures, and its ongoing efforts in relation to securing transparency, in relation to prevention and management of conflicts of interest, and in relation to whistle-blower protection; notes that there were a number of cases of potential and perceived conflicts of interest that were assessed and mitigated and none reported in 2018; notes with appreciation that the CVs and declarations of interest for members of the management board and executives are published on the Agency's website;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2019/2068(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Notes with satisfaction that, following the successful implementation of the anti-fraud strategy adopted in December 2014 and the completion of the action plan over the course of 2015 and 2016, the Agency completed the revision of the anti-fraud strategy which was adopted at the Management Board meeting in December 2018 and complemented by a specific action plan;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2019/2067(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Encourages the Foundation to pursue the digitalisation of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2019/2067(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Encourages the Foundation to implement the Court's recommendations as, for instance, the e-submission process;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2019/2066(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. welcomes the Centre to develop synergies and sharing resources with the other agencies;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2019/2066(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the CEDEFOP to pursue the digitalization of the institution;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2019/2066(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Encourages the Cedefop to implement the Court's recommendations;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2019/2066(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. welcomes the Cedefop for its overall gender balance :59% female to 41% male but regrets the lack of details regarding the management levels occupied by the women;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2019/2066(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. regrets the lack of clarity regarding the geographical balance of the staff;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2019/2064(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Notes that East Strat Com Task Force was granted EUR 1.1 million in 2018 for its work to address Russia’s disinformation. In 2019, the budget increases to EUR 3 million; calls for a substantial increase in the budget in order for the Union to successfully counter- attack Russia’s information war; calls for more information campaigns to better explain Union policies in the Eastern Partnership countries;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 42 #

2019/2064(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
50. Supports the EEAS’s efforts in order to reinforce the all range of physical and IT security issues from the staff and buildings security with the purchasing of new security equipment, to the training of regional security officers to preserve the EEAS’s security interests and provide further security know-how by implementing a formal security risk management policy as well as the cybersecurity challenge; encourages EEAS to continue a real policy for the digitalization of its services;
2020/02/03
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2019/2063(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. UNotes that there is a need for greater transparency and cooperation between European data protection authorities; underlines the importance of the cooperation between the EDPS and the national data protection authorities in the Member States to ensure an effective supervision and a collaboration in the preparation for the new legal framework; calls on the EDPS to inform Parliament’s Budget Control Committee on all the results achieved;
2020/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2019/2063(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. RecognisWelcomes the EDPS’s intentions in the modernisation of its procurement processes to install an electronic workflow in order to set up a paperless mode; reiterates the importance of the interinstitutional cooperation between the EDPS and the Commission in terms of procurement, financial management and human resources; welcomes the service level agreement with the Commissions’ Directorate-General for Budget and Directorate-General for Informatics related to the IT tools “ABAC” and “Sysper II” as requested in the last discharge report; encourages EDPS to continue a real policy for the digitalization of its services;
2020/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 17 #

2019/2063(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Underlines that the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union will have significant impact on the EDPS’s planned work; highlights the importance of a swift negotiation of a data deal with the United Kingdom;
2020/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 28 #

2019/2061(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Congratulates the Committee on its e-learning training with a specific area dedicated to ethics designed mainly for newcomers and placed on the first page of the Committee's intranet for easy access for all; appreciates the publication of whistleblowing procedures, occupational activities of former senior officials, etc. on the Committee’s website in the context of transparency; encourages the Committee to continue a real policy for the digitalization of its services;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 34 #

2019/2057(DEC)

22. Notes that according to Article 316 and 335 TFEU, the institutions enjoy administrative autonomy and their expenditure is set out in separate parts of the budget; notes that according to the Financial Regulation, the institutions are individually responsible for the implementation of their budgets;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 35 #

2019/2057(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Notes that according to TFEU, the institutions enjoy administrative autonomy and their expenditure is set out in separate parts of the budget; notes that according to Article 59 of the Financial Regulation, the institutions are individually responsible for the implementation of their budgets;
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2019/2057(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that during the course of almost twenty years Parliament has developed the practice of granting discharge to all Union institutions and bodies; notes that all Union institutions and bodies accept to participate in Parliament’s discharge procedure, with the only exception being the Council;deleted
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 39 #

2019/2057(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Welcomes the fact that the Council has showed its openness to arriving at an agreement with Parliament on how to cooperate on the discharge process.
2020/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission to afford proper technical assistance to the national authorities of the Member States so that they can take up the amounts allocated;
2019/09/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Rejects the cuts by Council of a total of EUR 747,4 million in Heading 1a, including EUR 424,9 million for the Common Strategic Framework for Research and Innovation, EUR 28 million for the ICT strand of the Connecting Europe Facility and EUR 20 million for COSME, which risk undermining the Union’s efforts to creating growth and jobs; recalls that Horizon 2020 and the CEF have already suffered cuts to finance the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI);
2057/01/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 7 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Draft opinion
Subheading 5 a (new)
Horizon 2020 11a. Points out that the Horizon 2020 Programme enjoys the political support of the Member States; notes that research is a form of direct investment into smart, sustainable and inclusive growth that fosters employment; 11b. Considers that only by adopting an ambitious budget will the Union be able to develop scientific leadership to meet the challenges facing society in terms of employment, energy transition, digitalisation and medical and pharmaceutical research;
2019/09/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates Parliament’s view that the 2020 Union budget should pave the way to the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and provide a solid starting point for the launch of the new generation of EU programmes and policies; recalls, moreover, that 2020 is the last year of the current MFF and, therefore, the last chance for the Union to come closer to meeting the political commitments set for this period, including towards reaching the EU climate target and implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); underlines that the budget 2020 should prepare the Union for an even more ambitious climate target in the 2021-2027 MFF in order to meet the expectations of the European citizens;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 14 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that trust funds should be established only when their use is justified and the required action is not possible through other existing financing channels; further calls on the Commission, in line with the principle of budget unity, to consider putting an end to trust funds that are unable to attract a significant contribution from other donors or that do not provide an added value when compared to ‘traditional’ Union external instruments;
2019/09/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 17
17. Insists that the European Public Prosecutor Office (EPPO) has to be adequately financed and staffed; points out that the EPPO has to be operational already as from November 2020; stresses the importance of having a clear division of tasks and good coordination between the European Public Prosecutor’s Office and OLAF;
2019/09/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Recalls the importance of the Youth Employment Initiative in promoting the participation and integration of young people into the labour market;
2019/09/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls that Horizon 2020 and COSME play a critical role in boosting the Union’s competitiveness and its capacity to create a sustainable future;
2057/01/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 20 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Strongly believes that it is imperative to rise to the climate challenge in a way that boosts employmentsustainable growth investing in R&D and innovation; is convicted of the need to support SMEs as a vector of jobs and to strengthens competitiveness; welcomes the powerful calls for action made by EU leaders at the recent UN climate change summit and the commitments made recently by several Member States to ramp up spending in areas such as energy efficiency and transport and energy infrastructure;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 36 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Proposes further targeted reinforcements to other budget lines related to Parliament’s priorities, in areas such as SMEs, digitalisation, cancer research, security and justice cooperation, migration and external policyartificial intelligence, cancer research, rare and orphan diseases, security and justice cooperation, migration and external policy including the financing of development aid and humanitarian aid in developing countries;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 43 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for additional funds to accelerate the development and deployment of cleaner technologies to help meet the commitments undertaken by the Union under the Paris Agreement; stresses that research and innovation are key drivers for sustainable development and recalls the commitment made by the Union and its Member States to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals;
2057/01/05
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 53 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that Horizon 2020 provides very strong European added value and makes a vital contribution to the development of green technology and climate- and environment-friendly innovation, so as to lay the foundations for a decarbonised future; stresses, moreover, the importance of the programme for other significant areas of European research such as digitalisation, artificial intelligence and cancer research; significantly increases, therefore, the allocation of Horizon 2020 over the level of the DB by EUR 737,8 million in commitment appropriations; furthermore, in accordance with Article 15(3) of the Financial Regulation, makes available the entire amount of EUR 280,7 million in commitment appropriations de- committed in 2018 as a result of non- implementation of research projects, for the budget lines of Horizon 2020 that are most relevant to climate-related research projects;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 80 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Steps up funding for technical assistance, to address the complexity of project management procedures, from the preparation of applications to financial management and impact monitoring, which is a major obstacle to a better absorption of 'Structural Funds' and thus help to reduce the divide between Member States in Europe;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 86 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Proposes necessary increases for selected budget lines, in particular for the financing of measures to address the impact of African swine fever in several Member States and for supporting the beekeeping sector;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 124 #

2019/2028(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Increases two lines above the DB, due to new elements impacting the transitional allowances for 2020 budget, which it was not possible to prevent: the higher non re-election rate following the European elections (63 %, whilst the average of 50 % served as the calculation base) and the postponement of Brexit until 31 October 2019; increases also the line on European political foundations, since their work is crucial in promoting democracy and fighting fake news and disinformation and on artificial intelligence in promoting a coordinated approach to the human and ethical dimension of artificial intelligence to create a sustainable business model;
2019/10/08
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 175 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 1 – point 1.2 – paragraph 14
In the backdrop of persisting regional disparities in innovation performance, the EIT launched a Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) in 2014 to widen its regional outreach to modest and moderate innovator countries. Through the RIS, the EIT has to further expanded its activities across Europe and. The RIS must be dedicated to offersing noew opportunities for regions with low innovation performancelow R&I performing countries (as defined by the Horizon Europe programme) and Modest and Moderate Innovator countries (according to European Innovation Scoreboard) to engage in knowledge triangle activities as part of the a KICEIT community. This is also reflected in the share of EIT funding allocated to EU- 13 partners (8.3% as compared to 4.8% in Horizon 2020 as of 2018)e RIS must also be used to establish new CLCs in those countries.
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 183 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 1
The EIT is part of the overall Horizon Europe framework that aims, inter alia, to deliver scientific, economic/technological and societal impact so as to strengthen the scientific and technological bases of the Union; deliver on the Union strategic policy priorities, foster its competitiveness in all Member States, including in its industry, and contribute to tackling global challenges, including the Sustainable Development Goals. A core condition for being successful in this endeavor is to respond to the persisting need to increase innovation capacity across the Union. There are in particular three challenges the EU faces that will guide EIT’s actions in 2021-2027 as reflected by its general objectives. The EIT and its KICs shall as much as possible operate under the Horizon Europe model grant agreement. Derogations from the Horizon Europe rules laid down in the Regulation… [EIT Regulation] shall be limited and duly justified only by the objectives of the EIT and its KICs.
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 196 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 3
Second, physical proximity is a key enabling factor for innovation. Initiatives aiming at developing innovation networks and providing services that support the creation, sharing and transfer of knowledge, play a key role in fostering the interactions between business, academia, research organisations, governments and individuals. Still, research and innovation performances across the EU, as reflected in the annual European Innovation Scoreboard and recognized in the Horizon Europe programme, vary considerably. It is of crucial importance that innovation is inclusive and rooted in the local territories. EIT activities, thanks to their “place- based” approach, are well suited to contribute to strengthening local innovation ecosystems.
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 229 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
KICs will stimulate the creation of innovative companies in close synergy and complementarity with the EIC. EIT beneficiaries will be able to apply to the EIC instruments for support additional to the services provided by the EIT KICs, while startups with a high growth potential supported by KICs will have access to EIC actions in order to rapidly scale-up.
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 234 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 2 – point 2.2 – paragraph 7
Opportunities for synergies will be also explored between the SharWidening Participation and Spreading Excellence part of Horizon Europe and the RIS and other outreach activities supported by the EIT. The aim is to reach a more balanced representation of EIT activities across the Union. The EIT shall guide the KICs to make better use of the RIS. In particular, target countries of the Horizon Europe Sharing Excellence part will be able to leverage on EIT expertise and support for the development of downstream activities (i.e. close to market), as the target group for for EIT outreach activities. The RIS budget shall also be used as leverage for ESI funds. Such synergies shall be used to create, inside the EIT, funding schemes that are similar to the widening actions of the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Teaming, Twinning and ERA-Chairs).
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 254 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.1 – point 2 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
The EIT Regional Innovation Scheme, steered by the EIT and implemented by KICs, has been so far run on a voluntary basis. From 2021 on, the EIT RIS wishall become mandatory and an integral part of the KICs’ multi- annual strategyies. The EIT shall ensure that RIS activities are used as a bridge (i) towards relevant Research and Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategies thereby catalysing other investments, especially ESI funds and (ii) towards the integration of potential new partners thereby extending the KICs' geographical coverage. The EIT will continue to provide guidance and support to KICs in the preparation of multi-annual EIT RIS strategies and in their implementation. EIT RIS activities will continue with improved support to the innovation capacity of low R&I performing countries, and regions that underperform in terms of innovations well as the Moderate and Modest Innovator countries, in order to foster their integration in the KICs' communities. The EIT budget devoted to implementing EIT RIS activities will be at least 105% of the overall EIT support funding to KICs, thereby increasing the number of KIC partners from targeted regions. Activities supported through the RIS will aim to:
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 273 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.1 – point 3 – paragraph 4
Based on the proposed budget for the EIT, a second new KIC could be launched in 20256, with a call to be published in 2024, after an amendment to Annex 1A to add new5. To this end, the Commission shall, by 2023, assess the relevance of possible priority field(s). The priors and submity area(s) will be selected in light of the proposals of the EIT Governing Board proposal for an amendment to Annex 1A and Annex 1B, taking into account the contribution of the EIT Governing Board and the Horizon Europe Strategic Planning process. Theseis proposals will take into account the priority areas to be identified in the Horizon Europe Strategic Research and Innovation Plan and the criteria set for the selection of European Partnerships, in particular openness, transparency, EU added value, coherence and synergies. The criteria for selecting new KICs will be aligned with those in the Horizon Europe. They will also support delivery on EU policy priorities such as missions and Sustainable Development Goals. Other new KIC/KICs could be selected in case additional budget to that of the EIT would become available.
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 289 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.2 – paragraph 8
The EIT wiKICs shall implement their Higher Education initiatives through open and transparent calls for proposals. KICs shall in particular target HEIs from countries that arelow R&I performing and moderatest and modestrate innovators and other low performing region countries that wish to strengthen their innovation footprint and Smart Specialisation Strategies. The EIT will KICs should allocate an adequate budget allocated to this measure at least 25% of the overall budget allocated to these activitiesese activities and the eligibility criteria to be included in the calls shall ensure that a significant number of the HEIs involved in the projects come from outside of the KIC.
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 313 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – point 4 – paragraph 1
The EIT will provide operational guidance to and monitor the KICs on compliance with sound management principles, the principles and criteria set out for European Partnerships in the Horizon Europe regulation and alignment with the requirements stemming from Horizon Europe and with its priorities in order to maximizse their performance and impact, based on a long-term collaboration strategy between the EIT and the KICs. Appropriate measures may be taken where a KIC underperforms or fails to achieve the expected results and impact.
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 321 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – point 4 – paragraph 2
Measures ensuring continuous openness of the KICs and transparency during implementation will be improved notably by including common provisions for new members that add value to the partnerships. They will also run their activities in a fully transparent way. KICs will remain dynamic partnerships that new partners, including an increasing share of SMEs, can join on the basis of excellence and strategic fit. In order to limit the concentration of funding and ensure that KICs activities benefit from a wide network of partners, the procedure for the preparation of the Business Plan (including the identification of priorities, the selection of activities and the allocation of funds) will be made more transparent and inclusive. Furthermore, transparency of the funding must be increased in a manner that provides publicly available information on which projects are funded and on allocation of the funding. Finally, KICs will increase the share of calls, in particular for innovation projects that are open to third parties. All these measures will increase the number of participating entities involved in KICs’ activities. Finally, KICs should report on the involvement of new partners in their regular reporting.
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 325 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – point 4 – paragraph 3
As KICs operate across the entire value chain of innovation, they will ensure an appropriate balance of education, entrepreneurship and innovation activities in their Business Plan portfolio. KICs operations will be implemented through a lean, efficient and cost-effective structure that would keep administrative and overhead costs to a reasonable minimum. EIT will ensure that KICs will achieve their expected impacts through a broad range of activities, identified in the KICs’ Business Plans, which effectively support the fulfilment of their objectives.
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 341 #

2019/0152(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 3 – point 3.4 – point 5 – paragraph 6
Finally, the EIT will continufurther increase its efforts towards simplification in order to alleviate unnecessaryand reduction of the administrative burden27 of for the KICs, allowing the implementation of their multi-annual Business Plan and multi-annual strategys in an agile and efficient way. This will include the use of lump sum or unit costs for relevant KIC activities. Moreover, in order to provide a better planning of the resources, in particular of innovation activities, as well as facilitate stronger commitment and long-term investment from participating partners in KICs activities, the EIT will sign multi-annual grant agreements with KICs, when appropriate, under the respective framework partnership agreements. These multi-annual grant agreements should not exceed 3 years. _________________ 27In particular, the annual reporting on KIC complementary activities would be discontinued, as recommended by the Court of Auditors in its Special Report of 2016 ( Recommendation 1, p. 51).
2020/05/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 107 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) The EIT, primarily through its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (‘KICs’), should aim at strengthening innovation ecosystems that tackle global challenges. It should primarily have the objective of contributing to the development of the Union’s and the Member States’ talent, entrepreneurial and innovation capacity, at the highest standardss well as improving the Union’s position in the global innovation landscape. In order to achieve this objective, the EIT should facilitate and enhance networking and cooperation and create synergies between different innovation communities in Europe.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 111 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) The strategic priority fields and financial needs for the EIT for a period of seven years , covering the respective Multiannual Financial Framework (‘MFF’), should be laid down in a Strategic Innovation Agenda ( ‘SIA’). The SIA should ensure alignment with the Union fHorizon Europe - the Framework pProgramme supporting rfor Research and iInnovation (‘Horizon Europe’) and foster synergies with other relevant Union programmes of the MFF as well as with other Union initiatives, policies and instruments, in particular with those supporting education and regional development. Given the importance of the SIA for the Union innovation policy and the resulting political significance of its socio-economic impact for the Union, the SIA should be adopted by the European Parliament and the Council on the basis of a Commission proposal based on a contribution provided by the EIT.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 119 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) In line with the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe, the activities of the EIT should address strategic long-term challenges for innovation in Europe, particularly in trans- and/or inter-disciplinary areas including those already identified at European level. In so doing, the EIT should promote periodic dialogue with civil society.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 120 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) The EIT should give priority to the transfer of its higher education, research and innovation and entrepreneurial activities to the business context and their commercial application, as well as to supporting the creation of start-ups, spin- offs and small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs).
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 125 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) The EIT should primarily operate through excellence-driven and autonomous large-scale European Partnerships of higher education institutions, research organisations, companies and other stakeholders in the form of sustainable and long-term self-supporting strategic networks in the innovation process. Those partnerships should be selected by the Governing Board of the EIT on the basis of a transparent and excellence-based process , in accordance with the criteria of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe for the selection of European Partnerships, and designated as KICs.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 129 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
(9) Taking into account the specificity of KICs, it is necessary to provide for special minimum conditions to form a KIC, derogating from the rules for participation and dissemination of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe. Similarly, specific rules on ownership, access rights, exploitation and dissemination may be necessary for KIC added-value activities.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 134 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) The Governing Board should also steer the activities of the EIT and coordinate the reporting, monitoring and evaluation of the activities of the KICs in line with the provisions of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovation Horizon Europe. Membership of the Governing Board should balance experience from the business and the higher education and/or research worlds as well as from the innovation sector.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 135 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) In order to contribute to the competitiveness and to reinforce the international attractiveness of the European economy and its innovation and entrepreneurial capacity, the EIT and the KICs should be able to attract partner organisations, researchers and students from all over the world, including by encouraging their mobility, as well as to cooperate with third-country organisations, while ensuring a gender-balanced approach.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 141 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) There is a need to support higher education as an integral, but often missing, component of a comprehensive innovation strategy. The framework partnership agreements or grant agreements between the EIT and KICs should provide that the degrees and diplomas awarded through the KICs should be awarded by participating higher education institutions, which should be encouraged to label them also as EIT degrees and diplomas. In addition, the EIT should strengthen and widen the scope of the EIT- labelled degrees and diplomas in order to increase their recognition and outside the EIT Community. Through its activities and work, the EIT should help promote mobility for students, researchers and staff, as well as provide opportunities for lifelong learning, mentoring and coaching . All those activities should be carried out without prejudice to Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council13 . _________________ 13Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications (OJ L 255, 30.9.2005, p. 22). Directive as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1430/2007 (OJ L 320, 6.12.2007, p. 3).
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 143 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) It is expected that industry, the finance and service sectors will contribute significantly to the budget of the KICs. The KICs should aim at maximising the share of contributions from the private sector and actively work from early on towards achieving financial sustainability . The KICs and their partner organisations should publicise the fact that their activities are undertaken in the context of the EIT and that they receive a financial contribution from the general budget of the Union. Furthermore, transparency of the funding should be increased by providing publicly available information on which projects are funded and on allocation of the funding.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 146 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 a (new)
(16 a) While innovation and close-to- market activities of the KICs should be financially sustainable at the earliest possible date and in any event within 15 years of their establishment, the higher education, training and horizontally- structured activities of KICs should have the possibility to continue receiving financial support from the EIT under strict conditions. To that end, a possible extension of the Framework Partnership Agreement, which should be limited in scope, time and budget, may be decided by the EIT Governing Board after thorough evaluation by independent experts.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 152 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
(20) It is appropriate that the Commission initiate independent, external evaluations of the operation of the EIT, including the KICs , in particular with a view to preparing the SIA. Those evaluations should examine how the EIT fulfils its mission, cover all activities of the EIT and KICs and should assess their relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, European added value, openness, communication, visibility, dissemination of results and coherence. Those evaluations should feed into the Commission programme evaluations provided for in the Union framework programme supporting research and innovation.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 156 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 a (new)
(20 a) It is essential to promote strong synergies between the EIT and the European Innovation Council. KICs should stimulate the creation of innovative companies in close synergy and complementarity with the EIC, and EIT beneficiaries should be able to apply to the EIC instruments for support additional to the services provided by the EIT KICs; Startups with a high growth potential supported by KICs may have a more direct access to EIC actions in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Horizon Europe in order to help them scale-up rapidly.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 159 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20 b (new)
(20 b) Synergies of the EIT, through its KICs, with Cohesion Policy Funds shall be strengthened in order to promote regional and cross-regional cooperation between the knowledge triangle actors (education, research, business) and managing authorities, as well as to increase the overall impact and visibility of the EIT.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 162 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) ‘Knowledge and Innovation Community’ (KIC) means an autonomous large-scale European partnership of higher education institutions, research organisations, companies and other stakeholders in the innovation process in the form of a strategic network, regardless of its precise legal form, based on joint mid- to long-term innovation planning to meet the EIT challenges and contribute to attaining the objectives established under the Union framework programme supporting research and innovation Horizon Europe;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 164 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) 'KIC co-location centre' means a physical space, established in an open and transparent manner and covering a geographical area, where a KIC’s knowledge triangle partners can easily interact, providing the focal point for the KIC’s activity in that area;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 168 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
(2 b) 'innovation hub' means a network of dynamic EIT Community offices established in a wide range of Member States, which represent the whole EIT community and aim to ensure a structured and sufficient level of EIT presence locally, which provide focal and information point for local KIC activities, and which has a mandate to collaborate between the EIT Community offices and establish synergies with ecosystems at local, national and Union level;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 171 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 c (new)
(2 c) 'EIT country liaison officers network' means a network of national representatives nominated by the governments of the Member States and by countries associated to Horizon Europe, part of the National Contact Points for Horizon Europe, tasked with facilitating a more structured dissemination of opportunities, results and achievements emerging from the EIT Community and encourages the exchange of knowledge, advice and best practice, in line with the EIT’s institute function;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 180 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
(8) ‘Regional Innovation Scheme’ (or ‘RIS’) means an outreach scheme targeted at establishing partnerships between higher education institutions, research organisations, companies and other stakeholders, in order to foster innovation across the Unionlow R&I performing countries as identified in Article 2, point (15a) of Regulation [xxx] establishing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation as well as in Moderate and Modest Innovator countries (and regions in those countries) according to the European Innovation Scoreboard with the aim to foster innovation across the Union and to bridge regional disparities thus mitigating the innovation divide;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 195 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The EIT’s mission is to contribute toboost sustainable Union economic growth and competitiveness by reinforcing the innovation capacity of the Member States and the Union in order to address major challenges faced by the society. It shall do this by promoting synergies and cooperation among, and integrating, higher education, research and innovation of the highest standards, including by fostering entrepreneurship.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 198 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
The EIT shall contribute to deliver on the general and specific objectives of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 203 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The SIA shall define the priority fields and strategy for the EIT for the seven-year period concerned, taking into account the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe, and shall include an assessment of its socioeconomic impact and its capacity to generate the best innovation added-value. The SIA shall take into account the results of the monitoring and evaluation of the EIT as referred to in Article 19.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 207 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. The SIA shall be aligned with the objectives of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe, the strategic multiannual planning, reporting, monitoring and evaluation and other requirements of that programme, and foster synergies with other relevant Union programmes of the respective MFF, in particular with those supporting education and regional development. It shall also establish appropriate synergies and complementarities between the EIT activities and other Union initiatives , policies and instruments .
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 214 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) a Governing Board composed of high-level members experienced in higher education, research, innovation and business, as well as a common member with the European Innovation Council.. It shall be responsible for steering the activities of the EIT, for the selection, designation , monitoring and evaluation of the KICs, and for all other strategic decisions;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 225 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) raise awareness and ensure openness among potential new partner organisations and encourage their participation in its activities;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 227 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) select and designate KICs in the priority fields in accordance with Article 9 and define their rights and obligations by framework partnership agreements and grant agreements , provide them with appropriate support, apply appropriate quality control measures and continuously monitor and periodically evaluate their activities and their steps towards achieving financial sustainability;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 246 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
(k a) establish a dedicated network of country liaison officers, as part of the National Contact Points for Horizon Europe, in order to facilitate a more structured dissemination of the opportunities, results and achievements emerging from the EIT Community, as well as encourage the mutual transfer of knowledge, advice and best practice in line with the EIT’s function;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 248 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point l
(l) design and coordinate support actions undertaken by the KICs for the development of entrepreneurial and innovation capacity of higher education institutions from across Europe and their integration in innovation ecosystems. In close collaboration with the Commission, the EIT shall design and launch a pilot to support the development of innovation capacity in higher education, which shall be implemented through the KICs. External experts shall conduct an evaluation of the pilot phase and based on the results, the Governing Board shall decide whether the action should be continued and scaled up or discontinued.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 258 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) innovation activities and investments with European added value , including the support to the creation and development of innovative start-ups and innovative businesses, fully integrating the higher education and research dimensions to attain a critical mass and stimulating the dissemination and exploitation of results;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 263 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) education and training activities in particular at masters and doctoral level, with strong entrepreneurial components, as well as professional training courses, in disciplines with the potential to meet future European socio-economic needs and which expand the Union’s talent base, promote the development of innovation-related skills, the improvement of managerial and entrepreneurial skills and the mobility of researchers and students, and foster knowledge-sharing, mentoring and networking among the recipients of EIT- labelled degrees and training, while ensuring a gender-balanced approach;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 276 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) ensure their openness to new memberspartners, through open calls, whenever they add value to the partnership;
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 288 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. The relationship between the EIT and each KIC shall be based on framework partnership agreements and multi-annual grant agreements and on a well-defined long-term collaboration strategy.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 292 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
The rules for participation and dissemination of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe shall apply. By way of derogation from those rules:
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 296 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. A partnership shall be selected and designated by the EIT to become a KIC following a competitive, open and transparent procedure. The criteria of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe for the selection of European partnerships shall apply. The EIT Governing Board may further specify those criteria, by adopting and publishing criteria for the selection of KICs based on the principles of excellence and innovation relevance..
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 303 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 5
5. The EIT shall adopt and publish criteria and procedures for financing, monitoring and evaluating the activities of the KICs, as well as put in place a financial sustainability strategy with clear requirements for existing and new KICs, prior to the launching of the selection procedure for new KICs. The Member States’ Representatives Group referred to in Article 6(k) and the European Parliament shall be promptly informed of them.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 309 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
The EIT shall, on the basis of indicators set out, inter alia, in the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe and in the SIA, and in close cooperation with the Commission, organise continuous monitoring and periodic external evaluations of the output, results and impact, impact and steps taken towards achieving financial sustainability of each KIC. The results of such monitoring and evaluations shall be reported to the European Parliament and to the Council and shall be made public.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 313 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. Subject to thpositive outcome of a comprehensive mid-term review by independent external experts before the expiry of the initial period of seven years, he Governing Board may decide to extend the framework partnership agreement with a KIC beyond the initial period for another period of a maximum of seven years or to discontinue the EIT’s financial contribution and not to extend the framework partnership agreement. The Governing Board shall take into account in particular the achieved level of financial sustainability of a KIC, its capacity to ensure openness to new membpartners and its success in attracting new partners, as well as the limits of the Union financial contribution referred to in Article 20 and relevance with regard to the objectives of the EIT.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 319 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4
4. Subject to the outcome of a final review before the expiry of the fourteenth year of the framework partnership agreement, the EIT may conclude a memorandum of cooperation with a KIC or under strict conditions the EIT Governing Board may decide a possible extension of the Framework Partnership Agreement, after thorough evaluation by independent experts. The extension shall be limited in scope, time and budget.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 340 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. The EIT shall adopt a consolidated annual activity report , which shall include comprehensive information on the activities conducted by the EIT and the KICs during the preceding calendar year and on the EIT’s contribution to the objectives of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe, and to the Union innovation, research and education policies and objectives. It shall also assess the results with respect to the objectives, indicators and timetable set, the risks associated with the activities carried out, the use of resources and the general operation of the EIT. The consolidated annual activity report shall include further comprehensive information in accordance with the EIT’s financial rules.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 342 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall provide for evaluations of the EIT with the assistance of independent experts selected on the basis of a transparent process in accordance with its financial rules . Those evaluations shall examine how the EIT fulfils its mission, cover all activities of the EIT and the KICs and assess the European added value of the EIT, the impact, effectiveness, sustainability, efficiency and relevance of the activities pursued and their coherence and/or complementarity with relevant national and Union policies , including synergies with other parts of the Union framework programme supporting research and innovation . They shall take into account the views of stakeholders, at both European and national level and feed into the Commission programme evaluations provided for in the Union framework programme supporting research and innovation Horizon Europe.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 348 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The Union contribution mayshall be provided through a financial contribution from the Union framework programme supporting research and innovationHorizon Europe and other Union programmes, without prejudice to the amounts decided in the respective MFF.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 353 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 1 – point 1 – introductory part
1. The Governing Board shall be composed of 15 members, appointed by the Commission, providing a balance between those with experience in business, higher education and research. Additionally, there should be a common member with the EIC. The term of office of the members of the Governing Board shall be four years . The Commission may extend that term of office once by a two- year period on the proposal of the Governing Board .
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 374 #

2019/0151(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – section 6 – point 1
1. The staff of the EIT shall consist of personnel employed directly by the EIT . The Staff Regulations, the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants and the rules adopted by agreement between the institutions of the Union for giving effect to them shall apply to the staff of the EIT. As a transitional measure, this provision shall apply to the staff of the EIT whose contracts expire in 2020.
2020/05/06
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 5 #

2018/2217(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes with concern the interim value of leverage effect of 0.9 at the end of 2016; calls the Joint Undertaking to take steps to meet the target leverage effect over the whole 2014-2020 period of 1.0418;
2019/02/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2018/2216(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the fact that the absence of established key performance indicators is no longer an issue under Horizon 2020; observes that not all targets of the third set of 2017 key performance indicators specific to FCH2 were met; revision of the technico-economic key performance indicators (KPIs) included in the addendum to the MAWP endorsed by the FCH 2 JU Governing Board1a; observes that most of the 2017 KPIs have been met while projects still ongoing are on track to achieve targets for 2017 and beyond; _________________ 1a https://fch.europa.eu/sites/default/files/M AWP%20final%20version_endorsed%20 GB%2015062018%20%28ID%203712421 %29.pdf
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2018/2216(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Takes note of the fact that experts have counted among the participants of the FCH2 calls many of the world class car manufacturers as well as top energy and utility companies, top innovators are well represented; notes also the engagement of the industry into the planning and execution of the programme; observes that the experts recommend strengthening the value chain approach by a greater participation of end users and customers;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2018/2215(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets to note that payment appropriations were for the fourth consecutive year below 75 %: in 2017 they were at 71,96 %; notes, however, that the number of payments increased by 9,33 % (from 75 to 82) but the paid amount, however, was reduced by 19,87 % (from EUR 175 182 730 to EUR 140 381 318) compared to 2016; takes note that this low implementation was mainly due to a reduction or postponement of clinical trials within some large and complex projects of the anti-microbial resistance and eEbola programmes and to delays in concluding grant agreements for calls under Horizon 2020; invites the IMI 2 Joint Undertaking to present updated information to the discharge authority and to improve the payment appropriations for the procedure next year;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2018/2215(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Welcomes that the number of payments increased by 9,33 % (from 75 to 82); points out that the paid amount decreased due to the higher amount of the costs recognised against pre-financing already paid to IMI 1 Joint Undertaking and IMI 2 Joint Undertaking projects (clearings increased by 189%, from EUR 20 347 000 to EUR 58 846 383);
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2018/2215(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Notes with regret theAcknowledges the inherent limitations in the forecasting of payment appropriation process; notes with regret that these limitations result in weaknesses shown iwhen planning and monitoring payment appropriations, reflected in EUR 78 700 000 near the end of 2017 of unused payment appropriations from previous years; welcomes the corrective measures put in place by the IMI 2 Joint Undertaking to break the cycle of over budgeting; notes that the IMI 2 Joint Undertaking governing board decided to reduce the operational payment appropriations of the given year by EUR 56 000 000 and the accumulated unused from previous years by EUR 25 800 000;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2018/2215(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes with concern that out of the EUR 1 680 000 000 of Horizon 2020 funds allocated to the IMI Joint Undertaking, by the end of 2017 the IMI 2 Joint Undertaking had made commitments of EUR 819 010 000 (50 %) and payments of EUR 179 650 000 (10,97 % of the allocated funds and 21,93% of the committed funds) for the implementation of its first wave of project13 calls for proposals; acknowledges the fact that the low level of payments is mainly due to the time required by project consortia to conclude Horizon 2020 grant agreements with the industry partners, which delays IMI Joint Undertaking planned pre-financing for the given year, and due to the duration of the projects, often spanning over 5 years, bringing a large share of the payments beyond 2020;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2018/2215(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes that the absence of established key performance indicators (KPIs) is no longer an issue under Horizon 2020; regrets that less than 60 % of the third set of 2017 target KPIs were reachede slow progression in fulfilling some of the KPIs specific to IMI Joint Undertaking that were set for the duration of the whole programme (less than 60 % of the third set of 2017 target KPIs were reached); welcomes the IMI 2 Joint Undertaking governing board decision to approve a new set of IMI Joint Undertaking specific KPIs better aligned with the programme objectives;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2018/2215(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the fact that the IMI 2 Joint Undertaking could reduce the delays in payments to beneficiarieadministrative payments to contractors from 34 % to 11,1 % and the time-to-pay for interim payments to project beneficiaries from 94 to 65 days in 2017; acknowledges in this respect that the average time-to-pay for final payments of costs claimed by beneficiaries was 52 days;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2018/2214(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Citation 4
— having regard to the Council’s recommendation of 12... February 2019 on discharge to be given to the joint undertaking in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2017 (00000/2019 – C8- 0000/2019),
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2018/2214(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Regrets that out of the minimum EUR 182 500 000 of cash contributions to be made by the industry members to the Joint Undertaking’s operational cost, only EUR 800 000 were paid by the end of 2017, having suspended the Commission EUR 50 000 000 of its cash contributions as a consequence; observes that there is a high risk that the minimum will not be achieved by the end of the Joint Undertaking’s programme; calls on the Joint Undertaking to repnotes the Commission proceeded to a reduction in the EU contribution to the BBI JU by EUR 140 million, that should still allow for a consistent BBI JU Call in 2020 in order to achieve the JU’s strategic objectives in 2024; welcomes that an amended Regulation on BBI JU allowing the private sectort to the discharge authority in any breakthroughs in this regardcontribute financially at a project level on top of programme level has been adopted in January 2018; emphasizes that a positive trend has been observed in the sphere of in-kind contributions to operational activities that are expected to increase by 61 % (EUR 72.5 million instead of estimated EUR 45 million)in 2018 Call;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2018/2213(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Citation 4
— having regard to the Council’s recommendation of 12... February 2019 on discharge to be given to the Joint Undertaking in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2017 (00000/2019 – C8- 0000/2019),
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2018/2212(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Citation 4
— having regard to the Council’s recommendation of 12... February 2019 on discharge to be given to the joint undertaking in respect of the implementation of the budget for the financial year 2017 (00000/2019 – C8- 0000/2019),
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2018/2212(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Notes with concern the interim value of leverage effect of 1.020.56 at the end of 20167; calls the Joint Undertaking to take steps to meet the estimated target leverage effect over the whole 2014-2020 period of 1.410.85;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2018/2211(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the Court’s report found that the results, which were presented to the Joint Undertaking’s Governing Board in December 2016, indicated an expected additional funding requirement of EUR 5 400 000 000 (in 2008 values) to that already committed for the construction phase after 2020, which represents an increase of 82 % in relation to the approved EUR 6 600 000 000 (in 2008 values) budget; reiterates the fact that the amount of EUR 6 600 000 000 adopted by the Council in 2010 serves as a ceiling for the Joint Undertaking’s spending up to 2020; recognises that the additional funding required to complete the ITER project must involve future Multiannual Financial Framework commitments;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2018/2211(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the fact that in addition to the construction phase, the Joint Undertaking will have to contribute to the ITER operational phase after 2035 and to the subsequent ITER deactivation and decommissioning phases; takes note that the contribution to the deactivation and the decommissioning phases were estimated at EUR 95 540 000 (in 2001 values) and EUR 180 200 000 (in 2001 values); is concerned that the contribution for the operational phase after 2035 has not yet been estimated in financial terms; calls on the Joint Undertaking to estimate the cost of the operational phase after 2035 as soon as possible;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2018/2211(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Regrets that, due to serious shortcomings in the budget planning process coupled with the acceleration of some contracts, the Joint Undertaking finally needed EUR 832 600 000 in payment appropriations for 2017, while the initial amount approved in February 2017 amounted to EUR 548 600 000; notes with regret that the Joint Undertaking has estimated thata lack of payment appropriations of about EUR 150 000 000 for the 2018 budget remain unpaid; notes from the Joint Undertaking’s reply that the Euratom provided the additional budgetpayment appropriations and that the payment forecasting system has been totally redesigned and integrated;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2018/2211(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that out of EUR 588 916 058 available for commitment appropriations, of which 96,5 % was implemented through direct individual commitments (99,7 % in 2016);
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 17 #

2018/2211(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Notes with regret that significant shortcomings in the internal communication strategies did not ensure the dissemination of appropriate information on the estimated costs of the decommissioning phase within the organisation and, therefore, the Joint Undertaking disclosed no provision for such liability in the accounts of the previous years, which have; notes that the amount of the accounting provision up to 31 December 2017 has been estimated inat EUR 85 200 000;
2019/01/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 212 #

2018/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96
96. Encouraged, in this context, the Commission and the Court to pay greater attention to simplification, results achieved, performance audits and the final impact of policies;
2019/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 260 #

2018/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 46
Conflicts of interestRule of law and fight against fraud
2019/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 265 #

2018/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 130
130. Deplores any kind of conflict of interestthreats to breach the values stated in Article 2 of the TEU that could compromise the implementation of the Union budget and undermine the trust of Union citizens in the proper management of Union taxpayers’ money; calls on the Commission to ensure that a zero tolerance policy with no double standards will apply regarding conflicts of interestany breach of EU law;
2019/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 268 #

2018/2166(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 131
131. Calls on the Commission to make acreate a unified Europe-wide strategy for the active avoidance of conflicts of interest as one of its priorities with an adapted strategy of ex ante and ex- post control; calls on the commission, OLAF and the future EPPO to include in this strategy the protection both of whistleblowers and of investigative journalists;
2019/01/31
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2018/2046(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to speed up the delivery of cohesion policy programmes and related payments with a view to reducing the length of the implementation period in the next Multiannual Financial Frameworks, initially, to year n+2;
2018/09/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 63 #

2018/0229(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Access to finance remains an essential issue for companies in the cultural and creative sector. To further develop this highly innovation sector, the dedicated guarantee facility created in Creative Europe will be continued under InvestEU as it has showed to successfully strengthen the financial capacity and competitiveness of cultural and creative sectors companies.
2018/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 65 #

2018/0229(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 c (new)
(5c) Cultural and creative sectors are one of the most resilient and fastest growing sectors of the European economy, which generate economic and cultural value from intellectual property and individual creativity. However, the intangible nature of their assets limits their access to private financing. Thus, one of the greatest challenges for the sectors is to increase their access to finance, which is essential to invest, scale- up and compete at the international level. Therefore the InvestEU Programme should facilitate access to finance for SMEs and organisations from cultural and creative sectors.
2018/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 253 #

2018/0229(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The SMEs policy window shall further develop the different EU guarantee facilities merged under InvestEU, in particular the Cultural and Creative Sectors Guarantee Facility from the Creative Europe Programme.
2018/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 452 #

2018/0229(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 8
8. Cultural and creative sectors; media, augaming industry; fashion industry; medioa-visual sector and journalism; European Cultural Heritage Cloud.
2018/09/14
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 93 #

2018/0227(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) The motion for resolution on a coherent EU policy for cultural and creative industries(2016/2072(INI))states that digitisation and media convergence create new opportunities for access, distribution and promotion of European works, highlights the important role of cultural and creative industries with regards to reindustrialization of Europe and emphasises the importance of guaranteeing funding for the digitisation, preservation and online availability of European cultural heritage
2018/09/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 360 #

2018/0227(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – part 5 – subpart I – point 5
5. Education and culture: Provide creators and creative industry in Europe with access to latest digital technologies from AI to advanced computing. Exploit the European cultural heritage as a vector to promote cultural diversity, social cohesion and European citizenship. Support the uptake of digital technologies in education. , including the set-up of digital collaboration spaces, in particular a European Cultural Heritage Cloud.
2018/09/13
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 980 #

2018/0225(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Annex I – part II – point 2 – point 2.2 – point 2.2.2 – paragraph 2 – indent 6 a (new)
- Establish a “European Cultural Heritage Cloud”:A museum collaboration space will be created in order to grant accessibility of cultural heritage through new technologies as well as to encourage and to facilitate transmission of know- how and skills, such as restoring art works.The cloud will be closely linked to the current Europeana platform. The European Cultural Heritage Cloud will: - Create a research and project based collaboration space between museums, sciences organisations, cultural professionals and the public - Make research and knowledge accessible to the public - Provide the opportunity to set up individual workgroups and project structures -Provide and integrate links to existing platforms such as Europeana -Be a European cultural counterpart to commercially driven cloud services
2018/09/12
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 20 #

2018/0224(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) It is important to support industry to stay or become world leader in innovation, digitisation and decarbonisation, notably through investments in key enabling technologies that will underpin tomorrow's business. The Programme's actions should support achieving EU policy objectives through its focus on excellent science, industrial leadership and societal challenges and be used to address market failures or sub- optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, without duplicating or crowding out private financing and have a clear European added value. This will ensure consistency between the actions of the programme and EU State aid rules, avoiding undue distortions of competition in the internal market.
2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 23 #

2018/0224(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) The Commission's Communication on the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 (COM(2018) 2 final) has provided a set of recommendations for this Programme, including its Rules for participation and dissemination, building on the lessons learnt from the previous Programme as well as input from EU institutions and stakeholders. Those recommendations include to invest more ambitiously in order to reach critical mass and maximise impact; to support breakthrough innovation; to prioritise Union research and innovation (R&I) investments in areas of high added value, notably through mission- orientation, citizen involvement and wide communication; to rationalise the Union funding landscape, including by streamlining the range of partnership initiatives and co-funding schemes; the development of more and concrete synergies between different Union funding instruments, notably with the aim of helping to mobilise under-exploited R&I potential across the Union; to strengthen international cooperation and reinforce openness to third countries' participation; and to continuepursue further simplification based on implementation experiences from Horizon 2020to support faster innovation cycles and lower administrative burden based on implementation experiences from Horizon 2020. Further simplification is also needed in order to reduce burden for beneficiaries, to align rules with their usual practices recognised by national funders and by optimising the Commission’s management processes.
2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 25 #

2018/0224(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
(15) The Programme should seek further strenghtening and making more efficient and effective synergies with other Union programmes, from their design and strategic planning, to project selection, management, communication, dissemination and exploitation of results, to monitoring, auditing and governance, bringing priorities more inline with each other. With a view to avoiding overlaps and duplication and increasing the leverage of Union funding, transfers from other Union programmes to Horizon Europe activities can take place. In such cases they will follow Horizon Europe rules.
2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 26 #

2018/0224(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) In order to achieve the greatest possible impact of Union funding and the most effective contribution to the Union's policy objectives, the Programme should enter into European Partnerships with private and/or public sector partners. Such partners include industry, research organisations, bodies with a public service mission at local, regional, national or international level, and civil society organisations such as foundations that support and/or carry out research and innovation, provided that desired impacts can be achieved more effectively in partnership than by the Union alone. Reforming the current partnership instruments and initiatives should make it possible to use their full potential in achieving ambitious policy objectives.
2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 28 #

2018/0224(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
(23) The EIT, primarily through its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), should aim at strengthening innovation ecosystems that tackle global challenges, by fostering the integration of business, research, higher education and entrepreneurship. The EIT should foster innovation in its activities and should support the integration of higher education within the innovation ecosystem, in particular by: stimulating entrepreneurial education, fostering strong non- disciplinary collaborations between industry and academia; and identifying prospective skills for future innovators to address global challenges, which includes advanced digital and innovation skills. The stronger focus on innovation and market oriented skills of researchers are very important aspects of job creation and business expansion in Europe. Support schemes provided by the EIT should benefit to EIC beneficiaries, while start-ups emerging from EIT KICs should have access to EIC actions. While the EIT’s focus on innovation ecosystems should make it naturally fit within the pillar 'Open Innovation', the planning of its KICs should be aligned through the strategic planning process with the pillar 'Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness'.
2018/09/12
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 963 #

2018/0224(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b – point 2
(2) EUR 2 83 000 000 000 for cluster 'Inclusive and SecurCreative Society';
2018/09/11
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 26 #

2018/0217(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 48
(48) The integrated system, as part of the governance systems which should be in place in order to implement the CAP, should ensure that the aggregate data provided in the annual performance reporting is accurate, reliable and verifiable. Given the importance of a properly functioning integrated system, it is necessary to set quality requirements. Member States should carry out an annual quality assessment of the identification system for agricultural parcels, of the geo- spatial application system and of the area monitoring system. Member States should also address any deficiencies and, if so requested by the Commission, set up an action plan.
2019/01/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 28 #

2018/0217(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 69
(69) If the objective of the public control of the use of the money from the Funds is to be achieved, a certain level of information about beneficiaries needs to be brought to the attention of the public. That information should include data on the identity of the beneficiary, the amount awarded and the fund from which it comes, and the purpose and nature of the type of intervention or measure concerned and should be published in an open and machine-readable format. The publication of that information should be made in such a way as to cause less interference with the beneficiaries' right to respect for their private life, and to their right to protection of their personal data, both rights which are recognised in Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
2019/01/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 241 #

2018/0217(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 – indent 1 (new)
- The accreditation of paying agencies accredited for period 2014-2020 shall be carried over to the programming period 2021-2027 provided that new system operations and procedures implemented by the paying agency will be subject of an examination of the accreditation criteria to be adopted by the Commission in accordance with point(a) of Article 10 (1).
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 450 #

2018/0217(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall automatically decommit any portion of a budget commitment for rural development interventions in a CAP Strategic Plan that has not been used for the purposes of prefinancing or for making interim payments or for which no declaration of expenditure fulfilling the requirements laid down in Article 30(3) has been presented to it in relation to expenditure effected by 31 December of the seconthird year following that of the budget commitment.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 684 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
(25) In order to ensure a fairer distribution of income support, the Member States should decide that the amounts of direct payments above a certain ceiling should be reduced and the product should either be used for decoupled direct payments and in priority for the complementary redistributive income support for sustainability, or be transferred to the EAFRD. In order to avoid negative effects on employment, labour should be taken into account when applying the mechanism.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1244 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) 'genuine farmers' shallmay be defined, where the Member States so decides, in a way to ensure that no support is granted to those whose agricultural activity forms only an insignificant part of their overall economic activities or whose principal business activity is not agricultural, while not precluding from support pluri-active farmers. The definition shall allow to determine which farmers are not considered genuine farmers, based on conditions such as income tests, labour inputs on the farm, company object and/or inclusion in registers.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1249 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(d a) Member States may include other definitions in the CAP Strategic Plans that are considered necessary for the implementation of this regulation.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1836 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shallmay reduce the amount of direct paymentsbasic income support for sustainability to be granted to a farmer pursuant to this Chapter for a given calendar year exceas further specified ing EUR 60 000 as follow their CAP Strategic Plans:
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1839 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shallmay reduce the amount of direct paymentsbasic income support to be granted to a farmer pursuant to this Chapter for a given calendar year exceeding EUR 60 000 as follows:a financial ceiling set by the Member State
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1853 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) by at least 25 % for the tranche between EUR 60 000 and EUR 75 000;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1857 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) by at least 25 % for the tranche between EUR 60 000 and EUR 75 000;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1867 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) by at least 50 % for the tranche between EUR 75 000 and EUR 90 000;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1871 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) by at least 50 % for the tranche between EUR 75 000 and EUR 90 000;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1886 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) by at least 75 % for the tranche between EUR 90 000 and EUR 100 000;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1888 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) by at least 75 % for the tranche between EUR 90 000 and EUR 100 000;deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1900 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) by 100 % for the amount exceeding EUR 100 000.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1904 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) by 100 % for the amount exceeding EUR 100 000.deleted
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1929 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Before applying paragraph 1, Member States shall subtract from the amount of direct paymentsbasic income support to be granted to a farmer pursuant to this Chapter in a given calendar year:
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1940 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the salaries linked to an agricultural activity and related activities declared by the farmer, including taxes and social contributions related to employment; and
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1949 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) the equivalent cost of regular and unpaid labour linked to an agricultural activity and related activities practiced by persons working on the farm concerned who do not receive a salary, or who receive less remuneration than the amount normally paid for the services rendered, but are rewarded through the economic result of the farm business.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1966 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
To calculate the amounts referred to in points a) and b), Member States shall use the average standarentire amounts of labour costs and salaries linked to an agricultural activity and related activities at national or regional level multiplied by the number of annual work units declared by the farmer concerned.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 1982 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The estimated product of the reduction of payments shallmay primarily be used to contribute to the financing of the complementary redistributive income support for sustainability and thereafter of other interventions belonging to decoupled direct payments.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2002 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 138 supplementing this Regulation with rules establishing a harmonised basis for calculation for the reduction of payments laid down in paragraph 1 to ensure a correct distribution of the funds to the entitled beneficiaries.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2004 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 138 supplementing this Regulation with rules establishing a harmonised basis for calculation for the reduction of payments laid down in paragraph 1 to ensure a correct distribution of the funds to the entitled beneficiaries.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2190 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallmay provide for a complementary redistributive income support for sustainability (‘redistributive income support’) under the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2195 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallmay provide for a complementary redistributive income support for sustainability (‘redistributive income support’) under the conditions set out in this Article and as further specified in their CAP Strategic Plans.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 2205 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shallmay ensure redistribution of support from bigger to smaller or medium-sized farms by providing for a redistributive income support in the form of an annual decoupled payment per eligible hectare to farmers who are entitled to a payment under the basic income support referred to in Article 17.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 3401 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 8
8. Commitments shall be undertaken for a period of five to seven years. However, where necessary in order to achieve or maintain certain environmental benefits sought, Member States may determine a longer period in the CAP Strategic Plan for particular types of commitments, including by means of providing for their annual extension after the termination of the initial period. In exceptional and duly justifiedrelevant cases, and for new commitments directly following the commitment performed in the initial period, Member States may determine a shorter period in their CAP Strategic Plans.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4018 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
At least 30% of the total EAFRD contribution to the CAP Strategic Plan as set out in Annex IX shall be reserved for interventions addressing the specific environmental- and climate-related objectives set out at least in points (d), (e) and (f) of Article 6(1) of this Regulation, excluding interventions based on Article 66.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4023 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
At least 30% of the total EAFRD contribution to the CAP Strategic Plan as set out in Annex IX shall be reserved for interventions of all types addressing the specific environmental- and climate-related objectives set out in points (d), (e) and (f) of Article 6(1) of this Regulation, excluding interventions based on Article 66.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4079 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
The indicative financial allocations for the coupled income support interventions referred to in Subsection 1 of Section 2 of Chapter II of Title III, shall be limited to a maximum of 106% of the amounts set out in Annex VII.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 4123 #

