Activities of Tamás MESZERICS related to 2016/2095(INI)
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A European Pillar of Social Rights (debate) HU
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Pillar of Social Rights PDF (513 KB) DOC (93 KB)
Amendments (79)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4
Citation 4
– having regard to the conventions and recommendations of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), in particular Convention 102 and Recommendation 202,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
– having regard to UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by the EU in 2010,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the European Pact for Gender Equality (2011-2020),
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
– having regard to the Commission recommendation of 3 October 2008 on the active inclusion of people excluded from the labour market (2008/867/EC),
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 c (new)
Citation 6 c (new)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 26 January 2014 on an EU homelessness strategy,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 13 May 2015 on the EU Strategy for equality between women and men post 2015
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 14 April 2016 on meeting the antipoverty target in the light of increasing household costs,
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
– having regard to the Eurofound report of 2014 on ‘Pay in Europe in the 21st century’[1] [1] Eurofound (2014), Pay in Europe in the 21st century.
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 b (new)
Citation 18 b (new)
– having regard to the Eurofound report of 2014 on ‘Access to healthcare in time of crisis’,[1] [1] Eurofound (2014), Access to healthcare in time of crisis.
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 c (new)
Citation 18 c (new)
– having regard to the Eurofound report of 2015 on ‘Access to social benefits: reducing non-take-up’,[1] [1]Eurofound (2015), Access to social benefits: Reducing non-take-up,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 d (new)
Citation 18 d (new)
– having regard to the Eurofound report of 2015on ‘New forms of employment’,[1] [1] Eurofound (2015), New forms of employment
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 e (new)
Citation 18 e (new)
– having regard to the Eurofound report of 2015 on ‘Inadequate housing in Europe: Costs and consequences’,[1] [1] Eurofound (2016) Inadequate housing in Europe: Costs and consequences,
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 f (new)
Citation 18 f (new)
– having regards to the forthcoming 2016 Eurofound 6th European Working Conditions Survey overview report,
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19 a (new)
Citation 19 a (new)
– having regard to the judgement of the Court C-266/14 on the organisation of working time for workers who are not assigned a fixed or habitual place of work,
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
– having regard Article 9 of TFEU obliging the EU to promote high level of employment, guarantee adequate social protection, fight against social exclusion, and ensure a high level of education, training and protection of human health,
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the European Union needs a paradigm shift towards a strong European social model based on solidarity, social justice, a fair distribution of wealth, non- discrimination, gender equality, a high- quality inclusive public education system, quality employment and sustainable growthand inclusive development - a model that ensures goodadequate social protection for all, empowers people in vulnerable groupsituations, enhances participation in civil and political life, and improves the living standards for all citizenspeople, delivering on the objectives and rights set out in the EU Treaties, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Social Charter;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the negative impact of the crisis on access to healthcare has often come with a delay, and many people have found themselves unable to access healthcare even if services are formally covered, in particular because they cannot afford co-payments or experience waiting lists;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) cannot be limited to a declaration of principles or good intentions but must consist of real matterconcrete and specific tools (legislation, policy-making mechanisms and financial instruments), delivering positive impact on citizens’ lives in the short term and enabling support for European construction in the 21st century by effectively upholding social rights and Treaty objectives, strengthening cohesion and upward convergence, and helping to complete EMU;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the EPSR should equip European citizenseveryone living in the EU with stronger means to keep and regain control over their lives and make markets work for wellbeing and sustainable development;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that the implementation of social rights depends on the EPSR being mainstreamed into EU economic policy and governance to ensure that policies do not undermine social rights;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the enactment of a directive on fairdecent working conditions for all forms of employment, ensuring for every worker a core set of enforceable rights, including equal treatment, equal pay, adequate social protection, protection in case of dismissal, health and safety protection, provisions on working time, travelling and commuting time and rest time, freedom of association and representation, collective bargaining, collective action, access to training, and adequate information and, consultation and participation 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, so- called public work programmes, internship or traineeship; requests that the EU acquis be updated accordingly so as to apply to all workers;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the role of the EU in ensuring the proper and swift implementation and enforcement of existing legislation in the field of employment and social affairs; notes that enforcement is to be guaranteed legally (e.g. through proceedings, infringement procedures, collective agreements), administratively and politically;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Considers that the initiative on a European Pillar of Social Rights should support the development of an integrated European anti-poverty strategy, with effective poverty and inequality reduction targets;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Quality and fair working conditions
