1611 Amendments of Alessandra MORETTI
Amendment 50 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are diseases that are not passed from person to person; whereas non-communicable diseases (NCD’s)NCDs cause 90 % of all deaths in the EU4 ; _________________ 4 World Health Organization, ‘Monitoring noncommunicable disease commitments in Europe 2021’, 8 December 2021. and their prevalence continues to grow across the EU and cause a great burden on people living with NCDs and their families, healthcare systems and national budgets;
Amendment 53 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are diseases that are not passed from person to person; whereas non-communicable diseases (NCD’s) cause 90 % of all deaths in the EU4 and their prevalence continues to grow across the EU; _________________ 4 World Health Organization, ‘Monitoring noncommunicable disease commitments in Europe 2021’, 8 December 2021.
Amendment 62 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas premature deaths as a result of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases account for 68 % of all premature deaths in Europe; whereas other NCDs include mental and neurological disorders, kidney diseases, liver and gastrointestinal diseases, oral diseases, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and endometriosis among other conditions;
Amendment 63 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas premature deaths as a result of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases account for 68 % of all premature deaths in Europe; whereas other NCDs include mental and neurological disorders, kidney, liver and gastrointestinal diseases, oral diseases, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and endometriosis among other conditions;
Amendment 82 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the increasing burden of NCDs on individuals and societies and the health needs of ageing populations 40% of which live with multimorbidity represent challenges to the healthcare systems of the Member States, and require the development of specific NCD prevention, detection and treatment policies contributing to healthy ageing;
Amendment 90 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the increasing burden of NCDs on individuals and societies and the health needs of an ageing populations represent challenges to the health systems of the Member States;
Amendment 105 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas most NCDs are impacted by fourcertain preventable risk factors: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity and harmful use of alcohol and smoking, alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet, environmental factors and pollution, and lack of physical activity; whereas behavioural risk factors lead to biological risk factors, the most common being overweight and obesity, high blood pressure, high blood glucose and high blood cholesterol6 ; _________________ 6 World Health Organization, ‘Monitoring noncommunicable disease commitments in Europe 2021’, p. 13, 8 December 2021.
Amendment 134 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas most NCDs are impacted by environmental risk factors, such as air pollution;indoor and outdoor air pollution, and multiple global environmental changes, including climate change and biodiversity loss
Amendment 136 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas most NCDs are impacted by environmental risk factors such as air pollutionindoor and outdoor air pollution, and multiple global environmental trends, including climate change and biodiversity loss;
Amendment 141 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas most NCDs are impacted by socioeconomic factors and inequalities, notably disadvantaged socioeconomic status having significantly negative impact on mortality and morbidity caused by NCD;
Amendment 174 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G d (new)
Recital G d (new)
Gd. whereas people living with one or more NCDs were one of the most severely affected population groups during the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 194 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas people living with one or more NCDs were one of the most severely affected population groups during the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 209 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that NCDs account for 90 % of all deaths in the EU8 , which leads to high levels of productivity loss and makes NCDs account for the largest share of countries’ healthcare expendituresbeing therefore one of the most crucial public health challenges in the EU; stresses that it ise important toce ofpreventing and reduceing the prevalence and comorbidities of NCDs and believes that enhanced health promotionbetter and equal access to public healthcare services all across the EU, including prevention and screening services and appropriate treatments and care, together with health promotion initiatives and policies and disease prevention can susbstantially reduce the prevalence of NCDs by 70 %9, in conjunction with investment in research, clinical studies and trials, health innovation, and technologies; _________________ 8 European Commission, ‘Non- communicable diseases : overview’. 9 European Commission, ‘The EU ‘Healthier Together’ Non-Communicable Diseases Initiative’, 2022
Amendment 217 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls the need to consider, together with the health challenges, also the socioeconomic impact of NCD's, which affects the workforce and the overall productivity; recalls that NCDs account for the largest share of countries’ healthcare expenditures and this burden is projected to rise in the near future due to the ageing population, among other factors;
Amendment 229 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Healthier together – EU non-communicable diseases (NCD) initiative, Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, EU4Health work programme and the Commission Communication entitled ‘A comprehensive approach to mental health’; calls on the Commission to strengthen the ‘Healthier together – EU NCD’ initiative by introducing a holistic and integrated EU strategy on NCDs complemented by action plans for specific NCDs with clear targets, benchmarks indicators and mechanisms to monitor progress; welcomes national plans and actions already taken against NCDs by Member States;
Amendment 252 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges that tobacco use and smoking, physical inactivity, the harmful use of alcoholalcohol consumption 10a, unhealthy diets and environmental factors such as air, food, water and soil pollution, UV radiation exposure, and chemical exposure substantially increase the risk of NCDs10 ; _________________ 10 https://www.paho.org/en/topics/noncommu nicable-diseases - :~:text=These%204%20groups%20of%20d iseases,of%20the%20response%20to%20N CDs The Pan American Health Organization, ‘Noncommunicable Diseases’. 10a https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04- 01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol- consumption-is-safe-for-our-health
Amendment 271 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Acknowledges that tobacco use, including second hand smoke, was responsible for 1.6 million deaths in Europe in 2019 and is a high risk factor for developing NCDs such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases and calls for an harmonization in the definitions of tobacco and smoking products across EU legislation; notes the significance of second-hand smoke as a public health concern, due to the exposure to carcinogens and its contribution to NCDs, particularly in children, pregnant women and adults; Highlights that 60% of children are exposed to second-hand smoke at home which can lead to sudden infant death syndrome, lower respiratory infections, ear infections, and more severe asthma; Calls for the EU and Member States to invest in campaigns and legislation action (e.g. home smoking bans) in order to create a smoke free environment and raise the first European tobacco-free generation by 2040;
Amendment 279 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that novel smoking and tobacco products, such as heated tobacco and electronic cigarettes, poses a danger to people's health and are not harmless, with links to many different NCDs such as cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases; recalls that these devices are particularly dangerous towards non- smokers, women and young people such as children and adolescents; asks the Commission to align the restrictions and legislation of these products to the traditional ones in the context of the review of the tobacco legislation, including taxation and the restriction related to smoke-free environments;
Amendment 280 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Recalls that decades of restrictive legislative measures, increased taxation and information campaigns to limit smoking and tobacco consumption have produced concrete results, reduced the number of tobacco consumers and ultimately saved lives; regrets that the results obtained, particularly among the youth and women, are jeopardised by the alarming increase in the use of novel tobacco products and electronic smoking devices; urges the Commission to swiftly update the Tobacco legislation to better include those new products by using the precautionary principle to protect people's health, particularly youth and women as some of the most exposed portions of population;
Amendment 282 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
Paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Supports the Commission’s proposals to reviewEurope’s Beating Cancer Plan to achieve a Tobacco-Free Generation and prevent tobacco use by reducing tobacco consumption to 5% by 2040 and urges the Commission to accelerate for the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive11 and the Tobacco Taxation Directive12 and the proposal to update the Council recommendation of 30 November 2009 on smoke-free environments13 ; calls for a full implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; calls and prevent any delays in the revision of the legislation; calls on the Commission for the full implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC); calls furthermore on the Commission and the Member States to: _________________ 11 Directive 2014/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related products, OJ L 127, 29.4.2014, p. 1. 12 Council Directive 2011/64/EU of 21 June 2011 on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco, OJ L 176, 5.7.2011, p. 24. 13 OJ C 296, 5.12.2009, p. 4.
Amendment 292 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point a
Paragraph 5 – point a
a. implement measures to help tobacco users quit in line with WHO FCTC and by following WHO recommendations and scientific advice from public health authorities;
Amendment 311 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b
Paragraph 5 – point b
b. follow up on the scientific evaluations of theresearch and evaluations by public health authorities about the known health risks related to electronic cigarettes, heated tobacco products and novel tobacco products including the assessment of the risks of using these products compar, particularly taking into consideration the threat posed to cnonsuming other tobacco products- smokers, youth and women;
Amendment 316 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point b a (new)
ba. an increase and an upward convergence in minimum excise duties for all tobacco products and their final market price, which would improve prevention by reducing tobacco uptake and use, notably among current smokers, and prevent young people from starting smoking;
Amendment 322 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b b (new)
Paragraph 5 – point b b (new)
bb. bringing the taxation of novel smoking products, such as vapes and heated tobacco, into line with cigarettes;
Amendment 326 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b c (new)
Paragraph 5 – point b c (new)
bc. publish annual reports on the progress towards achieving a tobacco-free generation by 2040;
Amendment 328 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b d (new)
Paragraph 5 – point b d (new)
bd. in the context of the Evaluation of the legislative framework for tobacco control, recommend the European Commission to work collectively with EU Member States to raise the minimum age for tobacco sales to 21;
Amendment 331 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b e (new)
Paragraph 5 – point b e (new)
be. introduce a requirement for standardised plain packaging and the obligation to include health warnings on 80 % of the front and back of tobacco and smoking products packaging, including pictorial warnings;
Amendment 333 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b f (new)
Paragraph 5 – point b f (new)
bf. a strict enforcement of the ban on appealing flavours in tobacco products and the introduction of similar restrictions to novel smoking devices to reduce the appeal of these products to smokers, non-smokers, and young people;
Amendment 334 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b g (new)
Paragraph 5 – point b g (new)
bg. to further enhance the protection of consumers from the advertisement of smoking devices, heated tobacco products and electronic cigarettes; is concerned by the fact that the ban on cigarettes and tobacco advertising is often eluded by the advertisement of the device itself; calls on the Commission to propose urgent measures in order to protect consumers from advertisement and promotion of such dangerous and addictive devices and products;
Amendment 335 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines that alcohol is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a toxic, psychoactive, and dependence-producing substance and a Group 1 carcinogen that is causally linked to seven types of cancer, including oesophagus, liver, colorectal, and breast cancers; recalls that alcohol consumptions is associated with 740000 new cancer cases each year globally; stresses that in the EU, light to moderate alcohol consumption was associated with almost 23000 new cancer cases in 2017, accounting for 13,3% of all alcohol- attributable cancers and for 2,3% of all cases of the seven alcohol-related cancer types;
Amendment 343 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Acknowledges that the harmful use of alcohol is a risk factor for multiple NCDs and underlines that the lower the amount of alcohol consumed, the lower the risk is of developing NCDs14 ; _________________ 14 Global burden of disease 2016 Alcohol Collaborators, ‘Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories,1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016’, 23 August 2018.Highlights that the WHO estimates 1 million deaths annually in the European region due to alcohol consumption; underlines that alcohol consumption is a risk factor for multiple NCDs and that no safe amount of alcohol consumption for cancers and health can be identified, and reminds also that these factors must be taken into account while regulating the sector; acknowledges as well that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified alcohol as a Group 1 carcinogen, and calls for the urgent implementation of evidence-based methods to reduce alcohol consumption in Europe; recalls also that alcohol consumption is causally linked to several different types of cancer, including breast, liver, and colorectal cancer;
Amendment 356 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – introductory part
Paragraph 7 – introductory part
7. Welcomes the Commission’s objective of achieving a 10 % reduction in harmful alcohol consumption by 2025; calls on the Commission and the Member States to:
Amendment 358 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – point a
Paragraph 7 – point a
a. EUrgently enact restrictions on alcohol advertising targeting minors; o ensure they are not seen by minors, recognizing the evidence on the impact of alcohol marketing targeting youth on consumption;
Amendment 364 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 7 – point a a (new)
aa. prohibit alcohol advertising and sponsorship at sport events when those events are attended by minors, including alcohol free beverages advertising or sponsorship by companies or brands whose main business is alcoholic beverages;
Amendment 391 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – introductory part
Paragraph 8 – introductory part
8. Notes that an unhealthy diet is one of the major risk factors for NCDs, including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and other conditions linked to obesity, oral diseases, chronic kidney disease, liver, pancreas and other gastrointestinal diseases15 ; acknowledges that obesity is considered a risk factor for several NCDs; calls on the Commission and the Member States to: _________________ 15 World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, ‘Noncommunicable diseases’.
Amendment 468 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. CStresses the direct link between environmental factors and numerous NCDs; recalls the importance of protecting people from the exposure to environmental hazards, in their daily lives as well as in their working environment; underlines the need of streamlining the One Health approach in all EU and national policies in order to better protect humans health; considers the European Green Deal to be instrumental into allow for a sustainable development and thus preventing NCDs in the EU by reducing air, food, water and soil pollution, UV radiation exposure and chemical exposure; highlights that prevention of chronic respiratory diseases besides tobacco cessation also includes the prevention of exposure to dust and other indoor pollutantsfine particulates, dust, dangerous chemicals, gasses such as radon, hazard materials such as asbestos and other pollutants, both indoor and outdoor;
Amendment 479 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Acknowledges that air pollution has a negative impact on human health and exposure to it affects 100% of the population, from unborn babies to the elderly, that 400,000 premature deaths every year are caused by outdoor air pollution in Europe, and that as many as 15% of all lung cancer deaths are linked to air pollution; calls therefore the Commission and member states to further improve air quality provisions in order to protect public health;
Amendment 504 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) can lead to health problems such as obesity and cancer16 ; calls on the Commission to urgently implement the PFAS restriction proposal submitted to European Chemicals Agency on 13 January 202317 ; _________________ 16 European Environment Agency, ‘What are PFAS and how are they dangerous for my health?’. 17 European Chemicals Agency, ‘ECHA publishes PFAS restriction proposal’, 2023.
Amendment 536 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals that target communicable diseases in order to promote the prevention of NCDs such as cancer related to infectious diseases; welcomes vaccination programmes in this regard such as in the fight against human papillomavirus transmissione fight against HPV and hepatitis B infection, including the adoption of gender-neutral HPV vaccinations for all adolescents and young adults;
Amendment 544 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Acknowledges that social, economic, cultural, and commercial determinants of health, and health inequities increase the risk of NCDs and underlines the need to create favourable conditions that address these factors; emphasizes the importance of a more robust implementation of the Health in All Policies principle, in dialogue with the public health community, and with thorough consideration of the health impacts of sectoral policies;
Amendment 554 #
2023/2075(INI)
14b. Welcome the approval of the 2022 Council Recommendations on Cancer Screening Recommendations in Europe which include comprehensive strategies for earlier detection of breast, cervical, colorectal cancer and extend recommended screenings in Europe for lung, prostate and gastric cancers;
Amendment 585 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Encourages Member States to reduce undiagnosed NCDs by introducing targeted health checks for high-risk individuals, also by promoting self-tests where appropriate and recommended by public health authorities, addressing the main shared metabolic risk factors, ensuring quality care and support NCD patients’ self- management;
Amendment 598 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that some NCDs are closely linked such as diabetes, oral diseases and cardiovascular diseases and that important synergies can be achieved by improving diagnosis and integrated care19 ; _________________ 19 European Commission, ‘Healthier together – EU non-communicable diseases initiative’, p. 30, June 2022.
Amendment 608 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Expresses support for the creation of an EU Network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres, as a good case study for pan European action to improve access to high quality care and to deliver next level cooperation across borders in combating inequalities in access and improved research cooperation;
Amendment 609 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Stresses that functioning, efficient and accessible public healthcare systems in all member states, with appropriate funding and support, are vital in the fight against NCDs; underlines the need to ensure equal access to primary care and healthcare services for all in the EU; is concerned about the widespread discrimination faced by EU citizens in the access to basic healthcare services, prevention services, screening programs and continuous care and treatments, for example for chronic diseases patients; calls on the Commission to propose legislative and regulatory measures to introduce minimum standards for healthcare services all across the EU in order to protect and promote people's health;
Amendment 612 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Recalls that notwithstanding the lifting of most of the COVID-19 related restrictions, NCDs patients are still at higher risk in case of any coronavirus infection; stresses that these patients must be protected in their day-to-day lives and particularly during the access to public health services for their treatment and care; underlines the need to mantain an high level of surveillance on the new variants and the potential trends of COVID-19 and any other communicable diseases that could affect NCDs patients;
Amendment 613 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that nurses, doctors, general practitioners and other primary any strategy or policy to address NCDs must take into consideration the fundamental importance of healthcare workers and personnel; underlines that the issue of healthcare workforce shortages in the EU should be one of the strategic priorities to be addressed at EU and national level, with appropriate policies, funding and support; stresses that functioning and efficient healthcare systems cannot exist without appropriate levels of personnel with the required training and expertise; recalls that healthcare professionals have a significant role in referring patients for diagnostic tests and treating NCDs; encourages the Member States to offer inter- professional training to healthcare professionals to better identifyrecognize high-risk individuals, and to better prevent, identify and treat NCDs;
Amendment 727 #
2023/2075(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. WelcomAcknowledges the pharmaceutical package presented by the Commission and calls for the strengthening of the European medicines market to ensure access to medicines and alleviate medicine shortages, reduce barriers to cross-border business, while strengthening incentives for investment in innovation; underlines that data protection and intellectual property rights are crucial to ensure competitiveness in the EU by incentivising innovators to develop new products and further ongoing research effortsequal and affordable access to medicines all across the EU and to alleviate medicine shortages, guarantee access to treatment to EU patients in all member states, reduce barriers to cross-border business, while supporting investment in research and innovation; recalls that the use of public funding must be aligned with the public interest and foresee appropriate returns in terms of fair pricing and marketization of the products in all member states, and also including conditionality such as transparency, traceability, accessibility; underlines the benefits of fair and predictable IP protection system in fostering and advancing medicinal research, production and development;
Amendment 2 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
– having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/522 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 March 2021 establishing a Programme for the Union’s action in the field of health (‘EU4Health Programme’) for the period 2021-2027, and repealing Regulation (EU) No 282/2014,
Amendment 3 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
– having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/695 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1290/2013 and (EU) No 1291/2013,
Amendment 4 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 r (new)
Citation 2 r (new)
– having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law’),
Amendment 6 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 5 July 2022 on mental health in the digital world of work (2021/2098(INI)),
Amendment 8 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 d (new)
Citation 1 d (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 10 July 2020 on the EU’s public health strategy post-COVID-19 (2020/2691(RSP)),
Amendment 9 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 f (new)
Citation 1 f (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 12 July 2023 on the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations for the future (2022/2076(INI))
Amendment 12 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 l (new)
Citation 2 l (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 1 March 2018 on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2016 (2017/2125(INI)),
Amendment 13 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 m (new)
Citation 2 m (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 25 November 2020 on the EU Strategy for Gender Equality (2019/2169(INI)),
Amendment 14 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 n (new)
Citation 2 n (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 14 February 2019 on the rights of intersex people (2018/2878(RSP)),
Amendment 15 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 o (new)
Citation 2 o (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 16 September 2021 with recommendations to the Commission on identifying gender- based violence as a new area of crime listed in Article 83(1) TFEU (2021/2035(INL)),
Amendment 16 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 p (new)
Citation 2 p (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 18 April 2023 on the universal decriminalisation of homosexuality in the light of recent developments in Uganda (2023/2643(RSP)),
Amendment 17 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 q (new)
Citation 2 q (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 28 November 2019 on the climate and environment emergency (2019/2930(RSP)),
Amendment 23 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 e (new)
Citation 1 e (new)
– having regard to the DG EPRS briefing of July 2021 entitled ‘Mental health and the pandemic’,
Amendment 25 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 s (new)
Citation 2 s (new)
– having regard to the Council conclusions of 24 October 2019 on the economy of well-being, which call for a comprehensive EU mental health strategy,
Amendment 27 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to the communication from the Commission of 30 November 2022, entitled ‘EU Global Health Strategy: Better Health For All in a Changing World’,
Amendment 29 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 e (new)
Citation 2 e (new)
– having regard to the Commission initiative of 22 June 2022, entitled ‘Healthier Together: EU Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Initiative’,
Amendment 30 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 f (new)
Citation 2 f (new)
– having regard to the communication from the Commission of 24 March 2021 entitled ‘EU strategy on the rights of the child’ (COM(2021) 142),
Amendment 31 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 g (new)
Citation 2 g (new)
– having regard to the communication from the Commission of 11 May 2023 entitled ‘A Digital Decade for children and youth: the new European strategy for a better internet for kids (BIK+)’ (COM(2022) 212),
Amendment 32 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 h (new)
Citation 2 h (new)
– having regard to the communication from the Commission of 30 Sep 2023 on achieving the European Education Area by 2025 (COM(2020) 625),
Amendment 34 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 i (new)
Citation 2 i (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 3 February 2021 entitled ‘Europe's Beating Cancer Plan’,
Amendment 35 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 j (new)
Citation 2 j (new)
– having regard to the communication from the Commission of 3 March 2021, entitled ‘Union of Equality: Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030’,
Amendment 36 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 k (new)
Citation 2 k (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 12 November 2020 entitled ‘LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020- 2025’,
Amendment 37 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 v (new)
Citation 2 v (new)
– having regard to EU Anti-racism Action Plan 2020-2025,
Amendment 40 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 g (new)
Citation 1 g (new)
– having regard to WHO World Mental Health Day 2023 – ‘Mental health is a universal human right’,
Amendment 41 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 t (new)
Citation 2 t (new)
– having regard to the WHO European framework for action on mental health for 2021-2025;
Amendment 43 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 u (new)
Citation 2 u (new)
– having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Amendment 45 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 b (new)
Citation 2 b (new)
– having regard to the joint publication from the Commission and OECD of 22 November 2018, entitled ‘Health at a Glance: Europe 2018: State of Health in the EU Cycle’,
Amendment 46 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 c (new)
Citation 2 c (new)
– having regard to the joint publication from the Commission and OECD of 19 November 2020, entitled ‘Health at a Glance: Europe 2020: State of Health in the EU Cycle’,
Amendment 47 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 d (new)
Citation 2 d (new)
– having regard to the joint publication from the Commission and OECD of 5 December 2022, entitled ‘Health at a Glance: Europe 2022: State of Health in the EU Cycle’,
Amendment 54 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas mental health is an integral part of health, fundamental to the well-being of individuals and societies and a precondition for an inclusive and functional society, which underpins individual and collective abilities to make decisions, build relationships and shape the world we live in;
Amendment 55 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas prison inmates and people detained by public authorities in general suffer from confinement and isolation and more than one third of the people in prison suffer from mental health disorders of various type;
Amendment 64 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas mental health conditions include mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities as well as other mental states associated with significant distress, impairment in functioning, or risk of self- harm;
Amendment 65 #
2023/2074(INI)
Ba. whereas 1 in 5 prison in Europe reported overcrowding, exacerbating further any mental health condition suffered by the inmates and violating their basic human rights;
Amendment 67 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Amendment 70 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. Whereas mental health conditions are the leading cause of years lived with disability (YLDs) and the fifth leading cause of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of all NCDs in the European Union 4a _________________ 4a According to the study Global, regional, and national burden of 12 mental disorders in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Amendment 71 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. Whereas mental health literacy still remains very low when compared to physical health literacy and can negatively impact service seeking behaviour;
Amendment 73 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. Whereas the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated and further highlighted mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression amongst others, and is additionally aggravated by the current context of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the climate crisis, unemployment and rising living costs;
Amendment 74 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Amendment 75 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Bg. Whereas children, adolescents and young adults are increasingly exposed to pressure and high expectations from society and impacted by anxiety stemming from global threats such as the COVID- 19 pandemic, the climate emergency, conflicts uncertainty and other factors;
Amendment 76 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B h (new)
Recital B h (new)
Bh. Whereas the use of social media and digital networks for cyberbullying and exposure to pornography, sexualised and violent imagery and gaming, anonymous trolling, and content featuring diet restrictions and unattainable/unhealthy beauty standards can have negative mental health consequences, especially in children, adolescents and young people;
Amendment 77 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B i (new)
Recital B i (new)
Bi. Whereas the EU Kids Online 2020 survey estimates that 23% of children between the ages of 9 and 16 have been bullied online, and the Joint Research Council found that 49% of children had experienced at least one form of online aggression or bullying;
Amendment 78 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B j (new)
Recital B j (new)
Bj. Whereas digitalisation plays an increasingly significant role in modern society in both personal and professional life and can be leveraged to support scale- up of mental health support and evidence- based interventions, but can impact negatively an individual’s mental health;
Amendment 79 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B k (new)
Recital B k (new)
Bk. Whereas there is a strong link between poor mental health and bullying with harmful additional consequences, resulting in higher stress, anxiety and other negative mental health symptoms in children, adolescents and young people, with damaging consequences in adulthood;
Amendment 80 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B l (new)
Recital B l (new)
Bl. Whereas studies show that 34,6% of all mental health conditions begin by age 14 and 62.5% by age 25;7a _________________ 7a According to the WHO report Integrating psychosocial interventions and support into HIV services for adolescents and young adults
Amendment 81 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B m (new)
Recital B m (new)
Bm. Whereas death by suicide or intentional self harm is the second leading cause of death in adolescents (15- 19 years of age) 8a in Western Europe, particularly in boys and is found to be significantly higher than in adults; _________________ 8a According to the UNICEF report The State of the World's Children 2021 - On My Mind: Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health, Unicef, 2021
Amendment 82 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B n (new)
Recital B n (new)
Bn. Whereas the annual value of lost mental health, in children and young people is estimated at EUR 50 billion 9a ; _________________ 9a According to the UNICEF Brief On My Mind, The State of the World’s Children 2021: Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health
Amendment 83 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B o (new)
Recital B o (new)
Bo. Whereas mortality rate from eating disorders is higher than all other mental health conditions, affecting mainly girls and younger women and influencing not only their physical health but also leading to, among others, lower self esteem, general anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, depression, intentional self harm or suicide;
Amendment 84 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B p (new)
Recital B p (new)
Bp. Whereas the gender pay gap in the EU stands in average at 13% 10a , affecting women more negatively than men and especially single parent households; _________________ 10aAccording to the European Commission’s 2022 Factsheet on the gender pay gap
Amendment 85 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B q (new)
Recital B q (new)
Bq. Whereas one in three women in the EU has experienced physical and/or sexual violence, leading to poorer mental health status, higher stress and mental health conditions;
Amendment 86 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B r (new)
Recital B r (new)
Br. Whereas age-standardised suicide rates in the European region have been decreasing over the years but still make Europe the region with second highest worldwide 11a , with a higher prevalence in men, although research shows that overall mental health conditions are significantly more prevalent in women; _________________ 11aAccording to the WHO report Suicide worldwide in 2019
Amendment 87 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B s (new)
Recital B s (new)
Amendment 88 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B t (new)
Recital B t (new)
Bt. Whereas hate, discrimination and violence of LGBTQIA+ community members is increasing and consequently leading to severe mental health conditions, as well as permanent outcomes such as homicide, death by intentional self-harm or suicide and resulting in collective distress amongst the community;
Amendment 89 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B u (new)
Recital B u (new)
Bu. Whereas interventions claiming to be conversion ‘therapies’ of an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression are pseudoscience and are major contributors to stigmatisation and poor mental health;
Amendment 90 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B v (new)
Recital B v (new)
Bv. Whereas communicable diseases (CDs) such as HIV, viral Hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections and others are often cause of stigmatisation and mental health impairment for individuals;
Amendment 91 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B w (new)
Recital B w (new)
Bw. Whereas human trafficking for sexual exploitation in the EU is a gender- specific phenomenon predominantly impacting women 14a _________________ 14a According to the European Parliamentary Research Service policy briefing The differing EU Member States’ regulations on prostitution and their cross-border implications on women’s rights
Amendment 92 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B x (new)
Recital B x (new)
Bx. Whereas victims of violence, migrants, asylum seekers and refugees face adverse situations that contribute to trauma and mental ill-health;
Amendment 103 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas job insecurity, temporary employment and inadequate working conditions are associated with poor mental health and unemployment, as are absenteeism and presenteeism;
Amendment 109 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. Whereas people with mental health conditions are often less likely to be employed and mental health problems in early childhood and adolescence increase the risk of poor academic performance and job opportunities later in life;
Amendment 114 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. Whereas poverty is often linked to inadequate living conditions and may induce a scarcity mind-set, characterised by a belief that one has limited resources or is unable to provide for themselves or others, leading to intense feelings of anxiety. aggravating the poverty cycle and increasing the risk of mental ill-health;
Amendment 119 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. Whereas non communicable diseases (NCDs) can co-occur with associated chronic physical conditions and significantly impact patients’ mental health;
Amendment 122 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. Whereas people living with a rare disease are more likely to experience symptoms of a mental health condition (such as low mood, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, and may also at times lead to suicidal thoughts or intention), than the general population;
Amendment 124 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
Amendment 126 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C g (new)
Recital C g (new)
Cg. Whereas both licit and illicit substances (alcohol, caffeine, cannabis, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, sedatives, hypnotics and anxiolytics, stimulants, tobacco, and other substances) and behaviours (gambling, overeating, television compulsion, and internet addiction, among others) can lead to behavioural addictions or substance related disorders which are highly correlated with other mental health conditions;
Amendment 129 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C h (new)
Recital C h (new)
Ch. Whereas loneliness and social isolation in older adults are associated with dementia and adverse physical and mental health outcomes, including substance related disorders, suicidality, poor lifestyle habits, major depression and anxiety;
Amendment 131 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C i (new)
Recital C i (new)
Ci. Whereas an institution is a care setting that tends to displays any of the following characteristics: residents are isolated from the broader community and/or compelled to live together; residents do not have sufficient control over their lives and over decisions which affect them; the requirements of the organisation itself tend to take precedence over the residents’ individual needs;
Amendment 132 #
2023/2074(INI)
Cj. Whereas in many Member States, the availability of mental health care and support is inadequate or scarce, leading to long waiting lists, poor resources and out- of-pocket payments, creating further socio-economic discrimination and inequities;
Amendment 134 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C k (new)
Recital C k (new)
Amendment 135 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C l (new)
Recital C l (new)
Cl. Whereas mental ill-health also has enormous economic consequences (over 4% of GDP in the EU), originating from productivity losses, as well as other indirect costs that often outweigh direct costs such as healthcare expenditure 17a ; _________________ 17a According to the 2018 OECD report ‘Health at a Glance: Europe 2018 State of Health in the EU Cycle’, the total cost related to mental health in Europe exceeded 600 billion euro, accounting for 4% of the EU's total GDP
Amendment 136 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C m (new)
Recital C m (new)
Cm. Whereas there is increasing evidence that promotion and prevention can be cost-effective and cost-efficient;
Amendment 137 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C n (new)
Recital C n (new)
Cn. Whereas out-of-pocket expenses on healthcare services pose a financial barrier for people with health conditions and Universal Coverage Healthcare mitigates economic constraints for prevention, diagnosis, support and rehabilitation;
Amendment 138 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C o (new)
Recital C o (new)
Co. Whereas social prescribing is a holistic approach to health care, which promotes community-based integrated care and helps to demedicalize health service provision and usually includes services providing support in mental health, social inclusion, and financial and housing advice, as well activities promoting physical activity and creative self-expression;
Amendment 140 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C q (new)
Recital C q (new)
Cq. whereas mental health conditions are the leading cause of years of healthy life lost due to disability in the European Union and that people who are diagnosed with severe mental health conditions are more likely to die prematurely;
Amendment 142 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C p (new)
Recital C p (new)
Amendment 143 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1 Calls for the EU and the Member States to adhere to a proportionate universalism approach, providing good mental health for all with a targeted extra support to those who may need it at a given time in their lives;
Amendment 144 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a Recognizes the importance of protective mental health factors including access to affordable healthy food and housing, a sufficient income, a healthy environment, access to safe public spaces including green spaces as well as physical, movement, play and cultural activities, inter alia cultural institutions, youth organisations and sports clubs;
Amendment 150 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that, any person at any point in their life, any person can become more susceptible to poorer mental health and thus become part of a vulnerable group in society; stresses that addressing mental health conditions requires a thorough understand and can belong to multiple vulnerable groups at once, stressing of the different determinants of mental health and that an intersectional approach is necessary to prevent and mitigate the impacts on individuals, communities and societiesimportance of an intersectional approach;
Amendment 154 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. underlines the problematic conditions suffered by people in prison, with 1 in 5 countries in Europe reporting overcrowding of their facilities; recalls that the inmate population is one of the most affected by mental health disorders with more than one third of them affected by mental issues 1a; calls on the Commission to launch an EU-wide study on the condition of the people in prison, with a particular focus on their mental health conditions; asks the Commission and member states to swiftly take concrete measures in order to protect the human rights of the people in prison, with appropriate funding and policies, and promote the well-being of the inmates; reminds as well the fundamental rights of people posed into isolation or confinement for security reason who must be able to enjoy their basic human rights, including their right to health and the availability of healthcare services, regardless of the reason for their conviction; recalls that a safe and healthy environment in prison is fundamental in order to support inmates in their reintegration process into society, preventing also subsequent relapses and setbacks into illegal activities after the end of the sentence; _________________ 1a https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/15- 02-2023-one-third-of-people-in-prison-in- europe-suffer-from-mental-health- disorders
Amendment 156 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the importance of protecting children, adolescents and young adults’ mental health, particularly in the school and family environment, as this largely determines their personal development in adulthood; Underlines the important role of education in preventing bullying and cyberbullying in school to prevent problems in the health and well- being of students;
Amendment 161 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underlines the beneficial impact of physical activity, movement and play as drivers of positive mental health, especially in children, adolescents and young adults;
Amendment 163 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Recommends the strengthening of child protection services, thereby aiming to prevent mental health conditions and suicide;
Amendment 165 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls on the Commission to investigate further regulation and to complement the existing legal framework in order to draft policies at EU level in favour of the protection of children, adolescents and young adults;
Amendment 166 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Amendment 169 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Calls on the Commission to assist the Member States with the implementation of the Better Internet for Kids strategy and the protection of children in the digital world;
Amendment 170 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Encourages a life-course approach to mental health where there is greater investment in services for all stages of life and age-friendly environments, and highlights the importance of an EU strategy to address the demographic changes of the population;
Amendment 172 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1h. Highlights the greater vulnerability and mental ill-health of women, characterised by intersectional risk factors and additional roles such as mothers (where they are at risk of postpartum depression and burnout), as partners (where they risk intimate partners violence and increased domestic violence) or as carers to sick relatives (where added stress and burnout is common);
Amendment 174 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1i. Notes with concern that six EU Member States (Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia) have not yet ratified the Istanbul Convention “Action against violence against women and domestic violence”;
Amendment 177 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 j (new)
Paragraph 1 j (new)
1j. Considers that the gender pay gap still plays a significant role in women’s ability to prioritise their own mental health and promote well-being; calls on the Member States to swiftly implement the equal pay for equal work directive 18a; _________________ 18a Directive (EU) 2023/970 of the European Parliament and of the Council to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms
Amendment 178 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 k (new)
Paragraph 1 k (new)
1k. Condemns female genital mutilation practices that can result in psychological trauma, anxiety, somatization, depression, post-traumatic stress and other mood disorders;
Amendment 179 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 l (new)
Paragraph 1 l (new)
1l. Considers that violence, stress and toxic environments (including multidimensional masculine role behaviour and toxic masculinity) are often correlated with mental ill-health and aversion to seek help for mental health conditions;
Amendment 180 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 m (new)
Paragraph 1 m (new)
1m. Stresses the importance of the ongoing implementation of the Union of Equality: LGBTQ Equality Strategy 2020- 2025 by the European Commission;
Amendment 181 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 n (new)
Paragraph 1 n (new)
1n. Condemns the criminalisation of homosexuality and the implementation of LGBTQIA+ free zones, increasing mental ill-health in this vulnerable population;
Amendment 182 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 o (new)
Paragraph 1 o (new)
1o. Condemns LGBTQIA+ conversion ‘therapies’ and calls for a ban of such practices in all Member States as they pose as a threat to mental health and are a human rights violation;
Amendment 183 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 p (new)
Paragraph 1 p (new)
1p. Calls on the Union and the Member States to tackle hate speech online particularly directed at ethnic minorities and racially discriminated persons, LGBTQIA+ community and other vulnerable groups;
Amendment 184 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 q (new)
Paragraph 1 q (new)
1q. Calls on the Union and the Member States for the Legal Gender Recognition in a non-discriminatory and accessible manner;
Amendment 185 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 r (new)
Paragraph 1 r (new)
Amendment 186 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 s (new)
Paragraph 1 s (new)
1s. Condemns HIV criminalization and discrimination in the European Union and urges Member States to end such practices without further delay, including those that hinder accessibility to health services;
Amendment 187 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 t (new)
Paragraph 1 t (new)
1t. Calls on Member States to criminalise buyers of victims of sex trafficking and the European Commission to address the root causes of prostitution of victims of sex trafficking by supporting Member States in the fight against poverty, social exclusion and discrimination;
Amendment 188 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 u (new)
Paragraph 1 u (new)
1u. Is deeply concerned about the lack of action in European Union’s policies regarding migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and ethnic minorities protection, rights and their effective implementation, which has a negative impact on these population’s mental health;
Amendment 189 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 v (new)
Paragraph 1 v (new)
1v. Considers that migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and ethnic minorities face structural and multi-faceted discrimination, segregation and marginalisation, including structural, institutional and interpersonal racism and xenophobia and should be protected by/via specific legal instruments to safeguard their physical well-being and mental health;
Amendment 190 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 w (new)
Paragraph 1 w (new)
1w. Considers that essential service workers, education, health, security and shift workers, are subject to a high stress burden and disproportionate suicide rates; believes that this issue should be addressed through targeted policies and interventions for prevention and promotion of mental health and well- being;
Amendment 191 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 x (new)
Paragraph 1 x (new)
1x. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to recognise and address the impact of chronic NCDs in all mental health and suicide prevention policies and programmes;
Amendment 192 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 y (new)
Paragraph 1 y (new)
1y. Calls for MHiAP approach in European Union’s policies to prevent substance related disorders, isolation, self-harm or suicide;
Amendment 193 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 z (new)
Paragraph 1 z (new)
1z. Notes with concern that the elderly are increasingly isolated and stigmatised, which can lead to abuse, neglect and difficulties in coping with depression and other disorders;
Amendment 194 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 aa (new)
Paragraph 1 aa (new)
1aa. Acknowledges the increasing incidence of dementia and the negative mental health consequences associated with it (including on informal caregivers) as well as its array of modifiable risk factors and preventative nature;
Amendment 195 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 ab (new)
Paragraph 1 ab (new)
1ab. Calls on the Commission and Member States to, together with relevant international organisations implement the endorsed Global Dementia Action Plan in at the national and regional levels and develop national dementia plans in order to expand early diagnosis, support and care for adults with dementia;
Amendment 196 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 222 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 244 #
Amendment 246 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers mMental hHealth iInformation sSystems to be an important tool to collect data and measure the cost- effectiveness of mental health interventions, and calls for them to be systematically improved and updatedir systematic improvement and update; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support the development of a country specific situation analysis tool to collect mental health data for sharing and identifying gaps in service availability, accessibility, quality and workforce;
Amendment 250 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recommends that mental health data monitoring is carried out using evidence-based tools and validated indicators for mental health, with specific indicators for child, adolescent and young adult mental health and wellbeing adapted across settings;
Amendment 254 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Suggests that Member States use the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and the patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to measure outcome; Stresses that indicators should strive to complement diagnostic criteria with people's actual experiences to reflect the social determinants of mental health and human rights of people with psychosocial disabilities;
Amendment 256 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Suggests that Member States make use of mental health service level indicators to identify gaps in quality of care, and increase support for measures to improve quality of care such as incentive based financing models;
Amendment 257 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on the Union institutions and Member States to further negotiate and agree on a European Health Data Space capable of delivering insightful, disaggregated and quality data for the understanding of mental health determinants, conditions, care and support, interventions and effective public policies;
Amendment 267 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that the language used to address people with mental health issues can be stigmatising and therefore terms such as “mental illness” should be largely avoided and replaced with a person- centred, inclusive, non-stigmatising, strengths-based and recovery focused language reflecting the variety of mental health experiences; Calls on the Commission for the creation of a mental health taxonomy guideline to avoid the use of negative connotations within policy documents, harmonise use of mental health lexicon across Europe and to contribute to mental health literacy in the general population;
Amendment 268 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Highlights that the link between mental health conditions and marginalising socio-economic factors can further aggravate discrimination and stigma;
Amendment 276 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes the importance of people with lived experience as agents of change to improve public awareness of mental health and non-discrimination acceptance of people with mental health issues, calling for facilitating direct social contact with decision makers and communities as an effective approach to challenge stigma; Emphasises the role of people with lived experience, carers and families in any stigma reduction initiatives/activities;
Amendment 278 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recognises that the workplace challenges faced by many people with mental health conditions result in high rates of workplace exclusion; Calls on the Commission to propose measures which allow the Member States to support the access and return to work of people with mental health conditions, including more flexible work practices;
Amendment 280 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Recommends that the media adapt their practices to adhere to responsible reporting of suicide, to take caution with addressing the concept of self-care so as to not place the responsibility on the individuals; calls on the Member States to strictly monitor the adherence of the legal limits of alcohol advertising in order to reduce alcohol use;
Amendment 281 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Is deeply concerned about the current media coverage of body size and image, often portraying toxic and unrealistic body standards, as well as the impact of fashion industry on mental health, especially on women;
Amendment 282 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Stresses the role of communities, public figures, politicians, public institutions, governments and individuals to fight the stigma of mental health conditions by discussing them publicly without prejudice or biases;
Amendment 283 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. Calls on the EU and Member States to invest in mental health literacy and include mental health in school curricula and the curricula of teaching staff, given the increased influence that the school system can have on destigmatizing mental health in children and adolescents;
Amendment 289 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the EU and the Member States to raise awareness of the importance of mental health in a coordinated and timely manner, through a mental-health- in-all-policiesMHiAP approach;
Amendment 307 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is deeply concerned by the poorlack of availability of mental health care services in the Member States, as exemplified by thewith currently alarmingly long waiting lists for appointments with psychiatrists and psychologists and the limited options fora gap in therapeutic treatment, as well as for in- and outpatient clinic treatment; considers that the shortage in staff in this specific sector and the lack of funding aggravate the issue;
Amendment 315 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Laments that provision of mental healthcare is in part undertaken by the private (where services are not affordable to all) and the NGO sector (which is often underfunded and lacking in resources), that might also have long waiting lists and limited accessibility;
Amendment 320 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Highlights the importance of timely access to services for children and adolescents, which, if postponed, could result in delayed treatment during a vulnerable period of psychosocial development; Stresses that the complex transition of patients from child and adolescent mental health services to adult services could be negative for this vulnerable population and the importance of continuity of care in this critical transition period in life;
Amendment 325 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Amendment 332 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Highlights that the lack of funding and the shortage in mental health workforce due to training, retention, workplace migration, brain drain, burnout, unemployment, retirement and other events impacting the work - life - cycle aggravates accessibility to mental health services;
Amendment 335 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Highlights the importance of mental health service mapping and calls on the Member States to apply service mapping in the organisation of their national health systems;
Amendment 339 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Recommends that Member States ensure availability of low threshold access interventions (social care), care pathways and high quality accessible psychological first aid;
Amendment 342 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 d (new)
Paragraph 9 d (new)
9d. Calls on the Member States to strengthen Psychological, Psychiatric and Social Security services and the cooperation among these services, as well as promote consistent capacity building and training opportunities for staff in their national health systems; Suggests that cross-speciality training for all professionals is explored in order to better understand the relationship between physical and mental health;
Amendment 345 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 e (new)
Paragraph 9 e (new)
9e. Notes that integrated and multi- sectoral mental health services in collaboration with educational, judicial, healthcare, and social security systems are highly valuable both for citizens, governments and society in general;
Amendment 346 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 f (new)
Paragraph 9 f (new)
9f. Calls on the Member States to develop mental health literacy programmes, to enable citizens to recognise mental health conditions and to seek available professional help when in need;
Amendment 347 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 g (new)
Paragraph 9 g (new)
9g. Underlines the importance of mental health care being truly accessible for all, taking into account the specific needs of certain societal groups, such as people with disabilities, children and the elderly;
Amendment 361 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Highlights the importance of providing early access to care for people with a high risk of developing or associated with chronic conditions, in order to prevent mental health conditions in this vulnerable population;
Amendment 364 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Notes that evidence-based digital tools for mental health screening and early treatment can be of use where services are insufficient, but should be employed with care and appropriate regulation and cannot replace in-person services
Amendment 368 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Recalls the need for prevention at an early age via the education system, which can include mental health training and guidelines for teachers, adequate access to psychology services in schools and higher education and investment in art and play in schools;
Amendment 369 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Notes that there is a overuse of screening tools in some contexts such as in school settings, which at the expense of intervention uses up limited resources and creates further demands that cannot be satisfied 21a; _________________ 21a According to WHO report First meeting of the pan-European Mental Health Coalition: from debate to action
Amendment 370 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 e (new)
Paragraph 11 e (new)
11e. Recognizes the potential of evidence-based parenting programmes (especially for new parents) which can help to promote responsive caregiving and child development, foster positive child- caregiver relationships, and support parent and caregiver mental health, all of which are determinants for positive mental health throughout the life course;
Amendment 371 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 f (new)
Paragraph 11 f (new)
11f. Stresses the importance of the primary healthcare services on screening for mental health conditions and ensuring mental health early intervention, referring to specialised and multidisciplinary care and accompanying people with mental health conditions throughout their lifetime;
Amendment 372 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 g (new)
Paragraph 11 g (new)
11g. Calls on the Commission to propose wellbeing and good mental health and workplace related practices and minimum standards, in order to prevent mental ill-health consequences such as job burnout, bore-out syndrome, stress, harassment, violence, stigma, discrimination and limited possibilities for growth or promotion, as well as health literacy at work so that people seek proper mental health services when needed;
Amendment 373 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 h (new)
Paragraph 11 h (new)
11h. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase funding for training, capacity building and implementation of programmes focusing on the health workforce in order to better recognise early signs of concern and detection of mental health difficulties;
Amendment 374 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 i (new)
Paragraph 11 i (new)
11i. Calls on the Commission to promote the sharing of best practices on early diagnosis and referral from educational, judicial, healthcare and social security systems to mental health services with the Member States;
Amendment 376 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 k (new)
Paragraph 11 k (new)
11k. Urges the Commission to support suicide prevention hotlines through finance, capacity building and exchange of best practices and considers that follow-up contact with those who have attempted suicide is part of the referral and support;
Amendment 377 #
2023/2074(INI)
11a. Considers it necessary that policies impacting, involving or regarding mental health are multidimensional and person- centred, recognizing diversity, cultural sensitivity and multiple intersectional needs;
Amendment 380 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Advocates for a meaningful cooperation with civil society and the communities they represent, experts and particularly persons with lived experience; Suggests that people with lived experience are included and integrated into all stages of policy-making working alongside decision-makers and key stakeholders in a non-tokenistic manner;
Amendment 381 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Considers that diagnostic tools should aim to be validated and sensitive to the population they are used on and culturally adapted to suit their customs and traditions;
Amendment 382 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11d. Notes that the institutionalisation of individuals with mental health conditions has evolved from the traditional “asylums”; Reinforces that modern institutions, although improved, share the same characteristics as prisons with violations of human rights, deprivation of agency and aggravation of stigma, proportioning worsened mental health outcomes; Invites Member States to embrace the shift towards deinstitutionalization of people with mental health conditions, ensuring alternatives to psychiatric institutions are developed and equipped to receive institutionalised patients; Reinforces that psychiatric inpatient and outpatient services should comply with human rights regulations, recognizing the benefit these services can offer;
Amendment 383 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 e (new)
Paragraph 11 e (new)
11e. Cautions against the phenomenon of transinstitutionalization, where patients are transferred to institutions such as residential homes, forensic hospitals and prisons following closure of traditional psychiatric institutions;
Amendment 384 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 f (new)
Paragraph 11 f (new)
11f. Urges Member States to rethink the organisation of national health services and adapt the approach on mental health in line with the strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities 22a, by building and supporting community- based networks of interconnected services covering a broad spectrum of care within and beyond the health sector, and moving away from custodial care in psychiatric hospitals; _________________ 22a Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Union of Equality: Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030
Amendment 402 #
Amendment 403 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that people with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities have the right to receive evidence-based treatment and support tailored to their needs;
Amendment 404 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 416 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Acknowledges that social prescribing is a useful, practical, holistic and effective approach that can be integrated into the primary care setting within a national health service, as pointed out by the WHO in its toolkit on how to implement social prescribing3 3 ; Notes that social prescribing should be considered alongside strategies for improving access to evidence-based psychological and pharmacological interventions, as well as identification and assessment of mental health conditions; _________________ 3 https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/142 4690/retrieve.