2018/0216(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
The percentage referred to in the first subparagraph, may be increased by a maximum of 24%, provided that the amount corresponding to the percentage exceeding the 106% is allocated to the support for protein crops under Subsection 1 of Section 2 of Chapter II of Title III.
2018/12/10
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 68 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) In view of this wider scope of the ESF+ it is appropriate to foresee that the aims to enhance the effectiveness of inclusive and open labour markets and promote access to quality employment, to improve the access to and the quality of education and training as well as to promote social inclusion and health and to reduce poverty are not only implemented under shared management, but also under direct and indirect management under the Employment and Social Innovation and Health strands for actions required at Union level.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 118 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
(18) The ESF+ should support Member States’ efforts at all levels of government, including at local and regional level, to tackle poverty with a view to breaking the cycle of disadvantage across generations and promote social inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities for all, tackling discrimination and addressing health inequalities and homelessness. This implies mobilising a range of policies targeting the most disadvantaged people regardless of their age, including children, persons with disabilities, marginalised communities such as the Roma, and the working poor. The ESF+ should promote the active inclusion of people far from the labour market with a view to ensuring their socio-economic integration. The ESF+ should be also used to enhance timely and equal access to affordable, sustainable and high quality services such as healthcare and long-term care, in particular family and community-based care services. The ESF+ should contribute to the modernisation of social protection systems with a view in particular to promoting their accessibility.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 122 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
1. Programmes benefitting from the general support of the ESF+ strand under shared management shall use common output and result indicators, as set out in Annex 1 to this Regulation to monitor progress in implementation. The programmes mayshould also use programme- specific indicators.
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 123 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. In compliance with its reporting requirement pursuant to Article [38(3)(e)(i)] of the Financial regulation, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament and the Council information on performance and results in accordance with the indicators, by reporting on both progress and shortfalls and by ensuring a clear link between spending and performance;
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 125 #

2018/0206(COD)

5a. In compliance with its reporting requirement pursuant to Article [38(3)(e)(i)] of the Financial Regulation, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament and the Council information on performance and results in accordance with the indicators, by reporting on both progress and shortfalls and by ensuring a clear link between spending and performance;
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 136 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In compliance with its reporting requirement pursuant to Article [38(3)(e)(i)] of the Financial Regulation, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament and the Council information on performance and results in accordance with the indicators, by reporting on both progress and shortfalls and by ensuring a clear link between spending and performance;
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 137 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 1
1. Evaluations shall be carried out in a sufficiently timely manner to feed into the decision-making process and shall contain information on performance, EU added value and sound financial management.
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 138 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall communicate the conclusions of the evaluations accompanied by its observations as well as with improved qualitative and quantitative information on performance and results against the objectives set, to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 146 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
(21) The ESF+ should support policy and system reforms in the fields of employment, social inclusion, healthcare and long-term care, and education and training. In order to strengthen alignment with the European Semester, Member States should allocate an appropriate amount of their resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to implement relevant country-specific recommendations relating to structural challenges which it is appropriate to address through multiannual investments falling within the scope of the ESF+. The Commission and the Member States should involve local and regional authorities in the process to ensure coherence, coordination and complementarity between the shared- management and Health strands of ESF+ and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrument. In particular, the Commission and the Member State should ensure, in all stages of the process, effective coordination in order to safeguard the consistency, coherence, complementarity and synergy among sources of funding, including technical assistance thereof.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 155 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
(22) To ensure that the social dimension of Europe as set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights is duly put forward and that a minimum amount of resources is targeting those most in need Member States should allocate at least 250% of their national ESF+ resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to fostering social inclusion.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 188 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
(26) Efficient and effective implementation of actions supported by the ESF+ depends on good governance and partnership between all actors at the relevant territorial levels and the socio- economic actors, in particular the social partners, and civil society. It is therefore essential that Member States encourage the participation of local and regional authorities, social partners and civil society in the implementation of the ESF+ under shared management.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 321 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii
(iii) promoting women’s labour market participation, a better work/life balance including access to childcare, a healthy and well–adapted working environment addressing health risks, adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, and active and healthy ageing;
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 332 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iii a (new)
(iiia) promoting adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change, active and healthy ageing and a healthy and well–adapted working environment addressing health risks;
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 337 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point iv
(iv) improving the quality, effectiveness and labour market relevance of education and training systems, to support acquisition of key competences including digital skills, promote e-inclusion and facilitate the transition from education to work;
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 351 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point vi
(vi) promoting lifelong learning, notably flexible upskilling and reskilling opportunities for all, in formal, non- formal and informal settings, taking into account digital skills, better anticipating change and new skills requirements based on labour market needs, facilitating career transitions and promoting professional mobility and participation in society;
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 376 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point xi a (new)
(xia) promoting research, development and innovation within the specific objectives of the ESF+;
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 461 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall allocate at least 250% of their ESF+ resources under shared management to the specific objectives for the social inclusion policy area set out in points (vii) to (xi) of Article 4(1), including the promotion of the socio- economic integration of third country nationals.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 520 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
The resources referred to in Article 7(4) shall be programmed under a part of a priority, dedicated priority or programme.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 521 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Support in accordance with Article 7(5) shall be programmed under a part of a priority or a dedicated priority and it shall support the specific objective set out in point (i) of Article 4(1).
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 538 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
The actions addressing the challenges identified in relevant country-specific recommendations and in the European Semester as referred to in Article 7(2) shall be programmed under one or more dedicated prioritiesany of the specific objectives referred to in Article 4(1).
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 559 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4
4. Each Member State shall dedicate at least one priority to the implementation of paragraphs 1 or 2 or to both. The maximum co-financing rate for these priorities may be increased to 95% for the allocation of maximum 5% of the national ESF+ allocation under shared management to such priorities.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 565 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the purchase of furniture, equipment and vehicles except where the purchase is necessary for achieving the objective of the operation, or these items are fully depreciated, or the purchase of these items is the most economic option.deleted
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 572 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4
4. Direct staff costs shall be eligible for a contribution from the general support of the ESF+ strand under shared management provided that their level is not higher than 100% of the usual remuneration for the profession concerned in the Member State as demonstrated by Eurostat data.deleted
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 683 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
The Employment and Social Innovation strand and Health strand shall be implemented by work programmes referred to in Article [108] of Financial Regulation. Work programmes shall set out, where applicable, the overall amount reserved for blending operations. The Commission shall adopt, by means of implementing acts, annual work programmes which shall set out, in particular, actions to be undertaken, including the indicative allocation of financial resources. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 39(2a).
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 697 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – title
Committee Procedure for the ESF+ strand under shared management
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 698 #

2018/0206(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
2018/09/26
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 81 #

2018/0202(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. By 1 August 2021 and every two years thereafter, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament and to the Council a comprehensive, quantitative and qualitative report on the activities under this Regulation and Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013 in the previous two years. The report shall focus mainly on the resultsperformance and results against the objectives set achieved by the EGF and shall in particular contain information relating to sound financial management, applications submitted, decisions adopted, measures funded, including statistics on the indicators set out in the Annex, and the complementarity of such measures with measures funded by other Union funds, in particular ESF+, and information relating to the winding-up of financial contributions made and shall also document those applications that have been rejected or reduced owing to a lack of sufficient appropriations or to non-eligibility.
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 82 #

2018/0202(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 1
1. Every four years the Commission shall carry out on its own initiative and in close cooperation with the Member States, an evaluation of the EGF financial contributions. This evaluation shall contain information on performance, European added value and sound financial management.
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2018/0199(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
A review mayshall be organised by the Commission to examine the performance of Interreg programmes.
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 37 #

2018/0199(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 3
3. The outcomeresults of the review shall be recorded in agreed minutes. The Commission shall assess the results of the review in writing, publish a performance assessment and communicate this assessment to the European Parliament and Council.
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 38 #

2018/0199(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Apart from the review, the Member State should: (a) organise an annual review meeting with the Commission and to examine the performance of the Interreg programme according to Article 36 of the [new CPR]; (b) carry out a mid-term review to provide a fully-fledged adjustment of Interreg programme based on programme performance, while also providing an opportunity to take account of new challenges and relevant CSRs issued in 2024 according to the Article 14 of the [new CPR].
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 40 #

2018/0199(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – title
Indicators forand the European territorial cooperation goal (Interreg)performance reporting by the Commission
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 41 #

2018/0199(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. In compliance with its reporting requirement pursuant to Article [38(3)(e)(i)] of the Financial Regulation, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament and the Council information on performance and results in accordance with the indicators, by reporting on both progress and shortfalls and by ensuring a clear link between spending and performance;
2018/10/23
Committee: CONT
Amendment 28 #

2018/0197(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. In compliance with its reporting requirement pursuant to Article [38(3)(e)(i)] of the Financial Regulation, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament and the Council information on performance and results in accordance with Annex II by reporting on both progress and shortfalls and by ensuring a clear link between spending and performance.
2018/09/25
Committee: CONT
Amendment 30 #

2018/0197(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 13 to amend Annex I in order to make the necessaryrelevant and reasoned adjustments to the list of indicators to be used by Member States and to amend Annex II in order to make the necessary adjustments to the information on performance to be provided to the European Parliament and the Councilf necessary in order to provide the European Parliament and the Council with improved qualitative as well as quantative information on performance and results against the objectives set.
2018/09/25
Committee: CONT
Amendment 31 #

2018/0197(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. The Commission shall provide the European Parliament and the Council reliable information on the quality of the performance data used.
2018/09/25
Committee: CONT
Amendment 32 #

2018/0197(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
At least 6% of the ERDF resources at national level under the Investment for jobs and growth goal, other than for technical assistance, shall be allocated to sustainable urban development in the form of community-led local development, integrated territorial investments or another territorial tool under PO5 incorporating relevant PO1 to PO4.
2018/09/25
Committee: CONT
Amendment 23 #

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Each Member State shall organise a partnership with the competent regional and local authorities in order to achieve the highest European added value possible. That partnership shall include at least the following partners:
2018/09/26
Committee: CONT
Amendment 24 #

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. In accordance with the multi-level governance principle, the Member State shall involve and respect those partners in the preparation of Partnership Agreements and throughout the preparation and implementation of programmes including through participation in monitoring committees in accordance with Article 34.
2018/09/26
Committee: CONT
Amendment 29 #

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall assess the Partnership Agreement and its compliance with this Regulation and with the Fund- specific rules. In its assessment, the Commission shall, in particular, take into account relevant country-specific recommendations and respecting the partnership and multi-level governance principles.
2018/09/26
Committee: CONT
Amendment 55 #

2018/0196(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 41 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the efficient visibility of support in all activities relating to operations supported by the Funds with particular attention to operations of strategic importance;
2018/09/26
Committee: CONT
Amendment 89 #

2018/0191(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) The European Court of Auditors, on its Special Report “Mobility under Erasmus+: Millions of Participants and multi-faceted European Added Value, however performance measurement needs to be further improved”, published on 6 September 2018,reassured the European added value of the Programme, focusing on education and training component. However, the elements of added value that go beyond the legal requirements, these including the strategic approach to mobility, an increase in the sense of European identity and multilingualism, are not being measured as part of performance evaluation. Therefore, auditors call for the indicators used to measure the Programmes’ performance to be better aligned with its objectives and that additional indicators are provided, which should be prioritised at the project appraisal stage, monitored and reported on.
2018/10/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 91 #

2018/0191(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 b (new)
(8b) While recognizing the introduction of several innovations that have simplified administration in the area of mobility, the European Court of Auditors, in the same report, also recommend that the European Commission simplify the scheme further to reduce administrative burdens. The auditors ask the Commission to make applications and reporting easier for beneficiaries and individual participants and to improve IT tools and continue to computerise procedures.
2018/10/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 127 #

2018/0170(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Without prejudice to Article 12d, the Director-General may open an investigation when there is a sufficient suspicion, which may also be based on information provided by any third party or anonymous information, that there has been fraud, corruption or any other illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the Union. The decision by the Director- General whether or not to open an investigation shall take into account the need for efficient use of the Office’s resources and for proportionality of the means employed. With regard to internal investigations, specific account shall be taken of the institution, body, office or agency best placed to conduct them, based, in particular, on the nature of the facts, the actual or potential financial impact of the case, and the likelihood of any judicial follow-up.;
2019/02/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 135 #

2018/0170(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point e
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013
Article 7 – paragraph 8
8. If an investigation cannot be closed within 12 months after it has been opened, the Director-General shall, at the expiry of that 12-month period and every six months thereafter, report to the Supervisory Committee, indicating the reasons and, where appropriate, the remedial measures envisagedtaken with a view to speeding up the investigation.; the content of the report shall be laid down in working arrangements;
2019/02/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 148 #

2018/0170(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013
Article 9a
(8 a) Appointment and status of the Controller 1. The Controller and his or her substitute shall be appointed by common accord of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission for a non-renewable term of five years. On expiry of their terms, they shall remain in office until they are replaced. Following a call for applications in the Official Journal of the European Union, the Commission shall draw up a list of suitably qualified candidates for the positions of the Controller and of the substitute, after a favourable opinion on the selection procedure has been given by the Supervisory Committee. The decision to appoint the Controller and his or her substitute shall also include a reserve list of potential candidates to replace the Controller for the remainder of his or her term of office in the event of resignation, death, permanent incapacity or removal from office. The Controller and his or her substitute shall be administratively attached to the Commission. Their Secretariat shall be provided by the Commission, in close consultation with the Controller. 2. The Controller and his or her substitute shall exercise their functions in complete independence and shall in the performance of their duties neither seek nor take instructions from anyone. They shall not perform any functions within the Office. In exercising their functions they shall take account of the need for effective application of the rules on the protection of the financial interests of the Union and on the fight against fraud laid down in Union legislation. 3. If the Controller or his substitute cease to fulfil the conditions required for the performance of their duties, or if they are found guilty of serious misconduct, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission may, by common accord, relieve them of their duties. 4. The Controller shall report on his activities, on an annual basis, to the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Supervisory Committee and the Office. The Controller's reports shall not refer to individual cases under investigation and ensure the confidentiality of investigations even after their closure.
2019/02/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 171 #

2018/0170(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013
Article 12f – paragraph1
In duly justified cases where the EPPO is conducting an investigation, where the Director-General considers that an investigation should be opened in accordance with the mandate of the Office with a view to facilitating the adoption of precautionary measures or of financial, disciplinary or administrative action, the Office shall inform the EPPO in writing, specifying the nature and purpose of the investigation, and seeking the EPPO’s written consent to the opening of a complementary investigation.
2019/02/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 175 #

2018/0170(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013
Article 12f – paragraph1
Within 30 days after receipt of this information the EPPO mayshall consent or object to the opening of an investigation or to the performance of certain acts pertaining to the investigation, where necessary to avoid jeopardising its own investigation or prosecution, and for as long as these grounds persist. TIf it objects, the EPPO shall notify to the Office without undue delay when the grounds for the objection cease to apply.
2019/02/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 177 #

2018/0170(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013
Article 12f – paragraph1
In the event that the EPPO does not object within the time period of the previous subparagraphgives its consent, the Office may open an investigation, and it shall conduct it in close consultation with the EPPO.
2019/02/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 179 #

2018/0170(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013
Article 12f – paragraph1
If the EPPO does not reply within the deadline from the second subparagraph, OLAF may enter into consultations with the EPPO so that a decision is taken within 10 days.
2019/02/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 185 #

2018/0170(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 883/2013
Article 15 – paragraph 1
2 a. The Supervisory Committee may ask the Office for information on closed or open investigations, including reports and recommendations on closed investigations, and cases dismissed, without, however, interfering with the conduct of investigations in progress, and with due regard to the requirements of confidentiality and data protection. The request of the Supervisory Committee shall specify the information requested and shall provide the reasons why that information is necessary to carry out the monitoring of the implementation of the Office’s investigative function.
2019/02/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the European budgetary principles of unity, budgetary accuracy, annuality, equilibrium, universality, specification, performance, sound financial management and transparency, which must be respected when the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is established;
2018/10/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that the Europe 2020 strategy will end before the start of the new MFF period, and that no new set of strategic EU goals has been decided on yet; stresses once again that public budgets are to be determined after the setting of political objectives and the designing of policies, in order to deliver results; regrets that the new MFF proposal has become a vehicle for shaping the EU’s political objectives after 2020 rather than simply reflecting them;
2018/10/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 27 #

2018/0166R(APP)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls that in the Reflection Paper on the Future of EU finances3 , the Commission proposed a list of seven criteria for the assessment of EU value added and spelled out the fact that EU financial support for programmes should depend on the results of that assessment4 ; is concerned that a transparent and foreseeable definition of EU value added is missing; _________________ 3 Reflection Paper on the Future of EU finances, 28 June 2017, COM (2017)0358. 4 The criteria comprised: Treaty objectives and obligations, public goods with a European dimension, economies of scale, spillover effects, subsidiarity, benefits of EU integration and European values: peace, democracy rule of law.
2018/10/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 75 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) A European Labour Authority (the ‘Authority’) should be established in order to help strengthen fairness and trust in the Single Marketfacilitate the application of the Union legislation and promote free movement of workers and services. To that effect, the Authority should support the Member States and the Commission in strengthening access to information for individuals and employers about their rights and obligations in cross-border labour mobility situations as well as access to relevant services, support compliance and cooperation between the Member States to ensure the effective application of the Union law in these areas, and mediate and facilitate a solution in case of cross- border disputes or labour market disruptions.
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 90 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) The Authority should perform its activities in the areas of cross-border labour mobility and social security coordination, including free movement of workers, posting of workers and highly mobilesocial security coordination and cross-border labour mobility, including posting of workers and highly mobile services in the framework of provision of services. It should also enhance cooperation between Member States in tackling undeclared work. In cases where the Authority, in the course of the performance of its activities, becomes aware of suspected irregularities, including in areas of Union law beyond its scope, such as violations of working conditions, health and safety rules, or the employment of illegally staying third-country nationals, it should be able to report them and cooperate on these matters with the Commission, competent Union bodies, and national authorities where appropriate.
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 110 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) The Authority should contribute to facilitating the free movement of workers governed by Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council39 , Directive 2014/54/EU of the European Parliament and the Council40 and Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of the European Parliament and the Council41 . It should facilitate the posting of workers governed by Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and the Council42 and Directive 2014/67/EU of the European Parliament and the Council43 , and lex specialis on posting of drivers, including by supporting the enforcement of those provisions implemented through universally applicable collective agreements in line with the practices of Member States. It should also help the coordination of social security systems governed by Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and the Council44 , Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council45 , Regulation (EU) No 1231/2010 of the European Parliament and the Council46 ; as well as Council Regulation (EC) No 1408/7147 and Council Regulation (EC) No 574/7248 . __________________ 39 Regulation (EU) No 492/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on freedom of movement for workers within the Union (OJ L 141, 27.5.2011, p. 1). 40 Directive 2014/54/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of 16 April 2014 on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers (OJ L 128, 30.4.2014, p. 8). 41 Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of the European Parliament and the Council of 13 April 2016 on a European network of employment services (EURES), workers’ access to mobility services and the further integration of labour markets, and amending Regulations (EU) No 492/2011 and (EU) No 1296/2013 (OJ L 107, 22.04.2016, p. 1). 42 Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services (OJ L 18, 21.1.1997, p. 1). 43 Directive 2014/67/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012 on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System (‘the IMI Regulation’) (OJ L 159, 28.05.2014, p. 11). 44 Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems, (OJ L 166, 30.4.2004, p.1, corrigendum OJ L 200, 7.6.2004, p. 1). 45 Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems, (OJ L 284, 30.10.2009, p. 1). 46 Regulation (EU) No 1231/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 extending Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 and Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 to nationals of third countries who are not already covered by these Regulations solely on the ground of their nationality (OJ L 344, 29.12.2010, p. 1). 47 Council Regulation (EC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community (OJ L 149, 5.7.1971 p. 2). 48 Council Regulation (EC) No 574/72 of 21 March 1972 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons, and to their families moving within the Community (OJ L 74, 27.3.1972, p. 1).
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 264 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. The Authority shall assist Member States and the Commission in matters relating to cross-border labour mobility, in particular in the application of the Union legislation on free movement of workers and posting of workers and drivers in the framework of provision of services and the coordination of social security systems within the Union.
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 281 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
The objective of the Authority shall be to contribute to ensuring fairfacilitate labour mobility in the internal market. To this e, including in the framework of provision of services, and, the Authority shall:o monitor and assist in the application of relevant Union legislation.
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 292 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) facilitate access for individuals and employers to information on their rights and obligations as well as to relevant services;deleted
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 303 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) support cooperation between Member States in the cross-border enforcement of relevant Union law, including facilitating joint inspections;deleted
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 314 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) mediate and facilitate a solution in cases of cross-border disputes between national authorities or labour market disruptions.deleted
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 380 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) develop common forms and systems for exchange of information between competent authorities to facilitate labour mobility, including in the framework of provision of services;
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 417 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) provide relevant information to employers on labour rules, and the living and working conditions applicable to workers in cross-border labour mobility situations, including posted workers through the ELA web portal;
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 452 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) cooperate with other Union initiatives and networks, such as the European Network of Public Employment Services, the European Enterprise Network and the Border Focal Point, in particular to identify and overcome cross- border obstacles to labour mobility;
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 622 #

2018/0064(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4
4. Staff of the Authority may participate in a concerted or joint inspection with the prior agreement of the Member State on whose territory they will be providing their assistance to the inspection. The staff can participate in inspection as observer and logistic support.
2018/07/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 9 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. InvitWelcomes the EIB to pursue efforts in that direction by´s efforts to providinge policymakers with complete and exhaustive information on the concrete and achieved economic, social and environmental impacts and added value of its operations in the Member States and outside the EU in the form of 3PA and ReM reports respectively; stresses the importance of carrying out, for each project, an independent ex-ante and ex-post evaluation; calls on the EIB to provide detailed examples of crossnational added value in its impact investment reporting as well as key-indicators of sectoral and intersectoral successes;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Points out the recurrent need for the EIB to contribute to reducing the lasting investment gap on the basis of sound economic criteria; emphasisesnotes therefore that the assessment of funded projects should also takes into account social, economic and environmental externalities (both positive and negative), especially with respect to the effects that they have on local communities, in order to understand whether real added value is delivered to EU citizens;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 16 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that approval of investment projects should be based on a sound, independent analysis assessing the financial sustainability and risks associated with the projects, in order to avoid the risk of socialisation of losses and privatisation of returns when public resources are involved; stresses that the provision of public subsidieslending should be envisaged only for the execution of missions of general interests and where market failures have been clearly identified;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 21 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the EIB to take into account, in the case of large-scale infrastructure projects, all risks likely to have an impact on the environment and to finance only those which have demonstrated real added value for the environment, the economy and the local population; stresses the importance of strict monitoring of possible risks of corruption and fraud and asks the EIB to freeze any loans to projects wheren an official investigation is underway, OLAF or national, so requires;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 25 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Considers the triple-A rating to be a relevantn essential asset for the development of the EIB’s investment strategy and long- term lending priorities; recalls, however, that in order to contribute to the economic development of the EU, the EIB’s instruments and interventions – notably the ones based on risk transfers – cannot be risk-free;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 28 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that leveraging up the impact and ensuring additionality are of pivotal relevance; takes note of the modelling and estimated impact of the EIB’s activities, which should contribute to an additional 1.1 % of GDP growth and to the creation of an additional 1.4 million jobs by 2030; welcomes the fact that 385 000 SMEs, which are the backbone of the EU economy and drivers of employment and sustainable growth, will benefit from EIF financing; asks the EIB to regularly report on updated leverage effects; understands however, that leverage vary among sectors and a project with lower leverage does not necessarily imply low added value;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 31 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Notes with concern that at year end 2016 the EFSI was expected to mobilise eligible total investments of EUR 163.9 billion and has therefore fallen short of expectations in meeting its target of €315bn;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that the underlying rationale of the EFSI, which is supported by the EU budget, unlike other current EIB financing instruments, is to provide additionality by identifying truly additional and innovative future-oriented sectors, and projects with higher risk, along with new counterparts from the private sector;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 34 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls that the assessment of the additionality of all EFSI-supported projects must be duly documented; regrets that the scoreboards for the approved operations are not published under EFSI 1.0; recalls that this failure to publish creates both accountability and transparency issues; emphasises thate importance of transparency regarding the EFSI Scoreboard of Indicators is necessary, also in view of the need to hold the EFSI Investment Committee accountable, and notes therefore positively that the Scoreboard of Indicators will be made public under EFSI 2.0;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 37 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Deplores the fact that tCalls on the Bank to shed lisght ofn EFSI projects chosen to receive funding under EFSIwhich potentially includes infrastructure installations with serious environmental impact and dubious additionality, such as first generation biorefineries, steelworks, regasification and gas storage facilities and motorways; criticises the fact that in many cases the EIB has failed to take action on reports from local authorities, stakeholder communities and civil society groups of environmental and social legislation being breached by funding recipients and by the projects financed, claiming that it was not its responsibility to carry out the necessary investigations; calls onalls on the Bank to seriously take into account statements from local authorities, stakeholder communities and civil society groups according to its due diligence procedures; recommends the EIB, with reference to the precautionary principle, to freeze and, if necessary, to withdraw funding wherever there is any suspicionenough evidence of environmental infringements and damage to society or to local communities;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 40 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Regrets the fact that only 20 % of EFSI financing has supported projects that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, whereas the EIB’s standard portfolio has attained the 25% threshold; calls on the EIB to ensure that its maximum standards are respected in all circumstances, with a view to protecting the environment and meeting the COP21 criteria; notes therefore with satisfaction that at least 40% of EFSI projects under the Infrastructure and Innovation Window will be committed to climate action in line with the COP21 objectives;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 44 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. UrgesTakes note of the improvement of the transparency of the operations selection process and disclosure of all operational information on signed operations through the scoreboard of indicators, as well as of the accountability of operations, under EFSI 2.0 regulation;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 50 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
45. Notes that total lending to innovative projects in 2016 amounted to EUR 13.5 billion, of which EUR 12.2 billion concerned first signatures, while total project investment costs corresponding to new operations were EUR 50.2 billion;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 51 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
46. UrEncourages the EIB to ensurcontinue its support for innovative firms in their development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services as they face difficulties in obtaining financial aid from commercial banks; stresses the role of the EIB in helping to complete Europe’s digital network (e.g. fast broadband) and create a single digital market, including digital services; encourages the EIB to develop incentives aimed at promoting public and private sector investment in R&D in the fields of information and communications technology, life sciences, food, sustainable agriculture, forestry and low- carbon technologies;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 58 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
58. Calls on the EIB, with regard to its newrevised External Lending Mandate, to ensure that real added value and additionality are brought by the new priority on migration added to the previous ones, namely climate, SMEsby the co- legislators to the existing ones, namely climate, private sector development and socio-economic infrastructure; stresses, therefore, the need to implement the newly-created Economic Resilience Initiative in an appropriate manner, supporting projects that are different from previously financed ones;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 64 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
61. Welcomes the disclosure of the minutes of the meetings of the EIB Board of Directors, and calls onrecommends the EIB also to disclose the minutesconsider disclosing non-confidential information of the meetings of the Management Committee; at project level, reiterates its request concerning the systematic disclosure of Completion Reports for EIB activities outside Europe, as well as of the 3PA and REM sheets for EIB projects; believes that the practice of disclosing the Scoreboard of Indicators, as foreseen for EFSI 2.0, should be applied to all projects implemented by the EIB;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 69 #

2017/2190(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
66. Positively notes the importance given by the EIB to its policy of zero tolerance of fraud, corruption and collusion; insists that the EIB revise its policy on preventing and deterring prohibited conduct in EIB activities, which should set in stone the need for the EIB to freeze financing or approving furthercalls on the EIB to take all appropriate measures, including suspension of payments and loan disbursements for, with view of projtects that are under ongoing national or OLAF investigation for corruption and frauding the EIB´s and the EU´s financial interests whenever OLAF or criminal investigations so require and calls further the EIB to adapt its internal rules accordingly; underlines the need to disclose information on the contracting and subcontracting system in order to avoid any risk of fraud and corruption; stresses the fact that the EIB website should contain a dedicated and visible space where debarred entities are listed publicly, in order to ensure a deterrent effect; underlines the importance of the EIB entering into cross-debarment networks with other multilateral lenders; calls on the EIB to harmonise its debarment policy with other multilateral lenders, such as the World Bank, which lists more than 800 individuals and firms as ‘debarred’ despite its volume of funding being approximately one half of that of the EIB;
2018/02/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the report of the European Court of Auditors on the rapid case review on the implementation of the 5% reduction of staff posts published on 21 December 2017,
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the agencies are highly visible in the Member States and have significant influence on policy and decision making and programme implementation in areas of vital importance to European citizens, such as health, safety, security, freedom and justice, research and industrial development, economic and monetary affairs, employment and social progress; reiterates the importance of the tasks performed by agencies and their direct impact on the daily lives of Union citizens; reiterates also the importance of the autonomy of the agencies, in particular of the regulatory agencies and those with the function of independent information collection; recalls that the main reasons for establishing agencies was for the purpose of making independent technical or scientific assessments, operating Union systems and facilitating the implementation of the Union Single Market;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the agencies employ 10 364 (2015: 9 848) permanent, temporary, contract or seconded staff, representing an increase of 5,24 % compared with the previous year mainly due to the new tasks assigned; points out that the number of staff increased the most in agencies dealing with matters related to industry, research and energy (110), civil liberties, justice and home affairs (177) and economic and monetary affairs (85);
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is of the opinion that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and accelerated towards n+1; calls therefore on the Agencies and the Court to follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set the deadline for the publication of the Agencies’ final accounts, annual activity reports and reports on budgetary and financial management on 31 March as well as advance the publication of the Court’s annual reports on Agencies for July 1st at the very latest, in order to simplify and speed up the process, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 17 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses, therefore, the need to establish clear definitions of acceptable carry-overs in order to streamline the Court’s reporting on this issue, as well as to enable the discharge authority to distinguish between the carry-overs indicating poor budgetary planning, and the carry-overs as a budgetary tool which support multiannual programmes as well as procurement planning; believes that Court’s suggestion to use differentiated carry overs would allow more transparency as regards what constitutes a justified carry-over;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Observes that the audited budgetary implementation reports of certain agencies differ from the level of detail provided by most other agencies, which hampers readability and comparability, and which demonstrates the need for clear guidelines on the agencies’ budget reporting; acknowledges the efforts made in order to ensure consistency on the presentation and reporting of accounts; callsstresses the importance of more standardized and comparable reporting to simplify and rationalize the discharge procedure and to facilitate discharge authority’s work; calls furthermore on the Network and the individual agencies to continue working on streamlined indicators and report the measures taken to the discharge authority;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 27 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes that some agencies continue to have dual headquarters and multiple operational centres and offices; considers that all dual and multiple seats which do not offer any operational added value should be done away with at the earliest opportunity; expects Commission’s evaluation in this regard, with focus on added value and costs incurred;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 29 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the benefits of sharing services, which enable consistent application of administrative implementing rules and procedures that concern human resources and finance issues, as well as the potential efficiency and cost-effectiveness gains of sharing services between the agencies, in particular when considering the budget and staff reductions that the agencies are facing; notes that seeking synergies amongst agencies could alleviate administrative burden especially on smaller agencies;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 32 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Is particularly concerned that with the additional staff reduction, fulfilment of the agencies’ mandates and annual work programmes are proving increasingly difficult to deliver, particularly for the agencies classified by the Commission as “cruising speed agencies”; calls on the Commission and the budgetary authority to look into other options in order not to hinder the agencies’ ability to fulfil their mandate and recommends the budgetary authorities to authorise additional resources to agencies that are entrusted by the legislators to carry out new tasks; calls moreover on the Commission to recognise the savings the Network and the individual agencies achieved by using joint procurement procedures, by increasing efficiency and human resources management, as well as to allow, where needed, for the staff reduction targets to adapt accordingly;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 38 #

2017/2179(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Is concerned by a number of factors hindering the operational performance of justice and home affairs agencies, such as establishment plan cuts, limited human resources, difficulties in recruiting qualified people at given grades, a low correction coefficient in certain countries and the implementation of activities through a lengthy and administratively demanding grant process; acknowledges from the Network that the grading of staff at the entry-level grades do not allow recruitment of appropriate personnel and that the very low coefficient corrector for some countries results in the systematic use of higher grading in order to attract and retain suitable personnel; calls on the Commission to work on the revision of the formula used to calculate the correction coefficient in order to come to a more suitable solution for the agencies most affected by the low correction coefficient, to allow them to retain suitable personnel;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 47 #

2017/2179(DEC)

37. Notes that, according to the Court’s summary, the external evaluations of the agencies are in general positive and agencies prepared action plans to follow up issues raised in the evaluation reports; notes that while most agencies’ founding regulations provide for an external evaluation to be carried out periodically (usually every four to six years), the founding regulations of fivesix decentralised agencies - BEREC Office, EASO, eu- LISA, ETF, ENISA and European Institute for Gender Equality - do not include such a provision and the founding regulation of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) requires an external evaluation only every ten years; is of the opinion that this issue should be addressed;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that carry-overs are often partly or fully justified by the multiannual nature of the agencies’ operational programmes, do not necessarily indicate weaknesses in budget planning and implementation and are not always at odds with the budgetary principle of annuality, in particular if they are planned in advance by the CentrOffice and communicated to the Court;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes with concern that the Office was negatively affected with the highest possible rate of cut according to the report of the European Court of Auditors on the implementation of the 5% reduction of staff posts published on 21 December 2017, namely a cut of 12.5%, irrespectively of the fact that Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 assigned additional tasks to the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications without adjusting the resources of the Office accordingly; Stresses the need for adequate human resources to ensure carrying out the mandate of the Office, while maintaining its smooth day-to-day operation;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – introductory part
16. Welcomes the three main achievements and successes identified by the Office in 2016 reached in support to the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, namely:
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 1
- it adoptedsupporting the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications in the adoption of the Guidelines on net neutrality, including in processing the unprecedented high number of contributions (close to 500 000) received during the public consultation held in the period from 6 June to 18 July 2016 and in the field of roaming, thus bringing further benefits for the end user of electronic communication services;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 2
- it commissioneding two studies on net neutrality and mergers and acquisitions;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 19 #

2017/2175(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 3
- it further expandeding its transparency policy, including by the adopimplementation of an up- dated communication strategy and communication plan of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 27 #

2017/2145(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 45 #

2017/2145(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the EEAS and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge during the plenary in November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 47 #

2017/2145(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Regrets the decision by the UK to withdraw from the Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the EEAS and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform the European Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2017/2144(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Supervisor in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance- based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice- President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Supervisor to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2017/2144(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that during the discharge procedure, annual activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Supervisor and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of annual activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge in the plenary session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2017/2144(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Observes that the 5 % staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2017/2144(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Regrets the decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, and asks the Committee and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2017/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Ombudsman in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance- based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice- President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Ombudsman to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2017/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Welcomes that the Ombudsman submitted the Annual Activity report to the Court of Auditors on in March; notes that the Court of Auditors submitted its report to the European Parliament in October and that the discharge will be voted on in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; welcomes that the Ombudsman follows the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge in the plenary session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 24 #

2017/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 31 #

2017/2143(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Regrets the decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to this withdrawal; asks the Ombudsman and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Proposal for a decision 1
Paragraph 1
1. Grants the Secretary-General of the Committee of the Regions discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Committee of the Regions for the financial year 2016; / Postpones its decision on granting the Secretary- General of the Committee of the Regions discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Committee of the Regions for the financial year 2016;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Committee in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance- based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice- President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Committee to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Committee and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge in the plenary session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 27 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 37 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Regrets that the whistleblower file of the Committee’s former internal auditor is still not closed; insists that the Committee do its utmost to find a just, honourable and equitable settlement of the case as soon as possible; requests that the Committee keep Parliament informed of its progress;deleted
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 41 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes that there has been a decision by the Civil Service Tribunal in the case of the Committee's former internal auditor in November 2014; acknowledges that the Civil Service Tribunal ruled that the Committee must indemnify the former internal auditor yet further dismissed the allegations made by him; underlines that the Committee has promptly complied with the Tribunal's decision and paid the indemnities; considers therefore that the Committee has done its part to bring the case to a just, honourable and equitable settlement as requested by the Committee on Budget Control in the discharge report for the year 2015; notes that the former internal auditor has lodged a new case against the Committee in November 2015; notes that a hearing has taken place in December 2017 and that the Court's ruling is expected in summer 2018; observes that the Committee has no influence either on the plaintiff having lodged a new case nor on the timetable of the Court;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 44 #

2017/2142(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Regrets the decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, and asks the Committee and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Committee in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance- based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice- President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Committee to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Committee and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently vote on the discharge in the plenary session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 24 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Observes that the 5 % staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 41 #

2017/2141(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Regrets the decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, and asks the Committee and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court in June, submitted by the Court to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the Court follows the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court's reports on the 1st of July and subsequently to review the timetable for the discharge procedure as set down in Article 5 of Annex IV to Parliament's Rules of Procedure so that the vote on the discharge can be held in in the plenary part-session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2017/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the Court in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Court to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2017/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff on temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well- performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 20 #

2017/2140(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Regrets the decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the Court to perform impact assessments and inform the Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2139(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that during the discharge procedure, Annual Activity reports are currently submitted to the Court of Auditors in June, submitted by the Court of Auditors to the European Parliament in October and voted in plenary by May; notes that by the time discharge is closed, if not postponed, at least 17 months have passed since the closing of annual accounts; points out that auditing in the private sector follows a much stricter timeline; stresses that the discharge procedure needs to be streamlined and sped up; requests that the CJEU and the Court of Auditors follow the good example set by the private sector and proposes to set a deadline for the submission of Annual Activity reports on 31 March of the following year, a deadline for the submission for the Court of Auditor’s reports on the 1st of July and subsequently to review the timetable for the discharge procedure as set down in Article 5 of Annex IV to Parliament's Rules of Procedure so that the vote on the discharge can be held in the plenary part- session of November, thereby closing the discharge procedure within the year following the accounting year in question;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2017/2139(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Welcomes the overall prudent and sound financial management of the CJEU in the 2016 budget period; expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the Court to apply the method to its own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 46 #

2017/2139(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 59 #

2017/2139(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Regrets the decision by the UK to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the Council and the Court of Auditors to perform impact assessments and inform the European Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/02
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Expresses its support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced by Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the European Council and the Council to apply the method to their own budget-planning procedure;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 7 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Expresses support for the successful paradigm shift towards performance-based budgeting in the Commission’s budget planning introduced in September 2015 as part of the “EU Budget Focused on Results” initiative; encourages the European Council and the Council to apply the method to their own budget-planning procedure;
2018/09/11
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Takes note of the decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal; asks the European Council and the Council to perform impact assessments and inform Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/09/11
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Observes that the 5% staff reduction agreement has led to institutions increasingly hiring staff with temporary contracts; regrets that internal competitions are organised with the aim and result of retaining staff that have previously held the same position under previous temporary contracts; considers it more cost and time efficient as well as transparent and fair if well-performing staff with temporary contracts would be switched to permanent contracts without the added financial and administrative burden of organising competitions with pre-determined outcomes at the expense of disappointing outside applicants;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2017/2138(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Regrets the decision by the UK to withdraw from the European Union; observes that at this point no predictions can be made about the financial, administrative, human and other consequences related to the withdrawal, asks the European Council and the Council to perform impact assessments and inform the European Parliament on the results by the end of the year 2018;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 18 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas budgetary principles of unity, budgetary accuracy, annuality, equilibrium, universality, specification, sound financial management and transparency shall be respected when the Union budget is implemented;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 25 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to align the Union's policy objectives, financial cycles, the legislative period of the Parliament and the mandate of the Commission;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 30 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Insists that the Union budget, as a consequence of the “budget focused on results initiative”, should be presented according to the Union´s political objectives of the MFF; reminds, also in the light of the post-2020 MFF, that the Union budget should be a true European added value budget, aimed for common Union objectives promoting sustainable economic and social development of the whole Union, which cannot be achieved by singular Member States on their own and therefore should not be seen merely as a net balance or benefit of single Member States;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to commit itself to fundamentally reviewing the young farmers’ and greening schemes in light of the findings of the Court of Auditors (the “Court”) before the next financing periodMFF;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 37 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to include in its performance reports assessments on the quality of the data used and a declaration on the quality of the performance information;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 38 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to provide the Parliament and the Court with more balanced reporting, by including in its performance reports more transparent information on challenges, pitfalls and failures;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 41 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to fulfil the original 20% spending target in integrating climate action into the various Union spending programmes;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 51 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to speed up the preparation of the Union accounts, to ensure that reliable information from Member States on shared management spending is obtained in a more timely manner and to present the management´s view on Union spending earlier and together with the accounts, with the view to adopting a discharge decision in year n+1; reminds, in this context, of the importance of data reliability;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 55 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Notes with concern that as to the revenue for 2016, the director general of Directorate-General for Budget has issued a reservation for the traditional own resources revenue, in view of the OLAF’s fraud case related to United Kingdom customs duties;deleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 56 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Points out that the revenue affected by the quantified reservation is EUR 20.1 billion: i.e. 15 % of own resources for 2016; calls on the Commission to provide precise information on this fraud case, which indirectly affects the Value Added Tax basis of some Member States and thus Value Added Tax-related resources plus the Gross National Income-related balancing of the Commission75 ; _________________ 75See Commission's 2016 Annual Management and Performance Report for the EU Budget, p. 81.deleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 58 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the positive trend of the most likely error rate issued by the Court compared to that of recent years since the payments are affected in 2016 by a most likely error rate of 3.1%; recalls that the most likely error rate for payments was estimated in the financial years 2015 at 3.8%, 2014 at 4,4%, 2013 at 4.7%, 2012 at 4.8%, 2011 at 3.9%, 2010 at 3.7%, 2009 at 3.3%; 2008% at 5.2%, and 2007 at 6.9%; as the Court's s estimated error rate is not final, considers it important that Commission´s residual error rate is taken into account when assessing efficiency of Union´s funding;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 59 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that the estimated level of error for cohesion does not include a quantification of 2016 disbursements to financial instruments amounting to EUR 2.5 billion that the Court considers to be outside the eligibility period defined in Article 56(1) of Council Regulation EC 1083/2006; notes that those disbursements would represent an estimated level of error of 2.0% of overall expenditure; points outnotes that if the Court had quantified this flagrant irregularity, the most likely error rate would have been estimated at 5.1% (nearly the same level as for 2008); calls on the Court to take on board all the irregularities having a financial impact when determining the most likely error rate and the Commission to table the necessary legislative proposal to put an end to this irregularityseparately (box 1.2 of the 2016 annual report) as a one-off, ring-fenced observation related to the absence of a timely Commission legislative proposal; notes the Commission´s unilateral decision to accept expenditure up to 31 March 2017;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 67 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Points out that the Court found the highest estimated levels of error in spending for economic, social and territorial cohesion (4.8. % or 6.8% with the quantified irregularity concerning the financial instruments) and for competitiveness for growth and jobs (4.1 %), whilst administrative expenditure had the lowest estimated level of error (0.2 %);
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 69 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Notes, in particular, that the Commission points out in its 2016 AMPR76 that the scope of the reservations issued by the directors general in their AARs has increased and amounts at: EUR 35.3 billion, which corresponds to 26 % of the payments (2015: EUR 29.8 Bbillion: 21% of payments); _________________ 76 COM(2017) 351 final, p. 81,
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 74 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Is surprised by the divergent views expressed by the Court and the Commission as to financial management of the first pillar of the CAP; expresses doubts as to the assertion made by the Court that in expenditure the error is not “pervasive”Notes that, while the first pillar of the CAP is included in entitlement payments which are not affected by a material level of error (ECA annual report paragraph 1.8) since11), the director general of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI), in his AAR, issued a reservation in direct payments concerning 18 paying agencies comprising 12 Member States;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 81 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Points out in particularNotes that for more than three quarters of 2016 expenditure, Commission directorates- general base their estimates of amount at risk on data provided by national authorities, whilst it appears from the AARs of the concerned Commission directorates-general (in particular DG AGRI and DG REGIO) that the reliability of Member States’ control reports remains a challenge; stresses, in this regard, the importance of Member States’ data reliability;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 83 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Points out that since errors can be corrected more than 10 years after they have occurred, it is artificial to base the estimated impact of future corrections upon recorded corrections over the last six years;deleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 95 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
42. Endorses the reservations issued by the directors general of DG REGIO, MARE, HOME, DEVCO and AGRI, in their annual activity report; is of the opinion that those reservations demonstrate that the control procedures put in place in the Commission and the Member States cannot give the necessary guarantees concerning the legality and regularity of all the underlying transactions in the corresponding policy areas if necessary correction procedures are implemented successfully;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 103 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
44. Points out that the delays in the implementation of programmes in the first three years of the current MFF led to the transfer of commitment appropriations from 2014, mainly to 2015 and 2016, and to low payments in 2016 (implementing the Union budget at 7 % in 2014-2016 period of the current MFF);
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 104 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Notes with concern the complicated web of arrangements in the galaxy within and around the EU budget as this hampers accountability, transparency, public scrutiny and democratic oversight of the EU budget and financial arrangements linked to it; regrets, in this regard, the lack of the unity of the EU budget, and fully shares the Court’s concern as regards the complexity of the EU budget;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 133 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
58. Notes with concern that the Commission uses two sets of objectives and indicators to measure the performance of its services and of spending programmes with hardly any cross-references, which hampers comparability between different types of performance documents;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 137 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
62. Notes that the programme statements for the EU’s 2017 draft general budget contain 294 objectives and 709 indicators, which are particularly highly concentrated under MFF headings 1a, 3, 4, and that through the ‘budget focused on results’ (BFOR) initiative, the Commission is currently undertaking a review of its indicators to provide input for the next generation of spending programmes; stresses that the Commission should use mainly results indicators that have performance relevant value;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 147 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
70. StresseRegrets that AARs do not include a declaration on the quality of the reported performance data, and that consequently in adopting the AMPR, the College of Commissioners takes overall political responsibility for the management of the EU budget but not for the information on performance and results;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 150 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70 a (new)
70a. Welcomes and takes a careful note of the Court’s observations on performance frameworks and reporting by entities within and outside the EU, especially as regards performance data quality and declaration on the quality of performance data;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 155 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77 a (new)
77a. Notes with concern that as to the revenue for 2016, the director general of Directorate-General for Budget has issued a reservation for the traditional own resources revenue, in view of the OLAF’s fraud case related to United Kingdom customs duties;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 157 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77 b (new)
77b. Points out that for 2016 the revenue affected by the quantified reservation is approximately EUR 517 million against total amount of EUR 20.1 billion of Traditional Own Resources: i.e. 2,5 % of Traditional Own Resources or 0,38% of all resources; calls on the Commission to provide precise information on this fraud case, which may also indirectly affect the Value Added Tax basis of some Member States and thus Value Added Tax-related resources plus the Gross National Income-related balancing of the Commission1a; _________________ 1aSee Commission's 2016 Annual Management and Performance Report for the EU Budget, p. 81.
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 158 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78
78. Stresses that the Commission inspections found that by October 2017, the UK authorities had not introduced remedial measures to prevent continued traditional own resource losses; notes that from 12 October 2017 the UK authorities started to apply temporarily value thresholds at clearance to certain traders (so called Customs Operation Swift Arrow) with immediate result that the Traditional Own Resources losses incurred in the UK decreased dramatically;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 170 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 90
90. Appreciates that the Commission has invested considerable efforts in reducingsimplification leading to reduction of administrative complexity, by introducing a new definition of additional remuneration for researchers, streamlining the Horizon 2020 work programme for 2018-2020, providing targeted support for start-ups and innovators and making wider use of lump-sum funding for projectSimplified Cost Options;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 198 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 123
123. Points out that the errors in cohesion contributed to 43% of the overall estimated level of error of 3,1%; notes that one of the reasons for the high error rate is the complexity of Union´ and Member States´ regulation;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 201 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125
125. Notes also that 42% of the errors were caused by ineligible caosts included in expenditure declarations, 30% relate to serious failure to respect public procurement rules, and 28% relate to ineligible projects, activities or beneficiaries;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 206 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 131
131. Recalls that the summary of data on the progress made in financing and implementing financial engineering instruments in March 20167 was only published on 20 Septem1 October 20187, and that therefore the Court could not comment on the document;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 208 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 132 – introductory part
132. Notes that the key figures for 201607- 2013 programming period on 31 March 2017 are the following:
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 228 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 156
Greecedeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 243 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160
Czech Republicdeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 245 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 159
159. Calls on DG REGIO to keep the European parliament informed about future progress;deleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 248 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 160
160. Welcomes the fact that the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has completed its administrative investigation into the Czech “stork nest” project; takes note that the OLAF case file has been publicised by the Czech media; regrets that OLAF found serious irregularities;deleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 252 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 161
161. Calls on DG REGIO to recover the Union co-financing involved, i.e. EUR 1,67 million;deleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 256 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 162
162. Calls on the Czech authorities to take appropriate judicial follow-up action to the violation of Czech and European legal provisions;deleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 259 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 165
Hungarydeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 271 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 167
Polandeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 284 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 171
Volkswagen Groupdeleted
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 306 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 186 a (new)
186a. Notes that, while having a maximum annual budget of EUR 150 million, the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund mobilised only EUR 28 million for commitments from the reserve in 2016, benefitting eight Member States;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 315 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 187 – point g
(g) bringingenhance transparency and accountability of financial engineering instruments under the EU budget, thereby enhancing transparency and accountability;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 320 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 189 – point a
(a) DG REGIO to report back to Parliament’s responsible committee when the “stork nest” file has been closdeleted;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 321 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 189 – point c
(c) Calls on DG REGIO to report back to Parliament’s responsible committee, in the 2016 Commission discharge follow-up, on progress made with railway relatall above mentioned projects in Poland;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 328 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 199
199. RegretAsks that DG AGRI has noto defined any objective accompanied with indicators to reduce the income inequalities between farms in the next MFF;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 335 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 207
207. Points out thatNotes that, as regards direct payments, the positive trend in the error rates issued by the Court is not corroborated by the evolution of the amounts at risks reported by DG AGRI in its AARs, namely from 1.38% in 2015 to 1.996% in 2016 (the market measures with an error rate of 2.85% being not included) and 4% for both financial years in rural development; notes positively, however, that the error rates on direct payments reported in the DG AGRI AAR 2016 and by the Court are within the same range;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 343 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 213
213. Points out that since the error rates reported by the Member Statemanagement and control systems for each paying agency are not always fully reliable, DG AGRI adjusts that level of error based mainly on the Commission's and the Court's audits carried out in the last three years;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 357 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 232 – point a
(a) the Commission to carefully analyse the causes of the overall decline in factor income since 2013 and to define a new key performance objective for the next MFF, accompanied with indicators, aiming at mitigating the income inequalities between the famers;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 389 #