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Calls for decisive steps towards legal certainty on what constitutes ‘employment’, also for work intermediated by digital platformsself-employed, outsourced and subcontracted workers in de-facto dependent work relationships, as well as for work intermediated by digital platforms and not based on a standard employment contract; underlines that open- ended contracts providing sound workload should remain the norm given their importance for socio-economic security; calls for the directive on fairpromotion of employment models that could be applied as an alternative to currently used employment models resulting in precarious work; calls for the directive on decent working conditions to include relevant minimumhigh-level standards to be ensured in more precarious forms of employment, in particular:
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point a
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; to this end, quality frameworks for internships, traineeships and apprenticeships must be established to ensure they are time-bound and to guarantee access to worker’s rights and adequate social protection, as well as the educational content of these work experience opportunities for young people;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point b
Paragraph 4 – point b
b. for work intermediated by digital platforms, a definition of employment, including the status of the platform, the client and the worker, that is less dependent on full cumulation of the relevant criteria;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point c
Paragraph 4 – point c
c. limits regarding on-demand work: zero-hour contracts and similar type contracts should be banned and certain core working hours should be guaranteed to all workers;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to prepare a study in cooperation with the social partners on the possibility of creating a European Labour Court to ensure proper implementation of European labour regulation;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need for renewed upward convergence in wages throughout the EU and closing the gender pay gap; calls on the Commission to actively support a wider coverage for collective bargaining; considers that to ensure decent living wages, minimum wages set at a decent level are necessary; recommends the establishment of national wage floors through legislation or collective bargaining, with the objective of attaining at least 60 % of the respective national averagemedian wage and exceeding the national or regional living wage;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for a European living wage calculation program with the aim of calculating official EU living wages on a regional basis in every Member States based on a standardised method in conjunction with reference budgets; calls on the Commission to prepare the call for proposal, and allocate the necessary funding; suggests the creation of a voluntary framework, supported by social partners, to look into the development of an EU Framework on Living Wages;
Amendment 401 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
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 measures to uphold this right for all workers, reflecting all current knowledge about health and safety risks; recalls that combatting violence against women in the workplace, particularly sexual harassment, is an integral part of health and safe working conditions;
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Is concerned about the high and rising number of workers who are forced into bogus self-employment while they are performing the same tasks as employees, with subsequent less coverage in social security and pension rights;
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Emphasizes the need for comprehensive, reliable and regularly updated data on quality of work and employment which can be used for monitoring quality of work and employment over time and provide evidence into policy making on the topic; calls on Eurofound to further develop its activities in monitoring job quality and working life throughout its European working conditions survey based on its concept of job quality as comprising earnings, prospects, physical environment, social environment, work intensity, skills use and discretion, working time quality; calls on Eurofound to further develop its research on policies, social partner agreements and companies practices which are supportive of better job quality and working lives;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Adequate and sustainable social protection and quality services
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Supports the individualisation of social protection rights and more integrated and quality provision of social protection benefits and social services as a way to make the welfare state more understandable and accessible, providing a personalized support, while not weakening social protection; points to the importance of informing citizenseveryone about social rights and to the potential of e- government solutions, possibly including a European social security card with strong data protection guarantees, which could improve individual awareness and also help mobile workers clarify their contributions and entitlements;
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Agrees with the importance ofStresses the need to ensure the availability of and universal access to timely, good-quality and affordable preventative and curative health care; emphasises that all workerseveryone must be covered by health insurance and that out of the pocket payments must be restricted; urges Member States to reverse cost-saving measures related to health care taken during the economic crisis;
Amendment 487 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is aware that rising life expectancy and workforce shrinking pose a challenge to the sustainability and adequacy of pensions systems and to intergenerational fairnesssolidarity; reaffirms that the best response is to increase the overall employment rate through employment models linked to full pension insurance coverage and with particular attention given to those most excluded from the labour market; considers that pensionable ages should reflect, besides life expectancy, other factors including gaps in healthy life years, periods spent out of the labour- market for caring responsibilities, labour market trends, the economic dependency ratio, the birth rate and differences in job arduousness;
Amendment 517 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
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; urges the need of benchmarking unemployment schemes highlighting that duration should at least cover the national average job seeking period and support and encourage active job search;
Amendment 544 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for a European framework fordirective on adequate minimum income schemes that sets common methodologies for defining their adequacy (e.g. 60% at risk of poverty indicator, material deprivation, reference budgets) and establishes common principles, definitions and methods to achieve a level playing field across Europe; 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;