Amendment 421 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Recommends the use of task- sharing and task-shifting initiatives such as the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) to equip non- specialised health service providers with the tools to support people with mental health conditions, particularly in outermost, rural and regions of difficult access;
Amendment 423 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Underlines the importance of promoting evidence-based treatment and abolishing misinformation amidst the flourishing “well-being industry” that can risk harming mental health, delaying or preventing treatment, and encouraging erroneous spread of information;
Amendment 425 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Amendment 435 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Member States to improve access to treatment and support for mental health conditions by implementing multidisciplinary care;
Amendment 438 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 10
Subheading 10
Amendment 439 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Acknowledges that people with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities have the right to lead full and meaningful lives integrated in their communities and in society;
Amendment 444 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Member States to ensure that people on medical leave because of mental health conditions do not face discrimination; urges the Member States to implement national plans that promote the integration of people with mental health conditions into the labour market, in order to reduce inequities and tackle social determinantsRecalls that most people living with mental health conditions are nonetheless actively participating in society and the labour market, although employability is much lower within this population; Urges Member States to ensure that people on medical leave due to mental health conditions do not face discrimination;
Amendment 449 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Member States to encourage the integration of people with severe mental health conditions in their communities and in the labour market;
Amendment 451 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Urges Member States to implement national plans that promote integration of people with mental health conditions in the labour market to reduce inequities and tackle social determinants;
Amendment 455 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Calls on the Member States to implement national programmes with a mental health in all policies (MHiAP) approach to prevent work-related mental health conditions (such as burnout, presenteeism, absenteeism and unemployment, and others);
Amendment 456 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Insists that Member States implement policies structurally supporting people with mental health conditions in their daily lives, especially workers, children, adolescents and young adults, parents as well as the elderly;
Amendment 465 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Emphasises the front and centre role that the EU can assume in incentivising mental health research, both as funder and as a global political actor;
Amendment 469 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Encourages multidisciplinary studies that bridge the gap between health, social and economic knowledge and demonstrates the links between intervention actions in non-health policies and population mental health;
Amendment 470 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 c (new)
Paragraph 17 c (new)
17c. Welcomes the support and stimulation of implementation and growth of social innovation and entrepreneurship programs addressing mental health in the wider population;
Amendment 471 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 d (new)
Paragraph 17 d (new)
17d. Invites the Commission to incentivise the development and successful introduction of technological, pharmaceutical and behavioural interventions;
Amendment 472 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 e (new)
Paragraph 17 e (new)
17e. Recommends enhancing investigation into innovative treatment options, namely the use of psychedelic assisted therapies for mental health conditions;
Amendment 479 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for the strengthening of transnational partnerships and collaborating networks of organisations and individuals, for the better sharing of experiences, services and practices;
Amendment 480 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18a. Calls for the EU to leverage its role in the global context as leader in mental health prevention, resilience building and care;
Amendment 481 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Stresses that European foreign policy impacts local populations and that mental health initiatives should be part of foreign policy actions;
Amendment 482 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Welcomes the United Nations (UN) call for the development of effective programmes to promote mental health and psychosocial support for persons living with a rare disease; Recommends further integration of mental health concerns in other programs recommended by the UN such as HIV, NCDs and dementia, among others;
Amendment 483 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Paragraph 18 d (new)
Amendment 484 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 e (new)
Paragraph 18 e (new)
18e. Stresses that certain regions more vulnerable to healthcare disruptions, such as outermost regions need adequate policies;
Amendment 485 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 f (new)
Paragraph 18 f (new)
18f. Highlights that a mental health workforce is as essential as are all other aid-resources in natural, climate, humanitarian, geopolitical and conflict related disasters and thus shall be an integral part of first aiders in European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations; recommends that Psychological First Aid training is included in the first aid courses for staff and volunteers working in these operations;
Amendment 486 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 g (new)
Paragraph 18 g (new)
18g. Urges the Union and Member States to take urgent climate action in order to mitigate direct and indirect costs of climate change in health, particularly mental health;
Amendment 490 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls forUrges the EU and the Member States to urgently develop psychosocial mental health support structures aimddressed specifically ato victims of natural, climate, humanitarian, geopolitical and, conflict- related disasters, asylum seekers and migrants from all backgroundfronts;
Amendment 491 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Invites the Commission and the Member States to integrate mental health and psychosocial support structures into emergency planning programmes in all stages (preparedness, response and recovery) to effectively cope with threats to the EU;
Amendment 494 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls on the Commission to designate one of the coming years as the European Year for Mental Health, in order to raise awareness, inform, and educate citizens and policy makers in the subject of mental health;
Amendment 496 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Highlights that the EU can and should claim a global role in shaping improvement of promotion, prevention, care and support of mental health conditions;
Amendment 497 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Celebrates the comprehensive approach to mental health divulged by the Commission as an initial step to tackling and preventing mental health conditions at the European level; Notes that the communication of the Commission highlights several flagship initiatives that indirectly contribute to improving mental health; Invites the Commission to allocate direct funding and resources towards strengthening mental health in the EU; Invites the Commission to further develop its Mental Health Strategy and draw up concrete targets and goals for the future, including more in-depth initiatives, from a bottom-up perspective;
Amendment 509 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission to introduce a mental health impact assessment tool to evaluate the effect of different EU actions, policies and funding programmes on mental health;
Amendment 520 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Considers that the current funding is not proportionate to the scale of the challenge and that mental health must be further addressed in future financial programmes such as the EU4Health programme 2028-2034 and Horizon Europe;
Amendment 523 #
2023/2074(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Considers that the EU lacks a direct fund for mental health research and innovation and invites; calls on the Commission to create a mMission on mMental hHealth underfrom the Horizon Europe programme and the future programme in the 2028-2035 mMultiannual fFinancial fFramework 2028-2035;
Amendment 7 #
2023/2068(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. A. Whereas equality between women and men is a core value of the Union enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU); whereas Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) requires the Union, in all its activities, to aim to eliminate inequalities, and to promote gender equality; whereas ending the spread of hate and gender based violence is a prerequisite to achieving real gender equality;
Amendment 17 #
2023/2068(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. Whereas hate speech often starts as an act of bias, which can then lead to motivated violence; whereas gender based hate speech and hate crime have enormous consequences on individual women, such as physical harm, sometimes resulting in severe injury or death and psychological harm, including stress, anxiousness and depression; whereas gender based hate speech and hate crime also have enormous consequences on the society as a whole;
Amendment 21 #
2023/2068(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. Whereas femicide is the most severe manifestation of gender-based violence; whereas in 2020, the estimation is that 2600 women were killed by intimate partners or other family members in Europe; whereas the number of victims is estimated to be much higher, as there is lack a lack of comparative data and harmonised legal definition of the crime;
Amendment 31 #
2023/2068(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. wWhereas anti-gender movementorganisations are internationally connected and spread rhetoric against anyone who does not fall under the norms of the heteronormative, patriarchal societymovements that spread messages and fear for all that is not within the heteronormative, masculine, patriarchal society; whereas these movements create an ‘anti-gender’ ideology and discourse that fuels gender- based hate crime and hate speech against women and LGBTIQ+ persons; whereas these movements have a cross-border dimension, online as well as offline;
Amendment 36 #
2023/2068(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 41 #
2023/2068(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. Whereas in striving for a society free of hate speech and hate crimes, it is of outmost importance to tackle the root causes of this phenomenon; whereas education, including comprehensice sexuality and relationships education, awareness raising campaigns and trainings for professionals can have a big added value in this matter;
Amendment 50 #
2023/2068(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls upon the Commission to propose a clear definition of hate crime and hate speech, includeing an explicit definition of gender-based hate speech and hate crimes when legislation is proposed; Calls upon the Commission to include in the proposal offline and online gender- based hate speech and hate crime;
Amendment 78 #
2023/2068(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Urges Member States and Commission to develop, together with the European Parliament, effective prevention strategies; including a resilient campaign countering hate speech, disinformation and fake news; calls upon Member States to develop specific educational programmes, including comprehensive sexuality and relationships education curricula, that focuses on creating awareness for gender biases, stereotypes and consequently expected roles in society that can lead gender based hate speech and hate crime;
Amendment 83 #
2023/2068(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Emphasizes the importance of trainings for professionals in order to ensure that they are aware of the possible gender aspect of hate speech and hate crime, especially when they play an important role in society, such as teachers and law enforcement authorities. Calls upon employers as well as governments to facilitate these kind of trainings.
Amendment 520 #
2023/0234(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Annex IV c – part 2
Annex IV c – part 2
Directive 2008/98/EC
Annex IV b a (new)
Annex IV b a (new)
Footwear, and articles of apparel and clothing accessories whose main composition is not textile within the scope of Article 22a CN code Description 4203 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or composition leather (excl. footwear and headgear and parts thereof, and goods of chapter 95, e.g. shin guards, fencing masks) 6401 Waterproof footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or of plastics, the uppers of which are neither fixed to the sole nor assembled by stitching, riveting, nailing, screwing, plugging or similar processes 6402 Other footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics 6403 Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers of leather 6404 Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers of textile materials 6405 Other footwear
Amendment 369 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 131
Recital 131
(131) To ensure a high level of transparency of public support to then research and development costs of medicinal products, the reporting of all public contribution for the development of a particular medicinal product should be a requirement for all medicines. Given however the practical difficulty to identify how indirect public funding instruments, such as tax advantages, have supported a particular product, the reporting obligation should only concern the direct public financial suppos at any stage of the development, including but not limited to contracts, grants, tax breaks, and advance purchase agreements for the development, production and procurement of a particular medicinal product and its underlying technology and intellectual propert,y such as direct granthould be a requirement for all all market authorizations for contramedical products. Therefore, the provisions of this Directive ensure, without prejudice to the rules on the protection of confidential and personal data, transparency regarding any directform of financial support received from any public authority or public body to carry out any activities for the research and development of medicinal products.
Amendment 589 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 2
2. The competent authority mayshall impose obligations on the marketing authorisation holder if it finds the risk mitigation measures contained in the antimicrobial stewardship plan unsatisfactory.
Amendment 731 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 43 – paragraph 6
Article 43 – paragraph 6
6. The competent authorities of the Member States shall make the assessment report publicly available without undue delay, together with the reasons for their opinion, after deletion of anyincluding information of a commercially confidential nature if their disclosure is in the public interest or relevant for public health reasons. The justification shall be provided separately for each therapeutic indication applied for.
Amendment 747 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 46 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 753 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 46 – paragraph 2
Article 46 – paragraph 2
2. The marketing authorisation holder may submit an application for ao renewal of a national marketing authorisation granted under paragraph 1, second or third subparagraph. Such application shall be submitted, the marketing authorisation holder shall submit an application at least nine months before the national marketing authorisation ceases to be valid.
Amendment 1243 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 84 a (new)
Article 84 a (new)
Article84a Reporting of research and development costs from the marketing authorisation holder 1. Where the marketing authorisation holder benefits from data and market protection granted under this Directive it shall: (a) Upon request, submit to the Commission and the competent authorities of the Member States responsible for pricing and reimbursement a report with detailed information on their actual costs and expenditure in research and development activities related to the medicinal product; (b) make the report available within 30 days from the receipt of the request; (c) publish a summary of the report on the same webpage where the information described in Article 57 will be published. The link should be communicated to the competent authority of the Member State granting the marketing authorisation or, where appropriate, to the Agency; (d) ensure that the electronic report and lay summary are accurate and have been audited by an independent external auditor. 2.The Commission shall adopt implementing in acts to lay down the methodology and format in which the information should be reported and published pursuant to paragraph 1.
Amendment 1254 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Patent rights, or supplementary protection certificates under the [Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 - OP please replace reference by new instrument when adopted] shall not be regarded as infringed when a reference medicinal product is used for the purposes of:
Amendment 1266 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – introductory part
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – introductory part
(a) studies, trials and other activities are conducted to generate data for an application, forfor the purpose of:
Amendment 1275 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
(i) applying to a marketing authorisation of generic, biosimilar, hybrid or bio-hybrid medicinal products and for subsequent variations;
Amendment 1283 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
(ii) facilitating health technology assessment as defined in Regulation (EU) 2021/2282;
Amendment 1296 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii
(iii) filing for pricing and reimbursement.
Amendment 1300 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii a (new)
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iii a (new)
(iii a) participating in a tender to enable market entry of generic and biosimilar products as soon as the relevant patents or supplementary protection certificates expire.
Amendment 1326 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 85 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the activities conducted exclusively for the purposes set out in point (a), may cover the submission of the application for a marketing authorisation andfalling under the first subparagraph include the submission of the relevant files to the competent authorities or bodies for their assessment, the offer, manufacture, sale, supply, storage, import, export, use and purchase of patented medicinal products or processes, including by third party suppliers and service providers.
Amendment 1406 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 123 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 123 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) scientific guidance on post- authorisation treatment optimisation studies.
Amendment 1467 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 176 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 176 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) shall be accurate, verifiable, based on strict scientific evidence and data and not be misleading.
Amendment 1471 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 176 – paragraph 4
Article 176 – paragraph 4
4. Any form of advertising that aims to highlight negatively another medicinal product shall be prohibited. Advertising that suggests that a medicinal product is safer or more effective than another medicinal product shall also be prohibited, unless demonstrated and supported by the summary of product characteristics.
Amendment 1478 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 177 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 177 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) contains substances that might generate addiction.
Amendment 1490 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 177 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 177 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. products for which there is no scientifically based proof of efficacy, such as homeopatic or traditional medicinal products, shall not be advertised as valid alternatives to science based therapies and medicinal products, and their advertisement shall clearly inform the public regardig the lack of scientific base for their effects and therapeutic efficacy;
Amendment 1491 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 177 – paragraph 3
Article 177 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall be entitled to ban, anytime on their territory, advertising to the general public of any medicinal products the cost of which may be reimbursed., particularly for public health reasons and to prevent overuse and misuse of such products;
Amendment 1500 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 178 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 178 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) an explicit reminder of the potential risks associated to self medication together with the request to keep the family doctor informed about the use of any medicinal product;
Amendment 1505 #
2023/0132(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 178 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 178 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The European Commission shall adopt implementing acts with specific requirements in relation to the advertising of medicinal products through social media, and consumers’ exposure to such type of content in that platform.
Amendment 642 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 4 – point h
Article 12 – paragraph 4 – point h
(h) where appropriate, details of any recommended obligation to conduct any other post- authorisation treatment optimisation studies to improve the safe and effective use of the medicinal product; Such an obligation to conduct such studies shall take into account the scientific guidance referred to in Article 123 of [revised Directive 2001/83/EC];
Amendment 673 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The Agency shall immediately publish the assessment report on the medicinal product for human use and the reasons for its opinion in favour of granting marketing authorisation, after deletion of anyincluding information of a commercially confidential nature if their disclosure is in the public interest or relevant for public health reasons.
Amendment 685 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. Without prejudice to paragraph 2, aA marketing authorisation for a medicinal product shall be valid for an unlimited periodfive years and might be renewed on the basis of a re-evaluation of the risk-benefit balance by the Agency.
Amendment 689 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 691 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 693 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Where a renewal application has been submitted in accordance with the second subparagraph, the marketing authorisation shall remain valid until a decision is adopted by the Commission in accordance with Article 13.
Amendment 742 #
2023/0131(COD)
In addition to the notification made pursuant to Article 116, the marketing authorisation holder shall notify the Agency without undue delay of any action they takein advance about the intention to suspend the marketing of a medicinal product, to withdraw a medicinal product from the market, to request the withdrawal of a marketing authorisation or not to apply for the renewal of a marketing authorisation, together with the reasons for such action, and before any action is taken in this sense.
Amendment 748 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point f a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point f a (new)
(f a) commercial reasons;
Amendment 774 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29 – paragraph 1
Article 29 – paragraph 1
Without prejudice to the law on the protection of industrial and commercial property, medicinal products for human use which have been authorised in accordance with this Regulation shall benefit from the periods of regulatory protection set out in Chapter VII of [revised Directive 2001/83/EC]. Marketing authorisation holders that benefit from regulatory protection shall disclose information on actual costs of research and development in accordance with Article 84a of the aforementioned Directive.
Amendment 826 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40
Article 40
Amendment 883 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 a (new)
Article 40 a (new)
Amendment 902 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 41
Article 41
Amendment 928 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 42
Article 42
Amendment 943 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 43
Article 43
Amendment 1014 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 60 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 60 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Agency may offer enhanced scientific and regulatory support, including as applicable consultation with other bodies as referred to in Articles 58 and 59 and accelerated assessment mechanisms, for certain medicinal products that, based on preliminary evidence submitted by the developer fulfil any of the following conditions:
Amendment 1105 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 68 – paragraph 2
Article 68 – paragraph 2
2. Medicinal products designated as orphan medicinal products under the provisions of this Regulation shall be eligible for incentives made available by the Union and by the Member States to support research into, and the development and availability of, orphan medicinal products and in particular aid for research for small- and medium-sized undertakings and not-for-profit entities, such as for example the European Medicine Facility as established in article 40a, provided for in framework programmes for research and technological development.
Amendment 1280 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 73 a (new)
Article 73 a (new)
Article73a Reporting of research and development costs from the marketing authorisation holder 1. Where the marketing authorisation holder benefits from the incentives outlined in Article 71 paragraph 2, it shall: (a) upon request, submit to the Commission and/or the competent authorities of the Member States responsible for pricing and reimbursement an report with detailed information on their actual costs and expenditure in research and development activities related to the medicinal product. (b) make the report available within 30 days from the receipt of the request; (c) publish a summary of the report on the same webpage where the information described in Article 57 of revised Directive 2001/83/EC will be published. The link should be communicated to the Agency. (d) ensure that the electronic report and lay summary are accurate and have been audited by an independent external auditor. 2. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to lay down the methodology and format in which the information should be reported and published pursuant to paragraph 1.
Amendment 1628 #
2023/0131(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 125 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
Article 125 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(f a) inform the Agency about the exact causes for the shortage and provide clear clarifications about the responsibilities for this shortage along the entire life cycle of the medicinal product;
Amendment 160 #
2023/0124(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 34 – introductory part
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 34 – introductory part
(34) ‘batchmodel’ means a defined quantity of finiscombination of thed products that meets the following condi name together with the unique formula (as per the provisions for the Unique Formula Identifier (UFI), irrespective of whether a UFI code is required under Annex VIII to the CLP Regulations:);
Amendment 165 #
2023/0124(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 34 – indent 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 34 – indent 1
Amendment 167 #
2023/0124(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 34 – indent 2
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 34 – indent 2
Amendment 171 #
2023/0124(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 34 – indent 3
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 34 – indent 3
Amendment 289 #
2023/0124(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 18 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) it shall correspond to a specific batchmodel of the detergent or surfactant;
Amendment 314 #
2023/0124(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1
Article 20 – paragraph 1
1. BNo later than 60 months after the entry into force of the implementing acts defining the technical requirements for the digital product passport and the data carrier and the establishment of the EU registry for the unique product identifier and the unique operator identifier, economic operators shall upload, before placing a detergent or surfactant on the market, economic operators shall upload, in the registry established under Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) …/… on Ecodesign for Sustainable Products the unique product identifier and the unique operator identifier for the detergent or surfactant.
Amendment 33 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Council Directive 2001/110/EC20 lays down definitions, names, common rules on composition, quality and labelling requirements for honey. _________________ 20 Council Directive 2001/110/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to honey (OJ L 10, 12.1.2002, p. 47).
Amendment 35 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In light of the close link between the quality of honey and its origin and the need for the consumer not to be misled regarding the quality of the product, Directive 2001/110/EC lays down rules on the labelling of the origin where the honey has been harvested. In particular, Article 2(4) of that Directive requires the country or countries of origin where the honey has been harvested to be indicated on the label and provides that, if honey originates in more than one Member State or third country, the mandatory indication of the countries of origin may be replaced by one of the following, as appropriate: ‘blend of EU honeys’, ‘blend of non-EU honeys’, ‘blend of EU and non-EU honeys’. The different rules adopted on this basis by Member States may have misled consumers and may have hindered the functioning of the internal market. In the light of the objectives of the Green Deal and of the Farm to Fork Strategy’s objective of strengthening consumers in makingarriving at informed choices, including on the geographical origin of their food, and in the interest to preserve the efficient functioning of the internal market throughout the Union throughby means of a harmonisation of the rules on labelling rules, it is appropriate to revise the rules forregarding honey origin labelling and provide that the country or countries of origin should be mentioned on the packagingindicated, in descending order and with their respective percentages, on the packaging. Given the particular interest shown by consumers in the geographical origin of honey in relation to its characteristics and quality, and the need for complete transparency in this sector, the country or countries of origin where the honey was harvested must appear on the label in the same field of vision as the product indication. In light of the reduced size of the packs containing only a single portion of honey (breakfast packs) and the resulting technical difficulties, it is therefore appropriate to exempt those packs from the obligation of listing all individual countries of origin, where the honey originates in more than one country.
Amendment 139 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 2001/110/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Amendment 140 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 2001/110/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b b (new)
in Article 2(2), the following point is added: ‘(bb) with the exception of honeys intended for industrial use, these names may be supplemented by indications referring to the absence of significant heat treatment. The term referring to the absence of a significant heat treatment, such as “raw honey” or “unheated honey”, may be included on the label on the front of the commercial packaging of honey if no heat treatment has degraded highly sensitive enzymes such as invertase, from collection to packaging, while complying with the conditions set out in Annex II, points 6 (Diastase Index and hydroxymethylfurfural content) and 7 (invertase index).’
Amendment 151 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2001/110/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) The country of origin where the honey has been harvested shall be indicated on the label and on the front of the packaging next to the product’s trade name. If the honey originates in more than one country, the countries of origin where the honey has been harvested shall be indicated on the front label of packs containing more than 25 g in descending order and with the respective percentage in the mixture;
Amendment 175 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2001/110/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) For the purpoExcept in the cases of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 and in particular Articles 12 to 15 thereof, the particulars to be indicated according to point (a) of this paragraph shall be considered as mandatory particulars in accordance with Article 9 of that Regulation.’. honey intended for industrial use, those names may be supplemented by information concerning the honey’s: – floral or vegetable origin, if the product comes wholly or mainly from the indicated source and presents its organoleptic, physico-chemical and microscopic characteristics; – regional, territorial or topographical origin, if the product comes entirely from the indicated source; – specific quality criteria.
Amendment 190 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Directive 2001/110/EC
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
In Article 4, the following paragraph 1a is inserted: ‘1a. The Commission may adopt methods for verifying the conformity of honey with the provisions of Directive 2001/110/EC and this Directive, including by introducing blockchain traceability, including a minimum of criteria (criteria laid down in the new Annex III). Those methods shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 7(2) of Directive 2001/110/EC.’
Amendment 199 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Directive 2001/110/EC
Annex I – paragraph 2 – point b – point viii
Annex I – paragraph 2 – point b – point viii
Annex II, paragraph 2, point (b)(viii) is amended as follows: ‘(viii) raw or unheated honey: honey obtained that has been extracted from combs, transferred and then, if necessary, sifted. Honey of that kind has not been heated to the extent that its enzymes and other temperature-sensitive elements have become so degraded that they no longer meet the criteria set out in points 6 and 7 of Annex II.’
Amendment 212 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Directive 2001/110/EC
Annex II – paragraph 2
Annex II – paragraph 2
Annex II, paragraph 2 is amended as follows: ‘When placed on the market as honey or used in any product intended for human consumption, honey shallmust not have added to it any food ingredient, including food additives, nor shallmust any other additions be made other than honey. Honey must, as far as possible, be free from organic or inorganic matters foreign to its composition. With the exception of point 3 of Annex I, it must not have any foreign tastes or odours, have begun to ferment, have an artificially changed acidity or have been heated in such a way that the natural enzymes have been either destroyed or significantly inactivated. or been subject to vacuum evaporation. When sold as honey or used in any product intended for human consumption, honey must conform to the composition characteristics set out in points 1 to 6. What is more, when sold as ‘raw honey’ or ‘unheated honey’, honey must also conform to the composition characteristics set out in point 7.’ Or. it (02001L0110)
Amendment 220 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Directive 2001/110/EC
Annex II – paragraph 3
Annex II – paragraph 3
Amendment 226 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Directive 2001/110/EC
Annex II – paragraph 6 a (new)
Annex II – paragraph 6 a (new)
In Annex II, a new paragraph 6a is added: ‘6a. Invertase index (Gontarski unit) for ‘raw honeys’ or ‘unheated honeys’. Determined after processing and blending. – generally not less than 50 U/kg – honeys with a low natural enzyme content, not less than 25 U/kg.’
Amendment 229 #
2023/0105(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Directive 2001/110/EC
Annex II a (new)
Annex II a (new)
Amendment 32 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the future of Western Balkans lies in the EU;
Amendment 59 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)
Recital D c (new)
D c. whereas Russia uses its influence in Serbia to try to destabilize, interfere and threaten neighbouring sovereign states, in Bosnia and Herzegovina via the Republika Srpska, in Montenegro via the country’s pro-Serbian sentiments as well as the orthodox church and in Kosovo by exploiting and flaring up existing disputes in the north of Kosovo;
Amendment 92 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes Serbia’s alignment with the EU in voting in favour of relevant UN General Assembly resolutions and Russia’s suspension from the Human Rights Council; regrets, however, the fact that Serbia has consistently failed to align with the EU’s restrictive measures against Russia; deplores Serbia’s close relationship with Russia and state officials’ inability to clearly communicate Serbia’s commitment to the EU; condemns state officials and influential media’s campaign to undermine the EU;
Amendment 121 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Expresses concern about the decreasing public support for EU membership in Serbia; regrets that EU’s calls for Serbia to respect commitments as a candidate country have been portrayed as blackmail by the highest Serbian officials; urges both Serbian and EU officials to actively communicate the benefits of EU membership as a matter of priority; deplores the fact that many media outlets close to the government, including national television channels, are strongly biased against the EU and in favour of Russia in their reporting; reiterates concern that publicly financed media outlets, contribute to the dissemination of anti-EU rhetoric in Serbia;
Amendment 139 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes the initialWelcomes the steps taken by Serbia to align with the EU’s list of non- EU countries whose nationals require visas for the EU and calls for further alignment; welcomes Serbia’s alignment with EU’s restrictive measures against Belarus for its role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as measures against former Ukrainian leadership; regrets, however, that the Government of Serbia chose not to publicly announce its decision to align with these measures; commends very good cooperation with EU on the management of illegal migration, as well as operational cooperation with FRONTEX;
Amendment 153 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes the approval of the amendments to the Serbian constitution and stresses that the reform process should continue as a matter of priority; notes that the National Convention on European Union has assessed that the views of the civil society have not been sufficiently taken into account during the public consultation process about the new set of legislation on the judiciary;
Amendment 161 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the adoption of measures on improving the electoral conditions and media environment ahead of the April 2022 elections as a result of the inter-party dialogue facilitated by the European Parliament; welcomes the readiness of the National Assembly to continue this dialogue; notes the parallel dialogue “without external mediation” that threatened to undermine the inter- party dialogue facilitated by the European Parliament regrets that timing and undermined consultation process in which the framework governing the elections were substantially changed just before the elections were called, contrary to good democratic practice as underlined in the Venice Commission Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters, contributed legal uncertainty during 2022 April elections; welcomes the readiness of the National Assembly to continue this dialogue while stressing that clear political decision and commitment are needed on Serbia’s strategic direction; regrets the fact that part of the opposition parties did not participate in the first meeting of the third phase of the inter- party dialogue (Parliamentary Dialogue Process); stresses that the aim of the dialogue is to improve the work of the National Assembly of Serbia and that all parties are invited to contribute to this goal, regardless of their ideological orientation;
Amendment 170 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes the conclusions of the final report of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe / Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights election observation mission, according to which the 3 April 2022 parliamentary elections presented diverse political options, but a number of shortcomings resulted in an uneven playing field, favouring the incumbents; calls on the Serbian authorities to fully address the outstanding recommendations well ahead of the next electionsregrets that integrity of elections was undermined, due to legal uncertainty caused by a comprehensive change of electoral framework shortly prior to elections, voters being deprived of the right on balanced and objective information about the electoral offer, and endangering the freedom of choice for certain groups of the population; regrets that the longstanding issues of unbalanced media reporting, pressure of voters and the abuse of public office have persisted throughout the election campaign; calls on the Serbian authorities to fully address the outstanding recommendations well ahead of the next elections , in particular those more ambitious that could lead to substantial improvements in the electoral conditions, especially in levelling the playing field, enabling pluralism in the media, and protecting voters’ rights; urges the authorities to properly investigate and prosecute pressure on voters, clientelism, corruption and other recorded allegation on criminal acts in relation to elections; deplores the institutional lack of reaction and sanctions from previous elections that directly contributes to the atmosphere of impunity in regard to pressures on voters, clientelism and corruption; regrets serious allegations about manipulation with Voter Registry, that lacked adequate institutional response; expresses concern that it took 93 days to determine the final results of the early parliamentary elections; urges Serbian authorities to ensure that the electoral results are determined efficiently and transparently in the future;
Amendment 180 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the participation of all relevant political actors in the early parliamentary elections, resulting in a more pluralistic parliament; regrets, however, the delays in the formation of the new parliament and government, despite the clear outcome of the elections, which resulted in limited decision-making, including on EU-related reforms; expresses concern about the limited space for opposition's engagement in the parliament, mistreatment of opposition MPs, tensions and slandering campaigns in the plenary; condemns obstructions and misuse of parliamentary mechanisms, including particularly parliamentary oversights and control instruments; and calls for equal treatment of opposition MPs, consistent and effective implementation of the parliamentary Code of Conduct and impartial sanctioning of parliamentary integrity breaches;
Amendment 183 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Welcomes the distribution of vice- presidential offices and committee chairmanships in the new parliament which reflect its composition; regrets, however, the return of the unwelcome practices in the work of the parliament, including the absence of government question-time sessions, lack of discussion on reports of independent institutions, and increased use of urgent procedure; stresses that the return of these practices reverses most of the progress achieved by the reform of parliament in recent years; expresses concern about the occasional heated atmosphere in the parliament as well as the instances of obstruction of the work of some parliamentary committees;
Amendment 207 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Notes with concern that the new Ombudsperson has not been elected despite the fact that the five-year term in office of the current one has expired; regrets that the Government of Serbia has not filled the vacancies in the Anti- Corruption Council;
Amendment 210 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11 b. Welcomes the holding of the regular elections for the national minority councils in November 2022;
Amendment 227 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that Serbia’s adequate legislative and institutional framework for upholding fundamental rights needs to be put into practice; urgecalls the Serbian authorities to intensify their efforts to safeguard human rights;
Amendment 238 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Deplores the stagnfurther deterioration onf freedom of expression, the cases of hate speech and smear campaigns and the increasing number of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) in the country; reiterates that pressure and attacks on activists, journalists and media outlets are unacceptable; urges the authorities to investigate and prosecute all such offences, including those against the investigative outlet KRIK and the daily newspaper Danas, and to create an environment in which freedom of expression can genuinely flourish; condemns the extreme disbalance in the presence of government and opposition members in the reporting of the national television channels outside the period of the election campaign, which remains a major challenge for media pluralism in Serbia;
Amendment 248 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Condemns the opening of an RT (formerly Russia Today) office in Belgrade and the launch of its online news service in Serbian; urges the Serbian authorities to counter hybrid threats and align with the Council’s decision on the suspension of the broadcasting activities of Sputnik and RT; calls on Serbia to fight disinformation, including manipulative anti-EU narratives and in particular state sponsored disinformation campaigns aiming to shift political preferences; calls for abandoning pro-Russian reporting across the media spectrum in the spirit of Serbia's dedication to integration in the EU, as well as for urgent prevention and reaction against production and proliferation of disinformation;
Amendment 283 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Underlines the importance of a framework enabling civil society organisations to operate freely and participate in policy-making in inclusive and meaningful ways; commends the work of the National Convention on the European Union in this regard; condemns slandering campaigns and attacks against the civil society portraying them as traitors and state enemies;
Amendment 306 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Amendment 316 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Is concerned aboWelcomes the adoption of the National Strategy for Gender Equality and Strategy for Prevention and Protection against Discrimination but gender-based discrimination and violence should be further tackled; calls on the government to adopt the overdue action plan and funding for the strategy relating to violence against women and domestic violence;
Amendment 324 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the holding in Belgrade of the first-ever EuroPride march in south- east Europe; regrets the contradictory communication by the Serbian authorities, including the initial ban on the march; deplores all verbal attacks and threats against the EuroPride organisers and participants in the weeks leading up to the manifestation; condemns the vilification of the EuroPride organisers and participants by the members of the ruling party and the pro-government media; regrets that the Draft Law on Same-Sex Unions has still not been submitted to the parliament; calls for increased measures to combat harassment, hate propaganda and hate crimes against LGBTI+ people;
Amendment 340 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the adoption of new strategies on anti-discrimination and Roma inclusion and calls for their effective implementation; deplores the instrumentalisation and violation of civil rights of vulnerable groups, particularly the Roma community, in the pre-election period and during the elections, due to politically motivated systemic pressures;
Amendment 350 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Notes Serbia’s engagement in regional cooperation initiatives; encourages it to step up its reconciliation efforts and seek solutions to past disputes; underlines that there is no place for genocide denial or the glorification of war criminals in a candidate country; deplores the denial of genocide in Srebrenica across the public sphere; condemns media programmes and institutions which are the primary tool for promoting these narratives;
Amendment 354 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Welcomes the recent steps taken to improve the relations between Serbia and Croatia and encourages both sides to address all outstanding issues in good faith; Welcomes the participation of Serbia in the inaugural summit of the European Political Community in Prague on 6 October 2022; expresses concern that, on several occasions during 2022, President of Serbia considered the possibility of not participating in EU- Western Balkan summits;
Amendment 378 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Reiterates its full support for the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and commends the work of the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue; calls on Serbia and Kosovo to engage in this dialogue in good faith and in the spirit of compromise to achieve a comprehensive, legally binding agreement on the normalisation of their relations in accordance with international law which will contribute to regional stability and prosperity; calls for the full implementation of all the relevant agreements by both sides, including the establishment of the Association/ / Community of Serb- Majority Municipalities;
Amendment 391 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. CStrongly condemns all actions that endanger stability and jeopardise the reconciliation process; warns that the current state of regular tensions is unsustainable; is deeply concerned about the tensions in Nthe north of Kosovo and the unacceptable shooting on Orthodox Christmas Eve; recalls the shared responsibility for peace and the rule of law for all people in Kosovo; condemns the arbitrary detention of Kosovo Serb politician Rada Trajković at Merdare crossing point in December 2022; recalls the shared responsibility for peace and the rule of law for all people in Kosovo; welcomes the constructive approach of Serbia in Belgrade-Priština Dialogue, and commitment to the process of normalisation;
Amendment 407 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Welcomes the recent agreements in the framework of the Berlin Process regulating travel with ID-s within the region, recognition of academic qualifications and recognition of qualifications for certain professions; encourages Serbian parliament to ratify these agreements soon as possible; expresses support for socio-economic regional cooperation involving all six Western Balkan countries;
Amendment 422 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Serbian authorities to take measures to counter depopulation; notes the results of the 2022 population census, which detected a decrease of population by 495.975 since 2011;
Amendment 438 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Is deeply concerned about the investments in Serbia by Russia and China and their influence on the political and economic processes in the region;
Amendment 454 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the Commission’s energy support package to help the Western Balkans overcome the energy crisis; calls on the Serbian authorities to prepare a credible plan for reducing the country’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels and building environmentally friendly energy systems; welcomes the beginning of construction of gas interconnector between Serbia and Bulgaria;
Amendment 468 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Expresses concern about air pollution; reiterates concern that several places in Serbia, notably Belgrade, Smederevo, Kostolac, Bor and the Kolubara and Tamnava valleys, are often on the list of the most polluted areas in the world in terms of air quality; reiterates concern about Chinese-financed coal power generation projects and their impact on the environment and air quality; reiterates its calls on the Serbian authorities to urgently accelerate the implementation of air quality plans;
Amendment 483 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls on the government to takecontinue investing efforts in measures regarding river pollution and further align with the EU acquis on water quality and nature protection;
Amendment 487 #
2022/2204(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Notes with concern the cargo train accident near the city of Pirot in December 2022 and the resulting environmental hazard caused by ammonium leak; calls on authorities to ensure the safe transport of all hazardous substances especially trough urban areas and Belgrade railway tunnels system;
Amendment 34 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas prostitution, its exploitation, and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation are increasingcontinue to increase in Europe; whereas figures globally decreased due to the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns; whereas human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation was the most common form of human trafficking in the EU in 2020 (55%, Eurostat) and the victims are predominantly women and girls; whereas they are gender- specific phenomena with a global dimension and affect the most marginalised members of our societies, with the vast majority of people in prostitution being women and girls and almost all sexnd buyers being men; overwhelmingly men according to the OSCE;
Amendment 58 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas different regulatory measures concerning prostitution have different effects on gender equalitythe main purpose of all regulatory measures is to avoid that women and girls are exploited; whereas different regulatory measures concerning prostitution have different effects on gender equality; whereas so far none of the regulatory models has been able to provide sufficient safeguards for sex workers;
Amendment 63 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas gender equality and women’s rights, their self-determination and safety, need to be in the heart of any regulation aimed at discouraging the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons; whereas policies tackling demand have to be especially focused on educational, social or cultural measures, including through bilateral and multilateral cooperation;
Amendment 106 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas numerous factors can cause people to enter prostitution, including poverty, social exclusion and a migration background; , lack of comprehensive integration and migration policies and measures, as well as deficient social and labour policies; whereas these causes need to be urgently and thoroughly addressed in order to tackle the circumstances and restraints leading to a lack of alternatives;
Amendment 131 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas Russia’s war against Ukraine increases the risk of trafficking with Ukrainian women and girls who are in a particularly vulnerable situation while fleeing and relocating;
Amendment 133 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
H b. whereas demand reduction measures need a special focus on online advertisement and contact facilitation thus ensuring efficiency in the prevention of the exploitation of the prostitution of others;
Amendment 137 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
H c. whereas regular training for enforcement authorities is urgently needed in every Member State to ensure people and especially women, including transwomen, in prostitution are not stigmatised or de-facto criminalised and their access to justice does not continue to be compromised by discriminatory stereotypes leading to refraining from reporting cases of abuse and violence due to the fear of institutions and authorities;
Amendment 138 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H d (new)
Recital H d (new)
H d. whereas leaving prostitution is often a difficult and lengthy process and requires comprehensive socio-economic support and individual counselling taking into account the different pull and push factors in order to provide need-oriented support programs for people wanting to leave prostitution and making these programs a success for all of them;
Amendment 141 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H e (new)
Recital H e (new)
H e. whereas preventive measures need to follow a holistic approach, reforming society as a whole with a focus on social, labour and migration policies, reducing vulnerabilities and thus the susceptibility to exploitation or choices that have to be taken based on the lack of alternatives;
Amendment 143 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H f (new)
Recital H f (new)
H f. whereas accurate and comparable data across EU countries are still lacking;
Amendment 171 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets the lackHighlights the urgent need to further improve and better coordinate the collection and exchange of reliable, accurate and comparable data across EU countries and improve cross-border cooperation on the issue;
Amendment 196 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the deterioration of the social and economic situation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has increased all forms of abuse and violence against women, including in prostitution; warns that this will be further aggravated by the current energy and cost-of-living crisis;
Amendment 198 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. highlights the acute risk of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation Ukrainian women and girls face due to their vulnerable situation fleeing from Russia’s war against Ukraine and relocating in other countries;
Amendment 212 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Condemns the fact that women in prostitution lack legal security because of their criminalisation, meaning they face the constant threat of police and judicial persecution, are subject to additional vulnerability and stigmatisation that negatively affect their health, consequently experience difficulties in contacting support services and lack access to fundamental rights; deplores the fact that, at the same time, offenders posing as clients, brothel owners and human traffickers often remain unpunished;
Amendment 218 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Points out the negative consequences of the decriminalisation of pimping and the purchase of sexexploitative third parties, which, through the apparent societal normalisation of these activities, leads to an increase in the trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation and conceals the reality of coercion, manipulation, violence and exploitation in prostitution, where a lack of language skills, vulnerabilities and precarious conditions are exploited to make women enter and stay in prostitution;, regrets the fact that even the legalisation of prostitution, pimpingthird parties and the purchase of sex does not mean an end to the stigma for women in prostitution;
Amendment 228 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the fact that an increasing number of countries are taking up and implementing the Nordic/Equality model; supports the feminist background of this model and its goal of achieving gender equality, and highlights the model’s positive effects on the rights of people in prostitution and the fight against humMember States strive to achieve an inclusion of discriminated and marginalised people selling sex and provide subsidies to support their community based organisation to better address the needs and rights of the most marginalised, including identification and referral of those exploited and trafficking;ed.