2017/2136(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 254
254. CallsStresses that trust funds should be established only when their use is justified and the required action is not possible through other, existing financing channels; calls, in this regard, on the Commission, when establishing trust funds, to set up guiding principles for carrying out concise an structured assessment of the comparative advantages of trust funds relative to other aid vehicles and also to carry out analyses of what specific gaps the trust funds are supposed to fill; calls furthermore on the Commission to consider putting an end to trust funds that are unable to attract a significant contribution from other donors;
2018/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 38 #

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
12. Points out that the Member States and the Commission should be able to present well-justified needs for Union funding, and define the aims and the results to be achieved, before any spending is set, especially by respecting the real needs of the citizens via integrated and territorial approach; points out, furthermore, that the principles of effectiveness, efficiency and sound financial management should be observed before every budgetary decision;
2017/10/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 42 #

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
13. Encourages the Commission to examine the possibility of changing the structure of the EU expenditure in the Cohesion Policy since a majority of the original Union objectives can be considered achieved, and since more efficient results could be gained with emphasis on both natural competition on development and moderniszation and stronger focus on the territorial impact of the EU policies, instead of sustaining the current framework for, and practices of, mere redistributive financial support; is, however, of the opinion that the economic, social and territorial Cohesion Policies of the Union could still provide support for the less developed regions, for place-based integrating tools and for better cross- border cooperation, but having in mind the real needs of citizens, should focus even more on growth, innovation, mobility, climate change, energy and environmental transition, by encouraging the integrated and territorial approach, while applying the same criteria to the whole of the EU; points out, that place-based approach generates European added value as well as value for the EU citizens and is vital in achieving the objective of a smart, sustainable and inclusive Europe, as it provides flexibility in formulating integrated responses to diverse territorial needs without losing the thematic focus of the EU policies;
2017/10/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 50 #

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that to increase the impact of the next MFF, further links should be established between EU funds such as the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Structural Funds, the European social fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and Creative Europe.
2017/11/16
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 99 #

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 28
28. Points out, however, that when filling the budgetary gap, the main objective should not be to increase the share of public funding, but to provide a more sustainable financial basis for all policy fields and to mobilise the maximum leverage of private resources; calls, in this regard, for a paradigm shift in EU expenditure from grant-based subsidising towards a more financial, instrument- oriented system; emphasises, however, that this shift shall be done in a manner that does not undermine the transparent management of the budget and budget control measures;
2017/10/30
Committee: CONT
Amendment 133 #

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that appropriate recognition and full support of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) would strengthen the impact of the next MFF; recalls the dual nature of the cultural and creative sector: economic (wealth and job creation)and cultural (creating values, meaning and identity);recalls that CCIs are one of Europe’s fastest growing sector, generating 509 billion Euros in value added to GDP per year and representing more than 12 million full time jobs ;calls for additional links between the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and the Creative Europe programme, as this would help to address the increased industrial dependency on design and creativity; reminds that Creative Europe has consistently boasted excellent performance with full implementation at year-end since the start of this MFF; calls on the Commission to comply with Article 167(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and establish the CCIs as a horizontal priority within EU funding schemes and programmes, particularly in the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, the EaSI and the ESIFs.
2017/11/16
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 137 #

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission to develop , through the MFF, a comprehensive, coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the cultural and creative industries, with adequate funding to CCIs in order to boost their competitiveness and enable them to fulfil their potential in terms of creating quality jobs and growth for the benefit of the Union;
2017/11/16
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 138 #

2017/2052(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Commission to facilitate funding to the sector, based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘Cultural and Creative Industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, cultural diversity, individual and/or collective creativity, skills and talent with the potential to generate innovation, wealth and jobs through the creation of social and economic value, in particular from intellectual property; they include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, software and video games, and multimedia and recorded music), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high- end industries and fashion, festivals, live music, performing arts, books and publishing (newspapers and magazines), radio and visual arts, and advertising’, as adopted in its own resolution on “a coherent EU policy for cultural and creative industry” of 13 December 2016;
2017/11/16
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 1 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Draft opinion
Recital A
A. whereas in a situation of scarce resources, greater importance should be attached to the need to observe budgetary discipline and to use funds efficiently and effectively in order to ensure their utmost EU added value;
2017/07/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 – indent 3
- to include updated data on results for all the indicators established by programme at least on an annual basis;
2017/07/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 26 #

2017/2044(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
15. Takes note that the Commission considered that it is “difficult if not impossible to provide an estimated cost paid for migrants/seeker country by country as the management of migratory flows comprises a wide range of activities”2 ; would therefore like to be informed on how the Commission has been able to draft precise estimates regarding that policy area in context of performance- based budgeting; _________________ 2 Reply to written question 23- CONT hearing of Commissioner AVRAMAPOLOS of 29 November 2016
2017/07/13
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2017/2043(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are a major source of employment in the Union andthe backbone of Europe's economy, representing 99% of all businesses in the EU; notes that one of the main problems in setting up and maintaining 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 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;
2017/05/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #

2017/2039(INI)

C. whereas having a first real job empowers and motivates young people, helping them to become independent, self- confident citizens and make a positive start in life;
2017/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 58 #

2017/2039(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital L
L. whereas in 2015 the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimated the cost of implementing the YG throughout the EU-28 to be EUR 45 billion; whereas the YEI for the 2014-2020 programming period was endowed with a modest budget of EUR 6.4 billion, with the aim of complementing national funding and not replacing it;
2017/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 72 #

2017/2039(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital O
O. whereas the cost-effectiveness of the YEI and the ultimate goal of the YG to have young people entering sustainable employment can only be achieved if operations are properly monitored on the basis of reliable and comparable data and the programmes are result-oriented;
2017/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 161 #

2017/2039(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. EndorRecognises the call to define what a ‘quality offer’ should be, but cautions that such a definition should not lead to unnecessary restrictions or administrative burdens;
2017/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 194 #

2017/2039(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for a discussion about the future status of the YEI which does not question its continuation but addresses the question of transforming it from a crisis instrument into a more permanent, main EU financing instrument for tackling youth unemployment, and which establishes a co- financing requirement in order to underline the primary responsibility of the Member States; notes that the extension of YEI should be subject to discussion in the context of the next Multiannual Financial Framework to ensure continuity and cost- effectiveness;
2017/09/27
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 6 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas the EU 2020 strategy establishes the EU's target of 75 % of men and women in employment by 2020 and, in particular, to close the gender gap in employment; whereas coordinated efforts will be required to facilitate women's labour-market participation.
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 10 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
A b. Whereas greater economic empowerment of women and greater gender equality is an economic opportunity which would significantly boost Europe´s economic growth, competitiveness, and opportunities in employment. Emphasises that GDP would grow between 15% and 45% in the EU Member States if gender gaps in employment were eliminated.
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 15 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
A c. Whereas although women account for almost 60% of graduates in the EU they remain under-represented in science, mathematics, IT, engineering and related careers; highlights, as a result, inequality in occupations is taking new forms and, despite the investment in education, young women are still twice as likely as young men to be economically inactive;
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 37 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to promote the well-beingequality of women, by tackling the pay and pension gaps and combating atypical and insecure forms of work and employment, such as temporary co, which currently stand at 16 % and 40 % respectively; highlights the importance of the attractiveness of new forms of work by providing adequate flexibility that can promote higher employment racts or involuntary part-time worktes among women;
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 50 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Highlights that the causes and consequences of the gender pension gap need to be addressed, as this is an obstacle to the economic independence of women in old age, when they face a higher risk of poverty than men.
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 61 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to eliminate occupatithe horizontal segregationand vertical gender segregation of the labour market by addressing discriminatory social behaviours and stereotypes and promoting the equal participation of women and men in the labour market, education, training and all forms of care;
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 65 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission, together with the Member States, to promote and support female entrepreneurship initiatives as it can provide women the knowledge they need to found or co-found their own businesses based on their innovative ideas. In this regard, it is crucial to provide information on access to training, to support women entrepreneurs in accessing alternative sources of funding, business networking opportunities as well as advising on the start-up, management and growth of their businesses in the early phases.
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 70 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Underlines that due to the rapid spread of digital technology, this will result in a growing demand for digital and other complementary skills to address the existing digital gap between men and women;believes further measures aimed at enhancing digital skills among women and girls should not only cover the upskilling of the workforce but the process should already begin in the early schools years with the implementation of technical, entrepreneurial and relevant soft skills in the education programmes;
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 86 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for measures to guaranteensure the economic and social dignity of feminised work, such as domestic work;
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 101 #

2017/2008(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to enforcestrengthen the implementation of existing laws and workplace policies thato prohibit discriminationtect women from discrimination, particularly, in the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in employment in both the public and private sectors;
2017/04/28
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 5 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
- having regard to the Council conclusions on the role of early childhood education and primary education in fostering creativity, innovation and digital competence (2015/C 172/05),
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 5 #

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission proposals for actions to reduce disparity in education and disadvantages throughout the lifetime of a person, but draws attention to a number of administrative ‘bottlenecks’ which are slowing progress in attaining those objectives in relation to mobility, and recognition of qualifications and the social dimension;
2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 7 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
- having regard to the Council conclusions of 20 May 2014 on effective teacher education,
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 c (new)
- having regard to the Council conclusions of 20 May 2014 on quality assurance supporting education and training,
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 8 #

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recognizes the primary importance of promoting digital literacy in order to take full advantage of growth and competitiveness opportunities in the European Digital Single Market;
2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 17 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 8 September 2015 on promoting youth entrepreneurship through education and training,
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 17 #

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls, to that end, for the systematic use of the Internal Market Information System (IMI) in order to ensure better exchange of data, enhance administrative cooperation and secure simpler and faster procedures for the recognition of professional qualifications and continuous professional development requirements of qualified professionals planning to work in another Member State, and to prevent discrimination of all kinds;
2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 19 #

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the Member States to include leadership, management, entrepreneurial and financial education, business start-up advice and communication technologies in their education programmes, and to prioritise the further development of apprenticeships, vocational training and education (VET) programmes, including enhancing European craftsmanship;
2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 23 #

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that closing the skills gap and mismatches in the labour market and promoting opportunities for social mobility, including for vocational training and apprenticeships, is essential to ensure sustainable growth and jobs creation, in particular for SMEs and crafts;
2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 31 #

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to provide significant support for the development of digital abilities in all age groups, irrespective of employment status, as a first step towards the better alignment of labour market shortages and demand; to that end, encourages the Commission to increasereview the funding under Horizon 2020, fostering inclusive, innovative and reflective European societies to get the elderly, the unemployed and poorly educated, migrants, people in need of care, people living in remote or poorer areas, persons with disabilities, and the homeleswith the aim to get all Europeans to fully participate in society and the labour market;
2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 39 #

2017/2002(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. AWelcomes the Commission's proposal to urge Member States to draw up comprehensive national strategies for digital skills; and asks the Commission to come forward with a methodology for the recognition of the new digital professions and to make provision for appropriate funding forreview appropriate means to fund the new educational framework for digital skills.
2017/03/28
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 49 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas often individuals possess skills, which are not identified, exploited or properly rewarded; whereas skills acquired outside formal settings, through work experience, volunteering, civic engagement or other relevant experiences are not necessarily recorded in a qualification or documented and therefore are being undervalued;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 54 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas cultural and creative industries contribute to social well-being, innovation, employment and stimulate EU´s economic development while employing more than 12 million people in the EU, which is 7.5% of all persons employed in the total economy and contribute to the economy with 5.3% of the total EU GVA and further 4% of nominal EU GDP generated by the high- end industries 1a; _________________ 1aBoosting the competitiveness of cultural and creative industries for growth and jobs, 2015
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 75 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas access to learningeducation and training opportunities must be a right for everyone at every stage of life so that they can acquire transversal skills such as, numeracy, digital and media literacy, critical thinking, social skills, foreign language proficiency and relevant life skills;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 81 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K
K. whereas, nowadays, our education and training systems are facing a significant challenge as a result of the digital transformation, which is impacting teaching and learning processes; whereas an effective digital skills provision is essential to ensure the workforce is prepared for the current and future technological changes;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 98 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
L a. whereas in order to ensure smart, sustainable and inclusive economic growth and jobs for young people, there is a strong need for more Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) proficiency in the European Union;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 99 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
L b. whereas the demand for STEM professionals and associate professionals is expected to grow by around 8% between now and 2025, much higher than the average 3% growth forecast for all occupations; Whereas the employment in STEM-related sectors is also expected to rise by around 6.5% between now and 2025 2a; _________________ 2a Cedefop, Rising STEMs Database, March 2014
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 121 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Agrees with the focus on the need to upgrade the European education and training systems in line with the fast changing economic and societal environment; notes that, while skills needs are dynamic, the main focus of the skills package is to enhance the adaptability of individual and address the immediate needs of the labour market; highlights in this respect the importance of a pan- European skills needs forecasting tool and lifelong learning with a view to adapting to new situations in the labour market;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 129 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Underlines that creativity and innovation are becoming driving factors in the European Union´s economy and should be mainstreamed in the national and European policy strategies;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 132 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Member States to include leadership, social intelligence, management, entrepreneurial and financial education, business start-up adviceforeign languages proficiency, negotiation, business start-up advice, coding, new media literacy and communication technologies in their education programmes, and to prioritise the further development of those capabilities also in vocational training and education (VET) programmes, including enhancingtogether with the enhancement of the European craftsmanship;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 144 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Welcomes the objective of the Skills Agenda to make VET a first choice for learners which should be demand-led through the participation of employers in the design and delivery of the courses to ensure sufficient and qualified employees for the future;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 153 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Underlines that culture, creativity and arts significantly contribute to personal development, employment and growth across the European Union, carrying innovation, stimulating cohesion, strengthening intercultural relations, mutual understanding and preserving European identity, culture and values; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen their support for CCIs in order to unleash and fully explore their potential;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 160 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Recognises the value of internationalisation of education and the increasing number of students and staff members who participate in mobility programmes; underlines the value of Erasmus+ for the development of teachers and students; notes that various studies show that mobility equips people with essential skills and provides them with better career opportunities;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 165 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Recognises that the current EU budget dedicated to learning mobility might not be sufficient to achieve the goal of 6% of learning mobility by 2020;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 169 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Insists that education isand training are not only a key factors in enhancing employability, but also in combating social exclusion and therefore believes that investing in skills and competences is crucial to tackling the high unemployment rate, especially among NEETs; recalls that a genuine estimation of future skills needs is paramount in this respect;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 184 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Insists on the need for immediate action to reverse the unacceptable situation of 70 million Europeans lacking basic skillsNotes with concern the unacceptable situation of 70 million Europeans lacking basic skills; welcomes therefore the establishment of the Upskilling Pathways and insists on its swift implementation and monitoring; calls furthermore on the Commission and Member States to encourage and support flexible re-skilling and up-skilling programmes, tailored to the individual needs of each Member State, for both unemployed individuals and those who are employed;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 234 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Asks for concrete measures to be put in place in order to facilitate the transition of young people from education to work by ensuring quality internships and apprenticeships, giving young people the possibility of putting their talents into practice and have an adequate set of rights and access to social protection as defined by national legislation and practice;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 258 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Recognises that the lack of comparability and coherence between the validation approaches of EU countries, especially for VET, represents an additional barrier;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 275 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Calls on Member States to fully implement Council recommendation of 20 December 2012 on the validation of non- formal and informal learning;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 292 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Insists on the need to incorporate new technologies in the teaching and learning process in order to equip people with the right set of skills, competences and knowledgeand to ensure the development of the full range of digital skills that individuals and companies across the country need in an increasingly digital economy; furthermore, stresses the need for more collaborative, coordinated and targeted approach for the development and implementation of digital skills´ strategies;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 295 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Insists on the need to incorporate new technologies in the teaching and learning process in order to equip people with the right set of skills, competences and knowledge; while highlighting the need for age-appropriate ICT and media curricula that respect individual development and well-being and emphasise the importance of both responsible use and critical thinking;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 301 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Believes that greater importance should be given to STEM education in view of improving digital learning and teaching;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 305 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to urge Member States to draw up comprehensive national strategies for digital skills; points out however that in order for these strategies to be effective, there is a need for strong pedagogical leadership and innovation from teachers at all levels of education that is based on a clear vision for an age- and development- appropriate media pedagogy, as well as adequate continuous teacher training; further underlines the need for digital leadership with an understanding of how to create business models and business processes for the digital world;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 309 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to urge Member States to draw up comprehensive national strategies for digital skills; points out however that in order for these strategies to be effective, there is a need for systematic teacher training programmes and strong pedagogical leadership from teachers at all levels of education;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 330 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses the need to include elements of entrepreneurial learning at all levels of education, since instilling entrepreneurial spirit among the young at an early stage is an effective way of promoting creativity and leadership skills, as well as combating youth unemployment;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 333 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Reiterates that knowledge and skills related to science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), especially in combination with creativity, are crucial in responding to the economic challenges we are facing and that developments in these fields underpin advances in scientific research across all disciplines and drive innovation and job creation across various sectors of EU´s economy;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 337 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage and better support the interaction between education and training institutions, national authorities, businesses and other relevant stakeholders in order to identify and exchange views on how STEM and ICT skills shortages can be tackled in a structural way with long-term impact;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 345 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Urges active dialogue and cooperation between the university community, other educational actors and sectors and the world of work aimed at developing educational programmes which equip young people with the requisite skills and competences;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 361 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Reiterates the importance of vocational education and training (VET) as a valuable and relevant education not only for enhancing employability and clearing the pathway to professional qualifications for young people; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that VET is made more relevant and but also for enabling accessible education for all and to allow learners to acquire the knowledge they want; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that there is adequate investment in VET and that it is made more relevant for employers, learners and society and that it is tailored to labour market needs by making them an integral part of the education system, employing a holistic and participatory educational approach, and to guarantee high qualification standards and quality assurance in this regard;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 372 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Highlights the need to investigate the possibility for inter-sectorial mobility not only in the VET teacher profession but also among schools as a wholend educational institutions as a whole; reminds that the target for learning mobility in the VET sector in the Erasmus+ programme is far from being achieved and further attention should be given to it;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 377 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Calls on Member States rebrand VET, with adequate investment and qualified staff, reinforcing the link to the labour market, employers and creating the awareness of VET as valuable education and career path;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 383 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses the need to increase the attractiveness of VET by making sure that young people and their families have access to information and guidance on VET options;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 387 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses the need to increase the attractiveness of VET by making sure that young people and their families have access to information on VET options, especially in relation to career paths and guidance;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 395 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 a (new)
Welcomes the initiatives taken by the Commission to promote VET education; recognises that VET mobility has not yet reached its potential; considers that additional funding to VET institutions could contribute to enhancing VET mobility as well as increasing the quality, relevance and inclusiveness of VET education;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 399 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses that the upskilling of all teachers would be theis a prerequisite for the deliveryimplementation of the New Skills Agenda and that further efforts and analyses have to be made ion attracting talents to this profession, underlines that enhancing innovative teaching and learning practices and facilitate mobility and exchange of best practices could be one step forward this goal;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 402 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses that the upskilling of all teachers and educators would be the prerequisite for the delivery of the Skills Agenda and that further efforts and analyses have to be made in attracting talents to this profession; notes that this requires the consideration for and the valorisation of teachers, attractive remuneration and working conditions, better access to further training during working time especially in digital didactics, as well as measures to protect against and prevent violence and harassment in educational institutions; calls on the Member States to encourage more gender equality in the teaching profession;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 419 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to continue to make VETvocational education and training more visible and to enhance its attractiveness; calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to set further targets to encourage work- based learning in VET programmes;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 429 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to continue to focus on offering opportunities to its citizens, of all ages, to develop their digital skills, in particularwhile fostering the digital transformation of the economy and re- shaping the way people learn, work and do business, and takes; in this regard, calls on the Member States to take note of the Commission’s intention to focus on the positive aspects of this transformation via the EU e-skills strategy;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 432 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to continue to focus on digital skills and competences, in particular the digital transformation of the society and economy and re- shaping the way people work and do business, and takes note of the Commission’s intention to focus on the positive aspects of this transformation via the EU e-skills strategy;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 477 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Calls on the Commission and Member States to make funding available in order to bridge the existing technological and digital gap between educational institutions which are well equipped and those which are not, as part of the national strategies for digital skills; strongly recommends addressing the digital divide, and give equal opportunities for all to obtain access to digital technologies, as well as competences, attitudes and motivation needed for digital participation;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 478 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Calls on the Commission and Member States to make funding available in order to bridge the existing technological gap between educational and training institutions which are well equipped and those which are not and to support teachers´ and trainers´ up-skilling in technology in order to keep pace with today's increasingly digital world, as part of the national strategies for digital skills;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 487 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38 a. Calls for a stronger collaboration between VET and higher education providers to bridge the existing gap to ensure successful transition of VET graduates to higher education; recommends in this regard to learn from the best practices in place in various Member States which have in place efficient dual education systems;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 488 #

2017/2002(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 b (new)
38 b. Calls for enabling a greater flexibility in learning, in relation to location, delivery and learning methods that serve to attract and meet the needs of a diverse range of learners, enhancing therefore the learning opportunities for all people;
2017/04/12
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 74 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) The rules on national transport performed on a temporary basis by non- resident hauliers in a host Member State ('cabotage') should be clear, simple and easy to enforce, while broadly maintaining the level of liberalisation achieved so far.
2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 99 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) Further digitalisation of enforcement tools is a prerequisite for the proper functioning of the internal market, reducing unnecessary administrative burden and carrying out effective and efficient enforcement of the rules in the road sector;
2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 115 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
(13) The rules on national transport performed on a temporary basis by non- resident hauliers in a host Member State ('cabotage') should be clear, simple and easy to enforce, while broadly maintaining the level of liberalisation achieved so far.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 137 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
(15 a) Further digitalisation of enforcement tools is a prerequisite for the proper functioning of the internal market, reducing unnecessary administrative burden and carrying out effective and efficient enforcement of the rules in the road sector;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 220 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Once the goods carried in the 2. course of an incoming international carriage from another Member State or from a third country to a host Member State have been delivered, hauliers referred to in paragraph 1 shall be allowed to carry out, with the same vehicle or, in the case of a coupled combination, the motor vehicle of that same vehicle, up to three cabotage operations following the hostinternational carriage from another Member State or infrom a third countiguous Member Statesry to the host Member State. The first loading in the course of a cabotage operation can start from 00:00 of the day following the last unloading of an incoming international carriage. The last unloading in the course of a cabotage operation before leaving the host Member State shall take place within 57 days from the last unloading in the host Member State in the course of the incoming international carriage.; Within the time limit referred to in the first subparagraph, hauliers may carry out some or all of the cabotage operations permitted under that subparagraph in any Member State under the condition that they are limited to one cabotage operation per Member State within 3 days of the unladen entry into the territory of that Member State. The cabotage period ends at 24:00 on the seventh day.
2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 236 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point b
Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
National road haulage services carried out in the host Member State by a non-resident haulier shall only be deemed to comply with this Regulation if the haulier can produce clear evidence of the preceding international carriage.;international carriage and of each consecutive cabotage operation carried out with a consignment note. The consignment notes should be readily available on the vehicle. Each consignment note shall contain the number plates of the motor vehicle and trailer used. The consignment note may be presented electronically, using a revisable structured format which can be used directly for storage and processing by computers such as eCMR. No additional documents shall be required in order to prove that the conditions laid down in this Article have been met. Records shall be kept covering the previous 28 days. Records should be kept at the undertaking. During a roadside check the driver shall be allowed to contact the head office of the undertaking, the transport manager or any other person or entity which may provide the consignment notes of the previous 28 days.
2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 245 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009
Article 8– paragraph 3
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2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 249 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009
Article 9– paragraph 1– point f (new)
. (5a) Article 9- paragraph 1- point f is added: "(f) the application of the rules deriving from the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2006/22/EC as regards enforcement requirements and laying down specific rules with respect to Directive 96/71/EC and Directive 2014/67/EU for posting drivers in the road transport sector; " Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009R1072)
2018/02/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 369 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009
Article 8 – point 2
2. Once the goods carried in the course of an incoming international carriage from another Member State or from a third country to a host Member State have been delivered, hauliers referred to in paragraph 1 shall be allowed to carry out, with the same vehicle or, in the case of a coupled combination, the motor vehicle of that same vehicle, up to three cabotage operations following the hostinternational carriage from another Member State or infrom a third countiguous Member Statesry to the host Member State. The first loading in the course of a cabotage operation can start from 00:00 of the day following the last unloading of an incoming international carriage. The last unloading in the course of a cabotage operation before leaving the host Member State shall take place within 57 days from the last unloading in the host Member State in the course of the incoming international carriage.; Within the time limit referred to in the first subparagraph, hauliers may carry out some or all of the cabotage operations permitted under that subparagraph in any Member State under the condition that they are limited to one cabotage operation per Member State within 3 days of the unladen entry into the territory of that Member State. The cabotage period ends at 24:00 on the seventh day.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 405 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point b – introductory part
Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009
Article 8 – paragraph 3
(b) in paragraph 3, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: National road haulage services carried out in the host Member State by a non- resident haulier shall only be deemed to comply with this Regulation if the haulier can produce clear evidence of the preceding international carriage. National road haulage services carried out in the host Member State by a non- resident haulier shall only be deemed to comply with this Regulation if the haulier can produce clear evidence of the preceding international carriage and of each consecutive cabotage operation carried out with a consignment note. The consignment notes shall be readily available on the vehicle. Each consignment note shall contain the number plates of the motor vehicle and trailer used. The consignment note may be presented electronically, using a revisable structured format which can be used directly for storage and processing by computers such as eCMR. No additional documents shall be required in order to prove that the conditions laid down in this Article have been met. Records shall be kept covering the previous 28 days. Records shall be kept at the undertaking. During a roadside check the driver shall be allowed to contact the head office of the undertaking, the transport manager or any other person or entity which may provide the consignment notes of the previous 28 days.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 426 #

2017/0123(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Regulation 1072/2009
Article 9– paragraph 1– point f (new)
. (5a) In Article 9 the following point is added: "(f) the application of the rules deriving from the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2006/22/EC as regards enforcement requirements and laying down specific rules with respect to Directive 96/71/EC and Directive 2014/67/EU for posting drivers in the road transport sector;" Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009R1072)
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 38 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) There are differences among Member States in the interpretation and implementation of the weekly rest requirements as regards the place where the weekly rest should be taken. It is therefore appropriate to clarify that requirement to ensure that drivers are provided with adequate faccommodation for their regular weekly rest periodilities if they are taken away from home.
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 44 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Many road transport operations within the EU involve transport by ferry or by rail for part of the journey. Clear, appropriate provisions regarding rest periods and breaks should therefore be laid down for such operations.
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 47 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) In order to safeguard working conditions of the drivers at places of loading and unloading, owners and operators of such facilities should provide the driver with the access to hygienic facilities.
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 89 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 4 – point r
(r) 'non-commercial carriage' means any carriage of passengers or goods by road, other than carriage for hire or reward or for own account, for which no direct or indirect remuneration is received and which does not directly or indirectly generate any income.
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 95 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 6 – paragraph 3
(2a) in Article 6, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: 3. The total accumulated driving time during any twofour consecutive weeks shall not exceed 9180 hours.;
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 99 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – first sentence
ABefore beginning to drive a vehicle used for commercial operations falling within the scope of this Regulation, a driver shall record as other work any time spent as described in Article 4(e) as well as any time spent driving a vehicle used for commercial operations not falling within the scope of this Regulation, and shall record any periods of availability, as defined in Article 3(b) of Directive 2002/15/EC, in accordance with Article 34(5)(b)(iii) of Regulation (EU) No 165/2014, since his/her last weekly rest period. This record shall be entered either manually on a record sheet, a printout or by use of manual input facilities on recording equipment
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 100 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 7 – paragraph 3
AWhen a driver is engaged in multi- manning may decide to take a break of 45 minutes in a vehicle driven by another driver provided that , a period of 45 minutes of driver’s period of presence in a moving vehicle driven by the other driver taking the break is not involved in assisting the driver driving the vehicleis considered to be a break.
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 101 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) There are differences among Member States in the interpretation and implementation of the weekly rest requirements as regards the place where the weekly rest should be taken. It is therefore appropriate to clarify that requirement to ensure that drivers are provided with adequate faccommodation for their regular weekly rest periodilities if they are taken away from home.
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 102 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point -a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 5
(-a) paragraph 5 is replaced by the following: 5. "By way of derogation from paragraph 2, within 30 hours of the end of a daa driver engaged in an occasional service of carriage of passengers, as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Councily or weekly rest period, a driver engaged in multi-manning must have taken a new daily rest period off 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services, may postpone, maximum two times per week, the daily rest with one hour, provided that the daily rest period taken after the use of the derogation is at least nine9 hours. ”;
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Many road transport operations within the EU involve transport by ferry or by rail for part of the journey. Clear, appropriate provisions regarding rest periods and breaks should therefore be laid down for such operations;
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 110 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 b (new)
(7b) In order to safeguard working conditions of the drivers at places of loading and unloading, owners and operators of such facilities should provide the driver with the access to hygienic facilities;
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 115 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) one regular weekly rest period of at least 45 hours and three reduced rests of at least 24 hours. If a reduced weekly rest period is taken, the driver must take the difference between the rest period taken and 45 hours, in a single block, by the end of the fourth week following the week in which the reduced rest period ends.
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 122 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6 b (new)
(aa) The following paragraph is inserted: “6b. Drivers engaged in occasional passenger services may derogate from the requirement to take a 24-hour rest in a given week provided they work for a maximum of twelve 24-hour periods, and this bloc of working periods is preceded by, and followed by, a regular weekly rest. If driving during the period from 22:00 to 06:00, the vehicle must be multi-manned or the driving period referred to in Article 7 reduced to three hours.”
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 123 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point b
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 7
7. Any rest period taken as a compensation for a reduced weekly rest period shall immediately precede or follow a regular weeklybe attached to another rest period of at least 45nine hours.;
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 134 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a – point a
(a) either provided or paid for by the employer, ormay be taken in a vehicle, provided that the vehicle has suitable sleeping facilities for each driver and the vehicle is stationary within a suitable rest facility, which has as a minimum adequate sanitary facilities, such as shower and toilets,
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 136 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a – point b
(b) at home or at another private location chosen by the driver.;
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 145 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
8b. A transport undertaking shall organise the work of drivers in such a way that the drivers are able to spend at least one regular weekly rest period or a weekly rest of more than 45 hours taken in compensation for reduced weekly rest at homethe country of establishment of the undertaking, within each period of threefour consecutive weeks.;
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 153 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 c (new)
(ca) the following paragraph is inserted: “8c. Member States shall issue an annual report to the Commission on the availability of suitable rest facilities for drivers and secured parking facilities on their national territory, from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish a common standard for Member States reporting.”
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 154 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c b (new)
(cb) The following paragraph is added: “9a. By way of derogation from paragraphs 6, 7and 8b, a driver engaged in occasional passenger services shall take an average of 45 hours weekly rest per week, calculated over a reference period of up to 13 weeks. A weekly rest period of at least 24 hours shall be taken each week. When making use of the derogation, within the13-week reference period, driver’s total driving time per any 4-week period must not exceed 160 hours”;
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 155 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 9 – paragraph 1
9. By way of derogation from Article 8, where a driver accompanies a vehicle which is transported by ferry or train, and takes a regular daily rest period or reduced weekly rest period, that period may be interrupted not more than twice by other activities not exceeding one hour in total. During that regular daily rest or reduced weekly rest period the driver shall have access to a bunk or couchette at their disposal.;
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 161 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Provided that road safety is not thereby jeopardised, the driver may depart from Article 8(2) and the second subparagraph of Article 8(6) to be able to reach a suitable accommodation as referred to in Article 8(8a) to take a daily or weekly rest there. Such a departure shall not result in exceeding daily or weekly driving times or shortening daily or weekly rest periods. However, the daily driving time can be extended by two hours when the driving period is immediately followed by a rest period of not less than 45 consecutive hours. Such extensions to daily driving time should be within the limit of the maximum accumulated driving times. The driver shall indicate the reason for such departure manually on the record sheet of the recording equipment or on a printout from the recording equipment or in the duty roster, at the latest on arrival at the suitable accommodation.
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 178 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) No 165/2014
Article 34 – paragraph 7
7. The driver shall enter in the digital tachograph the symbols of the countries in which the daily working period started and finished as well as where and when the driver has crossed a border in the vehicle on arrival at the suitable stopping place. Member States may require drivers of vehicles engaged in transport operations inside their territory to add more detailed geographic specifications to the country symbol, provided that those Member States have notified those detailed geographic specifications to the Commission before 1 April 1998.” As from the date of entry into force of Articles 8, 9 and 10 requiring that tachographs installed for the first time on or after 15 June 2019 must be smart tachographs, providing also the possibility for an automatic registration of border crossings, drivers shall enter in the digital tachograph the symbols of the countries in which the daily working period started and finished, as well as where and when the driver has crossed a border in the vehicle, upon arrival at the first planned stopping place.”;
2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 188 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point r
(r) 'non-commercial carriage' means any carriage of passengers or goods by road, other than carriage for hire or reward or for own account, for which no direct or indirect remuneration is received and which does not directly or indirectly generate any income.
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 209 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Regulation 561/2006
Article 6 – paragraph 3
"3. The total accumulated driving time during any twofour consecutive weeks shall not exceed 9180 hours. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32006R0561)" Or. en
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 216 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation 561/2006
Article 6 – paragraph 5
ABefore beginning to drive a vehicle used for commercial operations falling within the scope of this Regulation, a driver shall record as other work any time spent as described in Article 4(e) as well as any time spent driving a vehicle used for commercial operations not falling within the scope of this Regulation, and shall record any periods of availability, as defined in Article 3(b) of Directive 2002/15/EC, in accordance with Article 34(5)(b)(iii) of Regulation (EU) No 165/2014, since his/her last weekly rest period. This record shall be entered either manually on a record sheet, a printout or by use of manual input facilities on recording equipment.;
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 228 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 7 – paragraph 3
AWhen a driver is engaged in multi- manning may decide to take a break of 45 minutes in a vehicle driven by another driver provided that , a period of 45 minutes of driver’s period of presence in a moving vehicle driven by the other driver taking the break is not involved in assisting the driver driving the vehicle.;is considered to be a break
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 285 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6 a (new)
. (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32006R0561)(5 a) In Article 8, new paragraph 6 a is added: "6a. Drivers engaged in occasional passenger services may derogate from the requirement to take a 24-hour rest in a given week provided they work for a maximum of twelve 24-hour periods, and this bloc of working periods is preceded by, and followed by, a regular weekly rest. If driving during the period from 22:00 to 06:00, the vehicle must be multi-manned or the driving period referred to in Article 7 reduced to three hours." Or. en
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 287 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a a (new)
. (a a) In Article 8, new paragraph is added: "Drivers engaged in occasional passenger services may derogate from the requirement to take a 24-hour rest in a given week provided they work for a maximum of twelve 24-hour periods, and this bloc of working periods is preceded by, and followed by, a regular weekly rest. If driving during the period from 22:00 to 06:00, the vehicle must be multi-manned or the driving period referred to in Article 7 reduced to three hours." Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32006R0561)
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 306 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point b
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 7
7. Any rest period taken as a compensation for a reduced weekly rest period shall immediately precede or follow a regular weeklybe attached to another rest period of at least 45nine hours.;
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 332 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a
8a. The regular weekly rest periods and any weekly rest of more than 45 hours taken in compensation for previous reduced weekly rest shall not be taken in a vehicle. They shall be taken in a suitable accommodation, with adequate sleeping and sanitary facilities;
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 336 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
(a) either provided or paid for by the employer, ormay be taken in a vehicle, provided that the vehicle has suitable sleeping facilities for each driver and the vehicle is stationary within a suitable rest facility, which has as a minimum adequate sanitary facilities, such as shower and toilets,
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 342 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a – point b
(b) at home or at another private location chosen by the driver.
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 359 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8b
8b. A transport undertaking shall organise the work of drivers in such a way that the drivers are able to spend at least one regular weekly rest period or a weekly rest of more than 45 hours taken in compensation for reduced weekly rest at homethe country of establishment of the undertaking, within each period of threefour consecutive weeks.;
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 381 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c a (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 9 a (new)
. "By way of derogation from paragraphs 6, 7and 8b above, a driver engaged in occasional passenger services shall take an average of 45 hours weekly rest per week, calculated over a reference period of up to 13 weeks. A weekly rest period of at least 24 hours must be taken each week. When making use of the derogation, within the 13-week reference period, driver’s total driving time per any 4-week period must not exceed 160 hours." Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32006R0561)
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 385 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c b (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 9 b (new)
. "By way of derogation from paragraph 2, a driver engaged in an occasional service of carriage of passengers, as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services, may postpone, maximum two times per week, the daily rest with one hour, provided that the daily rest period taken after the use of the derogation is at least 9 hours" Or. en (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32006R0561)
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 388 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c c (new)
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 9 a (new)
(c c) In Article 8, new paragraph 9 a is added: 9a. Member States shall issue an annual report to the European Commission on the availability of suitable rest facilities for drivers and secured parking facilities on their national territory, from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. The European Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, establish a common standard for Member States reporting.
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 393 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 9 – paragraph 1
9. By way of derogation from Article 8, where a driver accompanies a vehicle which is transported by ferry or train, and takes a regular daily rest period or reduced weekly rest period, that period may be interrupted not more than twice by other activities not exceeding one hour in total. During that regular daily rest or reduced weekly rest period the driver shall have access to a bunk or couchette at their disposal.;
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 409 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Provided that road safety is not thereby jeopardised, the driver may depart from Article 8(2) and the second subparagraph of Article 8(6) to be able to reach a suitable accommodation as referred to in Article 8(8a) to take a daily or weekly rest there. Such a departure shall not result in exceeding daily or weekly driving times or shortening daily or weekly rest periods. However, the daily driving time can be extended by two hours when the driving period is immediately followed by a rest period of not less than 45 consecutive hours. Such extensions to daily driving time should be within the limit of the maximum accumulated driving times. The driver shall indicate the reason for such departure manually on the record sheet of the recording equipment or on a printout from the recording equipment or in the duty roster, at the latest on arrival at the suitable accommodation.
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 474 #

2017/0122(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
7. The driver shall enter in the digital tachograph the symbols of the countries in which the daily working period started and finished as well as where and when the driver has crossed a border in the vehicle on arrival at the suitable stopping place. Member States may require drivers of vehicles engaged in transport operations inside their territory to add more detailed geographic specifications to the country symbol, provided that those Member States have notified those detailed geographic specifications to the Commission before 1 April 1998.” As from the date of entry into force of the provisions of Articles 8, 9 and 10 of Regulation (EU) No 165/2014, requiring that tachographs installed for the first time on or after 15 June 2019 must be smart tachographs, providing also the possibility for an automatic registration of border crossings, drivers shall enter in the digital tachograph the symbols of the countries in which the daily working period started and finished, as well as where and when the driver has crossed a border in the vehicle, upon arrival at the first planned stopping place.
2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 46 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
(1) In order to create a safe, efficient and socially responsible road transport sector it is necessary to ensure a balance between free movement of services, adequate working conditions and social protection for drivers, on the one h and, and suitable business and fair competition conditions for operators, on the other competitive business environment for operators.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 53 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) Any national rules applied to road transport must be proportionate and justified and must not hinder or make less attractive the exercise of fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Treaty, such as the freedom of movement of services, in order to maintain or increase the competitiveness of the Union, whilst respecting the working conditions and social protection for the drivers.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 63 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
(3) The balance between enhancing social and working conditions for drivers and facilitating the exercise of the freedom to provide road transport services based on fair competition between national and foreign operators, reduction of administrative burden and social and working conditions for drivers is crucial for the smooth functioning of the internal market.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 67 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
(4) Having evaluated the effectiveness and efficiency of the current Union social legislation in road transport, certain loopholes in the existing provisions and deficiencies in their enforcement were identified, as well as illegal practices, such as the use of letterbox companies. Furthermore a number of discrepancies exist between Member States in interpretation, application and implementation of the rules. This creates legal uncertainty and unequal , creating high administreatment of drivers and operators,ive burdens for non-resident Union operations in particular. This creates legal uncertainty which is detrimental to the working, social and competition conditions in the sector.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 71 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
(5) Adequate, effective and consistent enforcement of the working time provisions is crucial for protecting the working conditions of drivers and preventing the distortions of competition resulting from non-compliance. Therefore it is desirable to extend the existing uniform enforcement requirements set out in Directive 2006/22/EC to controlling compliance with the working time provisions set out in Directive 2002/15/EU.deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 84 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) Rules for the posting of workers applicable to international road transport activities should be balanced, simple, and with a low administrative burden for Member States and transport undertakings. They should not aim to discourage operations outside the country of establishment of an undertaking.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 105 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
(12) Such balanced criteria should be based on a concept of a sufficient link of a driver with a territory of a host Member State. Therefore, a time threshold should be established, beyond which the minimum rate of pay and the minimum annual paid holidays of the host Member State shall apply in case of international transport operations. This time threshold should not apply to cabotage operations as defined by Regulations 1072/200918 and 1073/200919 since the entire transport operation is taking place in a host Member State. As a consequence the minimum rate of pay and the minimum annual paid holidays of the host Member State should apply to cabotage irrespective of the frequency and duration of the operations carried out by a driver. _________________ 18 Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international road haulage market (OJ L 300, 14.11.2009, p. 72). 19 Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services, and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 (OJ L 300, 14.11.2009, p.88)deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 118 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
(12) Such balanced criteria should be based on a concept of a sufficient link of a driver with a territory of a host Member State. Therefore, a time threshold should be established, beyond which the minimum rate of pay and the minimum annual paid holidays of the host Member State shall apply in case of international transport operations. This time threshold should not apply to cabotage operations as defined by Regulations 1072/200918 and 1073/200919 since the entire transport operation is taking place in a host Member State. As a consequence the minimum rate of pay and the minimum annual paid holidays of the host Member State should apply to cabotage irrespective of the frequency and duration of the operations carried out by a driver. _________________ 18 Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international road haulage market (OJ L 300, 14.11.2009, p. 72). 19 Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 on common rules for access to the international market for coach and bus services, and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 (OJ L 300, 14.11.2009, p.88)transit and international transport operations where both the driver and the vehicle return to the Member State of establishment should not be subject to Directive 96/71/EC. There is no direct competition with national companies in case of transit and international transport and there is a clear link of the driver to the Member State of establishment of the company, therefore Directive 96/71/EC is inapplicable in such cases.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 129 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) Member States should only apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) to road cabotage as defined by Regulations (EC) No 1072/2009 and 1073/2009 since the entire transport operation is taking place in a host Member State. As a consequence, the rules for the posting of workers should apply to cabotage irrespective of the frequency and duration of the operations carried out by a driver.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 132 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) The Directive 96/71/EC should apply to cabotage operations as defined by Regulations (EC) No 1072/2009 and 1073/2009 since the entire transport operation is taking place in a host Member State and there is a direct competition with local undertakings. As a consequence Directive 96/71/EC should apply to cabotage irrespective of the frequency and duration of the operations carried out by a driver.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 135 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 b (new)
(12b) The application and enforcement of the provisions on posting of workers in the cases of transit would generate high administrative burdens for Member States operators, as well as non-resident operators. There is no direct competition with national companies, nor sufficient link between driver and host country in the case of transit, therefore the Directive 96/71/EC, the legislative act [...] amending Directive 96/71/EC, and Directive 2014/67/EU should be inapplicable in such cases.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 142 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
(13) In order to ensure targeted, effective and efficient enforcement of the sector-specific rules on posting of workers and to avoid disproportionate administrative burdens for non-resident operators sector, standardised forms developed by the Commission and reduced specific administrative and control requirements should be established in the road transport sector, taking full advantage of control tools, such as the digitalInternal Market Information System (IMI), the GNSS portal for road transport and the smart tachograph.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 152 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) A general implementation and application of the rules for the posting of workers to road transport could impact the structure of the Union road freight transport industry. Therefore, Member States and the Commission should closely monitor the impact of this process.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 155 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13 b (new)
(13b) Enforcement should concentrate on inspections at the premises of the undertakings. Roadside checks should not be excluded but should be undertaken in a non-discriminatory manner only for consignment notes or their electronic versions, confirmations of the pre- registration and attestation for return to country of operator´s establishment or driver´s residence. Roadside checks should control in the first place tachographs data which is important to determine the activity of a driver and vehicle over a four-week rolling period and the geographical coverage of this activity. The recording of the country code can help.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 158 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13 c (new)
(13c) The impact of the application and the enforcement of the rules for the posting of workers on the road transport industry should be repeatedly evaluated by the Commission and reported to the Parliament and the Council, and proposals should be made to further simplify them and reduce the administrative burden.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 171 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point a
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
These checks shall cover each year a large and representative cross-section of mobile workers, drivers, undertakings and vehicles falling, where relevant and justified, within the scope of Regulations (EC) No 561/2006 and (EU) No 165/2014 and in case of checks at the premises of mobile workers and drivers falling withing the scope of Directive 2002/15/EC.";
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 173 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Each Member State shall organise checks in such a way that at least 3% of days worked by drivers of vehicles falling within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006, Regulation (EU)165/2014 and Directive 2002/15/EC are checked; following roadside checks and where the driver is not in capacity to submit one or more of the required documents, the drivers shall be released to continue their transport operation and the transport operator in the Member State of establishment is obliged to submit the required documents via competent authorities. Member States shall focus especially on structurally and repeatedly non-compliant hauliers.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 183 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Checks at premises shall be planned in the light of past experience in relation to the various types of transport and undertakings. Member States shall not undertake controls made according to Directive 2002/15/EC at the roadsides. They shall also be carried out if serious infringements of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 or (EU) No 165/2014 or Directive 2002/15/ECU) No 165/2014 have been detected at the roadside.;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 186 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 2002/15/EC
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Checks at premises shall be planned in the light of past experience of non- compliant behaviour in relation to the various types of transport and undertakings. They shall also be carried out if serious infringements of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 or (EU) No 165/2014 or Directive 2002/15/EC have been detected at the roadside.;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 207 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 – point b
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a – subparagraph 1
Member State shall submit the information requested by other Member States pursuant to paragraph 1(b) of this Article within 2510 working days from the receipt of the request in cases requiring in-depth examination or involving checks at premises of the undertakings concerned. A shorter time limit may be mutually agreed between the Member States. In urgent cases or cases requiring simple consultation of registers, such as of a risk rating system, the requested information shall be submitted within three working days.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 241 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a
Directive 2006/22/EC
Annex I – Part A – point 6
(a) in Part A, the following point (6) is added: ‘(6) Articles 4 and 5 of Directive 2002/15/EC.;’deleted weekly working times as set out in
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 251 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. For the purpose of this Article the following definitions shall apply: (a) 'Country' means the country of registration of the road transport operator, other EU Member State or third country. (b) 'Cross-trade road transport' means the transport operation including loading and unloading made by a road transport operator between two Member States which differ from a Member State or third country, where the operator is established. (c) 'Transit' means the through passage transport where the points of departure and destination are in another country or other countries and the transport passes through the territory of the transit country without loading or unloading. (d) 'Rolling four-week period' means a consecutive four weeks period of any type of international road transport operation excluding cabotage.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 266 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall not apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Directive 96/71/EC to drivers in the road transport sector employed by undertakings referred to in Article 1(3)(a) of that Directive, when performingDirective 96/71/EC or Directive 2014/67/EU to transit and international carriagetransport operations as defined by Regulations 1072/2009 and 1073/2009 where the period of posting to their territory to perform these operations is shorter than or equal to 3 days during a period of one calendar month.;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 289 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Member States shall apply Directive 96/71/EC to cabotage operations, as defined by Regulations (EC) No 1072/2009 and 1073/2009. Cabotage operations shall be excluded from the provisions of long-term posting referred to in the legislative act amending the Directive 96/71/EC subject to fulfilment of the obligation as set out in Article 8b of Regulation [...] amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 as regards minimum requirements on maximum daily and weekly driving times, minimum breaks and daily and weekly rest periods and Regulation (EU) 165/2014 as regards positioning by means of tachographs ;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 298 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
When the period of posting is longer than 3 days, Member States shall apply points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Directive 96/71/EC for the entire period of posting to their territory during the period of one calendar month referred to in the first subparagraph.deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 336 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3
3. For the purposes of the calculation of the periods of posting referred to in paragraph 2: (a) a daily working period shorter than six hours spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as half a day; (b) a daily working period of six hours or more spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as a full day; (c) breaks and rest periods as well as periods of availability spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as working period.deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 348 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) a daily working period shorter than six hours spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as half a day;deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 355 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) a daily working period longer than five hours and shorter than sixeight hours spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as half a day;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 364 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) a daily working period of six hours or more spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as a full day;deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 369 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) a daily working period of sixeight hours or more spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as a full day;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 378 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) breaks and rest periods as well as periods of availability spent in the territory of a host Member State shall be considered as working period.deleted
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 404 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. By way of derogation from Directive 2014/67/EU, Member States may only impose the following administrative requirements and control measures:
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 415 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a – introductory part
(a) an obligation for the road transport operator established in another Member State to send a posting declaration to the national competent authorities at the latest at the commencement of the posting, in electronic form, in ana standardised electronic form developed and made available by the Commission in all official languages of the host Member State or in EnglishUnion, containing only the following information:
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 445 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a – point iv
(iv) the anticipated duration, envisaged beginning and end date of the posting;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 499 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point d
(d) an obligation for the drivertransport manager or other contact person(s) in the Member State of establishment to keep and make available, where requested at the roadside control, in paper or electronic form, a copy of the employment contract or an equivalent document within the meaning of Article 3 of Council Directive 91/533/EEC20 , translated of the driver, into one of the official languages of the host Member State or into English; _________________ 20 Council Directive 91/533/EEC of 14 October 1991 on an employer's obligation to inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship (OJ L 288, 18.10.1991, p. 32)s within 14 days of the request made by the relevant authorities of the host Member State;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 522 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point e
(e) an obligation for the drivertransport manager or other contact person(s) in the Member State of establishment to make available, where requested at the roadside control, in paper or electronic form, a copy of payslips for last two months; during the roadside check, the driver shall be allowed to contact the head office, the transport manager or anthe driver´s payslips for the preceding two calendar months within14 days of the request made by other person or entity which may provide this copy relevant authorities of the host Member State;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 533 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point f
(f) an obligation for the road transport operator to deliver, after the period of posting, in paper or electronic form, copies of documents referred to in points (b), (c) and (e),c) at the request of the authorities of the host Member State within a reasonable period of time;
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 568 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 5 c (new)
Directive 2006/22/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 b (new)
5c. International transport operations including cabotage falling under the scope of this Directive shall be excluded from the provisions on collective agreements which are not universally applicable as defined in Article [...] of Directive 96/71/EC.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 583 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall adopt and publish, by […] [The time limit for transposition will be as short as possible and, generally, will not exceed two years] at the latest... [2 years from the entry into force of this Directive], the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 594 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 a (new)
Article 4a The entry into force of this Directive shall repeal any provisions regarding the date of application of this Directive deriving from ... [2016/0070(COD)] amending Directive 96/71/EC.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 595 #

2017/0121(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 b (new)
Article 4b The transport sector is exempt from the measures deriving from ... [2016/0070 (COD)] amending Directive 96/71/EC until the entry into force of this Directive.
2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 3 #

2016/2304(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. NHighlights that Cohesion policy proved to be one the most important public tools in promoting growth and jobs and reducing regional disparities; notes with concern that in 2015 only 34 % of Europeans said that they had heard about projects co-financed by the EU to improve the area in which they live and that this proportion has remained unchanged since June 20101 ; therefore, there is an urgent need to improve communication strategies to citizens, considering the low awareness of the positive effects cohesion policies have in quality of life and economic growth, which is even more important in times of challenge by populism and spread negativity about the European project; __________________ 1 Flash Eurobarometer 423: Citizens’ awareness and perceptions of EU regional policy.
2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 22 #

2016/2304(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the managing authorities, to monitor regularly that all legal provisions as regards information and communication are being implemented thoroughly in order to ensure transparency and the widespread dissemination of information about the achievements of the Funds, and paying special attention to groups of beneficiaries in vulnerable positions;
2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 26 #