Amendment 557 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Agrees that all persons with disabilities must be ensured enabling services and basicindividualised services provided by well- qualified professionals, and adequate income security allowing them a decent standard of living and social inclusion;
Amendment 581 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers universal access to quality and affordable community-based long-term care services and independent living schemes, including home-based care, to be a right that should be upheld with the help of suitably qualified professionals employed under decent conditions; believes that low- income households should therefore be targeted by adequate public services and tax deductions; repeats its call for legislation on carers’' leave accompanied by adequate remuneration and social protection;
Amendment 600 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers child poverty to be a major issue on which Europe should ‘'act big’'; calls for the swift implementation of the Recommendation on Investing in Children and of a Child Guarantee in all Member States, so that every child now living inat risk of poverty can havehas access to free healthcare, free and inclusive education, free childcare, decent housing and proper nutrition;
Amendment 616 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for Member States to promote access to quality and affordable housing of adequate size for all, to prevent and reduce homelessness with a view to its gradual elimination; calls on them to deliver on the right to adequate housing through i.e. 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 toemphasizes the need for benchmarking, monitoring, transnational exchange, mutual learning, and support for social innovation in this context; calls for an independence- supporting approach to youth-housing, helping young people on low incomes set up their own households, for example through tax incentives; calls for greater use of the EFSI to support urban renewal and affordable housing provision; calls for targeted provisions and incentives to develop the social housing sector in macro regions where they are insufficient or non-existent;
Amendment 626 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Highlights that investment in energy efficient social housing is a win- win for the environment whilst guaranteeing social rights that can have a real impact on tackling energy poverty; considers this should be combined with a strategy to ensure fair pricing adapted to actual incomes, and should ban cut-offs to vulnerable households;
Amendment 634 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for legislation ensuring fairthe availability of and access for all to good- quality and, affordable and accessible social services of general interest and other essential services, such as e- communications, energy, transport and financial services; highlights the role of social enterpriswell-equipped and well-staffed public sector providers, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations in providing these services;
Amendment 646 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for legislations abolishing all form of criminalisation of poverty such as unfairly sanctioning homelessness, energy poverty, or other forms of material deprivation;
Amendment 665 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Supports a Skills Guarantee as a new right for everyone to acquire fundamental skills for the 21st century, including digital literacy, skills needed for the green and circular economy as well as transversal and social skills; highlights this as an important social investment, requiring adequate financing;
Amendment 698 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 – point a
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 familycare or training reasons;
Amendment 734 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for full implementation of the Youth Guarantee for all people under 30, ensuring they are provided with a quality offer of employment or education, and of the recommendation on the long- term unemployed; highlights these as important structural reforms and social investments that are in need of adequate financing from both EU and national level;
Amendment 753 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 22 – point a a (new)
aa. the Commission should adopt, as repeatedly requested by the Parliament a post-2015 Gender Equality Strategy in line with the recommendations of the European Pact for gender equality for the period 2011-2020;
Amendment 754 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point a b (new)
Paragraph 22 – point a b (new)
ab. the Council should swiftly move forward with an agreement on the Women on Boards Directive;
Amendment 761 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 – point b
Paragraph 22 – point b
b. there is a need for new legislative proposals on family leave schemes, includingCommission should bring forward a comprehensive package of legislative and non-legislative measures regarding the work-life balance, the reconciliation of professional, private and family life; including legislative proposals on 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;
Amendment 784 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to set out new concrete measures to ensure non- discrimination and equal opportunities for all, throughout the lifecycle; calls for the rapid adoption of the proposal for a directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, to close the gap in protection against discrimination in access to goods and services;
Amendment 798 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Amendment 822 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Is concerned that the regional differences between wage levels and social security systems of Member States are putting a downward pressure on working conditions and social security and can only be countered by EU level measures tackling diverging working and social conditions;
Amendment 827 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Stresses that, for this to happen, social security coordination across the EU must be better enforced to ensure income- support, pension rights (including second and third pillar) and other social benefits are not lost when moving to another country or when moving back to the country of origin;
Amendment 829 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)
Paragraph 24 c (new)
24c. Calls on the EU and Member States to take into account the social impact of mobility on the increasing number of transnational families for example by providing leaves to care for a family member in another country and the transferability and comparability of education systems for the mobility of children in school age;