Amendment 229 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls on the Member States to train and educate the police in order to ensure that people in prostitution and the police communicate on a basis of trust and therefore are able to detect exploitation as fast and effective as possible; recalls that migrants, racialized and trans people are overrepresented in prostitution and condemns that they are especially targeted and criminalised by the police; calls for the same comprehensive training for the judiciary;
Amendment 233 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Recognises that legalising all facets of prostitution also has added value, such as the visibility of the women who are therefore safer and are not forced to continue their activities undergrounds;
Amendment 235 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Condemns the reality of coercion, manipulation, violence and exploitation in prostitution, where a lack of language skills, vulnerabilities and precarious conditions are exploited to make women enter and stay in prostitution;
Amendment 237 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Acknowledges that different policies to combat sexual exploitation can have different effects in different Member States; Regrets the fact that regulations, including the legalisation or criminalisation of prostitution, the involvement of exploitative third parties and the purchase of sex does not mean an end to the stigma for women in prostitution;
Amendment 238 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 d (new)
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10 d. Refrains from comments on the effectivity of individual regulatory models and their mutual comparison; underlines that the implementation of different models regarding the regulation of prostitution across Member States allows for the conclusion, that none of the regulatory models has achieved the complete elimination of stigmatisation and discriminatory treatment of people selling sex neither effective safeguards to ensure access to health, social and justice services for people selling sex;
Amendment 244 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Highlights that the approach of discouraging the demand that fosters trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is therefore of utmost importance in order to combat the exploitation of women and girls, to protect victims and to achieve gender equality and should therefore be developed further in the revision of the EU Anti-Trafficking directive;
Amendment 256 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Underlines the importance of discouraging demand in a way that does not harm or create negative repercussions for those in prostitution and provide sufficient safeguards;
Amendment 259 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Calls for demand reduction measures with a special focus on online advertisement and contact facilitation, ensuring efficient measures to prevent the exploitation of the prostitution of others;
Amendment 263 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 272 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses that human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is increasing due to high demand; points out that this is particularly visible in countries with a liberal regulatory model, whereas countries that follow approaches like the Nordic/Equality model are no longer big markets for human trafficking for that purpose;
Amendment 335 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States to take action in the areas of prevention, decriminalisation of people in prostitution, exit programmes, demand reduction, punishment of clients, destigmatisation and the elimination of stereotypes; calls on the Member States to reduce demand while protecting women and their rights, to end the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people in prostitution and to ensure exit strategies and unconditional access to social security systems and reintegration;
Amendment 346 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 354 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Member States to take measures to combat the economic, social and cultural causes of prostitution so that women in situations of poverty, social exclusion, discrimination and migration do not fall victim to this form of exploadopt a strategy of collaborative governance with sex worker advocacy organizations to attain an effective and humane prostitaution policy;
Amendment 359 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for specific measures to assiston Member States to implement specific measures and to provide sufficient financial support to assist people and especially women in prostitution with their social and professional reintegration; calls for such exit programmes to work gradually, for women to be supported on their personal paths and for people’s potential to be recognised, with and professional training and further education programmes being adapted to take account of this, with a special focus on people with migration background;
Amendment 366 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Calls for Member States to support those trafficked for sexual exploitation in the regularisation of their residency status;
Amendment 376 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Calls on the Commission to put forward awareness-raising campaigns with the aim of discouraging the demand, highlighting the link between the demand for sexual services and the phenomenon of trafficking for sexual exploitation and the high numbers of women being trafficked inside and to the European Union; furthermore calls for awareness- raising for the particular risks people and especially women in prostitution face, including the high prevalence of gender- based violence; calls for these campaigns to further target young people and men while also dismantling stereotypes;
Amendment 383 #
2022/2139(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24 b. Calls for full access to non- discriminatory and universal health and social services as well as to the justice system for everyone, especially for people and women in prostitution;
Amendment 18 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas, as stated in the Conclusion of the Conference on the Future of Europe, a stronger EU in security and defence will contribute to European and global peace and it will support European values, such as the rule of law, democracy, human rights and gender equality and this can be achieved by promoting a common strategic culture;
Amendment 26 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the use of a veto by one EU Member State to open accession negotiations with a candidate country, due to unresolved bilateral and regional disputes linked to historical events, self- identification and cultural or linguistic rights, can block candidate countries’ accession process and the use of veto by Member States for their own benefit is contrary to the spirit of the EU Treaties;
Amendment 28 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the reckless Russian aggression and the invasion of Ukraine represents the start of a new era for the European Union and for the world order and underlines the need of a full reassessment of security and defence policies through a paradigm shift;
Amendment 29 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
C c. whereas there is an increasing challenge posed by cyber, hybrid and other asymmetric threats, including disinformation campaigns, and by the malicious use of ever-more sophisticated emerging and disruptive technologies; whereas foreign interference, information manipulation and disinformation are an abuse of the fundamental freedoms of expression and information and threaten these freedoms, values, democratic procedures, political processes, the security of states and citizens, and the capacity to cope with exceptional situations; whereas Russia has been engaging in disinformation of an unparalleled malice and magnitude across both traditional media outlets and social media platforms, in order to deceive its citizens at home and the international community on the eve of and during its war of aggression against Ukraine, which Russia started on 24 February 2022, proving that even information can be weaponised;
Amendment 36 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the main citizens’ recommendations in the field of foreign and security policy, notably the need to switch to more efficient decision-making, through the use of qualified majority voting (QMV) instead of unanimity, in order to become a more credible and efficient global player, and the need to improve the Union’s methods to impose sanctions, to be incorporated in a Treaty change;
Amendment 50 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that Article 48(7) and Article 31(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) contain passerrelle clauses that can make switching from unanimity to qualified majority voting possible in the area of common foreign and security policy (CFSP) without military implications; calls for a switch to QMV in all decisions in the field of CFSP, notably those concerning sanctions and human rights, in order to improve the Union’s capacity to take speedy and effective decisions, as the passerelle clauses have never been used due to the lack of political will;
Amendment 54 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls the Council to act by a qualified majority where a decision provides for the interruption or reduction, in part or completely, of economic and financial relations with one or more third countries; calls for an amendment of Article 29 TEU in this regard;
Amendment 65 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses the need to enhance the EU’s capacity to act by reforming decision-making, including through the introduction of qualified majority voting in areas relevant to the accession process and an effective functioning of the enlarged union as a whole; stresses the need to abolish, in particular, the requirement for unanimity when deciding on the start of the negotiation process as well as the opening and closing of individual negotiating clusters and chapters; calls on the Member States to muster the political will to re-energise the enlargement process and deliver on their promises through concrete positive steps in the accession processes of countries that seek to join the Union and deserve to be part of the European family;
Amendment 84 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Member States to provide new competences and legal basis to countering disinformation and foreign malign propaganda; calls for the EU to lead the debate on the legal implications of foreign interference, to promote common international definitions and attribution rules and to develop an international framework for responses to interference; highlights the need for global, multilateral cooperation between like-minded countries to exchange best practices and identify common responses to global, but also shared domestic, challenges, including collective sanctions, the protection of human rights and democratic standards;
Amendment 123 #
2022/2051(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 2 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas women and girls are disproportionately affected by conflict, with particular regard to sexual violence, displacement and trafficking in human beings1 , access to SRHR and impoverishment; _________________ 1 https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemake r.un.org/files/SC_ResolutionWomenPeace Security_SRES1325%282000%29%28engl ish_0.pdf
Amendment 5 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. Whereas conflicts and following humanitarian emergencies and forced displacement, have detrimental consequences on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), resulting in lack of reproductive health information and services—including obstetric, prenatal, and postnatal care; modern contraceptives including emergency contraception; and safe abortion and post-abortion care;
Amendment 9 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. Whereas Russian Federation’s military aggression and invasion against Ukraine has had detrimental consequences on women, forcing them to flee, putting them at risk of falling victim to human trafficking and subjecting them to gender based violence and sexual violence as a weapon of war;
Amendment 22 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the Russian invasion of Ukraine underlines the unequivocal need for security and defence measures to be gender-responsive; Restate sits condemnation in the strongest possible terms of the Russian aggression against and invasion of Ukraine and condemns any war crimes being committed against civilian population, including sexual violence as a weapon of war;
Amendment 35 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Highlights that gender equality is a precondition for democracy, human rights, sustainable development and a successful management of the effects of climate change and thus for peace and security;
Amendment 37 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Highlights that climate change can contribute to destabilisation and can lead to forced displacement and migration; stresses that women are vulnerable to the effects of climate change and armed conflicts, notably due to persistent cultural and structural gender inequalities, being at risk of poverty, gender based and sexual violence and trafficking; stresses the importance of gender perspective in climate change policies and meaningful representation of women in peacebuilding and conflict resolution;
Amendment 40 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the Member States to ensure effective gender mainstreaming across all Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missionsfor gender mainstreaming to be implemented and integrated into all EU activities and policies; whereas gender analysis and a gender perspective constitute a foundation of effective and sustainable conflict prevention, stabilisation, peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction, governance and institution building; active participation of women in all the parts of the post- conflict resolution process should be ensured; Calls on the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the Member States to ensure effective gender mainstreaming across all Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and enlargement missions; Underlines that women’s participation in CSDP-missions contributes to the effectiveness of the work and it increase the EU credibility as a proponent of equal rights formen and women worldwide; recalls that gender diversity in CSDP is important for implementing many operational tasks and effective executing of the duties such as increasing situational awareness, reaching out to different groups in society, or further strengthening training and monitoring; calls specifically for the next CSDP Compact to set targets for gender balance in the personnel, especially in leadership positions as there are only three female heads of civilian missions and no female commanders of military missions;
Amendment 45 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission, the EEAS and the EU Delegations to recognize women and girls as drivers of change capable of offering an important and unique contribution, and to support their safe, meaningful and equal participation in civic and public life and in decision making structures; Calls to eradicate the dominantnarrative around women and girls based on victimization that deprives them of their agency and erases their capacity as agents of change;
Amendment 46 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Calls on the European Commission and EU Member States to advocate for the inclusion of women’s rights organisations, as well as women led organisations and defenders of women’s human rights, in humanitarian coordination and decision-making EN structures;
Amendment 47 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Calls on the EEAS and the EU Delegations for human trafficking awareness internal programmes to be implemented to trainings and capacity- building, in order to better recognise and protect victims;
Amendment 50 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the important work of gender advisers in CSDP missions; regrets that the post of gender adviser remains vacant in several military missions and calls for these posts to be filled; recognises the relevant role of the gender focal points network in missions and expects its continued development and training; encourages structured exchange of best practices between civilian and military missions; Call for a strengthened position of the gender advisor in order to mainstream gender approach into all programmes and policies;
Amendment 51 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the European Commission and EU Member States to advocate for the eradication of gender stereotypes that contribute to the unequal representation of women in the security and defence sector; Underline the need to have more women working in the European Security and Defence and consequently the need for young girls to be encouraged to approach and study these subjects;
Amendment 59 #
2022/2050(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for a zero-tolerance approach to sexual and gender-based harassment and sexual exploitation within all CSDP missions and insists that independent oversight be employed to ensure that perpetrators are held accountable; urges the EEAS and the Member States to guarantee safety from sexual exploitation; calls for specialised support, including counselling and psychological services, to be made available to all victims, as well as training on preventing and combat gender based violence;
Amendment 49 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
Amendment 60 #
2022/0402(CNS)
(13a) The child-parent relationship calls into question an essential aspect of the child’s identity, in particular, not only the right to a personal identity but also the right to live and grow up in a stable family environment. The best interests of the child should always prevail. The European Court of Human Rights has expressly stated that the best interests of the child reduces the margin of appreciation of the State Parties in the recognition of the child-parent relationship1a. Consequently, it becomes necessary to proceed with the recognition of parenthood regardless of the family context and the way in which the child is conceived. It is also necessary to guarantee the full legitimisation of the family, the conjugal relationship, understood as a nucleus of stable affections and relationships between persons, and of the children resulting from such relationship. _________________ 1a ECtHR, Judgment 22.11.2022 [Section III], D.B. and Others v. Switzerland - 58252/15 and 58817/15.
Amendment 62 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Under Article 21 TFEU and secondary legislation relating thereto as interpreted by the Court of Justice, the respect of a Member State’s national identity under Article 4(2) TEU and a Member State’s public policy cannot serve as justification to refuse to recognise a parent-child relationship between children and their same-sex parents for the purposes of exercising the rights that a child derives from Union law. In fact, the protection of the interests of the child should prevail over considerations of national identity and public policy, so that the child can live in a stable and recognised family free from any stigma, including from a legal point of view. This is particularly true if one considers that the best interest of the child is an integral part of the concept of public policy, thus favouring the entry into national law of new family and conjugal relations. In addition, for the purposes of exercising such rights, proof of parenthood can be presented by any means52 . Therefore, a Member State is not entitled to require that a person presents either the attestations provided for in this Regulation accompanying a court decision or an authentic instrument on parenthood, or the European Certificate of Parenthood created by this Regulation, where the person invokes, in the context of the exercise of the right to free movement, rights that a child derives from Union law. This should not, however, prevent a person from choosing to present in such cases also the relevant attestation or the European Certificate of Parenthood provided for in this Regulation. To ensure that Union citizens and their family members are informed that the rights that a child derives from Union law are not affected by this Regulation, the forms of the attestations and of the European Certificate of Parenthood annexed to this Regulation should include a statement specifying that the relevant attestation or the European Certificate of Parenthood do not affect the rights that a child derives from Union law, in particular the rights that a child enjoys under Union law on free movement, and that, for the exercise of such rights, proof of the parent-child relationship can be presented by any means. _________________ 52 Judgments of the Court of Justice of 25 July 2002, C-459/99, MRAX, ECLI:EU:C:2002:461, paragraphs 61 and 62, and of 17 February 2005, C-215/03, Oulane, ECLI:EU:C:2005:95, paragraphs 23 to 26.
Amendment 67 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17a) Furthermore, according to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, the best interests of the child also entails the legal identification of the persons responsible for raising them, meeting their needs and ensuring their welfare, as well as the possibility for the child to live and develop in a stable environment1a. It is therefore clear that the child will have an interest in the legal recognition of their relationship with the parents. _________________ 1a ECtHR, 10.4.2019 [GC], Advisory opinion requested by the French Court of Cassation
Amendment 127 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 56
Recital 56
(56) Considerations of public interest should allow courts and other competent authorities establishing parenthood in the Member States to disregard, in exceptional circumstances, certain provisions of a foreign law where, in a given case, applying such provisions would be manifestly incompatible with the public policy (ordre public) of the Member State concerned. However, tThe courts or other competent authorities should not be able to apply the public policy exception in order to set aside the law of another State when doing so would be contrary to the Charter and, in particular, Article 21 thereof, which prohibits discrimination.
Amendment 152 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 75
Recital 75
(75) Considerations of public interest should allow Member State courts or other competent authorities to refuse, in exceptional circumstances, to recognise or, as the case may be, accept a court decision or authentic instrument on the parenthood established in another Member State where, in a given case, such recognition or acceptance would be manifestly incompatible with the public policy (ordre public) of the Member State concerned. However, tThe courts or other competent authorities should not be able to refuse to recognise or, as the case may be, accept a court decision or an authentic instrument issued in another Member State when doing so would be contrary to the Charter and, in particular, Article 21 thereof, which prohibits discrimination.
Amendment 209 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
This Regulation shall not affect the competence of the authorities of the Member States to deal with parenthood matters in solely domestic cases.
Amendment 246 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22
Article 22
Amendment 272 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – point a
Amendment 278 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 31 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) upon application by any person claiming that the court decision infringes his fatherhood or her motherhood over the childtheir parenthood over the child and if the decision if it was given without such person having been given an opportunity to be heard and to present evidence;
Amendment 286 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 2
2. Point (a) of paragraph 1This Article shall be applied by the courts and other competent authorities of the Member States in observance of the fundamental rights and principles laid down in the Charter, in particular Article 21 thereof on the right to non- discrimination.
Amendment 289 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1
1. AnOnly partyies entitled under national law may challenge or appeal against a court decision on the application for refusal of recognition.
Amendment 301 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – point a
Amendment 306 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 39 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) upon application by any person claiming that the authentic instrument infringes his fatherhood or her mothertheir parenthood over the child, if the authentic instrument was formally drawn up or registered without that person having been involved;
Amendment 311 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 39 – paragraph 2
Article 39 – paragraph 2
2. Point (a) of paragraph 1This Article shall be applied by the courts and other competent authorities of the Member States in observance of the fundamental rights and principles laid down in the Charter, in particular Article 21 thereof on the right to non- discrimination.
Amendment 316 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 40 – paragraph 1
Article 40 – paragraph 1
The jurisdiction of the court of the Member State of origin establishing parenthood may not be reviewed. The test of public policy referred to in point (a) of Article 31(1) may not be applied to the rules relating to jurisdiction set out in Articles 6 to 9.
Amendment 323 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 45 – paragraph 1
Article 45 – paragraph 1
1. An authentic instrument which has no binding legal effect in the Member State of origin shall have the same evidentiary effects in another Member State as it has in the Member State of origin, or the most comparable effects, provided that this is not manifestly contrary to public policy (ordre public) in the Member State where it is presented.
Amendment 327 #
2022/0402(CNS)
2. The public policy (ordre public) referred to in paragraph 1is Article shall be applied by the courts and other competent authorities of the Member States in observance of the fundamental rights and principles laid down in the Charter, in particular Article 21 thereof on the right to non- discrimination.
Amendment 379 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 69 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 69 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Notwithstanding paragraph 1, Member States shall accept an authentic instrument which has no binding legal effect in the Member State of origin but which has evidentiary effects in that Member State, provided that this is not manifestly contrary to the public policy (ordre public) of the Member State in which acceptance is sought.
Amendment 385 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 70 – paragraph 2 – point -a (new)
Article 70 – paragraph 2 – point -a (new)
(-a) the number of requests for the recognition of parenthood submitted pursuant to this Regulation
Amendment 389 #
2022/0402(CNS)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 70 a (new)
Article 70 a (new)
Article70a Guidelines 1. After the entry into force of this Regulation and before the date from which it shall apply, as indicated in Article 72 of this Regulation, the Commission shall publish guidelines to national authorities on how to apply and enforce this Regulation. 2. The Commission shall update every two years thereafter the guidelines taking into account, inter alia, the experience that has been gained in the application and enforcement of this Regulation and any relevant case law of the Court of Justice.
Amendment 217 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) In addition, packaging uses high amounts of virgin materials (40 % of plastics and 50 % of paper use in the Union is for packaging) and represents 36 % of municipal solid waste30. High and constantly growing levels of packaging generated as well as low levels of re-use , collectionand poor recycling, present significant barriers to achieving a low- carbon circular economy. For these reasons, this Regulation should establish rules over the entire life-cycle of packaging contributing to the efficient functioning of the internal market by harmonising national measures, while preventing and reducing the adverse impacts of packaging and packaging waste on the environment and human health. By laying measures in line with the hierarchy of waste, it should contribute to the transition to a circular economy. _________________ 30 Eurostat, Packaging waste statistics: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Packaging_wast e_statistics
Amendment 228 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The Council underlined in its Conclusions of December 202038, that the revision of Directive 94/62/EC should update and establish more concrete, effective and easy to implement provisions to facilitate sustainable packaging in the internal market and minimise the complexity of packaging in order to foster economically feasible solutions, to improve the reusability and recyclability as well as minimise substances of concern in packaging materials, especially concerning food packaging materials, and to provide for labelling packaging in an easily understandable way to inform consumers about its recyclability and where its waste should be discarded to facilitate sorting and recycling. At the same time it noted that hygiene and food safety standards have to be respected. _________________ 38 https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/docu ment/ST-13852-2020-INIT/en/pdf
Amendment 231 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The European Parliament’s Resolution of 10 February 2021 on the New Circular Economy Action Plan39reiterated the objective of making all packaging reusable or recyclable in an economically viable way by 2030 and called on the Commission to present a legislative proposal including waste reduction measures and targets and ambitious essential requirements in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive to reduce excessive packaging, including in e-commerce, improve recyclability and minimise the complexity of packaging, increase recycled content, phase out hazardous and harmful substances, and promote re-use. In addition, it stressed that food safety or hygiene standards must not be compromised. _________________ 39 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-9-2021-0040_EN.html
Amendment 252 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) In line with the waste hierarchy set out in Article 4(2) of Directive 2008/98/EC, and in line with life-cycle thinking to deliver the best overall environmental outcome, the measures provided for under this Regulation aim at reducing the amount of packaging placed on the market in terms of its volume and weight, and preventing the generation of packaging waste, especially through packaging minimisation, avoiding packaging where it is not needed, and increased re-use of packaging, when it can be demonstrated that re-usable packaging achieves higher environmental benefits compared to single-use packaging . In addition, the measures aim at increasing the use of recycled content in packaging, especially in plastic packaging where the uptake of recycled content is very low, as well as higher recycling rates for all packaging and high quality of the resulting secondary raw materials while reducing other forms of recovery and final disposal.
Amendment 273 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14 a (new)
Recital 14 a (new)
(14a) Food packaging materials represent a positive contribution to the prevention of food loss and food waste along the supply chain, for example packaging that reduces food loss in transport, storage and distribution, and that preserves the quality and hygiene of food for longer, or that extends shelf life.
Amendment 277 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFASs) are a large family of more than 4,700 man-made chemicals according to 2018 OECD definitions. Since their emergence in the late 1940s, PFASs have been used in an increasingly wide range of consumer products and industrial applications, from food packaging and clothing to electronics, aviation and firefighting foams. They are used for their ability to repel grease and water, as well as for their high stability and resistance to high temperatures, due to their carbon-fluorine bond. That bond is also responsible for their extreme persistence in the environment. Exposure to the most studied PFASs has been associated with a range of adverse health effects, including thyroid disease, liver damage, reduced birth weight, obesity, diabetes, hypercholesterolaemia and reduced response to routine vaccinations, as well as increased risk of breast, kidney and testicular cancer.
Amendment 278 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) Fostering a sustainable bio- economy can contribute to decreasing Europe's dependence on imported raw materials. Improving market conditions for bio-based recyclable packaging and compostable biodegradable packaging and reviewing existing law hampering the use of those materials offers the opportunity to stimulate further research and innovation and to substitute fossil fuel-based feedstocks with renewable sources for the production of packaging, where beneficial from a lifecycle perspective, and support further organic recycling.
Amendment 281 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 b (new)
Recital 15 b (new)
Amendment 283 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 c (new)
Recital 15 c (new)
(15c) On 27 May 2020, Denmark published Order No. 681 of May 25, 2020 ‘Executive Order on Food Contact Materials and Penal Code for Violation of Related EU Acts’ in its Official Gazette (Lovtidende A) to prohibit PFASs chemicals in food contact paper and board materials and articles. Following that example, in light of the health and environmental emergency represented by PFASs and awaiting ECHA's restriction opinion on a wider ban on PFASs for all packaging and for other sectors all paper, cardboard food packaging containing PFASs should not be placed on the Union market.
Amendment 308 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In order to establish harmonised rules on packaging design to ensure its recyclability, without compromising its functionality, the power to adopt delegated acts should be delegated to the Commission to set out detailed criteria for packaging design for recycling per packaging materials and categories, as well as for the assessment of the packaging recyclability at scale including for categories of packaging not listed in this Regulation. In order to give economic operators and Member States sufficient time to collect and report the necessary data to establish the “at scale” recycling methodology, the manufacturers should ensure that packaging is recycled at scale as of 2035. That should ensure that packaging complies with the design for recycling criteria, and is also recycled in practice on the basis of the state of the art processes for separate collection, sorting and recycling.
Amendment 322 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Some Member States are taking action to encourage recyclability of packaging through modulation of extended producer responsibility fees; such initiatives taken at the national level may create regulatory uncertainty for the economic operators, in particular where they supply packaging in several Member States. At the same time, modulation of extended producer responsibility fees is an effective economic instrument to incentivise more sustainable packaging design leading to better recyclable packaging while improving the functioning of the internal market. It is therefore necessary to harmonise criteria for the modulation of extended producer responsibility fees based on the recyclability performance grade obtained through recyclability assessment, while not setting the actual amounts of such fees and to ensure that such fees are earmarked to finance the net cost of collection, sorting and recycling of packaging. As the criteria should be related to the criteria on packaging recyclability, it is appropriate to empower the Commission to adopt such harmonised criteria at the same time as establishing the detailed design for recycling criteria per packaging categories.
Amendment 329 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) Low uptake of secondary material by economic operators can be caused by a structural imbalance of the market, whereby the supply of the recycled material cannot meet the demand. This can occur due to insufficient waste collection for recycling and sorting, or by the material being locked into applications which cannot be recycled, including applications beyond the scope of this legislation. Meanwhile, as a principle, any recycled content obligations should be accompanied with enablers. One such enabler should be, where technically feasible, the prioritisation of closed-loop recycling, whereby producers obliged with recycled content targets benefit from preferential access to the material derived from their effectively recycled packaging. Closed-loop recycling would stimulate the supply for a secondary material market, reduce foreign dependencies and incentivise design for recycling and recyclability.
Amendment 340 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) In order to prevent barriers to the internal market and ensure the efficient implementation of the obligations, economic operators should ensure that the plastic part of each unit of packaging contains a certain minimum percentage of recycled content recovered from post- consumer plastic waste, as an average of their portfolio of plastic packaging placed on the Union market.
Amendment 362 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) The bio-waste waste stream is often contaminated with conventional plastics and the material recycling streams are often contaminated with compostable plastics. This cross-contamination leads to waste of resources, lower quality secondary raw materials and should be prevented at source. As the proper disposal route for compostable plastic packaging is becoming increasingly confusing for consumers, it is justified and necessary to lay down clear and common rules on the use of compostable plastic packaging, mandating it only when its use brings a clear benefit for the environment or for human health. This is particularly the case when the use of compostable packaging helps collect or dispose of bio-waste. This contamination leads to environmental and economic impacts and waste of resources and should be prevented at source. Mandating compostable plastic packaging for applications strictly linked to food and food waste, may help to reduce this contamination. Therefore, , it is justified and necessary to lay down clear and common rules on the use of compostable plastic packaging, mandating it only when its use brings a clear benefit for the environment or for human health. This is particularly the case when the use of compostable packaging helps collect or dispose of bio-waste. The EN 13432 standard “Packaging - Requirements for packaging recoverable through composting and biodegradation" specifies requirements and procedures to determine the compostability and anaerobic treatability of packaging and packaging materials in industrial controlled conditions and should represent the harmonised specification of what packaging can be considered compostable and biodegradable across Member States.
Amendment 371 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) For limited packaging applications made of biodegradable plastic polymersThere is a demonstrable environmental benefit of using compostable packaging for specific packaging applications, in particular those strictly linked to food and food waste prevention, , there is a demonstrable environmental benefit of using compostable packaging, which enters composting plants, including anaerobic digestion facilities under controlled conditions. Furthermore, where appropriate waste collection schemes and waste treatment infrastructures are available in a Member State, there should be a limited flexibility in deciding whether to mandate the use of compostable plastics for lightweight plastic carrier bags on its territory. In order to avoid consumer confusion about the correct disposal and considering the environmental benefit of circularity of the carbon, all other plastic packaging should go into material recycling and the design of such packaging should ensure that it does not affect the recyclability of other waste streams.
Amendment 392 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40
Recital 40
(40) Packaging should be designed so as to minimise its volume and weight while maintaining its ability to perform the packaging functions. The manufacturer of packaging should assess the packaging against the performance criteria, as listed in Annex IV of this Regulation. In view of the objective of this Regulation to reduce packaging and packaging waste generation and to improve circularity of packaging across the internal market, it is appropriate to further specify the existing criteria and to make them more stringent. The list of the packaging performance criteria, as listed in the existing harmonised standard EN 13428:200057, should therefore be modified. While marketing and consumer acceptance remain relevant for packaging design, they should not be part of performance criteria justifying on their own additional packaging weight and volume. However, this should not compromise product and packagingspecifications for craft and industrial products and food and agricultural products that are registered andEU geographical indications, and or otherwiseprotected byunder the Union intellectual property law or agreements between the EU and third countries which recogniseEU geographical indication protection schemes, as part of the Union’s objective to protect intellectual property,cultural heritage and traditional know-how. On the other hand, recyclability, the use of recycled content, and re-use may justify additional packaging weight or volume, and should be added to the performance criteria. Packaging with double walls, false bottoms and other characteristics only aimed to increase the perceived product volume should not be placed on the market, as it does not meet the requirement for packaging minimisation. The same rule should apply to superfluous packaging not necessary for ensuring packaging functionality. _________________ 57 Packaging – Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition – Prevention by source reduction.
Amendment 412 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) To facilitate consumers in the sorting and disposing of packaging waste, a system of harmonised symbols should be introduced and required to be placed both on packaging and on waste receptacles, thus allowing consumers to match the symbols for the purposes of disposal. The symbols should enable appropriate waste management as it should provide consumers with information about the composting properties of such packaging, in particular to avoid consumer confusion that compostable packaging is not as such suitable for home-composting. This approach should improve the separate collection of packaging waste, leading to higher quality recycling of packaging waste, and introduce a level of harmonisation of the packaging waste collection systems on the internal market. It is also necessary to harmonise symbols associated with the mandatory deposit and return systems. Considering that it is not collected through municipal waste collection systems, the use of those symbols should not be mandatory for transport packaging with the exception of the e-commerce packaging.
Amendment 421 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 50 a (new)
Recital 50 a (new)
(50a) An expert group should be set up with a balanced participation of Member States’ representatives and all interested parties involved with packaging, such as waste treatment industry representatives, manufacturers and packaging suppliers, distributers, retailers, importers, SMEs, environmental protection groups and consumer organisations. This group should be referred to as the “Packaging Forum” and it should contribute in particular to preparing, developing and further detailing the sustainability requirements, examining the effectiveness of the established market surveillance mechanisms and assessing any self- regulatory measures.
Amendment 442 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 61
Recital 61
(61) In orderPackaging should contribute to ensure a high level of environmental protection in the internal market, as well as a high level of food safety and hygiene, food waste prevention and comply with the EU food treceability requirements and facilitate the achievement of the packaging waste prevention targets, u. Unnecessary or avoidable packaging that do not contribute to these aims, should not be allowed to be placed on the market. The list of such packaging formats is provided in Annex V of this Regulation. In order to adapt the list to the technical and scientific progress the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty should be delegated to the Commission to amend the list.
Amendment 443 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 61 a (new)
Recital 61 a (new)
Amendment 459 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 67
Recital 67
(67) In order to reduce the increasing proportion of packaging that is single use and the growing amounts of packaging waste generated, it is necessary to establish quantitative re-use and refill targets on packaging in sectors, which have been assessed as having the greatest potential for packaging waste reduction, namely food and beverages for take-away, large-white goods and transport packaging. This was appraised based one introduction of quantitative re-use and refill targets should be done when they represent the best environmental option considering the whole life cycle of packaging, and should be based on proper impact assessments considering factors such as existing systems for re-use, necessity of using packaging and the possibility of fulfilling the functional requirements in terms of containment, tidiness, health, hygiene and safety. Differences of the products and their production and distribution systems, were also taken into account. The setting of the targets is expected to support the innovation and increase the proportion of re-use and refill solutions. The use of single use packaging for food and beverages filled and consumed within the premises in the HORECA sector should not be allowed.
Amendment 488 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 90
Recital 90
(90) Waste prevention is the most efficient way to improve resource efficiency and to reduce the environmental impact of waste. It is important therefore that economic operators take appropriate measures to reduce the waste generation by eliminating excessive packaging and restrict the uses of certain packaging formats, extending the life span of packaging, re-designing products so that no packaging or less packaging can be used, including bulk sales, and by shifting from single use packaging to reusable packaging. The Commisison should assess the link between these measures and the setting of EU food waste reduction targets.
Amendment 518 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 100
Recital 100
(100) Member States shouldmay set up return and collection systems for packaging waste, so that they are channelled to the most appropriate waste management alternative, according to the waste hierarchy. The systems should be open for participation for all interested parties, in particular for economic operators and public authorities and be established taking into account the environment and consumer health, safety and hygiene. Return and collection systems should also be applicable for packaging of imported products under non-discriminatory provisions.
Amendment 522 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 101 a (new)
Recital 101 a (new)
(101a) The separate collection of packaging is the first step to ensure recycling, and to establish a strong Union market for secondary raw materials. The establishment of mandatory collection obligations is an incentive to develop efficient and targeted collection systems at national level, and thus increase the quantity of waste sorted and recycled at scale.
Amendment 525 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 102
Recital 102
(102) It has been shown that well- functioning dDeposit and return systems may ensure a very high collection rate, especially of beverage bottles and cans. In order to support the achievement of the separate collection target for single use plastic beverage bottles laid down in Directive (EU) 2019/904 and to further drive high collection rates of metal beverages containers, it is appropriate that Member States may establish deposit and return systems. Those systems willmay contribute to the increase of the supply of good quality secondary raw material suitable for closed loop recycling and reduce beverage containers litter.
Amendment 526 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 102
Recital 102
(102) It has been shown that well- functioning deposit and return systems ensure a very high collection rate, especially of beverage bottles and cans. In order to support the achievement of the separate collection target for single use plastic beverage bottles laid down in Directive (EU) 2019/904 and to further drive high collection rates of metal beverages containers, it is appropriate that Member StatesMember States should consider establishing deposit and return systems. Those systems willould contribute to the increase of the supply of good quality secondary raw material suitable for closed loop recycling and reduce beverage containers litter.
Amendment 533 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 103
Recital 103
(103) Deposit and return systems should be obligatory for single use plastic beverage bottles and metal beverage containers. Member States might also decide to include other packaging in these systems, in particular single use glass bottles, and should ensure that deposit and return systems for single-use packaging formats, in particular for single use glass beverage bottles, are equally available for reusable packaging, where technically and economically feasible. They should consider establishing deposit and return systems also for reusable packaging. In such situations, a Member State should be allowed, while observing the general rules laid down in the Treaty and complying with the provisions set out in this Regulation, adopt provisions which go beyond the minimum requirements set out in this Regulation.
Amendment 556 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 117 a (new)
Recital 117 a (new)
(117a) Separate collection out of homes is an important enabler for the increase of packaging collection rates, supporting packaging circularity. Member States should take specific measures to facilitate separate out-of-home collection.
Amendment 575 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes requirements for the entire life cycle of packaging as regards environmental sustainability and labelling, to allow its placing on the market, as well as for the extended producer responsibility, prevention, collection, treatment and recycling of packaging waste.
Amendment 668 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 29 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 29 a (new)
(29a) 'traceability’ means the ability to trace and follow a food, feed, food- producing animal or substance intended to be, or expected to be incorporated into a food or feed, through all stages of production, processing and distribution;
Amendment 728 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 37
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 37
(37) ‘innovative packaging’ means a form of packaging that is manufactured using new materialand innovative materials and polymers, design or production processes, resulting in a significant improvement in the functions of packaging, such as containment, protection, handling, delivery or presentation of products, and in demonstrable environmental benefits, such as in end-of-life treatment, with the exception of packaging that is the result of modification of existing packaging for the sole purpose of improved presentation of products and marketing;
Amendment 753 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 41
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 41
(41) ‘compostable packaging’ means packaging capable of undergoing physical, chemical, thermal or biological decomposition such that most of the finished compost ultimately decomposes into carbon dioxide, mineral salts, biomass and water, according to Article 47(4), and does not hinder the separate collection and the composting process or activity into which it is introduced in industrially controlled conditions in accordance with European harmonised standards for packaging recoverable through composting and anaerobic digestion;
Amendment 830 #
2022/0396(COD)
2a. Paper and cardboard food packaging containing per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFASs) shall not be placed on the market.
Amendment 838 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. Recyclability requirements established in delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 6(5) shall not restrict the presence of substances in packaging or packaging components for reasons relating primarily related to chemical safety unless there is an unacceptable risk to human health or to the environment arising from the use of a substance in the manufacturing of a packaging or packaging component, or from a substance present in a packaging or packaging component when it is placed on the market or during the subsequent stages of its life cycle. They shall address, as appropriate, substances of concern that have a negatively affect impact on the re-use, sorting and recycling of materials in the packaging in which they are present, and shall, as appropriate, identify the specific substances concerned and their associated criteria and limitations associated with them.
Amendment 861 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. All packagingFrom 1 January 2030, all packaging placed on the market shall be recyclable.
Amendment 905 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Points (a) to (d) shall apply from5 years after the date of entry into force of the delegated act referred to in paragraph 4 and no earlier than 1 January 2030 and p. Point (e) shall apply from 1 January 20355 years after the date of entry into force of the delegated act referred to in paragraph 6 and in any case no earlier than 5 years after the application of point (a).
Amendment 928 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. Recyclable packaging shall, from 1 January 2030, comply with the design for recycling criteria as laid down in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to paragraph 4 and, from 1 January 2035Five years after the date of entry into force of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 4 and in any case no earlier than 1 January 2030, recyclable packaging shall comply with the design for recycling criteria as laid down in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to paragraph 4. Five years after the date of entry into force of the delegated act referred to in paragraph 6 and in any case no earlier than 5 years after the application of point (a) of paragraph 2, also with the recyclability at scale requirements laid down in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to paragraph 6. Where such packaging complies with those delegated acts, it shall be considered to comply with paragraph 2, points (a) and (e).
Amendment 956 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58, in consultation with the Packaging Forum established under Article 12 bis, to supplement this Regulation in order to establish design for recycling criteria and recycling performance grades based on the criteria and parameters listed in Table 2 of Annex II for packaging categories listed in Table 1 of that Annex, as well as rules concerning the modulation of financial contributions to be paid by producers to comply with their extended producer responsibility obligations set out in Article 40(1), based on the packaging recycling performance grade, and for plastic packaging, the percentage of recycled content. Design-for-recycling criteria shall consider state of the art collection, sorting and recycling processes and shall cover all packaging components.
Amendment 980 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
From 1 January 2030,ive years after the adoption of the delegated act laying down design for recycling criteria pursuant to paragraph 4 packaging shall not be considered recyclable if it corresponds to performance grade E under the design for recycling criteria established in the delegated act adopted pursuant to paragraph 4 for the packaging category, to which the packaging belongs.
Amendment 1034 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Where technically feasible, Member States shall, especially through design of schemes established in compliance with Art. 40 and 44, prioritise recycling of recyclable packaging in closed loops, whereby producers obliged with recycled content targets benefit from preferential access to the material derived from their effectively recycled packaging
Amendment 1067 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 10 – point c a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 10 – point c a (new)
(ca) contact-sensitive plastic packaging of foods intended for infants and young children and food for special medical purposes covered by Regulation (EU) No 609/2013.
Amendment 1075 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 10 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. By 1 January 2034, the Commission shall assess the need to review the derogation established under paragraph 10. This assessment shall take into account the available scientific guidelines of the relevant regulatory authorities, the state of scientific and technical progress, and the availability and prices of recyclable materials. On that basis and after consultation with relevant stakeholders, the Commission shall present, if appropriate, a legislative proposal.
Amendment 1100 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. From 1 January 2030, the plastic part in packaging shall contain the following minimum percentage of recycled content recovered from post-consumer plastic waste, per unit of packaging as an average of their portfolio of plastic packaging placed on the Union market:
Amendment 1159 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. From 1 January 2040, the plastic part in packaging shall contain the following minimum percentage of recycled content recovered from post-consumer plastic waste, per unit of packagingas an average of their portfolio of plastic packaging placed on the Union market:
Amendment 1231 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States shall ensure that comprehensive collection and sorting infrastructures are in place to guarantee the availability of recycled content.
Amendment 1243 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6
Article 7 – paragraph 6
6. By 1 January 2030, the financial contributions paid by producers to comply with their extended producer responsibility obligations as laid down in Article 40 shall be modulated based on the percentage of recycled content or bio-based content used in the packaging.
Amendment 1260 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 7
Article 7 – paragraph 7
7. By 31 December 2026, the Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts establishing the methodology for the calculation and verification of the percentage of recycled content recovered from post-consumer plastic waste, per unit of plastic packagingas an average of its portfolio of plastic packaging placed on the Union market, and the format for the technical documentation referred to in Annex VII. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 59(3).
Amendment 1281 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. To achieve the targets set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article, producers subjected to recyled content targets shall benefit from a right of preferential access to a proportionate share of the recycled materials recovered from the pre- and post-consumer plastic waste derived from the packaging they put on the market. The schemes described in article 40, paragraph 1 and in article 44 shall be designed accordingly.
Amendment 1331 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 11 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. By 31 December 2026, the Commission shall publish a report assessing: (a) the possibility to introduce bio-based feedstock targets for plastic packaging, considering their potential contribution to meet the targets set out in Article 7(1) and (2); (b) sustainability requirements for bio- based feedstock;the Commission shall consider the existing sustainable criteria laid down in Article 29 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 when assessing requirements for non-fossil bio-based feedstock. 2. Based on the assessment set out in the report referred to in paragraph 1, the Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 to supplement this Regulation in order to: (a) establish bio-based targets used in plastic packaging towards achievements of the recycled content targets under Article 7(1) and (2); (b) establish sustainability requirements for bio-based feedstocks to be eligible to contribute towards the targets.
Amendment 1343 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. By [OP: please insert the date = 24 months from the entry into force of this Regulation], packaging referred to in Article 3(1), points (f) and (g), sticky labels attached to fruit and vegetables and, very lightweight plastic carrier bags, bags for fruits and vegetables or for other food sold loose, required for hygiene reasons or where it is demonstrated that contribute to prevent food waste, shall be compostable in industrially controlled conditions in bio-waste treatment facilities.
Amendment 1370 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Where appropriate waste collection schemes and waste treatment infrastructure are available to ensure that packaging referred to in paragraph 1compostable packaging enters the organic waste management stream, Member States are empowered to require that lightweight plastic carrier bags, and any other packaging compliant with the requirements listed in Annex III, shall be made available on their market for the first time only if it can be demonstrated that those lightweight plastic carrier bags have been entirely manufactured from biodegradable plastic polymers, whichand other packaging are compostable in industrially controlled conditions.
Amendment 1376 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3
Article 8 – paragraph 3
3. By [OP: Please insert the date = 24 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation], packaging other than that referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, including packaging made of biodegradcompostable plastic polymers, shall allow material recycling without affecting the recyclability of other wastemay be placed on the market if compliant with criteria listed in Annex III, where appropriate waste collection schemes and waste treatment infrastructure are available to ensure that compostable plastic packaging enters the bio-waste waste management streams.
Amendment 1388 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. The Commission shall, no later than 31 May 2026, request the European standardisation organisations to update the harmonised standard on the requirements for packaging recoverable through composting and biodegradation - test schemes and evaluation criteria. This standard shall consider the composting times, admissible levels of visual contamination and other requirements needed to reflect the actual conditions in the bio-waste treatment facilities, including anaerobic digestion processes, in line with the scientific and technological developments.
Amendment 1407 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. Packaging shall be designed so that its weight and volume is reduced to the minimum necessary for ensuring its functionalitys, as laid down in Article 3 paragraph 1, taking account of the material that the packaging is made of.
Amendment 1418 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. Packaging not necessary to comply with any of the performance criteria set out in Annex IV and packaging with characteristics that are only aimed to increase the perceived volume of the product, including double walls, false bottoms, and unnecessary layers, shall not be placed on the market, unless the packaging design is subject to geographical indications of origin and/or intellectual property right protected under Union legislation.
Amendment 1594 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12 a (new)
Article12a Packaging Forum The Commission shall ensure that when it conducts its activities, it observes a balanced participation of Member States’ representatives and all interested parties involved with packaging industry, including waste treatment industry representatives, manufacturers and packaging suppliers, distributers, retailers, importers, SMEs, environmental protection groups and consumer organisations. These parties shall contribute in particular to preparing the delegated and implementing acts provided for in this Regulation to develop and further detail the sustainability requirements and examining the effectiveness of the established market surveillance mechanisms. To that end, the Commission shall establish an expert group, in which those parties shall meet, referred to as the ‘Packaging Forum’.
Amendment 1703 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 1
Article 22 – paragraph 1
1. EWithout prejudice to traceability requirements laid down in Article 18 of the Regulation n. 178/2002 1a,economic operators shall not place on the market packaging in the formats and for the purposes listed in Annex V. _________________ 1a Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 31, 1.2.2002).
Amendment 1723 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 in order to suplement the provisions laid down in point 2 of Annex V. The Commission shall consider the list of fresh fruit and vegetables laid down in part IX of Annex I of Regulation No 1308/20131aand assess where the restriction on the market of the packaging in the format and for the purposes listed in point 2 of Annex V would create water loss or turgidity loss, microbiological hazards or physical shocks. In this regards the Commisison should take into consideration the provisions laid down in Article 76 of Regulation No 1308/2013 _________________ 1a Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 347)
Amendment 1725 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Without prejudice to Article 8 of this Regulation, economic operators shall not place on the market packaging in the formats and for the purposes listed in point 2 of Annex V as of 18 months after the adoption of the delegated act laid down in paragraph 2b
Amendment 1726 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Amendment 1740 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, economic operators are allowed to place on the market packaging in the formats and for the purposes listed in annex V when, by 2025, the Member State in which they place the packaging on the market has attained the recycling target of the respective packaging material set for 2030, as required under article 46(1) point (d);
Amendment 1741 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, economic operators are allowed to place on the market packaging in the formats and for the purposes listed in Annex V when such packaging corresponds to performance grade B or above, under the design for recycling criteria established for the packaging category to which it belongs
Amendment 1752 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 4
Article 22 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 to amend Annex V in order to adapt it to technical and scientific progress with the objective to reducing packaging waste. When adopting those delegated acts,By [OP: Please insert the date = 8 years after the date of entry into force of this Regulation] the Commission shall consider the potential of the restrictions on the use of specific packaging formats to reduce the packaging waste generated while ensuring an overall positive environmental impact, and shall take into account the availability of alternative packaging solutions that meet requirements set out in legislation applicable to contact sensitive packaging, as well as their capability to prevent microbiological contamination of the packaged product. To that end, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, accompanied, if the Commission finds it appropriate, by a legislative proposal.
Amendment 1807 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Amendment 1837 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 3
Article 26 – paragraph 3
Amendment 1873 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. The manufacturer and the final distributor making available on the market within the territory of a Member State in sales packaging alcoholic beverages in the form of beer, carbonated alcoholic beverages, fermented beverages other than wine, aromatised wine products and fruit wine, products based on spirit drinks, wine or other fermented beverages mixed with beverages, soda, cider or juice, shall ensure that:
Amendment 1887 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 5
Article 26 – paragraph 5
Amendment 1909 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. The obligation laid down in paragraph 4 does not apply to packaging for wines, aromatized wine products and spirituous beverages as defined by the nomenclature codes: ex 2204 Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines;grape must other than that of heading 2009; ex 2205 Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances; ex 2208 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages;
Amendment 1922 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. The manufacturer and the final distributor making available on the market within the territory of a Member State in sales packaging non- alcoholic beverages in the form of water, water with added sugar, water with other sweetening matter, flavoured water, soft drinks, soda lemonade, iced tea and similar beverages which are immediately ready to drink, pure juice, juice or must of fruits or vegetables and smoothies without milk and non- alcoholic beverages containing milk fat, shall ensure that:
Amendment 2061 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 12 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. The packaging design subject to geographical indications of origin protected under Union legislation shall not comply with paragraphs 4 and 6 of this Article.