2016/2304(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve the visibility of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) by communicating the European added value of the projects, particularly in terms of job creation and social integration; in this context, draws attention to the growing importance of social media as the main source of information among many citizens, and also the dissemination of anti-European propaganda on the internet; recommends the more intense use of social media to communicate the successes of cohesion policies and the opportunities related to their use;
2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 42 #

2016/2304(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to reduce the administrative burden on authorities and beneficiaries, without affecting necessary controls and audits, with a view to ensuring a better absorption rate, in particular for SMEs, which have created around 85 % of new jobs within the Union in the past five years, and micro- businesses and companies in remote rural areas in order to foster their capacity to create employment and add economic value;
2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 55 #

2016/2304(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the importance of the integration of refugees as an urgent policy matter in the aftermath of the refugee crisis. In this regard, insists on appropriate allocation of the funds, flexible use of funds, and more appropriate targeting of the risk groups, in order to mitigate the risk of exclusion and social tensions;
2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 57 #

2016/2304(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission to analyse the real impact of investing EU funds during the previous programming period and to draw specific conclusions regarding the positive and negative experiences as a starting-point for adding value to the investment process;
2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 58 #

2016/2304(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Stresses that there is a particular need at EU and at Members States level to improve simplification for beneficiaries with more precise targeting to meet their needs. In this regard, the social partners and stakeholders could contribute to the identification of both good and bad practices and help in introducing simplification option in their Member States;
2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 68 #

2016/2304(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines concerns regarding the exclusion of some regions or municipalities from financing due to the increase in public debt since this increase usually stems from the activities of the central authorities;
2017/03/10
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 6 #

2016/2271(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas digitalisation penetrates deeply into all parts of the industrial se-ctor's activities increasing its competitiveness with innovative and sustainable production of goods and services which drives economic growth creating jobs as well as playing a significant role in the European countries' prosperity;
2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 16 #

2016/2271(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the digitisation of industry represents a major challenge in terms of the organisation of work as well as resulting in an emerging opportunity of creating a significant number of new jobs and therefore requires targeted responses regarding employment, social and education policies, as well as the provision of up-to-date infrastructure;
2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 26 #

2016/2271(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the strong regional differences as regards the digitisation of industry, which have consequences on jobs, productivity and growth; calls, therefore, for efforts in developing digital infrastructure to be stepped up, particularly in regions lagging behind, and for universal accessaccess, where the digital infrastructure are not fully developed in such rural areas, to the open internet to be promoted;
2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 35 #

2016/2271(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in cooperation with social partners, to regularly assess the impact of digitisation on the quality, number and types of jobs and to consider not only the adjust related policies accordingly in case of having a clear negative impact but also a continued strengthening of the policies already considered as having positive effects on the labour market;
2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 45 #

2016/2271(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises the opportunities related to the digitisation of industry; stresses, however, that new forms of work must comply wi the importance to ensure the attractiveness of new forms of work by implementing adequate flexibility in the labour and social legislation and guaranteemarket to foster real economic growth while ensuring the protection of workers’ and consumer rights;
2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 54 #

2016/2271(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to clarify the legal situation of platform workers and to guarantee all workers the same social rights, including the freedom of association, the right to conclude collective agreements and the right to organiseto uphold their social rights as well as the full respect of freedoms enshrined in the Treaties particularly the right of free movement;
2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 72 #

2016/2271(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to ensure universal access to training in digital skills, in order to allow equal participation of all citizens in the digital single market, be it as employees, entrepreneurs or customers; in this regards, highlights the importance of improving the matching between the industrial sector ´s labour requirements and the educational system at all educational levels in order to provide students with knowledge and skills required in knowledge society and for transition to a digitalised economy;
2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 84 #

2016/2271(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to identify potential occupational health and safety risksreach a balanced approach to define not only the potential occupational health and safety risks but also advantages such as flexibility and teleworking stemming from the digitisation of industry and to take appropriate measures.
2017/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 21 #

2016/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the youth unemployment rate in the EU has decreased in the past few years; regrets, however, that in mid-2016 18.8 % of4.2 mil young people under the age of 25 in the EU were still unemployed (18.8 % of the concerned population); urges the Member States to utilise available EU support in order to tackle this longstanding issue;
2017/07/11
Committee: CONT
Amendment 29 #

2016/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that the YG has made a positive contribution to tackling youth unemployment since 2012 but that the youth unemployment rate remains unacceptably high; welcomes, therefore, the agreement reached by the co-legislators for the extension of the YEI until 2020; notes, however, that the issue of youth unemployment might persist and therefore should be counted with for the next Multiannual Financial Framework in order to ensure continuity and cost- effectiveness;
2017/07/11
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2016/2242(INI)

1. Stresses that effective mechanisms to discuss and resolve difficulties experienced when implementing YG schemes are needed, together with a strong commitment by the Member States to implement the scope of the YG in full, including partnership-building, ensuring an effective outreach, enabling skills enhancement and putting in place proper evaluation structures as well as strengthening the administrative capacity;
2017/05/04
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 57 #

2016/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that in its communication of October 2016, the Commission draws conclusions on the need to improve the effectiveness of the YEI; believes that this should be achieved by ensuring that NEETs are integrated into the labour market in a sustainable fashion and by setting objectives that reflect the diverse composition of NEETs, with specific, logical interventions for each of the sub- target groups; notes that additional use of other ESF programmes to ensure sustainability of the NEETs integration could improve efficiency;
2017/07/11
Committee: CONT
Amendment 58 #

2016/2242(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Notes the persistent challenge of skills mismatches with labour-market demands; asks the Commission, within the framework of the Employment Committee of the European Union (EMCO), to promote the exchange of best practices between the Member States and relevant stakeholders in Member States in order to address this issue;
2017/07/11
Committee: CONT
Amendment 58 #

2016/2242(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that preventive interventions and structural reform efforts by the Member States are needed in order to reap the benefits of the YG and ensure the success of school-to-work transitions of young people; stresses in this regard the importance of training PES personnel, capacity building and cooperation with employers and NGOs, where relevant;
2017/05/04
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #

2016/2242(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls the importance of cooperation between all levels of governance (EU, Member States and local entities) and the European Commission´s technical assistance in implementing effectively the YG;
2017/05/04
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 86 #

2016/2242(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that there is no common definition of "good quality offer", believes that developing such term does not in itself guarantee a positive outcome of participation in the Youth Guarantee, as sufficient economic growth is a pre- requisite for the sustainable integration of NEETs into the labour market;
2017/05/04
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 103 #

2016/2242(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to establish concrete and measurable objectives in implementing YG schemes and to identify its main challenges and appropriate action plans to overcome them; furthermore insists on the Member States to establish an overview of the cost of implementing the Youth Guarantee and to prioritize related measures according to available financing;
2017/05/04
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 29 #

2016/2224(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls, therefore, on the Commission to build on the resolution recommendation to establish an independent information- gathering, advisory and referral EU body, with offices in Member Statesoffice under the suitable EU agency, such as the European Ombudsman, which alre in a position to receive reports of irregularitieady has a competence to investigate complaints of malpractices within the EU institutions, with sufficient budgetary resources, adequate competences and appropriate specialists, in order to help internal and external whistle- blowers use the right channels to disclose their information;
2017/06/28
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2016/2224(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses the view that the adoption of sector-specific legislation, such as in the field of the protection of the financial interests of the EU, could be fast-tracked and should not have to wait for the adoption of more general legislation on the protection of whistle- blowers.a horizontal EU-wide regulatory framework for whistle-blowers' protection is worth of consideration, taking into account the recommendations based on the impact assessment made by the Commission; underlining the importance that this regulation secures public interest and respects trade secrets;
2017/06/28
Committee: CONT
Amendment 40 #

2016/2224(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6a (new)
6 a. Encourages European Agencies to act as an example for Member States and the private sector by implementing internal rules and procedures on whistle- blower protection, which could also lower the threshold to inform third parties about malpractices;
2017/06/28
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU),
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 7 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 10 September 2015 on creating a competitive EU labour market for the 21st century1a: matching skills and qualifications with demand and job opportunities, as a way to recover from the crisis, __________________ 1a Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0321
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 11 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to Regulation 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I),
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 36 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas non-standard, atypicalthe variety of forms of employment have been emerging,s increased; wherebyas the number of workers with – oftenshare of involuntary fixed termed and part- time contracts has increased considerablygrown in thsome EU over the past 15 years; whereas standard employment across a number of sectors has shifted to non-standard or atypical forms of employment, and whereas, if this trend continues, it is likely that the risk of precariousness will increase8 ; __________________ 8 Study for the EMPL Committee on precarious employment in Europe, July 2016, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/e tudes/STUD/2016/587285/IPOL_STU%28 2016%29587285_EN.pdfMember States; whereas some sectors have moved towards different forms of employment, and whereas, if this trend continues, efficient policies are needed to embrace the variety of different forms of employment , whilst adequately protecting the workers;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 48 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the new forms of employment that are emerging are blurring the boundary between dependent employment and self-employment9 , leading to a decline in the quality of employment and the rise of bogus self- employment; __________________ 9 ILO report of 2016 on Building a social pillar for European convergence.
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 55 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas competence for social policy is shared by the European Union and the Member States; whereas the EU can only complement and support the Member States in this field;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 57 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the EU can only adopt minimum requirements for working conditions without harmonising the laws and regulations of the Member States;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 59 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas increases in employment rates mask the insufficient and socially inadequate response to the economic crisis, promoting precarious forms of employment such as zero-hour contracts, bogus self-employment and involuntary part-time jobs, which do not provide workers with either a decent living or full labour rights;deleted
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 73 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas part-time employment had never declined since the crisis, and full- time employment is still below its 2008 pre-crisis level; whereas the number of people working full-time in the second quarter of 2016 remained 2.5 % below the figure for 2008, while part-time employment increased by 11.1 % in the same period10 ; __________________ 10 ESDE Quarterly Revthere has been employment growth in the EU over the last two and half years, whereas the employment in the EU is now above the 2008 level; whereas there has been a steady increase in the number of permanent jobs (2.7 million) and full-time employment (3.1 million) over the year; whereas the employment rate is still below its 2020 target of 75% and shows large disparitiews autumn 2016.mong Member States;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 85 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
I. Towards a definition of decent workWorking conditions in the EU
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 90 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Understands standard employment to mean full-time, regular employmentthat each Member State has their own the basis of open-ended contracts, and non-standard or atypical forms of employment to include, i.a., marginal part-time work, temporary agency work, fixed-term contract work, zero-hour contracts, internships that are not part of an education programme, and informal or undecllaws and practice establishing working conditions applicable to different types of employment contracts and internships, whereas there is no universally accepted definition of “standared workemployment”;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 115 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Understands that “precarious work to mean, as a minimum definition, a non- standard, atypical form of employment having any of the following characteristics” is a subjective term which has no universally accepted definition, but may generally be perceived as referring to:
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 118 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
- little or no job security owing to the non-permanent nature of the work, as in some fixed-term contracts, involuntary and often marginal part-time contracts, contracts containing poor conditions, unwritten contracts, unclear working hours, and duties that change owing to work on demandow certainty over the continuity of employment;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 128 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 2
- low remuneration, which may even be unofficial or unclearinsufficient pay and salary progression;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 136 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 3
- no or limited social protection rights or employment-related benefitslacking or insufficient social protection;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 152 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – indent 6
- no or limited right to individual or/and collective representation;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 161 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. EndorsNotes the ILO definition of decent work which states that: ‘Decent work is work that is productive and delivers a fair income, with a safe workplace and social protection, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organize and participate in the decisions that affect their lives and equality of opportunity and treatment for all women and men’12 ; __________________ 12 ILO report of 14 November 2016 on non-standard employment around the world, http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/boo ks/WCMS_534326/lang--en/index.htm.
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 168 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that decent work shoulthe ILO concept of “decent work” is intended specifically to guarantee coverage by collective agreements, security of collective bargaining, equal pay for equal work in the same place, and protection of the workers’ families, while supporting the work-life balance for all workersjob creation, rights at work, social protection and social dialogue, as well as gender equality;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 182 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that numerous factors, such as digitalisation, are contributing to a radical transformation of work, with an increase in non-standard forms of employment trends that will intensify unless new regulation is put into place; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that work being transformed through digitalisation, and new employment being created as a result of it, is decentthe nature of work, including the increase of self-employment; underlines the importance of efficient new regulation to embrace digitalization whilst adequately protecting the workers; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that this objective is achieved;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 200 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. StressNotes that precarious employmentjobs with inadequate working conditions have a long-term effect on social security protection and pensions, and place workers at greater risk of poverty, social exclusion and deterioration of their fundamental rights;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 210 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that social protection, and protection by collective agreements and collective bargaining, should be available to all workers; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote and guarantee effective protection for workers who perform work in the context of an employment relationship, and athrough comprehensive policy response that includes policies towards reducing and ultimately eradicating precarious workadequate working conditions; calls for policies that empower workers by strengthening social dialogue and promoting the extension of collective bargaining, ensuring that all workers can access and exercise their right to associate, and to bargain individually and collectively, freely and without fear;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 229 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of labour inspectorates and the social partners in safeguarding workers’ rights, defining decent wages and incomes in accordance with Member States’ laws and practices, and in providing consultation and guidance tobeing in dialogue with employers; strongly underlines that labour inspectorates should focus on the goal of monitoring and improving working conditions, and should not be used as migration control mechanismshelping to eradicate illegal work; strongly condemns the practices of companies to employ migrants without securing their full rights and benefitsillegal and undeclared work which do not sufficiently protect the worker;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 242 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to combat non-standard, atypical and precarious forms of employment, in line with the ILO Decent Work Agenda and the European Social Charterpromote adequate working conditions across the Union;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 271 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the need for public investments promoting upwardssocial convergence, the social and cohesion of the Union and the creation of decent workemployment;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 283 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes with concern the decrease in collective bargaining and the coverage of collective agreements; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote strategic policies of universal coverage of workers under collective agreements, safeguarding, at the same time, the role of the trade unions as social partnercalls on the Commission and the Member States to promote strategic policies to better match skills with jobs at the labour market, to encourage the dialogue between employers, social partners and schools, increasing the employment rates;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 309 #

2016/2221(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure effective protection to workers especially affected by uncertainty and precariousnessvulnerable groups of society, giving special priority to women workers, young workers, older workers, workers in the informal economy, migrant workers and workers with disabilities;
2017/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 12 #

2016/2152(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the European-Anti Fraud Office (OLAF) opened an administrative investigation related to the National Front and MEP Le Pen on the basis of alleged irregularities;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 71 #

2016/2152(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Calls in this regard on the bureau to publish on the Parliament's website the documents submitted to it by the secretary- general in a machine-readable format, as soon as they become available, unless the nature of the information contained therein makes this impossible, for example, for the protection of personal data;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 146 #

2016/2152(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
46. Is not convinced of the need to have information offices of the Parliament in all Member States, especially in view of the fact that for effective communication physical presence may not always be is necessary and can easily benot be fully replaced by effective and responsive internet facilities; is in particularnevertheless is sceptical about having an information office in the cities of Brussels and Strasbourg as in both cities the Parliament itself can be visited and in addition for interested visitors there is or will be a Parlamentarium at their disposal;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas Union spending is a significant instrument for achieving Europe-wide policy objectives utilising the European added value and on overage represents 1.9% of Union Member states general government expenditure;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 75 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes Commissioner Oettinger's intention to bring the various shadow budgets, in the long run, back under the Union budgeroof of the Union budget, as the Commission would be answerable to the European Parliament; Calls on the Commission to prepare a communication on this issue before November 2017;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 91 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Points out that five Member States (Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Poland and Romania) accounted in 2015 for more than half of the unused commitments of Structural Funds that have not led to payment;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 125 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Notes with concernWelcomes that if the corrective measures taken by the Member States and the Commission had not been applied to the payments audited by the Court, lowered the overall estimated level of error would have been 4,3% rather than 3,8from 4,3% to 3,8 %; notes however that if the Commission, authorities in the Member States or independent auditors had made use of all information available to them, they could have prevented, or detected and corrected a significant proportion of the errors before the related payments were made;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 147 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
53. Deeply regretNotes that the director general of Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, as in previous years, continues to issue a horizontal reservation covering all payments and cost claims under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7); calls on the director generalCommission to develop, at long last, a more meaningful, risk based approach and use specific reservations when needed;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 159 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
71. Regrets that the Court found that the current setup does not enable the CommissionSupports the Commission's view that it is not necessary to monitor and report separately the spending and performance of research and development (R&D) and innovation within Horizon 2020; in addition, while the financial contribution of Horizon 2020 within Europe 2020 is well established in the budgetary process through the published programme statements, it is regrettable thatnvites the Commission has not yeto reported on the implementation of Horizon 2020 and its contribution to Europe 2020 in a meaningful way as the results of the programme become available;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 181 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92
92. Regrets that that the target to invest 3% of Member States' gross domestic product (GDP) into research by 2020 will most likely not be met; is aware, that the majority of all Research and Innovation expenditure in the EU is, at the national and regional level in Member States and through the private sector, where the Commission plays the role of a catalyst and facilitator, encouraging increased and smarter investment in research and innovation by Member States and the business sector through working with the Member States and the development of appropriate policies of open science and open innovation; calls on the Commission to draw the necessary conclusions for the mid-term revision of the MFF and for the next MFF;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 192 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 105
105. Regrets that the director general of DG R&I issued again, as in previous years, a horizontal reservation concerning all cost claims under FP7 (EUR 1,47 billion); is of the opinion that horizontal reservations in general cannot be considered as instrument of sound financial management; acknowledges however that certain parts of FP7 expenditure were not covered by a reserve where there was evidence that risk (and so the residual error rates) were significantly lower than for all expenditure; within RTD this applies to expenditure given to Joint Undertakings; outside RTD this applies to expenditure by the Research Executive Agency under the Marie Curie programme, and all expenditure from the European Research Council Executive Agency;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 194 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 105 a (new)
105a. Remains convinced that the Commission must continue to strive for an acceptable balance between the attractiveness of programmes to participants and the legitimate necessity of accountability and financial control; recalls, in this connection, the statements of the Director General that a procedure designed to attain a residual error rate of 2% under all circumstances is not a viable option;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 198 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 110
110. Regrets furthermoreNotes that the first monitoring report on Horizon 2020 gave only little information about synergy effects between the programme and structural funds88 ; invites the Commission to report on these synergy effects as results of the programme become available; _________________ 88 European Court of Auditors, Annual Report 2015, point 3.22
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 199 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 111
111. Also regretnotes that, according to the Court89 , Horizon 2020 is not sufficiently performance driven; welcomes the Commission's commitment to improve the work programmes, including their role in performance reporting; _________________ 89 European Court of Auditors, Annual Report 2015, Section 3
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 201 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 113
113. Calls on the Member States to make an extra effort with the view to meeting the target of 3 % GDP being invested in research; this would boost excellence and innovation; ask the Commission to explore the possibility of setting the target of 3 % GDP being invested in research as a prerequisite for using EU funding relevant to research and innovation during the mid-term revision of the MFF and for the next MFF;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 220 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 121
121. Notes, however, that very few programmes had a focus on results or measured impact; therefore little to nothing is known about the sustainability and the European added value of the investments;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 247 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 145
145. Notes the European-Anti Fraud Office (OLAF) opened an administrative investigations, such as in Germany related to the Volkswagen Group on the basis of emissions scandal, in France related to the National Front and MEP Le Pen and into a project in the Czech Republic known as "Stork Nest" on the basis of alleged irregularities; calls on the Commission to inform its competent committee immediately when the investigation iss are completed;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 257 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 151
151. Fully supports Commissioner Oettinger when he said that financial instruments and “shadow budgets” must be brought back, in the long run, under the roof of the Union budget, as the Commission would be answerable to the European Parliament; calls on the Commission to prepare a communication on this issue before November 2017;deleted
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 288 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Czech paying agenconformity clearance inquiry
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 289 #

2016/2151(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 172
172. Asks the Commission to speed up theall conformity clearance procedures opened on 8 January 2016and to get detailed and precise pieces of information related to them, especially on the risk of a conflict of interest concerning the State Agricultural Intervention Fund in the Czech Republic; is aware that in 2015 the Commission adopted 3 such conformity clearance decisions covering 207 individual net financial corrections for a total amount of EUR 2 551.7 million; takes note that a failure to remedy a conflict of interest may ultimately result in the withdrawal of the accreditation of the paying agency by the competent authority or in imposing financial corrections by the Commission and asks the Commission to inform the Parliament without delay if at the end of theany conformity clearance procedure information related to possible cases of fraud, corruption or any illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the EU are transmitted to OLAF by DG AGRI;
2017/03/10
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2016/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas, having in mind simplification processes, achieving good performance involves inputs, outputs, outcomes/results and impacts regularly assessed through the performance audits;
2017/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2016/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned that despite the positive drop of 11% of fraudulent irregularities reported as fraudulent from 1,649 in 2014 to 1,461 in 2015, the sums involved increased by 18% from 538 million EUR in 2014 to 637.6 million EUR in 2015;
2017/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 60 #

2016/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Takes note of the 241 cases of reported smuggled cigarettes involving an estimated TOR loss of EUR 31 million; puts into question the vigilance of the customs services of those Members States (the Czech Republic, Malta, Cyprus, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden) which have not reported any single case of cigarette smuggling in 2015; also notes in this context that there is no available statistical distinction between "within EU" and "to EU" smuggling;
2017/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 126 #

2016/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Calls the European Commission to explore the possibility of mandatory use of Arachne risk scoring tool by all Member States in order to increase the anti-fraud measures;
2017/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 171 #

2016/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
39. Regrets to noteWelcomes that despite the assurances of OLAF that it is doing its utmost to shorten the length ofdecrease in staff and increase in selections completed the average duration of closed and on-going investigations is remaining the same (21 months); its investigationsaware that the duration of its investigative phase is growing continuouslyhas increased since 20123 from 22.53 to 25.1 months in closed cases andinvestigations and since 2012 from 17.3 to 18.7 months in all caseinvestigations due to above mentioned reasons and due to effort undertaken by OLAF to conclude older investigations lasting more than 20 months;
2017/03/01
Committee: CONT
Amendment 3 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
– having regard to the Treaty on European Union, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in particular article 153 laying out the competences of the EU and member states with regards to social policies and labour markets, article 154 and 155 on the role of the social partners; and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 33 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the conclusions of the European Council of 14 December 2007 endorsing Common Principles of Flexicurity, recognising the importance of a solid, integrated and balanced approach to the key challenges for the modernisation of labour markets,
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 58 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 16
– having regard to its resolution of [15 September 2016] on social dumping in the European Union (2015/2255(INI))6 , __________________ 6Not yet published in the Official Journal.deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 62 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 10 September 2015 on creating a competitive EU labour market for the 21st century,
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 b (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 15 December 2015 on skills policies for fighting youth unemployment (2015/2088(INI)),
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 78 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20
– having regard to the numerous inputs received from social partners, civil society organisations and other stakeholders and to the exchange of views with some of them held on 1 September 2016joint analyses by the European social partners, BusinessEurope, CEEP, ETUC and UEAPME of October 2007 on ‘Key Challenges facing European Labour Markets’ and of July 2015 ‘In-depth employment analysis by the European social partners’,
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 133 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission is expected to come forward in the spring of 2017 with a proposal for a binding European Pillar of Social Rights;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 142 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas European social partners in joint conclusions recognise that in today’s labour market it is necessary to improve policy measures which address both the flexibility and security dimensions for workers and employers alike. Applied in the right way, the flexicurity approach can create a win-win situation and be equally beneficial for employers and employees. They conclude that a dynamic labour market should ensure that everyone has the chance to use his or her skills and abilities in their working life. This notably includes ensuring healthy and safe working conditions over the working life, updating competences over the life course through regular and lifelong learning as well as implementing flexible working practices that benefit workers and employers, ensuring possibilities for a second career for those who need this;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 229 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the enactment of a directive on fair working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, including equal treatment, social protection, protection in case of dismissal, health and safety protection, provisions on working time and rest time, freedom of association and representation, collective bargaining, collective action, access to training, and adequate information and consultation rights; underlines that this directive should apply to employees as well as to all workers in non-standard forms of employment, such as fixed-term work, part-time work, on-demand work, self-employment, crowd-working, internship or traineeship; requests that the EU acquis be updated accordingly so as to apply to all workers;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 276 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Calls for decisive steps towards legal certainty on what constitutes ‘employment’, also for work intermediated by digital platforms; underlines thatTo improve employment prospects for all Europeans, in particular young people and women and to ensure the legal certainty for companies, it is important to ensure the attractiveness of different forms of employment contracts and that a variety of employment contracts are available for workers and companies; in this regard member states should carefully design employment protection regulations for open- ended contracts shouland rtemain the norm given their importance for socio-economic security; calls for the directiporary contracts in a way that supports labour markets transitions and prevent or reduce the risk of labour market dualism. Member states should also make sure that there is full clarity at national level on fair working conditions to include relevant minimum standards to be ensured in more precarthe way new job opportunities linked to new business- models as part of the digital platform economy, qualify in terms of the pre- existing legal definitiouns forms of employment, in particular:of work and self- employment.
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 299 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point a
a. decent working conditions for internships, traineeships and apprenticeships, prohibiting those that are unpaid or paid so little that they do not enable workers to make ends meet;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 301 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point a
a. adecentquate working conditions for internships, traineeships and apprenticeships, prohibiting those that are unpaid or paid so little that they do not enable workers to make ends meet; encouraging adequate remuneration where possible and a proper training as a valuable step in the transition from education to professional life; such placement should not replace employment for young people; Encourage Member States and stakeholders to implement Council recommendation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 322 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point b
b. for work intermediated by digital platforms, a definition of employment that is less dependent on full cumulation of the relevant criteria;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 338 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c
c. limits regarding on-demand work: zero-hour contracts should be banned and certain core working hours should be guaranteed to all workers;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 395 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that the right to healthy and safe working conditions also involves limitations on working time and provisions on minimum rest periods and annual leave; awaits Commission proposals for legislation and other concrete measuresinstruments that Members may use to uphold this right for all workersemployed, reflecting all current knowledge about health and safety risks;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 468 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Agrees with the importance of universal access to timely, good-quality and affordable preventative and curative health care; emphasises that all workercitizens must be covered by health insurance;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 505 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Insists that all workers should be covered by insurance against involuntary unemployment or part-time employment, coupled with job-search assistance and investment in (re)-training;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 531 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for a European framework for minimum income schemes; highlights the importance of such schemes for maintaining human dignity as well as their role as a form of social investments enabling people to undertake training and/or look for work;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 610 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for legislation to ensure that access to social housing or adequate housing benefits are provided for those in need, obviously including homeless people, and that vulnerable people and poor households are protected against eviction; calls for tax incentives to help young people on low incomes set up their own households; calls for greater use of the EFSI to support urban renewal and affordable housing provision;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 633 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for legislationmeasures ensuring fair access for all to good-quality and affordable social services of general interest and other essential services, such as e-communications, energy, transport and financial services; highlights the role of social enterprises;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 674 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Is alarmed at the spread of precariousness arising from the excessive use of ‘atypical’ contracts; stresses the importance of ensuring sufficient institutional and budgetary capacities to provide adequate protection for people in non-standard forms of employment; considers in particular that: a. social insurance schemes must be broadened in order to enable all workers to accumulate entitlements providing income security in situations such as unemployment, involuntary part-time work or career breaks for family or training reasons; b. all workers should have a personal activity account, easily accessible through a website and/or a smartphone application, where they could consult their social entitlements;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 691 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – point a
a. social insurance schemes must be broadened in order to enable all workers to accumulate entitlements providing income security in situations such as unemployment, involuntary part-time work or career breaks for family or training reasons;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 704 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – point b
b. all workers should have a personal activity account, easily accessible through a website and/or a smartphone application, where they could consult their social entitlements;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 749 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point a
a. Directive 2006/54/EC should be revised in order to strengthen existing mechanisms to ensure equal treatment between men and women, close persisting gender gaps in pay and pensions and reduce occupational segregation;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 758 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point b
b. there is a need for new legislative proposals on family leave schemes, including maternity leave, paternity leave, parental leave and carers’ leave, encouraging equal take-up of leave arrangements by men and women across all categories of workers in order to improve women’s access to and position within the labour market and facilitate work-life balance;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 797 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Fair mMobility
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 802 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises that labour mobility within the EU is a right whose exercise must be supported but which should not be forced on workers by poor conditions in their home regions, and should not undermine host countries’ social standard, non-discrimination and freedom of movement is a cornerstone for a well-functioning internal market, mobility should be encourage and support by the European Commission and Member States;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 821 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls for a structured, long-term EU strategy to address the challenges posed by demographic change, as all the Member States are now faced with an increasingly ageing population; calls on the Commission, in this context, to look extensively into future shortages and mismatches in the EU labour market, and to examine in depth how such problems can be addressed across the EU, inter alia through targeted anticipation of future skills needs, and by better matching skills with the jobs available in the labour market and further strengthening labour mobility; Calls on the EU and its Member States to continue its efforts to financial aid and services to families to improve labour market conditions favourable for work-life balance;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 826 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Urges the Commission to put in place all suitable mechanisms for greater mobility among young people, with a special accent in apprenticeships, as a way to address skill mismatches in the labour market and improve access to employment opportunities; Calls for the establishment and regular use of coordination mechanisms between business organisations and training institutions to ensure that they provide training programmes adapted to market needs;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 836 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to propose a clear roadmap for legislative updates and otherwith incentive based measures that are necessary for full practical application of the EPSR; highlights that in cases of conflict of law, the horizontal social clause (Article 9 TFEU) should be properly applied;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 919 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point j a (new)
ja. In addition, measures for flexibility in the labour market, social assistance for temporary unemployment and for life-long learning should be included.
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 969 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Highlights that today’s phenomena of capital-intensive production, high rates of inequality and the continuing rise in ’atypical’ work imply a need to increase the role of general tax revenue in cofinancing social insurance schemes in order to provide decent social protection for all;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 988 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – introductory part
30. Reiterates its call for the raisingsustention of the MFF 2014-20 ceilings in order to cope with increased needs; calls, in particular, for: emphasis on the Youth Employment Initiative, the European Social Fund, the EGF and the FEAD;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1000 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point b
b. an increase in the volume of the European Social Fund, the EGF and the FEAD;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1009 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point c
c. the establishment of a new instrument, to be financed, for example, from EU revenue arising from competition law enforcement, to support the implementation of the Child Guarantee;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1012 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point c
c. the establishment of a new instrument, to be financed, for example, from EU revenue arising from competition law enforcement, to support the implementation of the Child Guarantee;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1026 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to refocus the EFSI on job creation and social investmentinclude considerations for investments that lead to job creation into their financing criteria and adapt its risk/return requirements accordingly in allocation of EFSI funds;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1067 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point b
b. a European unemployment insurance scheme, complementing national schemes in cases of severe cyclical downturn and helping prevent the translation of an asymmetric shock into structural disadvantage;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1105 #

2016/2095(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Considers that the EPSR should be adopted in 2017 as a binding agreement between the European Parliament and the European Council, involving social partners at the highest level, and should contain a clear roadmap for implementation, with concrete commitments and target dates;
2016/10/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 34 #

2016/2080(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Points out that all ex- Commissioners are banned for 18 months from lobbying "members of the European Commission and their staff for his/her business, client, or employer on matters for which they have been responsible" but are entitled to a very generous transitional allowance after they leave the Commission of between 40 and 65 per cent of their final basic salary for three years;
2016/09/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 64 #

2016/2080(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 – point i a (new)
(ia) that a discrepancy in length of a ban for lobbying and the length of transitional allowance (unemployment allowance) are narrowed down or removed.
2016/09/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 2 #

2016/2024(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the 2017 budget has to be keyshould play a key role in enhancing the Union’s contribution to growth, the creation of jobs and combatting poverty, particularly child poverty;
2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 8 #

2016/2024(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that the unemployment rate among young people still remains too high and calls on the Commission to provide enoughis unacceptably high in many Member States and calls on the Commission to work with Member States in utilising the financial support tos for those programmes targeting youth unemployment;
2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 13 #

2016/2024(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the budget should support programmes creating jobs, in particular, for those with multiple disadvantages in the labour market, such as women, long-term unemployed, elderly unemployed, people with disabilities and people from minority backgrounds;
2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #

2016/2024(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Points out the potential of digitalisation generating new business models and new jobs and calls for coherent budgetary efforts to provide appropriate recognition, training and re-skilling in the ICT sector;
2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 31 #

2016/2024(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the importance of the budget in promoting entrepreneurship initiatives including social entrepreneurship, innovative social enterprises, employee financial participation and self-employment;
2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 40 #

2016/2024(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Considers that the EU budget should support efforts to upskill and retrain workers in areas where there are skills shortages as well as in the healthcare and care sectors and the ICT and digital sectors;
2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 42 #

2016/2024(BUD)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Considers that the EU budget should support the inclusion of people with disabilities in all employment programmes;
2016/05/12
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 32 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas achieving a genuine work- life balance requires not only comprehensive policies including measures for reconciling work, caring for and spending time with family, and time for leisure and personal development, but above all a cultural shift in society, changing its gender attitudes so that work and care are more evenly shared between men and women; Whereas in 2014, the EU 28 employment rate for men (aged 20-64) was 75% while it reached only 63,5% for women, despite the fact that women are better educated; Whereas promoting women's participation in the labour market and their economic independence is crucial for meeting the Europe 2020 headline target (75% of the population aged 20-64 employed by 2020), counteracting the shrinking of the working age population in most European Member States, and boosting growth; whereas GDP per capita losses attributable to gender gaps in the labour market have been estimated at up to 10 percent in Europe; whereas the number of women in the workforce is even lower when considering employment rates in full-time equivalents since the share of part-time employment among women is very high in some Member States, due to constraints such as the shortage of care services and unequal division of unpaid work, or low financial incentives to take up full-time work;
2016/06/14
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 127 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Fa. Whereas Member States and social partners together have the responsibility to find solutions and possibilities to improve the work/life balance;
2016/06/14
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 154 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the EU is facing unprecedented demographic challenges – an ageing populationrising life expectancy, lower birth rates, changing family structuresnew forms of relation-building and (co)habitation and migration; is concerned that austerity measures have had a negative impact on the sustainability of public finances needed for work-life balance policies and services that foster demographic renewal;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 208 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of incorporating a lifecycle approach in work- life balance policies in order to ensure that everyone is supported at different times throughout their life and can actively participate in the labour market and in society as a whole; Calls on the Member States to improve the collection and availability of updated data on indicators on gender equality with a view of analysing and monitoring these for the Country Specific Reports;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 222 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes the important role of the national equality bodies in the implementation of the Employment Equality Directive, contributing to awareness raising and data collection, staying in touch with social partners and other stakeholders, addressing underreporting and making complaint processes more accessible; calls for the role of the national equality bodies to be strengthened, and their capacities enhanced, including through the provision of adequate funding;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 227 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Highlights that the Employment Equality Directive mentions the disproportionate impact of multiple discrimination in the fields of employment & occupation on women; recommends that national, regional and local authorities, law enforcement bodies, including labour inspectors, national equality bodies and civil society organisations, increase their monitoring of the intersectionality between gender and other grounds in cases of discrimination and in practices;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 228 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Considers it necessary that adequate training on non-discrimination legislation in employment and case-law is provided for employees of national, regional and local authorities and law enforcement bodies and labour inspectors; believes that such training is also of critical importance for judges, prosecutors, lawyers and police force;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 229 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Calls on the Commission to continue to work with EIGE to support further research on gender-relevant issues, including on women and men's perceptions of their role in the labour market and of the sharing of activities within the household, as well as their perceptions of working conditions and factors that limit opportunities in the labour market in EU-28 Member States;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 230 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. Calls on the Commission to regularly review the progress achieved on critical areas of concern as identified in the Beijing Platform for Action for which indicators have already been developed by EIGE, taking the outcomes of these reviews into account in the Commission's assessment of gender equality in the EU;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 249 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to adopt a post-2015 Gender Equality Strategy and to implement it through the European Semester, including the Annual Growth Survey and the country-specific recommendations;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 260 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to put in place proactive policies designed to support women entering, returning to and staying in the labour market with stable and qualitydecent employment;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 268 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to involve the social partners and civil society in gender equality policies; stresses the importance of collective agreements in combating discrimination and promoting gender equality between women and men at work, and of research and exchanges of good practices;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 338 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to introduce ‘care credits’ for both women and men as equivalent periods for building up pension rights in order to protect those taking a break from employment to provide informal care to a dependant;deleted
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 360 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for the introduction of targets on care for elderly and other dependants, with monitoring tools within the European Semester; calls on Eurostat and Eurofound to collect relevant data and to carry out studion Eurostat and Eurofound to collect relevant data and to carry out studies on the basis of which the Commission and the Member States are to establish qualitative standards for all care services;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 373 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish qualitative standards for all care services;deleted
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 383 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Points out the high levels of working poor throughout Europe, with people having to work more and longer, even combining several jobs, in order to earn a decent income; calls on the Member States and social partners to develop measures ensuring adequate wages for all workers, and to close the gender pay gap;deleted
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 394 #

2016/2017(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Supports 'smart working’ but rejects a shift from a culture of presence to a culture of permanent availability; calls on the Member States, when developing smart working policies, to ensure these do not impose an additional burden on the worker' and flexible working arrangements as these provide opportunities for better reconciliation of professional and private life; recalls that flexible labour markets are characterised by the availability of different contractual arrangements, as well as the necessary working time and wage flexibility, while respecting the autonomy of social partners in the collective bargaining process; calls on the Member States to promote the potential of technology such as digital data, high speed Internet, audio and video technology, f.e. for teleworking arrangements; stresses that in the long run, digitalisation will improve our productivity as it will lead to higher wages, more consumption and will ultimately compensate for lost jobs by creating new ones;
2016/06/02
Committee: EMPLFEMM
Amendment 88 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) In order to ensure clarity regarding the terminology in EU law, the term “posting” should only be used for the posting of workers within the meaning of Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services.34 In addition, to achieve consistency in treatment between employed and self-employed persons it is necessary that the special rules for the determination of applicable legislation in the cases of workers who are temporarily posted or sent to another Member State should apply consistently to both employed and self-employed persons. __________________ 34deleted OJ L 018, 21.01.1997 p. 1.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 90 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) In order to ensure clarity regarding the terminology in EU law, the term “posting” should only be used for the posting of workers within the meaning of Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services.34 In addition, tTo achieve consistency in treatment between employed and self-employed persons it is necessary that the special rules for the determination of applicable legislation in the cases of workers who are temporarily posted or sent to another Member State should apply consistently to both employed and self-employed persons. __________________ 34 OJ L 018, 21.01.1997 p. 1.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 253 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. A person who pursues an activity as an employed person in a Member State on behalf of an employer which normally carries out its activities there and who is posted within the meaning of Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services46 or sent by that employer to another Member State to perform work on that employer’s behalf shall continue to be subject to the legislation of the first Member State, provided that the anticipated duration of such work does not exceed 24 months and that the person is not posted or sent to replace another employed or self-employed person previously posted or sent within the meaning of this Article. __________________ 46 OJ L 018, 21.01.1997 p. 1.;
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 277 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. A person who normally pursues an activity as a self-employed person in a Member State who goes to pursue a similar activity in another Member State shall continue to be subject to the legislation of the first Member State, provided that the anticipated duration of such activity does not exceed 24 months and that the person is not replacing another posted employed or self-employed person..
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 293 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 13 – paragraph 4a
14. In Article 13, the following paragraph 4a is inserted after paragraph 4: “4a. A person who is receiving unemployment benefits in cash from one Member State and who is simultaneously pursuing an activity as an employed or self-employed person in another Member State shall be subject to the legislation of the Member State paying the unemployment benefits.”deleted
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 457 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 24
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 75a – paragraph 2
2. In order to ensure the correct determination of the applicable legislation, the competent authorities shall promote the cooperation between institutionthe appropriate institutions such as tax authorities and labour inspectorates in their Member States..
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 465 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 25
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 76 a – paragraph 1 – indent 1
– the issuance, the format and the contents of a portable electronic document certifying the social security legislation which applies to the holder,
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 468 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 25
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 76 a – paragraph 1 – indent 2
– the determination of situations in which the document shall be issued, rectified or withdrawn,
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 474 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 25
Regulation (EC) No 883/2004
Article 76 a – paragraph 1 – indent 4
– the withdrawal of the document when its accuracy and validity is contested for justified reasons by the competent institution of the Member State of employment.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 536 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 5 – paragraph 2– point c
(c) Where the requesting institution having received the supporting evidence continues to have doubts about the validity of a document or the accuracy of the facts on which the particulars contained therein are based that the information upon which the document was issued is not correct, it mayshall submit evidence to that effect and make a further request for clarification and where appropriate the withdrawal of that document by the issuing institution in accordance within the procedure and timeframes set out above..
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 550 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point a
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. For the purposes of the application of Article 12(1) of the basic Regulation, a ‘person who pursues an activity as an employed person in a Member State on behalf of an employer which normally carries out its activities there and who is posted within the meaning of the Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services52 or sent by that employer to another Member State’ shall include a person who is recruited with a view to being posted or sent to another Member State, provided that, immediately before the start of his employment, the person concerned is already subject to the legislation of the sending Member State in accordance with Title II of the basic Regulation.. __________________ 52which his employer is established. OJ L 018 , 21.01.1997 p. 1.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 583 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 16 – paragraph 3
3. If that institution determines that the legislation of another Member State applies, it shall do so provisionally and shall without delay inform the institution of the Member State which it considers to be competent of this provisional decision. The decision shall become definitive within two months after the institution designated by the competent authorities of the Member State concerned has been informed of it, unless the latter institution informs the first institution and, the persons and the employer concerned that it cannot yet accept the provisional determination or that it takes a different view on this.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 585 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 16 – paragraph 5
5. The competent institution of the Member State whose legislation is determined to be applicable either provisionally or definitively shall without delay inform the person concerned and/or his or her employer.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 680 #

2016/0397(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 35 – point d
Regulation (EC) No 987/2009
Article 81 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. In order to convert the amount of the claim resulting from an adjustment into the currency of the Member State of the requested party, the applicant party shall use the exchange rate used in its initial request.
2018/01/23
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 45 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 1
(1) Individuals, when looking for a job, or making decisions on what and where to learn, study or work need access to information on opportunities available, means of assessing their skills, and means of presenting information about their skills and qualifications and career guidance.
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 83 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 11
(11) Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of the European Parliament and of the Council31 establishes European Employment Services (EURES), a network of employment services and a mechanism for an automated matching of people to jobs through the EURES common IT platform. To enable the exchange and the matching of job vacancies with candidates, this mechanism needs a common and multilingual list of skills, competences and occupations. By developing ESCO the Commission isaims at providing a multilingual classification system of occupations, skills and competences and qualifications that is suited to this purpose. _________________ 31 OJ L 107, 22.4.2016, p. 1. OJ L 107, 22.4.2016, p. 1.
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 108 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 18
(18) Union tools and services for skills and qualifications should adapt to changing practices and advances in technology to ensure they remain relevant and of value to users. This should be achieved by, among other things, creating more synergy between related tools and services, including those developed by third parties, to offer a more comprehensive and effective service and by enhancing exchange of best practices among the Member States.
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 161 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) 'certificate supplement' means a document attached to a vocational or professional certificate, in order to make it easier for third parties to understand the learning outcomes acquired by the holder of the qualification as well as the nature, level, context, content and status of the studies completed;
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 165 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) 'metadata' means data providing information about other data that is used in Europass documents;deleted
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 166 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) 'metadata schemata' means a description of metadata elements, their possible values, the obligation level of the values and the relationships between these metadata elements;deleted
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 177 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point k
(k) 'standards' means recognized agreements on criteria or specifications of a product, service, process or method, including metadata schemata and semantic assets.
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 179 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Europass shall provide the following web-based tools and supplements:
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 213 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. Europass shall support cooperation on the development, use and dissemination of open standards, comprising metadata schemata and semantic assets, to facilitate more effective exchange of information on skills and qualifications at EU level and by Member States and third parties. The multilingual classification system ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) referred to in article 6 shallmay be used to support this work.
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 251 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Europass Qualification Supplement(s) shall be issued by the competent national authorities or recognized professional associations and bodies, in accordance with templates developed by the European Commission and other stakeholders32 such as the Council of Europe and UNESCO. _________________ 32 Current supplements are the Certificate Supplement and the Diploma Supplement.
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 256 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) adhered to by the relevant national authorities and recognized professional associations and bodies when completing and issuing the supplements. In particular, the order of each item should be adhered to and each field must be completed to ensure ease of understanding and provision of complete information;
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 297 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) monitor the effectiveness of support for development of open standards, metadata schemata and semantic assets for interoperability;
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 315 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – point g
(g) monitor the activities of the National Skills Coordination PointEuropass Centres, the consistency of information they provide for the analysis of trends in skills supply and demand, and the information provided on learning opportunities to the relevant portal at Union level;
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 323 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) designate and manage, in accordance with national circumstances, a National Skills Coordination PointEuropass Centre, to support the coordination and cooperation among the nationalof activities and services referred to in this Decision;
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 347 #

2016/0304(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) support cooperation at national level among public and private stakeholders on skills related issues in economic sectors;
2017/04/26
Committee: EMPLCULT
Amendment 247 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 54
(54) This Regulation should stipulate that the payments must be made within a specified time limit and that in the event of failure to respect this time limit creditors will be entitled to default interests to be charged to the budget, with the exception of Member States and as newly introduced, also the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund.
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 456 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. a comparative table including the Commission's draft budget for the other institutions and the other institutions' original financial requests as sent to the Commission;
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 517 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 114 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Except in the case of Member States, the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund, on the expiry of the time limits laid down in paragraph 1, the creditor shall be entitled to interest in accordance with the following conditions:
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 530 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 123 – paragraph 1
Where an audit based on internationally accepted standards providing reasonable assurance has been conducted by an independent auditor on the financial statements and reports setting out the use of the Union contribution, that audit shall form the basis of the overall assurance, as further specified, where appropriate, in sector specific rules. Information already available at the management authority shall be used to the extent possible to avoid asking beneficiaries for the same information more than once.
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 557 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 150 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) not make use of or engage in tax avoidance structures, in particular aggressive tax planning schemes, or practices not complying with good governance criteria on taxationprinciples, as set out in EU legislation or communications and recommandations or any formal instruction by the Commission;
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 595 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 184 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Co-financing may take the form of the beneficiary’s own resources, beneficiaries´ work force, income generated by the action or work programme or financial or in-kind contributions from third parties.
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 628 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 202 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) after the end of the period of implementation of a financial instrument or budgetary guarantee and taking into account the nature of the financial instrument or budgetary guarantee, any outstanding amount originating in the Union budget shall be returned to the budget;
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 637 #

2016/0282(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 208 – paragraph 4
4. Where the Union participates in aestablished financial instruments as a minority stakeholder, the Commission shall ensure compliance with this Title in accordance with the principle of proportionality, on the basis of the size and value of the participation of the Union in the instrument. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Commission shall ensure compliance with Article 124.
2017/04/18
Committee: BUDGCONT
Amendment 13 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Citation 1
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 53(1), 56 and 62 thereof,
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 16 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Citation 3
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments and the following 11 reasoned opinions by national parliaments objecting the Commission proposal on grounds of subsidiarity,
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 20 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Citation 4
Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee5, and its counter-opinion, __________________ 5 OJ C,, p..
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 33 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Citation 2
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 53(1), 56 and 62 thereof,
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 36 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Citation 3
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments and the following 11 reasoned opinions by national parliaments objecting the Commission proposal on grounds of subsidiarity,
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 41 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Citation 4
Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee5, and its counter-opinion; _________________ 5 OJ C,, p..
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 43 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
(5) The principle of equal treatment and the prohibition of any discrimination based on nationality are enshrined in EU law since the founding Treaties. The principle of equal pay has been implemented through secondary law not only between women and men, but also between employees with fix term contracts and comparable permanent workers, between part-time and full-time workers or between temporary agency workers and comparable w, including for companies providing cross-borkders of the user undertaking. (See ECJ cases Case C-76/90, Manfred Säger v Dennemeyer & Co. Ltd, [1991] ECR I-4221; Case C-55/94, Reinhard Gebhard v Consiglio dell'Or services. Or. en includineg degli Avvocati e Procuratori di Milano, [1995] ECR I-04165 and E.g. Joined cases 62 and 63/81, See also Seco SA v. Etablissement d’Assurance contre la Vieillesse et l’Invalidité, [1982] ECR 223, para 8,irect and indirect discrimination)
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 53 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
(Case C- 113/89, Rush Portuguesa Ldª v Office national d'immigration, [1990] ECRI-1417, judgment, para 15; Raymond Vander Elst v Office des Migrations Internationales, [1994](7 a) The ECJ case-law has established that posted workers do not in any way gain access to the host country´s labour market if they return to their country of origin after completion of their work. Or. en ECR I-3803, para. 21)
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 54 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 b (new)
(Case C-55/94, Reinhard Gebhard v Consiglio dell'Ordine degli Avvocati e Procuratori di (7 b) The ECJ has held that the temporary nature of the provision of services is to be determined in the light of its duration, regularity, periodicity and continuity. The provider of services, within the meaning of the Treaty, may equip himself in the host Member State with the infrastructure necessary for the purposes of performing the services in question. Or. en Milano, [1995] ECR I-04165, para. 39; Case C-396/1, Sähköalojen ammattiliitto ry c/ Elektrobudowa Spółka Akcyjna [2015] Case C-396/1)
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 56 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 c (new)
(7 c) The aim of Article 4 of Directive 2014/67/EU on the Enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services is to identify genuine posting and prevent abuse and circumvention.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 60 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
(8) In view of the long duration of certain posting assignments, it is necessary to provide that, in case of posting lasting for periods higher than 24 months, the host Member State is deemed to be the country in which the work is carried out. In accordance with the principle of Rome I Regulation, the law of the host Member Sates therefore applies to the employment contract of such posted workers if no other choice of law was made by the parties. In case a different choice was made, it cannot, however, have the result of depriving the employee of the protection afforded to him by provisions that cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law of the host Member State. This should apply from the start of the posting assignment whenever it is envisaged for more than 24 months and from the first day subsequent to the 24 months when it effectively exceeds this duration. This rule does not affect the right of undertakings posting workers to the territory of another Member State to invoke the freedom to provide services in circumstances also where the posting exceeds 24 months. The purpose is merely to create legal certainty in the application of the Rome I Regulation to a specific situation, without amending that Regulation in any way. The employee will in particular enjoy the protection and benefits pursuant to the Rome I Regulation.deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 69 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) It is the prerogative of the national competent authorities to assess whether the professional activity pursued in the context of provision of services is genuine and whether the provisions of this Directive are applicable in each individual case according to Directive Article 4 of Directive 2014/67/EU.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 83 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
(10) Because of the highly mobile nature of work in international road transport, the implementation of the posting of workers directive raises particular legal questions and difficulties (especially where the link with the concerned Member State is insufficient). It would be most suitTherefore transport services such as transit, international transport and linked cabotage are excluded forom these challenges to scope of this Directive and should be addressed through sector-specific legislation together with other EU initiatives aimed at improving the functioning of the internal road transport market.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 88 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
(5) The principle of equal treatment and the prohibition of any discrimination based on nationality are enshrined in EU law since the founding Treaties. The principle of equal pay has been implemented through secondary law not only between women and men, but also between employees with fix term contracts and comparable permanent workers, between part-time and full-time workers or between temporary agency workers and comparable w, including for companies providing cross-borkders of the user undertaking. (See ECJ cases Case C-76/90, Manfred Säger v Dennemeyer & Co. Ltd, [1991] ECR I-4221; Case C-55/94, Reinhard Gebhard v Consiglio dell'Or services. Or. en includineg degli Avvocati e Procuratori di Milano, [1995] ECR I-04165 and E.g. Joined cases 62 and 63/81, See also Seco SA v. Etablissement d’Assurance contre la Vieillesse et l’Invalidité, [1982] ECR 223, para 8,irect and indirect discrimination)
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 93 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
(11) In a competitive internal market, service providers compete not only on the basis of a labour costs but also on factors such as productivity and efficiency, or the quality and innovation of their goods and services.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 100 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
(12) It is within Member States' competence to set rules on remunerationpay in accordance with their law and practice. However, national rules on remuneration applied to posted workers must be proportionate and justified by the need to protect posted workers and must not disproportionately resrestrict the cross- border provision of services. The national measures must not be liable for hindering or making less attriactive the cross-border provision of services. exercise of fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Treaty and be applied in a non- discriminatory manner, they must be justified by imperative requirements in the general interest, and suitable for securing the attainment of the objective which they pursue and they must not go beyond what is necessary in order to attain it. Or. en (Gebhard n Consiglio Dell'ordine Degli Avvocati E Procuratori Di Milano para 39)
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 102 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
(Case C- 113/89, Rush Portuguesa Ldª v Office national d'immigration, [1990] ECRI-1417, judgment, para 15; Raymond Vander Elst v Office des Migrations Internationales, [1994](7a) The ECJ case-law has established that posted workers do not in any way gain access to the host country´s labour market if they return to their country of origin after completion of their work. Or. en ECR I-3803, para. 21)
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 104 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 b (new)
(Case C-55/94, Reinhard Gebhard v Consiglio dell'Ordine degli Avvocati (7b) The ECJ has held that the temporary nature of the provision of services is to be determined in the light of its duration, regularity, periodicity and continuity. The Pprocuratori di Milano, [1995] ECR I-04165, para. 39; Case C-396/1, Sähköalojen ammattiliitto ry c/vider of services, within the meaning of the Treaty, may equip himself in the host Member State with the infrastructure necessary for the purposes of performing the services in question. Or. en Elektrobudowa Spółka Akcyjna [2015] Case C-396/1)
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 106 #