Amendment 830 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 d (new)
Paragraph 24 d (new)
24d. Considers that all trade unions should be further assisted in setting up transnational agreements and networks to provide information, counselling, legal advice and seamless protection for mobile and posted workers;
Amendment 831 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 e (new)
Paragraph 24 e (new)
24e. Calls on Member States to make it mandatory for employers to provide an employment contract in a language known by EU mobile citizens, in order to make the labour contract understandable for workers;
Amendment 844 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to propose a clear roadmap for legislative updates and other 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), the gender mainstreaming clause (Article 8 TFEU) and the horizontal non-discrimination clause (Article 10 TFEU) should be properly applied;
Amendment 860 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
Paragraph 26 – introductory part
26. Considers that the objective of upward social convergence should be underpinned by a set of binding targets, building on the Europe 2020 strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals and serving to guide the coordination of economic, employment and social policies in the EU; suggests that these targets should be further adapted to relative improvements of the performance within a Member State once the originally set target is met; believes that these targets could also form part of the Convergence Code currently being discussed for the euro area, and could be based on the following indicators which are directly affected by public policies and which should be disaggregated, including by age and gender:
Amendment 892 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point e a (new)
Paragraph 26 – point e a (new)
ea. income inequality using the income quintile share ratio;
Amendment 903 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point g a (new)
Paragraph 26 – point g a (new)
ga. access to care services for dependent persons;
Amendment 904 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point g b (new)
Paragraph 26 – point g b (new)
gb. homelessness and housing exclusion rates;
Amendment 941 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for a rebalancing of the European Semester so that the existing scoreboard of key employment and social indicators and the new Convergence Code are directly and transparently taken into account in formulating CSRs and the euro area recommendation as well as for the activation of EU instruments; urges a stronger role for the Macroeconomic Dialogue with social partners; considers ‘macro-social surveillance’ to be of great importance for avoiding that economic imbalances are reduced at the expense of worsening the employment and social situation;
Amendment 947 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls for the creation of a new integrated EU indicator measuring the intergenerational social mobility enabling cross country comparison of equal opportunities;
Amendment 960 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls, in the short run, for a ‘'silver rule’' on social investment to be applied when implementing the Stability and Growth Pact, namely to consider certain public social investments having a clear positive impact on economic growth (e.g. childcare or education and training) as being eligible for favourable treatment when assessing government deficits and compliance with the 1/20 debt rule; calls on the Commission to explore was to actively encourage Member States to make use of this silver rule; calls, in the longer run, for a wider 'golden rule' on social investment which establishes a threshold or benchmark below which spending on social protection should not fall;
Amendment 978 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
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 schwelfare systemes in order to provide adecentquate social protection for alland quality services for all; calls therefor to step up actions to effectively fight tax avoidance and evasion;
Amendment 1005 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point b
Paragraph 30 – point b
b. an increase in the volume of the European Social Fund, the EGF and the FEAD, and safeguarding the ring-fencing of at least 20% of ESF for the fight against poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 1006 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 30 – point b a (new)
ba. the application of gender budgeting to all financial instruments;
Amendment 1019 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Considers a social fiscal union the most effective environment to restart the upward social convergence in Europe; highlights that the E.P.S.R. should commit the EMU to the establishment of the European social fiscal union where this first phase sets the minimum social standards and the second phase creates the effective solidarity mechanisms;
Amendment 1020 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Calls for the Commission to closely monitor and report annually on how Member States are fulfilling the ex- ante conditionalities of the European Social Fund and on the 20% earmarked spending for poverty reduction and social inclusion;
Amendment 1035 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to refocus the EFSI on sustainable and quality job creation and social investment and adapt its risk/return requirements accordingly;
Amendment 1077 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point b
Paragraph 32 – point b
b. a European unemployment insurance scheme, also accessible for self- employed workers, complementing national schemes in cases of severe cyclical downturn and helping prevent the translation of an asymmetric shock into structural disadvantage;
Amendment 1078 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to explore a possible European social security system in the future and the funding thereof;
Amendment 1100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to translate the EPSR into relevant external action, in particular by promoting the implementation of the UN SDGs, the UNCRPD, the ILO conventions and European social standards through trade agreements and strategic partnerships;
Amendment 1113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Considers that the EPSR should be adopted in 2017 as a binding agreement between the European Parliament and the European Council, genuinely involving all social partners and civil society organisations, in line with art 11 TEU, as equal partners at the highest level, and should contain a clear roadmap for implementation, with concrete commitments and target dates; stresses that this requires providing the necessary funding to support social partners' and civil society's engagement, as well as developing explicit guidelines for transparency, visibility, and quality of involvement, at both EU and national level;