Amendment 2110 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 15 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Member States will be exempted from the obligation under paragraph 2, 3, 4 and 6 under the following conditions: (a) the rate of separate collection as required under Article 43(3), (4) (4b) of the respective packaging format as reported to the Commission under Article 50(1) point (c) is above 90 % by weight of such packaging placed on the market on the territory of that Member State in the calendar years 2026 and 2027. Where such reporting has not yet been submitted to the Commission, the Member State shall provide a reasoned justification, based on validated national data, and description of the implemented measures, that the conditions for the exemption set out in this paragraph are fulfilled; (b) at the latest 24 months before the deadline laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article, the Member State notifies the Commission of its request for exemption and submits an implementation plan showing a strategy with concrete actions, including timeline that ensure the achievement of the 90 % separate collection rate by weight of the packaging
Amendment 2113 #
2022/0396(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 15 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Economic operators shall be exempted from the obligation to meet the targets in paragraphs 2 to 6 if the use of recyclable single-use packaging within the meaning of article 6 is environmentally preferable to the use of reusable packaging on the basis of a life cycle assessment, in line with the waste hierarchy as defined in article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC, and without prejudice to requirements on health, hygiene and safety, including product safety.
Amendment 470 #
2022/0345(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The Commission shall adopt an implementing act establishing concentration and minimum percentage of reduction values for E. Coli by [12 months after the entry into force of the Directive] in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 28 to ensure a uniform application of this Directive.
Amendment 1396 #
2022/0345(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – Section D – Table 1
Annex I – Section D – Table 1
Table 1:Requirements for discharges from urban waste water treatment plants subject to Articles 64 of the Directive. The values for concentration or for the percentage of reduction shall apply. Parameters Concentration Minimum Reference method of percentage of measurement reduction[1] Biochemical 25 mg/l O22 70-90 Homogenized, unfiltered, oxygen demand 40 under Article 4 undecanted sample. (BOD5 at 20 °C) (2) Determination of dissolved without oxygen before and after fiveday nitrification2 (see incubation at 20 °C ± 1 °C, (see Note 1) in complete darkness. Addition of a nitrification inhibitor Chemical oxygen 125 mg/l O22 75 75 Homogenized, unfiltered, demand (COD) undecanted sample Potassium (See Note 2) dichromate Total Organic 37 mg/l 75 75 EN 1484 Carbon (See Note 2) Total suspended 35 mg/l3 (see Note 3) 904 (see Note 3) 1 2. Filtering of a solids representative sample through a 0,45 μm filter membrane. Drying at 105 °C and weighing 23. Centrifuging of a representative sample (for at least five mins with mean acceleration of 2800 to 3200 g), drying at 105 °C and weighing new weighing E. coli (See note 4) (See note 4) EN ISO 9308-2, EN ISO 9308-3, or alternative approved methods. Note 1: The parameter can be replaced by another parameter: total organic carbon (TOC) or total oxygen demand (TOD) if a relationship can be established between BOD5 and the substitute parameter. Note 2: Member States shall measure either the Chemical oxygen demand (COD) or the Total Organic Carbon. Note 3: This requirement is optional. Note 34: ThisMinimum requirement is optional. s to concentration and percentage reduction will be established in a delegated act adopted by the Commission in accordance with Article 6 (2bis) by (12 months after the entry into force of the Directive).
Amendment 37 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Asbestos is a highly dangerous carcinogenic agent, still affecting different economic sectors, such as building and renovation, mining and quarrying, waste management and firefighting, where workers are at high risk of being exposed. Asbestos fibres are classified as carcinogens 1A according to Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council5 and are by far the major cause of work-related cancer, with as much as 78% of occupational cancers recognised in the Member States as being related to asbestos. When inhaled, airborne asbestos fibres can lead to serious diseases such as mesothelioma and lung cancer, and the first signs of disease may take an average of 30 years to manifest from the moment of exposure, ultimately leading to work- related deaths. __________________ 5 Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (Text with EEA relevance)OJ L 353, 31.12.2008, p. 1.
Amendment 39 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Following the new scientific and technological developments in the area, there is scope to improve the protection of workers exposed to asbestos and thus to reduce the probability of workers contracting asbestos-related diseases. For asbestos, being a non-threshold carcinogen, it is not scientifically possible to identify levels below which exposure would not lead to adverse health effects. Instead, an exposure-risk relationship (ERR) can be derived, facilitating the setting of an occupational exposure limit (‘OEL’) by taking into account an acceptable level of excess risk. As a consequence, the OEL for asbestos should be revised in order to reduce the risk by lowering exposure levels.
Amendment 42 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) The concept of ‘sporadic and low intensity exposure’ is a non-science-based concept. As a result, it can not apply to a non-threshold carcinogen like asbestos, nor can it be used as a basis that justifies any exemptions from the protection measures laid down in this Directive;
Amendment 43 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 b (new)
Recital 4 b (new)
(4b) In the context of health and safety at work, state-of-the-art technology must always be applied to achieve the highest possible level of protection. Technical minimum requirements need to lower the concentration of asbestos fibres in the air to the lowest level technically possible, including through dust suppression and the suction of dust at the source, continuous sedimentation, and means of decontamination, combined with minimum requirements for the pressure difference between asbestos enclosures and surroundings, fresh air supply and HEPA filters;
Amendment 44 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 c (new)
Recital 4 c (new)
(4c) Passive exposure to asbestos, occupational and non-occupational, can have significant impacts on human health. Women are particularly vulnerable to certain kinds of passive asbestos exposure. There are different types of non-occupational exposure to asbestos, whether para-occupational (including exposure to asbestos dust inadvertently carried home by workers), domestic (including household objects containing asbestos), or environmental (including materials existing in buildings and installations or of industrial origin);
Amendment 46 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Asbestos should be kept out of the circular economy to protect workers from unknowingly reusing dangerous materials. Life-cycle-management of building materials is an important part of the circular economy in the framework of the New EU Circular Economy Action Plan;
Amendment 51 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The limit value for asbestos set out in Directive 2009/148/EC should be revised in the light of the Commission’s evaluations and recent scientific evidence and technical data. Its revision is also an effective way to ensure that preventive and protective measures are updated accordinglyStrengthened preventive and protective measures are needed to implement such a revision of the limit value in all Member States.
Amendment 55 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) asbestos is a non-threshold carcinogenic and the European Parliament voted in Resolution 2019/2182 (INL) to lower the maximum exposure limit for workers at 0.001 fibres per cm3 (1000 fibres per m3), in line both with the Opinion of the European Chemical Agency and with the precautionary principle which should be guiding policy makers in matters related to public heath.
Amendment 56 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Optical microscopy, although it does not allow a counting of the smallest fibres detrimental to health, is currently the most used method for the regular measuring of asbestos. As it is possible to measure an OEL equal to 0.01 f/cm³ with phase-contrast microscope (PCM), no transition period is needed for the implementation of the revised OEL. In line with the opinion of the ACSH, a more modern and sensitive methodology based on electron microscopy should be used, while taking into account the need for an adequate period of adaptation and for more EU level harmonisation of different electron microscopy methodologies. In light of the fact that thinner asbestos fibres (<0,2μm) are also carcinogenic those fibres should be taken into account when measuring exposure in the workplace. Electron microscopy, which allows the detection of such thinner asbestos fibres should be used for that purpose. The Commission should support and facilitate Member States with regard to the new methodology for measuring asbestos fibres, in particular through the development of guidelines and providing information on relevant Union funds which can be used for that purpose.
Amendment 58 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Special control measures and precautions are needed for workers exposed or likely to be exposed to asbestos, such as sto lower the concentration of asbestos fibres in the air to as low a level as is technically possible below the limit value. Subjecting workers to a decontamination procedure and related training,strengthening the related training requirements are important elements in order to significantly contribute to reducing the risks related to such exposure. In order to ensure a level playing field, an annex to this Directive should provide for minimum training requirements, including specific requirements for workers in specialised asbestos removal undertakings.
Amendment 66 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15a) The safe removal and disposal of asbestos-containing materials should be a priority, because repair, maintenance, encapsulation or sealing only lead to the postponement of the removal, which can perpetuate the risks for inhabitants and workers for many years. The encapsulation and sealing of asbestos- containing materials which can technically be removed should be prohibited, while not putting poorer households at a disadvantage because of their inability to afford necessary renovations. Appropriate accompanying measures are therefore needed. In that regard, the Union provides significant funding, in particular through the Recovery and Resilience Facility, to be used to support national measures for the removal of asbestos in the context of renovations. Where asbestos is not removed, the relevant structures should be identified, registered and regularly monitored;
Amendment 75 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 b (new)
Recital 15 b (new)
(15b) There is a need to provide sufficient and focused administrative support to help employers, in particular microenterprises and small and medium- sized enterprises, implement this Directive. In particular, standardised processes for the removal of asbestos- containing materials would help to reduce the levels of asbestos dust, the cost of those operations and facilitate the fulfilment of the notification requirements.
Amendment 76 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 c (new)
Recital 15 c (new)
(15c) Directive 2009/148/EC should be regularly updated to take into account the latest scientific knowledge and technical developments including an evaluation of different types of asbestos fibres and their adverse health effects. The Commission should start by entry into force of this Directive the consultation process for updating the provisions on fibrous silicates and, in that context, should in particular assess whether riebeckite, winchite, richterite and fluoro-edenite should be included within the scope of that Directive.
Amendment 77 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 d (new)
Recital 15 d (new)
(15d) In order to keep pace with technological developments, the Commission should, by ...[five years after the entry into force of this Directive] and every five years thereafter, after consulting the social partners, review the technological and scientific information on asbestos identification, measurement and warning technology and should issue guidelines where such technology is to be used in order to protect workers from exposure to asbestos. A more systematic exchange between Member States of best practices should also be established for that purpose;
Amendment 80 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 2 – introductory phrase
Article 2 – introductory phrase
For the purposes of this Directive, ‘asbestos’ means the following fibrous silicates, which are meeting the criteria for classifiedcation as carcinogens 1A or 1B according to Regulation (EC) 1272/2008*:
Amendment 81 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 2 – point f a (new)
Article 2 – point f a (new)
(fa) erionite, CAS 66733-21-9 and CAS 66733-21-9;
Amendment 83 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
(2a) Article 3, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: "This Directive shall apply to all activities in which workers are or may be exposed knowingly or unknowingly in the course of their work to dust arising from asbestos or materials containing asbestos. " Or. en (32009L0148)
Amendment 85 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Amendment 88 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 c (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 c (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Amendment 90 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 d (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 d (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 93 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 e (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 e (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 94 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) work processes shall be designed so as not to produce asbestos dust or, if that proves impossible, to avoid the release of asbestos dust into the air to a level as low as technically possible by implementing at least the following measures: (i) asbestos dust suppression; (ii) the suction of asbestos dust at the source; (iii) the continuous sedimentation of asbestos fibres suspended in the air; (iv) appropriate decontamination;
Amendment 95 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
(3a) In Article 7, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following "Depending on the results of the initial risk assessment, and in order to ensure compliance with the limit value laid down in Article 8, measurement of asbestos fibres in the air at the workplace shall be carried out regularly. during the specific operational phases and at regular intervals during the work process;" Or. en (32009L0148)
Amendment 97 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
(5a) Article 10, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: "1. Where the limit value laid down in Article 8 is exceeded, tor if there is reason to believe that asbestos-containing materials which are not identified prior to the work have been disturbed so as to generate dust, work shall stop immediately. The reasons for the limit being exceeded mustshall then be identified and appropriate measures to remedy the situation must be taken as soon as possible. Work mayshall not be continued in the affected area until adequate measures have been taken for the protection of the workers concerned. " Or. en (32009L0148)
Amendment 99 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 a (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
(6a) In Article 12 paragraph 1, the introductory part is replaced by the following: "In the case of certain activities such as demolition, asbestos removal work, repairing and maintenance, in respect of which it is foreseeable that the limit value set out in Article 8 will be exceeded despite the use of all possible technical preventive measures for limiting asbestos in air concentrations, the employer shall determine the measures intended to ensure protection of the workers while they are engaged in such activities, in particular the following: " Or. en (32009L0148)
Amendment 101 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 b (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Amendment 102 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 c (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 c (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
(6c) Article 16, paragraph 1, introductory part is replaced by following "1. In the case of all activities referred to in Article 3(1), and subject to Article 3(3), appropriate measures shall be taken to ensure that: " Or. en (32009L0148)
Amendment 105 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 d (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 d (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Amendment 106 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 e (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 e (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Amendment 107 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 f (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 f (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
(6f) Article 18, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: "An individual health record shall be established and kept for a minimum of 40 years in accordance with national laws and/or practices for each worker referred to in the first subparagraph. " Or. en (32009L0148)
Amendment 108 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 g (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 g (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 18 b a (new)
Article 18 b a (new)
Amendment 109 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 h (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6 h (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Amendment 114 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
(7a) Article 21, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: "Member States shall keep a register of all recognised cases of asbestosis and mesothelioma. -related occupational diseases. An indicative list of diseases that can be caused by asbestos exposure is set out in Annex I." Or. en (32009L0148)
Amendment 117 #
2022/0298(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 b (new)
Directive 2009/148/EC
Article 21 a (new)
Article 21 a (new)
Amendment 2264 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Amendment 2274 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 21 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. An aerial application by anof plant protection products by certain categories of unmanned aircraft may be exemptshould be allowed byon the Member State from the prohibition laid down in Article 20(1) where factors relabasis of specific requirements set out in delegated acts to be adopted toby the use of the unmanned aircraft demonstrate that the risks from its use are lower than the risks arising from other aerial Commission within 12 months of the entry into force of this Regulation. In setting those requiprement and land-based application equipment. These factors shall include criteria relating tos, the Commission shall, in particular, take account of the following criteria:
Amendment 2687 #
2022/0196(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 a (new)
Article 36 a (new)
Article 36a Provisions to create a new toolbox of low- risk plant protection products and the requisite funds Within 6 months of the publication of this Regulation, the Commission shall, by means of delegated acts, present a proposal on methodologies and processes to speed up the authorisation of plant protection products that will make it possible to phase out and replace the most hazardous active substances. In particular, in the light of the precautionary principle, the Commission shall adopt a substitution criterion to balance the release of plant protection products with the adoption of new active substances. The Commission shall also propose new harmonised criteria for the use of best available techniques. With a view to the successful creation of a new toolbox of low-risk plant protection products, the Commission shall also propose to the Member States that a common EU fund be established to finance and accelerate research into alternatives to chemical and more hazardous plant protection products.
Amendment 154 #
2022/0099(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13 a) In order to ensure coherence with Union policy and a high level of protection of human health and the environment, and given the availability of non-toxic alternatives, the use of fluorinated greenhouse gases that are also PFAS, whose production produces PFAS or decompose into PFAS should be prohibited.
Amendment 169 #
2022/0099(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21 a) The removal of the exemption for metered dose inhalers provides an incentive for the pharmaceutical sector to continue with the transition to low-GWP solutions. This incentive must be strengthened by removing low-GWP gases with medical uses from the scope of this regulation. Ensuring continued patient access to life-saving medicines should remain the imperative. Safeguards need to be put in place to pre-empt any shortage of such medicines and unintended consequence on public health;
Amendment 170 #
2022/0099(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 b (new)
Recital 21 b (new)
Amendment 342 #
2022/0099(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The placing on the market of products and equipment, including parts thereof, listed in Annex IV, with an exemption for military equipment, shall be prohibited from the date specified in that Annex, differentiating, where applicable, according to the type or global warming potential of the gas contained.
Amendment 602 #
2022/0099(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 11
Annex IV – point 11
1 January -that contain HFCs with GWP of 2 500 or more. (11) Refrigerators and 2020 2020 (11) Refrigerators and freezers for commercial use 1 January (self-contained -that contain HFCs with GWP of 150 or more. (self-contained 2022 equipment) 1 January -that contain other fluorinated greenhouse gases with. 1 January GWP of 150 or more. 2024
Amendment 612 #
2022/0099(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 12
Annex IV – point 12
(12) Any stationary self-contained refrigeration equipment that contains fluorinated 1 January fluorinated greenhouse gases with GWP of 150 or more.. 2025 4
Amendment 628 #
2022/0099(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 17
Annex IV – point 17
(17) Plug-in room and other self-contained “room air-conditioning and heat pump 1 January equipment that contain fluorinated greenhouse gases with GWP of 150 orequipment” 1 January which is moveable by the end user that contain fluorinated greenhouse gases 2025 with GWP of 150 or more.
Amendment 639 #
2022/0099(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 18 – point a
Annex IV – point 18 – point a
(a) Single split systems and fixed double duct appliances containing less than 3 kg of fluorinated greenhouse gases 1 January listed in Annex I, that contain, or whose 1 January functioning relies upon, fluorinated 2025 greenhouse gases listed in Annex I with 2025 GWP of 750 or more;
Amendment 203 #
2022/0095(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) To ensure the effective roll-out of the product passport, technical design, data requirements and operation of the product passport should adhere to a set of essential technical requirements. Such requirements should provide a basis for the consistent deployment of the product passport across sectors. Technical specifications should be established to ensure the effective implementation of those essential requirements, either in the form of harmonised standard referenced in the Official Journal or, as a fall-back option, common specification adopted by the Commission. The technical design should ensure that the product passport carries data in a secure way, respecting privacy rules The digital product passport will be developed in an open dialogue with international partners, in order to take account of their views when developing technical specifications and to ensure that they help remove trade barriers for greener products andwith extended lifecycles and circularity, lower costs for sustainable investments, marketing and compliance and supporting innovation. Technical specifications and requirements related to traceability across the value chain should, in order to allow for their effective implementation, to the extent possible be developed based on a consensual approach and on the involvement, buy-in, and effective collaboration of a diverse set of actors, including standardisation bodies, industry associations, startups, consumer organisations, experts, NGOs and international partners, including developing economies.
Amendment 204 #
2022/0095(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) Any processing of personal data pursuant to this Regulation should comply with the applicable rules on the protection of personal data. Processing of personal data by the competent national authorities within Member States should be carried out in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council66 with particular attention being paid to the principles of data protection by design and by default. Processing of personal data by the Commission should be carried out in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council67 . __________________ 66 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1). 67 Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).
Amendment 812 #
2022/0095(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) it shall be connected through a data carrier to a unique product identifier; which shall identify the product, independently of any product passport’s identifier and of any internet domain name.
Amendment 872 #
2022/0095(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Amendment 1020 #
2022/0095(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) not provide or display other labels, marks, symbols or inscriptions that are likely to mislead or confuse customers with respect to the information included on the label by mimicking mandatory labels or providing information contradicting or not consistent with mandatory labels.
Amendment 1045 #
2022/0095(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 31 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) collecting the in-use data if it can be accessed remotely via the internet, unless the end-user expressly refuses following explicit consent by the end-user in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 to make thate data available;
Amendment 1073 #
2022/0095(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 59 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 59 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In order to carry out market surveillance in relation to this Regulation and the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4, Member States shall ensure that their market surveillance authorities have the necessary resources, including sufficient budgetary and other resources, such as a sufficient number of competent personnel, expertise, procedures and other arrangements for the proper performance of their duties
Amendment 210 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Equality between women and men and non-discrimination are core values of the Union and fundamental rights enshrined, respectively, in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union and in Articles 21 and 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’). Violence against women and domestic violence endanger these very principles, undermining women and girls’ rights to equality in all areas of life and preventing the full advancement of women, girls and our societies as a whole.
Amendment 226 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) This Directive should apply to criminal conduct which amounts to violence against women or domestic violence, as criminalised under Union or national law. This includes the criminal offences defined in this Directive, namely rape, female genital mutilation, the non- consensual sharing of intimate or manipulated material, cyber stalking, cyber harassment, cyber incitement to violence or hatred and criminal conduct covered by other Union instruments, in particular Directives 2011/36/EU36 and 2011/93/EU37 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which define criminal offences concerning the sexual exploitation of children and trafficking of human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Lastly, certain criminal offences under national law fall under the definition of violence against women. This includes crimes such as femicide, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, stalking, early and forced marriage, forced abortion, forced sterilisation and different forms of cyber violence, such as online sexual harassment, cyber bullying or the unsolicited receipt of sexually explicit material. Domestic violence is a form of violence which may be specifically criminalised under national law or covered by criminal offences which are committed within the family or domestic unit or between former or current spouses or partners irrespective of whether they shared housing or not. _________________ 36 Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims, OJ L 101, 15.4.2011, p. 1–11. 37 Directive 2011/93/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA, OJ L 335, 17.12.2011, p. 1– 14.
Amendment 249 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Due to their vulnerability, children who witness violence against women or domestic violence suffer a direct emotional harm, which impacts their development. Therefore, such children should be considered victims and benefit from targeted and specialised protection measures.
Amendment 261 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Violence against women is a violation of human rights, a major public health problem and is a persisting manifestation of structural discrimination against women, resulting from historically unequal power relations between women and men. It is a form of gender-based violence, which is inflicted primarily on women and girls, by men. It is rooted in the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men, generally referred to under the term ‘gender’.
Amendment 274 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In light of the specificities related to these types of crime it is necessary to lay down a comprehensive set of rules, which addresses the persisting problem of violence against women and domestic violence in a targeted manner and caters to the specific needs of victims of such violence. The existing provisions at Union and national levels have proven to be insufficient to effectively combat and prevent violence against women and domestic violence. In particular, Directives 2011/36/EU and 2011/93/EU concentrate on specific forms of such violence, while Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council38 lays down the general framework for victims of crime. While providing some safeguards for victims of violence against women and domestic violence, it is not set out to address their specific needs. The persisting gravity of the problem of violence against women and domestic violence in the Union, clearly shown by the fact that the existing provisions have proven to be insufficient and exacerbated by the lack of mechanisms with which the full implementation of current provisions would be advanced in combination with the specificities of those crimes, justifies treating victims of violence against women and domestic violence differently in comparison to victims of other crimes in the Union and justifies the specific measures introduced by this Directive. _________________ 38 Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA (OJ L 315, 14.11.2012, p. 57).
Amendment 302 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Victims of violence against women and domestic violence are at an increased risk of intimidation, retaliation, secondary and repeat victimisation. Particular attention should thus be paid to these risks and to the need to protect the dignity and physical integrity of such victims. Highlights that most of the time (67 %) the victim of sexual violence has had some previous acquaintance relation with the perpetrator and therefore, robust victim protection is needed in order to prevent further attacks6a. _________________ 6a https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra _uploads/fra-2014-vaw-survey-main- results-apr14_en.pdf page 49
Amendment 325 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Rape should explicitly include all types of sexual penetration, with any bodily part or object. The lack of consent should be a central and constitutive element of the definition of rape, given that frequently no physical violence or use of force is involved in its perpetration. Initial consent should be withdrawable at any given time during the act, in line with the sexual autonomy of the victim, and should not automatically imply consent for future acts. Non-consensual sexual penetration should constitute rape evenincluding where committed against a spouse or intimate partner.
Amendment 377 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Especially due to its tendency for easy, swift and broad distribution and perpetration, as well as its intimate nature, the non-consensual producing and/or making accessible of intimate images or videos and material that depict sexual activities, to a multitude ofother end-users, by means of information and communication technologies, can be very harmful for the victims. The offence provided for in this Directive should cover all types of such material, such as images, photographs and videos, including sexualized images, audio clips and video clips. It should relate to situations where the producing and/or making accessible of the material to a multitude ofother end-users, through information and communication technologies, occurs without the victim’s consent, irrespective of whether the victim consented to the generation of such material or may have transmitted it to a particular person. The offence should also include the non- consensual production or manipulation, for instance by image editing, of material that imitates intimate images or that makes it appear as though another person is engaged in sexual activities, insofar as the material is subsequently made accessible to a multitude ofother end-users, through information and communication technologies, without the consent of that person. Such production or manipulation should include the fabrication of ‘deepfakes’, where the material appreciably resembles an existing person, objects, places or other entities or events, depicting sexual activities of another person, and would falsely appear to others to be authentic or truthful. In the interest of effectively protecting victims of such conduct, threatening to engage in such conduct should be covered as well.
Amendment 401 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) Victims should be able to report crimes of violence against women or domestic violence easily without being subject to secondary or repeat victimisation. To this end, Member States should also provide the possibility to submit complaints online or through other information and communication technologies for the reporting of such crimes. Victims of cyber violence, next to in-person reporting. Reporting should facilitate victims in all their diversity, including, inter alia, ensuring disability access, easy and accessible routes for those who live in remote areas, access to those experiencing restrictions to electronic communication services, and providing support services to assist those who cannot read and persons in institutions. Victims should be able to upload materials relating to their report, such as screenshots of the alleged violent behaviour.
Amendment 408 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) In the case of domestic violence and violence against women, especially when committed by close family members or intimate partners, victims may be under such duress by the offender that they fear to reach out to the competent authorities, even if their lives are in danger. Therefore, Member States should ensure their confidentiality rules do not constitute an obstacle for relevant professionals, such as healthcare professionals, to report to the competent authorities, where they have reasonable grounds to believe that the life of the victim is at an imminent risk of serious physical harm. Such third party reporting is justified as a targeted measure for violence against women and domestic violence because such cases often occur in close relationships or family circumstances and may not be regarded as criminal acts and therefore not reported by those who experience or directly witness them. Similarly, instances of domestic violence or violence against women affecting children are often only intercepted by third parties noticing irregular behaviour or physical harm to the child. Children need to be effectively protected from such forms of violence and adequate measures promptly taken. Therefore, relevant professionals coming in contact with child victims or potential child victims, including healthcare or education professionals, should equally not be constrained by confidentiality where they have reasonable grounds to believe that serious acts of violence under this Directive have been committed against the child or further serious acts are to be expected. Where professionals report such instances of violence, Member States should ensure that they are not held liable for breach of confidentiality.
Amendment 445 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) Victims of violence against women and domestic violence are often in need of specific support. To ensure they effectively receive offers of support, the competent authorities should refer victims to appropriate support services. This should in particular be the case where an individual assessment has found particular support needs of the victim. In that case, support services should be able to reach out to the victim even without the victim’s consent, taking into consideration victim’s needs and preventing any further or secondary victimisation. The first agency the victim contact shall inform them about further support agencies, which could provide support tailored to their need. For the processing of related personal data by competent authorities, Member States should ensure that it is based on law, in accordance with Article 6(1)(c) read in conjunction with Article (6)(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council41 . Such laws should include appropriate personal data safeguards that respect the essence of the right to data protection and provide for suitable and specific measures to safeguard the fundamental rights and the interests of the individuals. Where competent authorities transfer victims’ personal data to support services for victims’ referral, they should ensure that the data transferred is limited to what is necessary to inform the services of the circumstances of the case, so that victims receive appropriate support and protection. _________________ 41 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance), (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1–88).
Amendment 466 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 36 a (new)
Recital 36 a (new)
Amendment 476 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 38
Recital 38
(38) Given the complexities and gravity of offences of violence against women and domestic violence and specific support needs of victims, Member States should ensure additional support and prevention of such offences is provided by designated bodies. Given their expertise in matters of discrimination on grounds of sex, national equality bodies, set up in accordance with Directives 2004/113/EC42 , 2006/54/EC43 and 2010/41/EU44 of the European Parliament and of the Council, are well placed to fulfil these tasks. Such bodies should in addition have legal standing to act on behalf or in support of victims of all forms of violence against women or domestic violence in judicial proceedings, including for the application for compensation and removal of online illegal content and securing of evidence, with the victims’ approval. This should include the possibility of acting on behalf or in support of several victims together. To enable these bodies to effectively carry out their tasks, Member States should ensure that they are provided with sufficient human and financial resources. _________________ 42 Council Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004 implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services, (OJ L 373, 21.12.2004, p. 37). 43 Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast), (OJ L204, 26.7.2006, p. 23). 44 Directive 2010/41/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on the application of the principle of equal treatment between men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity and repealing Council Directive 86/613/EEC, (OJ L 180, 15.7.2010, p. 1).
Amendment 494 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) Assistance and support to victims of violence against women and domestic violence should be made available and provided before, during and for an appropriate period after the criminal proceedings have ended, for example where medical treatment is still needed to address the severe physical or psychological consequences of the violence, or if the victim’s safety is at risk in particular due to the statements made by the victim in those proceedings. Assistance and support shall be available to victims regardless of whether criminal proceedings have been initiated.
Amendment 534 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 50
Recital 50
(50) The traumatic nature of sexual violence, including rape, requires a particularly sensitive response by trained and specialised staff. Victims of this type of violence need immediate medical care, comprehensive and long-lasting medical care, including sexual and reproductive healthcare as part of the clinical management of rape, emergency contraception, post-exposure prophylaxis and safe and legal abortion care and services, STI treatments and trauma support combined with immediate forensic examinations to collect the evidence needed for prosecution. Forensic examination shall be conducted as soon as the victim’s situation allows it, taking into account their trauma and mental health. Rape crisis centres or sexual violence referral centres should be available in sufficient numbers and adequately spread over the territory of each Member State. Similarly, victims of female genital mutilation, who are often girls, typically are in need of targeted support. Therefore, Member States should ensure they provide dedicated support tailored to these victims.
Amendment 552 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 52
Recital 52
(52) Member States should ensure that national helplines are operated under the EU-harmonised number [116016] and this number is widely advertised as a public number, free of charge and available round-the-clock. The helplines should be accessible to victims with disabilities and provide easy to understand information, including in different languages. The support provided should include crisis counselling and should be able to refer to face-to-face services, such as shelters, counselling centres or the police.
Amendment 562 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53
Recital 53
(53) Shelters play a vital role in protecting victims from acts of violence. Beyond providing a safe place to stay, shelters should provide the necessary support concerning interlocking problems related to victims’ health, financial situationincluding mental health, financial situation, basic legal advice and the well-being of their children, ultimately preparing victims for an autonomous life.
Amendment 588 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 56
Recital 56
(56) Victims with specific needs and groups at risk of violence against women or domestic violence, such as women in precarious socio-economic situations including from low and middle income countries and regions, women with disabilities, women with dependant residence status or permit, undocumented migrant women, women applicants for international protection, women fleeing armed conflict, women affected by homelessness, with a minority racial or ethnic background, living in rural areas, women sex workers, detainees, or older women, should receive specific protection and support.
Amendment 608 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 58
Recital 58
(58) Member States should ensure that preventive measures, such as awareness- raising campaigns, are taken to counter violence against women and domestic violence. Prevention should also take place in formal education, in particular, through strengthening sexuality and relationships education and socio-emotional competencies, empathy and developing healthy and respectful relationships.
Amendment 617 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 59 a (new)
Recital 59 a (new)
Amendment 627 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 61
Recital 61
(61) In order to counteract underreporting and prevent secondary victimisation, Member States should also liaise with law enforcement authorities in the development of trainings in particular regarding harmful gender stereotypes, but also in the prevention of offences, given their typical close contact with groups at risk of violence and victims and should involve specialist services and civil society organisations in law enforcement training, especially to target harmful stereotypes and misconceptions about sexual and domestic violence.
Amendment 650 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 64
Recital 64
(64) Policies to adequately tackle violence against women and domestic violence can only be formulated on the basis of comprehensive and comparable disaggregated data. In order to effectively monitor developments in the Member States and fill the gaps of comparable data, Member States should regularlyno less than every two years conduct surveys using the harmonised methodology of the Commission (Eurostat) to gather data and transmit these data to the Commission (Eurostat).
Amendment 675 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) prevention of violence against women and domestic or intimate violence
Amendment 715 #
2022/0066(COD)
(b) “domestic violence” means all acts of violence or coercive control that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological, social or economic harm or suffering, that occur within the family or domestic unit, irrespective of biological or legal family ties, or between former or current spouses or partners, whether or not the offender shares or has shared a residence with the victim;
Amendment 744 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h
Amendment 750 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
(ja) "secondary victimisation" occurs when the victim suffers further harm not as a direct result of the criminal act but due to the manner in which institutions and other individuals deal with the victim.
Amendment 816 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – title
Article 7 – title
7 Non-consensual sharing and producing of intimate or manipulated material
Amendment 829 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) production of intimate images without the consent of the depicted person;
Amendment 840 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) threatening to engage in the conduct referred to in points (a) and (b) in order to coerce another person to do, acquiesce or refrain from a certain act.
Amendment 861 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(c a) committing any other act by means of communication and information technologies that may cause psychological harm or financial damages to the victim.
Amendment 873 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) initiating an attack with third partiesor participating in an attack directed at another person, by making threatening or insulting material accessible to a multitude ofother end-users, by means of information and communication technologies, with the effect of causing significant psychological harm to the attacked person;
Amendment 878 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) the sending of unsolicited pornographic and/or intimate material by means of information and communication technologies;
Amendment 942 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(i a) the offence has led the victim to experience secondary victimisation;
Amendment 967 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 2
Article 15 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall take the necessary measures to provide for a limitation period for criminal offences referred to in Articles 5 and 6 of at least 20 years from the time when the offence was committed.
Amendment 969 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 3
Article 15 – paragraph 3
Amendment 1008 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 1114 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 2
Article 20 – paragraph 2
2. The competent authorities shall respond to requests for protection and support, in a timcluding medical care, without delay and in a coordinated manner.
Amendment 1142 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 3
Article 21 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that the competent authorities inform victims of the possibility to apply for emergency barring and restraining or protection orders, as well as the possibility to seek cross-border recognition of protection orders pursuant to Directive 2011/99/EU or Regulation (EU) No 606/2013. Member States shall ensure the use of electronic monitoring to secure the enforcement of emergency barring, restraining and protection orders, especially in cases where the offender faces suspended sentence, interim measures or any other similar measure ordered by the competent authorities while the offender awaits the final decision of the court on the charges brought against them.
Amendment 1150 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1
Article 22 – paragraph 1
Without prejudice to the rights of defence, Member States shall ensure that, in criminal investigations and court proceedings, questions, enquiries and evidence concerning past sexual and relationships history and conduct of the victim or other aspects of the victim’s private life related thereto including, where relevant, medical records and notes from counselling or therapy sessions, are not permitted.
Amendment 1229 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that victims and, if applicable, their dependents have the right to claim full compensation from offenders for damages resulting from all forms of violence against women or domestic violence.
Amendment 1238 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
The limitation period for bringing a claim for compensation shall be no less than 5 years from the time the offence has taken placebeen reported to the authorities.
Amendment 1240 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
In cases of sexual violence and female genital mutilation, the limitation period shall be no less than 120 years.
Amendment 1254 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) immediate gender-sensitive support, advice and information on any relevant legal or practical matters arising as a result of the crime, including on access to housing, education, training and assistance to remain in or find employment;
Amendment 1262 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) referrals to medical care, including sexual and reproductive healthcare, rape crisis centres, sexual violence referral centres and forensic examinations; ;
Amendment 1268 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) support to victims of cyber violence, including psychological support, advice on judicial remedies and, remedies to remove online content related to the crime and securing of evidence.
Amendment 1282 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 27 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. If the offence involves, directly or indirectly, the holder of parental responsibility, Member States should ensure that access to specialist support is not conditional upon this person's consent.
Amendment 1313 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 28 – paragraph 1
Article 28 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall provide for appropriately equipped, easily accessible rape crisis or sexual violence referral centres to ensure effective support to victims of sexual violence, including assisting in the preservation and documentation of evidence. These centres shall provide for medical care and forensic examinations, timely referral to other medical care, including sexual and reproductive healthcare as part of the clinical management of rape, trauma support and psychological counselling, after the offence has been perpetrated and for as long as necessary thereafter. Where the victim is a child, such services shall be provided in a child-friendly manner.
Amendment 1316 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 28 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 28 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall guarantee that victims of sexual violence have timely access to comprehensive healthcare services, including sexual and reproductive healthcare, safe and legal abortion care, emergency contraception, and screening and post-exposure prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections as well as other related and relevant medical procedures.
Amendment 1342 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 30 – title
Article 30 – title
30 Specialist support for victims of sexual harassment at, cyber violence and third-party violence in the world of work
Amendment 1346 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure, in consultation with the social partners, take measures to ensure that external counselling services and legal service are available for victims and employers in cases of sexual harassment at work or cyber violence and harassment at work. These services shall include advice on adequately addressing such instances at the workplace, on legal remedies available to the employer to remove the offender from the workplace and providing the possibility of early conciliation, if the victim so wishes. pending the outcome of dismissal procedure. The possibility of early conciliation should be available only if the victim so wishes. The costs of such counselling services and legal services shall be covered by the Member State or by the employer. 2. Member States shall ensure that victims of sexual harassment at work or cyber violence and harassment at work including victims of domestic violence shall be entitled to paid leave in order to attend counselling services and to paid leave of appropriate duration. Workers shall have the right to receive support and representation from their trade union, and to have access to information on available remedies and access to legal remedies. Trade union representatives shall be able to support workers in any relevant proceedings. 3. Member States shall ensure that employers take appropriate measures to prevent and address instances of sexual harassment, cyber violence and third- party violence at work. Employers must be prevented from direct and indirect discrimination of workers on the basis they have sought to vindicate their rights under this Directive, taken a claim, or being proved to be a victim of sexual harassment, domestic violence, cyber violence, and / or exposed to non- consensual sharing of intimate or manipulated material. 4. Member States shall ensure that undertakings (or group of undertakings) take, in consultation with trade unions and workers’ representatives, appropriate measures to prevent and address instances of sexual harassment, cyber violence and third-party violence at work, to provide a safe working environment and to support victims, within their own operations, the operations of their subsidiaries and third party operations with whom the undertaking or group of undertakings or its subsidiaries have entered into a license agreement or franchise agreement. 5. Undertakings or group of undertakings establish, where applicable through collective bargaining with trade unions, training programmes and policies to prevent and tackle sexual harassment, cyber violence and third-party violence at work and shall provide accessible and effective complaint mechanisms for victims. 6. Undertakings or group of undertakings shall apply the policy, training programme and complain mechanisms referred to in paragraph 5 to all workers employed throughout their own operations, the operations of their subsidiaries, and third party operations with whom the undertaking or group of undertakings or its subsidiaries have entered into a license agreement or franchise agreement. 7. Member States shall ensure that undertakings (or group of undertakings) provide public, adequate and transparent reporting concerning prevention and corrective measures, the number of complaints received and their treatment.
Amendment 1353 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 30 a (new)
Article 30 a (new)
Article 30a Domestic violence safe-leave 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that each worker affected by domestic violence has an individual right to safe-leave of up to 10 days that is to be taken in any period of 12 consecutive months, in order to attend to ongoing matters arising due to domestic violence, to be specified by each Member State or by collective agreement. The domestic violence safe leave shall be a paid leave. 2. The right to domestic violence safety leave shall be granted irrespective of the worker's marital or family status, as defined by national law. Member States shall ensure that the domestic violence safety leave will be distinct from other leave entitlements. 3. One person with close ties to the victim, such as a relative or household member, and who is closely supporting the victim, shall be entitled to minimum 3 days of paid domestic violence leave each year.
Amendment 1387 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 32 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 32 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The shelters and other appropriate interim accommodations shall be equipped to accommodate companion animals, or provide adequate and appropriate alternative accommodations.
Amendment 1396 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 33 – paragraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that children are provided specific adequate support as soon as the competent authorities have reasonable grounds to believe that the children might have been subject to, including having witnessed, violence against women or domestic violence. Support to children shall be specialised and age-appropriate, respecting the best interests of the child, and shall not require the prior consent of the holder of parental responsibility accused of the violence.
Amendment 1404 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 33 – paragraph 3
Article 33 – paragraph 3
3. Where it is necessary to provide for interim accommodation, children shall as a priority be placed together with other family members, in particular with awith the non- violent parent in permanent or temporary housing, equipped with support services. Placement in shelters shall be a last resort.
Amendment 1416 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 34 – paragraph 1
Article 34 – paragraph 1
1 Member States shall establish and maintain safe places which allow a safe contact between a child and a holder of parental responsibilities who is an offender or suspect of violence against women or domestic violence, to the extent that the latter has rights of access. Member States shall ensure supervision by trained professionals, as appropriate, and in the best interests of thetake the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that, in the determination of custody and visitation rights of children, incidents of violence covered by the scope of this Directive are taken into account. 2 Member States shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the exercise of any visitation or custody rights does not jeopardise the rights and safety of the victim or child. ren.
Amendment 1487 #
2022/0066(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 36 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 36 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Member States shall promote and support research aimed at better understanding the root causes of gender based violence, including all forms of violence against women. This shall include qualitative and quantitative research with both experiences of victims and offenders as research subjects.
Amendment 494 #
2021/2182(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Underlines that the situation in Afghanistan is a wakeup call for the EU to deploy its external actions and means; is concerned by the dramatic humanitarian and security situation in Afghanistan; stresses the need for those in power across Afghanistan to bear responsibility and accountability for the protection of human life and property and for the restoration of security and civil order; reiterates that Afghan women and girls, like all Afghan people, deserve to live in safety, security and dignity and welcomes the broad international support for their rights and freedoms; calls for the EU to preserve the achievements of the last 20 years and to ensure that Afghanistan does not descend into a safe haven for terrorist groups; emphasises the importance of cooperating with neighbouring and regional countries to ensure global security and regional stability; highlights, in this regard, the important role that certain countries, including Qatar and Pakistan, have played in repatriating Europeans and evacuating Afghans in distress by, in particular, exerting significant diplomatic pressure on the Taliban forces;
Amendment 225 #
2021/2181(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Reaffirms that the practice of surrogate motherhood is contrary to the human dignity of women, whose bodies and reproductive functions are used as commodities; considers that this practice, in which the reproductive functions and bodies of women, especially vulnerable and precarious women, are exploited for commercial purposes or other gain, must be prohibited, and must be addressed as a matter of priority in the context of human rights instruments.