2016/0070(COD)

(7c) The aim of Art. 4 of Directive 2014/67/EU on the Enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services is to identify genuine posting and prevent abuse and circumvention.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
(8) In view of the long duration of certain posting assignments, it is necessary to provide that, in case of posting lasting for periods higher than 24 months, the host Member State is deemed to be the country in which the work is carried out. In accordance with the principle of Rome I Regulation, the law of the host Member Sates therefore applies to the employment contract of such posted workers if no other choice of law was made by the parties. In case a different choice was made, it cannot, however, have the result of depriving the employee of the protection afforded to him by provisions that cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law of the host Member State. This should apply from the start of the posting assignment whenever it is envisaged for more than 24 months and from the first day subsequent to the 24 months when it effectively exceeds this duration. This rule does not affect the right of undertakings posting workers to the territory of another Member State to invoke the freedom to provide services in circumstances also where the posting exceeds 24 months. The purpose is merely to create legal certainty in the application of the Rome I Regulation to a specific situation, without amending that Regulation in any way. The employee will in particular enjoy the protection and benefits pursuant to the Rome I Regulation.deleted
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 a (new)
(Arblade, Join(12a) It is established by the ECJ case- law that social protection of workers can be acknowledged cases 369/96 and 376/96 (para 51) Seco, Joined cases 62 and 63/81, Seco SA v. Etablissement d’Assurance contre la Vieillesse et l’Invalidité and Raymond Vander Elst overriding requirement justifying imposition of obligations capable of constituting restrictions on freedom to provide services, however, it is not the case where the workers employed by the employer are temporarily engaged in carrying out works in the host Member State and enjoy the same or essentially similar protection, by virtue of the obligations to which the employer is already subject in the Member State in which he is established. This is in particular important in preventing additional obligations for which the undertakings are already liable for the same periods of employment in the Member State where they are established. The ECJ has also excluded the legality of national provisions which make it more onerous to provide service for undertakings from other Member States than those established within the national territory, therefore hindering the free movement of services. Or. en v Office des Migrations Internationales Case C-43/93.)
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 108 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 b (new)
(C-319/06, Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, para(12b) The ECJ has further clarified that provisions concerning collective agreements cannot per se constitute a public policy exception within the meaning of Article 3(10) of Directive 96/71. Or. en 64)
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 111 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
(13) The elements of remuneration under national law or universally applicable collective agreements information on elements of minimum rates of pay under national law or collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable within the meaning of Article 3 (8)should be clear and, transparent and publicly accessible to all service providers. It is therefore justified to impose on Member States the obligation to publish the constituent elements of remunerationobligations deriving from Article 3 (1) of the Directive on the single website provided for by Article 5 of the Enforcement Directive.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 122 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
(14) Laws, regulations, administrative provisions or collective agreements applicable in Member States may ensure that subcontracting does not confer on undertakings the possibility to avoid rules guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration. Where such rules on remuneration exist at national level, the Member State may apply them in a non- discriminatory manner to undertakings posting wMember States have the freedom to establish and enforce on their territory appropriate measures applicable to local and foreign service providers in orkders to its territory provided that they do not disproportionately restrict the cross-border provision of serviceensure compliance with the applicable rules to subcontracting chains.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 128 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) It is the prerogative of the national competent authorities to assess whether the professional activity pursued in the context of provision of services is genuine and whether the provisions of this Directive are applicable in each individual case according to Directive Art. 4 of Directive 2014/67/EU.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 130 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
(15) Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on temporary agency work gives expression to the principle that the basic working and employment conditions applicable to temporary agency workers should be at least those which would apply to such workers if they were recruited by the user undertaking to occupy the same job. This principle should also apply to temporary agency workers posted to another Member Stateregulates employment conditions applicable to temporary agency workers.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 140 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(-1) in Article 1, the following paragraph is added: 2a. This Directive shall not apply to transport services such as transit, international transport and cabotage.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 153 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – title
Posting exceeding twenty-four monthsDuration of posting
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 154 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 1
1. When the anticipated or the effective duration of posting exceeds twenty-four months, the Member State to whose territory a worker is posted shall be deemed to be the country in which his or her work is habitually carried out.deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 157 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
(10) Because of the highly mobile nature of work in international road transport, the implementation of the posting of workers directive raises particular legal questions and difficulties (especially where the link with the concerned Member State is insufficient). It would be most suitTherefore transport services such as transit, international transport and linked cabotage are excluded forom these challenges to scope of this Directive and should be addressed through sector-specific legislation together with other EU initiatives aimed at improving the functioning of the internal road transport market.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 161 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 1 a (new)
(Article 8 (4) of Enforcement Directive: Where it appears from the circumstances as a whole 1a. To evaluate whether the employment contract falls under Art 8 (4) of Rome I Regulation, the national competent authorities will rely on Article 4 of the Enforcement Directive 2014/67/EU. Or. en that the contract is more closely connected with a country other than that indicated in paragraphs 2 or 3, the law of that other country shall apply.)
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 163 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 2
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, in case of replacement of posted workers performing the same task at the same place, the cumulative duration of the posting periods of the workers concerned shall be taken into account, with regard to workers that are posted for an effective duration of at least six months.deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 179 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2 – point c
(c) remuneration, includingthe minimum rates of pay, including pay for hourly work and/or piecework according to pay groups and overtime rates; this point does not apply to supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes;
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 181 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
(11) In a competitive internal market, service providers compete not only on the basis of a labour costs but also on factors such as productivity and efficiency, or the quality and innovation of their goods and services.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 189 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
(12) It is within Member States' competence to set rules on remunerationpay in accordance with their law and practice. However, national rules on remuneration applied to posted workers must be proportionate and justified by the need to protect posted workers and must not disproportionately resrestrict the cross- border provision of services. The national measures must not be liable for hindering or making less attriactive the cross-border provision of services. exercise of fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Treaty and be applied in a non- discriminatory manner, they must be justified by imperative requirements in the general interest, and suitable for securing the attainment of the objective which they pursue and they must not go beyond what is necessary in order to attain it. Or. en (GEBHARD ν CONSIGLIO DELL'ORDINE DEGLI AVVOCATI E PROCURATORI DI MILANO para 39)
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 196 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
For the purposes of this Directive, remuneration means all the elements of remuneration rendered mandatorythe concept of minimum rates of pay referred to in paragraph 1 (c) is defined by national law, regulation or administrative provision, collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable and/or, in the absence of a system for declaring collective agreements or arbitration awards to be of universal application, other collective agreements or arbitration awards within the meaning of paragraph 8 second subparagraph, in the Member State to whose territory the worker is posted.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 199 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration in accordance with point (c)minimum rates of pay as established by law, regulation or administrative provision, and/or by collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable within the meaning of paragraph 8. For the purpose of calculating the sums due to a posted worker, double payments of equal or similar nature shall be avoided. Miscalculation or omission of payments to a posted worker resulting from not accessible, incorrect or insufficient information published in the single official national website will not be sanctioned by national authorities.
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 200 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 a (new)
(Arblade, Join(12a) It is established by the ECJ case- law that social protection of workers can be acknowledged cases 369/96 and 376/96 (para 51)Seco, Joined cases 62 and 63/81, Seco SA v. Etablissement d’Assurance contre la Vieillesse et l’Invalidité and Raymond Vander Elst v overriding requirement justifying imposition of obligations capable of constituting restrictions on freedom to provide services, however, it is not the case where the workers employed by the employer are temporarily engaged in carrying out works in the host Member State and enjoy the same or essentially similar protection, by virtue of the obligations to which the employer is already subject in the Member State in which he is established. This is in particular important in preventing additional obligations for which the undertakings are already liable for the same periods of employment in the Member State where they are established. The ECJ has also excluded the legality of national provisions which make it more onerous to provide service for undertakings from other Member States than those established within the national territory, therefore hindering the free movement of services. Or. en Office des Migrations Internationales Case C-43/93.)
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 203 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 b (new)
(C-319/06, Commission of the European Communities v Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, para(12b) The ECJ has further clarified that provisions concerning collective agreements cannot per se constitute a public policy exception within the meaning of Article 3(10) of Directive 96/71. Or. en 64)
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 206 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
(13) The elements of remuneration under national law or universally applicable collective agreements information on elements of minimum rates of pay under national law or collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable within the meaning of Article 3 (8)should be clear and, transparent and publicly accessible to all service providers. It is therefore justified to impose on Member States the obligation to publish the constituent elements of remunerationobligations deriving from Article 3 (1) of the Directive on the single website provided for by Article 5 of the Enforcement Directive.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 206 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a
(b) The following paragraph is added: “1a. If undertakings established in the territory of a Member State are obliged by law, regulation, administrative provision or collective agreement, to sub-contract in the context of their contractual obligations only to undertakings that guarantee certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration,, the Member State may, on a non– discriminatory and proportionate basis, provide that such undertakings shall be under the same obligation regarding subcontracts with undertakings referred to in Article 1 (1) posting workers to its territory.”deleted
2017/03/27
Committee: IMCO
Amendment 231 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
(14) Laws, regulations, administrative provisions or collective agreements applicable in Member States may ensure that subcontracting does not confer on undertakings the possibility to avoid rules guaranteeing certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration. Where such rules on remuneration exist at national level, the Member State may apply them in a non- discriminatory manner to undertakings posting wMember States have the freedom to establish and enforce on their territory appropriate measures applicable to local and foreign service providers in orkders to its territory provided that they do not disproportionately restrict the cross-border provision of serviceensure compliance with the applicable rules to subcontracting chains.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 250 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
(15) Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on temporary agency work gives expression to the principle that the basic working and employment conditions applicable to temporary agency workers should be at least those which would apply to such workers if they were recruited by the user undertaking to occupy the same job. This principle should also apply to temporary agency workers posted to another Member Stateregulates employment conditions applicable to temporary agency workers.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 262 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(–1) In Article 1, the following paragraph 2a is inserted: 2a. This Directive shall not apply to transport services such as transit, international transport and cabotage.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 286 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2 a – title
Posting exceeding twenty-four monthsDuration of posting
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 287 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2 a – paragraph 1
1. When the anticipated or the effective duration of posting exceeds twenty-four months, the Member State to whose territory a worker is posted shall be deemed to be the country in which his or her work is habitually carried out.deleted
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 309 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 2a – paragraph 1 a (new)
(Article1a. To evaluate whether the employment contract falls under Art 8 (4) of Enforcement Directive: Where it appears from the circumstances as a whole Rome I Regulation, the national competent authorities will rely on Article 4 of the Enforcement Directive 2014/67/EU. Or. en that the contract is more closely connected with a country other than that indicated in paragraphs 2 or 3, the law of that other country shall apply.)
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 321 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 96/71
Article 2a – paragraph 2
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, in case of replacement of posted workers performing the same task at the same place, the cumulative duration of the posting periods of the workers concerned shall be taken into account, with regard to workers that are posted for an effective duration of at least six months.deleted
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 370 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2 – point c
(c) remuneration, includingthe minimum rates of pay, including pay for hourly work and/or piecework according to pay groups and overtime rates; this point does not apply to supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes;
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 409 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
For the purposes of this Directive, remuneration means all the elements of remuneration rendered mandatorythe concept of minimum rates of pay referred to in paragraph 1 (c) is defined by national law, regulation or administrative provision, collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable and/or, in the absence of a system for declaring collective agreements or arbitration awards to be of universal application, other collective agreements or arbitration awards within the meaning of paragraph 8 second subparagraph, in the Member State to whose territory the worker is posted.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 423 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration in accordance with point (c)minimum rates of pay as established by law, regulation or administrative provision, and/or by collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable within the meaning of paragraph 8.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 424 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall publish in the single official national website referred to in Article 5 of Directive 2014/67/EU the constituent elements of remuneration in accordance with point (c)minimum rates of pay as established by law, regulation or administrative provision, and/or by collective agreements or arbitration awards which have been declared universally applicable within the meaning of paragraph 8.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 440 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a
For the purpose of calculating the sums due to a posted worker double payments of equal or similar nature shall be avoided.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 443 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
For the purpose of calculating the sums due to a posted worker double payments of equal or similar nature shall be avoided. Miscalculation or omission of payments to a posted worker resulting from not accessible, incorrect or insufficient information published in the single official national website will not be sanctioned by national authorities.
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 450 #

2016/0070(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 96/71/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 a
(b) The following paragraph is added: 1a. territory of a Member State are obliged by law, regulation, administrative provision or collective agreement, to sub-contract in the context of their contractual obligations only to undertakings that guarantee certain terms and conditions of employment covering remuneration,, the Member State may, on a non– discriminatory and proportionate basis, provide that such undertakings shall be under the same obligation regarding subcontracts with undertakings referred to in Article 1 (1) posting workers to its territory.deleted If undertakings established in the
2017/03/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 16 #

2015/2354(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Single Market Strategy (SMS), which will help to inject new life into Europe’s economies by opening up borders and removing barriers for goods and services; Welcomes the Commission's determination in the Better Regulation agenda including strengthened stakeholder involvement through for example the REFIT Platform, strengthened impact assessments and a strengthening of the REFIT programme; believes that better, more effective and simple legislation will reduce administrative burdens and boost growth and job-creation; regrets, however, that the SMS does not devote particular attention to skills-matching as skills- mismatches remain a barrier to growth and development of the European Single Market;
2016/02/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #

2015/2354(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that barriers to doing business across borders are barriers to growth and job creation; believes that particular attention must be devoted to reduce administrative burdens through for example simplified VAT-requirements, one-stop-shops for digital public services for businesses with a particular focus for SME's and simplified rules for setting up businesses;
2016/02/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 46 #

2015/2354(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the deepening of the single market and the digital single market will bring new opportunities and challenges, such as skills, new forms of employment and financial structures, which will have to be addressed; notes with concern that 47 % of the EU-population is insufficiently digitally skilled and that the demand for digitally skilled employees are growing by 4 % per year, underlines in this regard the importance of Member States investing in digital education;
2016/02/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 55 #

2015/2354(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the potential of the collaborative economy for job creation and a more inclusive labour market across Member States; believes that a country-by-country taxation principle needs to be establishednotes the need to adapt and modernise legislation to reach the potential of the shared economy;
2016/02/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 72 #

2015/2354(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’s support for dual education systems; stresses the importance of ensuring that the SMS does not in any way undermine dual education systems; believes that dual education systems within the EU could be strengthened by a European benchmark on dual education which could highlight the correlation between dual education and youth employment;
2016/02/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 76 #

2015/2354(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets that the services market remains fragmented; calls on the Commission to deliver the necessary reforms that will remove barriers in the service secton implementation of the Services Directive; underlines that assessments show that when administrative barriers are lower, more by adopting a targeted sector-specific approach for servicesusinesses are created and thereby is the potential for job-creation strengthened;
2016/02/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 87 #

2015/2354(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States to simplify and speed up procedures for the recognition of professional qualifications, including by facilitating and encouraging the introduction of Common Training Frameworks and a Services Passport to facilitate cross-border recognition of qualifications;
2016/02/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 94 #

2015/2354(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support job creation in the collaborative economy by developing appropriate safeguardsadapting and modernising legislation, while at the same time providing a platform that will allow entrepreneurs to grow, innovate and create jobs.
2016/02/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 21 #

2015/2353(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the employment rate in the EU currently stands at 69.2 %, which is well below the Europe 2020 target, and calls for increased public and private investment in job creation and skills;
2016/04/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #

2015/2353(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Insists onNotes that the coentinuation ofre envelope earmarked for the Youth Employment Initiative and calls for the resources for this initiative to be provided until 2020was frontloaded in 2014-2015 and that the figures available indicate full absorption to date; stresses the importance of continuing providing resources for the Youth Employment Initiative until 2020 if the assessment of the Court of Auditors in 2017 will demonstrate efficiency of the funds used and the achievement of the objectives of the programme;
2016/04/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 29 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Considers that a review of the MFF in 2016 should take stock of a number of serious crises and new political initiatives, together with their respective budgetary consequences, which werecould not be anticipated at the time of the MFF's adoption; notes, inter alia, the migration and refugee crisis, external emergencies, internal security issues, the crisis in agriculture, the funding of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the persistent high level of unemployment, especially among young people, and the payment crisis in the EU budget; observes that, in order to finance the additional pressing needs, an unprecedented recourse to the MFF's flexibility mechanisms and special instruments was deemed necessary, as the MFF ceilings proved to be too tight in some headings; considers that, over the past two years, the MFF has essentially been pushed to its limits; in these conditions, the Budget of the European Union will be able neither to further address additional financial needs and new political priorities, nor to avoid the resurgence of a payment crisis;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 36 #

2015/2353(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the Court of Auditors’ report on ‘EU Youth Guarantee - Implementation in Member States’, due to be completed at the beginning of 2017, will provide a clearer assessment of the programme’s results; considers that, inter alia, analysis of the efficiency and the long-term results should be outlined in the report;
2016/04/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 37 #

2015/2353(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes the persistently high levels of youth unemployment in many Member States; calls on Member States to make use of the possibility to include NEETs in EGF applications where relevant and to promote entrepreneurship among young people as a mechanism to encourage job creation;
2016/04/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 54 #

2015/2353(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that the policies for poverty reduction and social inclusion among vulnerable groups have failed to produce the expected results and calls for increased financial aid to social services and the social economympact assessments and value for money analysis to find the reasons for this failure; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote and support the social economy and calls on Member States to ensure the provision of adequate social services;
2016/04/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 60 #

2015/2353(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Draws attention to the huge problem of child poverty in Europe, which is afflicting over 20 million children, and reiterates its call for the establishment of a Child Guarantee with dedicated special resources, together with; notes that between 2008 and 2014 24 EU countries saw an increase in child poverty; emphasises the need for a strong focus on alleviating child poverty in all relevant ESF programmes and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived along with targeted interventions and programmes to assist parents in getting out of social exclusion and unemployment;
2016/04/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 84 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Underlines that while, according to the MFF regulation, the Global Margin for Commitments should be dedicated in priority to the Youth Employment Initiative, it has been mostly redirected, so far, to the European fund for Strategic Investments;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 98 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Underlines that the EU budget makes a significant contribution to the fight against unemployment, especially through the European Social Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI); stresses that despite the initial delays in the designation of national authorities and the implementation of the YEI, the current figures indicate full absorption capacity; notes that an evaluation of this initiative will soon be concluded, and expects that the necessary adjustments will be introduced to ensure its successful implementation and its extension to the mobility of apprentices;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 109 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls the recent terrorist attacks in France and Belgium and the increased threat levels in other Member States, which call for more coordinated actions and reinforced actionmeans at EU level; underlines that the Union already has the Internal Security Fund as an appropriate instrument and has several agencies operating in this field; considers that more European action, and therefore funding, will be needed in this area to provide will be needed, as well as new initiatives, especially the enlargement of the missions and the reinforcement of the staff of the relevant adequate response to this threatgencies and the interconnection and interoperability of various European databases;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 172 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Is convinced that, while fully confirming the notion of large-scale political and financial support for EFSI, the EU budget should not be financing new initiatives to the detriment of existing Union programmes and policies; intends to deliver on its commitment to fully offset the EFSI-related cuts affecting Horizon 2020 and CEF, in order to allow them to accomplish their objectives as agreed only two years ago and to allow the EU to reach its research and innovation targets; stresses that this compensation should not be proposed at the expense of other important programmes of the current MFF (in particular COSME, Galileo and Copernicus); considers that an upward revision of the ceilings under sub- Heading 1A is required;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 193 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Strongly supports the continuation of the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), as a means of ensuring an urgent response in the fight against youth unemployment, following the necessary adjustments brought about by the ongoing evaluation; considers that this can only be achieved through the provision of an adequate level of commitment appropriations for the YEI for the remaining years of the current MFF; notereminds that this should entail an upwards revision of the ceilings of Subheading 1b, as no margins are availablee global margin for commitments, to be made available over and above the ceilings established in the MFF, should be directed, in priority, for youth employment;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 198 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Considers that the magnitude of the migration and refugee crisis goes to show that additional needs with significant budgetary consequences may be expected to arise in the coming years; asks the Commission to draw up as soon as possible an updated estimate of the budget required, by the end of the current MFF, to meet all the challenges of migration pressure (safe and rescue, interception, reception, registration, control, accommodation, transportation, relocation, resettlement, return, integration), the implementation of a genuine European asylum system, the common management of external borders and the internal security of the Schengen area; underlines, moreover, that the need for internal security in the EU and the fight against terrorism should be included in all the budgetary projections and are expected also to necessitate additional funding to back up reinforced action at EU level; is of the firm opinion that, even with the mobilisation of the small margins available under Heading 3 (Security and Citizenship) and existing flexibility provisions, the resources available will not be sufficient to tackle the increased needs under this heading; calls, therefore, for significant reinforcements for the AMIF and the Internal Security Fund, as well as for the Union agencies operating in the field, as well as (FRONTEX, EASO, EUROPOL, EU-LISA, FRA) to ensure the proper functioning of their missions and appropriate staffing levels, and urges for other initiatives that canwill be undertaken not to be funded at the expense of existing programmes and agencies; considers that an upward revision of the ceilings under Heading 3 is required;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 207 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Expects that concerted action to effectively respond to the external dimension of the migration and refugee crisis will intensify over the coming years, and will be accompanied by increased requests for funding under Heading 4 (Global Europe); underlines that such requests for additional funding should not be deployed to the detriment of the EU’s existing external action, including its development policy; calls, therefore, for a significant reinforcement of appropriationn upward revision of the ceilings under this hHeading 4;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 217 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. EReminds that payments appropriations are the orderly consequence of past commitments; expects, therefore, that new reinforcements in commitment appropriations will be accompanied by a corresponding increase in payment appropriations, includingand considers that an upward revision of the annual payments ceiling if necessarys required; considers, moreover, that the mid-term review/revision of the MFF provides an excellent opportunity to take stock of payment implementation and updated forecasts for the expected evolution of payments up to the end of the current MFF; believes that acalls for a binding joint payment plan for 2016-2020 shouldto be developed and agreed between the three institutions and enshrined in the Interinstitutional agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary matters and on sound financial management;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 245 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
42. Attaches particular importance to the Contingency Margin, as a last-resort instrument for reacting to unforeseen circumstances; stresses that, according to the Commission, this is the only special instrument that can be mobilised only for payment appropriations and thus to prevent a payment crisis in the EU budget as in 2014; deplores the fact that, contrary to the previous period, a compulsory offsetting of the appropriations is stipulated in the MFF Regulation; is of the firm opinion that this requirement creates an unsustainable situation with regard to the MFF ceilings of the last years of the period; stresses that the Contingency Margin is in any event a last- resort instrument, whose mobilisation is jointly agreed by the two arms of the budgetary authority; calls, therefore, for the rule of compulsory offsetting to be lifted immediately with retroactive effect, as well as for an upward revision of its maximum annual amount to 0.05% of EU GNI;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 248 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Stresses that the rigid structure of the Union budget deprives the budgetary authority of the possibility of reacting adequately to changing circumstances; calls, therefore, for allowing the transfer of available margins between headings at qualified majority in Council, with the aim of fully exploiting the MFF ceilings;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 250 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 b (new)
42b. Welcomes the creation of an emergency support instrument within the European Union and takes note of the solution proposed by the Commission as a matter of urgency, while repeating its strong concerns as regards its exclusion from the decision-making process as well as the foreseen termination of this instrument by the end of 2018; Considers that a more sustainable legal and budgetary framework should be envisaged in order to allow for emergency aid within the Union to be mobilised in the future, meant at responding to crisis and unforeseen situations, should by its very nature be covered by special instruments and be counted outside the MFF; calls, consequently, for this instrument to be perpetuated in the form of a new MFF flexibility mechanism;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 292 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47 a (new)
47a. Reminds that, at a time of scarcity of resources and erosion of the European citizens' confidence and belief in the EU project, it is important to show the added- value of EU budget delivery; believes that bringing the performance culture at the heart of the EU budget should constitute the roadmap of the inter-institutional working group on performance-based budgeting, which conclusions should be taken into account by the Commission in its legislative proposal for the post 2020 MFF, at the latest;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 307 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
51. BInsists on the need to ensure the synchronisation with the EU institutional cycle, its democratic responsibility, accountability and popular legitimacy and believes that, also given the rapidly changing political environment and with a view to ensuring greater flexibility, some elements of the MFF should be agreed for five years while others, notably those related to programmes requiring longer- term programming and/or policies foreseeing complex procedures for the establishment of implementation systems, should be agreed for a period of 5+5 years with compulsory mid-term revisionand match with the duration of the European Parliament legislature;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 323 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
54. Calls for the phasing-out of all forms of rebates and for the introduction of one or several new own resources, ideally with a clear link to European policies that create added value; notes that a large number of possible new own resources have already been discussed by the High Level Group, and eagerly awaits its recommendations;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 357 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
62. Calls on the Member States to reach a rapid agreement on the next MFF, and on the sectorial regulations accompanying the MFF, in order to allow all new programmes to start without delay on 1 January 2021;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 358 #

2015/2353(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62 a (new)
62a. In addition, to better inform national parliaments and European citizens of the importance of programming approach, the European Parliament and the Commission should organize, when appropriate, an inter- institutional and inter-parliamentary conference in which the challenges of the next MFF will be exposed as well as the outline of the negotiations;
2016/05/13
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 5 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the impact of the second cycle of the Youth Strategy (2013-2015) in providing a flexible framework for cross- sectoral involvement; values the structured dialogue with youth organisations in this regard; reminds of the eight fields of action promoted by the Youth Strategy;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 6 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of the Youth Strategy, given the EU’s alarmingly's high youth unemployment and NEET rates; stresses that the next cycle (2016-2018) should contribute to the two objectives of the Youth Strategy by focusing on tackling youth unemployment, fostering entrepreneurship among young people, investing in education, and training andfor the skills employers look for, and facilitating the transition to the labour market;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 16 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that there has been a decrease in youth unemployment in most Member States since 2013, despite this fact, notes with real concern that youth unemployment continues to be almost double the overall unemployment rate with around 8 million young Europeans still being unemployed;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 29 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to combat early school-leaving by adequately informing students about future labour market opportunities and qualitative apprenticeshipcareer paths, including apprenticeships, technical and artisanal job profiles;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 31 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that Member States youth policies should be closely coordinated with other policies and that more synergies should be found; further recommends to enhance the cooperation between schools, businesses, public authorities and other labour market stakeholders to estimate the future skills needs to pre-empt skills ' mismatch and to facilitate the process whereby young people choose jobs profiles that actually match the needs of the labour market;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 41 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Underscores the importance of recognising competencies acquired in non- formal environments; calls on the Member States to ensure the coherent validation of formal, non-formal and informal learning with a view to bridging the gap between the skills shortages and skills´ mismatch observed in the European labour market and the many young job seekers;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 52 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that employment and entrepreneurship constitute one of the eight priorities identified in the EU Youth Report (2010-2018); stresses that youth work and non-formal learning play a vital role in developing young people’s's creative and innovative potential, including entrepreneurial skills;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 60 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Member States to implement fully the Erasmus+ programme, thereby fostering further cross-border career and labour mobility; expresses concern that the mobility of apprentices has not yet achieved the desired levels and calls on the Commission, the Member States, companies and schools to find solutions to overcome the remaining obstacles to the mobility of apprentices;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 67 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Member States to implement fully the Youth Guarantee, by integrating young people into the labour market with a job, apprenticeship or traineeship within 4 months of leaving school or losing a job and for example by putting in place career guidance systems and compulsory registration forimproving the data available about the unemployed in order to gain a picture of the real situation as regards youth unemployment. as well as improving the services of job centres for young jobseekers;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 78 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the fact that more than EUR 12.4 billion from the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) have been earmarked for the fight against youth unemployment during the new programming period; calls for the assessment of the results and objectives achieved via such funding;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 82 #

2015/2351(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Notes that the Court of Auditors' report on 'EU Youth Guarantee - Implementation in Member States', due to be completed at the beginning of 2017, will provide a clearer assessment of the programme's results; considers that, inter alia, analysis of the efficiency and the long-term results should be outlined in the report;
2016/03/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 9 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Central and Eastern Europe is an essential part of the European single market with potential to attract investment and contribute to economic growth in the entire EU;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 19 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas Member States in Central and Eastern Europe, likewise in other part of the EU, have not always maximised their use of EU funding for various reasons, including insufficient preparation and efficiency;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 27 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the importance of coordinated project planning by Member States based ontaking into account as much as possible national master plans, while conducting realistic assessment of transport needs, cost-benefit analysis and stakeholder consultation;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 40 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the completion of the initial TEN-T core corridor work plans of 2015; stresses that the implementation of the core network should also stimulate the development of the comprehensive network, in particular for connections that have cross-border relevance and effecthave an impact on the consolidation of corridors;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 50 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that enhancing the coherence of the economic development of the Member States in the western, central and eastern parts of the EU requires large investments; underlines that the coordination required at European level must take account of the specific challenges in the Member States and the differences in their economies, social security systems and traditions;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 56 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the Member States and the Commission to ensure synergies inand mutual complementarity of funding under the Connecting Europe Facility, the European Structural and Investment Funds and instruments of the EIB and EBRD when implementing transport infrastructure projects in the central and eastern EU; recalls the need to use to significantly improve their utilisation and diversification; recalls the importance of using the means of the European Fund for Strategic Investments in a timely manner to advance such projects in the short termcommercially viable market- based projects;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 71 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that, following efforts to build up east-west transport infrastructure corridors, there is a need to boost the development of equal attention should be paid to east-west and north-south transport corridors within the European TEN-T network, which can contribute to the economic development of the participating countries by creating new opportunities for employment in SMEs, start-ups, trade exchange, science, research and technologies;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 80 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Asks the Commission to further exploensure the integration of the Western Balkans accession countries into the TEN- T network and the cooperation on transport links with Ukraine and other neighbouring countries;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 85 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that improvements to the transport infrastructure and connectivity in the central and eastern EU are an important tool in strengthening the stability and security of the Union's eastern border and in the Western Balkans;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 93 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the importance of the Schengen system for an efficient transport system in the EU based on the free movement of goods, services and persons across open internal borders;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 96 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Underlines that safety and sustainability of the transport sector are key priorities when developing infrastructures; Calls therefore on the Commission and the Member States to further encourage digitalisation and automation in all modes of transport;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 108 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines the need to ensure fair road chargInvites the Commission to re- explore the advantages and difficulties of an integrated tolling systems in the EU; points out that flexibilities should be kept for Member States, owing to their particular characteristics, when establishing such systems and eventually submit, on the basis of a thorough impact assessment, an appropriate proposal;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 112 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the urgent need to enhance the road infrastructure network along the eastern border of the EU, starting in Estonia, passing through Latviawherever it is underdeveloped, Lwithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and B a particulgaria and ending in Greece; considers that such efforts should build on the long-standing planning done already under the Via Carpatia project; believes that the possibility of opening the Rhine-Danube corridor to the north of the EU through the Via Carpatia should be exploited attention to accessibility of cities;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 119 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Considers that efforts should build on the long-standing planning done already under the Via Carpatia project; believes that the possibility of opening the Rhine-Danube corridor to the north of the EU through the Via Carpatia should be exploited;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 141 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Criticises the underinvestment in cross-border railway lines and the low level of passenger rail services in many border areas; calls on the Member States to (re-)establish missing connections and accelerate the deployment of ERTMS on the TEN-T core network corridors;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 157 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage cross-border projects of high speed railway connections throughout the TEN-T corridors;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 173 #

2015/2347(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Encourages the Member States to increase their efforts to restore and maintainupgrade and achieve class IV navigability of other inland waterway infrastructures, in particular river sections in the TEN-T core network; Stresses that an important upgrading of the Elbe River is needed to allow full navigability, which is essential for the Orient/East-Med corridor;
2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 39 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas unemployment has been diminishing since 2013 thanks to supportive macroeconomic policies and the impact of structural reforms; whereas it nevertheless remains too high, currently affecting 9.9 % of active citizens, i.e. 23 million Europeans, about half of them being long-term unemployed; highlighting the need for further structural reforms which at the same time promote flexibility in the labour markets and security for the employed; Whereas employment has increased in the EU28 by 0.8 % and in the Eurozone by 0.4 % in 2014;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 46 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
A b. Whereas fiscal consolidation in the EU28 is improving with the general budget deficit decreasing from 4,5 % in 2011 to 2,5 % in 2015;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas about 20 % of active citizens in the EU have only basic skillsdigital skills and 40 % of the EU population can be considered insufficiently digitally skilled, while 39 % of companies have difficulty finding staff with the required digital skills, whereas low educational level is one of the key causes of young people becoming NEETs;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 67 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
C a. Whereas there are approximately 2 million unfilled vacancies in the EU, of which almost 900.000 are in the digital sector, which hampers economic growth and job-creation; whereas in 2012 one in three Europeans were either over- or under-qualified for their job; whereas this mis-match negatively affects growth;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 91 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas one of the five Europe 2020 targets aims at reducing by at least 20 million the number of people in or at risk of poverty and social exclusion; whereas almost 123 million people in the EU are in this situation; whereas in 2013 26.5 million children in the EU28 were at risk of falling into poverty or social exclusion; whereas the number of Europeans in risk of poverty increased in the period 2009- 2012, the situation has improved as the number stabilized in 2013 and 2014;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 99 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the demographic old age dependency ratio in the EU12 is projected to increase from 27.8 % to 50.1 % until 2060, and the total economic dependency ratio13 is expected to stabilise at over 120 % up to the middle of the next decade and then to rise above 140 % by 2060 highlighting the pressing need of labour market and pension reforms which aims at maintaining people in the labour market; whereas these factors may appear as sufficient justification for the fact that the great majority of European citizens agree that it is important to restructure their pensions systems; __________________ 12 People aged 65 or above relative to those between aged 15 and 64. 13 Total inactive population relative to employed people aged between 20 and 64.
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 122 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the Commission's Annual Growth Survey (AGS) underlines the need to pay moregives attention to social fairness in the context of the new macroeconomic adjustment programmes, adding three socialheadline indicators (activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment) in the 2016 Alert Mechanism Report; stresses that the need to invest in social development is not just a means of guaranteeing that economic growth and convergence can be achieved, but must also be a specific target in itselfencourages investments in social development in accordance with national customs and traditions as a means of achieving economic growth and employment and social convergence;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 136 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that good and quality jobsquality employment constitutes an essential pillar for social fairness, promoting human dignity; believes that in this sense employment and growth must be placed at the centre of EU policies, especially for youth, as a way to construct a more sustainable social European Union;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 152 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to foster, at Member State level, forms of cooperation involving governments, enterprises, educational institutions and social partners in accordance with national customs and traditions, with a view to adapting Member States' education and training systems to combat skills mis-matches and meeting the needs of the labour market;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 159 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes with concern, that data on government spending in education confirm an increasing risk of investment gaps in human capital, including digital skills; Notes further that educational efforts primarily are focused on the younger part of the workforce, however, many countries need a broader focus on educating the workforce including adult education and vocational training opportunities; Underlines that insufficient investments in education, especially in digital skills, poses a threat to Europe's competitive position and to the employability of Europe's work force; encourages therefore Member States to prioritize broad education in digital skills;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 178 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative for an individualised approach for the long- term unemployed; considers that such an approach will require an increased effort in terms of human resources, calling for participants with the educational level needed to be able to orientate the unemployed on how to overcome possible gaps in education or training; stresses that professional requalification processes require adequate financial resources that need to be channelled to thefor active employment policies to be efficient they must include requirements for the competent national authorities as well as for each of the long-term unemployed;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 199 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes that the EU continues to suffer from structural problems that need to be addressed urgently, pointing up the need to continue prioritising investment, structural reforms creating a more flexible and secure labour market and responsible fiscal consolidation, thus reinforcing a favourable environment for business with a view to creating more quality jobsemployment while balancing the social and economic dimensions; stresses that those priorities will only be achieved if investment in human capital is prioritised as a common strategy;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 228 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Considering that flexicurity contributes to avoiding labour fragmentation, increasing employment and promoting the creation of more quality jobs; calls onemployment; encourages the Member States to modernise their employment protection legislation in order to guarantepromote more stability in transitions between jobs, as well as employees’ access to social security and welfare rights; calls on the Commission to step up monitoring of the abusive practice of successive fixed-term contracts, in both private and public sectors;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 244 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to gradually shift taxes from labour to other sources with due regard to overall competitiveness, and to implement tax rules that foster incentives to entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially for highly qualified young people, in order to boost research and innovation projects within European enterprises;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 268 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls onEncourages the Member States to examine the persistence of low fertility rates in the EU; calls on the Commission to promote family-friendly policies that enhance parents’ capacity to ensure their children’s wellbeing; encourages the Member States to consider applying more favourable fiscal differentiation in line with the number of children in a family;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 284 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus on SMEs as a fundamental key for sustainable development and job-creation; urges the Member States to implement tax schemes that favour innovative start-ups and the facilitation of job creation by SMEs, and to develop mechanisms that might impel such enterprises to achieve or operationalise in an international dimension;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 299 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Points out that enterprises in the social economy face as many difficulties as traditional enterprises in obtaining public or private financing; underlines the need to give them more supportensure that all enterprises have equal access to funding, especially as regards access to the different forms of financing, such as European funds;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 323 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the Commission’s call onencouragement to some Member States to increase their social investments in order to increase European economic and social cohesion, especially in healthcare, childcare, housing support and rehabilitation services; calls on enterprises and other eligible beneficiaries to make better use of the investment mechanisms provided by European funds and projects having direct application;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 336 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Agrees on the need to develop a process of upward economic and social convergence in order to foster social and economic cohesion between Member States and their regions, but points out that this must be viewed as a goal of a common project in which social dialogue plays a key roleand that the social dialogue must play a key role in the achievement of this; points out that social policies are Member States' competence and that this must be respected as a matter of subsidiarity;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 360 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Calls onEncourages the Member States to implement and monitor more efficient forms of social protection systems and income support, in order to ensure that these systems offer a minimum standard of living for the unemployed and those at risk of social exclusionway out of unemployment and social exclusion and into the labur market, while guaranteeing that such mechanisms do not perpetuate social dependency and constitute an incentive to education or entering the job market, stresses that a job is the best and only sustainable way out of poverty and social exclusion;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 369 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Calls onEncourages the Member States to implement the necessary measures for the inclusion of refugees; stresse and migrants legally residing in the EU; considers that such an approach will require the allocation of funds that, in so fragile a situation, cannot be provided solely by Member States; calls on the Commission to provide the funding required to develop such a strategy as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF);
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 378 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Points out to the Member States, in view of the ageing of Europe’s citizens, the social risk implied in not being able to guarantee the sustainability of social security systems over the coming decades, encourages therefore the Member States to develop strategies which ensure that more people are maintained as an active part of the labour force for a longer time;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 385 #

2015/2330(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together on removing the obstacles to fair labour mobility, ensuring that EU mobile workers are not treated abusivelyequally with non-mobile workers;
2016/01/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 5 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 10 September 2015 on creating a competitive EU labour market for the 21st century: matching skills and qualifications with demand and job opportunities, as a way to recover from the crisis;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 43 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that in order to ensure better conditions for job creation for the SME sector Member States must address the following problems, which are unequally present in different Members States and different regions: skills scarcity and brain drain; skills mismatch, insufficient dialogue between labour market stakeholders and estimation of future skills´ needs, regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty; the shadow economy; and the de facto privileged position of multinational corporations (MNCs)s well as high taxation on labour;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 57 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recalls that almost 99 % of the European companies are SMEs being therefore the backbone of the EU economy;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 69 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that high labour costs have an negative impact on SMEs' job creation potential and competitiveness; to this end, stresses that the tax burden should be shifted away from labour to other sources of taxation that are less detrimental to employment and growth, while protecting adequate social protection;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 76 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Believes that promoting digitalisation in public sector (e- government) and increasing broadband availability in remote areas would reduce establishing and operating costs to SMEs, therefore enabling them to further increase job creating potential;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 77 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Highlights the growing significance of self-employment, both as a form of economic activity and as a stepping stone to business creation;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 81 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses, however that lowering labour costs by reducing workers' protection ishould not abe correctnsidered as means of achieving lower unemployment, and that, in addition, reducing workers' pay and rights could induces higher skills outflows, and exposinge SMEs to shortages of skilled workers;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 146 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Underlines the need for targeted incentives for start-ups, SMEs, micro- enterprises in order to facilitate their establishment and operation, as well as the necessity to facilitate the hiring of qualified labour force and training of employees;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 156 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that traineeship and apprenticeship schemes within SMEs should be promoted by Member States, including through financial incentives; recalls that SMEs have very specific skills 'needs;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 169 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages the Member States, regional governments and educational institutions to create opportunities for young people to acquire entrepreneurship skills; also stresses the importance of mentoring for young entrepreneurs;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 175 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the 'Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs' programme, which helps provide aspiring European entrepreneurs with the skills necessary to start and/or successfully run a small business; and believes that such programmes should be further promoted in order to help more young people become established and succeed;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 182 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on Member States to adopt favourable legislative frameworks for young graduatespeople who are employed by an SME or are starting up an enterprise; believes that such frameworks should also include promotion of work placements programmes for students so they could get their first practical experience in an SME;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 198 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Stable and favourable regulatory environment
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 219 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Member States to review the rules affecting SMEs and to introduce measures based on the ‘Think Small First’ principle, in order to remove the bureaucratic obstacles with which SMEs are confronted and achieve a high level of regulatory certainty, transparency and proportionality as a precondition for job stability and full job creation potential;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 229 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Takes the view that a stable and favourable regulatory environment is an essential prerequisite for job perennity and job creation in SMEs; considers that this regulatory certainty must encompass, among other elements, contract law and fiscal and social regulation, as well as tax rulings and also legal certainty and procedural effectiveness;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 242 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider that SMEs face specific obstacles and should therefore be exempted from excessively burdensome administrative procedurethe impact of administrative requirements is felt disproportionately by SMEs and that measures such as exemptions should therefore be systematically considered to minimize such requirements, while always ensuring that they provide their employees with the necessaryir employees receive adequate health and safety standardsprotection;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 268 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member StatHighlights the fact that three out of four SMEs do not trade beyond their national borders and the need to facilitate access to remove thethe EU Single Market by removing remaining administrative barriers; with a view to facilitating market access for micro-enterprises and SMEs from other Member Stateelcomes the strong focus on SMEs in the 2015 Single Market Strategy and urges the Commission and Member States to follow up on the positive initiatives with specific measures that are tangible to small traders;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 280 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Member States to adopt favourable legislative frameworks for newly- created SMEs, focusing in particular on incentive measures aimed at tackling the shadow economybelieves that among other initiatives, the Start-up Initiative announced in the Commission's Single Market Strategy will provide a constructive framework for such improvements;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 299 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Notes that in some cases EU competition policy could results in privileging that mostly benefits big market operators that are characterised by greater economic efficiencyes of scale than SMEs; stresses in this regard the need for specific measures for SMEs in order to curb their market diseconomies, thus enabling their internationalisation and boosting their job creation potential;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 323 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Notes that in regions where economic development is focused on attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), MNCs arecould be in some cases treated preferentially in both legislative and tax matters; believes that these practices should be examined with a view to ensuring a level playing field for SMEs and restorenhancing their employment creation capacitiesy;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 329 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Notes that a reduced regulatory burden, better regulation and improvement of law enforcement can contribute to tackling the issues of the shadow economy and tax avoidance, as the attractiveness of such ‘exits’ from'bypassing' of the regulatory systems would be substantially reduced;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 347 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. Underlines the importance of a robust SME Chapter in the future TTIP agreement in order to ensure that structures, processes and rules are established that facilitate SMEs' capacity for transatlantic trade and enhances their capacity to create jobs;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 351 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Notes the opportunities offered by the Digital Single Market to generate growth and jobs, notably in the field of e- commerce; stresses, however, the need for an SME-focused evaluation of the potential risks and benefitbenefits and risks in different Member States;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 355 #

2015/2320(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Welcomes the presence of information portals aimed specifically at SMEs, such as the 'Access to Finance Portal' on Your Europe, and calls on the Commission to continue with them and improve their functionality; highlights in particular the importance of delivering effectively the new Single Digital Gateway announced in the Single Market Strategy as an online access point to all Single- Market related information and services;
2016/05/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 52 #

2015/2319(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to devote, in particular, sufficient resources to the activities relating to the Register, so that it will be kept up to date and does nowithout containing any factual errors and will allow data export in machine-readable format;
2016/09/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 34 #

2015/2318(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Observes however, that FP7 rules were not sufficiently compatible with general business practices; that the control system needed to have better balance between risk and control, that beneficiaries needed better guidance to cope with complexity of the scheme and reimbursement methods needed to be more efficient;
2017/04/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 38 #

2015/2318(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Notes that the Commission should ensure that FP7 and national research funding is coherent with Common rules on state aid to avoid inconsistencies and duplications of funding; specific national characteristics should be taken into account.
2017/04/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 39 #

2015/2318(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises the importance of financial instruments in the area of research and innovation for the competitiveness of this research; highlights that the use of financial instruments for projects at higher Technology Readiness Levels can ensure sufficient return on public investment; points, in this context, to the fact that 'The Risk-Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF 2007-2013) offers loans and hybrid or mezzanine finance to improve access to risk finance for R&I projects. The Union's 2007-2015 RSFF contribution of EUR 961 million supported activity accounting for over EUR 10.22 billion of an expected EUR 11.31 billion. (...)'; notes that the Risk-Sharing Instrument (RSI) for SMIs provided financing of over EUR 2.3 billion, to which the Union contributed EUR 270 million11 ; is of the opinion that these figures underscore the interest of companies and other beneficiaries in risk finance; _________________ 11COM(2016)0675, p. 18 and 19.
2017/04/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 41 #

2015/2318(INI)

26a. Observes the need of better targeting of FP7 financial instruments to ensure that new comers with limited access for financing in the research and innovation field are supported;
2017/04/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 43 #

2015/2318(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Suggests a better communication of results in the Member States and information campaigns for the programme;
2017/04/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 47 #

2015/2318(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. NotesRecognises that there were EUR 551 mln of cost savings in FP7 comparing to FP6 and that the Commission endeavoured to further simplify the implementation of Horizon 2020 compared with FP7; emphasises, however, that all policy areas, including structural funds, should benefit from simplification with a view to maintaining equal treatment of beneficiaries of European financial assistance;
2017/04/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 51 #

2015/2318(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Suggests that the role for the National Contact Points (NCP) should be increased in order to provide quality technical support on the ground; Annual assessment of results, trainings and stimulation of NCPs that perform effectively will increase the success rate of Horizon 2020 programme.
2017/04/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 55 #

2015/2318(INI)

35a. Recalls, that a 9th Research Framework Programme is under preparation; Underlines the need to ensure that Horizon 2020's best practices are used in defining the programme, suggests more funding for innovation, which is economically efficient for the business sector and greater flexibility between budgets of the different sub- programs to avoid lack of funding for those qualified as "excellent".;
2017/04/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the fundamental freedom to provide services laid down in Article 56 TFEU,
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 4 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A
A. whereas, in the transport sector, security, safety of passengers and high working conditions are interlinkedcertain working conditions may impact safety of passengers;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 7 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)
- having regard to the fundamental freedom of movement of workers laid down in Article 45 TFEU,
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 8 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to the on-going implementation of Directive 2014/67/EU,
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 12 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas equal work, equal rightdecent working conditions and fair competition must bare at the heart of a well- functioning single market;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 17 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to the adoption of the European Platform to enhance cooperation in the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work,
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 33 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to swiftfully implement all relevant social legislation covering the transport sector; strongly urges the Commission to monitor more closely the implementation and proper enforcement of the existing legislation;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 35 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. having regard to the increased trend towardsexistence of undeclared work, bogus and false self- employment, outsourcing and subcontracting, leading to an indecrease in precarious jobs and deterioratingd levels of worker protection,;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 54 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises the economic growth and thus job-creating potential in the EU transport and tourism sectors; firmly believes that employment in the EU transport sector should be made more attractive for future generations; considers in particular that women’s participation must be boostencouraged;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 61 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to enhanceand the Member States to support enhancement of social dialogue in the transport sector as a whole;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 67 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the Court of Justice of the European Union in its judgment in case C- 34/05 Laval of 18 December 200710 highlighted the legitimacy of the struggle against social dumpingright to undertake collective action against possible social dumping and emphasized that such action must be proportionate in order not to restrict the fundamental freedoms of the EU, such as the freedom to provide services, __________________ 10 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/showPdf.jsf?te xt=&docid=71925&pageIndex=0&doclang =EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1& cid=498309
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 80 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas there is no clear, universally accepted definition of social dumping, whereas as a rule, the activities relating to social dumping are considered not to be in compliance with the minimum requirements of labour standards;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 83 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to suspend such business practices as precarious contracts (bogus self-employment, zero-hour contracts, pay-to-fly-schemes, etc.),Member States and the Commission, where relevant, to fight unfair business practices, non-standard forms of employment and the phenomena of letter-box companies and flags of convenience in order to ensure the social protection of workers;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 101 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. having regard to the importance of the principle of 'equal pay and social protection for the same work at the same placefor equal work' for all European workers,;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 101 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the introduction of appropriate control devices, using modern technology, for all transport modes for professional use so as to monitor working and rest time effectively, with a view to ensuring proper implementation of existing legislation; microcompanies, which have a limited range of operation and for whom this could lead to disproportionate costs, may be exempted;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 122 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the need forEncourages the Commission to treat social aspects as a major priority of the road package, including measures to ensure legal clarity and better implementation of rules governing working conditions, social and welfare rights, wages and social responsibility and social rights;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 139 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the EU and the Member States to cooperate across borders in relation to enforcement information, to givfacilitate monitoring authorities access to data registered in the Member States’ national electronic registers and in the European Register of Road Transport Undertaking (ERRU) and to consolidate the list of infringements leading to the loss of good repute of road transport operators by including illegal cabotage and non- compliance with Community social and labour legislation;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 150 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a directive based on ILO Convention No. 81 on labour inspectionWelcomes the ratification by the Member States of the ILO Convention No. 81 on labour inspections and the progress made by adopting the new European Platform to enhance cooperation in the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work; in this regard, recognizes the Commission's work in financing the mutual learning programmes for labour inspectors in the Member States and the progress made via SLIC system;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 158 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Calls foInvites to consider the creation of a European independent administrative authority, which could become a European Road Transport Agency, to ensure proper implementation of EU legislation and promote standardisation across all Member States, including the social dimension, such as working conditions and labour issues in road transportcooperation between all Member States on these issues;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 160 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Welcomes the Commission´s intention to evaluate EU OSH legislation as part of the Smart Regulation programme;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 169 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Member States to increase the staffing levels and resourcesefficiency of their labour inspectorates and their liaison offices, in particular for interpretation and translation;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 175 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that the social dimension of the Aviation Package published by the Commission must be strengthened as employment and working conditions are directly linked to the maintenance ofmay impact the safety and security of both passengers and staff; underlines furthermore, in this connection, the need for the Commission and the Member States to monitor and ensure proper enforcement of national social legislation and collective agreements for airlines having operational bases on EU territory;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 194 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. StressUrges the need for a new groundhandling regulation, that will provide social protectCommission to evaluate as soon as possible the groundhandling services directive and if deemed necessary, propose its revision, including provisions for workers; calls for an improved Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 to ensure binding application of national labour legislation foring conditions; calls for the applicable national labour legislation and EU legal instruments, such as the Posting of Workers Directive 96/71/EC and its Enforcement Directive 2014/67/EU , to be fully implemented to the airlines having European operational bases and to improvein the EU, calls for a review of the definition of 'homebase' for crew members;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 195 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the creation of a European body of cross-border labour inspectWelcomes the goals laid down by the European Platforsm to carry out on-the-spot checks in suspected cases of social dumping, including by identifying 'letterbox companies', which body woulenhance cooperation in the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work in coordination with the platform against undeclared work in order to limit the financial burden involveder to mitigate the consequences of undeclared work, to learn from the best practices as well as to share and exchange information of how to tackle it;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 211 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
11. Considers that, in the maritime sector, the Commission should promote the recruNotes the Commission state aid provisions to support the European maritiment and retention of skilled European-based seafarers to stop European officers being replaced by crew from third countries; considers furthermore that the Commission should create provisions enabling EU-controlled tonnage to be returned to flags of EU Member State sector encouraging flagging or re-flagging in Member States' registers by means of favourable tax environments (tonnage tax); calls on the Member States to look into measures that encourage recruitment and retention of skilled European-based seafarers;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 220 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that, without prejudice to national and Union law, including collective agreements between social partners, the competent authority should require the designated provider of port and railway services to establish staff working conditions on the basis of binding national, regional or local social standards and to implement the compulsory transfer of staff in the event of a change in service provider;
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 223 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the implementation by Member States of electronic systems for the registration of the prior declaration of posting missions, welcomes the functionalities of the EU IMI system;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 226 #