Amendment 9 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Emphasises the key role that workers in the transport sector have played during the most difficult moments of the pandemic to ensure that essential supplies to urban centres, including those of medical supplies and personnel, have remained open supplies of the most basic items, including medicinal products;
Amendment 17 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Underlines that transport workers in cities have higher exposure to the risk of infection than the rest of the population of working age, notes that these challenging circumstances and changes in trajectories has put strains on the entire urban supply chain;
Amendment 20 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Stresses that urban mobility must be aligned with the Union’s climate and environmental objectives and be more fair, inclusive, accessible, affordable and safe, whilst also promoting active and healthy lifestyles;
Amendment 38 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes that public transport systems have struggled to regain market shares in terms of users once restrictive measures have been softened or removed;
Amendment 40 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Highlights the importance of awareness-raising measures for passengers to regain trust in public transport after the COVID-19 crisis;
Amendment 42 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Stresses that public collective transport remains the backbone of sustainable transport, moving large numbers of passengers over long distances;
Amendment 84 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Welcomes the increase of active mobility such as walking, bicycling and calls on cities to ensure sufficient infrastructure for active mobility and to make this an integral part of urban mobility and infrastructure design;
Amendment 88 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Believes that, where appropriate and in full respect of the principle of subsidiarity, the cycling and walking infrastructure put in place in Member States as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic should remain in place and be expanded, in order to further promote safe active mobility;
Amendment 91 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Recalls that almost 40 percent of all road fatalities in Europe occur in urban areas and that vulnerable road- users account for 70% of these fatalities; stresses that it is imperative to improve road safety in urban areas and that particular attention should be paid to improving the safety of vulnerable road users;
Amendment 93 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Welcomes that the EU has reaffirmed its long-term strategic goal to get close to zero deaths and zero serious injuries on European roads by 2050, known as Vision Zero, calls for increased efforts to reach the medium-term goal to reduce deaths and serious injuries by 50 % by 2030;
Amendment 95 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5 e. Calls on the Commission to reflect the changing nature of urban mobility in its upcoming EU urban mobility framework;
Amendment 123 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls for concrete measures to support the best practices currently employed by national, regional and local authorities, recalls the importance of modern, seamless TEN-T networks and high-speed cross-border services across Europe for unlocking the potential of international collective sustainable transport to make tourism more sustainable throughout every season of the year;
Amendment 128 #
2021/2075(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Recalls, in this respect, the need to strengthen urban nodes and public transport, which are an important part of tourists’ experiences and citizens’ everyday lives in tourist destinations;
Amendment 3 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
– having regard to Articles 8 and 10, Article 19, Article 83(1) and Article 225 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Amendment 8 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 5 march 2020 entitled "A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025",
Amendment 9 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 b (new)
Citation 5 b (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 24 June 2020 entitled "EU Strategy on victims' rights (2020- 2025)",
Amendment 10 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 c (new)
Citation 5 c (new)
– having regard to the Commission communication of 25 November 2020 entitled "EU Gender Action Plan (GAP) III",
Amendment 11 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 d (new)
Citation 5 d (new)
– having regard to Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims,
Amendment 12 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 e (new)
Citation 5 e (new)
– having regard to Directive 2011/99/EU on the European Protection Order,
Amendment 13 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 f (new)
Citation 5 f (new)
– having regard to Directive 2012/29/EU on establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime,
Amendment 36 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on the gender perspective in the COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis period,
Amendment 77 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas gender-based violence is the most severe manifestation of gender- based discrimination; whereas it is a violation of human rights, such as the right to physical integrity and the right to security;
Amendment 82 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas gender-based violence in the form of cyberviolence, including online harassment, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, sexist hate speech, revenge pornography, deep-fakes, is a transnational crime that disproportionally affects women and girls;
Amendment 103 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas according to a EU Fundamental Rights Agency's survey published in 2014, an estimated 33% of women in the EU have experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15, while 8% had experienced it in the year before the interview; whereas more recent figures are not available;
Amendment 106 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality estimates that the total cost of gender-based violence to the European Union is about 290 billion euros in loss of economic output, services, and physical and emotional impact on the victim; whereas this is a very significant loss to the EU economy that exceeds the estimated annual costs of particularly serious crimes such as organised crime and illicit drug trafficking;
Amendment 118 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas combating gender-based violence is a key priority of the EU Gender Equality Strategy and of the European Union's external action; whereas Union action aiming to eradicate violence against women and girls and other forms of gender-based violence demands that the Commission pursue several parallel avenues;
Amendment 156 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that violence against women and other forms of gender-based violence are the result of the unequal distribution of power, patriarchal structures, and gender stereotypes, that have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men; underlines that this situation is aggravated by social and economic inequalities; highlights that these inequalities and power unbalances have a transversal and global nature, common to the whole territory of the European Union, and not limited to specific Member States;
Amendment 185 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the ‘Istanbul Convention’) remains the international standard and a key tool for the eradication of gender- based violence by following a holistic and coordinated approach that places the rights of the victim at the centre and addresses the issues from a wide range of perspectives; points out that the Istanbul Convention should be understood as the minimum standard to eradicate gender- based violence and that the European Union should pursue even more decisive and effective actions in this regard; recalls that such new legislative measures should in any case be coherent with the rights and obligations set by the Istanbul Convention and should be complementary to its ratification;
Amendment 198 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Denounces the fact that the combat against gender-based violence is negatively affected by the attack on women’s rights and gender equality; condemns the actions of anti-gender and anti-women movements in Europe and worldwide that aim to overturn existing laws on women’s rights and LGBTI+ rights; , Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and LGBTI+ rights, thus endangering the respect of human rights and of the Rule of Law in the whole European Union;
Amendment 204 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights that due to the lockdown and social distancing measures there has been a worrying increase in gender-based violence, including domestic violence, physical and psychological violence, coercive control and cyber- violence across the whole European Union during the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 206 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses that there are substantial differences in the legal definition and treatment of gender-based violence across the Member States; points out that this greatly hampers the European Union's legislative actions against gender-based violence, including the Victims' Rights Directive, the Trafficking Directive and the European Protection Order;
Amendment 219 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that access to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, and to sexuality and relationship education, as well as access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights, including family planning, contraceptive methods, and safe and legal abortion, are essential to achieving gender equality and eliminating gender- based violence;
Amendment 256 #
2021/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recalls that violations of sexual and reproductive rights are a form of violence against women and girls, including the denial of safe and legal abortion care, are a form of violence against women and girls; stresses that girls' and women's autonomy and ability to free and independent decisions about their bodies and lives are preconditions for their economic independence and thus for gender equality and the elimination of gender- based violence;
Amendment 1 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
— having regard to Article 6 TEU and Article 35 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on the right to preventive healthcare for all European citizens;
Amendment 5 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
— having regard to the ongoing Commission revision of the Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1999 on orphan medicinal products;
Amendment 7 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 b (new)
Citation 6 b (new)
— having regard to the ongoing Commission revision of the Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on medicinal products for paediatric use;
Amendment 40 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union state that everyone shall have access to preventive healthcare and the right to benefit from medical treatment under the conditions established by national laws and practices; whereas this right should be enforced for all citizens, including those living in the economically disadvantaged or smaller Member States and in the most peripheral areas of the Union; whereas shortage of medicines is a growing public health threat with a serious impact on healthcare systems and the right of every patient in the EU to access appropriate medical treatment;
Amendment 71 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the pharmaceutical strategy covers the full life cycle of medicines, including research, testcollection and production of starting material, research, testing, manufacturing, authorisation, consumption and disposal, and contributes to meeting the objectives of the European Green Deal, the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, the digital transformation and climate neutrality;
Amendment 94 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the entry of generics and biosimilars into the market is an important tool for increasing competition, reducing prices and ensuring the sustainability of healthcare systems; whereas their market entry should not be delayed;
Amendment 100 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Amendment 110 #
2021/2013(INI)
C c. whereas the loss of European independence in the health sector is linked to the relocation of production, with 40 % of medicinal end products marketed in the EU now originating in third countries; whereas while Europe has a strong manufacturing footprint, the supply chain still relies heavily on subcontractors to produce pharmaceutical raw materials outside the EU, where labour costs and environmental standards are often lower, with the result that 60 % to 80 % of chemical active ingredients are manufactured outside the EU, mainly in China and India; whereas, to date, no label or labelling visible to patients and customers is required for medicinal products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) concerning their origin and country of manufacturing; whereas limited access to APIs required for the production of generic medicines poses a particular challenge; whereas the disruption of the global supply chain ensuing from the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted even more the EU’s dependency on third countries in the health sector; whereas the novel coronavirus pandemic has also revealed shortages of medical devices, medical products and protective equipment;
Amendment 128 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1 Stresses that the EU pharmaceutical strategy should be focusing on the interest of patients and that any support or public funding should be conditioned to the protection of public health and equitable access to healthcare services and treatments in the EU;
Amendment 129 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1 a Stresses the geostrategic imperative for the Union to regain its independence with regard to healthcare, to secure rapidly and efficiently its supply of affordable medicines, medical equipment, medical devices, active substances, diagnostic tools and vaccines, and stresses the importance to decrease the EU’s reliance on third countries’ imports of key starting material of plasma for the manufacturing of plasma-derived medicinal products, and to prevent shortages thereof, prioritising the interest and safety of patients; stresses the importance of ensuring that all Member States have fair access to the supply chain; highlights, to that end, the need for the Union’s pharmaceutical industry to have a diversified supply chain and a medicine shortage risk mitigation plan to cope with any vulnerabilities and risks to their supply chain;
Amendment 131 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that investment in research into and the development of innovative medicines and treatments, as well as access to safe, effective and high-quality medicines, are essential for making progress in the prevention and treatment of diseasesfair and equitable access to safe, effective, high-quality and affordable healthcare services and treatments for all, as well as investment in research into and the development of innovative medicines and treatments, are essential for making progress in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment of diseases and quality of life of patients; regrets the disparities into the access to high quality healthcare services among member states and also between different regions within member states and asks the Commission to address those disparities with the appropriate legislative measures in order to ensure equal rights in the EU;
Amendment 154 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. ConsiderUnderlines that investment in research has not been sufficient to meet should be further conditioned to public interest, recalls that public and private investments should be oriented with the necessary regulatory and legislative measures to meet the therapeutic needs of patients with, including rare diseases, rare adult cancers and paediatric cancers and neurodegenerative diseases or to deal with antimicrobial resistance (AMR);
Amendment 183 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it imperative that a common EU therapeutic guide for antimicrobials be introduced and that communication campaigns on AMR be coordinated through a single calendar at EU level; calls on the Commission and member states to address AMR with concrete and prompt measures, also with regulatory and legislative ones if needed;
Amendment 200 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to revise the system of incentives and incorporate new criteria into the system of incentives forpromote public health driven research into and the development of new medicines for unmet therapeutic needs, prioritising projects promoted by the pharmaceutical industry combating rare diseases, paediatric cancers, neurodegenerative diseases and AMR, with the aim ofas for example rare diseases, rare adult cancers and paediatric cancers, neurodegenerative diseases and AMR, with the objective of protecting public health, guaranteeing equitable rights and access to treatment for all, finding more therapeutic options at affordable prices and meeting the needs of patients and health systems; calls on the Commission to promote the creation of an EU framework to guide and regularly evaluate the implementation of national plans to fight these diseases;
Amendment 239 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to promote a dialogue with the Member States and stakeholders to assess new criteria for negotiating national pricing, such as whether a product is ‘Made in Europe’, whether the EU invested in the product to support research, or whether prices should be adapted to the value of the therapeutic benefit of the medicine, and the primary and broader needs of the populationresearch and development of the product, while promoting an analysis as well on what constitutes a socially acceptable profit margin for pharmaceutical products; recalls that national pricing should be based on transparency of factors such as public and private research, development costs and added therapeutic value; calls for the timely development by the Commission and Member States of guidelines on principles and costing methods for establishing the research and development costs of medicines and their use at the national level;
Amendment 261 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to review the incentive system, increase price transparency, also via a revision of the Transparency Directive in order to include voluntary/secret agreements, public procurement and generic medicines, highlight the causes limiting affordability and patient access to medicinal products, and propose sustainable solutions that also promote competition; recalls that all public funding must be made conditional on the full transparency and traceability of investments, on supply obligations on the EU market, to ensure accessibility and affordability of manufactured medicines in the EU and to guarantee fair return of public investments;
Amendment 280 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce measures to increase transparency into the research and development cost of medicinal products and to contribute to the development of a pricing mechanism in consultation with Member States which takes into account the actual cost of development and production;
Amendment 284 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Recalls that transparency on pricing should be enhanced, urges the Commission to take action in this sense particularly with regard to clearer information about list and net prices to be made publicly available, in order to mitigate asymmetry of information and disparities between Member States notably for products under market exclusivity; recalls its position on Directive 89/105/EC and calls on the Commission to revise the directive to ensure price transparency facilitating overall pricing and reimbursement;
Amendment 287 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Amendment 289 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that generic and biosimilar medicines are accessible and affordable treatments, allowing a broader competition and contributeing greatly to the budgetary sustainability of healthcare systems, thus helping to improve access to treatment for patients; calls on the Commission to introduce legislative and non-legislative measures to support a greater market presence of these medicines and to harmonise at EU level the interpretation of the so-called Bolar provision concerning possible exemptions from the legal framework for the Unitary Patent system for generic drug manufacturers; further calls on the Commission to design rules for the industry that promote research, development and the productionheir timely access to markets across the EU; regrets that generic and biosimilar alternatives are often not available in low and middle income member states where they might be needed most; deplores the litigation cases aimed at delaying generic entry and calls on the Commission to address any misuse of the IPR system to delay entry of generic and biosimilar medicines into the EU and to propose EU protocols for the interchangeability of biosimilar medicinesmarket; calls on the Commission to ensure that the end of the innovator’s period of commercial exclusivity is respected in order to make treatments available to patients as swiftly as possible;
Amendment 312 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Commission to harmonise at EU level the interpretation of the so called Bolar provision and extend its application for exemptions from the legal framework for the Unitary Patent system for generic drug manufacturers in order to facilitate and speed up their entry to market; further calls on the Commission to design rules for the industry that promote research, development and the production of generic and biosimilar medicines in the EU and to propose EU protocols for the interchangeability of biosimilar medicines;
Amendment 323 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that the Commission will launch a pilot project to better understand the root causes of the delayed arrival of medicines on the market; further welcomes the fact that the Commission will continue to monitor mergers between pharmaceutical companies to avoid distortions of competition; stresses the nee and also recalls the importance of addressing the issue of disparities in the availability of certain medicines due to discontinuation of products or withdrawals from less profitable markets of some Member States, where patients do not have access to treatments due to commercial decisions made by pharmaceutical companies and MAHs; calls on the Commission and Member States to implement the necessary measures in order to make centrally authorised medicines timely available to patients without any further delay and calls on the Commission to tackle the problem of diverging market launches by linking the centralised marketing authorization to commitments on the part of pharmaceutical companies to not delay the availability of the product in any Member State; further welcomes the fact that the Commission will continue to monitor mergers between pharmaceutical companies to avoid distortions of competition and calls on the Commission to further develop capabilities to investigate potential anti-competitive practices; stresses the need address the reasons why the medicine approval time is so heterogeneous across the EU and to reduce medicine approval times at national level and align them with European Medicines Agency (EMA) times, in order to ensurewhen considered safe and beneficial for patients, in order to remove any obstacle to a rapid and equalitable access to medicines for everyone in the EU; all in the EU; emphasises that any revision of the regulatory procedures and approaches to the assessment of scientific evidence must be cautiously undertaken in order to adequately take patient benefit and safety aspects into consideration;
Amendment 336 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights the benefitsrole of public- private partnership tenders for national health systems in funding research into and the production of innovative medicines; recalls that any PPPs must produce results in the interest of patients, maximise public return on public investment and respect the principles of transparency, traceability and affordability;
Amendment 346 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the importance of new joint EU public procurement contracts by the Commission and the Member States, especially for emergency medicines and unmet therapeutic needs; emphasises the importance of diversified supplies and procurement practices for pharmaceuticals; urges the Commission, in the context of Directive 2014/24/EU, to swiftly propose guidelines for the Member States, notably on how to best implement the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) criteria, looking beyond the lowest price criteria only; proposes that investments in the manufacture of active ingredients and medicinal end products in the EU should also be retained as a criterion, as well as the number and location of production sites, the reliability of supply, the reinvestment of profits into R&D and the application of social, environmental, ethical and quality standards; notes that procurement procedures with only one successful tenderer and/or only one production site of the basic substance may exacerbate vulnerability should supplies be disrupted; calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider introducing procurement procedures under which contracts may be awarded to a number of successful tenderers, including joint tenderers;
Amendment 355 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the importance of newneed for joint EU public procurement contracts by the Commission and the Member States, especially for, but not limited to, emergency medicines and unmet therapeutic needs; underlines the need to ensure high levels of transparency in these initiatives and apply lessons learned from joint procurement of COVID-19 vaccines;
Amendment 366 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote the creation of one or more European non-profit pharmaceutical undertakings which operate in the public interest to manufacture medicinal products of health and strategic importance for healthcare;
Amendment 378 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is concerned that theaccessibility and affordability of medicines remains a challenge for national health systems, and that innovative medicines are expensive or not even launched in certain Member States for commercial reasons; welcomes the Commission’s intention to review pharmaceutical legislation to promote robust and fair competition and to stabilise and balance national drug pricing systems; promote fair national drug pricing systems; stresses the need to link any form of incentive to affordability clauses in order to ensure equal and fair pricing of pharmaceuticals, particularly innovative ones; calls for an increased transparency on research costs incurred for pharmaceutical development to better adjust the pricing mechanism to the actual costs; calls on the Commission and Member States in this regard to establish a framework for reporting research cost as regards pharmaceutical development;
Amendment 391 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Calls the Commission to consider new processes for promoting the repurposing of medicinal products given that, as new research into certain medicinal products has proved, for example for anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Disease (RMD), they can be adopted quickly to provide more effective and lower cost treatments for many burdensome inflammation-linked diseases including COVID-19, cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes; calls on the Commission to analyse the existing situation concerning off-label use of medicines, including less expensive medicines and medicines used for rare cancers among others, and underlines the need to address this issue in order to facilitate the use of those medicines when beneficial for the patient;
Amendment 401 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that EU funding for biomedical research and development includes clauses that contribute to the availability and affordability of end-products; calls on the Commission to adopt and implement a general policy on such conditionalities under Horizon Europe;
Amendment 406 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11 c. Calls on the Commission to ensure that beneficiaries of funding disbursed through the HERA incubator initiative commit to sharing intellectual property and know-how to scale-up the production and availability of vaccines against new COVID-19 variants; supports the Commission’s plan to set up a Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA); calls for ensuring that HERA is public-interest driven and contributes effectively to the development, availability and affordability of safe and effective medical countermeasures;
Amendment 407 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)
Paragraph 11 d (new)
11 d. Encourages the inclusion of disease-based communities in the European Medicines Agency’s Scientific Advice processes, for rare cancers and diseases, to provide regulators with their expertise of the disease and factor in its rarity and unmet needs;
Amendment 412 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Insists that a competitive EU pharmaceutical industry is strategic and more responsive to patients’ needs; points out that the industry needs a stable, flexipublic responsibilities fall upon the EU pharmaceutical industry and that its competitiveness is strategic for functioning and effective healthcare systems in the EU and for public authorities to be more responsive to patients’ needs and protect public health; points out a predictable and agile regulatory environment; believ is beneficial to address that it ce needs of patients and thrive globally with a clear, robust and efficient intellectual property systemo create a better environment for innovation and drugs development; welcomes the initiative to build interoperable digital infrastructure for the European Health Data Space; underlines that a harmonised interpretation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in all EU Member States is the foundation for such initiatives;
Amendment 426 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Notes that patent protection is a key incentive for companies to invest in innovation and produce new medicines; notes, at the same time, that the exclusionary effect of patents may lead to limited market supply and reduced access to medicines as well as pharmaceutical products; stresses that a balance should be struck between encouraging innovation through the exclusionary effect of patents and ensuring access to medicines and protecting public health; recalls that a company that markets a medicine can enjoy data exclusivity for a period of eight years as of the first marketing authorisation pursuant to Article 14(11) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004; calls on the Commission to propose a revision of that regulation to provide for the possibility to temporarily authorise the granting of compulsory licenses in the event of a health crisis in order to allow the production of generic versions of life-saving medicines; recalls that this is one of the public health flexibilities in the field of patent protection already included in the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), as further reaffirmed by the 2001 Doha Declaration; calls on the Commission to ensure that the implementation of the EU free trade agreements (FTAs) does not interfere with the possibilities of invoking flexibilities provided by the TRIPS Agreement and to provide guidance to Member States in order to encourage voluntary licencing over immediate compulsory licencing;
Amendment 448 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Recalls that Regulation (EC) No 816/2006 harmonises the procedure for granting compulsory licences in relation to patents and supplementary protection certificates concerning the manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products; Calls on the Commission to update and harmonise the rules on granting compulsory licensing of medicinal products and to introduce waivers for data and market exclusivity to allow effective compulsory licensing as an important public health safeguard for EU Member States allowing them to respond faster and more effectively to future European public health crises;
Amendment 460 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12 c. Emphasises that patent protection and enforcement should have due regard for the interests of society, namely the safeguarding of human rights and public health priorities; recalls, in the same vein, that patent protection should not interfere with the right to health and should not serve to widen the gap between wealthier and poorer citizens when it comes to access to medicines; considers that the Union’s approach to this question should ensure harmonisation and coherence among the different measures at the disposal of the Member States;
Amendment 468 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12 d. Stresses the need for a harmonised implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), especially by Data Protection Authorities and its interaction with the Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR) once applicable; requests the European Data Protection Board to ensure its guidelines concerning health research are updated with the aim of fostering research;
Amendment 493 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to revise the use of supplementary protection certificates based on technological and scientific advances to preventallow generic and biosimilar medicines fromto becoming lesse more competitive inside and outside the EU; Recalls that supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), by extending the patent term up to 5 years, delay access to more affordable generic and biosimilar products thereby placing a major financial burden on national healthcare systems and hampering patients access to treatment; underlines therefore that the use of SPCs should be allowed only for exceptional and justified cases;
Amendment 502 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the importance of creating quality jobs in the EU along the entire pharmaceutical value chain, with the support of the NextGenerationEU instrument; calls on the Commission to propose measures to promote employment in the pharmaceutical sector, facilitating talent retention and mobility at EU level; recalls that any form of fund or support must be conditioned to clauses on traceability, transparency, accessibility and affordability of manufactured medicines and supply obligations;
Amendment 509 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 539 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Urges the Commission, having regard to the European Strategy for Data and the digital transformation of healthcare and considering the vast potential that health data has for improving healthcare quality and patient outcomes, to encourage implementation of interoperable technologies in the Member States’ health sectors which will facilitate delivery of innovative health solutions to patients; welcomes the planned creation of a fully cooperative and operational European Health Data Space with a governance framework which fosters the creation of an innovative data-driven ecosystem, based on a secured and controlled exchange of information and critical data, among Member States; asks the Commission to promote next-generation standards, tools and infrastructure in order to store and process data suitable for research and the development of innovative products and services; underlines that personal health data may only be collected and processed on the legal grounds provided for in Article 6(1) of the GDPR, coupled with the conditions provided for in Article 9 of the GDPR; considers that in this context further processing of personal health data should be prohibited; urges the Commission to work with Member States to reduce fragmentation in the application of the General Data Protection Regulation, which substantially increases the complexity and burden of conducting clinical research in Europe; recalls the need of finding a balance between data protection and the condition for a productive research collaboration at EU and international level and to ensure access to large, high quality health data sets to researchers and clinicians, which could be fundamental for developing innovative treatments;
Amendment 543 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16 b. Recalls the importance of adapting existing frameworks for the acceptability in decision making and adoption of AI technologies to provide a pathway through which AI can be developed, adopted and implemented in healthcare systems in the interest of patients;
Amendment 544 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16 c. Calls on the Commission to require pharmaceutical companies to publicly disclose the costs of R&D and manufacturing, public funding contributions, regulatory dossiers containing clinical trial data and active pharmaceutical ingredient sources, number and status of patents and patent applications, and supply chains as a condition for market approval;
Amendment 547 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Urges the Commission, based on the experience with the authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines, to work with the EMA to consider extending the application of rolling reviews to other emergency medicines; further calls onfor the Commission to work with the EMA to develop the use ofpaper information notice to be supplemented by an electronic product information leaflet notice, to be drawn up in all languages for all the countries where the medicine is marketed in order to facilitate the moving and sales of medicines within the single market and thus mitigate shortages; stresses that electronic product information for all medicines in the EUcould complement, but never replace, the package information leaflet;
Amendment 562 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls for a review of the incentives put in place to encourage research in orphan medicines to evaluate their effects and consider appropriate actions to this end; calls for Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 on orphan medicinal products to be revised in order to reverse the burden of proof for the 10-year market exclusivity clause so that the holder of the market authorisation has to prove that the product is not sufficiently profitable to cover R&D costs;
Amendment 564 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17 b. Calls on the Commission to address the negative impacts of parallel trade with regards to shortage of medicines in the Member States and to tackle problems adequately by taking the necessary action to ensure that medicines reach all patients in the EU in a timely manner;
Amendment 581 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls that the EU’s open strategic autonomy is linked to the constant and sufficient availability of medicines in all Member States; calls on the Commission, Member States and the European Medicines Agency to develop an early warning system for drugmedicine shortages, based on a European information network on supply problems, n electronic platform capable of determining the volume of stock existing at any given moment, as well as the actual level of demand, providing data capable of detecting, predicting and preventing shortages of medicinal products; calls also to increase public-private collaboration and to monitor the obligation on the part of industry to provide early and transparent information on the availability of medicines; calls on the Commission to develop a mechanism to safeguard transparency in production and supply chains in the event of emergencies and beyond;
Amendment 595 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Underlines that the EP in its recent resolution on shortage of medicines has recalled the obligations for the supply of medicinal products by marketing authorisation holders (MAHs) and distributors, as well as a notification obligation in the event of a temporary or permanent supply interruption, as provided by Directive 2001/83/EC; regrets once more the disparities observed in the transposition of these obligations into national legislations for which the Commission and member states must react promptly and with binding measures; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that MAHs and wholesale distributors comply with the requirements of Directive 2001/83/EC in order to ensure appropriate and continued supplies of medicines; calls on the Commission to further clarify the obligations for MAHs under Directive 2001/83/EC and highlights the need to ensure that they report medicine shortages within the established timeframes; stresses the need to apply dissuasive and proportionate sanctions in the event of non-compliance with these legal obligations in line with the existing legislative framework;
Amendment 616 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. SuppNotes the efforts of the Commission in its efforts to conduct a structured dialogue with players in the pharmaceutical value chain, public authorities, non- governmental patient and health organisations and the research community to address weaknesses in the global medicines manufacturing and supply chainas one of the tool to explore weaknesses and deficiencies in the global medicines manufacturing and supply chain; calls on the Commission to ensure a balanced representation of stakeholders;
Amendment 641 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to facilitate agreements between the EMA and non-EU regulatory agencies on preventing emergencies and coordinating responses to them; encourages the Commission to work with World Trade Organization members to facilitate trade in health products, increase resilience in global supply chains through stable access to raw materials, and contribute to an effective response in the event of a health emergency; calls on the Commission to promote the use of TRIPS flexibilities to improve access to medicines and to support that Member States can import medicines produced under a compulsory license by reversing their opt-out of Article 31bis of the TRIPs agreement;
Amendment 650 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the TRIPS+ commitments in EU trade agreements in light of the lessons learned from the covid-19 pandemic, and to increase the effective use of intellectual property rights flexibilities;
Amendment 651 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the revision of the general pharmaceutical legislation builds on a good understanding of the root causes of medicine shortages; stresses the need to put the focus on preventative measures such as the diversification of supply chains; calls for the implementation of binding shortage prevention and management risk plans address to EMA and national authorities to be made mandatory for MAHs and wholesale distributors;
Amendment 652 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21 c. Calls on the Commission to take stock of the lessons learnt with the negotiations around COVID-19 vaccines and facilitate clear contracts between the EMA and industry on preventing and managing pharmaceutical supply chain disruptions; stresses that contracts should come with conditionalities and sanctions should a stakeholder not fulfil its commitments;
Amendment 703 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to further facilitate access to global markets for the EU pharmaceutical industry, including small and medium-sized enterprises, through a level playing field and a regulatory framework facilitating trade agreements that prize innovation-based competitiveness, in order to make the pharmaceutical sector a strategic pillar of the EU; calls on the Commission to ensure that trade agreements contribute to improved access to safe, affective and affordable medicines in the EU and in third countries.
Amendment 718 #
2021/2013(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Reiterates its commitment to continue working with the Commission and the World Health Organization to standardise effective, safe and sustainable regulatory frameworks for medicinal productimprove access to safe, effective and affordable medicines;
Amendment 14 #
2021/2007(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. regrets the refusal, in the framework of the ongoing negotiations for the modernisation of the EU-Chile Association Agreement, of granting exclusive protection to flagship EU geographical indications, in particular in the wine sector; calls on the Commission to further enhance the protection of Intellectual Property Rights, notably Geographical Indications, in all EU trade agreements;
Amendment 358 #
2021/0342(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41 a (new)
Recital 41 a (new)
(41 a) A better alignment of banks’ prudential framework with the EU policy framework on Social Economy will contribute to a better inclusion of ESG requirements risks into the banks’ framework. Some banks have a specific legal nature, different characteristics, a unique "mutualistic" model that should be taken into account. It is therefore important that those banks are defined as "social economy entities", according to the conditions specified in Art. 4 point 146 (a). As a result, prudential and supervisory requirements should be made in a more proportionate and appropriate way.
Amendment 359 #
2021/0342(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41 b (new)
Recital 41 b (new)
(41 b) The creation of the new category of social economy entities is consistent and will help to fulfil the strategy that puts green and sustainable financing at the heart of the EU financial system. It will help regulators and supervisors to better understand their business model and develop consistent policies and a more proportionate supervisory approach to deal with them. It will also help to improve the overall access to funding for social economy entities, which consequently will help revitalise the rural areas and proximity to the local communities, favouring the green and digital transition and the creation of new jobs.
Amendment 435 #
2021/0342(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point x a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point x a (new)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 146 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 146 – introductory part
Amendment 441 #
2021/0342(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point x b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point x b (new)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 146 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point 146 a (new)
(x b) the following point (146 a) is inserted: “social economy entity’ means an entity that meets all of the following conditions: a) The entity is not a G-SII; b) The entity and its subsidiaries and affiliated undertakings are linked according to article 22, paragraph 7 of Directive 2013/34/EU and applicable national laws address subsidiaries to allocate profits mainly to common interests of members; c) Subsidiaries or affiliated undertakings are small and non-complex entities according to point 145 of this article or less significant institutions according to art.6, paragraph 4 of Regulation (EU) 1024/2013; d) Affiliated undertakings are bound by national laws for a governance model informed by democratic principles.
Amendment 507 #
2021/0341(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22 a (new)
Directive 2013/36/EU
Article 97 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 97 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
(22a) in Article 97(4), subparagraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘When conducting the review and evaluation referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, competent authorities shall apply the principle of proportionality having regard to definitions set out in article 4, paragraph 1, from points 145 to point 146 (a) of Regulation (EU) 575/2013 and, in accordance with the criteria disclosed pursuant to point (c) of Article 143 (1). For entities referred to in article 4, paragraph 1, point 146 (a) of Regulation (EU) 575/2013 competent authorities shall take into account the fact that subsidiaries or affiliated undertakings are all small and non-complex or less significant institutions;’
Amendment 513 #
2021/0341(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22 b (new)Directive 2013/36/EU
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22 b (new)Directive 2013/36/EU
Article 98 – paragraph 1 – point (i)
(i) the business model of the institution.22b) in Article 98(1), point (i) is replaced by the following: ‘(i) the business model of the institution, including those essential features defined in national law as for entities referred to in Article 4, point 146 (a) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013;’
Amendment 91 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Such biofuels, advanced biofuels, and synthetic fuels, substituting diesel, petrol and jet fuel, can be produced from different feedstock and can be blended into fossil fuels at very high blending ratios. They can be technically used with the current vehicle technology with minor adaptations. Renewable methanol can also be used for inland navigation and short-sea shipping. Synthetic and paraffinic fuels have a potential to reduce the use of fossil fuel sources in the energy supply to transport. All of these fuels can be distributed, stored and used with the existing infrastructure or where necessary with infrastructure of the same kind.
Amendment 101 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In the heavy-duty road transport sector, LNG trucks are fully mature and can run on a high blend of bio LNG. On the one hand, the common scenarios underpinning the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy and the Climate Target Plan as well as the revised “Fit for 55” modelling scenarios suggest some limited role of gaseous fuels that will increasingly be decarbonised in heavy-duty road transport especially in the long haul segment. Furthermore, LPG and CNG vehicles for which already a sufficient infrastructure network exists across the Union are expected to gradually be replaced by zero emission drivetrains and therefore only a limited targeted policy for LNG infrastructure deployment that can equally supply decarbonised fuels is considered necessary to close remaining gaps in the main networks.
Amendment 115 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) For each battery electric light-duty vehicle registered in their territory, a total power output shall be provided through publicly accessible recharging stations. This number shall be reduced according to the progressive increase of Member States’ share of the total projected vehicle fleet.
Amendment 138 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The increasing number of electric vehicles in road, rail, maritime and other transport modes will require that recharging operations are optimised and managed in a way that does not cause congestion and takes full advantage of the availability of renewable electricity and low electricity prices in the system. Smart recharging in particular can facilitate the integration of electric vehicles into the electricity system further as it enables demand response through aggregation and through price based demand response. System integration can further be facilitated through bi-directional recharging (vehicle-to-grid). All normal recharging points at which vehicles are typically parked for a longer period should therefore support smart recharging. From 1 January 2025, operators should ensure that all publicly accessible recharging points are capable of smart recharging.
Amendment 258 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 38
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 38
(38) ‘publicly accessible’ alternative fuels infrastructure, means an alternative fuels infrastructure which is located at a site or premise that is open to the general public, irrespective of whether the alternative fuels infrastructure is located on public or on private property, whether limitations or conditions apply in terms of access to the sitmeans a recharging pool, station or point which is located at a site or premise that is open to the general public at least 8 hours per day and 6 days a week with chargers available to the general public without any restrictions (e.g. not limited to a determinate circle orf premise and irrespective of the applicable use conditions of the alternative fuels infrastructure;ersons/customers/clients), irrespective of whether the recharging infrastructure is located on public or on private property.
Amendment 269 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 56
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 56
(56) ‘safe and securelorry parking’ means a parking and rest area as referenced in Article 17, point(1)(b) that is dedicated to heavy-duty vehicles overnight parking;
Amendment 280 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
– publicly accessible recharging stations for light-duty vehicles are deployed commensurate to the uptake of light-duty electric vehicles including passenger cars and light commercial vehicles;
Amendment 284 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 1 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 1 a (new)
- at least one recharging station at recharging pool in urban areas and along TEN-T core and TEN-T comprehensive network is dedicated to light commercial vehicles with a trailer, taking into account their special demands relating to the amount of cargo space used by such vehicles;
Amendment 300 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) for each battery electric light-duty vehicle registered in their territory, a total power output of at least 1between a range of a maximum of 3 kW and a minimum of 1.5 kW is provided through publicly accessible recharging stations. This number would be reduced to a minimum of 1.5 kW according to the progressive increase of Member States’ share of the total projected vehicle fleet; and
Amendment 321 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a – introductory part
(a) along the TEN-T core network and comprehensive network, publicly accessible recharging pools dedicated to light-duty vehicles and meeting the following requirements are deployed in each direction of travel with a maximum distance of 60 km in-between them:
Amendment 339 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 371 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a TARGETS FOR COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES Commercial buildings with public parking facilities with more than 10 parking spaces for light-duty vehicles, shall equip at least 10% of their parking spaces with publicly accessible recharging points by 31 December 2025.
Amendment 378 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i
(i) by 31 December 2025, each recharging pool shall offer a power output of at least 145000 kW and include at least onefour recharging stations with an individual power output of at least 35800 kW;
Amendment 389 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a – point ii
(ii) by 31 December 2030, each recharging pool shall offer a power output of at least 36500 kW and include at least twofour recharging stations with an individual power output of at least 351200 kW;
Amendment 399 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b – point i
(i) by 31 December 2030, each recharging pool shall offer a power output of at least 143000 kW and include at least one recharging station with an individual power output of at least 35800 kW;
Amendment 411 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
(ii) by 1 December 2035, each recharging pool shall offer a power output of at least 35000 kW and include at least two recharging stations with an individual power output of at least 351200 kW;
Amendment 419 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) by 31 December 203025, in each safe and securelorry parking area at least onetwo recharging stations dedicated to heavy-duty vehicles with a power output of at least 100 kW isare installed;
Amendment 425 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) by 31 December 2030, in each lorry parking at least four recharging stations dedicated to heavy-duty vehicles with a power output of at least 100 kW are installed;
Amendment 427 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) by 31 December 2025, in each urban node publicly accessible recharging points dedicated to heavy-duty vehicles providing an aggregated power output of at least 61400 kW are deployed, provided by recharging stations with an individual power output of at least 1350 kW;
Amendment 430 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) by 31 December 2030, in each urban node publicly accessible recharging points dedicated to heavy-duty vehicles providing an aggregated power output of at least 123500 kW are deployed, provided by recharging stations with an individual power output of at least 1350 kW.
Amendment 449 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a – introductory part
(a) operators of recharging points shall, at all publicly accessible recharging stations with a power output below 50 kW, deployed from the date referred to in Article 24, accept electronic payments through terminals and devices used for payment services, including at least one of the following:
Amendment 460 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii
Amendment 462 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 469 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b – point i
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b – point i
Amendment 477 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b – point ii
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b – point ii
Amendment 480 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
From 1 January 20275 onwards, operators of recharging points shall ensure that all publicly accessible recharging stations with a power output equal to or more than 50 kW operated by them comply with the requirement in point (b)laid down in this article.
Amendment 490 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
The requirements laid down in points (a) and (b) shall not apply to publicly accessible recharging points that do not require payment for the recharging service.
Amendment 497 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – introductory part
5. Operators of recharging points shall clearly displaymake available the ad hoc price and all its components at all publicly accessible recharging stations operated by them so that these are known to end users before they initiate a recharging session. At least the following price components, if applicable atThe ad hoc price shall be clearly made available in ‘price per kWh’ by default. To this end, operators shall ensure theat recharging station, shall be clearly displayed:points operated by them are equipped with electrical energy meters allowing for accurate metering of electricity offtake.
Amendment 505 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – indent 1
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – indent 1
Amendment 508 #
Amendment 512 #
Amendment 523 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 8
Article 5 – paragraph 8
8. From the date referred to in Article 24, operators of recharging points shall ensure that all new publicly accessible normal powerrecharging points operated by them are capable of smart recharging. When deemed necessary by transmission system operators and distribution system operators and complementary to the provision laid down in Article 14(4) of this Regulation, publicly accessible recharging points should be capable of bi- directional recharging. From 1 January 2025, operators of recharging points should ensure that all publicly accessible recharging points operated by them are capable of smart recharging.
Amendment 531 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 9
Article 5 – paragraph 9
9. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that appropriate signposting is deployed within parking and rest areas onalong the TEN-T road network where alternative fuels infrastructure is installed, to enable easy identification of the exact location of the alternative fuels infrastructure.
Amendment 600 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall ensure that a minimum shore-side electricity supply for seagoing container and passenger ships is provided in maritime ports. To that end, Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that by 1 January 2030:
Amendment 605 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) TEN-T core and TEN-T comprehensive maritime ports whose average annual number of port calls over theby 1 January 2030, maritime ports have sufficient shore-side power output to meet at least three years90% of that demand by seagoing container ships above 5000 gross tonnes, in the previous three years, is above 50 have sufficient shore-side power output to meet at least 90% of that demand, tankers and refrigerated bulk carriers above 400 gross tonnes;
Amendment 606 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) TEN-T core and TEN-T comprehensive maritime ports whose average by 1 Jannual number of port calls over the last three years by seagoing ro-ro passenger ships and high-speed passenger craft above 5000 gross tonnes, in the previous three years, is above 40ry 2025, maritime ports have sufficient shore-side power output to satisfy at least 90% of that demand by passenger ships above 400 gross tonnes;
Amendment 612 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) TEN-T core and TEN-T comprehensive maritime ports whose average annual number of port calls over theby 1 January 2035, maritime ports have sufficient shore-side power output to meet at least three years by passenger ship90% of that demand by ships above 400 gross tonnes other than ro-ro passenger ships and high-speed passenger craft above 5000 gross tonnes, in the previous three years, is above 25 have sufficient shore-side power output to meet at least 90% of that demand, seagoing container ships, tankers and refrigerated bulk carriers.
Amendment 616 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. For the determination of the number of port callsdemand the following port calls shall not be taken into account:
Amendment 620 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. Where the maritime port of the TEN-T core network and the TEN-T comprehensive network is located on an island which is not connected directly to the electricity grid, paragraph 1 shall not apply, until such a connection has been completed or there is a sufficient locally generated capacity from clean energy sources.
Amendment 627 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – title
Article 10 – title
Targets for shore-side electricity and hydrogen supply in inland waterway ports
Amendment 630 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) at least one installation providing shore-side electricity supply to inland waterway vessels is deployed at all TEN-T core and comprehensive inland waterway ports by 1 January 2025;
Amendment 633 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) at least one installation providing shore-side electricityrefuelling point providing hydrogen supply to inland waterway vessels is deployed at all TEN-T core and comprehensive inland waterway ports by 1 January 2030.
Amendment 638 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – title
Article 11 – title
Targets for supply of LNG, hydrogen and ammonia in maritime ports
Amendment 641 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that an appropriate number of refuelling points for LNG, hydrogen and ammonia are put in place at TEN-T core maritime ports referred to in paragraph 2, to enable seagoing ships to circulate throughout the TEN-T core network by 1 January 2025. Member States shall cooperate with neighbouring Member States where necessary to ensure adequate coverage of the TEN-T core network.
Amendment 644 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall designate in their national policy frameworks TEN-T core maritime ports that shall provide access to the refuelling points for LNG, hydrogen and ammonia referred to in paragraph 1, also taking into consideration actual market needs and developments.
Amendment 684 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point k
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point k
(k) measures to remove possible obstacles with regards to planning, permitting and procuring of alternative fuels infrastructureand how to limit the latency between initial application and actual deployment to no longer than 6 months;
Amendment 700 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point p a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point p a (new)
(pa) map appropriate locations for site development with sufficient grid capacity, model future charging demand, and make this information publicly available;
Amendment 703 #
2021/0223(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point p b (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point p b (new)
(pb) measures to ensure that grid connection and power capacity take into account the number of charging pools which can be expected in the future following the increasing fleet penetration of electric vehicles;
Amendment 159 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Articles 2 and 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union enshrine the right to equality between women and men and non-discrimination as one of the essential values and tasks of the Union.
Amendment 161 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Articles 8 and 10 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’) provide that the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities, to promote equality between men and women and to combat discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation in all its activities.
Amendment 163 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) Article 157 TFEU dates from 1957 and in the meanwhile social, legal, medical and biological changes and research have recognised in the definition of “sex” the diversity in addition to women and men. For example, in some Member States it is currently possible to legally register a third, often neutral, gender. The Court of Justice also has held that the scope of the principle of equal treatment for men and women cannot be confined to the prohibition of discrimination based on the fact that a person is of one or other sex. In view of its purpose and the nature of the rights which it seeks to safeguard, it also applies to discrimination arising from the gender reassignment of a person. In this regard ‘gender’ shall mean the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men.[1] A human rights-oriented approach recognises that gender is a matter of individual identity, irrespective of sex and sex characteristics. [1] Istanbul Convention Art 3.c.
Amendment 166 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 b (new)
Recital 3 b (new)
(3b) Article 157(3) TFEU provides a specific legal basis for the adoption of Union measures to ensure the application of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment in matters of employment and occupation, including the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value.
Amendment 168 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 d (new)
Recital 3 d (new)
(3d) The principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value as laid down by Article 157 TFEU and consistently upheld in the case-law of the Court of Justice constitutes an important aspect of the principle of equal treatment between men and women and an essential and indispensable part of the acquis communautaire, including the case-law of the Court concerning sex discrimination. It is therefore appropriate to make further provisions for its implementation.
Amendment 169 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 e (new)
Recital 3 e (new)
(3e) In accordance with settled case- law of the Court of Justice, in order to assess whether workers are performing the same work or work of equal value, it should be determined whether, having regard to a range of factors including the nature of the work and training and working conditions, those workers may be considered to be in a comparable situation.
Amendment 177 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The European Pillar of Social 41 41 Rights , jointly proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council, and the Commission, incorporates among its principles equality of treatment and opportunities between women and men, and the right to equal pay for work of equal value and equality of opportunities regardless of gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. _________________ 41 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/ deeper-and-fairer-economic-and-monetary- union/european-pillar-social- rights/european-pillar-social-rights-20- principles_en
Amendment 179 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) Principle 8 of the European Pillar of Social Rights also provides for the social partners to be consulted on the design and implementation of economic, employment and social policies according to national practices, they shall be encouraged to negotiate and conclude collective agreements in matters relevant to them, while respecting their autonomy and the right to collective action.
Amendment 181 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council42 provides that for the same work or for work of equal value, direct and indirect discrimination on grounds of sex with regard to all aspects and conditions of remuneration is to be eliminated. In particular, where a job classification system is used for determining pay, it should be based on the same criteria for both men and women in all their diversity and should be drawn up so as to exclude any discrimination on grounds of sex. _________________ 42 Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 23).
Amendment 198 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social consequences have had a disproportionate impact on women and gender equality, job losses have been concentrated in low-paying female- dominated sectors and the effects of the pandemic will further widen gender inequalities and the gender pay gap unless the recovery response is gender sensitive. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have therefore made it even more pressing to tackle the issue of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value.
Amendment 200 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 b (new)
Recital 8 b (new)
(8b) Horizontal segregation, including the over-representation of women in low- paying service jobs, is a structural issue that significantly contributes to the gender pay gap and forms complex challenges in achieving good quality jobs, and the principle of equal pay. The COVID-19 pandemic has also proven the value, visibility and recognition of women’s work in front-line services, such as health care, cleaning, childcare, social care and residential care for older people and other adult dependants. Complementary measures to tackle the issue need to focus also on improving working conditions and career-prospects of such jobs.
Amendment 210 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) For a better understanding of this Directive, the expression ‘in all their diversity’ is used in this Directive to express that, where women or men are mentioned, these are heterogeneous categories including in relation to their sex, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics. It affirms the commitment to leave no one behind and achieve a gender equal Europe for everyone, regardless of their sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Amendment 224 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) This Directive should apply to all workers, including part-time workers, fixed-term contract workers or persons with a contract of employment or employment relationship with a temporary agency as defined in Directive 2008/104 as well as atypical forms such as zero- hour contracts and sheltered/accompanied work contracts, who have an employment contract or employment relationship as defined by the law, collective agreements and/or practice in force in each Member State, taking into account the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘the Court’). In its case law, the Court established criteria for determining the status of a worker47 . Provided that they fulfil those criteria, domestic workers, on- demand workers, intermittent workers, voucher based- workers, platform workers, trainees and apprentices should fall within the scope of this Directive. The determination of the existence of an employment relationship should be guided by the facts relating to the actual performance of the work and not by the parties’ description of the relationship. _________________ 47 Case C-66/85, Deborah Lawrie-Blum v Land Baden-Württemberg, ECLI:EU:C:1986:284; Case C-428/09, Union Syndicale Solidaires Isère v Premier ministre and Others, ECLI:EU:C:2010:612; Case C-229/14, Ender Balkaya v Kiesel Abbruch- und Recycling Technik GmbH, ECLI:EU:C:2015:455; Case C-413/13, FNV Kunsten Informatie en Media v Staat der Nederlanden, ECLI:EU:C:2014:2411; Case C-216/15, Betriebsrat der Ruhrlandklinik gGmbH v Ruhrlandklinik gGmbH, ECLI:EU:C:2016:883; Case C- 658/18, UX v Governo della Repubblica italiana, ECLI:EU:C:2020:572.
Amendment 262 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The identification of a valid comparator is an important parameter in determining whether work may be considered of equal value. It enables the worker to show that they were treated less favourably than the comparator of a different sex performing equal work or work of equal value. The comparator should be the worker of a different sex performing equal work or work of equal value with the highest pay level. In situations where no real-life comparator exists, the use of a hypothetical comparator should be allowed, allowing a worker to show that they have not been treated in the same way as a hypothetical comparator of another sex would have been treated. This would lift an important obstacle for potential victims of gender pay discrimination, especially in highly gender- segregated employment markets where a requirement of finding a comparator of the opposite sex makes it almost impossible to bring an equal pay claim. In addition, workers should not be prevented from using other facts from which an alleged discrimination can be presumed, such as statistics or other available information. This would allow gender-based pay inequalities to be more effectively addressed in gender-segregated sectors and professions.
Amendment 314 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) Employers should make accessible to workers and workers representatives a description of the criteria used to determine pay levels and career progression. The employer should have flexibility in the way it complies with this obligation taking into account the size of the organisation.
Amendment 323 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) All workers should have the right to obtain clear and complete information, up on their request, mean and median pay gap between all workers in the company as well as on their pay and on the pay level, broken down by sex, for the category of workers doing the same work or work of equal value. Employers must inform workers of this right on an annual basis. Employers may also, on their own initiative, opt for providing such information without workers needing to request it.
Amendment 334 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Employers with at least 250 workerout exceptions should regularly report on pay, in a suitable and transparent manner, such as including the information in their management report. Companies subject to the requirements of Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council52 may also choose to report on pay alongside other worker-related matters in their management report. _________________ 52 Directive 2013/34/EU, as amended by Directive 2014/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 as regards disclosure of non- financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups (OJ L 330, 15.11.2014, p. 1).