2015/2255(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to establish minimum training requirements for maintenance personnel in the railway sector and to safeguard the economic equilibrium of public service obligations.deleted
2016/02/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 238 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a directive based on ILO Convention No. 189 concerning decent work for domestic workersNotes the Council of Ministers Decision authorising the EU Member States to ratify ILO Domestic Workers Convention No. 189 and calls on the Member States follow the decision;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 255 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Takes the view that the competent authorities should be able to suspend the provision of services in cases of serious breaches of legislation on postings; considers that the amount of the fines should exceed employees' contributions, in particular if minimum rates of pay for workers are not respected;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 274 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Requests that information on postings should not be retroactivebe up-to-date and correct and should be entered in a European electronic register; stresses that the competent authorities of the host Member State should be able to revise form A1 in the event of serious doubts about whether a posting is genuine; ;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 282 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls its appeal for the creationWelcomes looking into the efficiency of 'a forgery-proof European social security card (...) on which could be stored all the data needed to verify the bearer's employment relationship'11 ; wishes all as well as storing the information associated with the worker's postings to feature on this card; __________________ 11 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDo c.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P7-TA- 2014-0012+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 299 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. CRecalls for a public list to be drawn up of enterprises responsible for serious breaches of EU legislationthat attention should be drawn to serious breaches of EU and national legislation relating to posting of workers;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 318 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading II
II. Addressing regulatory gaps in order to implement the principle of 'equal pay and equal social protection for the same work'the implementation of the posting of workers in the EU
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 327 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. CRecalls on the Commission to combatobjectives of Directive 2014/67/EU in fighting the phenomenon of letterbox companies by, calls on applying more generally the principle that each company should have a single corporate headquarters; recalls the rejection by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the proposal for a directive on single-person limited liability companiesbe able to exercise the fundamental freedom to establish itself and provide services across the EU;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 354 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that Directive 96/71/EC refers only tohave as a basis Articles 57 and 66 TFEU relating to the freedom to provide services and freedom of movement; believes that its legal basis must be complemented by Articles 151 and 153 TFEU;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 370 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that the notion of 'minimum wage' contained in Directive 96/71/EC should be revised to ensure equal pay for posted workers and local workers in similar positionsis fundamental; stresses the needimportance to respect the collective agreements of the host country and to ensure, through the revision of Regulations (EC) No 883/2004 and (EC) No 987/2009, the payment of gross earnings corresponding to the remuneration paid by the employer before the deduction of taxes and social security contributions payable by employees and withheld by the employer; recalls that specific postings bonuses should be paid on top of remuneration;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 382 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to monitor the progress on the on-going implementation of the Enforcement Directive and to facilitate and assist Member States´ authorities with its implementation;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 390 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Wishes periods of postings to be limited in Directive 96/71/EC and temporary employment agencies to be excluded from the scope of the directive;deleted
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 413 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Believes that the forthcoming Labour Mobility Package should not re-open the Posting of Workers Directive without thorough prior consultation with businesses and social partners;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 416 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Is of the view that the principle "equal pay for equal work in the same place" is unrealistic in terms of its applicability in practice and could seriously impact labour mobility and free movement of services in the EU;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 433 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for increased controlsenforcement on the implementation of working time and rest times in transport ; calls for the introductionencourages the continued monitoring of automatic digital records and the development of 'smart tachographs' for all means of transport, including inland waterway transport; recalls the desire expressed in its resolution of 3 July 2012 on road transport that 'by 2020 all vehicles which are not exempted from the application of this Regulation in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be fitted with a smart tachograph'12 ´; __________________ 12 www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do? type=TA&reference=P7-TA-2012- 0271&language=EN&ring=A7-2012- 0195#BKMD-7
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 458 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for the creation of aBelieves that creating one European transport agency bringing together existing agencies; takes the view that at the very least a specific road transport agency is needed could be looked into;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 467 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Asks the CommissionMember States to clarify the provisions so that a distinction can be drawregarding the distinction between employees and self- employed workers to combat 'bogus self employment'; emphasises that airline pilots and train drivers cannot be considered to be independent of the companies for which they workin the transport sector, also in view of combatting 'bogus self employment';
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 496 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Believes that the rules on cabotage are not sufficiently precise, which facilitates the practice of some road operators of engaging in permanent cabotage; wishes cabotage operations to be subject to mandatory prior notification;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 517 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses the need for a new regulation on groundhandling at airports to ensure mandatory social and wage protection for workers in the event of new calls for tenders or the partial loss of work; supports the introduction of rules to ensuresocial protection for workers; calls for the effective implementation of laws with regard to airlines with 'operational bases' on the territory of a Member State; calls for thea clarification of the definition of '´home base'´ to better protect the social rights of cabin crews, in particular their rest periods;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 532 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on Member States to review their laws to eliminate precarious contracts called 'zero hour contracts' or 'pay to fly contracts'; believes that precarious working conditions are an additional safety riskprovide sufficient flexisecurity at the labour market;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 540 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission shortly to submit a proposal for a directive on requirements with regard to the crews of vessels providing regular cargo, passenger and ferry services operating between Member States so that the conditions applicable on board a vessel are those of the State applying the most favourable standards for workers;deleted
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 552 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission, drawing on the US Jones Act, to take the necessary measures to ensure that vessels carrying goods between two European ports are built in Europe, fly a European flag and are owned by a European company; calls for the law that is applicable to be associated with the country in which the vessel owner is based;deleted
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 571 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission rapidly to draw up proposals toto continue combatting unfair competition in the; agrees that appropriate regulatory environment is needed for digital and sharinged economy;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 593 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Takes the view that a social protocol is necessary to ensure the primacy of fundamental rights over economic freedomsthe fundamental freedoms of the EU, such as the right of establishment and the freedom of movement of services have to be safeguarded;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 611 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls the Commission's commitment to proposing a basis of minimum social rights; emphasises that the establishment of criteria for comparing the various national social systemcommitments of all the Member States under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights cannot provide such a basis, but can only serve as a preliminary analytical frameworkd the European Social Charter;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 626 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. DesireRecalls that wage floors be established, possibly in the form of a minimum wage; emphasises that this instrument should be set up on the basis of legislation or convention, in accordance with national practices, with due respect for the role of the social partners; believes that these wage floors should represent at least 60% of the average national wage; calls on the Commission to consult the social partners with a view to introducing, where appropriate, a minimum wage in some border areas associated with highly mobile workersMember States have the competence to establish minimum rates of pay via law and / or collective agreements; reminds that Article 153 TFEU excludes "pay" as EU competence;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 649 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Supports the development of unemployment benefit arrangements as a mechanism for absorbing asymmetric social shocks within the euro area;deleted
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 667 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to propose a legal instrument to address the cross- border dimensions of outsourcing, extending the joint and several liability of the payer to include all economic sectors and the entire subcontracting chain;deleted
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 677 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. CRecalls on the Commission to propose an appropriate legislative vehicle providing that companies have a duty of care for which they may be held liable, in respect of both their subsidiaries that their subcontractors operating in third countries in order to prevent the risk of violations of human rights, corruption, severe physical injury or environmental damage and the violation of ILO Conventionthat the provisions of the Enforcement Directive on subcontracting liability are designed to ensure the security in the supply chain for workers;
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 691 #

2015/2255(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Considers that Directive 96/71/EC and the rules coordinating social security systems must be revised before any trade agreement including provisions relating to 'Mode 4' can be concluded;deleted
2016/02/25
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 39 #

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Emphasises that employment is a key strategy for reduction of poverty among women; notes that proactive measures are needed to improve women's situation in the labour market, including elimination of gender stereotyping in employment through awareness-raising campaigns, proper counselling of women and girls on their professional choices, and policies to increase the number of women in responsible positions in companies and public institutions;
2016/02/04
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 90 #

2015/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that supporting women entrepreneurs through various EU programmes can play a role in generating employment and alleviating poverty.
2016/02/04
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 6 #

2015/2224(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that ITI and CLLD have the potential to respond directly to local needs and challenges in a more focused and appropriate way and therefore they contribute to the sustainability of employment initiatives;
2015/12/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 18 #

2015/2224(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the absence of a more recognisable branding for CLLD and ITI and encourages the Commission and the Member States to make both tools as visible and understandable as possible for their users, while avoiding any additional bureaucratic burden; stresses that more performance and added value as well as more synergies could be reached when using not only ERDF in CLLD and ITI instruments and encourages the Commission to implement regulation covering also the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund to support sustainable urban CLLD and ITI instruments;
2015/12/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 25 #

2015/2224(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to create channels of communication with Member States and local agents in order to ensure real and meaningful participation by local actors in the process and points out that CLLD and ITI will only achieve success with the commitment and ownership of all the stakeholders involved;
2015/12/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 29 #

2015/2224(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is concerned that in some Member States CLLD is sometimes a ‘box ticking’ exercise rather than a genuine bottom-up approach and in this context insists that local actors have real decision making powers;
2015/12/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 32 #

2015/2224(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the potential of the bottom-up approach of CLLD in creating job opportunities and encouraging sustainable rural development, and would welcomcalls on the Commission to actively pursue the inclusion of urban areas in this mechanism;
2015/12/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 94 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt integrated frameworks to combat energy poverty by linking energy and poverty/social inclusion policies more closely;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 100 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Calls onEncourage the Member States to sign up to a European winter heating 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 meetsadopt policies that allow them to meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards for adequate housing temperature;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 113 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Invites the Commission to present, in the context of the announced social pillar, an EU framework directive on adequate minimum income in 2016; Encourages the Member States to analyse the potential costs and benefits of introducing an adequate minimum income in line with national customs and traditions;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 134 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Finds regrettable that the EU2020 target to reduce poverty in Europe by lifting 20 million people out of poverty appears even further out of reach than when it was set; reiterates that one of the target groups is people that face severe material deprivation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to renew their commitment to the poverty reduction target by:
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 180 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. WelcomNotes the Commission’s intention to present a new social pillar; recalls that to deliver on Article 9 TFEU, such a pillar should be aimed at setting a European framework for a minimum income above the poverty level, continuing with a rights- based approach to social policy and improving implementation of existing social, labour and anti-discrimination legislation, underlines in this regard the principle of subsidiarity;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 190 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. WelcomNotes the Commission’s intention to aim for a social triple A score for the Union; finds regrettable that this is currently out of reach owing to increasing inequality, high poverty and social exclusion and less and less availability of quality and affordable social, health and care services; recalls that a social triple A must be based on Article 9 TFEU aimed at a ‘high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion and a high level of education, training and protection of human health’; recalls that achieving a social triple A as a benchmark requires assessing both policies that hinder and work towards achieving the benchmark; finds regrettable that so far the latter has not been addressed at Union level;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 197 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
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 energy poverty;deleted
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 218 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that a decent income is a fundamental element for being able to live your life in dignijob is the best way out of poverty; recalls that 16.7 % of the population in the EU 28 in 2013 were at- risk-of-poverty after social transfers; invites the Commission to present in 2016 in the context of the announced social pillar an EU framework directive on adequate minimum incomnd that work in poverty remains a challenge;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 234 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Recommends that an EU framework directive on minimum income sh minimum income at Member State level could specify which criteria Member States’ minimum income schemes would need to meet so as to lift people out of poverty; considers that such a framework would need to be rights-based, address the level of income, the non-discriminatory, efficient and easy access and the take-up, targeting especially those groups, who currently are excluded from or at risk of exclusion from minimum income schemes;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 242 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses thatConsiders that Member States minimum income schemes shouldcan prevent and lift households out of sepovere material deprivationty and allow for an income above the poverty threshold; recalls that a minimum income is a key instrument for delivering on Article 9 TFEU guaranteeing adequate social protection as well as on the fundamental right to decent living conditions, participating in society and protection of human health;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 261 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address in a more balanced way both income and expenditure of poor households; points to shortcomings in addressing increasing household cost and considers the Commission’s work on a reference budget a step in the right direction; stresses that lowering household expenditure for poor households will impact positively on the concerned households as well as on the - mainly local - economy and on social cohesion;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 272 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that poor households spend the largest share of their income on housing, utilities and food; stresses that one dimension of household expenditure of poor households – the cost of energy and the related issue of energy poverty lacks an in-depth assessment at Union levelfood, housing and utilities; calls on the Commission to improve internal cooperation so as to better link the energy policy and the poverty policy;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 280 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses that there is so far no definition of energy poverty at Union level and therefore it is very difficult to properly assess the seriousness, the causes and the consequences of energy poverty of poor households in the Union; calls on the Commission to develop with stakeholders a common definition of energy poverty which should aim at assessing at least the following elements: material scope, difficulty for a household to gain access to essential energy, affordability and share of total household cost, impact on basic household needs such as heating, cooling, cooking, lighting and transport;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 350 #

2015/2223(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Calls onEncourages the Member States to sign up to a European winter heating 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-beingadopt policies that allow them to meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards for adequate housing temperature;
2015/11/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 22 #

2015/2206(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128
128. Is of the opinion that there are substantial differences between the European Social Fund (ESF) grants and the European Progress Microfinance Facility (EPMF) financial instruments, which tend to serve different purposes; considers that these particular characteristics impact on audit performance and can misrepresent the resultdifferent support mechanisms may be appropriate for different market conditions;
2016/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 23 #

2015/2206(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 129
129. RegretNotes that the Court in this audit compares two dissimilar financial instrumentmechanisms that have different approaches and objectives; stresses that ESF and EPMF differ in many aspects, namely structure, rules and target groups, with the latter being exclusively devoted to micro- financing whereas the former covers a much broader range of aspects;
2016/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 24 #

2015/2206(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 132
132. Is concerned that the Court has privileged considerations of compliance in carrying out this particular audit; finds that the Court could have reached different conclusions if the elements addressed in the report had been assessed on the basis of the Europe 2020 objectives;deleted
2016/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 33 #

2015/2206(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
New subheading after paragraph 246
Part XXII – Special Report No 20/2015 of the Court of Auditors entitled "The cost- effectiveness of EU Rural Development support for non-productive investments in agriculture"
2016/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 34 #

2015/2206(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 246 a (new)
246a. 247. The Commission encourages Member States to implement NPIs more in synergy with other rural development measures and/ or environmental schemes and that the Commission monitors relevant Member States' implementation through their annual implementation reports from 2017; 248. The Commission provides guidance to Member States on NPIs selection criteria for 2014-2020 period and checks that they apply appropriate procedures for the selection of projects; in this context recommends that Member States ensure that the NPIs selection procedures are transparent, made public and effectively implemented, and that they verify effectively the compliance with these criteria; 249. The Commission ensures that the contribution of NPIs to achieving the EU agri-environment objectives is monitored, or at least specifically assessed during the evaluations of the 2014-20 programming period; 250. The Commission encourages and assists those member States where NPI support is significant to define specific result indicators for the NPIs most frequently funded in order to ensure better monitoring and assessment of the NPIs contribution to achieving the EU agri-environmental objectives; in this regard, Member States should report on these indicators in their annual implementation reports starting from June 2016 and include the assessment of the results of NPIs in their evaluation plans; 251. The Commission provides further guidance on the definition of criteria which determine the remunerative characteristics of NPIs benefiting from the highest aid rates and that Member States establish such criteria without any delay and use them to modulate the intensity of support; 252. Member States implement, without delay, procedures to ensure that the costs of the supported NPIs do not exceed the costs of similar types of goods, service or works offered by the market; in this regard Member States should define appropriate benchmarks and/or reference costs against which the costs of NPIs are systematically verified as part of their administrative checks; 253. The Commission uses the information provided by the Member States regarding the controllability and verifiability of the measures for the approval of their RDPs for 2014-2020 to ensure that Member States define and implement adequate procedures regarding the reasonableness of costs, and to verify Member States' effective application of the controls foreseen in this regard; recommends also that the Commission facilitates exchange of good practices between Member States concerning establishment of procedures for cost- reasonableness checks; 254. Member States define, before the first on-the-spot controls for the 2014-20 period are performed, a method for the timely consolidation and analysis of the cause of the errors found during these controls, and to undertake necessary measures for improvement of their management and control systems of the NPIs schemes; 255. The Commission takes into consideration the weaknesses identified by the Court in the area of NPIs expenditures and takes relevant measures together with Member States to ensure proper financial management for these kind of investments;
2016/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 35 #

2015/2206(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
New subheading after paragraph 246
Part XXIII – Special Report No 22/2015 of the Court of Auditors entitled "EU supervision of credit rating agencies - well established but not yet fully effective"
2016/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 36 #

2015/2206(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 246 b (new)
246b. 256. Stresses that the objective of the CRAR is to introduce "(...) a common regulatory approach in order to enhance the integrity, transparency, responsibility, good governance and independence of credit rating activities, contributing to the quality of credit ratings issued in the Union and to the smooth functioning of the internal market, while achieving a high level of consumer and investor protection." (Article 1 of the CRAR); 257. Recognises that the ECA and EMA agreed on many aspects of the audit and recommendations; 258. Welcomes that the ESMA laid down good foundations for effective supervision of the CRAs in the EU in a short period of time; notes however the ECA considers the procedure to be cumbersome, due to the split into completeness and compliance phases as required by the regulation; 259. Shares the Court's opinion that during the registration process, ESMA should adequately document its assessment of all the regulatory requirements regarding the credit rating methodologies, evidence of the approval process should not only be stored in internal correspondence but in dedicated case files; 260. Welcomes that ECA and ESMA agree on ESMA's risk-based approach; the risk identification process should be transparent, comprehensible and traceable; 261. Is of the opinion that all investigations should be properly documented so as to demonstrate and ensure that all conclusions are supported by adequate analyses of the evidence; notes that too this end the Court recommends to put in place a dedicated supervisory IT tool; notes ESM's argument that its current monitoring tools have been effective; however, remains convinced that a dedicated IT tool would be the best way to manage information in transparent, comprehensible, traceable manner bearing in mind normal rates of staff turn-overs; therefore asks ESMA to foresee the introduction of such an IT tool in its budgetary planning; 262. Recalls that one of the purposes and responsibilities of the CRAR is to ensure independence and to avoid conflicts of interests (see annex 1 of the CRAR); believes therefore that CRAs also verify rating analysts' trading activities; nevertheless ESMA should supervise, in a structured manner, the systems put in place by the CRAs for dealing with conflicts of interest; 263. Points to the provisions of Article 23 of the CRAR which stipulates: "In carrying out their duties under this Regulation, ESMA, the Commission or any public authorities of a Member State shall not interfere with the content of credit ratings or methodologies."; the implementation of CRAs' methodologies can therefore only be monitored, once the registration was completed, by on-going supervisory procedures; 264. Agrees that ESMA should examine all important aspects of the design and implementation of CRA methodologies which have not yet been covered; is concerned that this task cannot be fully performed due to a lack of resources; 265. Regrets that the current system does not guarantee an effective protection of the markets in the event of a leak and calls ESMA to improve its control system to prevent and counter those actions that can lead distortions in the markets; 266. Regrets that the current rules of the Eurosystem do not guarantee that all ESMA-registered CRAs are on an equal footing; calls in the European Central Bank and the European legislator to remedy the situation as soon as possible; 267. Understands that the central repository will be integrated in the European rating platform (Article 11 a CRAR) created in 2013 and for which the work is on-going; ask ESMA to ensure the soundness of data reported by CRAs; 268. Calls on ESMA to further improve and harmonise disclosure practices across the CARs; 269. Welcomes EMAS' intention to further improve its website and publish, in particular, all applicable legislation and relevant documents and make the website more user-friendly; 270. Notes that some terminology used in the CRAR (i.e. methodology) may leave room for interpretation and could therefore have a negative bearing on the implementation of the regulation; calls therefore on ESMA and the ECA to transmit to the Commission and the legislator a list legislative provisions which could benefit from further clarification;
2016/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 37 #

2015/2206(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
New subheading after paragraph 246
Part XXIV – Special Report No 2/2016 of the Court of Auditors entitled "2014 report on the follow-up of the European Court of Auditors' Special Reports"
2016/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 38 #

2015/2206(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 246 c (new)
246c. 271. Salutes the fact that 23 of 44 recommendations were fully implemented; 272. Welcomes also that the Commission, by and large, accepted the Courts additional recommendations in the current special report; 273. Notes however that the Court considered that 18 of 44 recommendations, listed in the annex of the working document, partially or not implemented or could not be verified; (a) in the agricultural policy area (10 recommendations) follow-up of recommendations often concerned the Commission and Member States and the former was of the opinion that it had fulfilled its responsibility; (b) in the social policy area (2 recommendations), coming under shared management, the Court considered that performance and effectiveness were not measured sufficiently; (c) in the area of external relations (3 recommendations) the Commission should directly assess the reasonableness of projects costs and rely less on the market knowledge of international organisations; the Commission should have upgraded the quality and security of the Common External Relation Information System (CRIS); and (d) in the area of competition (3 recommendations) the Court is of the opinion that preliminary investigations should be better managed, the number of unfounded complaints reduced and to improve the State Aid Reporting Interface (SARI). 274. Stresses that from the point of view of the discharge authority it is unsatisfactory when adversarial procedures end in: the Commission and the Court conclude differently; calls therefore on both institution to avoid such an outcome; 275. Calls on the Court to clearly indicate in its recommendations which kind of action is expected from the Commission and which kind of action is expected from the Member States; 276. Calls on the Court to develop a system, together with national audit authorities, which will allow the ECA to evaluate the follow-up Member States have given to its recommendations; 277. Emphasises that it never received a satisfactory explanation why the Commission considered it over years very important that directorates general dispose of their own internal audit capabilities, only to regroup the internal audit capabilities under the Internal Audit Service again as of April 2015.
2016/03/04
Committee: CONT
Amendment 1 #

2015/2173(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses its satisfaction that the Court of Auditors has declared the transactions underlying the Foundation’s annual accounts for the financial year 2014 to be legal and regular in all material respects and that its financial position as of 31 December 2014 is fairly represented;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 2 #

2015/2173(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. NotesWelcomes the fact that in response to comments from the discharge authority, the Foundation participated in 2014 in a joint procurement procedure for banking services launched by the Commission in order to ensure the security of its assets which were beforepreviously kept in a single bank with a low credit rating;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 3 #

2015/2173(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Notes the increasing number of requests for ETF support to EU external relations assistance from 78 in 2013 to 82 in 2014 and believes this underlines its relevance in supporting the role of the EU as a global actor in this field;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1 #

2015/2169(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses its satisfaction that the Court of Auditors has declared the transactions underlying the Agency’s annual account for the financial year 2014 to be legal and regular in all material respects and that its financial position as of 31 December 2013 is fairly represented;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 4 #

2015/2169(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Commends the work of the agency in developing an online interactive risk assessment tool and its efforts through the Healthy Workplaces Campaign to strengthen risk prevention and promote sustainable and healthy workplaces;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1 #

2015/2165(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses its satisfaction that the Court of Auditors has declared the transactions underlying Eurofound´s annual accounts for the financial year 2014 to be legal and regular in all material respects and that its financial position as of 31 December 2014 is fairly represented;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 2 #

2015/2165(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the successful implementation of Eurofound’s programme; praises the important work performed on the three European surveys: the European Quality of Life Survey, the European Working Conditions Survey and the European Company Survey; notes that Eurofound continued to focus its research on youth unemployment and appreciates its contribution to assessing the impact of the crisis on working and living conditions;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1 #

2015/2164(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses its satisfaction that the Court of Auditors has declared the transactions underlying the Centre’s annual accounts for the financial year 2014 to be legal and regular in all material respects and that its financial position as of 31 December 2014 is fairly represented;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 2 #

2015/2164(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Appreciates that the Centre focused its activity on contributing to and supporting policies addressing youth unemployment; commends particularly the Centre's skills forecasts and analyses as well as the work focusing on developing apprenticeships; furthermore notes that the detailed country fiches on vocational education and training policies in all Member States informed the Country Specific Recommendations of the European Semester;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 5 #

2015/2164(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Welcomes the fact that visits to the Europass website managed by Centre and available in 27 languages reached 21.7 million users in 2014 an increase of 8% on the 2013 figures;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 3 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes furthermore the Court's recommendations that the Europe2020 strategy and the MFF need to be better aligned, the high-level political aims need to be translated into useful operational targets, and the focus on results should be reinforcedstresses the importance of focussing on performance and results as well as on added value, particularly in the cases of the employment and social headline targets, where the Commission does not have the competence to create a legally binding framework;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 8 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the Court’s observations about the increased risk of irregularities in cases of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) participating in Horizon 2020; supports the Commission’s reply that SMEs' involvement in the programme is crucial for the creation of growth and jobs and welcomes that the administrative rules for SMEs have been simplified, stresses the importance of creation of sustainable jobs through SMEs;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 11 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Expresses its regretNotes that the intangible nature of investments in human capital, the diversity of the activities and the involvement of multiple, often small-scale partners in the implementation of projects continue to be the main risks to regularity of spending of European Social Fund (ESF) expenditure; calls on the Commission to continue with specific mitigating actions, including both preventative and corrective measures;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 15 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the promotion of broader use of simplified cost options can lead to the reduction of the administrative burden on the beneficiaries, to fewer errors and more orientation on performance and results;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 19 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Expresses its concerns about the fact that out of 1708 transactions examined by the Court in the employment and social affairs policy area 602 (354.8 %) were affected by error, out of which 12 were quantifiable errors exceeding 20% (6.7%); urges the Commission to implement corrective measures and apply strict procedures to reduce the risk of irregularities in this policy area as well as to follow up the cases of ineligible expenditure identified by the Court;
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 24 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to follow the Court’s recommendations in order to ensure that the implementafurther increase the contribution of the Union budget contributes to the achievement of the employment and social headline targets of the Europe 2020 strategy.
2015/12/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 38 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that the architecture of the Europe 2020 Strategy is extremely complex (comprising five headline targets, seven flagships initiatives and 11 thematic objectives for the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs)); regrets that those various tools are not designed to translate the political objectives of the strategy into practical operational objectives, especially in the means of synergetic effects;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 41 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Deplores the fact that high-level Europe 2020 Strategy targets are not systematically translated into operational objectives in partnership agreements and programmes and that current legislation does not require the European Agricultural Funds for Regionural Development (EAFRD) and European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) to be structured around thematic objectives;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 45 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Fears thatCalls upon the Commission will not be able to report consistently on the thematic objectives for all five ESIFs and hence on the contribution of these funds to the Europe 2020 Strategy;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 49 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 – point b
(b) except for two funds (the European Ruregional Development Fund (ERDF)) and the Cohesion Fund (CF), common indicators are not shared between different funds;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 61 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Regrets that a lack of reliability of the first-level checks performed by the Member States in shared management and weaknesses in excluding ineligible land from the Landfill Parcel Identification System (LPIS) still persist; notes however that considerable remedial work had been carried out;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 64 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Stresses that from the point of view of the Parliament it is unsatisfactory when adversarial procedures end in "the Commission and the Court conclude differently"; calls therefore on both institution to avoid such an outcome;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 87 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
48. Underlines that the level of error rate does not mean a case of fraud, inefficiency, or waste, but an estimate of financial flows that should not have been paid out as they were not used in line with rules and regulations; recognizes that the error rate is not well understood by European citizens and asks the Court in this context to launch a debate with the Commission with a view to identifying potential methodological shortcomings and agreeing on common standards in reporting the error rate;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 105 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65 a (new)
65a. Calls on the Court to develop a system, together with national audit authorities, which will allow the Court to evaluate the follow-up Member States have given to its recommendations;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 107 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 a (new)
66a. Deems useful that the Parliament and the Council find together a way how to address the issue of Member States' spending under the shared management;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 164 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 124 a (new)
124a. Welcomes the positive outcomes estimated by the High-level Expert Group carrying out the ex-post evaluation of FP7, namely: that the programme created directly over 1,3 million job years (through projects funded over a period of 10 years) and indirectly 4 million job years over a period of 25 years; that each euro spent by FP7 generated approximately 11 euros of direct and indirect economic effects through innovations, new technologies and products and that its financial contribution to SMEs exceeded the target of 15% and reached 17% (5 billion euro);
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 181 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 139
139. Welcomes DG REGIO´the Commission's efforts to further enhance the contribution of cohesion policy to Union economic governance screening all the 2014-2020 Partnership Agreements and operational programmes so as to ensure that that the relevant CSRs adopted by the end of June 2014 were adequately reflected in Member States' development and competitiveness strategies;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 185 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 142
142. Attaches particular importance to the Youth Guarantee; notes therefore with satisfaction that 110,300 unemployed young people participated in actions financed by the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) in 2014; EUR 1,3 billion are already allocated to projects on the ground; in this context is grateful for the guidance provided in the Court's Special Report 3/2015 and the Commission's constructive reaction to the findings; however stresses that in some Member States there still are some difficulties in ensuring the functioning of the payment under the Youth Guarantee andimplementing the Youth Guarantee and in ensuring a sufficient project pipeline for the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI);
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 190 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 144 a (new)
144a. Welcomes the achievements from the implementation of 2007-2013 ERDF/CF programmes, illustrated by some core indicators annually reported by the Member States and results from preliminary assessment of latest available data showing that approximately 950 000 jobs were created, 36 000 enterprises cooperated with research institutions, more than 270 000 enterprises received support and the additional capacity of renewable energy production was more than 4 000 megawatt;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 205 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 155 a (new)
155a. Takes note that in 2014 as a result of the strict supervision and interruption policy of DG REGIO and DG EMPL and growing number of action plans EUR 840 million of financial corrections were confirmed and EUR 854 million were implemented for ERDF/CF for all programming periods (decided in 2014 and in previous years), as well as that for ESF 2007-2013 period EUR 209 million of financial corrections were accepted/decided and EUR 155,9 million were implemented (decided in 2014 and in previous years);
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 206 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 155 b (new)
155b. Observes with satisfaction that in 2014 due to the Commission supervisory role certifying authorities applied financial correction for EUR 782 million before declaring expenditures to the Commission concerning ERDF/CF which has preserved the EU budget from payments of incorrect expenditures;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 208 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 161
161. Regrets that Member States have not yet fully embraced the simplified cost options (SCO) under the ESF; whereas the Commissionelcomes the report "Simplified Cost Options in the European Social Fund" where DG EMPL expects the that under the programming period 2014-2020 on average 35% of costexpenditure will be claimed under the SCO; supports DG EMPL's efforts to promote the use of SCO by Member States and urges the Member States to fully embrace the potential of SCO;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 221 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 168 a (new)
168a. Points out that according to the figures provided in the 2014 annual activity report of DG Regional and Urban policy the risk of error as a weighted average of the estimation for each operational programme supported by the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund is below 1% in 9 Member States (in 2013 - in 6 Member States) and that only in 2 Member State this percentage is 4% or more (in 2013 - in 5 Member States);
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 222 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 168 b (new)
168b. Points out that according to the figures provided in the 2014 annual activity report of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion the risk of error as a weighted average of the estimation for each operational programme supported by the European Social Fund is below 1% in 9 Member States as it was in 2013 and that this percentage is 4% or more in 6 Member States (7,9% highest) while in 2013 this percentage was above 4% in 5 Member States ((8,8% and 9,3% highest);
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 239 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 189 – point c
(c) continue in its already started simplification process, including the promotion of SCO;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 242 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 195
195. Calls on DG REGIO and DG EMPL to publish, in their respective annual activity reports, their contributions to the Commission's CSR in a comprehensive and detailed waypreparation of the Commission's CSRs and on how they support Member States for implementing them, as these recommendations should demonstrate how the DGs facilitate Member States' progress towards achieving the Europe 2020 Strategy objectives;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 247 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 205
205. Notes with concern that an underestimation of the level of error reported for the financial year by a certifying body in the framework of a "reinforcement of assurance procedure"91 can happen; stresses that overall, for the 6 Member States which had opted for the voluntary application of this procedure, the Court found that the weaknesses in its implementation mostly render the reported levels of error unreliable, and that the Commission has to apply top-ups to the reported error rates; __________________ 91 See 2014 Court's annual report point 7.44 to 7.50.
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 250 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 207
207. Deplores the fact that, in rural development, the majority of error types and system weaknesses detected by the Court were not addressed by the action plan that the Member States dreveloped to reduce the level of error in rural development spendingiewed by the Court;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 251 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 209
209. Considers with deep concern that conformity procedures awere still too lengthy in 2014; points out that the 15% reduction in the backlog compared to end 2013 was not sufficient, resulting in a significant backlog of 180 open files: 180 remaining files at the end of 2014;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 255 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 215
215. Stresses that it is crucially important to have a reliable and flexible (up-to-date) LPIS, which should reduce errors;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 256 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 217
217. Stresses that while in 2014 the certification bodies gave a positive assessment on all EAGF-IACS control statistics reported by the Member States, the Commission hasd to correct upwards the error rates communicated by 17 out of 69 paying agencies with a residual error rate above 2%, of which five were above 5%92 ; points out that overall, the reported error rate for CAP direct payments increased from 0,55% to 2,54% as a result of adjustments made by DG AGRI; __________________ 92 See Table: Annex 10- 3.2.8 on the DG AGRI annual activity report 2014.
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 258 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 218
218. Stresses that while in 2014 the certification bodies gave a positive assessment on 88% of the EAFRD control statistics reported by the Member States, the Commission hasd to correct upwards the error rates communicated by out 43 out of 72 paying agencies with an adjusted error rate above 2% (of which 14 were above 5%); points out that overall, the reported error rate for rural development payments increased from 1,52% to 5,09% as a result of adjustments made by DG AGRI;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 260 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 219
219. Stresses that there is risk of underestimation of the adjusted error rate by the Commission, as the adjustments made relate only to the part of expenditure for which at individual paying agency level, as the adjustments are made only when Commission's or Court's audit are available;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 261 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 219 a (new)
219a. Notes however that the Court considers the Commission's methodology to be a valid approach which can provide sufficient basis for reservations at the level of individual paying agencies;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 262 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 221
221. Notes that since the average financial corrections over the last three years for EAGF corresponds to 1,2% of the expenditure concerned and for EAFRD to 1%, the Commission has applied financial corrections covering slightly less than half of the level of the adjusted error rate for EAGF (2,6% in 2014) and one fifth for the EAFRD adjusted error rate (5,1% in 2014); notes also that over the last three years, recoveries amounted to 0,3% of the expenditure for EAGF and 0,9% for EAFRD;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 264 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 223
223. Regrets in consequenceNotes that the declaration of assurance given by the Director General of DG AGRI is not based on data but on hopeful opinionncludes three reservations in respect of 2014 expenditure in shared management with the Member States and one reservation in respect of indirect management concerning in total EUR 1 446,9 million (EUR 1 451,9 million in 2013); observes that the highest amount in risk in 2014 is under ABB03 - Direct payments;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 266 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 227 a (new)
227a. Asks DG AGRI to report in its annual activity report 2015 on a broad mix of economic and environmental indicators giving a well-balanced overview of the state of Union agriculture and its broader context, to enable the co- legislators to better assess the performance of the CAP and engage in an informed reflection on its future orientation;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 268 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 228
228. Asks DG AGRI to adopt a new objective in its management plan accompanied with KPI targeting a fairerreport on the distribution of CAP support and to report on this in its annual activity report;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 269 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 229 a (new)
229a. Welcomes the results achieved by the 2007-2013 Rural Development policy implementation according to preliminary data (end 2014) referring to micro enterprises (73 300) and young farmers (164 000) supported as well as to innovation support for introduction of new products or technologies in 136 000 farms;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 275 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 233
233. Notes the Court's detailed analysis of whether Union support was targeted at clearly-defined obstacljectives reflecting identified structural and territorial needs and structural disadvantages; and that it also tested the performance criterion as part of targeting and selection; considers that the improved Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) developed by DG AGRI, with respect to the performance approach, there is a very positive case for creatcontaings a set of specific indicators to measure progress, to be developed by DG AGRIhat will allow the Commission to measure and report on progress;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 276 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 234 – point c
(c) facilitate synergies in thie natural resources area to eliminate its current heterogeneity of supportive actions;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 279 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 235 – point a
(a) the Commission consider take into consideration the number of farmers as an element of key performance of DG AGRI with respect to "farmer income" and include a new objective of "a fairer distribution of CAP support" in its management plan, accompanied with a key performance indicator and reporting on thisreporting on the distribution of CAP support in its annual activity report;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 351 #

2015/2154(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 281
281. Regrets the delay in the Commission'sWelcome's the Commission's report on the assessment ofn the PMI tobacco agreements; calls on the Commission to provide this as soon as possible, outlinregrets, however, the timing of the results of the investments made using the money paid by tobacco companies under these agreedelivery of the technical assessments;
2016/03/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that whilst it is impossible to hold back the digital revolution, it is possible to shape its course; digital technologies bring tremendous opportunities for productivity gains, growth and job-creating leading to quality employment; acknowledges the importance of the digital revolution as fuel for enterpreneurship, digital transformation of industry, the development of new business models, ideas and innovative start-ups; stresses that according to the European Commission, The Digital Single Market has the potential to generate Euro 250 billion in additional growth in Europe thereby creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs; stresses that productivity gains historically have resulted in overall employment growth and increased wealth and that the ultimate beneficiary of digital transformation of industry will be the consumer;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 24 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recognises that the Digital Single Market can only become a reality when there is access to high performance broadband infrastructure throughout the regions of the EU in both urban and rural areas;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes that only 1.7% of EU enterprises make full use of advanced digital technologies while 41% do not use them at all; stresses that if the EU is to maintain and improve its competitiveness digitalisation of all sectors is crucial;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 54 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to undertake a thorough assessment of the impact which digitalisation will have on the number and types of jobs available and to gather informin cooperation with Member States and consultation with regional and local authorities and the social partners to identify new forms of employment and required skills in the digitally-driven economy and to develop recommendations on new forms of employment, such as crowdsourcing and crowdworkinghow to better match skills and jobs in the digital economy; stresses in this regard the importance of vocational training as a tool proven to increase the match between skills with jobs;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 68 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that 35% of the EU population is at risk of exclusion from the Digital Single market in particular those over 50 and people with disabilities and in this context stresses that accessible technologies can help deliver digital inclusion and improve access to the labour market;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 69 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Is convinced that accessibility is best achieved and most cost effective when incorporated from the outset using a universal design approach and that it also represents a potential business opportunity;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 74 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that as job and skills profiles become more complex, new demands are being placed on training, vocational training and further education; emphasises the importance of social dialogue in efforts to bring course content up to date andensure a better match between skills and jobs; is concerned that according to the Commission 47 % of the EU- workforce lack sufficient digital skills and that this skills-shortage might cause up to 900.000 unfilled vacancies until 2020; calls on the Commission, as a matter of urgency, to develop a skills strategies-strategy which can meet this skills-shortage through education for the younger part of the population, vocational training, exchange of best practices and through training in partnership with the social partners for the older part of the population;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 80 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. PNotes that the demand for digitally skilled employees is growing by around 4% per year and that shortages of ICT professionals in the EU could exceed 800,000 by 2020 if no decisive action is taken; points out that as job and skills profiles become more complex, new demands are being placed on training and further education; emphasises the importance of social dialogue in efforts to bring course content up to date and develop skills strategies;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 114 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the establishment of the Europe-wide grand coalition for digital jobs, and encourages businesses to jointhe social partners' active participation with the aim of realizing the potential of the digital economy to create growth and new jobs leading to quality employment; encourages the Europe-wide grand coalition for digital jobs to develop recommendations for new forms of learning, i.e. online learning, employer- designed short-courses etc., to keep pace with the evolving digital technology and changes; encourages additionally educational institutions to respond to the opportunities in the digital economy by developing flexible learning profiles including enhanced opportunities for vocational training which match the demands of the labour market;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 130 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that the digitalisation-driven trend towards more flexible working practices may also give rise to precarious of the economy may give rise to new and flexible forms of employment to which the current standards as regards social security, working time, working location, worker participation andlegislative and non-legislative employment protectionframework no longer applycorrespond; calls for self-employed persons with quasi-employee status to be placed an assessment on how to modernise employment legislation to these new conditions and equal footing with employed persons under employment lawncourages the social partners to modernise collective agreements accordingly;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 133 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Points out that the digitalisation-driven trend towards more flexible working practices may also give rise to precarious forms of employment to which current standards as regards social security, working time, working location, worker participation and employment protection no longer apply; calls for self-employed persons with quasi-employee status to be placed on an equal footing with employed persons under employment law;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 159 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that freedom of association must apply in the context of new forms of employmentis a fundamental freedom that must apply in all sectors in all parts of the EU;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 168 #

2015/2147(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the need to develop employee data protection measures whichat the Digital Single Market and EU privacy and data regulations should provide a covher new forms of data collection (relations between humans and robots)ent and stable framework to facilitate innovation, trade and entrepreneurship while ensuring adequate protection of data;
2015/10/01
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 1 #

2015/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas achieving good performance involves inputs, outputs, results and impacts regularly assessed through the performance audits;
2015/12/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2015/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned by the fact that the TOR recovery rate for 2014 is, at 24%, at its historic lowest point; urges the United Kingdom and Bulgaria to improve their contributions, as theirmember- states whose level of irregularities is three timeswell above the EU average to improve their contributions;
2015/12/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 80 #

2015/2128(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Notes that the reporting on performance is still weak. There is a need to assess regularly input parameters (financial, human, material, organizational or regulatory means needed for implementation of the programme), outputs (the deliverables of the programme), results (the immediate effects of the programme) and impacts (long-term changes in the society);
2015/12/07
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
- having regard to the Communication of the European Commission 'Taking stock of the Europe 2020 Strategy for Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth' (COM(2014) 130 final/2),
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 35 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas demographic ageing is one of the main challenges of the EU Member States' social policies;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 46 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the proportion of workers, who report their health and safety to be at risk because of their work, varies significantly across Member States, which underlines the need for a much stronger European focus on implementation and enforecement of the excisting OHS legislation14 ; __________________ 14 5th Working Conditions Survey, Overview Report, Eurofound (2012) http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/defa ult/files/ef_publication/field_ef_document/ ef1182en.pdf
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 50 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas clear, efficient, well implemented and enforceable legislation is a precondition for compliance with OHS requirements, which is today heavily regulated with 24 directives, and thereby a precondition for a high level of protection for all workers regardless of contract and place of work;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 100 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that all employees have a right to the highest level of protection regarding health and safety in the workplace regardless of the size of the employer, the underlying contract or the Member State of employment; points out that complex, unclear and overlapping OSH rules can have unintended consequences and undermine employers' protection, stresses therefore the need for better, more clear and efficient rules in the field of OSH;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 112 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes that many important fields of action are identified in the EU OSH strategic framework; stresses, in this context, that more concrete legislative measures shoulda stronger focus on implementation and enforcement of the existing rules as well as the development of non-legislative tools must be included in the framework, following the 2016- review;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 113 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes that many important fields of action are identified in the EU OSH strategic framework; stresses, in this context, that more concrete legislative measures shoulda stronger focus on implementation and enforcement of the existing rules, as well as the development of non-legislative tools must be included in the framework, following the 2016- review;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 124 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to define and apply quantitative reduction targets at EU level for occupational diseases and accidents at workvelop guidance, encourage the exchange of good practices and to carry out awareness raising campaigns on implementing OSH policies following the 2016- review of the OSH strategic framework and to rely on the latest research findings when reviewing the framework;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 150 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that national OSHS strategies are essential and contributes to improvements in OSHS in the Member States and stresses that regular reporting on progress made should be encouraged; considers it necessary to continue to initiate and coordinate policiesapply a much stronger focus on implementation and enforcement of the existing OHS legislation at EU level with a view to ensuring a high level of occupational health and safety for all workers;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 180 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Encourages Member States to set up contact points, exchange good practices and share experiences in implementing national OSH strategies, thus promoting mutual learning
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 186 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Acknowledges the importance of taking into account the situation, specific needs and lack of compliance by micro and small enterprises in the implementation of OSH measures at company level; encouragesmicro, small and medium enterprises, which create 85% of European jobs; stresses that the lack of awareness, absence of guidance, relative higher costs of compliance lead to a deficient enforcement of regulatory requirements by MSMEs; outlines that awareness raising, exchange of good practices, user friendly guides and online platforms are of outmost use and importance to help micro, small and medium enterprises comply with OSH regulatory framework; encourages, in this context, the Commission, EU-OSHA and the Member States to continue developing practical tools and guidelines, which improve the compliance of SMEs with OSH requirements;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 213 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that a precondition for good OSHS management and performance is clear, efficient, well implemented and enforceable legislation and documented risk assessment, which allows for appropriate preventive measures to be put in place;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 217 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that a precondition for good OSH management and performance is documented risk assessment, which allows for appropriate preventive measures to be put in place; welcomes, in this context, the online platform OiRA, which allows to build easy-to-use and cost-free online tools that can help micro and small organisations to put in place a step-by- step risk assessment process;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 232 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that ensuring a level playing- field across the EU and eliminating unfair competition and social dumping is crucial; stresses that labour inspectorates play a key role in enforcing workers' rights to a safe and healthy working environment; calls onreminds the Member States to followof the ILO recommendation of a minimum of one labour inspector per 10 000 workers and to increase staffing and resources available to labour inspectorates;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 242 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Notes that although the key drivers in a majority of companies for implementing OSH measures are the legal obligations, non-legislative tools should be more broadly used (i.e. awareness raising campaigns, setting voluntary norms, the use of online tools) to help companies understand and comply with the OSH legislation;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 250 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes efforts to improve the quality of the regulatory frameworkand to reduce the administrative burden of the implementation of the regulatory framework; outlines that the existing rules should be improved and simplified, especially by avoiding overlapping, while preserving the high standard of workers' health and safety; reminds the Commission, however, that the submission of OSH directives to the REFIT exercise and modifications of legislation should be transparent, involve social partners and must under no circumstances result in reductions in occupational health and safety;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 265 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Points to the importance of protecting workers against exposure to carcinogens, mutagens and substances that are toxic to reproduction; points out that part of the legislation in this particular field is at the moment overlapping leading to unnecessary administrative burdens, costs and a risk of unintended non-compliance; calls on the Commission as a part of its efforts for better regulation to ensure that overlap in this field is eliminated and that the future rules will be clear, efficient, well implemented and enforceable; calls on the Commission to present a proposal for a revision of Directive 2004/37/EC adding more binding occupational exposure limit values and in cooperation with the Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work to develop an assessment system that can be used to assess binding occupational limit values based on clear evidence and explicit criteria;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 282 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to take action on one of the most prevalent work- related health problems in Europe and submit a proposal for a comprehensive directive on musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) to improve effective prevention and address the causes of MSDs; pPoints out that integrating provisions of existing directives into a comprehensive directiveframework laying down minimum requirements for protecting workers from exposure to ergonomic risk factors can benefit both workers and employers;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 332 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to adopt a targeted approach to improve the health and safety situation of workers in precariouslog-term unemployment and involuntary part-time employment and to take into account the negative effects that precarious employmenit has on occupational health and safety when addressing this issue in general;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 343 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Draws the attention of the Commission to the role that the sectorhorizontal social dialogue Committees can play in tackling sector- specific OSH risks through agreements between the social partners using their best knowledge of sector specific situations;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 353 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Points out that due to the demographic challenge of ageing, the extension of working life becomes necessary; outlines that OSH regulatory framework should boost the sustainability of working life and healthy ageing by encouraging flexibility of the work place and organisation, inter alia, by promoting accessible working time and adaptability to the changing capabilities of workers because of ageing;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 354 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)
20c. Calls on the Commission to promote integration and rehabilitation measures for people with disabilities;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 363 #

2015/2107(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to collect gender and age- specific high-quality statistical data on work-related diseases in order to constantly improve and adapt, where needed, the legislative framework, in accordance to the new and emerging risks;
2015/07/14
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 11 #

2015/2105(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recognises that 90 per cent of global growth is occurring outside of the European Union and therefore underlines the crucial importance of securing opportunities for new market access for EU businesses as well as ensuring fair, non-discriminatory and equal treatment for EU service providers; expects that particular obstacles faced by SMEs are taken into account when negotiating new agreements;
2016/04/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 16 #

2015/2105(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls for transparent negotiation; European and national parliaments, European social partners and civil society should have the possibility to contribute to the negotiating process in a meaningful way, in order to promote a more inclusive and relevant agreement;
2016/04/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 35 #

2015/2105(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises that, as a minimum, the legislation on the posting of workers and other national and EU labour legislation, as well as collective agreements, should be applicable to contractual service supplier provisions of social and employment legislation at both the European Union and national levels, as well as collective agreements and social standards must be guaranteed; insists, however, that European Union wide posting of workers should not be regulated in trade agreements;
2016/04/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 78 #

2015/2105(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises the need to increase the staffing levels of, and the resources available to, Member States’ labour inspectorates to allow for effective monitoring of labour standards;
2016/04/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 85 #

2015/2105(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of binding measures for due diligence in the production chain, ensuring liability going beyond voluntary corporate social responsibility initiatives;deleted
2016/04/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 94 #

2015/2105(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need to increase efforts to unblock the reform of trade defence instruments.deleted
2016/04/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 8 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to the Eurofound report 'Maternity leave provisions in the EU Member States: Duration and allowances' (July 2015);
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 22 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the connection between reconciliation of professional and family life and the principle of gender equality in employment is now established in EU legislation;
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 27 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas Directive 92/85/EEC grants rights to women workers during pregnancy, immediately after giving birth and while breastfeeding, Directive 96/34/EC recognises the reconciliation between professional and family life as a separate topic while Directive 2010/18/EU stipulates that all employees have a right to four months unpaid parental leave while one of those months must be granted on a non-transferable basis thus ensuring that reconciliation of professional and family life involves both men and women;
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 32 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas Eurofound studies have illustrated aspects that influence fathers' take-up rate of parental leave which include the level of compensation, the flexibility of the leave system, the availability of information, availability and flexibility of childcare facilities and the extent to which workers fear isolation from the labour market when taking leave. Therefore these issues need to be addressed;
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 46 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas most EU Member States already comply with the minimum requirements of the Parental Leave Directive 2010/18/EU and in many Member States national provisions go beyond these requirements;
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 49 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the provisions necessary for the transposition of Directive 2013/62/EU take different forms in the various Member States; believes that the transposition should therefore comply fully with legislation and usages in force in the area of collective bargaining between social partners;
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 51 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that since not all Member States have followed the EU separate or sequential approach to maternity and parental leaves classifying the different types of leave at an EU level is problematic;
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 142 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to introduce financial compensation for parental leave with a view to reaching a level that would act as an incentive for income replacement, over the minimum time period guaranteed by the directive, based on the average EU maternity leave income replacement rate, in order to safeguard families’ social and economic wellbeingin order to facilitate reconciliation between work and family life;
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 148 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Believes that the promotion of individualisation of the right to leave and of positive action aiming at the promotion of the role of fathers is essential in helping to achieve gender balanced reconciliation of work and family life;
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 189 #