Amendment 341 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) Pay reporting should allow employers to evaluate and monitor their pay structures and policies, allowing them to proactively comply with the principle of equal pay. At the same time, the gender- disaggregated data should assist competent public authorities, workers’ representatives and other stakeholders to monitor and address the gender pay gap across sectors (horizontal segregation) and functions (vertical segregation). Employers may wish to accompany the published data by an explanation of any gender pay differences or gaps. In cases where differences in average pay for the same work or work of equal value between female and male workers cannot be justified by objective and gender-neutral factors, the employer should take measures to remove the inequalities.
Amendment 373 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) Any processing or publication of information under this Directive should comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council53 . Specific safeguards should be added to prevent the direct or indirect disclosure of information of an identifiable co-worker. On the other hand, workers should not be prevented from voluntarily disclosing their pay for the purpose of enforcing the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work to which equal value is attributedunder any circumstances, especially not from sharing it with their trade unions or workers’ representatives. _________________ 53 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1.
Amendment 386 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) Involving equality bodies, besides other stakeholders, is instrumental in effectively applying the principle of equal pay. The powers and mandates of the national equality bodies should therefore be adequate to fully cover gender pay discrimination, including any pay transparency or any other rights and obligations laid down in this Directive. The direct involvement of social partners in national equality is necessary to ensure continuous and coordinated involvement of social partners. In order to overcome the procedural and cost- related obstacles that workers who believe to be discriminated against face when they seek to enforce their right to equal pay, equality bodies, as well as associations, organisations, bodies and workers’ representatives or other legal entities with an interest in ensuring equality between men and women, should be able to represent individuals. They should be able to decide to assist workers on their behalf or in their support, which would allow workers who have suffered discrimination to effectively claim their rights and the principle of equal pay to be enforced.
Amendment 390 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) Equality bodies and workers’ representatives should also be able to represent one or several workers who believe to be discriminated against based on sex in violation of the principle of equal pay for the same work or work of equal value. Bringing claims on behalf of or supporting several workers is a way to facilitate proceedings that would not have been brought otherwise because of procedural and financial barriers or a fear of victimisation and also when workers are facing discrimination on multiple grounds which can be difficult to disentangle. Collective claims have the potential to uncover systemic discrimination and create visibility of equal pay and gender equality in society as a whole. The possibility of collective redress and class actions would motivate pro- active compliance with pay transparency measures, creating peer pressure and increasing employers’ awareness and willingness to act preventively and would address the systemic nature of pay discrimination.
Amendment 396 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) Member States should ensure the allocation of sufficient resources to equality bodies and labour inspectorates for the effective and adequate performance of their tasks related to pay discrimination based on sex. Where the tasks are allocated to more than one body, Member States should ensure that they are adequately coordinated.
Amendment 414 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 40
Recital 40
(40) In accordance with the case-law of the Court, national rules on time limits for the enforcement of rights under this Directive should be such that they cannot be regarded as capable of rendering virtually impossible or excessively difficult the exercise of those rights. Limitation periods create specific obstacles for victims of gender pay discrimination. For that purpose, common minimum standards should be established. Those standards should determine when the limitation period begins to run, the duration thereof and the circumstances under which it is interrupted or suspended and provide that the limitation period for bringing claims is at least threfive years.
Amendment 428 #
2021/0050(COD)
(42) Member States should provide for effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties in the event of infringements of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive or national provisions that are already in force on the date of entry into force of this Directive and that relate to the right to equal pay between men and women for the same work or work of equal value. Such penalties should include fines, which should be set at a minimum level having due regard to the gravity and duration of the infringement, to any possible intent to discriminate or serious negligence, and to any other aggravating or mitigating factors that may apply in the circumstances of the case, for instance, where pay discrimination based on sex intersects with other grounds of discrimination. Member States should consider allocating amounts recovered as fines to the equality bodies and monitoring bodies as set out by the Directive for the purpose of effectively carrying out their functions in regard to the enforcement of the right to equal pay, including to bring pay discrimination claims or assist and support victims in bringing such claims.
Amendment 442 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 48
Recital 48
(48) In order to ensure proper monitoring of the implementation of the right to equal pay between men and women for the same work or work of equal value, Member States should set up or designate a dedicated monitoring body. This body, which may be part of an existing body pursuing similar objectives, should have specific tasks in relation to the implementation and enforcement of the pay transparency measures foreseen in this Directive and gather certain data to monitor pay inequalities and the impact of the pay transparency measures.
Amendment 463 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Directive lays down minimum requirements to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value enshrined in Article 157 TFEU and the prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of sex laid down in Article 4 of Directive 2006/54/EC, in particular through pay transparency and reinforced enforcement mechanisms.
Amendment 473 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
2. This Directive applies to all workers who have an employment contract or employment relationship as defined by law, collective agreements and/or practice in force in each Member State with consideration to the case-law of the Court of Justice, including directly and indirectly employed workers especially those employed via a temporary agency as defined in Directive 2008/104 or platform as well as atypical forms such as zero-hour contracts, sheltered/accompanied work contracts and part-time workers, with consideration to the case-law of the Court of Justice. This Directive applies to workers referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph irrespective of their sex, gender identity, gender expression or sexual characteristics for the purpose of complying with the prohibition of discrimination laid down in Article 4 of Directive 2006/54/EC.
Amendment 502 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) ‘category of workers’ means workers performing the same work or work of equal value grouped by the workers’ employer based on criteria as laid down in Article 4 of this Directive and specified by the employer concerned; in consultation with workers representatives.
Amendment 505 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Amendment 512 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) ‘indirect discrimination’ means the situation where an apparently neutral provision, criterion or practice would put persons of one sex at a particular disadvantage compared with persons of the other sex, unless that provision, criterion or practice is objectively justified by a legitimate aim in accordance with the criteria laid down in Article 4 of this Directive, and the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary;
Amendment 521 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) harassment and sexual harassment, within the meaning of Article 1 (c) and Article 2(2) of Directive 2006/54/EC, as well as any less favourable treatment based on a person's rejection of or submission to such conduct, when such harassment or treatment relates to or results from the exercise of the rights provided for in this Directive;
Amendment 529 #
2021/0050(COD)
3. Pay discrimination under this Directive includes discrimination based on a combination of sex and/or any other ground or grounds of discrimination protected under Directive 2000/43/EC or Directive 2000/78/EC.
Amendment 530 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a Prohibition of discrimination 1. In order to achieve the Union’s goal of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value, direct and indirect discrimination on grounds of sex with regard to all aspects and conditions of remuneration shall be eliminated. 2. In particular, where a job classification system is used for determining pay, it shall be based on the same criteria for all workers and so drawn up as to exclude any discrimination on the grounds of sex.
Amendment 532 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall take the necessary measures after consulting with the social partners and equality bodies to ensure that employers have pay structures in place ensuring that women and men are paid equally for the samerkers are paid equally for the same work or work of equal value without discrimination based on the grounds of sex. Member States may allow social partners to negotiate and conclude collective agreements to secure the enforcement of equal pay between women and men for equal work or work of equal value.
Amendment 548 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall take the necessary measures ensuring that tools or methodologies are established toand are easily accessible to workers and employers for the purpose of assessing and compareing the value of work in linaccordance with the criteria set out in this Article. These tools or methodologies mayshall include gender-neutral job evaluation and classification systems. These tools or methodologies shall be established with the involvement of the social partners.
Amendment 559 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. The tools or methodologies as referred to in paragraph 2 shall allow assessing, in regard to the value of work, whether workers are in a comparable situation, on the basis of objective criteria which shall include educational, professional and training requirements, skills, effort and responsibility, work undertaken and the nature of the tasks involved. Theyand gender neutral criteria. Those gender- neutral criteria shall be agreed with the social partners and shall include but not be limited to: formal and non-formal educational, professional and training requirements, skills, including the knowledge necessary to meet the requirements of a job, interpersonal skills and problem solving, effort, including mental, psycho-social and physical effort, responsibility, including for people, goods and equipment, information and financial resources, and working conditions including those relating to the working environment and the organisational environment. The tools or methodologies referred to in paragraph 2 shall not contain or be based on criteria which are based, whether directly or indirectly, on workers’ sex.
Amendment 562 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. The tools or methodologies shall allow assessing, in regard to the value of work, whether workers are in a comparable situation, on the basis of objective criteria which shall include educational, professional and training requirements, skills, effort and responsibility, work undertaken and the nature of the tasks involved. They shall not contain or be based on criteria which are based, whether directly or indirectly, on workers’ sex. Member States shall provide support to employers and the social partners, including training and detailed guidance on establishing the objective, gender- neutral criteria referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph and the tools and methodologies referred to paragraph 2.
Amendment 575 #
2021/0050(COD)
4. Whenever differences in pay can be attributed to a single source establishing the pay conditions, the assessment whether workers are carrying out the same work or work of equal value shall not be limited to situations in which female and male workers work for the same employer but may be extended to that single source and cross-sector comparisons based on the data collected by the monitoring body. The assessment shall also not be limited to workers employed at the same time as the worker concerned or to the same sector nor to workers in the same company. Where no real comparator can be established, a comparison with a hypothetical comparator based on the objective and gender-neutral criteria as per article 4 paragraph 3 or the use of other evidence allowing to presume alleged discrimination shall be permitted. Employers shall consult with workers representatives on the establishment of the comparator. The comparator shall facilitate cross-sector comparison.
Amendment 586 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Article 4 – paragraph 5
5. Where a job evaluation and classification system is used for determining pay, it shall be based on the same criteria for both men and womenall workers in all their diversity and drawn up so as to exclude any form of discrimination, especially on grounds of sex, and ensure that skills associated with female dominated jobs are valued. In this regard, Member States shall ensure employers and social partners are provided with the necessary tools and guidance to introduce gender- neutral job evaluation and classification systems for determining pay.
Amendment 597 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Applicants for employment shall have the right to receivereceive automatically from the prospective employer information about the initial pay level or its range, based oncollective agreement applied by the company in relation to the job, where applicable, the initial pay level or its range as well as the average pay level of the job or of work of equal value for which the applicant applied, based on the also stated objective, gender-neutral criteria used to determine pay levels, to be attributed for the position concerned. Such information shall be indicated in a published job vacancy notice or otherwise provided to the applicant prior to the job interview without the applicant having to request it.
Amendment 620 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
The employer shall make easily accessible to its workers and workers representatives a description of the criteria used to determine pay levels and career progression for workers. These criteria shall be gender-neutral.
Amendment 631 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Workers shall have the right to receive information onreceive annually clear and complete information on the mean and median pay gap between all workers in the company as well as their individual pay level and the average pay levels, broken down by sex, for categories of workers doing the same work as them or work of equal value to theirs, in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 44 and 5. This shall include information on how pay levels were determined, including through an existing job evaluation and/or job classification scheme.
Amendment 643 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Workers’ representatives shall have the right to receive information on how pay for each category of worker is determined and average pay levels.
Amendment 659 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Workers shall have the possibilityright to request the information referred to in paragraph 1 through their workers representatives or an equality body.
Amendment 663 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The information shall be provided in accessible formats for workers with disabilities
Amendment 665 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 5
Article 7 – paragraph 5
5. Workers shall notunder no circumstances be prevented from disclosing their pay for the purpose of enforcing the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value. inside and outside the company they are in employment relationship with. Contractual terms and measures aiming at limiting or prohibiting workers from disclosing their pay or average pay levels, especially to their colleagues or trade union, shall be prohibited.
Amendment 669 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 6
Article 7 – paragraph 6
6. Employers may require that any wWorkers having obtained information pursuant to this Article shall notmay use that information for any other purpose than, especially to defend their right to equal pay for the same work or work of equal value and not disseminate the information otherwise. Workers may share such information with their workers representatives and trade unions.
Amendment 680 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Employers with at least 250 workers shall provideout exceptions shall provide to their workers the following information concerning their organisation, in accordance with paragraphs 2, 3, and 5:
Amendment 690 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the pay gap between all female and male workers;
Amendment 697 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the pay gap between all female and male workers in complementary or variable components;
Amendment 702 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the median pay gap between all female and male workers;
Amendment 709 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) the median pay gap between all female and male workers in complementary or variable components;
Amendment 713 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) the proportion of female and male workersworkers broken down by sex receiving complementary or variable components;
Amendment 716 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) the proportion of female and male workersworkers broken down by sex in each quartile pay band;
Amendment 720 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) the pay gap between female and male workers by categories of workers broken down by ordinary basic salary and complementary or variable components.
Amendment 725 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) information on the criteria used to determine pay.
Amendment 730 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Employers shall provide the information referred to in paragraph 1 by... [2 years after the entry into force of this Directive] and thereafter as follows: (i) for employers with 1 to 10 workers, at least once every four years; (ii) for employers with 10 to 50 workers, at least once every three years; (iii) for employers with 50 to 250 workers, at least once every two years; (iv) for employers with at least 250 workers, every year.
Amendment 736 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. The accuracy of the information shall be confirmed by the employer’s management and workers’ representatives. Employers shall establish in consultation with workers’ representatives on the methods used to calculate the pay gap, median pay gap and average pay levels.
Amendment 741 #
2021/0050(COD)
3. The employer shall publish the information referred to in paragraph 1, points (a) to (f) on an annual basish) in a user-friendly way on its website or shall otherwise makbe made publicly available by the employer. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be accessible to persons with disabilities in accordance wit publicly availableh Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Employers shall include that information in their management report where they are required to draw up such a report pursuant to Directive 2013/34/EU. The information from the previous four years, if available, shall also be accessible upon request. In addition, the employer shall share this information with the monitoring body referred to in paragraph 6.
Amendment 755 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 4
Article 8 – paragraph 4
4. Member States may decide to compile the information set out in paragraph 1, points (a) to (fh) themselves, on the basis of administrative data such as data provided by employers to the tax or social security authorities. This information shall be made public in accordance with paragraph 6.
Amendment 766 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 5
Article 8 – paragraph 5
5. The eEmployers shall provide the information referred to in paragraph 1, point (ga) to (h) to all workers and theiro the workers representatives, as well as to the monitoring body referred to in paragraph 6. ItEmployers shall provide it tothis information to the Trade Unions, the labour inspectorate and the equality body upon their request. The information from the previous four years, if available, shall also be provided upon request.
Amendment 775 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 6
Article 8 – paragraph 6
6. Member States shall entrust the monitoring body designated pursuant to Article 26 to collect the data received from employers pursuant to paragraph 1, points (a) to (fh) and to ensure that this data is public and allows a comparison between employers, sectors and regions of the Member State concerned in a user-friendly way.
Amendment 792 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. The implementation of the Directive shall not be used to reduce existing reporting obligations on employers.
Amendment 799 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that employers with at least 250 workerout exceptions conduct, in cooperation with their workers’ representatives, a joint pay assessment where both of the following conditions are met:
Amendment 810 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
Amendment 816 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Amendment 825 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) an analysis of the proportion of female and male workersworkers broken down by sex in each category of workers;
Amendment 827 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) detailed information on average female and male workers’ pay levels broken down by sex and complementary or variable components forby each category of workers;
Amendment 828 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) identification of any differences in pay levels between female and male workersworkers broken down by sex in each category of workers;
Amendment 832 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) measures as a gender action plan to address such differences if they are not justified on the basis of objective and gender-neutral criteria; the company board, where applicable, has to adopt these measures and address the pay gap until the next pay assessment according to Art 8 (1’). In case of failure to act or insufficient action, the board can be fined for not fulfilling its duties.
Amendment 839 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) a monitoring report on the effectiveness of any measures mentioned in previous joint pay assessments, the gender action plan included. In case the evaluation shows an insufficiency in the measures adopted, especially if the pay gap does not decrease within the time until the next pay assessment according to art 8 (1’),these need to be adapted in accordance with the provisions set out under this article. Employers and workers’ representatives, shall jointly draw up and agree on the Gender Action Plan referred to in point (e) of the first subparagraph with concrete measures and goals to close the gender pay gap. Where possible, the Gender Action Plan shall be drawn up in cooperation with the equality body. This may include examining the causes of the pay gap from recruitment, promotion, occupational segregation, flexibility and care responsibilities and measures to address the gender gaps. Where applicable, the Gender Action Plan shall be included in the management report drawn up pursuant to Directive 2013/34/EU.
Amendment 842 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. Employers shall make the joint pay assessments available to workers,in easily accessible formats to all workers, persons with disabilities included; workers’ representatives, the monitoring body designated pursuant to Article 26, the equality body and the labour inspectorate.
Amendment 854 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 4
Article 9 – paragraph 4
4. If the joint pay assessment reveals differences in average pay for equal work or work of equal value between female and male workersworkers broken down by sex which cannot be justified by objective and gender-neutral criteria, the employer shall remedy the situation, in close cooperation with the workers’ representatives, labour inspectorate, and/or equality body. Such action shall include the establishment of gender-neutral job evaluation and classification to ensure that any direct or indirect pay discrimination on grounds of sex is excluded.
Amendment 859 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 a (new)
Article 9 a (new)
Article 9 a Collective bargaining and social dialogue 1. Without prejudice to the autonomy of the social partners, Member States shall take measures to guarantee that trade unions can collectively bargain, at the appropriate level, on measures to address pay discrimination and the undervaluation of work predominantly carried out by women, as well as other measures aimed at closing the pay gap. Such measures shall include the development and use of job evaluation and classification systems free from gender bias with the involvement of trade unions. 2. Without prejudice to the autonomy of social partners and in accordance with national law and practice, Member States shall ensure that the transposition, implementation, monitoring, rights and obligations under this Directive are discussed with social partners.
Amendment 860 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. To the extent that any information provided pursuant to measures taken under Articles 7, 8, and 9 involves the processing of personal data, it shall be provided in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679. Compliance with this Regulation shall not be used as a reason to deny any information necessary for the enforcement of rights and obligations related to the principle of equal treatment in terms of pay for workers performing an equal work or a work of equal value nor should workers be restricted in their right according to art 7 of this directive to disclose pay, especially not if it comes to sharing their pay levels with workers’ representatives.
Amendment 868 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. Member States may decide that, where the disclosure of information pursuant to Articles 7, 8 and 9 would lead to the disclosure, either directly or indirectly, of the pay of an identifiable co- worker, only the workers’ representatives or the equality body shall have access to that information. The representatives or equality body shall advise workers regarding a possible claim under this Directive without disclosing actual pay levels of individual workers doperforming the same work or work of equal value. The monitoring body referred to in Article 26 shall have access to the information without restriction.
Amendment 870 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11
Article 11
Amendment 882 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure that, after possible voluntary recourse to conciliation for both parties to the conflict, judicial procedures for the enforcement of rights and obligations related to the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value are available to all workers who consider themselves wronged by a failure to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value. Such procedures shall be easily accessible to workers and to those who act on their behalf, even after the labour relationship in which the discrimination is alleged to have occurred has ended. Recourse to conciliation shall trigger an interruption or suspension of the limitation period referred to in Article 18.
Amendment 889 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that associations, organisations, equality bodies and workers’ representatives or other legal entities which have, in accordance with the criteria laid down by national law, a legitimate interest in ensuring equality between men and women, in all their diversity and in tackling discrimination on the ground of sex may engage in any judicial or administrative procedure to enforce any of the rights or obligations related to the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value. They may act on behalf or in support of a worker who is victim of an infringement of any right or obligation related to the principle of equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value, with the latter’s approval.
Amendment 893 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2
Article 13 – paragraph 2
2. Equality bodies and workers’ representatives shall also have the right to act on behalf or in support of severalindividual and/or a group of workers, with the latter’s approval or upon notification in accordance with national law and practice.
Amendment 898 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Trade unions shall also have the right to act on behalf of a class of workers in a sector or category.
Amendment 907 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 3
3. The compensation shall place the worker who has suffered harm in the position in which that person would have been if he or she had not been discriminated based on sex or if no infringement of any of the rights or obligations relating to equal pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value had occurred. It shall include full recovery of back pay and related bonuses or payments in kind, compensation for lost opportunities and moral prejudice. It shall also include the right to interest on arrears.
Amendment 913 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The structural or organisational measures referred to in the first paragraph, point (b), may include an obligation to review the pay-setting mechanism based on gender-neutral job evaluation or classification systems, the establishment of an action plan to eliminate the discrepancies discovered, and measures to reduce any unjustified gender pay gaps.
Amendment 925 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 4
Article 16 – paragraph 4
4. This Directive does not prevent Member States from introducing evidential rules which are more favourable to the claimant in proceedings instituted to enforce any of the rights or obligations relating to equal pay between men and women in all their diversity for equal work or work of equal value.
Amendment 929 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that in proceedings concerning a claim regarding equal pay between men and women in all their diversity for equal work or work of equal value, national courts or competent authorities are able to order the defendant to disclose any relevant evidence which lies in their control.
Amendment 934 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall lay down rules applicable to limitation periods for bringing claims regarding equal pay between men and women in all their diversity for equal work or work of equal value. Those rules shall determine when the limitation period begins to run, the duration thereof and the circumstances under which it is interrupted or suspended.
Amendment 937 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. Limitation periods shall not begin to run before the violation of the principle of equal pay between men and women in all their diversity for equal work or for work of equal value or infringement of the rights or obligations under this Directive has ceased and the claimant knows, or can reasonably be expected to know, about the violation or infringement.
Amendment 945 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 3
Article 18 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that the limitation periods for bringing claims are set at threfive years at least.
Amendment 960 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Claimants who prevail on a pay discrimination claim shall have the right to recover from the defendant, in addition to any other damages, reasonable legal and experts’ fees and costs. Defendants who prevail on a pay discrimination claim shall not have the right to recover any legal and experts’ fees from the claimant(s) and costs, unless the claim was brought in bad faith, was clearly frivolous or where such non-recovery is considered manifestly unreasonable under the specific circumstances of the case.
Amendment 971 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States shall ensure that fines are applied to infringements of the rights and obligations relating to equal pay for the sameequal work or work of equal value. They shall set a minimum level for such fines ensuringpercentage based on the employer’s gross annual turnover as a minimum level for such fines and shall ensure that that minimum level is proportionate and has a real deterrent effect. The level of the fines shall take into account:
Amendment 977 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the gravity and duration of the infringement; and whether there were repeated infringements.
Amendment 979 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 20 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) any other aggravating or mitigating factor applicable to the circumstances of the case. such as where gender-based pay discrimination intersects with other grounds of discrimination, or relevant mitigating factors
Amendment 982 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 3
Article 20 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall establish specific penalties to be imposed in case of repeated or serious infringements of the rights and obligations relating to equal pay between men and women, such as the revocation of public benefits or the exclusion, for a certain period of time, from any award of financial inducements.
Amendment 985 #
2021/0050(COD)
4a. Member states shall in case of a company boards’, where applicable, failure to act or insufficient action as set out in art 9, establish fines on the board for not fulfilling its duties under this Directive.
Amendment 987 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 4 b (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Member states shall ensure that monitoring body as established under this Directive in Article 26 are also competent in imposing financial sanctions and penalties with regards to the non- fulfilment of obligations under Articles 7,8 and 9.
Amendment 990 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. The appropriate measures that the Member States take in accordance with Article 30(3) of Directive 2014/23/EU, Article 18(2) of Directive 2014/24/EU and Article 36(2) of Directive 2014/25/EU, shall include measures to ensure that, in the performance of public contracts or concessions, economic operators comply with the obligations relating to equal pay between men and women in all their diversity for equal work or work of equal value.
Amendment 993 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 – paragraph 2
Article 21 – paragraph 2
Amendment 997 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 21 a (new)
Article 21 a (new)
Article 21 a Intersectionality 1. Member states shall take the necessary measures to ensure that in legal proceedings aimed at the enforcement of rights and obligations relating to equal treatment of men and women, direct and indirect discrimination on grounds of sex with regard to all aspects and conditions of remuneration shall be eliminated. 2. In compliance with the paragraph 1, Member states shall take the necessary measures to ensure that in legal proceedings aimed at the enforcement of rights and obligations relating to equal treatment in term of pay between men and women for equal work or work of equal value, the court or other competent authority duly assesses the existence of discrimination based on a combination of sex and another ground of discrimination protected under Directive 2000/43/CE or Directive2000/78/CE and takes due account of such circumstances for substantive and procedural purposes. 3. Member States, employers, workers' representatives, equality bodies and monitoring bodies designated pursuant to Article 26 shall develop and implement specific actions to identify and address situations in which pay discrimination based on grounds of sex intersects with other grounds of discrimination. They may also analyse and revise any practice or criteria that could be discriminatory and tackle and find solutions for the concerns of women facing intersecting forms of discrimination within a particular workplace or sector. 4. When collecting data received from employers, the monitoring bodies shall, where possible, analyse that data in a way that takes account of multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination. The data collected under this Directive should be available to be used to eliminate and/or legally challenge other forms of discrimination, especially when it comes to pay as stated in Article 3(3) of this Directive, as set out in Directive 2000/43/CE or2000/78/CE.
Amendment 998 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1
Article 22 – paragraph 1
1. Workers and theirworkers representatives shall not be treated less favourably on the ground that they have exercised their rights relating to equal pay between men and womento not be discriminated on the ground of sex relating to working conditions, including pay.
Amendment 1012 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 a (new)
Article 25 a (new)
Article 25 a Labour inspectorates Member states shall take active measures to ensure the necessary resources, including training and capacities, close cooperation and coordination of labour inspectorates as regards their competences in accordance with the present Directive.
Amendment 1013 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure the consistent monitoring of the implementation of the principle of equal pay between women and men for equal work or for work of equal value and the enforcement of all available remedies and sanctions mechanisms.
Amendment 1017 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. Each Member State shall designate a tripartite body (‘monitoring body’) for the monitoring and support of the implementation of national legal provisions implementing this Directive and shall make the necessary arrangements for the proper functioning of such body. The monitoring body may be part of existing bodies or structures at national level and competent to impose sanctions such as financial ones for non- compliance with the implementing provisions as a supervisory body.
Amendment 1022 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) to raise awareness among public and private undertakings and organisations, social partners and the general public to promote the principle of equal pay and the right to pay transparency, including by communicating and sharing employers’ good practices and initiatives with the possibility to create an official label or certificate for companies complying with pay transparency as regards the set out rules on equal pay for equal work or work of equal value as well as a public list of companies who do not comply;
Amendment 1026 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) to tackle the causes of the gender pay gap and devise tools to helpand methodologies to analyse and assess pay inequalities and tackle discrimination on the ground of sex;
Amendment 1032 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) to aggregate data received from employers pursuant to Article 8(6), and publish this data in a user-friendly manner; for all, persons with disabilities included; to aggregate this data also sectorally in order to be able to identify and address possible discrimination across different sectors, especially regarding differences of work of equal value between female and male dominated sectors.
Amendment 1042 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point e a (new)
(ea) to provide relevant data and information to the European Institute for Gender Equality and Eurofound in order to allow for the comparability and assessment of that data at Union level;
Amendment 1047 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point e b (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – point e b (new)
(eb) to take the necessary actions, including financial sanctions, in the case of non-compliance with this Directive against companies and, where applicable, their boards. The amount shall be based on the criteria laid out in Article 20.
Amendment 1051 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. The monitoring body shall assist Member States in their efforts to combat the pay gap by providing guidance and sharing best practices on policies and methodologies to determine and compare work of equal value, including across sectors with a concrete focus on combating the systemic undervaluation of work in female dominated sectors and making full use, where appropriate of the data, knowledge and capacities of the European Institute for Gender Equality and of Eurofound, the European Foundation for the Improvement of living and working conditions.
Amendment 1070 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 29 a (new)
Article 29 a (new)
Article 29 a Compliance Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that the principle of equal treatment is respected and in particular that : (a)any laws, regulations and administrative provisions contrary to the principle of equal treatment are abolished;(b)provisions contrary to the principle of equal treatment in individual or collective contracts or agreements, internal rules of undertakings or rules governing the independent occupations and professions and workers' and employers' organisations or any other arrangements shall be, or may be, declared null and void or are amended
Amendment 1087 #
2021/0050(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. By [eightthree years after the entry into force] Member States shall communicate to the Commission all information on how this Directive has been applied and what has been its impact in practice.
Amendment 210 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to carry out holistic and cumulative assessments of the impact of implementation of the strategy’s measures and objectives on the social and economic sustainability of agriculture and forestry inside and outside the EU, on food safety and on prices, in view of their potentially significant economic, social and environmental effects;
Amendment 240 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses strong support for the targets of protecting at least 30 % of the Union’s marine and terrestrial areas, and of strictly protecting at least 10 % of these areas, including primary and old-growth forests; stresses that these should be binding and implemented by Member States in accordance with science-based criteria and biodiversity needs; underlines that in addition to increasing protected areas, the quality of protected areas should be ensured and clear conservation plans implemented; emphasises that the protection and restoration of rural areas and the protection of wild animal species must be consistent with local economic development, providing for sustainable management policies based on containment and careful monitoring of the spread of wildlife in the areas concerned;
Amendment 430 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights that soil biodiversity is the basis for key ecological processes; notes with concern the increased soil degradation and the lack of specific EU legislation; recognises the positive role that agriculture and forestry can play through good practices in managing and safeguarding biodiversity; calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal for the establishment of a common framework for the protection and sustainable use of soil that includes a specific decontamination target;
Amendment 692 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to urgently present a proposal for an EU legal framework based on mandatory due diligence that ensures sustainable and deforestation-free value chains; calls for future policies that highlight the strategic role of forests and related supply chains and for strenuous efforts to promote research and innovation in these sectors;
Amendment 1132 #
2020/2273(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Stresses the need to put environmental and social sustainability at the core of future EU trade policy and every bilateral trade agreement in order to give substance to the Farm to Fork Strategy; stresses the importance of including respect for biodiversity in trade agreements in order to halt global deforestation and prevent the overexploitation of fishery and marine resources; urges developing countries to support biodiversity and alignment with European standards on sustainability, and to prevent the exploitation of workers; calls on the Commission to ensure that imported products meet the same standards required of European producers in order to protect biodiversity;
Amendment 622 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that the Mediterranean Diet, inscribed by UNESCO in 2010 in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is known as a healthy and balanced diet with a high nutritional, social and cultural value based on respect for the territory and biodiversity, which guarantees the conservation and development of traditional and artisanal activities related to sustainable fishing and agriculture and plays a protective role in the primary and secondary prevention of the main chronic degenerative diseases;
Amendment 626 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that the Commission should base the legislative proposals on ex-ante scientific impact assessments describing the calculation methods for the targets, the baselines and the reference periods of each individual target, following consultation with the Member States; considers that the cumulative effects of the legislative proposals should also be taken into account; urges the Commission to maintain and strengthen a structured dialogue with all the stakeholders;
Amendment 710 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 908 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of recognising the significant impact of unsustainable production practices in agriculture, and especially animalimal farming and food production on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use; stresses the need to enhance natural carbon sinks and reduce agricultural emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, in particular in the feed and livestock sectors; acknowledges that healthy animals require less natural resource inputs like feed and water and that effective management practices of livestock can lead to a 30% decrease in GHG emissions1a; recognises anaerobic digestion and composting as an effective solution to recycle organic waste materials and prevent GHG emissions, while producing renewable energy, enabling reuse of nutrients and carbon, thus improving soil fertility; calls for regulatory measures and targets to ensure progressive reductions in all GHG emissions in these sectors; _________________ 1aFAO, "Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in livestock production" (2013)
Amendment 1092 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the notion of rewardefforts made by European farmers and food producers, in particular SMEs, in order to reduce their climate and environmental impact and stresses the importance to reward production models improving carbon sequestration in soils; stresses, however, that intensive and industrial agriculture and farming models with negative impacts on biodiversity should not receive climate funding or be incentivisedbe incentivised through climate funding; calls for the proposals to be in line with the environmental objectives and the ‘do no harm’ principle of the Green Deal;
Amendment 1236 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for CAP National Strategic Plans to ensure adequate financial support and incentives to promote new, innovative, digital and ecological ‘green’ business models for agriculture and artisanal food production, notably through fostering short supply chains and quality food production, as well as adopting innovative cultivation techniques with the aim of reducing inputs per unit of product and restoring soil fertility;
Amendment 1529 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the review of the EU promotion programme for agricultural and food products, including the EU school scheme, with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by focusing on educational messages about the importance of healthy nutrition and lifestyle and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables and a varied and balanced diet, with the aim of reducing obesity rates; calls for all agricultural products to be included in the EU promotion policy so that support can be guaranteed for all production sectors and they can be made more sustainable, contributing to enhanced overall production and sustainable consumption;
Amendment 1543 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the review of the funding dedicated to the EU promotion programme for agricultural and food products, including the EU school scheme, with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, notably by focusing on educational messages and class hours at all school levels about the importance of healthy nutrition and promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables within a balanced and varied dietary regime, with the aim of reducing obesity rates;
Amendment 1636 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for measures to reduce the burden that highly processed foods with high salt, sugar and fat content place on public health; regretstresses that the introduction of nutrient profiles is greatly delayed and stresses that a robust set of nutrient profiles must be developactivities implemented by national authorities must be strengthened and harmonised to restrict or prohibit the use of false nutritional claims on foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt; calls for a mandatory EU-wide front-of- pack nutrition labelling system based on independent science, dietary guidelines and portion sizes; stresses that the front-of-pack nutrition labelling system should help consumers to make healthier food choices by providing them with detailed and comprehensible information on the food they consume, eschewing simplistic solutions, without undermining the competitiveness of the European agricultural system or damaging quality supply chains; supports the promotion of healthier diets through consumer awareness campaigns and activities providing information on the importance of a varied and balanced diet that does not exclude any food, provided that it is consumed in the right amount and frequency and is accompanied by adequate physical activity;
Amendment 1656 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for measures to reduce the burden that highly processed foods with high salt, sugar and fat content place on public health; regrets that the introduction of nutrient profiles is greatly delayed and stresses that a robust set of nutrient profiles must be developed tostresses that a robust set of initiatives must be developed to promote healthier diets by enhanced consumer food and nutrition education, and restrict or prohibit the use of false nutritional claims on foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt; calls for a mandatoryharmonised EU-wide front- of- pack nutrition labelling system based on independent scienceable to provide exhaustive and nutrient-specific information, based on independent science and on the reference intakes of the average consumer, without misleading and influencing purchasing choices, as provided by Regulation (EU)1169/2011;
Amendment 1698 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Notes that healthy products, including food, may contain natural or synthetic ingredients, which have different impacts on the environment and the health of consumers. Calls for the introduction of mandatory labelling schemes for healthy products, indicating whether an ingredient is of synthetic origin when obtained by a chemical synthesis, especially in the case natural equivalents exist;
Amendment 1756 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the fact that the strategy rightly recognises the role and influence of the food environment in shaping consumption patterns and the need to make it easier for consumers to choose healthy and sustainable diets; reiterates the importance of promoting sustainable diets by raising consumer awareness of the impacts of consumption patterns and providing information on diets that are better for human health and have a lower environmental footprint; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore, the strategy’s objective that the healthy and sustainable choice should become the most affordable one, while recognising the need to properly reward farmers and food producers for the social, economic and environmental added value they create by complying with the objectives of the strategy;
Amendment 1783 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the fact that the strategy rightly recognises the role and influence of the food environment in shaping consumption patterns and the need to make it easier for consumers to choose healthy and sustainable diets; reiterates the importance of promoting sustainable diets by raising consumer awareness of the impacts of consumption patterns and providing information on diets that are better for human health and have a lower environmental footprint; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore, the strategy’s objectiveemphasises that the sustainability of enterprises is central and points out that the healthy andiest and most sustainable choice should become understood as the most appropriate choice in view of this objective, rather than the most affordable one;
Amendment 1865 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the recognition in the strategy that Europeans’ diets are not in line with recommendations for healthy eating, and that a population-wide shift in consumption patterns is needed towards more healthy and plant-based foods and less red and processed meat, sugars, salt, and fats, which will also benefit the environment; emphasises that EU-wide guidelines for sustainable and healthy diets would bring clarity to consumers on what constitutes a healthy and sustainable diet and inform Member States’ own efforts to integrate sustainability elements in national dietary advice; calls on the Commission to develop such guidelines and specific actions to effectively promote healthy plant-based dietspromote eating patterns that lead to the adoption of varied, balanced and sustainable diets that are adapted to the specific needs of each consumer, while recognising and protecting the heritage of the different eating habits, traditions, preferences and production methods of EU countries and the businesses that represent them;
Amendment 1872 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the recognition in the strategy that Europeans’ diets are not in line with recommendations for healthy eating, and that a population-wide shift in consumption patterns is needed towards more healthy andfood, with the right balance between plant-based foods and less red andmeat, less processed meatproducts, sugars, salt, and fats, which will also benefit the environment; emphasises that EU-wide guidelines for sustainable and healthy diets, taking into account the cultural and regional diversity of European foods and diets, would bring clarity to consumers on what constitutes a healthy and sustainable diet and inform Member States’ own efforts to integrate sustainability elements in national dietary advice; calls on the Commission to develop such guidelines and specific actions to effectively promote healthy, balanced and varied diets, which include also an increased consumption of plant- based dieproducts;
Amendment 2059 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. WelcomesRegrets that the proposed revision of EU rules on date marking is not accompanied by a comprehensive revision of rules on the distribution of food stuffs, with the objectives of identifying and eliminating potential barriers to waste reduction, promoting efficiency as well as boosting competition and innovation; stresses that any change to date marking rules should be science based and should improve the use of date marking by actors in the food chain and its understanding by consumers, in particular ‘best before’ labelling, while at the same time not undermining food safety or quality;
Amendment 2117 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance EU funding for research and innovation as a key driver in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable, healthy and inclusive European food system while facilitating investments needed to encourage agro- ecological practices in both social and technological innovation, and the crucial role of farm advisory services in ensuring the transfer of knowledge to the farming community, drawing on the existing specialised training systems for farmers in Member States; highlights the need to deliver tailored solutions to develop new skills and business models for all actors in the supply chain, especially SMEs, while avoiding additional administrative burdens;
Amendment 2264 #
2020/2260(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Believes that environmental, social and economic sustainability must be at the heart of the future EU trade policy and every bilateral trade agreement in order to give substance to the farm to fork strategy;
Amendment 15 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
Citation 5
— having regard to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was adopted on 25 September 2015 and entered into force on 1 January 2016, and in particular to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3, 5 and 16, and the related indicators,
Amendment 21 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
— having regard to CEDAWto the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms od Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its General Recommendations No. 21 (1994), No. 24 (1999), No. 28 (2010), No. 33 (2015) and No. 35 (2017),
Amendment 77 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 a (new)
Citation 38 a (new)
Amendment 78 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 b (new)
Citation 38 b (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 26 November 2020 on abortion rights in Poland,
Amendment 79 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 c (new)
Citation 38 c (new)
- having regard to IPPF EN/BZgA Report on Sexuality Education in Europe and Central Asia,
Amendment 80 #
2020/2215(INI)
- having regard to the IPPF EN partner survey Abortion legislation and its implementation in Europe and Central Asia,
Amendment 81 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 e (new)
Citation 38 e (new)
- having regard to European Parliament Study The gendered impact of the COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis,
Amendment 82 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 f (new)
Citation 38 f (new)
- having regard to the report of the European Institute for Gender Equality of 22 November 2019 on Beijing +25 – The 5th Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States,
Amendment 83 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 g (new)
Citation 38 g (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 5 March 2020 entitled ‘A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025’ (COM(2020)0152),
Amendment 84 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 h (new)
Citation 38 h (new)
- having regard to the report by UN Women entitled ‘The Impact of COVID- 19 on Women’, published on 9 April 2020,
Amendment 85 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 i (new)
Citation 38 i (new)
- having regard to the report by UN entitled “COVID-19 and Human Rights: We are all in this together”, published in April 2020,
Amendment 86 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 j (new)
Citation 38 j (new)
- having regard to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) report entitled ‘Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Family Planning and Ending Gender- based Violence, Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage’, published on 27 April 2020,
Amendment 87 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 k (new)
Citation 38 k (new)
- having regard to the statement by UNFPA entitled ‘Millions more cases of violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation, unintended pregnancy expected due to the COVID 19 pandemic’, published on 28 April 2020,
Amendment 88 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 l (new)
Citation 38 l (new)
- having regard to the European Women’s Lobby policy brief entitled ‘Women must not pay the price for COVID-19!’,
Amendment 89 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 m (new)
Citation 38 m (new)
- having regard to the study by Professor Sabine Oertelt-Prigione entitled ‘The impact of sex and gender in the COVID-19 pandemic’, published on 27 May 2020,
Amendment 90 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 n (new)
Citation 38 n (new)
- having regard WHO`s Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems,
Amendment 91 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 o (new)
Citation 38 o (new)
- having regard to WHO`s Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer,
Amendment 92 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 p (new)
Citation 38 p (new)
- having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 13 November 2020 on the impact of COVID-19 measures on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights,
Amendment 93 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 q (new)
Citation 38 q (new)
- having regard to the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network research andreport entitled “Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights during the COVID-19 pandemic”, published on 22nd April 2020,
Amendment 96 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to all aspects of sexuality and reproduction, not merely the absence of dysfunction, infirmity or mortality, and whereas all individuals have a right to make decisions governing their bodies8 , free from discrimination, coercion and violence, and to access SRH services that support that right and give a positive approach to sexuality and reproduction, as sexuality is an integral part of human existence; _________________ 8 Guttmacher-Lancet Commission, Executive Summary on sexual and reproductive health and rights, The Lancet, London, 2018, https://www.guttmacher.org/guttmacher- lancet-commission/accelerate-progress- executive-summary
Amendment 113 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are based on the rights of all individuals to have their bodily integrity, privacy and personal autonomy respected; definhave their sexual orientation and gender identity fully respected; decide whether, with whom and when to be sexually active; have safe sexual experiences, decide whether, when and who to marry and when, whether and by what means to have a child or children; have access to the information and support necessary to achieve all of the above9 ; _________________ 9 Guttmacher-Lancet Commission, Executive Summary on sexual and reproductive health and rights, The Lancet, London, 2018, https://www.guttmacher.org/guttmacher- lancet-commission/accelerate-progress- executive-summary and how many children; have access over their lifetime to the information, resources, services and support necessary to achieve all of the above free from discrimination, coercion, exploitation and violence;
Amendment 124 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) are recognisprotected as human rights in international and European human rights law10 ; _________________ 10Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2017, https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/ women-s-sexual-and-reproductive-rights- in-europe. such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the European Convention on Human Rights,and constitute an essential element of comprehensive healthcare provision; whereas the realisation of SRHR is an essential element of human dignity and intrinsically linked to the achievement of gender equality and combatting gender-based violence;
Amendment 127 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas gender-based violence is widespread and has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic; whereas an estimated 25 percent of women experience some form of gender based violence in their lifetimes and countless women experience sexual assault and harassment in the context of intimate partnerships and public life due to entrenched gender stereotypes and the resulting social norms;
Amendment 136 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas violations of SRHR constitute breaches of human rights, specifically the right to life, physical and mental integrity, equality, non- discrimination, health and education, education, dignity, privacy and freedom from inhumane and degrading treatment; whereas violations of women’s SRHR are a form of violence against women and girls; and hinder progress towards gender equality;
Amendment 146 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas although the EU has some of the highest SHRHR standards in the world, there are still challenges, a lack of access, gaps and inequalities and some Member States have implemented policies and programmes that uphold SRR, there are still challenges, a lack of access and affordability, gaps, disparities and inequalities in the realisation of SRHR, both across the EU and within Member States, based on age, sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, religious affiliation or belief, marital status, socio-economic status, disability, HIV (or sexually transmitted infections, STIs) status, national or social origin, legal or migration status, language, sexual orientation or gender identity;
Amendment 150 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas SRHR challenges and obstacles include: a lack of access, denial of medical care based on personal beliefsuniversal access to high-quality and affordable SRHR services, a lack of comprehensive and evidence-based sexuality education, denial of access to information and education, a lack of available modern contraception methods, denial of medical care based on personal beliefs, legal restrictions and practical barriers in accessing abortion services, denial of abortion care, forced abortion, gender- based violence, gynaecological and obstetric violence, a lack of comprehensive sexuality education, denial of access to information/education, a lack of available contraception methods, limited access to medically assisted reproduction treatments, forced sterilisation, high rates of STIs and HIV, disparities in maternal mortalityforced sterilisation, intimidation, cruel and degrading treatment, disparities in maternal mortality rates, gaps in maternal mental health support, increasing caesarean section rates, a lack of access to treatment for cervical cancer, which causes the largely preventable deaths of over 25.000 European women per year, limited access to medically assisted reproduction and fertility treatments, high rates of STIs and HIV, especially in certain marginalised groups and/or regions, high adolescent pregnancy rates, harmful gender stereotypes and practices such as female genital mutilation, early, forced and child marriages and honour killings, outdated or ideologically driven legal provisions limiting SRHR;
Amendment 166 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the unavailability of scientifically accurate informand evidence-based information and education violates the rights of individuals to make informed choices about their own SRHR; and undermines healthy approaches to sexuality, family planning and gender equality;
Amendment 173 #
2020/2215(INI)
H. whereas the essential package of SRH measuresSRH services are essential healthcare services that should be available to all and they includes: comprehensive sexuality education; information, confidential and unbiased counselling and services for sexual and reproductive health and well-being; counselling and access to a wide range of modern contraceptives; antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care; midwifery; obstetric and newborn care; safe and legal abortion services and care and post- abortion care including treatment of complications of unsafe abortion; the prevention and treatment of HIV and other STIs; services aimed at detecting, preventing and treating sexual and gender- based violence; prevention, detection and treatment for reproductive cancers; and fertility services, especially cervical cancer; fertility care and fertility treatment;
Amendment 182 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas comprehensive sexuality education facilitates informed reproresponsible sexual behaviour, including reduced risk-taking, and increased use of condoms and other forms of contraception ; whereas according to the UNESCO International technical guidance on sexuality education, curriculum-based programmes on comprehensive sexuality educative choices; on (CSE) enables children and young people to develop accurate knowledge, attitudes and skills, including respect for human rights, gender equality, consent and diversity that contribute to safe, healthy, and respectful relations; whereas such education empowers children and young people as it provides with evidence and age-appropriate information on sexuality, addressing sexual and reproductive health issues, including, but not limited to: sexual and reproductive anatomy and physiology; consent, puberty and menstruation; reproduction, modern contraception, pregnancy and childbirth; STIs, including HIV and AIDS; andharmful practices such as child early and forced marriage (CEFM) and femalegenital mutilation (FGM); whereas still most adolescents do not have access to CSE ; whereas age-appropriate CSE, in this regard, is key to building children’s and young peoples’ skills to form healthy, equal, nurturing and safe relationships, notably by addressing gender norms, gender equality, power dynamics in relationships, consent, respect for one own’s and others’ boundaries;
Amendment 187 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas SRH includes menstrual hygiene and sanitation as well as systemic and socio-economic factors of stigmatisation,discrimination linked to menstruation; whereas period poverty, which refers to the limited access to sanitary products, affects about 1 in 10 women in Europe, and is exacerbated by a gender-biased taxation on menstrual hygiene products in the EU; whereas shame, untreated menstrual pain and discriminatory traditions lead to school drop outs and lower attendance rates of girls at school and women at work; whereas existing negative attitudes and myths surrounding menstruation influence reproductive health decisions; whereas understanding the links between menstrual hygiene and maternal morbidity, mortality and infertility, STI/HIV and cervical cancer can support early detection and safe lives;
Amendment 189 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
I b. whereas modern contraception plays a key role in achieving gender equality and preventing unintended pregnancies as well as realising the right of individuals to make decisions about their family choices by proactively and responsibly planning the number, timing and spacing of their children; whereas certain methods of modern contraception also reduce incidence of HIV/STIs, whereas access to it is still hindered by practical, financial, social and cultural barriers, including myths surrounding contraception, outdated attitudes towards female sexuality and contraception, as well as a stereotypical perception of women being the only ones responsible for contraception;
Amendment 193 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas some Member States still have highly restrictive laws prohibiting abortion except in strictly defined circumstances, forcing women to seek clandestine abortions, to travel to other countries or to carry their pregnancy to term against their will, which is a violation of human rights and a form of gender- based violence; affecting women’s and girls’ rights to life, physical and mental integrity, equality, non-discrimination, health, and freedom from inhuman and degrading treatment;
Amendment 201 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas even when abortion is legally available, there are often barriers to accessing it; range of legal, quasi-legal and informal barriers to accessing it, including: limited time periods and grounds on which to access abortion, medically unwarranted waiting periods, lack of trained and willing healthcare professionals and denial of medical care based on personalbeliefs, biased and mandatory counselling, deliberate misinformation or third party authorization, medically unnecessary tests, distress requirements, costs and lack of reimbursement;
Amendment 208 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas no woman should die in childbirth; and access to evidence-based, quality and affordable maternity care is a human right and must be ensured without any discrimination in all healthcare settings;
Amendment 212 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
L a. whereas infertility and subfertility are affecting one in six people in Europe, are a global public health issue and there is a need to reduce inequalities in access to fertility information and treatments, and prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sex, gender, sexual orientation, health or marital status;
Amendment 214 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
Recital L b (new)
L b. whereas SRHR are human rights and must be upheld by EU Member States, in line with international human rights standards; whereas respect for human rights is necessary for a democracy to function; whereas human rights, democracy and the rule of law are all interdependent; whereas all these EU values must be fully respected by all EU Member States;
Amendment 218 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas SRHR issues are often instrumentalised by opponents of reproductive rights who appeal to national interests in order to achieve demographic objectives, thus contributing to the erosion of democracy and personal freedomopponents of sexual and reproductive rights often instrumentalise issues such as the national interest or demographic change in order to undermine SRHR, thus contributing to the erosion of personal freedoms and democracy; whereas all policies addressing the demographic change must be rights-based, people-centered, tailor- made and evidence-based, and must uphold sexual and reproductive rights;
Amendment 221 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
M a. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there is a need to strengthen the resilience of health systems to such crises, with a specific focus on ensuring that SRH services continue to be fully available, that Member States do not instrumentalize the crisis to deprioritize or purposefully undermine access to these services;
Amendment 228 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas progress has been made in the areas of women’s rights and SRHR, but opponents of reproductive rights have nonetheless had an influence on national law and policyopponents of sexual and reproductive rights and women’s autonomy have had a significant influence on national law and policy with retrogressive initiatives taken in several Member States, seeking to undermine SRHR, as noted by the Parliament in its resolutions on experiencing backlash in women’s rights and gender equality in the EU and Abortion Rights in Poland, and by the European Institute for Gender Equality in its report of 22 November 2019 on Beijing +25 – The 5th Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States; whereas these initiatives and backsliding obstruct the realisation of people’s rights, countries’ development and undermines European values, fundamental rights;
Amendment 230 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
N a. whereas the current COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the population’s health as a whole, women are not only affected by the direct health threat but also adversely through the reallocation of resources and priorities, including SRH services and this reversion of resources may result in increased rates of unintended pregnancies, higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, as well as a spike in sexually transmitted disease and HIV;
Amendment 239 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)
Recital N b (new)
N b. whereas numerous reports show that, during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, SRHR services were limited and/or revoked, and there is a disruption in access to essential medical services such as contraception and abortion care, HIV and STI testingand reproductive cancer screenings, and respectful maternal healthcare;
Amendment 242 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N c (new)
Recital N c (new)
N c. whereas there is a persisting effort to instrumentalize the COVID-19 health crisis as a pretext to adopt further restrictive measures in SRHR and that has a broad and long-term negative effect on the exercise of the fundamental right to health, gender equality andfight against discrimination and gender-based violence and is putting the well-being, health and lives of women and girls at risk;
Amendment 254 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls upon the EU, its bodies and agencies to support and promote access to SRHR services and calls upon the Member States to ensure access to a full range of SRHR, and to remove all barriers impeding full accessIn accordance with the principle of subsidiarity and in line with national competences, calls upon the Member States to safeguard the right of all persons to make their own informed choices with regard to SRHR;
Amendment 267 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity and in line with national competences, calls upon the Member States to safeguard the right of all persons to make their own informed choices with regard to SRHRCalls upon the EU, its bodies and agencies to support and promote full access to SRHR services by creating a culture of equality, respect for personal autonomy, accessibility, respect, informed choice and consent, non-discrimination and non-violence andcalls upon the Member States to ensure access to a full range of SRHR, and to remove all legal, policy, financial and other barriers impeding full access to SRHR for all persons, without discrimination on any ground;
Amendment 272 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Reaffirms that SRHR are key for gender equality, the elimination of gender-based violence, economic growth and development, child protection, elimination of human trafficking and poverty;
Amendment 274 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls upon the Member States to address the persisting challenges in accessing or exercising SRHR and ensure that no persin Europe and globally and to ensure that all persons have access to high-quality and affordable SRH services and that no one is left behind by being unable to exercise their right to health; Stresses that equal access to SRHR must be ensured for all persons, regardless of age, sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, caste, religious affiliation and beliefs, marital status, socio- economic status, disability, HIV (or STI) status, national and social origin, legal and migration status, language, sexual orientation or gender identity;
Amendment 280 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Acknowledges the importance of public information on SRHR; Recalls that all policies relating to SRHR should be founded on reliable and objective evidence from organisations such as WHO, other UN agencies and the Council of Europe;
Amendment 287 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reaffirms the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights call on its member states11 to guarantee sufficient budgetary provision for SRHR and ensure the availability of adequate human resources across all levels of the health system, in both urban and rural areas; identify and address legal, policy and financial barriers that impede access to good quality SRH care and integrate SRHR services into existing public health insurance, subsidisation or reimbursement schemes in order to achieve Universal Health Coverage; _________________ 11Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, 2017, https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/ women-s-sexual-and-reproductive-rights- in-europe
Amendment 288 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses the negative effects of the so-called “tampon tax” on gender equality; Calls upon the Member States to eliminate the so-called “tampon tax” by applying a 0% VAT rate on menstrual hygiene products and ensuring that this tax cut is effectively benefitting the consumers;
Amendment 292 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Stresses that in the time of the COVID-19 induced health crisis, it is essential that universalaccess to SRHR is guaranteed, in line with international human rights standards;
Amendment 298 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls upon the Member States to establish effective strategies and monitoring programmes that guarantee enjoyment and universal access to a full range of SRHR serviceshigh-quality and affordable SRHR services; regardless of financial, practical and social barriers, and free of discrimination, with special consideration of marginalised groups of women (including but not limited to women from ethnic, racial and religious minorities, migrant women, Roma women, women from ruralareas, women with disabilities, women without health insurance, LGBTI persons, victims of sexual and gender- based violence etc.);
Amendment 306 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Urges the Member States to consider the health impact of COVID-19 through a gender-lens and ensure the continuing of provision of a full range of SRH services in all circumstances (e.g. lockdown), as well as direct additional efforts and resources to rebuild a health system which recognizes that SRHR are essential for the health and wellbeing of women and girls;
Amendment 311 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Urges the Member States to collect reliable, disaggregated and robust statistics on all SRHR services so as to ensure that all women are getting the same access to high-quality services and to detect and address possible differences in outcomes;
Amendment 312 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Amendment 314 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that all medical interventions related to SRHR must be undertaken with fully informed consent; Calls on the Member States to combat gynaecological and obstetrical violence by reinforcing procedures that guarantee respect for free and prior informed consent and protection from inhumane and degrading treatment in healthcare settings, including through training of medical professionals; calls on the European Commission to tackle this specific form of gender-based violence in its activities;
Amendment 334 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Member States to ensure universal access to scientifically accurate, evidence-based, age-appropriate, non- judgemental and comprehensive sexuality education and information for all primary and secondary school children in line with WHO standard, as well as children out of school, in line with WHO standards for Sexuality Education and its Action Plan on Sexual and Reproductive Health; without discrimination on any ground; Urges the Member States to ensure comprehensive education about menstruation and its links to sexuality and fertility; Calls upon the Member States to establish well-developed, well- funded and free of charge youth-friendly services;
Amendment 346 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls upon the Member States to reject and combat the spread of discriminatory and unsafe misinformation on SRHR, as it endangers all persons, especially women, LGBTI persons and young people; Recalls that the imparting of information should reflect the diversity of sexual orientations, gender identities, expressions and sex characteristics, so as to counter misinformation based on stereotypes or biases; Calls on Member States to develop age-appropriate sexual education curricula inclusive of the former;
Amendment 358 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls upon the Member States to ensure access to contraceptive methods, thereby safeguarding the fundamental right to healthuniversal access to high-quality and affordable modern contraceptive methods, contraceptive supplies, family planning counselling and the provision of online information on contraception for all, thereby safeguarding the fundamental right to health; and to address all barriers impeding access to contraception such as financial and social barriers;
Amendment 367 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls upon the Member States to ensure that contraception is covered under national reimbursement schemes and healthcare policies andinsurance, and at least covered by reimbursement and subsidisation schemes and healthcare policies and ensure that these schemes are evidence- and research- based, taking into account efficiency and success rates in the long term; to recognise that this coverage should be extended to all people of reproductive age;
Amendment 370 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Recalls that Member States and public authorities have a responsibility to provide evidence-based, accurate information about contraception and establish awareness-raising programmes and strategies to tackle and dispel barriers, myths, stigma and misconceptions;
Amendment 399 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to regulmove and combate obstacles to legal abortion and recalls that they have a responsibility to ensure that women have access to the rights affordconferred to them by law;
Amendment 403 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Member States to review their national legal provisions on abortion and bring them in line with international human rights standards and regional best practices by ensuring at the minimum that abortion at a woman’s request is legal in early pregnancy and even beyond if the woman’s health or life is in danger recalls that a total ban on abortion care or denial of abortion care can amount to torture and urges Member States to ensure women’s freedom from ill-treatment;
Amendment 412 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls upon the Member States to adopt measures to ensure that all women have access to affordable, evidence-based maternity careaccess without discrimination to high-quality, affordable, evidence-based and respectful maternity care for all; including midwifery, antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care, and maternal mental health support in accordance with current WHO standards and evidence; and consequently, reform laws, policies and practices that exclude certain groups of women from access to maternity care, including by removing legal and policy restrictions that apply on grounds of nationality, ethnicity or migration status;
Amendment 426 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls upon the Member States to strongly condemn and combat physical and verbal abuse, including gynaecological and obstetric violence, whichinformal payments and bribes in antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care, which violate women’s human rights and may constitute forms of gender- based violence;
Amendment 428 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 16 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Access to fertility treatments
Amendment 429 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 1 (new)
Paragraph 16 – indent 1 (new)
- Provision of SRHR services during the COVID-19 pandemic and in all other crisis related circumstances
Amendment 432 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls upon Member States to encourage and ensure that healthcare providers have training in women’s human rights and principles of free and informed consent and informed choice in antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care;
Amendment 437 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls upon Member States to ensure that all persons of reproductive age have access to fertility treatments regardless of their marital status or sexual orientation;
Amendment 439 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Calls upon Member States to ensure fertility investigations and treatments to be state funded and reimbursed across Europe, irrespective of the person's income and place of residence;
Amendment 440 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Insists that SRH services are essential services; Calls upon Member States to ensure that the COVID-19 pandemic does not affect the right of all individuals to SRHR services and to ensure they are secured through the public health systems, and combat all efforts directed on using the pandemic as an pretext to further restrict SRHR;
Amendment 442 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 e (new)
Paragraph 16 e (new)
16e. Recognizes the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has on the supply and access to contraceptives and reiterates projections of UNFPA from April 2020 which states that some 47 million women in 114 low and middle-income countries are projected to be unable to use modern contraceptives if the lockdown or supply chain disruption continues for 6 months;
Amendment 443 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 f (new)
Paragraph 16 f (new)
Amendment 444 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 g (new)
Paragraph 16 g (new)
16g. Stresses that access to safe and legal abortion continues to be limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, with examples of efforts to fully ban it under the pretence of less priority service; Urges the Member States to additionally implement safe, free and adjusted access to abortion during the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, such as the abortion pill, and to recognize abortion care as urgent and medically necessary, thus also rejecting all limitation in accessing it;
Amendment 446 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 i (new)
Paragraph 16 i (new)
16i. Urges the Member States to ensure adequate resources for quality maternity care and guarantee that policies relating to maternity healthcare during the COVID pandemic are based on evidence and facts, not fears, and respect women’s human rights;
Amendment 447 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 j (new)
Paragraph 16 j (new)
16j. Urges the Member States to ensure full access to fertility treatments and fertility care during the COVID-19 pandemic and to prevent the disruptions in offering fertility treatments which will lead to less children born from medically assisted reproduction treatments and as a consequence will deprive many people completely from their right to try to have a child;
Amendment 448 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 k (new)
Paragraph 16 k (new)
16k. Calls on the European Commission to address the impact of COVID-19 on access to SRHR in the EU in its COVID-19 response, including by supporting actions by Member States and SRHR civil society organisations to guarantee full access to SRHR services, including through the EU4Health Programme and the European Social Fund Plus;
Amendment 449 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 l (new)
Paragraph 16 l (new)
16l. Stresses that all above mentioned COVID-19 related notes and calls should apply for any other crisis related circumstances and calls upon Member States to ensure prioritization of SRHR services in all instances, without any discrimination;
Amendment 454 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls upon the Member States to exercise their competence in SRHR by striving to fully protect, respect and fulfil human rights, specifically the right to health, and implement a wide range of SRH services,in regards to SRHR, to guarantee a wide range of available, accessible, affordable, high-quality and non- discriminatory SRH services available for all without discrimination, to ensuringe that the principle of non- retrogression is respectedunder international human rights law is respected; condemns any attempt to limit access to SRHR through restrictive laws; strongly affirms that the denial of access to SRHR is a form of gender based violence;
Amendment 471 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls upon the Commissioner for Democracy and Demography to take an evidence and human-rights-based approach to tackling demographic challenges in the EU, ensuring that every EU resident can fully realise their SRHR, and to take special note and confront those who instrumentalise SRHR in order to undermine EU values and democracy;
Amendment 473 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls upon the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety to promote and protect SRHR and to include them in the next EU public health strategy; s a vital part of achieving the right to health, safety and gender equality, to monitor and promote the full implementation of SDG 3 including target 3.7 in the EU, using the UN global indicator framework; in partnership with Member States, to collect systematic, comparable, disaggregated data and conduct studies to better measure gender inequalities in health and unmet needs in access to SRH services in the EU with an intersectional perspective; to promote health information and education including on SRH; to support and harmonise national health systems and policies in order to reduce health inequalities within and between Member States; to include SRHR interventions in the EU4Health Programme, to support actions of Member States and SRHR civil society organisations in achieving full access to SRHR services through this Programme;
Amendment 479 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls upon the Commissioner for Equality to promote and protect SRHR and to include them in the next EU gender equality strategyimplementation of the EU Gender Equality strategy and the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy, to strongly condemn the backsliding in women’s rights and to develop concrete measures to counter it; to recognize the intrinsic links between realising SRHR and achieving gender equality and combating gender-based violence and to monitor and promote the full implementation of SDG 5 including target 5.6 in the EU; to successfully mainstream gender throughout all EU policies; to support the activities of SRHR civil society organisations;
Amendment 490 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls upon the Commissioner for International Partnerships to uphold the European Consensus on Development and the SDGs, in particular targets 3.7,5.6 and 5.16, to ensure that SRHR remain a development priority in all EU external activities and relations, welcomes the strong language on SRHR in the new Gender Action Plan III, emphasises the need to prioritize the removal of all barriers in the access to SRHR services; calls upon the Commissioner for International Partnerships to strongly condemn the ‘global gag’ rule;
Amendment 493 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls upon the Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life to ensure that the new Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion and Belief be dedicated to a human-rights based approach, thus respecting sexual and reproductive health and rights and dedicated to jointly working on guaranteeing the right to health for all, in the EU and globally, without any discrimination;
Amendment 494 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls upon the Commissioner for Crisis Management to include a gender equality perspective in the EU and Member States ’humanitarian aid response, and a perspective on sexual and reproductive health and rights, as access to sexual and reproductive healthcare is a basic need for people in humanitarian settings;
Amendment 496 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls upon the Commission to strengthen its actions to counter the backlash against women’s rights; ongly condemn the backsliding in women’s rights and strengthen its actions to counter it; calls on the Commission and Member States to step up their support for women’s rights and SRHR organisations in the EU, which are key actors for gender-equal societies, and crucial providers of SRH services and information; and notably their financial support through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme, the funding of which should be significantly increased as asked by the European Parliament;
Amendment 502 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Calls upon the Commission to implement gender budgeting throughout all the instruments of the MFF 2021- 2027, including the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values, the European Social Fund + and the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument;
Amendment 503 #
2020/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)
Paragraph 22 c (new)
22c. Calls upon the Commission to take concrete steps in protecting SRHR, starting with the establishment of an EU Special Envoy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Right and the addition of a designated chapter on the State of play of SRHR in the EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy;
Amendment 1 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1
Citation 1
Amendment 5 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to Articles 2 and 3(1) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), and Articles 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
Amendment 6 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
- having regard to Article 22, 23, 24 and 26 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 8 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 c (new)
Citation 1 c (new)
- having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights and, in particular, its principles 2, 3, 11 and 17;
Amendment 11 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 d (new)
Citation 1 d (new)
- having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) of 18December 1979;
Amendment 12 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 e (new)
Citation 1 e (new)
- having regard to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995;
Amendment 14 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 f (new)
Citation 1 f (new)
- having regard the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989;
Amendment 16 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 1 g (new)
Citation 1 g (new)
- having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (‘Istanbul Convention’);
Amendment 19 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Citation 2
Citation 2
— having regard to the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 20158,
Amendment 32 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the right to lifethe integrity of the person is paramount under Article 23 of the CFRharter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 35 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas gender equality is a core value of the EU; whereas the right to equal treatment and non-discrimination is a fundamental right enshrined in the Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and should be fully respected; whereas gender mainstreaming should therefore be implemented and integrated as a horizontal principle in all EU activities and policies;
Amendment 37 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Member States must adhere to all rule of law standards for justice, truth and democracy to flourish in all societithe EU continued to provide support to non-EU countries, civil society, social actors for the implementation of democracy, Rules of Law and Human Rights principles;
Amendment 43 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 46 #
2020/2208(INI)
C a. whereas the COVID-19 crisis and its consequences have affected women and men differently all over the world and the pandemic has exacerbated existing structural inequalities, especially those of a gendered nature; whereas they disproportionately affected the lives of marginalised groups including women, people of colour, LGBTI people, people with disabilities, older people and others, preventing access to essential services including SRHR services and gender based violence support;
Amendment 48 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas, as defined by the Istanbul Convention, ‘violence against women’ is ‘understood as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women and shall mean all acts of gender-based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life’;
Amendment 49 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
C c. whereas gender-based violence undermines human rights, social stability and security, public health, women’s educational and employment opportunities, as well as the well-being and development prospects of children and communities;
Amendment 50 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
C d. whereas there has been a backlash against women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights, inside and outside the European Union;
Amendment 51 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
C e. whereas protecting girls and women from violence and discrimination, in particular with regard to education, information and health services, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, is especially important for ensuring the full enjoyment of their human rights; whereas violations of SRHR, such as forced sterilization, forced abortion, forced pregnancy,criminalization of abortion, denial or delay of safe abortion and/or post-abortion care, forced continuation of pregnancy, and abuse and mistreatment of women and girls seeking sexual and reproductive health information, goods and services, are forms of gender-based violence that, depending on the circumstances, may amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;
Amendment 52 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C f (new)
Recital C f (new)
C f. whereas climate change is undermining the enjoyment of human rights and deepening already existing gender disparities that result from numerous socio-economic, institutional, cultural and political determinants; whereas women and girls are more affected by climate change due to their unequal access to resources, education, political power, job opportunities, land rights than man and due to the existing social and cultural norms such as their role as primary caregivers and providers of water, food and fuel;
Amendment 53 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C g (new)
Recital C g (new)
C g. whereas the lack of women in AI development increases the risk of bias and scientific education is important for obtaining skills, decent work, and jobs of the future, as well as for breaking with gender stereotypes that regard these as stereotypically masculine fields in order to achieve a full enjoyment of their human rights;
Amendment 54 #
2020/2208(INI)
Amendment 60 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that feminicide, where born and unborn baby girls are discarded, robs the world of their contribution, and creates imbalances between the sexes, which can lead to violence against women, rape and forced prostit robs women of their lives and robs the world of their contribution;
Amendment 62 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 66 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Calls on the Council to urgently conclude the EU ratification of the Istanbul Convention and to advocate its ratification by all the Member States; calls on the Council and the Commission to ensure the full integration of the Convention into the EU legislative and policy framework; Condemns the attempts in some States to revoke measures already taken in implementing the Istanbul Convention and in combating violence against women;
Amendment 71 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on global actors and Member States to end the plight of women and girls throughout the world subjected to human trafficking and sexual abuseexploitation; supports efforts to rescue and rehabilitate victims, and to prosecute and reform offenders;
Amendment 75 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. CRecalls on the Commission and Member States to promote healthcaEU commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment and the necessity of equal re practices that benefit patients; notes that in this context abortion causes injury, infertility and mortality every year; urges Member States and international courts to prosecute medical professionals who fail to clinically demonstrate the benefit of the treatment they are providingesentation of women and men in leadership and in the decision-making; Calls for increase the presence and contribution of women inartificial intelligence, digital and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the world;
Amendment 76 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Strongly affirms that the denial of quality and affordable comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights services including comprehensive sexuality education is a form of gender based violence; stresses the need to support civil society organisations engaged in the promotion of reproductive justice especially within marginalised communities whose work continues to be threatened by the shrinking space for civil society; urges the Commission and the Council to reject any further attempts at rolling back gains for women’s human rights, equality, right to self- determination and full control over their own bodies; calls on the Commission and Member States to renew its support for sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to safe and legal abortion, age appropriate, evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education, comprehensive family planning care including contraception and unbiased information, antenatal, childbirth and post natal care both within and beyond the European Union;
Amendment 78 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Highlights the vulnerable position of women and girls in many parts of the world in relation to COVID-19, such as access to healthcare, including SRHR, accession to contraception, abortion care, fertility treatment, HIV and STI testing, reproductive cancer screenings, sexuality and relationship education and maternal healthcare, vulnerability to violence, including FGM and child marriage, employment status, access to education and extreme poverty and hunger;
Amendment 86 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to respect women and girls’ reproductive capacity, and hence to condemn commercial surrogacy;
Amendment 89 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to address the phenomenon of young women in particular from Christian minorities being forced to marry older men from outside their religion in certain parts of the world.being forced to marry. Calls on global actors to ensure children have continued access to education, with due attention to vulnerable children or at risk/in poverty, girls who face a greater risk of early and forced marriage;
Amendment 92 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Urges Member States to find a binding tool based on solidarity to manage the migration phenomenon and to create safe and legal migration channels and issuance of humanitarian visas; points out that the situation for refugees is worst for more vulnerable persons like women, who are exposed to violations of their basic rights being often victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation and who, during the sea crossing, are more likely victims of the so- called “dinghy-disease” that provokes serious burns on their bodies because of the fuel that lays on the bottom of dinghy boats where women and children usually sit; Calls to systematically integrate a gender mainstreaming and intersectional perspective in the EU’s foreign and security, migration, enlargement, trade and development policy;
Amendment 95 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to table binding measures on pay transparency by the end of 2020;strongly recommends the inclusion of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value between women and men including a definition of “value” and gender-neutral evaluation tools and classification criteria to better determine its value in order to fight gender inequalities undermining women’s possibility to receive the valuation of their work achieve their deserved career and often their economic independence;
Amendment 97 #
2020/2208(INI)
6 c. Urges the European institutions to integrate gender mainstreaming throughout the 2021 budgetary procedure, crucial procedure being the first of the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework(MFF), through gender budgeting; particularly in light of the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on women’s rights, such as increased gender based violence during the lockdown, a higher risk of drop-out from the labour market linked to a higher burden of care tasks, a higher share of women employed in sectors affected by the lockdown, including in the informal economy and in sectors with more precarious working conditions; Urges European Institution to integrate the gender perspective in all its workings and decision making processes regarding Next generation EU;
Amendment 99 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Calls for specific gender chapters in all future EU trade and investment agreements;
Amendment 100 #
2020/2208(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6 e. Commends the progress on the EU-UN Spotlight initiative; calls on the Commission to ensure that projects sponsored by the initiative work towards addressing the root causes of women’s rights violations including the perpetuation of harmful gender based stereotypes;
Amendment 367 #
2020/2121(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Highlights the additional needs of minority groups, such as Roma women, who face challenges in maintaining hygiene and adhering to confinement measures due to a lack of access to basic infrastructure, services and information; especially during confinement;
Amendment 384 #
2020/2121(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Emphasises that the global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic requires a global response; highlights the vulnerable position of women and girls in many parts of the world - especially in fragile and conflict affected states - in relation to COVID-19, such as access to healthcare, including SRHR, vulnerability to violence, including FGM and child marriage, employment status, access to education and extreme poverty and hunger; underlines the importance of supporting women’s rights defenders and women’s rights organisations and their participation at all levels of decision-making;
Amendment 389 #
2020/2121(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that all financial support given to partner countries to cope with the crisis are properly allocated to support women and girls, such as to secure access to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), avoid child labour, and avoid the lockdowns to lead to a loose of autonomy for women and girls worldwide;
Amendment 406 #
2020/2121(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fully assess the needs arising from the crisis and its socio- economic consequences, and to allocate adequate budgetary resources to tackling these needs; calls on the Commission and Member States to apply gender mainstreaming in all areas of the recovery strategy and to allocate extra budgetary resources through a Women Corona Fund to tackling the needs of women and girls, especially in the field of employment, violence and SRHR, as well as to the monitoring of this spending, following its commitments in the Gender Equality Strategy; emphasises that preparatory action is the best way to build resilience in all areas for future crises;
Amendment 3 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU industrial sector, while hav should be supported ing the potential to contribute to environmental protection, has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and needs support for its recoveryst-COVID- 19 recovery in a way that leads to a strong, more sustainable and competitive industry, with all sectors contributing to the objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest and to the protection of the environment;
Amendment 14 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the new European Industrial Strategy should be an enabler of a just transition to a climate neutral, circular and zero-pollution economy;
Amendment 16 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas getting the Industrial Strategy right as an integral part of the European Green Deal will boost jobs and economic opportunities, safeguard our climate and environment for future generations and become an era-defining policy that will help rebuild a sustainable European economy;
Amendment 28 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas non-EU competitors often take advantage of less the Union can exert considerable influence in global climate and environmental action via its internal market and green diplomacy, as well as by demonstratingent climate and environmental regulations and lower labour costsleadership while also supporting the development of future-proof industries and high standards for social protection;
Amendment 50 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to consider the impact of COVID-19 by eventually reviewing targets to facilitate industrial recovery, in defining the features of a future looking industrial strategy, the unprecedented economic impacts caused by COVID-19; highlights that the European Green Deal should be continued to be used as Europe’s strategy for growth; calls on the Commission to carefully analyse any attempts to delay implementation of existing targets and limit these only to cases where it can be clearly established that the implementation of these targets has been significantly affected by COVID-19;
Amendment 57 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the need for a green and fair recovery following the COVID-19 crisis in order to support sustainable economic growth in the EU, increasing investments in the digital and green transitions; calls on the Member States to support the creation of an ambitious Recovery plan with the Next Generation EU in the framework of a stronger MFF and the creation of new own resources; emphasises that the use of the recovery funds should be fully in line with the Union’s climate and environmental objectives and drive forward the green transition;
Amendment 64 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights the importance of strengthening fiscal policy coordination and the European fiscal framework in the economic recovery of the Union; is of the opinion that, after the peak of the pandemic, the Recovery Fund should become a permanent Reconstruction Fund to foster the digital and the green industrial transitions;
Amendment 70 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses that all sectors and industrial value chains, and in particular the energy-intensive sectors, will have a key role to play in achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal through the reduction of their own carbon footprints but also accelerating the transition by providing affordable and clean technology solutions, by developing and creating value chains for economically viable and sustainable products and processes and by developing new sustainable business models;
Amendment 74 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Recalls that the green transition should be fair and socially just, with no one left behind; stresses that just transition and reduction of inequalities should be mainstreamed in social, economic and environmental policies at all levels; highlights the importance of ensuring ambitious funding for the Just Transition Fund, which should particularly contribute to the creation of sustainable jobs and the upskilling and reskilling of workers;
Amendment 76 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Stresses that the EU Industrial Strategy is not solely about enabling the transition of energy-intensive industries, but about creating a broader sustainable industrial base, including the SMEs, which are an important part of the European economy;
Amendment 78 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Maintains that the Industrial Strategy must also identify ways in which SMEs can contribute to greenhouse gas emission reductions and environmental protection in the EU, complementing the efforts and policies already in place and providing additional tools in order to enable them to keep up and contribute to the green transition of the industry to a climate neutral economy;
Amendment 85 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that, while forcing its industries and citizens t the green transition goes hand in hand with just transition, ensuring no contribute to extremely ambitious climate goals, the EU should strive for sustainability without compromising competitiveness ande is left behind; supports the establishment of ambitious climate goals for 2030 and 2040 in addition to the climate neutrality goal; believes that the EU should strive for sustainability and strengthen its competitiveness, while ensuring a high level of socio- economic well-being for discriminating against any technology that contributes to the transall and reduction of inequalitiones;
Amendment 91 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines that a truly effective European Industrial Strategy and policy needs to be built on ambitious climate action and targets on the basis of the Climate law, providing a roadmap to shape the industry of the future with all sectors contributing to reach the objective of climate neutrality as early as possible and at the latest by 2050;
Amendment 96 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses that all sectors and industrial value chains, and in particular the energy-intensive ones, will have a key role to play in achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal through the reduction of their carbon footprints but also through accelerating the transition by providing affordable and clean technology solutions, by developing and creating value chains for economically viable, sustainable products and processes and by developing new sustainable business models;
Amendment 100 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Recalls that the green transition should be fair and socially just, with no one left behind; stresses that just transition and reduction of inequalities should be mainstreamed in social, economic and environmental policies at all levels; highlights the importance of ensuring ambitious funding for the Just Transition Fund, which should particularly contribute to the creation of sustainable jobs and the upskilling and reskilling of workers;
Amendment 102 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses that the EU Industrial Strategy is not solely about enabling the transition of energy-intensive industries, but about creating a broader sustainable industrial base, including the SMEs, which are an important part of the European economy;
Amendment 104 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Maintains that the Industrial Strategy must also identify ways in which SMEs can contribute to greenhouse gas emission reductions and environmental protection in the EU;
Amendment 143 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for coherent EU policies to reduce overlaps and improve the enforcement of existing legislation, and for simplified EU funding in light of the difficulties experienced inUnderlines that EU policies should be coherent across sectors, aim to reduce overlaps and promote synergies; emphasises the importance of climate and environmental mainstreaming in all policy sectors; calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure correct implementation and effective enforcement of existing legislation; considers that access to EU funding should be facilitated particular by micro-ly for SMEs;
Amendment 147 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the European Industrial Strategy should also ensure that clear, comprehensive and easily accessible information is made available on the status of European industry, particularly all information relevant to understand the health and environmental impacts of industrial production;
Amendment 152 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for ambitious climate and biodiversity mainstreaming in the next MFF in order to support the decarbonisation of European societies and economies as well as the protection and restoration of biodiversity; considers it important to promote sustainability throughout all the production chains through public and private financing sources; emphasises also the importance of climate and biodiversity-proofing investments, including the funds from the MFF and the Recovery plan ensuring that Union funds are not used in a way contrary to its climate or environmental objectives; calls on the Member States to phase out all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 so as to fulfil the EU’s climate commitments;
Amendment 157 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a predictable intellectual property framework as this is key to incentivising investments and the promotion of innovative solutionunitary supplementary protection certificate which would ensure equal intellectual property (IP) protection to innovative pharma across the EU while upholding generic producers’ rights to manufacture for third countries where the supplementary protection has expired and to ensure Day-1 Entry of generic and biosimilar medicines contributing, io the Union pmarticular, to reducing GHG1 emissions; __________________ 1ket after the expiry of the relevant supplementary protection certificate; Greenhouse gas emissions
Amendment 160 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take action to restore European health sovereignty and local pharmaceutical manufacturing, giving priority to essential and strategic medicines to be defined and identified by public authorities at EU level in close cooperation with Member States and to preserve an attractive ecosystem for R&D in the pharmaceutical sector; stresses that the strategy should encourage producers to re-locate in the EU the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), medicine and compound manufacturing, packaging and distribution;
Amendment 166 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Observes that any initiative on restoring European health sovereignty and local pharmaceutical manufacturing in this sense should incorporate public safeguards, such as transparency regarding public contributions and clauses on accessibility and affordability of manufactured medicines to ensure they are equally available at a fair price;
Amendment 167 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create one or more European non-profit pharmaceutical undertakings which operate in the public interest to address the issue of medicine shortages and contribute to the availability of medicines on the markets of different Member States;
Amendment 171 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that a global level playing field is needed; calls for a revision of the EU ETS2 and a CBAM3 to allow for a smart reshoring of manufacturing and shorter value chains, and toin line with the increased climate targets; stresses the need in particular to increase the linear reduction factor and reduce the free allocation of allowances to reflect technical progress; highlights the role of a CBAM3 in avoiding carbon leakage; __________________ 2 EU Emissions Trading System 3 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
Amendment 181 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for better coordinated FTAs4 to foster consistency between trade, climate and environmental protection, customs, market surveillance and industrial policies; calls for prioritising the implementation of, in particular, thealso for the establishment of enforceable trade and sustainable development chapters in all trade agreements; stresses the importance of the implementation of EU regulations on product safety for imported products.; __________________ 4 Free Trade Agreements
Amendment 185 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recalls that according to the Industrial Strategy, applying circular economy principles in all sectors and industries has potential to create 700,000 new jobs across the EU by 2030, many of which in SMEs; stresses that the Union’s industrial policy has to be fully aligned with the new Circular Economy Action Plan and ensure the transition of the European economy to a non-toxic circular economy;
Amendment 196 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Highlights that in order to improve circularity of the economy, demand-side measures such as promotion of sustainable consumption and increasing the use of green public procurement are only one side of the coin, and that significant efforts will have to be made to increase resource efficiency and circularity in production processes; calls on the Commission to set clear targets and legislative frameworks to this effect; welcomes in this regard the announcement of a Sustainable product policy framework and the establishment of mandatory recycled content requirements;
Amendment 202 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Commission to set up ambitious sector-specific targets for improving resource efficiency, starting from the most resource-intensive sectors; considers that roadmaps that would guide the transition of the different sectors towards circularity should also be established and prepared in cooperation with industry associations, companies, trade unions, civil society and academia; underlines the importance of having in place a clear monitoring framework that provides comprehensive and publicly available information on progress made;
Amendment 209 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Welcomes the intention of the Commission to set a more strategic approach for renewable energy industries; considers that these industries should be fully supported given their key role in decarbonising the energy systems and achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest; highlights also the importance of following the energy- efficiency first principle to reduce energy demand;
Amendment 218 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Stresses that in the Union’s future actions on hydrogen, clear priority should be given to the development of renewable- based green hydrogen over other fossil fuels based forms;
Amendment 219 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. Stresses that the sustainable and smart mobility industries have both the potential and responsibility to drive the digital and environmental transitions, to support Europe’s industrial competitiveness and to improve connectivity in particular in the automotive, aerospace, rail and ship building industries; calls on the Commission and Member States to increase investments in zero-emission mobility and resilient and secure transport infrastructures, in particular high-speed networks, and to further support the development of sustainable alternative fuels;
Amendment 222 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6g. Underlines the importance of developing sustainable battery value chains for current and future electro- mobility needs; stresses that the new regulatory framework for batteries should fully incorporate sustainability requirements such as targets for reuse and recycling, and sustainable and socially responsible sourcing of raw materials; calls on the Commission and Member States to foster investments in a competitive and sustainable battery manufacturing sector providing a framework which includes secure access to raw materials, support for technological innovation, and consistent rules on battery production in line with the requirements of a the circular economy;
Amendment 225 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 h (new)
Paragraph 6 h (new)
6h. Highlights that the industry should fully contribute to the protection of biodiversity and the environment; points out that over half of global GDP depends on nature and the services it provides, with several sectors highly reliant on nature; notes that more than 90% of biodiversity loss and water stress come from resource extraction and processing; emphasises that the European industrial policy should be in line with the objectives of the 2030 Biodiversity strategy and respect the precautionary and polluter- pays principles;
Amendment 229 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 i (new)
Paragraph 6 i (new)
6i. Points out that industry is still a major contributor to environmental pollution with releases of pollutants to air, water and soil; underlines the role of the Industrial Emissions Directive in setting up obligations for large installations to minimise releases of pollutants; looks forward to the upcoming zero-pollution action plan for air, water and soil and the revision of the Industrial Emissions Directive that should lead to a significant reduction of industrial pollution;
Amendment 231 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 j (new)
Paragraph 6 j (new)
6j. Underlines that the European Industrial Strategy should be fully aligned with the upcoming Chemicals strategy for sustainability on the basis of elimination of hazardous substances and substitution to safer alternatives with particular emphasis on reducing and preventing exposure to chemicals such as endocrine disruptors, in order to protect human health and the environment;
Amendment 234 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 k (new)
Paragraph 6 k (new)
6k. Stresses the need to foster innovation in the chemical industry and acknowledges that the chemical industry is able to provide multiple low carbon solutions; stresses that promoting innovation and minimising the exposure of humans and the environment to hazardous chemicals are key elements in the transition from a linear to a circular and sustainable chemical industry, which would give to this pivotal sector for the European economy a major competitive advantage;
Amendment 237 #
2020/2076(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 l (new)
Paragraph 6 l (new)
6l. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to develop policies to facilitate and promote safe and sustainable chemical manufacturing in Europe, bringing back strategic value chains such as Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and disinfectants, in order to regain controls in this strategic area and to reduce Europe’s dependence on third countries to ensure a secure access and avoid medicine shortages;
Amendment 44 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas shortages of medicines is a growing public health threat with a serious negative impact on health care systems and the right of every patient in the EU to access appropriate medical treatment;
Amendment 69 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas medicine shortages can lead to possible delays in patients’ treatment, the need to switch to alternative therapies that could be less effective, adverse effects and adherence problems or even a threat to life;
Amendment 82 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the loss of European sovereignty and independence in the health sector is linked to the relocation of production, with 40% of medicinal end products marketed in the EU now originating in third countries; whereas the only way to save money is to relan important role is played in the EU by theavily on subcontractors to produce pharmaceutical raw materials in Asia, manufacturing footprint already in place; whereas labour costs and environmental standards areoutside the EU are often lower, with the result that 80% of active ingredients are manufactured outside the EU, mainly in China and India;
Amendment 97 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the health crisis linked to COVID-19 will likely be followed by an economic crisis in Europe, challenging the sustainability of healthcare systems, access to treatment for patients, as well as the competitiveness of the sector on a global scale;
Amendment 142 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas there are no price harmonisation arrangements to facilitate ‘parallel exports’ to countries where the medicine in question is more expensive; whereas parallel exports have determined in some cases the unintended consequence of creating disruptions in supply across Member States;
Amendment 146 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas profit-oriented decision making, discontinuations of products and withdrawals from particular Member States’ markets, which are less profitable, are common reasons for medicine shortages; whereas there are several other root causes of medicines shortage, amongst them economic causes, regulatory burden, unforeseen surges in demand, supply chain interdependencies and manufacturing and quality challenges;
Amendment 158 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas, in the absence of a regulatory authority, stockpiling in some Member States is leadingcoordination and regulatory measures at EU level, stockpiling in some Member States is leading to reduced access to treatments for patients in the EU and to a market imbalance;
Amendment 180 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the destruction of biodiversity, the proliferation of man-made habitats and damage to natural areas densely populated by humans and unsustainable food production methods are facilitating the propagation of zoonoses, i.e. the transmission to humans and rapid spread of animal pathogens;
Amendment 197 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the geostrategic imperative thatfor the Union to regain its sovereignty and independence with regard to health care and with the objective of rapidly and efficiently secureing its supply of medicines and medical equipment;
Amendment 216 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that, while public health policies are a Member State matter, it is incumbent upon the EU tothe running of health care systems are a Member State matter, the EU has an important role in public health, including coordinateing and complementing national measures to guarantee affordable and high-quality health services for European citizens;
Amendment 251 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that shortage of medicine is a serious threat to the right to essential medical treatments for patients in the EU, generating inequalities between patients depending on their country of residence and also creating possible disruption of the single market;
Amendment 257 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Securing supplies in the interests of patients and, restoring health sovereignty and ensuring access to medical treatment to all patients in the EU;
Amendment 276 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take whatever action is neededaction to restore European health sovereignty and local pharmaceutical manufacturing, giving priority to essential and strategic medicines to be defined and identified by public authorities at EU level in close cooperation with Member States and to preserve an attractive ecosystem for R&D in the pharmaceutical sector; calls on the Commission to map out existing and potential production sites in the EU;
Amendment 310 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to address in its nextupcoming pharmaceutical and industrial strategies issues relating to the availability and accessibility of medicines and manufacturers’ dependence on third countries; stresses the importance of pan- European coordination and dialogue and asks the Commission to evaluate in its upcoming strategies the inclusion of dialogue platforms with the participation of the relevant stakeholders;
Amendment 334 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission and the Member States to introducAcknowledges that the pharmaceutical industry plays an important role for quality manufacturing and supply of medicines to reach all patients in need, to contribute to future innovation, support the resilience, responsiveness and readiness of healthcare systems and help address future challenges including pandemics; Asks the Commission and the Member States, if needed for public interest, to evaluate economic sustainable policies, such as for example tax and financial incentives, in return for appropriate commitments and to authorise state aid to encourage producers to re-locate their operations in Europe, fromin the EU the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), medicine and compound manufacturing to, packaging and distribution; emphasises the strategic significance of this sector and the importance of investing in European companies, in the interests of resource diversificationobserves that any incentive should incorporate public safeguards, such as transparency regarding public contributions and clauses on accessibility and affordability of manufactured medicines to ensure they are equally available at a fair price; emphasises the strategic significance of this sector and the importance to protect the public interest and affordable access to treatment;
Amendment 353 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that market authorisation holders and wholesale distributors comply with the requirement of Directive 2001/83/EC to ensure appropriate and continued supplies of medicines; recalls the public responsibility of marketing authorisation holders and wholesale distributors to ensure an appropriate and prompt marketization and distribution of medicine in order to guarantee the right to equal treatment to all patients in the EU, regardless of their country of residence; calls on the Commission to clarify the marketing authorisation holder’s obligations under the Directive 2001/83/EC and highlights the need to ensure that market authorization holders report about all medicines shortages within the established timeframes; stresses the need to apply dissuasive sanctions for non-compliance with these legal obligations; calls on the Commission to explore how the requirement to ensure continued supplies could be strengthened;
Amendment 371 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on Member States to require market authorisation holders to submit medicines shortage prevention plans for risk mitigation, as part of their obligation to ensure continuous supply as foreseen by Directive 2001/83; stresses the need to make such prevention plans mandatory by EU law; calls for ensuring proactive monitoring of medicines at risk of shortage at EU and national level;
Amendment 411 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes that procurement practices focusing solely on price have resulted in manufacturers withdrawing from national markets leading to market consolidation and an increasing risk of medicines shortages; calls on the Commission and Member States to engage in a structured exchange to apply criteria other than price in tendering procedures such as reliability of supply;
Amendment 422 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create one or more European non-profit pharmaceutical undertakings which operate in the public interest to manufacture priority medicines of strategic importance for health care; stresses the key contribution that can be made by new technologies and artificial intelligence in enabling European laboratory researchers to form networks and share their objectives and findingaddress the issue of medicine shortages and contribute to the availability of medicines on the markets of different Member States;
Amendment 439 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the key contribution that can be made by new technologies and artificial intelligence in enabling European laboratory researchers to form networks and share their objectives and findings; urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure that algorithm- based technologies used to address medicines shortages are effective and compliant with the European Data Protection framework;
Amendment 449 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the importance of research and innovation, and calls for the estincluding off-patent research, in order to achieve secure and appropriate availabilishment of a genuine European network, given that the price of relocation must not be a deterioration in the quality of medicalty of medicines thus guaranteeing the right to equal treatment to all patients in the EU, and calls for appropriate funding to be allocated by EU and national budgets; urges the European Commission and Member States to include availability and affordability related conditions in research funds;
Amendment 499 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recommends the introduction of centralised managementCalls on Member States, in close collaboration with the Commission and other affected stakeholders, to explore alternative approaches to ensuring adequate stocks, such as the effective enforcement of existing regulatory requirements on all actors in the supply chain at national level, as well as measures to increase transparency within the supply chain; recommends the introduction of centralised management under the leadership of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to bring about greater transparency in the distribution chain and the creation of a European supply management unit tasked with developing a European strategy to prevent and resolve breaks in supply;
Amendment 542 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to create a European contingency reserve of medicines of strategic importance for health care, supplies of which are critical, alalong the lines of the ‘RescEU’ mechanism, in order to alleviate shortages outside crisis periods, and to require marketing authorization holders to ensure stocks of medicine in the form of finished product, particularly for those medicines for which no or only limited alternatives are available, and where discontinuation of supply will result in a potential risk for public health; calls ong the lines of the ‘RescEU’ mechanism, in order to alleviate shortages outside crisis periods; Commission to ensure transparency around the functioning of this mechanism and the criteria to distribute stocks; urges the Commission to develop guidance and a monitoring system to ensure that national initiatives on stockpiling are proportionate to the needs; in this regard welcomes the Commission proposal for the EU4Health Programme;
Amendment 576 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt a joint definition of 'shortage of medicines', ‘medicines of strategic importance for health care’ and of ‘criticality’ while taking into account patients' needs, emphasising the value of these medicines for public health, the lack of alternatives and the vulnerability of the production chain; calls for a European regulatory authority to be designated to carry out the task of setting quotas for the allocation of medicines from that reserve to the Member States;
Amendment 589 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop innovative and coordinated strategies and to step up exchanges of good practice in the area of stock management; recognizes the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as the body best suited to take the responsibility of the European response to medicines shortages; considers that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) cshould be designated as the regulatory authority coordinating and monitoring medicines shortages at EU level during emergencies and beyond, tasked also with preventing shortages of essential medicines, with a correspondingly wider remitstronger mandate, wider remit, better infrastructures, and more staff;
Amendment 609 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for further invitations to tenderjoint procurements to be issued at European level in an effort to counter shortages, as has been done following the onset of the COVID-19 virus, with simplified procedures in the interests of improved response times; calls for EU joint procurement to be used more routinely to ensure supply and access to medicines and medical devices when considered appropriate; in this regard calls on the Commission to propose a Regulation to revise the Cross Border Health Threats Decision, which establishes Joint Procurement Mechanism;
Amendment 620 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Recognises the importance of drawing lessons from the COVID-19 crisis in order to be better prepared for and deal with future pandemics more effectively; therefore calls on the Commission, in close collaboration with Member States, to launch a EU pandemic preparedness plan, in order to ensure a coordinated and effective European pandemic response, with appropriate response mechanisms already in place;
Amendment 634 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take action against the distortive effects caused by parallel imports in some Member States in order to ensure that medicines reach all patients in the EU in a timely way;
Amendment 648 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the CommissionMember States to set up interoperable databases to foresee and report on shortages; calls on the Commission together with the EMA to set up an innovative centralised digital platform for sharing information provided by national agencies and all stakeholders regarding current or expected shortages of medicines and medical equipment; welcomes the introduction by the EMA of the SPOC and i-SPOC systems; calls for existing information systems to be improved and further developed so as to provide a clear overview of problems, shortages, available stocks and requirements in each Member State, also with a view to preventing stockpiling;
Amendment 665 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission together with the EMA to setup a comprehensive and user-friendly database informing on expected or current medicines shortages and for it to be available to health care authorities at all levels, together with appropriate information about existing alternatives; stresses the need to ensure transparency about the causes of medicines shortages;
Amendment 678 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Considers it essential to improve communication with healthcare professionals and patients on medicine availability through the use of innovative digital tools providing real-time data on the availability, location, quantity and price of a given medicine, in compliance with data protection legislation; recalls that health care professionals must have access to up- to-date information to be able to adequately respond to arising and existing shortages given that early awareness of a supply problem and early identification of potential therapeutic alternatives may mitigate possible adverse reactions which endanger patient safety;
Amendment 702 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for an electronic information notice to be drawn up in all the Union languages for every medicine on the EU market, in order to facilitate sales of medicines between Member States, without replacing the paper Patient Information Leaflet; recommends the provision of more comprehensive information on the origin of medicines;
Amendment 721 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Welcomes the creation by the Commission of a Clearing House for medical equipment on COVID-19, which aims to support Member States in matching supply and demand of medical equipment at EU level, identify and overcome bottlenecks in the supply chain and exchange information on supply and demand in view of actions to be implemented by the Emergency Support Instrument;
Amendment 739 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Believes that EU healthcare systems need more common standards and better interoperability in order to avoid medicines shortages and provide quality healthcare for all in society, therefore calls on the Commission to propose a directive setting minimum standards for quality healthcare systems, based on the findings of stress tests;
Amendment 742 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Highlights with concern the shortages of some medicines that have occurred during the COVID19 crisis, including shortages of medicines used in intensive care; underlines the importance of maintaining the production, supply, distribution, development and equal access to high-quality medicines, coordinated by EMA; notes with concern the export bans placed on some medicines globally and welcomes the engagement by the Commission to secure the supply of medicines; underlines that experimental use of medicines to treat COVID-19 must not lead to shortages for patients with other conditions, who depend on these medicines;
Amendment 744 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)
Paragraph 22 c (new)
22c. Insists that, in preparation of a safe and efficacious vaccine or treatment against COVID-19 being developed and authorised, all steps must be taken to ensure rapid production and distribution is possible in Europe and globally, ensuring fair and equal access to the vaccine or treatment;
Amendment 746 #
2020/2071(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 d (new)
Paragraph 22 d (new)
22d. Welcomes the World Health Assembly resolution of 18 May 2020 which calls for the universal, timely and equitable access to and fair distribution of all quality, safe, efficacious and affordable essential health technologies and products including their components and precursors required in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a global priority, and the urgent removal of unjustified obstacles thereto consistent with the provisions of relevant international treaties including the provisions of the TRIPS agreement and the flexibilities as confirmed by the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health;
Amendment 2 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas there is a direct link between climate change and its impact on environmental degradation, food and water security, access to natural resources, human health, and migration; whereas these phenomena directly or indirectly also threaten the full enjoyment of human rights, including the rights to life, water and sanitation, food, health and housing;
Amendment 12 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas climate change has a greater destructive impact on the countries least responsible for global warming; whereas womenthe poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and girls are more affected by climate change, face higher risks and bear greater burdens for various reasons, ranging from unequal access to resources, education, political power, job opportunities and land rights, to existing social and cultural norms and to their intersectional experiences of discrimination, reducing their ability to protect themselves against the impacts of climate change; whereas, at the same time, women and girls are on the forefront of the defence of natural resources and often the first respondent in their communities to the impacts of climate crisis; whereas women are key to managing the climate crisis and should be supported as agents of change;
Amendment 16 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the negative consequences of climate change undermine development prospects of countries and deepen already existing gender disparities that result from numerous socio-economic, institutional, cultural and political determinants;
Amendment 20 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the adverse effects of climate change can lead to migration; whereas the situation for internally displaced people and asylum seekers due to environmental reasons is worst for more vulnerable people like women, who are exposed to violations of their basic rights being often victims of human trafficking and sex exploitation;
Amendment 32 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that gender equality isand women’s and girls’ empowerment are a catalyst for sustainable development and a prerequisite for the management of climate challenges; calls for the EU and its Member States to include gender analysis and budgeting in development cooperation polices and all instruments to advance gender-just climate actions and to supporting climate change adaptation and resilience in developing countries;
Amendment 35 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that people in rural areas in developing countries, in particular women who are overrepresented amongst the world's poorest people, are especially vulnerable as they are often dependent on natural resources, as they do much of the agricultural work, such as food production and collecting water and fuel, and as they are very often responsible for unpaid work inhouse holds and communities; calls on the EC to step-up support to women’s production capacity to cope with food insecurity due to climate change;
Amendment 39 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls that social and cultural norms influence women's vulnerability to climate change due to the gendered division of labour, mobility, roles in the household and participation in political and economic decision making;
Amendment 40 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Underlines that there is strong evidence that the impact on health of climate-sensitive conditions, such as malnutrition, and the incidence of infectious diseases, such as malaria, varies according to gender; notes with concern the high female mortality rate in disaster situations; recalls that climate change effects cause an increase of diseases affecting women, girls and their sexual health and reproductive rights; a lack of clean water, consequence of climate change, badly influences hygiene for pregnant women, maternal health and menstrual periods; Urges the integration of the gender perspective in sustainable development policies and programmes to ensure that the rights of women and girls - including sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and necessary healthcare services -,the promotion of gender equality and climate justice are mainstreamed through its strategy programmes;
Amendment 42 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the new Gender Action Plan for External Relations (GAP III) to include for the first time gender equality and climate change as priority areas, to develop related indicators and to guarantee sufficient resources to deliver on this objective; GAPIII should support meaningful and effective political participation of women-led and women’s rights organisations in partner countries at all levels; calls on ensuring access of women’s organisations to international climate funds and climate negotiations, especially in light of the important leadership women often take in tackling the impacts of climate change in their countries and communities;
Amendment 46 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to collect country-specific and gender disaggregated data, to establish gender-sensitive indicators and benchmarks and to develop practical tools for a more efficient integration of the gender perspective when planning, implementing and evaluating climate change policies, programmes and projects;
Amendment 52 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that women and girls are powerful agents of change and calls for EU development programmes to promote their meaningful participation at all levels, as their inclusion is crucial to climate resilience and to ensuring long-term climate solutions;
Amendment 54 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recognises that the implementation of climate change policies offers possibilities for women, especially in developing countries, to become more active in local politics and thereby give local women a voice; recognises that policies on the local level can have an effect on the lives of people, which makes including women in the execution of these policies a fundamental principle;
Amendment 58 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Recalls that gender gaps in energy-related education are due to gender-based prejudices and stereotypes that exclude women from areas of green economy such as transport and energy, causing a waste of human resources and preventing the EU from achieving its full competitive potential; urges the need to increase the number of women with relevant qualifications in scientific and technological fields as well as the number of women participating in relevant scientific bodies at the highest level; Urges national governments to encourage and oblige companies and the academic world to include women at all levels of decision-making in industrial sectors such as energy, transport and oil;
Amendment 62 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that countries committed to revise their national climate action plans (NDCs) in 2020 and that this commitment is not dependent on when the COP takes place; Calls on the Commission to design a concrete action plan to deliver on the commitments of the renewed Gender Action Plan agreed at the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) and to appoint a permanent EU gender and climate change focal point, with sufficient budget resources, to implement and monitor gender-responsible climate action in the EU and globally.; call on the EU and its Member States to ensure gender-just national climate action plans (NDCs) by integrating more strongly gender equality into the revised NDCs, and the meaningful involvement of women’s groups in their design and implementation;
Amendment 69 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the EC to ensure that the Renewed Partnership and the Comprehensive Strategy with Africa is founded on principles of climate, environmental action achieving Agenda 2030, and gender equality, and achieves a human rights based approach which puts communities and women at the heart of environmental and development efforts;
Amendment 72 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses the need to make the financing of both adaptation to climate change and mitigation of its effects gender-responsive; Calls for the EU to step up financial support to gender-just climate actions for adaptation and addressing loss and damage in developing countries, including climate action undertaken by grassroot women’s organizations, given their central role in local responses to the climate crisis;
Amendment 75 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that insufficient adaptation capacities lead to climate-induced displacement; the environmental impact is worst for more vulnerable people like women and girls, who are exposed to violations of their basic rights being often victims of human trafficking and sex exploitation; calls for the WIM Taskforce on Displacement to step up its activities;
Amendment 91 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recalls that the negative consequences of climate change undermine a country’s development prospects, and compounds already existing inequalities such as gender disparities; urges the Commission to have a gender-sensitive approach in the elaboration and implementation of all policies that have an impact on the situation of rural women and girls;
Amendment 93 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Amendment 109 #
2020/2042(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that women and girls are powerful agents of change and calls for EU development programmes to promote their meaningful participation at all levels, as their inclusion is crucial to climate resilience and to ensuring long- term climate solutions.