2015/2097(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Believes that an integrated approach to gender equality and the reconciliation of work and family life in future EU legislation would bring coherence and transparency to the process and would help ensure the promotion of gender- balanced reconciliation of work and family life;
2016/01/29
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 13 #

2015/2042(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Is of the opinion that the survival rate of the projects financed by the Facility needs to be made public and should be taken into account in updating the European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision; calls on the Commission to require the survival rate as a mandatory information when the support is provided; emphasizes that this information would be appropriate for future assessment of performance;
2015/09/25
Committee: CONT
Amendment 6 #

2015/2040(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the formation of the Juncker Commission was delayed owing to the late nomination by some Member States of their candidate commissioner, while an acceptable degree of gender balance was only achieved at the last minute thanks to Parliament’s firm insistence that the new Commission must contain at least the same number of women as the outgoing Commission; considers that such a situation could be prevented in future by setting a deadline by which Member States have to nominate their candidates, and by encouraging Member States to propose at least two nominees – one male and one female – for consideration by the President-electcandidates for consideration by the Commission President-elect. The President-elect would thus have a choice and could accept the candidate which would meet his needs best, eventually also providing for a better gender balance;
2015/03/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 8 #

2015/2040(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Further suggests that - in case a candidate is rejected - a deadline should be set for the designation of a new candidate;
2015/03/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 11 #

2015/2040(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that when a vice-president of the Commission has responsibilities which are primarily horizontal, the hearing could exceptionally be carried out in a different format, such as a meeting of the Conference of Committee Chairs, provided that such a meeting would be open to all Members, or a joint meeting of the relevant committees;
2015/03/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 12 #

2015/2040(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Believes that the designated Commissioner should be required to clearly set out the programme priorities for the considered portfolio in his or her opening statement;
2015/03/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 16 #

2015/2040(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Believes that the questions during the hearing should - at least partly - be answered in a language different from the mother tongue of the Commissioner- designate;
2015/03/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 17 #

2015/2040(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Considers that if the evaluation shows no clear majority, or if there is a majority but not a consensus against the candidate, the coordinators should - as a next step - request an additional 1.5 hour hearing;
2015/03/20
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 6 #

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the ILO’s eight core labour standards and the four ILO Priority Conventions for the industrialised countries to be systematically includrespected and implemented in all bilateral EU trade agreements;
2016/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 26 #

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for closer cooperation at multilateral level with a view to achieving genuine coordination betweenwith the international organisations WTO and ILO;
2016/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a strengthening of the chapter on sustainable development in bilateral agreements through the provision of a complaints proceduremonitoring and reporting mechanism open to the social partners;
2016/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 43 #

2015/2038(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for sustainable impact assessments and human rights impact assessments to be carried out, at bilateral level, before, during and after the negotiations the negotiations, as well as for an ex-post systematic monitoring and evaluation to be applied; takes the view, also, that negotiators should take into account to a greater extent the priorities and concerns that emerge from these impact studies;
2016/02/22
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 4 #

2015/2006(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital A
A. whereas young people benefit immensely from practical entrepreneurial experience, which contributes to their development of skills and talent as well as to new business creation and employability and, boosts innovation in the wider organisations in which they are employed and reduces youth unemployment;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 16 #

2015/2006(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas social and creative businesses contribute to innovative sustainable growth and cohesion within society and local communities, and create employment opportunities for young people, including disadvantaged young people and those furthest from the labour market;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 45 #

2015/2006(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to use existing EU-level funding resources to support initiatives pursuing links with businesses and offering entrepreneurship education to low income young people, school dropouts, young people in danger of long-term unemployment and young people with disabilities; calls on the EU to make these funds easily accessible and easy to use;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 85 #

2015/2006(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to improve the entrepreneurial culture within tertiary education by establishing the conditions to support the creation of new companies by young people based on academic research (spin-offs), reducing the bureaucratic burden involved in establishing such companies and promoting the benefits of commercialising research as well as by strengthening the cooperation between educational institutions and companies, welcomes the initiatives which reward young people for successful business ventures (e.g. The Best Student Company of the Year), further emphasises the importance for companies to provide the possibility for young people to get their first direct in-house work experience and re-iterates the necessity to promote traineeships schemes with such objective;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 102 #

2015/2006(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to monitor concrete measures implemented by Member States to support entrepreneurship among young people and to devote special attention to the promotion and publication of information about results and best practice; welcomes Erasmus for Entrepreneurs which enables young people to acquire entrepreneurial experiences in other Member States.
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 16 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the transport and logistics industry represents a driving force of the EU economy, employing around 10 million people and accounting for about 5 % of GDP, which should remain a frontrunner in generating further economic growth and job creation as well as in boosting businesses, including SMEs and start-ups;
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 88 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines the need for new rules for the governance of rail infrastructure managers, including the independence of infrastructure management from the interests of dominant railway operators, to avoid monopolistic systems and to ensure equal access to infrastructure, also for smaller operators, SMEs and start-ups;
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 113 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the development of passenger and freight transport is largely dependent on the effective use of the various modes of transport, and that European transport policy should therefore bethat mobility is to be considered a holistic system of interconnected transport modes and that European transport policy should therefore aim to establish a level-playing field between the different modes of transport, based on efficient co-modality; believes that this will lead to an optimal reallocation between the different transport modes, and will provide for interoperability within and between the modes, promote more sustainable transport and logistics chains and enhance seamless traffic flows across modes and nodes;
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 132 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal to provide for the internalisation of the external costs of all modes of freight and passenger transport, applying common principles and taking into account the specificity of each mode; calls for concrete measures to ensure a wider application of the ‘user pays’ and ‘polluter pays’ principles, and a level playing field between transport modes, including - where relevant - environmentally harmful tax subsidies;
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 149 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that the completion of the Trans-European Transport Network remains one of the preconditions for a more sustainable and efficient transport system and a more balanced distribution of freight and passengers among transport modes; stressespoints out that global competitors are making investments in rail transport a basic part of their strategies since 2014 while Europe is behind; stresses that the EU´s investment in transport should be stepped-up and that the selection of projects eligible for EU funding must focus on innovative transport solutions, the completion of missing links, the upgrading of existing infrastructure - including real- time planning and information systems - and the development of multimodal terminals, putting greater emphasis on European added value; considers that any EU funding must reflect the real investment needs for building up the core network until 2030 and that the Connecting Europe Facility instrument and other means of financing should stimulate investment in rail and inland waterways as a priority; emphasises that co-funded projects should reflect the need for infrastructure that minimises the impact on the environment, that is resilient to the possible impact of climate change and that improves the safety of users; stresses also the need for proper maintenance of the existing infrastructure;
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 176 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) proposed by the Commission as part of the Juncker Investment Plan for Europe should give priority to transport and logistics infrastructure projects that- particularly in industrial centres and urban agglomerations - that have a European added-value, deliver high societal and economic value, and target projects that promote job creation, long-term growth and competitiveness; underlines that the process for the selection of projects to be funded by EFSI should be transparent and that it should involve relevant stakeholders from the public and private sector;
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 205 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines the importance of advancing in the development of integrated multimodal information, travel planning and ticketing systems in order to improve mobility, foster the competitiveness of the EU Single Market, contribute to the achievement of a Single European Transport Area and boost European businesses; calls on the Commission to take appropriate regulatory action and to create a comprehensive framework that encourages and facilitates the efforts being made by stakeholders and competent authorities already;
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 255 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that the behaviour of transport users is key to the development of a more sustainable transport system; calls for initiatives that motivate users, especially young people, to choose more sustainable means of transport (walking, cycling, public transport, car sharing), taking into account the crucial role of access to digital information with regard to journey planning; calls therefore on the Commission to identify best-practice examples for the combination of multiple modes of transport with a potential to be implemented in other urban agglomerations;
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 260 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Asks the Commission to include an EU-Roadmap for cycling in its next Work Programme;
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 286 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – indent 3
– a review of the rules on tProfessional Drivers Training and qQualifications of professional driver Directive with the aim of clarifying the provisions,
2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 312 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need to complete the established legislative framework for passenger rights, especially for modes other than air transport, and with measures covering passengers on multimodal journeys; calls for initiatives to promote integrated traveller information and intermodal ticketing; asks for measures to improve the quality of transport for elderly people, passengers with reduced mobility and disabled passengers, including better accessibility of infrastructure, also for the carriage of bicycles, sports equipment, music instruments and baby carriages;
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 355 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Insists that bureaucratic hurdles should be reduced for all forms of transport and calls, therefore, for greater simplification and harmonisation of administrative documents in the transport and logistics documentssector; calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for establishing an electronic framework for multimodal transport of goods (e-Freight), achieving paperless, seamless information flows along the whole transport logistics chain, taking into account existing and well-functioning tools and synergies;
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 377 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for an enhanced research and technology agenda for the transport sector to drive innovation; considers that this agenda should be drawn up in cooperation with all relevant stakeholders in order to understand the needs of the sector and, accordingly, improve the allocation of EU funding; takes the view that priority should be given to projects with a clear European added-value and which aim to decarbonise transport, increase the transparency of the supply chain, enhance transport safety and security, improve traffic management and reduce administrative burdens;
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 398 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 8
ICo-modality and integration of all transport modes within the vision of an interoperable, more efficient, sustainable, competitive and user-friendly transport system
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 429 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – indent 3 a (new)
- speeding-up the process for the conclusion of important international aviation agreements;
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 450 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – indent 6 a (new)
- a thorough preparation and swift adoption of a comprehensive Aviation Package, including a new regulatory framework on civil drones that ensures safety, security and fundamental rights standards while taking into account and fostering the economic potential that civil drones offer to European businesses, especially SMEs and start-ups;
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 458 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 1
– national policy frameworks aimed at the development of the market as regards alternative fuels (natural gas, hydrogen, sustainable biofuels, including molasses- based ethanol) and electric carvehicles of all types, and the deployment of the relevant refuelling/recharging infrastructure,
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 490 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 5 a (new)
- measures to ensure the compliance of national provisions with EU law in the field of cross-border transport,
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 520 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 – indent 1
– the opening-up of the domestic rail passenger market, while ensuring qualita high level of quality and efficiency of services and public service obligations,
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 528 #

2015/2005(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 – indent 1 a (new)
- advancing the interoperability of the different national railway systems with the aim to reduce costs, facilitate travelling and contribute to the establishment of a Single European Transport Area,
2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 6 #

2015/0026(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
(3) In order to address the budgetary constraints faced by Member States at the initial stage of the programming period and, taking into account the urgent need to address youth unemployment and the specific features of the YEI, it is appropriate to lay down provisions in order to complement Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, with a view to increase the level of the initial pre-financing paid to operational programmes supported by the YEI in 2015. To ensure that Member States have sufficient means to provide payments to beneficiaries responsible for the implementation of operations that target youth unemployment, an additional initial pre-financing amount from the specific allocation for the YEI should be paid in 2015 for operational programmes supported by the YEI, in order to complement the pre-financing amounts paid in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013. In order to enable a prompt implementation of the operational programmes supported by the YEI, the Commission should commit itself to pay the pre-financing amount to the Member States immediately after the entry into force of this Regulation.
2015/03/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 8 #

2015/0026(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) To ensure that the additional initial pre- financing amount is used for the immediate implementation of the YEI, it should be foreseen that this amount is reimbursed to the Commission, if the Union contribution from the YEI does not amount to an adequate level in interim payment applications submitted to the Commission 12 months after the entry into force of this Regulation. This measure is a safeguard to ensure that eligible Member States set up the required structures to promptly implement the YEI. Member State action is urgently needed to deliver on the YEI and combat alarming levels of youth unemployment.
2015/03/13
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 53 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) The purpose of the EFSI should be to help resolve the difficulties in financing and implementing productive investments in the Union and to ensureby ensuring an increased and easier access to financing for projects at all levels. It is intended that increased and easier access to financing - combined with a reduction of the administrative burden - should be of particular benefit to small and medium enterprises as well as start-ups. It is also appropriate to extend the benefit of such increased access to financing to mid- cap companies, which are companies having up to 3000 employees. Overcoming Europe's current investment difficulties should contribute to strengthening the Union's economic, social and territorial cohesion.
2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 75 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
(26) Alongside the financing operations that will be conducted through the EFSI, a European Investment Advisory Hub ('EIAH') should be created. The EIAH should provide strengthened support to Member States and their authorities, private investors and investment platforms at all levels for project development and preparation across the Union, by building on the expertise of the Commission, the EIB, national promotional banks and the managing authorities of the European Structural and Investment Funds. This should establish a single point of entry for questions related to technical assistance for investments within the Union.
2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 96 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The purpose of the EFSI shall be to support investments in the Union and to ensure increased access to financing for companies having up to 3000 employees, with a particular focus on small and medium enterprises as well as start-ups, through the supply of risk bearing capacity to the EIB ('EFSI Agreement').
2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 104 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The EFSI Agreement shall provide for the creation of a European Investment Advisory Hub ('EIAH') within the EIB. The EIAH shall have as its objective to build upon existing EIB and Commission advisory services in order to provide advisory support to Member States and their authorities, private investors and investment platforms at all levels for investment project identification, preparation and development and act as a single technical advisory hub for project financing within the Union. This shall include support on the use of technical assistance for project structuring, use of innovative financial instruments, use of public-private partnerships and advice, as appropriate, on relevant issues of EU legislation.
2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 112 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) Taking into account that creative industries in Europe make a substantial contribution to the EU economy, creating more than EUR 550 billion in value added to the GDP and providing 8,3 million full- time jobs, financing under the EFSI should also foster investment and growth in the creative and cultural sector and strengthen Europe's cultural and creative industries, in particular start-ups, innovative SMEs and creative businesses.
2015/03/16
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 126 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) development of infrastructure, including in the areas of transport, particularly in industrial centres; energy, in particular energy interconnections; and digital infrastructure; , maintenance and upgrading of transport and logistics infrastructure, particularly in industrial centres, including technological innovation in transport with the potential to attract private funding, such as integrated traffic management, planning and ticketing systems and the electrification of the transport system, in accordance with the guidelines set out in Regulation (EU) 1316/2013 (CEF) and Regulation (EU) 1315/2013 (TEN-T) as well as in the 2011 White Paper on Transport;
2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 137 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) energy, in particular energy interconnections; digital infrastructure;
2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 226 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) Taking into account that creative industries in Europe make a substantial contribution to the EU economy, creating more than €550 billion in value added to the GDP and providing 8.3 million full- time jobs, financing under the EFSI should also foster investment and growth in the creative and cultural sector and strengthen Europe's cultural and creative industries, in particular start-ups, innovative SMEs and creative businesses.
2015/03/19
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 240 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The purpose of the EFSI shall be to support investments in the Union and to ensure increased access to financing for companies having up to 3000 employees, with a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises, through the supply of risk bearing capacity to the EIB ('EFSI Agreement'), taking into account the considerable financing needs of start- ups, innovative technology-based companies and creative businesses.
2015/03/16
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 354 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) development of infrastructure, including in the areas of transport, particularly in industrial centres; energy, in particular energy interconnections; and digital infrastructure, in particular broadband and digital infrastructure for cultural and creative industries;
2015/03/16
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 373 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) investment in education and training, health, research and development, information and communications technology and, innovation, creativity and culture;
2015/03/16
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 558 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The purpose of the EFSI shall be to support investments in the Union and to ensure increased access to financing for companies having up to 3000 employees, with a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises, through the supply of risk bearing capacity to the EIB ('EFSI Agreement'), taking into account the considerable financing needs of start- ups, innovative technology-based companies and creative businesses.
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 934 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) development of infrastructure, including in the areas of transport, particularly in industrial centres; energy, in particular energy interconnections; and digital infrastructure, in particular broadband and digital infrastructure for cultural and creative industries;
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 959 #

2015/0009(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) investment in education and training, health, research and development, information and communications technology and, innovation, creativity and culture;
2015/03/25
Committee: BUDGECON
Amendment 53 #

2015/0000(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Takes note of the recommendations on the need to move forward within new labour reforms, and calls for such reforms, if carried out, to guarantee social dialogue and to ensure necessary political consensus in order to be sustainable and effectiveensure better anticipation and matching of skills and jobs at labour markets; considers it regrettable that many labour reforms have not ensured the required balance between flexibility and security, resulting in, for example, the exclusion of millions of workers from collective bargainingthe labour market ; calls for labour reforms capable of reducing fragmentation, putting an end to insecurity and increasing the productivity and competitiveness of our economy while ensuring decentmore jobs and livingdecent wages throughand investment in human capital;
2015/07/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 71 #

2015/0000(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have warned of the social (in-work poverty) and economic (depressed internal demand) problems caused by the wage devaluation that has occurred in recent years; considers it regrettable that there is no reference to the importance of increasing wages, especially in those countries where wages are below the poverty thresholdpointed out social and economic problems that have occurred in recent years; recalls that minimum wages differ substantially between Member States (Bulgaria EUR 184/month, Luxembourg EUR 1 923/month), and reiterates its request for a study4 on this issue; __________________ 4 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068), paragraph 47.
2015/07/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 82 #

2015/0000(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that some labour reforms have introduced new contractual formulas that, according to the Commission, have increased precariousness in the labour markets; of particular concern are some Member States whose rates of temporary employment are over 90 % for new contracts, which particularly affects young people and women and which, according to the OECD1, is one of the direct causes of increasing inequality; __________________ 1 OECD inequality benefits all’, 21 May 2015. help to integrate more workers at labour markets; report ‘In it together: Why less
2015/07/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 91 #

2015/0000(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take note of the IMF2 report on the causes and consequences of inequality, which states that the increase in the income gap ismay negatively affecting economic growth and the potential for job creation; calls for effective action on labour taxation, labour markets and redistributive policies to facilitate greater and upward economic and social convergence and calls for labour market reforms to boost economic growth, competitiveness and productivity; __________________ 2 IMF report ‘Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective’, June 2015.
2015/07/24
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 5 #

2014/2252(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the closer participation of national parliaments in the European legislative process, which has resulted in a positive increase in awareness of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality in the interinstitutional context; notes however, that further work still needs to be done in this context; Suggests therefore that the Commission engages in a yearly debate with each of the national parliaments in the national parliament in order to strengthen the dialogue between the Commission and the national parliaments;
2015/04/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 7 #

2014/2252(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Reminds that according to Article 5 in the Maastricht Treaty the European Union shall only act if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States;
2015/04/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 8 #

2014/2252(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that the principle of subsidiarity is an important tool to balance the exercise of power and to ensure genuine European added value and thereby promoting growth and job- creation; stresses that in respecting the principle of subsidiarity it is key to consider the role of the social partners and to ensure their autonomy according to Member States' customs and traditions, believes in this regard that breaches of the principle of subsidiarity can lead to unintended consequences such as undermined faith in the European Union for European citizens and that breaches of the principle of subsidiarity should therefore be avoided;
2015/04/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 51 #

2014/2252(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the increasing emphasis placed by the Commission on the policy cycles, and calls on the committee responsible to systematically review Commission impact assessments and to review Parliament’s ex-ante impact assessment analysis as early as possible in the legislative process; reminds in this regard that every Commission proposal should have a European added value and a positive impact on European citizen's lives, European competitiveness and European job-creation; calls therefore for better and more ambitious impact assessments to be done throughout the political cycles and for the impact assessments to prove that a proposal have a genuine European added value and a positive impact on European citizens' live, European competitiveness and European job-creation; suggests that if this positive impact cannot be proven through impact assessments the proposal in question should be withdrawn.
2015/04/20
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 33 #

2014/2247(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Draws the attention of Member States and the Commission to the fact that after 2020, even though there will be fewer and fewer people of working age, there will be ever greater competition for jobs, while the private sector will provide fewer and fewer jobs for those who are currently relatively low-skilled, which will require a new approach and not only long-term strategies but also short-term measures, to prevent permanent unemployment and a lasting increase in it; In this context recalls the need for vocational training and basic skills developing for people with low skills or no qualifications based not on a "one-size- fits-all" policy solutions, but on tailored policy recommendations, contingent on the region's existing knowledge assets. Emphasizes the public–private policy- learning agenda as a consequence of partnerships between civil society organizations and local authorities, capitalizing on the results/outcome indicators, ongoing monitoring and evaluation, combined with pilots, policy experiments and test cases. Points to the necessity of a policy-design framework which considers the potential innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities associated with the region's existing characteristics, its realistic diversification potential so as to design appropriate strategy interventions on the basis of these features and intended outcomes; and thus prevent the risk of over qualification or skills training which in certain regions can induce a non- desired aspect of outflow of population towards more developed regions where these skills are required.
2015/05/19
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 2 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas, despite ongoing efforts, the aim outlined in Initiative 22 in the 2011 White Paper1 of enabling seamless multimodal door-to-door travel using intelligent systems for interoperable and multimodal scheduling, online reservation systems and smart ticketing hais not yet beenbeing realised; __________________ 1 Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system (COM(2011)0144).
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 6 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas most travellers continue to prefer individual transport, and whereas, given that creating EU-wide journey planners will not in itself be enough to achieve better integration of the various modes of transport, each of these transport modes needs to become more efficient and user friendly, and that process will be significantly assisted by, inter alia, the adoption of the Fourth Railway Package and the Regulation on air passengers’ rights and the completion of the Single European Sky;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 9 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas new rules for the governance of infrastructure managers – including the independence of infrastructure management from the interests of dominant railway operators – are needed to ensure equal access to infrastructure, also for smaller operators, SMEs and start-ups;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 11 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas global competitors are making investments in rail transport a basic part of their strategies since 2014 while Europe is behind;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 12 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that EU-wide integrated multimodal travel information, planning and ticketing services provide European businesses, especially SMEs and start- ups, with opportunities for innovation and hence constitute a major contribution to a globally competitive European Single Market and the completion of a Single European Transport Area;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 25 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that EU-wide personal mobility is a prerequisite for the exercise of basic freedoms and that peopleconsumers should therefore be able to access comprehensive information about multimodal and cross- border transport links for seamless, facilitated door-to- door travel with high comfort standards and protection of passenger rights and to make the necessary reservations and payments online;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 33 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Sees the provision of comprehensive, easily accessible and reliable information for travellers as the first major step towards integrateproviding multimodal information, travel planning and ticketing services, and emphasises that, in order to ensure that measures to that end are fair, it is of prime importance that they be accompanied by the internalisation of external costs for all modes of transport;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 36 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Underlines that there is a basic need to define the ambition for the mid-term future and thus to clarify whether ´´integrated ticket´´ means having one ticket for one trip or rather the interoperability of systems and tickets;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 39 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Is aware of the existing bottlenecks preventing the existence of integrated multimodal information, planning and ticketing services in the EU, such as the incompatibility of data layers, the diversity of and the missing interoperability between the ticketing systems, insufficient liberalization on the Internal Market, costs and financing, as well as the lacking level-playing field between the different modes of transport; urges the Commission to consider those carefully and to elaborate an adequate roadmap with the aim to address the problems without putting additional burden on the operators that might hamper innovation as well as to stimulate the private sector; calls on the Commission to ensure that any regulatory action keeps up with the rapid developments in the transport sector;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 43 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes efforts in both the public and private sectors to introduce journey planners but notes that many such services cover only specific regions or countries and that few are multimodal; calls therefore - as a first step - for all the stakeholders and regulators to build on existing synergies and to focus more closely on providing multimodal, cross- border journey planners with tailored ticketing arrangements linking long- distance and local transport - including the blind mile - e.g. by upgrading the different systems to develop their interoperability and enable communication between them; calls on the Commission to use the TEN-T corridors as a pilot project for the identification of passenger flows and the potential for multimodal information, travel planning and ticketing services;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 49 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission, with regard to ticketing services, to confine itself to creating amultimodal information, planning and ticketing services, to create a comprehensive framework that supports and facilitates the efforts being made by the stakeholders, the competent authorities and the agreements they have already concluded; urges the Commission to consider the necessary distinction between public and commercial operators and stresses the crucial role the first can play in advancing multimodal information, planning and ticketing services; hence asks the Commission to focus on public transport service providers in its regulatory approach;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 58 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 1
– to introduce, by 2020 at the latest, national updated timetable information systems linking the timetables for regional and local urban public transport operated by both private and publicly owned companies, and to continue updateing such systems on a regular basis,
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 64 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 3
– to make provision by 2024 at the latest for the national timetable information systems, with real-time information on local public transport operators’ timetables, to be networkedmade accessible to operators and consumers on a cross-border basis;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 66 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 – indent 3 a (new)
– to invest and to stimulate investment in the upgrading of different ticketing systems so as to improve the interoperability of those systems, also across borders;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 72 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Shares the Commission’s view that fair and equal access for service providersinformation, travel planning and ticketing service providers - including SMEs and start-ups - to comprehensive, multimodal real-time transport and travel data is a prerequisite for EU-wide multimodal travel information, planning and ticketing services, and; hence calls on the Commission to circulate a proposal requiring all providers to make available, on fair and equal terms, all the information needed for putting in place more comprehensive services and therebyelaborate a framework proposal for the fair, equal and transparent provision by providers of public transport services of all the information needed for making comprehensive multimodal information, travel planning and ticketing services accessible to consumers and transport operators across Europe. This will enablinge travellers to choose between the most sustainable, best- value or fastest connections, without prejudice to the economic interests of the operators involved;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 79 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises that, in line with the EU´s competition policy, it is incumbent on the Commission to identify and counter any potential danger of multimodal information and ticketing providers’ monopolising information;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 95 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Finds it regrettable thatUrges the Commission has noto responded to Parliament’s call, in its resolution on the 2011 Roadmap2 , for a Charter of Passengers’ Rights covering all forms of transport, and expects the Commission to br by bringing forward a proposal for such a Charter, taking account of the specific characteristics of each transport mode in the separate sections of multimodal journeys, by the end of 2017; __________________ 2 European Parliament resolution of 15 December 2011 on the Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system (2011/2096(INI)).
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 102 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Emphasises the crucial importance, in terms of social mobility and considering the demographic change in Europe, of transport being accessible, and calls for more attention to be paid to the needs of people with disabilities or limited mobility as well as to the special requirements of older people in relation to access to information before and during journeys;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 107 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Points out that cycling is to be considered an integral part of any multi- modal journey - including the blind mile; bike rental systems should therefore be included in any information, travel planning and ticketing system; emphasises in this regard the need to strengthen passenger rights and to facilitate the carriage of bikes in all means of transport.
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 109 #

2014/2244(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the continuation of support for stakeholders for innovative problem solving, and therefore for the relevant sources of EU financing, e.g. the Shift2Rail Innovation Programme 4 under the Horizon 2020 programme and the Connecting Europe facility, to be maintained and developed; urges the European Investment Bank to make appropriate use of the European Fund for Strategic Investment in this regard;
2015/04/17
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 262 #

2014/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Emphasises that progress in integrated ticketing services would be a strong incentive to cross border tourism;
2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 283 #

2014/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Welcomes the opportunities brought by the sharing economy for start-ups and innovative companies in the tourism sector; Acknowledges the complementary of these services with other tourism offers as regards their location and the people they target;
2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 321 #

2014/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Is aware of the fact that SMEs and start-ups in the tourism sector face considerable difficulties in promoting their services abroad and in adapting to the fast- changing market conditions; notes that new IT tools such as the Tourism-IT business support portal and the TourismLink platform will help them take advantage of the digital opportunities; Encourages further initiatives in this respect at local, national and European levels;
2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 339 #

2014/2241(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Member States to identify and support EU-wide initiatives that foster the use of the digital infrastructure (such as the elimination of roaming charges and access to Wi-Fi) and interoperability among different platformsand interoperability among different platforms; In this context calls upon Member States to abolish roaming charges by the end of 2016;
2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 1 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to the ILO/UNEP definition of a green job as any decent job that contributes to preserving or restoring the quality of the environment whether it is in agriculture, industry, services or administration,
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 5 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas global trends such as the inefficient use of resources, the unsustainable pressure on the environment, and climate change and growing social exclusion and inequalities are close to the limits beyond which irreversible impacts on our societies and the natural environment cannot be prevented;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 9 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the lack of a coherent policy response to tackle these challenges risks leaving a significant part of the employment potential of a green and socially inclusive transitiontransition including the creation of better and sustainable jobs unused;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 19 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the EU and its Member States made a commitment, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Cancun in 2010, to ensure ‘a just transition of the workforce that creates decent work and quality jobs’; whereas a just transition for all towards an environmentally sustainable economy needs to be well managed and must contribute to the objective of decent work for all, social inclusion and the eradication of povertycreating better and sustainable employment as well as more highly skilled jobs;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 23 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas the potential for expansion in ‘green’ jobs is hampered by a skills deficiency and mismatch caused by a number of factors;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 43 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas SMEs are important generators of employment and have led the way in many 'green' sectors, but may face particular difficulties in anticipating the skills needed and fulfilling the job potential of the transition;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 48 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas labour market rigidities are impeding job creation, while a competitive EU labour market can contribute to achieving the Europe 2020 employment targets;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 55 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that a transition towards sustainable societies and economies, including sustainable patterns of consumption and production, generates the potential both to create new jobs and to transform existing employment into green jobs in virtually all sectors and across the entire value chain; emphasises in this regard the importance of striking the right balance between an ambitious and coherent policy for the greening of the European economy while at the same strengthening European competitiveness;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 62 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Just transition’ and decent workjob-creation
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s statement that restructuring should be handled in a socially responsible way while at the same time recognizing the need for companies to restructure;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 68 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit to a ‘just 'transition roadmap' that combines ambitious environmental goals with strong social requirements, including the promotion of decent work, healthy and safe working conditions, and trainan ambitious strategy for creating better and sustainable jobs including addressing andthe skills programmes, and the strengthening of worker information, consultation and participation rights regarding matters concerning sustainable development as well as of effective workforce representationmismatch in Europe in general but with a particular focus on meeting the skills needs of the greener economy;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 74 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the revised EU Health and Safety strategy should take into account specific riskdevelopments in new sectors;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 96 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the tools for skills development and the forecasting of skill needs proposed by the Commission; stresses, however, that more ambitious action is neededand a particular focus on SMEs is needed; believes that in order to anticipate future skills' needs, all labour market stakeholders have to be strongly involved in all levels;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 105 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States and on regional governments to involve businesses, employers' organisations, social partners and training providers, and to adopt and implement skill anticipation and development strategies with the objectives of improving generic, sectoral and occupation-specific skills; further stresses the importance of partnerships and trust between educational institutions, businesses, social partners and authorities;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 106 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that these strategies should include the anticipation and identification of skill gaps and targeted vocational and lifelong training programmes with a clear focus on matching skills and jobs with the aim of increasing employment; stresses the need to actively include in the strategies both displaced workers and low-skilled workers at risk of being excluded from the labour market; stresses that steps need to be taken to counter the gender imbalance in certain sectors;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 115 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on Member States to integrate sustainable development, and environmental competences and skills, into training and education systems, in particular further strengthening VET systems; recalls the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 120 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need for targeted action by public authorities and services which would involve all labour market stakeholders, including employers' and employees' organisations, to bridge the skills gap; calls on the Member States to have mechanisms in place to train staff in employment authorities and services to mainstream skills for green employment across labour market policies; stresses the importance of European education institutions to put more effort in adopting their programmes to meet the needs of the greener economy and the labour market in general;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 128 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt ambitious and integrated regulatory, fiscal and financial frameworks to guaranteefor sustainable investment and encourage innovation, thereby fully unlocking the employment potential of these changes; highlights that policies should be developed in a framework of long-term horizons that includes binding targets where necessarytargets as well as indicators to measure progress towards their achievement;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 165 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to renew its commitment to the Europe 2020 strategy and to issue its mid-term review without delay; calls on the Commission to introduce qualitygreen employment and resource efficiency as lead goals; calls on the Commission to propose more ambitious social and environmental targets for 2030 and 2050;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 175 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote quality investments geared towards generating economic and societal benefits; calls on the Commission and the Member States to focus investment in areas with positive labour market impact with the aim of creating decent jobs and fighting unemployment;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 199 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Supports the objectives of the Green Action Plan for SMEs and the SMEs- oriented actions it proposes to improve resource efficiency, support green entrepreneurship, exploiting opportunities for greener value chains and facilitating market access for green SMEs and microenterprises;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 206 #

2014/2238(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Notes that SMEs and microenterprises are key drivers of job creation in Europe; stresses that SMEs and microenterprises face particular challenges when exploiting the job opportunities of a green transition, in particular regarding access to finance, training and bridging skills gaps; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take ambitious action to provide support to facilitate green job creation in SMEs and microenterprises, including targeted information, awareness raising, technical assistance and access to finance and training measures;
2015/04/17
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 7 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
- having in mind one of the priorities of the European Council conclusions of 26- 27 June 2014 to help develop skills, and unlock talent and life changes for all by promoting the right skills for the modern economy and lifelong learning;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 9 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament legislative resolution of 29 April 2015 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 1304/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council on the European Social Fund, as regards an increase of the initial pre-financing amount paid to operational programmes supported by the Youth Employment Initiative;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 67 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Is deeply concerned about the levels of youth unemployment in Europe; underlines in this regard the importance on dual education such as vocational training and apprenticeships in matching the skills of young people with the demands on the labour marked, calls therefore for a European benchmark on dual education which will highlight the correlation between dual education tracks and youth employment. (Data for a benchmark could be collected yearly through the Labour Force Survey and should – as a minimum - measure: - Amount of/percentage of time spent in a company (apprenticeship) during the education - Number of months after graduation before employment)
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 69 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Emphasises that labour market shortages are to be considered as a sustained market disequilibrium between supply and demand in which the quantity of workers demanded exceeds the supply available and willing to work at a particular wage and working conditions at a particular place and point in time; (This should go before para 4, right after the subtitle)
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 71 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Notes that even if the labour supply is sufficient to match the labour demand, there might still be qualitative shortages as those looking for work may not be suitable for the open position, as a result of a mismatch between sectors, occupations or skills´ requirements; (This should follow 4a)
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 82 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Highlights the considerable differences in job openings between Member States, underlines in this regard that job openings are a crucial element of a dynamic labour market which matches skills and jobs and which creates opportunities and possibilities for businesses and employees, is deeply concerned about the static situation in the labour markets in some Member States; calls therefore for a European benchmark on job openings in the Member States; (Data for a benchmark could be collected yearly through the Labour Force Survey and should – as a minimum - measure: - number of job openings in a Member State - the average duration of unemployment)
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 83 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Points that Europe has 24 million unemployed people, including 7,5 million NEETs, and on the other side 2 million vacancies and that the European companies are affected by a huge lack of the skilled people and labour force with transferable skills;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 120 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the importance of human development, career flexibility and self- responsibility; recalls in this respect that investment is needed to actively support employability and adaptability and prevent skills depletion among the unemployed; emphasises that such measures should be combined with reforms in pension and social welfare systems that encourage more people to work, so as to extend protection and provide comparable access to workers regardless of their type of contract, for example by increasing portability of rights from one contract to the next;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 140 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls the importance of the mobility of workers, geographically and across sectors, for a competitive labour market, and stresses the need to reduce the administrative and linguistic barriers that are liable to restrain it; encourages raising of awareness of and further improvement of the EU-wide EURES job portal as well as the importance of enhanced cooperation among national PES and the future inclusion of private employment services to EURES network;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 141 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Reiterates that a big economic potential of women has to be unlocked in Europe and it is necessary to create appropriate conditions for women to progress in their career and pursue higher positions in companies or start their own businesses;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 152 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Believes that, in order to anticipate future skills needs, labour market stakeholders, including employers' and employees' organisations , have to be strongly involved at all levels, in particular in designing and implementing vocational qualification programmes, which provide an effective transition from formal education to work-based learning;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 157 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the importance of partnerships and trust between universities, businesses and authorities with a view to estimating labour needs for the future, as well as fostering cooperation between Member States in this regard; reminds that at the same time social responsibility of all stakeholders is needed;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 170 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls the need to strive for a more flexible approach to individual career development and lifelong education and training across one's personal career path, and recognizes the role that both public and private parties can play in providing this;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 172 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Notes that the European policies for Lifelong Guidance have shown considerable impact on national guidance policies and that effective lifelong guidance requires programmes in a cross- cutting perspective at all levels;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 179 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that training and re- qualification programs for the unemployed should be designed and implemented in close cooperation with employers' associations as well private and public employment services, with a view to better aligning workers' new skills with the future needs of employers;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 188 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that it is of utmost importance to give guidance and counselling to jobseekers in how to look for a job and recognises the role that businesses and private employment services can play to provide this, and to ensure that their skills aretransferable and recognised through 'competences passports' reflecting the skills acquired through both formal and informal learning;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 189 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that it is of utmost importance to give guidance and counselling to jobseekers in how to look for a job and to ensure that their skills are recognised through ‘competences passports' e.g. Europass, reflecting the skills acquired through both formal and informal learning;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 197 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that dual vocational training and dualsimilar work-based learning systems should be given more consideration, as they tend to favour integration into the labour market and smoother transition from education to work and they have proved to be effective in fostering youth employment;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 210 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Welcomes the EC initiative of the European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA) which aims to bring together public authorities, businesses, social partners, VET providers, youth representatives, and other key actors in order to promote apprenticeship schemes and initiatives across Europe;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 213 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses the importance of career orientation and work experience through individual assessment and career advice provided by highly qualified employment counsellors with experience of their local and national and EU labour market;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 223 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Believes that close and systematic partnerships are needed at local, regional, national level between governments and employers' and employees' representatives, including public and private employment services, in order to find the best ways of tackling the problem of skill mismatches in all its dimensions, and calls on Member States to promote such cooperation;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 242 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. RecCalls the impfort ance of the mobility of effective economic migration of the highly skilled workers from third countries in the light of the demographic challenges and labour market shortages;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 256 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the need to exchange best practices between Member States, as well as to compare and measure their effectiveness, in particular in relation to dual learning and vocational education and training, while acknowledging the specificities of each labour market and education system;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 274 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines the importance of support measures for SMEs and micro-enterprises, in order to reduce the administrative and financial barriers to their establishment and operation as well as facilitatingthe necessity to embed and act upon the principle of better regulation and to facilitate the hiring of qualified labour and training of employees;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 299 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Highlights the job creation potential offered by completing the digital single market, building the energy union, creating jobs through investing in research and development and innovation, promoting social entrepreneurship and the social economy and up-skilling of workers in the health and social care sector and fostering transport networks;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 302 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Highlights the job creation potential offered by completing the digital single market, building the energy union, creating jobs through investing in research and development and innovation, and fostering improved transport networks;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 305 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Supports the European Commission´s initiative in cooperation with the Trio Presidency to promote an entrepreneurial mindset in Europe and develop transferable skills for life;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 312 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Stresses the importance of special measures and support for employers, in particular SMEs, to encourage them to hire young people for their first job and ensure their in-houwork-based training, as also for older workers; recognises and supports the role of public as well as private employment services in promoting inclusive and competitive labour markets; recalls the importance of social and economic responsibility on the part of employers and educational institutions towards all employees and towards society; believes that such social responsibility should also be required of institutions responsible for education and training;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 316 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Recognises the challenges young people face when entering the labour market, recalls the importance to obtain first work experiences during studies to gain employability skills and to make the transition from school to work more efficient and effective; calls on the responsibility of employers in this regard as to provide young people with the possibility to obtain such experiences, further emphasises the importance of cooperation between schools and employers in this respect;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 324 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider innovative ways to encourage investment in the EU in order to boost growth and jobs; further emphasises the importance for the Member States to implement economic and financial measures and to carry out labour market reforms which are based on clear, data-based and measurable indicators which effectiveness can be proved;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 335 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Member States to learn from best practices that deliver lower unemployment rates and undertake more ambitious reforms which draw on those practices, including comparing and measuring the effectiveness of such practices, and ensuring the right balance between adaptability and security for workers and companies, as well as promoting diversity in the forms of employment that are available on the labour market;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 346 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Member States to include leadership, management, entrepreneurial and financial education and business start- up advice inas part of their education programmes, including lifelong learning strategies, and to prioritise the further development of vocational training and education (VET) programmes, including financial and non-financial incentives for companies, in cooperation with employers;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 351 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Member States to support the close and systematic involvement of labour market stakeholders, including employers' and employees' organisations, at local, regional and national level as well as public and private employment services, at local, regional and national level, including facilitating communication and sharing of information between them, in order to foster closer links between education and training and the workplace and to anticipate and plan for future skills needs;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 354 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide financial and economic structurincentives that support participation in continuous education and training in order to secure a high skilled future workforce; recommends to base such incentives on measurable and data- based indicators which effectiveness can be proved;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 361 #

2014/2235(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Calls on the Member States and the EU to take concrete steps towards full recognition of qualifications across the EU;
2015/05/08
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 12 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the economic and social context in the EU continues to be bleak, with negative growth rates in the eurozone for the past two years, and with growth now stalled at around 0 %; whereas forecasts have systemically been revised downwards by the Commission, as has been done for 2015 and 2016; whereas recovery is neither robust nor underpinned; whereas overall debt in the EU28 remains high even though overall EU28 debt has fallen from 4.5 % in 2011 to a forecast of 3 % in 2014 the need for further fiscal consolidation remains;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 26 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the EU needs to make a decisive change in an economic policy that has allowed the Union to drift away from the EU 2020 targets, and that has increased the risks of secular stagnationcontinue fiscal consolidation on order to create the necessary trust in the economy which will foster private investments in order to be able to reach the EU 2020 targets; whereas the EU is worryingly losing weight in the world economy, while most other countries are showing solid signs of recovery; whereas in October 2014 the IMF estimated that the probability of a recession in the euro area had increased and would reach 35-40% at year’s end;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 45 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas high unemployment levels, excessive focusvarious factors including failure to create a positive environment to boost investment and growth, high unemployment levels, loss of competitiveness, lowering onf wage depression to regain competitiveness,s in some countries and a decline in spending on social protection in almost all Member States, have led to significant reductions in household gross disposable incomes, leaving millions of European families at risk of exclusion, and have increased inequalities alarmingly; whereas one in four Europeans are at risk of poverty; whereas underemployment and precariousness has peaked and, for 50 % of all job seekers, securing employment is not enough to lift them out of poverty;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 71 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas austerity has lessened as the pace of fiscal consolidation has increased, and as new headline targets – focusing more on structural than on cyclical deficits – have been introduced; whereas, in spite of this, the size of fiscal multipliers in the current context is still very high, and the need to accomplish the medium-term objective and the debt objective will inevitably have a significant negative impact onto create an environment which will foster economic growth and job creation;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 77 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas investment in qualitysustainable jobs, human capital, research and innovation and in particular in a resource efficient energy union, digital single market, promoting entrepreneurship and a better business environment for SME's must be the top priority for both the Commission and the Member States, as investment in these areas are essential not only to ensuring a recovery but also to expanding the EU’s economic potential to grow and to create prosperity;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 99 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to introduce a much-needed, expansionaryfor ambitious economic policyies to boost smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and to create quality jobs; stresses that low inflation is already increasing real interest rates as well as real public and private debt, which, together with high unemployment, depresses growth and increases poverty;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 138 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the fact that the EFSI must be focused on creating new investments in areas where investor appetite is subdued rather than on substituting investments that would have been produced elsewhere (crowding out), or on focusing on highly profitable investments that would have occurred in any case (deadweight); calls on the Commission to include and promote social investments that not only generate financial returns but promote positive social spilloverwill result in the creation of sustainable jobs, such as investments in human capital or investments with high impact in job creation or poverty reduction; reiterates its call for the implementation of the Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP);
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 146 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to prioritise investments in economically weaker regions suffering from high unemployment, and in SMEs in such regionensure an optimal allocation of capital and to prioritise investments that will have a positive impact on job-creation and in the business environment for SMEs, given their very limited access to financing, to ensure that these efforts have a meaningful impact where they are most needed;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 158 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the extension of the pace of fiscal consolidation, and the introduction of new headline targets – focusing more on structural than on cyclical deficits – that will have a positive effect on employment and growth; notes, however, that the size of fiscal multipliers in the current context is nevertheless still very high and that this will inevitably have a negative impact on economic growth and job creation; calls on the Commission to explore the possibility of introducing escape clauses, or of delaying these targets, in order to avoid weakening demand further and destroying jobs;deleted
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 172 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the development of a European framework to assure that investments under the Juncker Plan, which are excluded from national deficit targets, have a significant impact in terms of stimulating economic growth and creating qualitysustainable jobs;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 216 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that decisive investment plans for growth and job creation can only be fully realised if they are coupled with national reforms that enhance quality labour participation, boost productivity and develop human capital; believes that structural labour market reforms should introduce internal flexibility measures aimed at maintaining employment in times of economic disruption, ensure job quality and security in employment transitions, and provide unemployment benefit schemes that are based on activation requirements and linked to reintegration policiesfoster a dynamic labour market, enhance labour-market participation, boost productivity and develop human capital;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 230 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to design tailor-made policies to support qualitysustainable job creation for the long-term unemployed, senior unemployed people, women and other priority groups hit especially hard by the crisis, such as immigrants or people with disabilities;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 243 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Regrets that the European Semester has not been sufficiently aligned with the Europe 2020 strategy; calls for more determined efforts to guide and coordinate EU policies to boost smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and create qualitysustainable jobs;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 252 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Is concerned that the Commission’s strategy to regain competitiveness has been more focused on reducing costs than on raising productivity via investments in human capital; sStresses that more than 20 Member States have reduced their education expenditures in relative terms (as percentages of their GDPs), thereby jeopardising their growth, job potential and competitiveness;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 254 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the fact that in the AGS 2015 the Commission calls on the Member States to protect or promote longer-term investments in education, research and innovation; notes, however, that Member States with already-constrained budgets do not have sufficient means to accomplish that goal; calls, therefore, on the Commission to exclude productive investments in education, research and development from the deficit targets established under EU rules;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 276 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that decent wages are important not only for social cohesion, but also for maintaining a strong economy and a productive labour force; calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a European framework for minimum wages with a view to reducing wage inequalities and limiting nominal imbalances in competitiveness;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 287 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Is concerned that labour market reforms in many Member States have mainly promoted precarious jobs; oObserves that 50 % of jobs created in 2014 were temporary jobs; notes that, according to the Commission, in-work poverty persists, and that for 50 % of all job seekers, securing employment is not enough to lift them out of poverty, nor does it raise productivity; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make job quali-creation and the fight against in-work poverty a priority and to address labour market segmentation;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 295 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Welcomes the initiative regarding a European platform on undeclared work; reiterates its call on the Member States to ensure that people with precarious contracts, or who are self-employed, enjoy a core set of rights and adequate social protection; calls on the Commission to make dedicated efforts to address the additional problems caused by involuntary part-time and temporary employment and by bogus self- employment;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 305 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the reduction in youth unemployment rates, but points out that they are still alarming; stresses that job insecurity and underemployment have also risen, and that 43 % of the young find themselves working under precarious conditions, on involuntary part-time contracts or as bogusfalsely self-employed;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 315 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to propose a European framework introducing minimum standards for the implementation of Youth Guarantees covering young people aged 25-30; calls on the Member States to use the available budget efficiently and to implement the Youth Guarantees without delay; calls for the available budget to be increased during the promisedadequate budget in the mid-term review of the MFF in accordance with ILO recommendations;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 341 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Given the number of workers, particularly young people, who are now leaving their countries of origin for other Member States in search of employment opportunities, there is an urgent need to develop appropriate measures to guarantee that no worker is left uncovered by social and labour rights protection; calls, in this regard, on the Commission and the Member States to further improve EU labour mobility while upholding the principle of equal treatment and safeguarding wages and socialworking standards; calls on each Member State to establish social and employment policies for equal rights and equal pay for men and women for equal work at the same place of work;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 355 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Reiterates its warning of the socioeconomic challenges facing the Union and the risks to its sustainability and its stable growth potential posed by a reversal in regional convergence; recalls that more than 122 million EU citizens are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including in- work poverty and child poverty, and that these levels are unacceptablealarming and need to be reduced immediately; calls for a true ‘social pillar’ to be implemented within the EMU as part of the process of improving economic governance mechanismswithout delay;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 360 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Points out that social protection and social policy – in particular unemployment benefits, minimum income support and progressive taxation – initially helped to reduce the depth of the recession and stabilised labour markets and consumption; stresses, however, that social stabilisers have been widely used as adjustment factors by those EMU members experiencing negative economic shocks; Stresses that social protection and social policies are the competence of Member States;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 365 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Considers it regrettable that the AGS 2015 does not mention European social stabilisers; recalls the importance of such stabilisers in addressing asymmetrical shocks, in avoiding excessive depletion of national welfare states and, thus, in strengthening the sustainability of the EMU; reiterates its call on the Commission to produce a Green Paper on automatic stabilisers in the eurozone;deleted
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 385 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the fact that the Joint Employment Report annexed to the AGS includes a scoreboard for employment and social policies; considers it regrettable, however, that these indicators are not sufficient and that they have not been made binding, which would allow them to be used more forcefully; asks the Commission to remedy this situation;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 396 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a European minimum income, as announced by its President during the investiture debate, with the aim of reducing poverty in EU;deleted
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 412 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the CommissionMember States to tackle immediately the alarming increase in child poverty throughout the EU through the introduction of a child guarantee against poverty;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 421 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Points out that emerging new forms of poverty – such as in-work poverty compounding difficulties such as e.g. paying mortgages, or high utility prices creating energy poverty – have resulted in an increase in the number of evictions, foreclosures and homeless people; calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement integrated policies favouring social and affordable housing, effective prevention policies aimed at reducing the number of evictions, and policies tackling energy poverty;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 440 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
37. Takes note of the Commission’s recommendation to reform healthcare systems so that they meet their objectives of providing universal access to high- quality care – including affordable access to medicines, especially those that are life- saving – and to secure respect for the rights of health staff; observes that, as a consequence of the crisis, some Member States have failed to ensure full coverage of public health; calls for this situation to be corrected without delay;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 454 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
39. Notes the importance of reducing taxation on labour, especially by low-paid and low-skilled workers, the long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups, while ensuring the long-range sustainability of public pension systems; calls on the Commission to shift the tax burden away from labour while making sure not to endanger social benefits; notes that such shifts should not affect taxes with regressive effects such as consumption taxes, but should focus instead on taxes on capital, wealth, energy and natural resources;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 471 #

2014/2222(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
41. Calls on the Commission and the Council to enter into an interinstitutional agreement with Parliament in order to give Parliament a full role in the drafting and approval ofbetter involve the Parliament in the AGS and the Economic Policy and Employment Guidelines;
2015/01/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 15 #

2014/2210(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas family businesses differ in terms of values from non-family corporations as regards long-term orientation,from non-family businesses in structure, in particular in ownership and governance matters, and have a special degree of commitment to their local community and its economy– rooted in the European tradition of the 'honourable merchant’ – and are generally slower to close down and put workers out of jobs';
2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 37 #

2014/2210(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the work being undertaken on an EU definition of 'family business', and calls for the specificities within Member States' definitions to be taken into account, in particular with regard to guaranteeingcompany law, including for the self-employed, and ownership matters, as well as taxation, social rights, social security, pension entitlements and health and safety at work;
2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 61 #

2014/2210(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern that the financial crisis and subsequent recession have dealt a heavy blow to Europeanaffected SMEs, many of which are family businesses, and highlights the importance of fostering a favourable regulatory framework to support healthy restructuring and thus job retentiongrowth-friendly environment for family businesses across the EU to create more jobs;
2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 71 #

2014/2210(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Further notes the necessity to address other challenges that family businesses face, such as the difficulties to find and retain skilled workforce, and the importance to strengthen entrepreneurship education and family- business-specific management training;
2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 88 #

2014/2210(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Draws the Commission’s attention to the need for equal treatment of big multinationals and family businesses so as to ensure a balanced level playing field in terms of competition, while respecting the unique nature of family businesses, in particular of a balanced level playing field in terms of competition for all the companies operating in the EU, while respecting and fostering those Member States in which such businesses were destroyed after 1945e unique nature of family businesses.
2015/05/06
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 8 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that REFIT represents a first important step towards reducing the administrative burdens of regulation on businesses and eliminating barriers to growth, competitiveness and job creation;
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 25 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Supports the Commission’s commitment on cutting red tape and for providing better regulation; welcomes the effort of the Juncker Commission to a strengthened Better Regulation Agenda and calls for the need for it to deliver an efficient system and actual progress; believes that cutting red tape should aim to deliver proportionate, evidence-based protection for workers, while ensuring that businesses can grow, create jobs and boost competitiveness; notes that debetter regulation and better regulationhigh protection of employees are not mutually exclusive;
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 38 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes efforts to identify genuine opportunities for simplification of legislationand adaptability of legislation whilst maintaining high standards; 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; recalls the importance of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality;
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 61 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomNotes the Commission’s indication that the maternity leave directive shcould be considered for withdrawal; underlines that any new proposal from the Commission in this area must be in full compliance with the principle of subsidiarity;
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 87 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the SME test and reminds the Commission on the commitment it has made in the Small Business Act to implement the "think small first principle" in its policy-making and considers that there is still an important margin of progress to be completed; calls on the Commission to use lighter regimes for micro-enterprises, start-ups and SMEs and to consider exemptions for micro-enterprisesthem on a case-by-case basis, while not compromising on health, safety and employment standards;
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 96 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Reminds that Commissioner Biénkowska during her confirmation hearing committed the Commission to consider the withdrawal of any proposal that Members find that an impact assessment is flawed or that elements have not been considered in full, calls on the Commission to confirm its commitment to this in writing;
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 105 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for further measures such as carrying out independent impact assessments throughout the legislative process, further strengthening the independence, objectivity and neutrality of impact assessments and the SME-test, further facilitating citizens participation in the EUs legislative process, ensuring the adaptability of legislators and increasing transparency of inter- institutional negotiations as well as monitoring the transposition of the EU- legislation into national laws by including national gold-plating in the EU Regulatory Scoreboard to check that legislation is doing what it was intended to do and to identify areas where there are inconsistencies and ineffective measures;
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 119 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission and co- legislators to continue to improve the legislative cycle and to introduce sunset clauses when justified and useful in concrete cases to ensure that employment legislation is periodically reviewed;
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 134 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to prioritise action in the fields of what have been identified as the ‘Top Ten’ most burdensome laws for SMEs, micro- enterprises and start-ups, including the working time and temporary agency directives as well as national legislation which fragments the European Single Market;
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 149 #

2014/2150(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the committee responsible to systematically review Commission impact assessments and review IMPA’s analysis as early as possible in the legislative process, and to call for independent impact assessments on its own reports.
2015/03/30
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 65 #

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises, furthermore, the importance of developing interregional and cross- border tourist products, which are based on coordinated action, build on synergies, save resources, and strengthen the common cultural identity and the competitiveness of the entire region; calls on the Members States and the Commission to facilitate this process;
2015/03/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 74 #

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Supports the creation of initiatives that valorise Europe’s common heritage, increase visibility of cultural sites and have a particular impact at local and regional level, such as the European cycle routes or pilgrimage rCultural Routes, the European Capitals of Culture, the Europa Nostra network, the ‘Natura 2000’ network, the European Heritage Label, the European Heritage Days and the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage; (Amendment refers to the European Cultural Routes as routes recognised by the Council of Europe.)
2015/03/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 79 #

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Supports the creation of initiatives that valorise Europe’s common heritage, increase visibility of cultural sites and have a particular impact at local and regional level, such as the European cycle routes or pilgrimage routes, the European Capitals of Culture, the Europa Nostra network, the ‘Natura 2000’ network, the European Heritage Label, the European Heritage Days and, the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage; and the European Youth Capital title;
2015/03/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 91 #

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to initiate and to facilitate a European-wide dialogue between policymakers across all levels of governance, together with cultural and creative industries, networks of tourism operators, partnerships between private and public actors and also NGOs; recalls that cultural tourism can be improved through better cross-border transport links; calls therefore on the Member States, in cooperation with the Commission, to further improve cross-border transport connectivity, in particular in border regions;
2015/03/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 100 #

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
12. Reiterates the important principle of sustainable and responsible tourism, and expresses its conviction that EU action should first of all encourage the prosperity of tourism in Europe; , but that it must also respond to concerns relating to possible negativthe effects of structural changes caused by tourism and risks to cultural heritage posed by mass tourism; emphasizes, however that the European cultural tourism should be promoted in a coordinated way to the potential tourists from new emerging markets;
2015/03/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 103 #

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises the significant potential for the development of entrepreneurial activity in the tourism sector, in particular of tourism SMEs and start-ups, which contribute to the preservation, protection and promotion of Europe’s cultural heritage;; stresses that quality of service and high-level professional skills are key factors for the success and competitiveness of the European tourism sector;
2015/03/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 120 #

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to ensure that information about and access to EU funds related to cultural tourism is facilitated for stakeholders and SMEs; calls on the Commission to further facilitate direct access to EU funds and reduce administrative burden for SMEs dealing with cultural tourism;
2015/03/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 133 #

2014/2149(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
15. Supports the Commission in its initiatives for the digitalisation of Europe's rich cultural heritage as an important contribution to the promotion of its unique cultural wealth worldwide, recalls that the best practices of digitalisation should be further fostered among SMEs dealing with cultural tourism.
2015/03/16
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 15 #

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Is pleased with the European economic governance framework, which, by coordinating policies more closely in order to prevent major imbalances, fosters smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in line with the targets set by the Europe 2020 strategy; Is pleased that the European economic governance framework has shown progress in addressing fiscal consolidation with EU28 overall debt falling from 4.5 % of GDP in 2011 to a forecast of 3 % of GDP in 2014;
2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 37 #

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative to conduct an initial review of the framework’s effectiveness with a view to assessing the effective and uniform application of governance rules by the Member States and by the Commission; also suggests that the review presents an opportunity for an exchange of views on the ways in which the framework could be deepened; Suggests that the review in addition focuses on measures that will enhance private trust in the economy as trust is a precondition for private investments which is a precondition for job-creation;
2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 55 #

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the European Semester to be strengthened and deepened as an effective way of preventing a crisis, for post-crisis job-creation and for growth convergence within the EU; with this in mind, welcomes the Commission’s proposal to focus its action not only on budget responsibility but also on investment and structural reform in order to link the market economy and job-creation with social progress;
2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 91 #

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, in tandem with the EIB, to make it easier for SMEs – the main sources of jobs and job-creation in Europe – to access financing from the European Fund for Strategic Investments, in connection with the European Investment Fund; Underlines the importance of new growth and job- creation for public acceptance of the European economic governance framework, calls therefore for the Commission to take measures to increase trust in the economy and to improve the business environment with particular attention to SMEs, removal of red tape and access to finance;
2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 104 #

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. With a view to improving the effectiveness and focus of budget policies, calls on the Member States to press ahead with their efforts to modernise their labour markets, educational systems and social security systems through structural reforms which ensure a better match between skills and jobs; with this in mind, encourages them to share best practices;
2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 117 #

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. So as to address the urgent situation with regard to youth unemployment, encourages Member States to use the available resources in an effective and focused way via the introduction of the youth employment initiative, enhanced use of vocational training as a tool for enhanced employability and a better match between skills and jobs and recommends that cross-border mobility be supported via the development of the EURES portal as a vector for youth employment;
2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 131 #

2014/2145(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. With a view to stepping up democratic scrutiny, recommends that the European Parliament, national parliaments and management and labourthe social partners be more closely involved in economic dialogue between the Member States and the Commission.
2015/02/02
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 4 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the Joint Undertaking has involved from the start of its operations more than 600 participants in its Programme and has led to new collaborations and to the participation of new organisations (This should be RECITAL E)
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 5 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
D b. whereas small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have participated very extensively in the Programme with approximately 40 % of the budget for calls for proposals allocated to them. (This should be RECITAL F)
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 8 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Is concernedNotes that several weaknesses were identified when the GMT tool was tested by the accounting officer; agrees with the Court's recommendation that follow-up on resolving these weakness is needed, in particular regarding the function used to enter comments made by the financial and verifying officers, as this function is essential to the validation procedure; notes that several developments of GMT have been implemented by the Joint Undertaking in the first half of 2014 and other developments of the system are planned;
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 9 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Notes with concern that the ex ante control on activities performed by the Joint Undertaking's members identified one case when, contrary to the provisions of the Joint Undertaking's financial rules and its manual of procedures, the same staff member performed the procedure for validating the commitment in the capacity of both verifying agent and authorising officer; notes furthermore that one payment was made under the conditions described above; acknowledge that the Joint Undertaking has updated the financial back-up system by introducing new actors to perform the roles of financial verifier and authorising officer and that the initiation and verification/authorisation functions are kept separate. notes moreover a second case identified by the ex ante control in which the technical assessment report was not available in the GMT tool;
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 10 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – introductory part
9. Notes with concern from the Court's report that a series of weaknesses were identified in respect of the ex ante control of cost claims submitted by the Joint Undertaking's partners, such as:
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 11 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b
(b) in one case the financial and operational verification tasks and authorisation were performed by the same staff member, as well as three other cases where the tasks of the financial and authorisation officers were performed by the same staff member; notes with concern that these cases are contrary to the provisions of the financial procedures and the principle of segregation of duties;
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 12 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point c
(c) in another case a grant agreement with the partner was signed five months after the activities had started as approved in the negotiation report and in the grant agreement but in the absence of the requisite declaration justifying the need to begin activities prior to the signature of the grant agreement; . Notes the important results achieved in relation to the management of grant agreement for Partners in the year 2013 where a total of 106 new grant agreements for Partners were signed, a total of 99 negotiations for new grant agreements with Partners were successfully finalized, a total of 106 amendments of on-going grants were signed and a total of 105 payments were made to Partners.
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 13 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point d
(d) out of 163 cost claims as of 31 December 2013, 56 had not been submitted; is deeply concernednotes that 15 of the 56 have delays exceeding one year;
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Acknowledges that the mission charter of the IAS was adopted by the Governing Board on 31 March 2011; is concerned however, thatnotes the Joint Undertaking's financial rules have not yet been amended to include the provisions of the framework Financial Regulation referring to the powers of the Commission's internal auditor due to the pending adoption of the model financial regulation for public-private partnership bodies referred to in Article 209 of the new Financial Regulation which entered into force only on 8 February 2014;
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 15 #

2014/2131(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Acknowledges that the Seventh Framework Programme Decision17 (FP7 Decision) establishes a monitoring and reporting system related to the protection, dissemination and transfer of search results; notes with concern that the procedures related to the monitoring and reporting system developed by the Joint Undertaking do not fully meet the provisions of the FP7 Decision as regards the dissemination of the research results and their integrations in the Commission's systemrequire further developments; calls on the Joint Undertaking to resolve this issue as a matter of urgency; __________________ 17 OJ L 412, 30.12.2006, p.1; OJ L 412, 30.12.2006, p.1;
2015/03/05
Committee: CONT
Amendment 24 #

2014/2078(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Notes that the European Parliament Eurobarometer survey (EB/EP 82.5) shows that during the 2014 electoral campaign 23% of the respondents had a very negative image of the European Parliament, while 43% had a neutral image; points out that media analysis learns that a negative image is often related to financial arrangements for Members, such as allowances, salaries and the budget of the European Parliament in general. Is convinced therefore that structural improvements, for example in full transparency and accounting of the general expenditure allowance, are needed to improve trust and support for the European Parliament;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 85 #

2014/2078(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
44. Expresses concern that the number of local assistants employed per Member varied greatly between zero and 43 in 2013; asks for the enhancement of recruitment procedures of local assistantsan investigation to assess whether the recruitment procedures have been followed in cases with high numbers of local assistants and assess the reasons for such high numbers. Requests an evaluation of recruitment procedures of local assistants and proposals to streamline this in order to avoid excessive numbers of local assistants per Member. ;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2014/2077(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas direct budget support remains highly risky as money introduced into the general budget of the state/country cannot be sufficiently monitoredposes number of transparency, accountability, good financial management related challenges, it should be subject to regular systematic risk analysis and risk mitigation strategy.
2015/03/06
Committee: CONT
Amendment 4 #

2014/2075(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that in 2013, the Court of Auditors audited eight transactions in the transport sector and found that five of them were affected by one or more errors; draws attention to the increase of the percentage of affected transactions in 2013 (62 %) compared to 2012 (49 %) and is concerned that, as in previous years, the Court has found several errors in relation to non- compliance with Union and national procurement rules for the TEN-T projects examined; takes note that as in the preceding year 2012, once more in 2013, DG MOVE did not issue a reservation related to public procurement errors; insists, therefore, that the Commission undertakes the necessary measures in order to exclude such errors in the future; further notes that the controlling activities should observe whether projects exceeded approved costs; underlines that even if the funding period 2007 - 2013 is formally over, there is a N+2 principle for cohesion funding, meaning that many projects are still under construction until the end of this year;
2015/01/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 12 #

2014/2075(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that the transport projects in the period between 2007 - 2013 and 2014 - 2020, have been, and will be, respectively financed from multiple sources, including the CEF, the Cohesion Fund and the European Regional Development Fund; calls on the Commission to seek more synergy between different sources of funding to seek more efficient allocation of EU funds;
2015/01/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 13 #

2014/2075(DEC)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Proposes that in relation to the sectors for which the Committee on Transport and Tourism is responsible, Parliament grants the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the Union general budget for the financial year 2013, as soon as the whole budget receives a Positive Statement of Assurance from the Court of Auditors.
2015/01/27
Committee: TRAN
Amendment 133 #

2014/2075(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Points out that according to numerous statements by European Court of Auditors national management declarations as provided by four above mentioned Member States have very limited value in the Court's auditing process and can't be considered as reliable source of information for issuing DAS;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 159 #

2014/2075(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
40. EmphasiseRegrets that in some Member States, there is no legislation concerning conflict of interests ofor members of government owing companies or shares of companies even if those companies receive national or Union funds; insists that under no condition can a former or current beneficiary of Union funds can be in a political and/or managemthe parliament, members of government, and members of local councils is vague and not sufficient; calls on the Commission to carefully examine current posituation in which he or she holds a leading role in a national management and control system; urges the Commission to look for aand if needed present recommendations or even legally binding solution to this problems if necessary;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 161 #

2014/2075(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Demands the Commission to ensure that Eurostat's and Member States data are in the perfect accord as the indicator of GNI represents the key benchmark not only for EU's revenue but also expenditure;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 450 #

2014/2075(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 200 a (new)
200a. In its 2013 report, the Court of Auditors concludes that Member States, when selecting projects under shared management, have focused first on the need to spend available EU money, rather than on their expected performance. In order to reverse this incentive and to change towards a culture of good performance, the European Parliament requests that an independent high-level working group (including academics) on performance of the EU budget will be convened in order to make recommendations to structurally shift the incentive from spending to good performance, based on an assessment of European added value, while respecting compliance with the rules. The findings of this high-level working group should be available in due time before the mid-term review of the current MFF, and form the basis for the new MFF programming period;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 453 #

2014/2075(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 204 a (new)
204a. Calls on the European Commission to manage its budget in such a way that there are no thematic policy overlaps and duplications amongst its various DGs with similar or nearly identical competences;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 456 #

2014/2075(DEC)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 204 b (new)
204b. The concept/ idea of Sustainability Impact Assessment Studies is to be applied for all types of financial support, not only in the Commission expenditure, but those of all EU institutions and organizations. No expenditure that does comply with an impact assessment study/ analysis is to be permitted and allowed;
2015/03/09
Committee: CONT
Amendment 14 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital C
C. whereas the labour market is now one of the major causes of inequalityin divergences between Member States and between different sectors, owing to divergences in access to employment, working conditions, or wage levels insufficient to guarantee decent living standard due to lack of reform, working conditions and living standards as well as divergences in access to employment, such as high entrance hurdles;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 28 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Recital D
D. whereas the Commission has acknowledged that excessive austerity policies have had a negative impact on economic growth because they failed to take iseveral Member States are making progress in reducing their currento account the effects of the fiscal multipliers, and that such austerity policies have resulted in tough cuts to social spending in fundamental areas such as education, health and pensions, resulting in unprecedented levels of inequality and poverty in the EUdeficits and reversing losses in competitiveness, allowing future spending in fundamental areas such as education, health and pensions, however further progress in needed to address high debt and the net international position of the most indebted economies;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 40 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the focus of the 2014 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) has shifted from solely boosting fiscal consolidation to strengthening the conditions for sustainable growth and employment; recalls that within the current Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) there are still margins intended to facilitate economic growth inthe Member States have taken a commitment to adhere to the EU,SGP and that differences in the Member States’ economic and social situations need to be taken into account; calls for greater flexibility margins in order to boost job creation; takes the view, however, that some of the structural reforms promoted by the Commission – especially labour reforms, wage devaluation, pension reforms, etc. – may result in the same contractionary effects on the economy or on internal demand as the excessive austerity conducted up to now; calls on the Commission, therefore, to asse full set of economic governance principles; calls on the Commission to continue the growth friendly consolidation strategy in order to facilitate growth and job creation and the Member Statess the economic and social impact of such policies before recommending themo better implement the CSRs;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 49 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Is deeply concerned that, up to now, the recommendations made as part of the European Semester have taken us furthe the EU is far away from achieving the employment and social targets of the Europe 2020 strategy; calls on the new Commission to ask immediately that the Member States report on national progress on the Europe 2020 strategy and correct this discrepancy in their national reform programmes (NRPs) to be presented as part of the next European Semester, in particular relating to progress made by Member States to modernise their labour markets and to integrate more people into the workforce;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 57 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. CallAcknowledges the Commission´s fwor a truk on the «"social pillar’ to be implemented within" of economic and monetary union (EMU) as part of the process of improvingntegrating the social dimension in the current structures for economic governance mechanisms, so as to reduce unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, overcome social dumping and prevent competition for the lowest social standards in the EU;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 66 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission's use of the new employment and social scoreboard for this year's CSRs; considers it regrettable, however, that these indicators have not been made binding in view of the current employment and social emergency; calls on the Commission, therefore, to put them on an equal footing with macroeconomic indicators, , in particular the references to unemployment levels, NEET and youth unemployment rates; considers it importandt to include additional indicators – such as child poverty levels, access to healthcare, and homelessness, and a decent work index – in the scoreboard in order to allow more effective analysis of Member States' employment and social concerns;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 70 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission's recognition that the impact of fiscal consolidation measuresyear-long lack of structural reform in Member States, combined with excessive deficits and a large contraction in economic growth has had a negative effect on the EU employment and social situation has been severe and far-reaching; calls for the immediate fulfilment of all the employment and social obligations set out in the Treaties and in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; calls on the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights to assess thoroughly the impact of these measures on fundamental rights and to issue recommendations in the event of breaches of the Charter;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 77 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the abovementioned mild decline in unemployment rates in the EU; recalls, however, that the Europe 2020 strategy accurately states that the figure to watch is the employment rate, which indicates the availability of human and financial resources to ensure the sustainability of our economic and social model; asks that the slowdown in the unemployment rate not be confused with the recovery of lost jobs, as no account is taken of increased emigration or forced early retirement;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 86 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the new Commission to make the employment recovery a true priority by establishing an ambitious and holistic strategy for quality job creation, which should involve all the new Commissioners; takes the view that, to this end, each Commissioner should draw up a quality employment plan for their specific policy area, including concrete measures, a budget allocation and a calendar for its implementation; asks therefore that economic recovery, growth and job creation be made a horizontal priority of the new European Commission involving all the new Commissioners;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 91 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
10. Is concerned that the Commission’s strategy of restoring EU competitivenessNotes that part of the recovery strategy went through an excessive adjustment of unit labour costs via salary reductions has sharply eroded the purchasing power of many EU workers, lowered household incomes and depressed internal demand, further fuelling unemployment and social exclusion, particularly in those countries hit hardest by the crisisand entitlement reductions bringing unit labour costs back in line with productivity; points out that a cross- sectoral policy for restoring competitiveness must also contemplate strategies focusing on other production costs, price developments and profit margins, and on boosting innovation and excellence;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 101 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the Commission's call, in its umbrella communication on the CSR in the EU as a whole, to invest more in R&D, innovation, education, skills and active labour market policies, together with energy, transport and the digital economy; considers, however, that in the context of the current process of fiscal consolidation these goals can be achieved only through greater flexibility within the SGPalls on Member States to make use of the given flexibility within the economic governance rules;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission, as a matter of urgency, to give tangible form to the promised EUR 300 billion investment plan, and calls for an assessment as to whether this figure is sufficient to restore the EU's full potential for competitiveness, growth and quality job creation;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 111 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, as a matter of urgency, to exclude productive investments, for instance in education or research and development, from the deficit targets established under EU and national rules;deleted
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 129 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
15. Is concerned that, in many Member States and sectors, job losses are coupled with a decline in job quality, an increase in precarious forms ofhurdles to employment and a deterioration in basic labour standards; stresses that the Commission and the Member States need to make dedicated efforts to address the increase inmatching skills with labour market needs as well as involuntary part-time employment and temporary contracts, payless internships and apprenticeships, and bogus self- employment, together with the activities of the black economy;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 135 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 16
16. Observes that, in its 2013 annual report on the EU employment and social situation, the Commission highlighted the importance of social protection expenditure as a safeguard against social risks; notes, however, that social policies and social standards have been widely used as adjustment factors by those EMU members experiencing negative economic shocks; considers it regrettable that the CSRs do not refer to European automatic stabilisers; recalls the importance of such stabilisers in dealing with asymmetrical shocks, in avoiding excessive depletion of national welfare states and thus in strengthening the sustainability of EMU as a whole; reiterates its call on the Commission to produce a Green Paper on automatic stabilisers in the eurozone;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 159 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the rising number of workers, particularly young people, departing their countries of origin for other Member States in search of employment opportunities, and is deeply concerned about the persistent divergences between those Member States creating employment and those supplying a low-cost labour force; urges the Commission to develop a better legal framework for cross-border movement of workers in order to ensure freedom of movement while consecrating the principle of equal treatment and safeguarding wages and social standards; calls for the establishment in each Member State, either by law or through collective bargaining, of a minimum wage equivalent to at least 60 % of the respective national average wage;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 172 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the mild decline in youth unemployment, but points out that it is still at alarming levels: 22 % in the EU-28 and 23.1 % in the eurozone; highlights the worrying differences between Member States (7.8 % in Germany and 53.5 % in Spain); considers it regrettable that evennotes that when young people do find a job, manysome of them – 43 % on average, compared with 13 % of adult workers – find themselves working under precarious conditions or on part-time contracts, making it difficult for them to live independently from their families and resulting in a loss of art-time contracts, which can be a stepping stone for full-time employment, enabling different sectors to be more innovationve and expert resourcesflexible, which affects production and growth;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 185 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to propose a binding European framework for the implementation of the Youth Guarantees so as to prevent the funds being misused in such a way as to aggravate national internal wage devaluation processesand the Member States to make the Youth Guarantees a priority and to use efficiently the available budget; takes the view that this legale framework should introduce binding minimum standards for the implementation of the Youth Guarantees, including the quality of apprenticeships, decent wages for young people and access to employment services, and should cover young people aged between 25 and 30; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make the Youth Guarantees a priority and to increase the available budget, at the latest in the promised mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework, up to at least the sum of EUR 21 billion estimated by the International Labour Organisation to be necessary to resolve the problem in the eurozonefacilitate the school-to-work transition and focus equipping young people with the right skills that correspond to the labour market needs, including giving them a chance to start their own businesses;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 195 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 22
22. UrgWelcomes the Member States to go above and beyondadoption of the March 2014 Council recommendation for a Quality Framework for Traineeships in order to prevent discrimination and exploitation of young workers; calls for the adoption of a directive on decent conditions and minimum standards for internships and traineeships, giving interns and trainees clearly defined rights that include access to social protection, binding written contracts and fair remuneration and introducing limits on the use of trainees and interns in companies so as to prevent abuses;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 201 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 23
23. Observes with concern that female unemployment rates are higher than the total rates (11.7 % in the EU-18 and 10.4 % in the EU-28, compared with 11.5 % and 10.2 % respectively); calls, therefore, for specific decent-job creation plans with targeted measures for women; calls for the establishment of specific recommendations with a view to reducing the gender pay gap, which is not only a drag on the economy and on competitiveness but also a sign of social injusticecalls for specific attention to the integration of women in the labour market;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 211 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 24
24. Is deeply concerned that long-term unemployed people and senior workers are experiencing higher unemployment rates and additional difficulties in re-entering the labour market; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make full use of the European Social Fund to help these workers; urges the adoption of a directive on decent working conditions, defining core labour rights for all workers and introducing common minimum standards so as to prevent this kind of labour discriminationcalls for increasing the flexibility of labour markets in order to adapt to specific competences and allow specific remuneration schemes bringing labour cost in line with productivity and stepping away from pay based on seniority;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 231 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 26
26. Regrets the fact that the Commission recommendations on pensions were made without taking into account Parliament's position on the Green and White Papers on pensions; is concerned that reforms to guarantee the sustainability of pensions have focused solely on population ageing, without taking into account the importance of the employment ratecontributions from the employed population, especially in pay- as-you-go systems and of possibilities of second and third pillar pensions systems for optimising pension pay outcome; recalls that guaranteeing decent pensions above a minimum level is an effective way to fight poverty and social exclusion;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 236 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 27
27. Considers it regrettable that very few CSRs tackle the issue of in-work poverty; points out that new forms of poverty affecting the middle and working classes are emerging in some cases, with difficulties in paying mortgages and high energy prices creating energy poverty and giving rise to an increasing number of evictions and foreclosures; is concerned by evidence that levels of homelessness and housing exclusion are increasing; recalls that this represents a violation of fundamental rights; recommends that the Member States and their local authorities introduhave in place neutral housing policies favouring social and affordable housing, tackle the issue of housing vacancy and implement effective prevention policies aimed at reducing the number of evictions;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 241 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to support the effective use of EU funds to reduce poverty through partnership approaches involving civil society; calls on the Member States, especially those with the highest rates of unemployment and poverty, to use 25 % of their cohesion funding for programmes related to the European Social Fund; also requeinsists, in view of the high poverty rates, an evaluation as to whetherthat Member States make efficient use of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived is sufficiently well-fundwhere it is implemented;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 245 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 31
31. Notes the Commission recommendation to reform healthcare systems so that they deliver on their objectives of providing universal access to high-quality care in a cost-effective manner, and to secure their financial sustainability; calls for the goals of meeting social needs, providing a social safety netinclusion, access and quality provisions and achieving financial sustainability to be put on an equal footing, and for sufficient resources to be allocated for social protection and health systems;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 250 #

2014/2059(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 32
32. Reiterates its call for increased and structured involvement of civil society and trade union stakeholders so as to safeguard the legitimacy and improve the effectiveness of the European Semester process; looks forward, in this connection, to the Commission's planned involvement of the social partners in the context of the Social Dialogue Committee prior to the adoption of the 2015 Annual Growth Survey;
2014/09/15
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 85 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 3
(3) Article 151 of the Treaty sets out as objectives in the field of social policy the promotion of employment and improved living and working conditions. With a view to achieving these objectives, the Union can support and complement the activities of Member States in the fields of health and safety at work, working conditions, the integration of persons excluded from the labour market and the combating of social exclusion. The Union may adopt measures to encourage cooperation between Member States, excluding any harmonisation of the laws and regulations of the Member States.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 101 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) The national legislation as well as definitions as regards undeclared work may vary from one country to the other. Therefore, the development of measures to tackle undeclared work should be tailored accordingly.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 170 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 10
(10) The strengthening of cooperation among Member States at EU level is necessary to help Member States to prevent and deter undeclared work more efficiently and effectively. The goal of the strengthened cooperation must be to encourage declared work by making declared work associated with less bureaucracy and administration thereby making sure that undeclared work is the less attractive option.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 186 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 11
(11) The Platform will aim to facilitate the exchange of best practices and information, provide a framework at EU level to develop expertise and analysis, and improve operational coordination of actions between the different national enforcement authorities of the Member States. Additionally, the Platform will aim at sharing best practices of clear and simple regulation between Member States which will reduce the risks of unintended errors especially among self-employed persons and SMEs.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 187 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 11
(11) The Platform will aim to facilitate the exchange of best practices and information, provide a framework at EU level to develop expertise and analysis, enhance knowledge, thus creating a knowledge bank available to all member States and improve operational coordination of actions between the different national enforcement authorities of the Member States.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 194 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 12
(12) The Platform should make use of all relevant sources of information, in particular studies, bilateral agreements concluded between Member States and multilateral cooperation projects and create synergies between existing EU level instruments and structures to maximise the deterrent or preventive effect of these measures. The operational coordination of actions of the Member States could take the form of joint trainings, peer reviews and solutions for data sharing. European campaigns or common strategies could increase the awareness of undeclared work. Any recommendations from the Platform must be voluntary for Member States to implement.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 195 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 12
(12) The Platform should make use of all relevant sources of information, in particular studies, bilateral agreements concluded between Member States and multilateral cooperation projects and create synergies between existing EU level instruments and structures to maximise the deterrent or preventive effect of these measures. The operational coordination of actions of the Member States could take the form of joint trainings, peer reviews and solutions for data sharing. European campaigns or common strategies could increase the awareness of undeclared work. The Platform should facilitate cooperation between the Member States by promoting innovative approaches and exchanging the best practices.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 300 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) improving cooperation between Member States’ different enforcement authorities at EU level to prevent and deter undeclared work, including bogus self- employment, more efficiently and effectively,
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 323 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) CoordinatEncourage cross-border operational actions and communication between local and regional officials of border regions about such actions.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 348 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) Develop the analysis of effectiveness of different policy measures in curbing the incidence of undeclared work, including preventive and punitive as well as deterrence measures in general; furthermore analyse why there are Member States and regions with less undeclared work than others,
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 367 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) Develop forms of cooperation increasing the technical capacity to tackle cross-border aspects of undeclared work by adopting a common framework for joint operations for inspections and exchange of staff,
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 384 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) Organise peer reviews to follow Member States progress when fighting undeclared work, including support for the implementation of country-specific recommendations related to fight or prevent undeclared work issued by the Council.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 407 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
In accordance with national legislation, regional authorities shall be involved in appointing representatives as members of the Platform.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 436 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 1
(1) The Commission shall coordinate the work of the Platform and chair its meetings.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 438 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
(1a) An independent chair shall be appointed to lead the Platform's meetings. If no suitable person can be found within a reasonable period, the Commission may chair the Platform's meetings.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 460 #

2014/0124(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The Platform shall, where possible, refrain from the duplication by works already undertaken be these other bodies and it shall instead coordinate with them towards the sharing of information.
2014/12/18
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 48 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) The free movement of workers is a key element to the development of a more integrated Union labour market which allows worker mobility from high unemployment areas to areas characterised by labour shortages. It alsoand contributes to finding the right skills for vacant positions and overcoming bottlenecks in the labour market.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 58 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) Growing interdependency between labour markets calls for reinforced cooperation between employment services to bring about freedom of movement for all workers through voluntary and fair labour mobility within the Union in accordance with Article 46 (a) of the Treaty, and therefore a common framework for cooperation should be established between Member States and the Commission on labour mobility within the Union. This framework should bring together job, traineeship and apprenticeship vacancies from across the Union and the possibility of applying for those job vacancies ('clearance'), define the provision of related support services to workers and employers and provide for a common approach to share information necessary to facilitate said co-operation.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 63 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) In the ‘Compact for Growth and Jobs’, the European Council requested to explore the possibility of extending to apprenticeships and traineeships the EURES network, apprenticeships and traineeships can be covered under the present Regulation, provided that the persons concerned are considered workers with reference to the rights conferred on citizens under Articles 45 and 47 of the Treaty. An appropriate exchange of general information on mobility for apprenticeships and traineeships within the Union needs to be introduced and adequate assistance to the candidates for those positions should be developed, based on a mechanism for clearance of offers, once such a clearance is deemed feasible in accordance with the appropriate standards and with due respect to the competences of the Member States.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 77 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) The social partners' participation in the EURES network contributes in particular to the analysis of obstacles to mobility as well as the promotion of fair and voluntary labour mobility within the Union, including in the cross-border regions. Social partners representatives at Union level should therefore be involved in the overall governance structure of the EURES network, while national employers' organisations and trade unions may apply to become a EURES Partner.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 85 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) The composition of the EURES network as regards other organisations than the ones above should be flexible to adjust to changing developments on the labour market for recruitment services. The emergence of a variety of employment services coupled with the reshaped role of the PES relating to national recruitment services points towards the need for a concerted effort by Member States and the European Commission to open up the EURES network, as the main Union tool delivering intra-Union recruitment services.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 88 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) A broader membership of the EURES network has socpotential, economic and, financial and social benefits. It improves efficiency in service delivery by facilitating partnerships, enhancing complementarity and quality improvements. It increases the market share of the EURES network insofar as new members make available job, traineeship and apprenticeship vacancies, job applications and curriculum vitae ('CV’s'). Transnational and cross- border co-operation, which is a key feature of the operation of the EURES network, could generate innovative forms of learning and co-operation between employment services, including on quality standards for job, traineeship and apprenticeship vacancies and support services. The EURES network would therefore enhance its relevance as one of the key Union tools available to Member States and the European Commission for supporting concrete measures towards a high level of employment within the Union.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 95 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) Member States should be able to refuse or to revoke the admission of organisations that are in breach of the labour standards or legal requirements. In the case of a refusal of admission based on non-compliance with such standards or requirements, it is appropriate that, after transmission by the National Coordination Office to the European Coordination Office, the information relating to such a refusal or revocation be distributed via the European Coordination Office to the other National Coordination Offices which can take appropriate action on their own territory in accordance with their national laws and practices, should the organisation operate there.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 98 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
(16) To communicate reliable and up to date information to jobseekers, trainees, apprentices, workers and employers on the different aspects of labour mobility within the Union, the EURES network should cooperate with other bodies, services and Union networks facilitating mobility and informing citizens about their rights under Union law, such as Your Europe portal, the European Youth portal and SOLVIT, the organisations responsible for the recognition of professional qualifications and the bodies for the promotion, analysis, monitoring and support of equal treatment of workers, designated in accordance with Directive ../2013 (EU) of [the European Parliament and of the Council on measures facilitating the exercise of rights conferred on workers in the context of the freedom of movement for workers].
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 101 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) The right of freedom of movement entails the necessity to set up the means to support clearance, that is to say, the exchange of job vacancies, job and applications and CV's, in order to make the labour market fully accessible to bothtrainees, apprentices, workers and employers in accordance with Article 46(d) and Article 47 of the Treaty, and therefore a common IT platform should be established at Union level and run by the Commission. Securing this right means empowering worjobseekers to actually gain access to all employment opportunities throughout the Union.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 102 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) The right of freedom of movement entails the necessity to set up the means to support clearance, that is to say, the exchange of job vacancies, job applications and CV's, in order to make the labour market fully accessible to both worjobseekers and employers in accordance with Article 46(d) of the Treaty, and therefore a common IT platform should be established at Union level and run by the Commission. Securing this right means empowering workers to actually gain access to all employment opportunities throughout the Union.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 104 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
(18) The common IT platform which brings together job vacancies and the possibility of applying for those vacancies, while enabling job seekers and employers to automatically match data according to various criteria and levels, should facilitate the achievement of equilibrium on the Union labour markets which would bring a high level of employment and help avoid serious threats to the standard of living and levels of employment in the various regions and industries.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
(19) The legal responsibility for ensuring the intrinsic and technical quality of the information made available to the common IT platform, in particular as regards job vacancyies' data, is with the organisations that make the information available in accordance with the law of and/or within the standards set by the Member States. The Commissose organisations should facilitate cooperation, to render possible an earlygether with the Commission, to detection of any fraud or abuse related to the exchange of information at European levelUnion level. All parties involved should ensure the provision of high-quality data.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 109 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
(20) A common classification system of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations constitutes one of the most important tools for enabling online job application in the Union, it is therefore necessary to develop the cooperation between Member States and the European Commission in order to achieve interoperability and meaningful automated matching across borders, including by mapping to and from the common to national classification systems. Other established European formats and tools for comparability of and transparency on skills and qualifications, such as the European Qualifications Framework and the single framework for the transparency of qualifications and competences (Europass) shcould also be used in this context.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 114 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
(21) A common approach to the services delivered by the organisations ('support services') participating in the EURES network should be established and the principle of equal treatment of trainees, apprentices and workers, ands well as employers seeking assistance on intra- Union labour mobility, regardless of their location in the Union, should be secured as much as possible, and therefore principles and rules should be established regarding the availability of support services in the territory of the individual Member States. This common approach also covers apprenticeships and traineeships considered as work.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 118 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
(22) A wider and more comprehensive choice of assistance on intra-Union labour mobility opportunities benefits trainees, apprentices and workers, and it is needed to improve the EURES network's potential to provide support to worjobseekers throughout their entire working life, securing their transitions and careers.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 120 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
(23) Support services will help to decrease the obstacles faced by job seekers when exercising their workers' rights under Union law as well as to exploit more efficiently all traineeship, apprenticeship and job opportunities, thus securing better individual employment prospects.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 123 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
(24) A profound understanding of labour demand in terms of matching skills, qualifications, occupations, sectors and needs of employers would benefit the right of free movement of workers within the Union and therefore support services should include good quality assistance to employers, small and medium sized enterprises in particular. Close working relationships between employment services and employers will increase the pool of job vacancies and job matching of suitable candidates, secure pathways for job seekers in particular youth and those in vulnerable groups and improve labour market intelligence.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 127 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
(26) Support services for worjobseekers are connected to the exercise of their fundamental freedom of movement as workers under Union law, they and should be free of charge. However, the support services for employers may be subject to a fee, in accordance with national practices.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 130 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
(27) Particular attention should be paid to supporting mobility in the cross-border regions for and providing services to frontier jobseekers and workers who are living in one Member State and seeking employment or working in another and have to cope with different national practices and legal systems and encounters specific administrative, legal or tax obstaclesbarriers relating to mobility. Member States may choose to set up specific support structures to facilitate this kind of mobility, such structures should, within the framework of the EURES network, address the specific needs for information, guidance, cross- border matching between labour demand and supply and the resulting placements. The EURES Cross-Border Partnerships should be given particular focus in this respect.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 135 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
(28) Transparency of labour markets and adequate matching capabilities, including matching of skills and qualifications with labour market needs, are pre- conditions for labour mobility within the Union. A better balance between labour supply and demand by better matching skills and jobs can be achieved through an efficient system at Union level for exchanging of information on national, regional and sectoral labour surpplusesy and shortages thatdemand. Such a system should be set up between Member States, andssisted by the European Commission and used as a basis for Member States to develop their mobility policies and underpin the practical cooperation within the EURES network.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 143 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
(30) A programming cycle should be established to support the coordination of action on mobility within the Union. To be effective, the programming of Member States' activity plans should take into account data on mobility flows and patterns, the data analysis of existing and forecast labour shortages and surplusesupply and demand, and recruitment experiences and practices under the EURES network and it should consist of a review of the existing resources and tools at the disposal of the organisations in the Member State to facilitate intra-EU labour mobility.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 149 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31
(31) The sharing of draft activity plans under the programming cycle among Member States should enable the National Coordination Offices, acting on behalf of the Member States, together with the European Coordination Office, to direct the resources of the EURES network toward appropriate actions and projects, and thereby steer the development of the EURES network as a more result-oriented tool responsive to the needs of jobseekers, trainees, apprentices and workers according to the dynamics of the Union labour markets.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 155 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
(35) Since tThe objective of this Regulation - namely to establish a common framework for cooperation between Member States to bring together job vacancies and the possibility of applying for those job vacancies and to facilitate the achievement of a balance between supply and demand in the employment market - cannot be sufficientlybetter achieved by twhen Member States, and can therefore, by reason of the scale and effect of the action, be better achieved cooperate, with the assistance of the Commission, at Union level, t. The Union may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty of the European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in said Article 5, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve that objective.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 161 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
(37) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of the technical standards and formats applicable to clearance and automated matching as well as the models and procedures for sharing information between Member States, and in order to adopt the list of skills, competences and occupations of the European classification, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 162 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37 a (new)
(37a) For the purpose of establishing the composition of the network for a transitional period and of ensuring operational continuity with the network established within the framework of Regulation (EU) 492/2011, the organisation designated as EURES Partners under Article 3(c) or Associated Partners under Article 3(d) of Commission Implementing Decision 2012/733/EU on [date of entry into force of this Regulation] should be permitted to continue as EURES Members or EURES Partners for a transitional period.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 168 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) cooperation between Member States and the Commission on sharing data on traineeship, apprenticeship and job vacancies, job applications and CV's and on the resultant placement of worjobseekers in traineeships, apprenticeships and jobs;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 170 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) actions by and between Member States to facilitate the achievement of a balance between supply and demand in the labour market of the Union, with a view to promote aachieve high levels of employment;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 180 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) related mobility support services to be provided to jobseekers, workers and employers.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 192 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) ‘job vacancy’ means any offer for employment, including for apprenticeships and traineeships considered as work; apprenticeship or traineeship; The rules governing traineeships and apprenticeships, and the conditions under which they take place, shall be determined in the context of existing national and Union law;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 193 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) ‘clearance’ means the exchange of information and processing of job vacancies, job applications and CV's;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 197 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) ‘placement’ by employment services of a worker with an employer or ‘recruitment’ of a worker for an employer means the provision of services to mediate between supply and demand with the objective of filling a job vacancy;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 201 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) "EURES cross-border partnership" means long-term cooperation between the regional/local employment services, trade unions and employers' organisations, and other relevant stakeholders, at cross- border level.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 210 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) The EURES Members which are the bodiPublic Employment Services appointed by the Member States responsible for the application of this Regulation in the respective Member State, i.e. the 'National Coordination Offices' and other public, private or third-sector employment services authorised by Member States to provide at national, regional and/or local level support with clearance and support services to workers and employers;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 219 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) The EURES Partners which are the organisations authorised by Member States to provide at national, regional and/or local level support with clearance and/or support services to workers and employers.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 228 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. In cross-border regions, EURES cross-border partnerships comprising the regional/local public services, employers' organisations and other relevant stakeholders from at least two Members States, may also provide cross-border support services.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 238 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) increased voluntary geographical and occupational mobility in the Union on a fair basis;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 241 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) social inclusion and integration of persons excluded from the labour market and social inclusion.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 253 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
(i) the operation and development of a European job mobility portal, 'the EURES portal', and related IT services, including systems and procedures for the exchange of job vacancies, job, apprenticeship and traineeship applications, CVs, and supporting documents such as skills passports and the like, and other information, in cooperation with other relevant Union information, advisory services or networks, and initiatives;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 257 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
(ii) information and communication activities across the Union;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 261 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iv
(iv) facilitation of networking, exchange of best practice and mutual learning within the EURES network;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 269 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) the monitoring and evaluation of EURES activity and its employment performance, in co- operation with EURES Members;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 276 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Member States shall designate the National Coordination Offices provided for in Article 4. Member States shall notify the European Coordination Office of that designation.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 286 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) ensuring a coordinated transfer to the EURES portal of information on traineeship, apprenticeship and job vacancies, applications and CVs in accordance with Article 14;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 294 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
For the purpose of publication, including on the EURES portal, in the interest of jobseekers, workers and employers, the National Coordination Office validates, regularly updates and timely disseminates information and guidance available at national level on:
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 299 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) administrative procedures as regardsing employment and the take-up of employment;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 300 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) the rules applicable to workers;deleted
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 310 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point d
(d) the regulatory framework for apprenticeships and traineeships;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 324 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point e
(e) where applicable, the situation of frontier workers in particular in cross- border regions. in close cooperation with EURES cross-border partnerships;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 346 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Employment services others than public employment services can act as EURES Members in supporting the National Coordinating Offices in providing the full range of services under this Regulation.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 361 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall set up a system to authorise EURES Partners to participate in the EURES network, monitor their activities and their compliance with national and Union law when applying this Regulation. This system shall be transparent, proportionate and respect the principles of equal treatment for applicant organisations and due process of law. For employment services other than public employment services, existing licensing systems and authorisation schemes shall be taken into account.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 378 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. The National Coordination Office shall inform the European Coordination Office of any refusal of an application on the grounds of non-compliance with Section 1(1) of the Annex. The European Coordination Office shall forward that information to the other National Coordination Offices.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 394 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Member States shall provide for an appeal procedure against refusals of admission as a EURES partner by the competent national authority.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 406 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b – subparagraph 1 a (new)
When requested by EURES Members or Partners, CVs and vacancies may be shared in a confidential format.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 408 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) to provide support services to jobseekers, trainees, apprentices, workers and employers in accordance with Chapter IV or
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 420 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the functioning of the national hub referred to in Article 15(5) through a fee or in another form;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 424 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall decide on the modalities for these contributions in their national systems on the basis of the principle of proportionality, taking into account factors such as the administrative capacity of the EURES Partner and its degree of participation in the EURES network as referred to in paragraph 1.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 443 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. The European Coordination Office facilitates the collabooperation ofbetween the EURES network withand other Union information and advisory services and networks.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 448 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall seek to develop one stop shop solutions for the communication with, including online solutions, for the communication with jobseekers, trainees, apprentices, workers and employers on the common activities of the EURES network and those services and networks.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 457 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) all job vacancies available with its public employment services as well as those provided by its EURES Partners;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 458 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) all job applications and CV's available with its public employment services as well as those provided by its EURES Partners, provided that the workerapplicants concerned have consented to making the information also available to the EURES portal under the terms defined in paragraph 3.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 462 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. When making available job vacancy data to the EURES portal, Member States:
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 479 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3
3. The consent of workers referred to in paragraph 1(b) shall be explicit, unambiguous, freely given, specific and informed. WorkerApplicants shall be able to withdraw at any time their consent and require the deletion or modification of any of all of the data made available. WorkerApplicants shall be able to choose from a number of options to restrict access to their data or to certain attributes.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 481 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall have in place the mechanisms and standards necessary for ensuring the intrinsic and technical quality of traineeship, apprenticeship and job vacancy ands well as CV data.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 483 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 5
5. They shall exchange information on the mechanisms and standards referred to in paragraph 4 as well as on standards regarding data security and data protection. They shall co-operate between each other and with the European Coordination Office, in particular in case of complaints and job vacancies deemed not compliant with the standards applicable under national law.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 488 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that in the internal tools for caseworkers managed by the public employment services all job vacancies, job and applications, and CV’s made available on the EURES portal shall be available on a par with any national data in those tools.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 491 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 5
5. Member States shall put in place a national hub to allow for the transfer to the EURES portal of information on job vacancies, job and applications and CV’s of jobseekers made available by any organisation that is willing to share this information also on the EURES portal.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 496 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 6
6. Member States shall seek to develop one-stop shop solutions, including online solutions, for the communication towards frontier workers and employers in those cross border regions where the Member States concerned together deem it necessary to set up specific co-operation and service structures.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 500 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall further develop athe European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations. This classification is thea tool facilitating on line job application across borders for the European Union by performing job matching, identifying skills shortages, recognising qualifications and providing career guidance on the EURES portal.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 513 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – title
Facilitated access mechanisms for worjobseekers and employers
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 516 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. The public employment services shall ensure that worjobseekers using their services, by making available job applications and/or CV’s with them, can choose to have those employment services assist those worjobseekers with their registration on the EURES portal, using the national hub referred to in Article 15(5).
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 521 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2
2. The public employment services shall set up a similar mechanism to facilitate the registration as employer on the EURES portal for those employers which use their services to publish job vacancies at national level either directly through their job search portals or via other platforms supported by the Member States.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 524 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 4
4. WorJobseekers and employers shall have access to general information on how, when and where they can update, revise and withdraw the data concerned.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 526 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that worjobseekers and employers can gain access to support services at national level
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 530 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
(c a) through EURES cross-border partnerships; or
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 537 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 5
5. Support services for jobseekers, trainees, apprentices and workers as set out in Articles 20, 22 and 23 and the assistance with registration on the EURES portal referred to in Article 17(1) are free of charge.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 541 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 6
6. Support services for employers referred to in Articles 21 and 22 and the assistance with registration on the EURES portal referred to in Article 17(2) may be subject to fee. Any fee charged, cannot differentiate between the fees levied for EURES services and those applicable to other comparable services provided by the organisation concerned.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 543 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 7
7. The EURES Partners concerned shall clearly indicate to worjobseekers and employers the range of support services they provide, where and how those services are accessible and the conditions under which access is provided, using their information channels. That information is published on the EURES portal.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 545 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Authorised EURES Members and EURES Partners may offer their services solely online.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 548 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall ensure that all jobseekers, trainees, apprentices, workers and employers requesting client services from employment services receive or are made aware of basic information on mobility support available at national level which
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 558 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – title
Support services for worjobseekers
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 559 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1
1. The EURES Partners concerned proactively offer all workerspeople legally entitled to work in the Union and seeking employment the opportunity to access the services defined in this Article. Where appropriate, this offer is repeated during the job search process.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 563 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. If worjobseekers are interested in further assistance, the EURES Partners concernedare encouraged to provide information and guidance on individual employment opportunities and in particular offer them the following services, including:
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 584 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 3
3. If worjobseekers are interested in further assistance and there is a reasonable likelihood of an intra-EU placement, the EURES Partners concerned may provide further job search assistance, consisting ofadditional services such as the selection of suitable vacancies, assistance with drawing up job applications and CV's and providing translations and/or obtaining clarifications on specific job vacancies in other Member States.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 585 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 4
4. Upon recruitment of a worjobseeker in another Member State as a result of the services provided in accordance with this Article, the EURES Partners concerned provide the person concerned with the contact details of organisations in the Member State of destination which can offer post- recruitment assistance.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 589 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to provide information on the specific rules applicable when employing those workerpeople from other Member States;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 593 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to promote, in particular online, the use of the EURES network and the CV database on the EURES portal as a tool helping to fill job vacancies;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 594 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) to provide information and guidance on factors which can facilitate the recruitment of worjobseekers and how to support their integration;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 596 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) where requested, to provide specific information and individual guidance on the formulation of individual job requirements in a job vacancy understandable to a European audienceng requirements for vacancies;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 598 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) where requested, to provide assistance on the formulation of the job vacancy in conformity with the European technical standards and formats referred to in Articles 14(8) and 16(5);
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 611 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) to jointly promote and encourage in the Member State's territory the registration of employers on the EURES network and their use of the common platform for European clearance;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 615 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 1
1. The EURES Partners concerned shall provide, upon request of trainees, apprentices, workers andor employers, general information on post- recruitment assistance and about where to obtain post-recruitment assistance such as training on intercultural communication, language courses and support with integration.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 633 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1, Member States shall support the development of integrated online access as a first source of information for jobseekers, traineeship, apprentices, workers, frontier workers and employers.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 635 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 3
3. Upon request of workers, frontier workers and employers, the EURES Partners concerned shallEURES Partners shall be encouraged to provide general information on the rights related to social security and undertake tor refer those requests for specific information to the competent authorities and, if applicable, other bodies supporting workers exercising their rights in the framework of the freedom of movement.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 643 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 1
A Member State shall not limit the access to national labour market measures merely for the reason that a worjobseeker seeks that assistance in order to find employment in the territory of another Member State.
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 674 #

2014/0002(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) information and guidance by the EURES network, on the basis of the number of contacts EURES staff have with jobseekers, trainees, apprentices, workers and employers;
2015/02/05
Committee: EMPL