Amendment 9 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6
Citation 6
— having regard to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (“the Istanbul Convention”),
Amendment 41 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
— having regard to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women of 18 December 1979,
Amendment 42 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 b (new)
Citation 12 b (new)
— having regard to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 10 December 1984,
Amendment 44 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 c (new)
Citation 12 c (new)
— having regards to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on closing the digital gender gap: women’s participation in the digital economy,
Amendment 47 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 d (new)
Citation 12 d (new)
— having regard to the report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) of March 2014 entitled ‘Violence against women: an EU-wide survey’,
Amendment 48 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 e (new)
Citation 12 e (new)
Amendment 50 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
— having regards to resolution of 11 February 2021 on challenges ahead for women’s rights in Europe: more than 25 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,
Amendment 52 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 b (new)
Citation 13 b (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 17 April 2020 on EU coordinated action to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences,
Amendment 55 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 c (new)
Citation 13 c (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 28 November 2019 on the EU’s accession to the Istanbul Convention and other measures to combat gender-based violence,
Amendment 56 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 d (new)
Citation 13 d (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 13 February 2019 on experiencing a backlash in women’s rights and gender equality in the EU,
Amendment 57 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 e (new)
Citation 13 e (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 11 September 2018 on measures to prevent and combat mobbing and sexual harassment at the workplace, in public spaces, and in political life in the EU,
Amendment 58 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 26 October 2017 on combating sexual harassment and abuse in the EU,
Amendment 90 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas innovation happens at a pace that often does not allow for reflection its long-term consequences, whereas rapid technological developments, such as the increasing reach of the internet, the spread of mobile information, and the widespread use of social media frequently give ground and generate new forms of gender-based violence online;
Amendment 99 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas currently there is no common definition or effective policy approach to combating gender-based cyber violence at EU or national level, whereas cyber harassment, cyber stalking, cyber bullying, trolling, online hate and sexist speech, flaming, doxxing and, impersonation, image- based sexual abuse and deep fakes are among the most common types of gender-based cyberviolence;, whereas some Member States have adopted specific legislation on some of those particular forms only; digital space is being used to lure women into pornography, prostitution and human trafficking, whereas several Member States have adopted specific legislation on some of those particular forms only, but the cross-border nature of gender-based cyber violence has yet to be properly addressed;
Amendment 120 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas, despite a growing awareness of the phenomenon of gender- based cyberviolence, the lack of collection of exhaustive and recent data and the underreporting of cases of gender-based cyberviolence prevents an accurate assessment of its prevalence; whereas the European added value assessment on gender-based cyberviolence estimates that between 4 and 7% of women in the Union have experienced cyber harassment during the past 12 months, while between 1 and 3% have experienced cyber stalking, whereas the prevalence of gender-based cyberviolence is likely to continue to rise in the coming years;
Amendment 129 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas women can be targeted by cyberviolence either individually or as members of a specific community;, including women from vulnerable groups, whereas intersectional forms of discrimination, including discrimination based on race, language, religion, belief, national or social origin, belonging to a national or ethnic minority, birth, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics, age, state of health, disability, marital status or migrant or refugee status, can exacerbate the consequences of gender- based cyberviolence;
Amendment 142 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas some women, such as feminist and LGBTIQ+ activists, politicians, women in public positions, journalists, bloggers and human rights defenders, are particularly impacted by gender-based cyberviolence, and whereas this is causing not only psychological harm and suffering to them but also deterring them from participating digitally in political, social and cultural life;
Amendment 150 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. Whereas the Commission has committed in its Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 and in the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 to present an initiative with a view to extending the areas of crime where harmonisation is possible to specific forms of gender-based violence in accordance with Article 83(1) TFEU, including hate crime and hate speech targeting LGBTIQ people;
Amendment 152 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas gender-based cyberviolence has a direct impacts on women's mental health, on the full exercise of fundamental rights and even on democracy, and has and well-being, reflected in an increased incidence of depression and anxiety disorders, as well as social and economic impacts, which may include labour market impacts, through lower presence at work, risk of job loss or lover productivity, whereas cyberviolence can have a negative impact on victim's ability to fully exercise their fundamental rights, therefore, having consequences on society, including an economic impact and on democracy as a whole;
Amendment 159 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. Whereas jobs increasingly involve and become dependent on the digital solutions leading to an increasing risks of women encountering gender-based cyber violence while engaging in the labour market and economic activity;
Amendment 163 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
H b. Whereas the EPRS study Combating gender-based violence: Cyber violence’ estimates the overall costs of cyber harassment and cyber stalking at between €49.0 and €89.3 billion with the largest cost category being the value of the loss in terms of quality of life, which accounted for more than half of the overall costs (about 60 % for cyber harassment and about 50 % for cyberstalking);
Amendment 168 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that gender-based cyberviolence is a continuum of gender- based violence offline and that no policy alternative will be effective unlesshould be addressed by a set of legislative and non- legislative measures iat takes this reality into considerationhe EU level, as well as within Member States;
Amendment 196 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of domestic violence and abuseintimate partner violence and abuse has escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic because victims are forced to spend more time with perpetrators and they tend to be more isolated from support networks; calls on Member States to increase the assistance they offer through shelters, helplines and support services to protect victims and facilitate the reporting of gender-based violence;
Amendment 201 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the transnational nature of gender-based cyberviolence, considering the cross-border dimension of the use of ICT, as well the rapid technological developments and digitalisation, generate new forms of gender-based cyberviolence, which undermines traceability and sanctioning of perpetrators;
Amendment 213 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to promote awareness raising, to implement national criminal justice laws and specific policies, and programmes well as trainings, educational programmes and campaigns to prevent gender-based cyber violence and to fight against impunity for those who commit such acts; highlights the importance of gender equality in education curriculums to address gender stereotypes that lead to harmful gender norms, while dealing with the root causes of gender-based violence, including cyberviolence, notes that particular attention should be given in this respect to education of boys and men;
Amendment 237 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission and the Member States to establish a reliable system for regularly collecting statistical disaggregated and comparable data on gender-based violence, including cyberviolence, including with the aim to conduct an EU wide study;
Amendment 246 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that inter alia stress, concentration problems, anxiety, panic attacks, low self-esteem, depression, post- traumatic stress disorder, lack of trust and lack of sense of control, caused by cyberviolence, can have an impact on mental health and may have life-long consequences on health and well-being of women experiencing it;
Amendment 253 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines that apart from psychological impacts gender-based cyberviolence generates psychological, social and economic consequencesimplications on women’s life both online and offline;
Amendment 264 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to give particular attention to women belonging to groups put in a vulnerable situation as regards gender- based cyberviolence and to develop specific support services and educational programmes dedicated to those specific groups;
Amendment 271 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Deplores the fact that gender-based cyberviolence reduces the participation of women in public debate which, as a consequence, erodes the democratic principles of the Union; regrets that that ‘silencing effect’ has been particularly aimed at targeting women activists, including feminist women and girls, LGBTIQ+ activists, artists, women in male-dominated industries, journalists and politicians with the intention of discouraging the presence of women in political lifeublic life, including politics and decision- making spheres;
Amendment 283 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls that gender stereotypes are at the core of gender discrimination and are one of the main barriers to the entry of women and girls in the ICT and digital fields; stresses the need to tackle the gender gap in the ICT sector through education, awareness-raising campaigns, professional trainings, appropriate funding and the promotion of the representation of women in the sector;
Amendment 317 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. RecCalls thaton the Council is to urgently conclude the Union’s ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (the ‘Istanbul Convention’) on the basis of a broad accession without any limitations, and to advocate for its ratification, swift and proper implementation, and enforcement by all Member States; underlines that the Istanbul Convention is the most comprehensive international treaty addressing the root causes of gender- based violence in all its forms and should be understood as a minimum standard; highlights that this call does not detract from the call to adopt a Union legal act on combating gender-based violence but, rather, complements it;, recalls that new legislative measures should in any case be coherent with the rights and obligations set by the Istanbul Convention and should be complementary to its ratification.
Amendment 326 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Strongly reaffirms its commitment, as it has previously expressed, to tackle gender-based violence and to the need to have, reiterates its call for a comprehensive directive covering all its forms as the best way to put an end to gender-based violence;
Amendment 354 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 3
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 3
The scope should cover anyll forms of gender-based violence committed, assisted or aggravated in part or fully by the use of ICT, such as mobile phones and smartphones, the internet, social media platforms or email, against a womaen because she is a woman, or affects women disproportionatelyof their gender.
Amendment 356 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 4 – indent 1
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 4 – indent 1
- cyber harassment (including: cyberbullying, online sexual harassment, unsolicited receiving of sexually explicit material, mobbing);
Amendment 361 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 4 – indent 5
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 4 – indent 5
- threats (including direct threats and threats of violence, extortion, sextortion, blackmail) directed at the victim, their children or relatives as well as other persons affected by second order violence;
Amendment 367 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 4 – indent 9
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 4 – indent 9
- "Real-World Attacks" (cyber violence having repercussions in “real life”), hacking and unlawful access to mobile, email, instant messaging messages or social media accounts;
Amendment 369 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 4 – indent 11
Annex I – Recommendation 2 – paragraph 4 – indent 11
- direct violence., including trafficking of women using technological means such as recruitment, luring women into prostitution and sharing stolen graphical content to advertise for prostitution, sexualised extortion (sextortion) and identity theft, as well as online grooming in order to bring the child into sexual abuse or child- trafficking situations;
Amendment 374 #
2020/2035(INL)
Motion for a resolution
Annex I – Recommendation 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
Annex I – Recommendation 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
- awareness-raising and educational programmes, including programmes addressed to boys and men, as well as campaigns involving all relevant actors and stakeholders to address the root causes of gender-based cyberviolence, within the general context of gender-based violence in order to bring about changes in social and cultural attitudes and remove gender stereotypes, while promoting responsible behaviour on social media and increasing literacy about the safe use of the internet;
Amendment 43 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas trafficking in human beings (THB) constitutes modern-day slavery and isa violation of human dignity, of the physical and psychological integrity of a human being, a modern-day slavery surrounding us in our everyday life, and a profound violation of fundamental rights, as outlined in Article 5(3) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 54 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas trafficking in human beings is a highly gendered crime, with nearly three quarters of all victims in the EU being women and girls, mainly trafficked for sexual exploitation;
Amendment 62 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas trafficking in human beings is a form of organised crime and thus demand and profit driven; whereas the reduction of demand, also with regards to the sexual exploitation of women and girls, needs to be a focus in the fight against trafficking;
Amendment 66 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Amendment 72 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas physical, psychological and sexual violence are constitutive elements of trafficking for sexual exploitation and violence against women and the EU ratification of the Istanbul Convention could complement EU und Member States efforts in the fight against trafficking in human beings;
Amendment 77 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas the last years have shown that migrants and asylum seekers are particularly at risk of being trafficked; whereas, among these, unaccompanied minors and women are a special target group for trafficking networks;
Amendment 79 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas all monitoring reports show that almost 10 years after the Directive’s adoption obstacles to its full implementation on Member States’ level remain with most victims remaining undetected and prosecution and convictions of perpetrators remaining low;
Amendment 89 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out the need for a coordinated and coherent framework at EU level that guarantees the protection of victimsstrengthening of the prevention of THB and the protection of victims of THB with the aim of a complete elimination of THB, including through coordinated implementation with the rights conferred by the Victims’ Rights Directive, the Residence Permit Directive and the Compensation Directive15 as human trafficking is a global crime and cannot be dealt with at national level only; _________________ 15 Council Directive 2004/80/EC of 29 April 2004 relating to compensation to crime victims, OJ L 261, 6.8.2004, p. 15.
Amendment 119 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights that the lack of consistent and detailed data continues to hamper the adequate assessment of trends in THB; calls on the Member States to collect more up-to-date data disaggregated by age and gender and including internally trafficked people, by compiling statistical information in cooperation with civil society; and relevant international organisations while respecting the rights of trafficked persons to privacy and autonomy and to protect their personal data;
Amendment 159 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights that the early identification of victims remains one of the main challenges to implementation, and is one of the most crucial in terms of enabling victims to exercise their rights; calls on the Member States to give more actors responsibility and awareness raising possibilities for identifying victims of THB at all stages of the process, including civil society representatives, immigration and asylum officials, labour inspectors, law enforcement officers and social workers or healthcare staff;
Amendment 167 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on all Member States to effectively guarantee the rights of victims and to support them with a gender- sensitive approach while ensuring complementarity with the Victims’ Rights Directive; notes that the Anti-Trafficking Directive prohibits the criminalisation of victims of THB calls therefore for a deeper analysis of the effects of this pandemic on potential victims of THB and the structure and functioning of THB in general in order to create specific measures to eliminate THB;
Amendment 231 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights that sexual exploitation remains the most prevalent form of trafficking in the EU since 2008, as 60 % of victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation; notes that more than 90 % of these victims are women and girls, and that more than 70 % of traffickers are male thus reflecting power structures in our societies;
Amendment 245 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges therefore the Member States to adopt specific measures to address violence against women and, structural gender inequalities and gender stereotypes as the root causes of trafficking; recommends that the Commission strengthen and develop the gender dimension in the monitoring of the implementation of EU anti-trafficking legislation;
Amendment 272 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Member States to focus on the recurring and emerging patterns of THB for sexual exploitation, such as the increasing exploitation of children and women and the use of the ‘lover boy’ method as the most frequent means of recruiting victimsattracting and making victims compliant by using online technologies;
Amendment 280 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Highlights the importance of gender-sensitive training programmes for all officials attending victimsthat are dealing with trafficking cases, investigations, and potential victims in order to enhance the early identification of those who are victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation and encourages Member States to adopt measures to support victims, such as exit programmes, social and professional reintegration or sexual health servicepsychological support measures, decent social and professional reintegration opportunities or access to sexual and reproductive health services and related rights; underlines in this regard as well the importance of awareness programmes for the general public in order to identify and protect potential victims;
Amendment 311 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Emphasises that migration flows can increase the risk for migrants of becoming victims of trafficking within the EU20 ; points out that there has been a sharp increase in the number of women and girls trafficked through the Central Mediterranean route for sexual exploitation in the EU21 ;calls on the Member States and the EU to find these women and girls and to prevent similar cases in the future by using a coherent and coordinated rights-based and gender-sensitive approach to prevent and address human trafficking; _________________ 20Second progress report, COM(2018)0777; Europol, European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC), 4th Annual Report, 2020; Europol, Situation Report ‘Trafficking in Human Beings in the EU‘, 18 February 2016. 21 Second progress report, COM(2018)0777, p. 3.
Amendment 341 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Member States to ensure a coherent application of the provisions set out in the Dublin III Regulation, the Anti-Trafficking Directive and the Residence Permit Directive to prevent the practice employed in some Member States of transferring victims of human trafficking to the country where they were exploited when they first arrived, thereby leaving them more exposed to the risk of being re-trafficked and retraumatised;
Amendment 424 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Points out that not all Member States have introduced legislation relevant to Article 18 of the Anti-Trafficking Directive27 ; notes that the differing legal landscapes on criminalising the use of services exacted from victims may hampers efforts to reduce demand; reiterates its urgent call on the Member States to establish the act of knowingly using the services of victims of human trafficking as a criminal offence; _________________ 27 Second progress report, COM(2018)0777, p. 29.
Amendment 470 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Commission to amend the Anti-Trafficking Directive with a view to updating its provisions, including the establishment of specific measures for the prevention and prosecution of trafficking for sexual exploitation as the largest area of THB, to address the use of online technologies in both the proliferation and the prevention of THB, to conduct evidence-based research on risk factors for potential victims as well as in societal structures and policies like labour market governance or migration and mobility policies that intersect with trafficking in persons in risk sectors, to improve measures for prevention and the early identification of victims, and to strengthen a horizontal gender perspective across all forms of trafficking, as well as to ensure that Member States explicitly criminalise the use of all services which involve exploitation;
Amendment 484 #
2020/2029(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Emphasises the importance of a coherent approach to improve the identification of potential victims in the context of migration flows and in the hotspots, of improving access to asylum procedures and of ensuring their complementarity with the procedures related to trafficking; calls on the Commission to regularly assess the implementation of the Anti-Trafficking Directive by the Member States, introduce infringement procedures where there has been a lack of effective implementation, report to the European Parliament and to come forward with proposals to revise it;
Amendment 20 #
2020/2018(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission to clarify the liability of Transport and Tourism platforms; invites therefore the Commission to set a uniform obligation for platforms to verify the legality of the service offered and the service provider andinformation provided by the service provider through the introduction of due diligence protocols, urges the Commission to act on illegal content, through a legally binding Notice and Action procedure.
Amendment 47 #
2020/2018(INL)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Draws attention to the importance of data also as strategic public goods and underlines the relevance of data access in the platform economy; highlights the vital role data plays for local governments in enforcing and developing policies in the fields of Transport and Tourism; welcomes the Communication of the European Commission on a European data strategy1, in particular the development of common European data spaces in strategic economic sectors, such as transport and mobility, in compliance with data protection rules; invites therefore the Commission to carefully work on a Common European mobility data space as detailed in the roadmap 1 European Commission, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Social and Economic Committee and the Committee of the Regions on a European data strategy, 19.02.2020, COM(2020) 66 final
Amendment 2 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas gender equality is a core principle of the European Union enshrined in the Treaties, and should be reflected in all EU policies, not least in education, culture and the audiovisual, these being key channels for changing attitudes and challenging stereotypes;
Amendment 11 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the media and the cultural sectors have considerable influence in shaping people’s beliefs, values and perception of reality and thus have the ability to perpetuate and amplify gender inequalities and discrimination have been reproduced throughthrough its reproduction in the design, input and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems; whereas incomplete data sets, the lack of gender segregated data, and incorrect bias can distort the reasonprocessing of an AI system, and jeopardise gender equality in society by further exacerbating already existing negative gender norms and stereotypes;
Amendment 18 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas gender inequalities are also created and replicated through the language and images disseminated by the media and AI-powered applications; whereas education, culture programmes and audiovisual contents are a fundamental tool for combatting gender stereotypes and the digital gender divide;
Amendment 20 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas science and innovation can bring life-changing benefits, especially for those who are furthest behind – such as women and girls living in remote areas; whereas scientific education is important for obtaining skills, decent work, and jobs of the future, as well as to break gender stereotypes that regard them as stereotypically masculine fields; whereas science and scientific thinking are key to democratic culture, which in turn is fundamental for advancing gender equality;
Amendment 25 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas women are significantly underrepresented in the AI sectors, either as creators or consumers; whereas the full potential of women’s skills, knowledge and qualifications in the digital, AI and ICT (information, communication and technology) fields, along with their re- skilling, can contribute to boosting the European economy; whereas globally only 22 % of AI professionals are female; whereas the lack of women in AI development not only increases the risk of bias, but also deprives the EU of talent, vision and resources, and is therefore an obstacle to innovation;
Amendment 28 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas past experiences in many technical fields, such as medicine, car safety design and others, have shown us that developments and innovations are often based mainly or solely on male data and that has had negative effects, including death, for women[1].[1] D’Ignazio/Klein, Data Feminism, MIT Publications, March 2020
Amendment 30 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas in the European Union 1 in every 10 women (10%) has already suffered some form of cyberviolence since the age of 15; whereas cyberviolence is often directed at women daring to speak out, like activists, women politicians and other public figures; whereas AI, and other emerging technologies, can play an important role in preventing cyberviolence against women and girls and educating people;
Amendment 32 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that AI has great potential to promote gender equality provided that the already existing conscious and unconscious bias are eliminated; stresses the need for AI to respect the principles and values of equality and non-discrimination between women and menurges the Commission and Member States to collect gender segregated data in order to feed datasets in a way that promotes equality; further urges the Commission to, in its consideration, approval, and implementation of ethical guidelines for the use of AI, take into account gender equality; stresses the need for AI to respect the principles and values of equality and non-discrimination between women and men, and of non-discrimination of LGBTI+ people, and people belonging to ethnic minorities, especially Roma, and black, indigenous and people of colour; stresses, further, the importance of a risk- based approach and ofin terms of both the applications and the sectors in which AI is used, alongside continuous monitoring of existing and new algorithms;
Amendment 39 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for policies targeted at increasing the participation of women in the fields related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and AI, and the adoption of a multi-level approach to address the gender gap in all levels of education and employment in the digital sector, highlighting the importance of upskilling and reskilling for this purpose; calls for the Commission and Member States to implement public procurement policies/guidelines that stimulate companies to hire more women and girls for STEM jobs; asks the Commission and Member States to promote a minimum threshold of women researchers to be part of STEM and AI projects; encourages the Commission and Member States to purchase education, cultural and audiovisual services from providers that apply gender balance in their companies;
Amendment 53 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and Members States to provide appropriate funding to programmes aimed at attracting more girls and women to study and work in STEM; urges the Commission and Member States to set up programmes that finance women and girls who start AI-related projects or companies in the education, culture and audiovisual sectors; asks the Commission and Member States to grant a privileged access to funds to companies in the education, culture and audiovisual sectors that are gender balanced; encourages the Commission and Member States in public procurement procedures regarding the education, culture and audiovisual sectors to review the selection criteria used to check if they are male biased; stresses that the Commission and Member States should provide appropriate funding for the development of AI solutions that prevent and fight cyberviolence against women and girls and help educate young people;
Amendment 63 #
2020/2017(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the importance of the development and deployment of AI applications in the educational, cultural and audiovisual sectors in collecting more accurate and sex-disaggender-segregated data, and applying modern machine learning de- biasing techniques, if needed, to correct stereotype gender bias, which may have negative impacts; calls on the Commission and Member States to measure the impact of the public policies put in place to incorporate the gender dimension by analysing the data collected; stresses the importance of using unbiased, non- discriminatory and gender sensitive data in the development of AI; emphasises the necessity to ensure that the design and use of artificial intelligence in the educational, cultural and audiovisual sectors does not disadvantage women and their lives.
Amendment 31 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Responsible and diligent behaviour by providers of intermediary services is essential for a safe, predictable and trusted online environment and for allowing Union citizens and other persons to exercise their fundamental rights guaranteed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (‘Charter’), in particular the freedom of expression and information and the freedom to conduct a business, and the right to non-discrimination based on any grounds such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Amendment 32 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3 a) Gender equality is one of the founding values of the European Union (Articles 2 and 3(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU)). These objectives are also enshrined in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Article 8 TFEU gives the Union the task of eliminating inequalities and promoting equality between genders in all of its activities and policies. In order to protect women's rights and tackle gender-based online violence, the principle of gender mainstreaming should be applied in all European policy, including regulating the functioning of the internal market and its digital services.
Amendment 39 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) In order to achieve the objective of ensuring a safe, predictable and trusted online environment, for the purpose of this Regulation the concept of “illegal content” should be defined broadly and also covers information relating to illegal content, products, services and activities. In particular, that concept should be understood to refer to information, irrespective of its form, that under the applicable law is either itself illegal, such as illegal hate speech or terrorist content and unlawful discriminatory content, or that relates to activities that are illegal, such as the sharing of images depicting child sexual abuse, unlawful non- consensual sharing of private images, online stalkingsexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls, revenge porn, online stalking, online sexual harassment, the sale of non- compliant or counterfeit products, the non- authorised use of copyright protected material or activities involving infringements of consumer protection law. In this regard, it is immaterial whether the illegality of the information or activity results from Union law or from national law that is consistent with Union law and what the precise nature or subject matter is of the law in question.
Amendment 42 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12 a) Online violence is a phenomenon which needs to be addressed for the safety of all users. In specific, special attention should be paid to tackling online gender- based violence against women. An European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' survey of 2014, the most comprehensive at EU level in the field, has shown that 1 in 10 women in the EU aged 15 or over has faced online harassment. According to The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (A/RES/48/104) violence against women is "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life". Online violence against women should, therefore, be understood as any act of gender-based violence against women that is committed, assisted or aggravated in part or fully by the use of ICT, such as mobile phones and smartphones, the Internet, social media platforms or email, against a woman because she is a woman, or affects women disproportionately.
Amendment 45 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In order to benefit from the exemption from liability for hosting services, the provider should, upon obtaining actual knowledge or awareness of illegal content, act expeditiously to remove or to disable access to that content taking into account the potential harm the illegal content in question may create. In order to ensure a harmonised implementation of illegal content removal throughout the Union, the provider should, within 24 hours, remove or disable access to illegal content that can seriously harm public policy, public security or public health or seriously harm consumers’ health or safety. For example, sharing of images depicting child sexual abuse, content related to sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls and revenge porn. According to the well-established case-law of the Court of Justice and in line with Directive 2000/31/EC, the concept of ‘public policy’ involves a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat which affects one of the fundamental interests of society, in particular for the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of criminal offences, including the protection of minors and the fight against any incitement to hatred on grounds of race, gender, religion or nationality, and violations of human dignity concerning individual persons. The concept of ‘public security’ as interpreted by the Court of Justice covers both the internal security of a Member State, which may be affected by, inter alia, a direct threat and physical security of the population of the Member State concerned, and the external security, which may be affected by, inter alia, the risk of a serious disturbance to the foreign relations of that Member State or to the peaceful coexistence of nations. Where the illegal content does not seriously harm public policy, public security, public health or consumers’ health or safety, the provider should remove or disable access to illegal content within seven days. The deadlines referred to in this Regulation should be without prejudice to specific deadlines set out in Union law or within administrative or judicial orders. The provider may derogate from the deadlines referred to in this Regulation on the grounds of force majeure or for justifiable technical or operational reasons but it should be required to inform the competent authorities as provided for in this Regulation. The removal or disabling of access should be undertaken in the observance of the principle of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, including a high level of consumer protection and freedom of expression. The provider can obtain such actual knowledge or awareness through, in particular, its own-initiative investigations or notices submitted to it by individuals or entities in accordance with this Regulation in so far as those notices are sufficiently precise and adequately substantiated to allow a diligent economic operator to reasonably identify, assess and where appropriate act against the allegedly illegal content.
Amendment 46 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) In order to create legal certainty and not to discourage activities aimed at detecting, identifying and acting against illegal content that providers of intermediary services may undertake on a voluntary basis, it should be clarified that the mere fact that providers undertake such activities does not lead to the unavailability of the exemptions from liability set out in this Regulation, provided those activities are carried out in good faith and in a diligent and non-discriminatory manner. In addition, it is appropriate to clarify that the mere fact that those providers take measures, in good faith, to comply with the requirements of Union law, including those set out in this Regulation as regards the implementation of their terms and conditions, should not lead to the unavailability of those exemptions from liability. Therefore, any such activities and measures that a given provider may have taken should not be taken into account when determining whether the provider can rely on an exemption from liability, in particular as regards whether the provider provides its service neutrally and can therefore fall within the scope of the relevant provision, without this rule however implying that the provider can necessarily rely thereon.
Amendment 51 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) In order to achieve the objectives of this Regulation, and in particular to improve the functioning of the internal market and, to ensure a safe and transparent online environment and to ensure the right to non-discrimination, it is necessary to establish a clear and balanced set of harmonised due diligence obligations for providers of intermediary services. Those obligations should aim in particular to guarantee different public policy objectives such as the safety and trust of the recipients of the service, including minors and vulnerable users, protect the relevant fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter, to ensure meaningful accountability of those providers and to empower recipients and other affected parties, whilst facilitating the necessary oversight by competent authorities.
Amendment 54 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39
Recital 39
(39) To ensure an adequate level of transparency and accountability, providers of intermediary services should annually report, in accordance with the harmonised requirements contained in this Regulation, on the content moderation they engage in, including the measures taken as a result of the application and enforcement of their terms and conditions. Data should be reported as disaggregated as possible. For example, anonymised individual characteristics such as gender, age group and social background of the notifying parties should be reported, whenever available. However, so as to avoid disproportionate burdens, those transparency reporting obligations should not apply to providers that are micro- or small enterprises as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC.40 _________________ 40 Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium- sized enterprises (OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36).
Amendment 55 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40
Recital 40
(40) Providers of hosting services play a particularly important role in tackling illegal content online, as they store information provided by and at the request of the recipients of the service and typically give other recipients access thereto, sometimes on a large scale. It is important that all providers of hosting services, regardless of their size, put in place user-friendly notice and action mechanisms that facilitate the notification of specific items of information that the notifying party considers to be illegal content to the provider of hosting services concerned ('notice'), pursuant to which that provider can decide whether or not it agrees with that assessment and wishes to remove or disable access to that content ('action'). Provided the requirements on notices are met, it should be possible for individuals or entities to notify multiple specific items of allegedly illegal content through a single notice. Online platforms in particular may also allow for users or trusted flaggers to notify content, including their own, to which others are responding with illegal content at large, such as illegal hate speech. The obligation to put in place notice and action mechanisms should apply, for instance, to file storage and sharing services, web hosting services, advertising servers and paste bins, in as far as they qualify as providers of hosting services covered by this Regulation.
Amendment 60 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46
Recital 46
(46) Action against illegal content can be taken more quickly and reliably where online platforms take the necessary measures to ensure that notices submitted by trusted flaggers through the notice and action mechanisms required by this Regulation are treated with priority, without prejudice to the requirement to process and decide upon all notices submitted under those mechanisms in a timely, diligent and objective manner. Such trusted flagger status should only be awarded to entities, and not individuals, that have demonstrated, among other things, that they have particular expertise and competence in tackling illegal content, that they represent collective interests and that they work in a diligent and objective manner. Such entities can be public in nature, such as, for terrorist content, internet referral units of national law enforcement authorities or of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (‘Europol’) or they can be non-governmental organisations and semi- public bodies, such as the organisations part of the INHOPE network of hotlines for reporting child sexual abuse material and, organisations committed to notifying illegal racist and xenophobic expressions online and women’s rights organizations such as the European Women’s Lobby. For intellectual property rights, organisations of industry and of right- holders could be awarded trusted flagger status, where they have demonstrated that they meet the applicable conditions. The rules of this Regulation on trusted flaggers should not be understood to prevent online platforms from giving similar treatment to notices submitted by entities or individuals that have not been awarded trusted flagger status under this Regulation, from otherwise cooperating with other entities, in accordance with the applicable law, including this Regulation and Regulation (EU) 2016/794 of the European Parliament and of the Council.43 _________________ 43Regulation (EU) 2016/794 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and replacing and repealing Council Decisions 2009/371/JHA, 2009/934/JHA, 2009/935/JHA, 2009/936/JHA and 2009/968/JHA, OJ L 135, 24.5.2016, p. 53
Amendment 62 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 52
Recital 52
(52) Online advertisement plays an important role in the online environment, including in relation to the provision of the services of online platforms. However, online advertisement can contribute to significant risks, ranging from advertisement that is itself illegal content, to contributing to financial incentives for the publication or amplification of illegal or otherwise harmful content and activities online, or the discriminatory display of advertising withat can have both an impact on the equal treatment and opportunities of citizens and on the perpetuation of harmful gender stereotypes and norms. In addition to the requirements resulting from Article 6 of Directive 2000/31/EC, online platforms should therefore be required to ensure that the recipients of the service have certain individualised information necessary for them to understand when and on whose behalf the advertisement is displayed. In addition, recipients of the service should have information on the main parameters used for determining that specific advertising is to be displayed to them, providing meaningful explanations of the logic used to that end, including when this is based on profiling. The requirements of this Regulation on the provision of information relating to advertisement is without prejudice to the application of the relevant provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, in particular those regarding the right to object, automated individual decision-making, including profiling and specifically the need to obtain consent of the data subject prior to the processing of personal data for targeted advertising. Similarly, it is without prejudice to the provisions laid down in Directive 2002/58/EC in particular those regarding the storage of information in terminal equipment and the access to information stored therein.
Amendment 67 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 57
Recital 57
(57) Three categories of systemic risks should be assessed in-depth. A first category concerns the risks associated with the misuse of their service through the dissemination of illegal content, such as the dissemination of child sexual abuse material, content related to the sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls, revenge porn, online stalking or illegal hate speech, and the conduct of illegal activities, such as the sale of products or services prohibited by Union or national law, including counterfeit products. For example, and without prejudice to the personal responsibility of the recipient of the service of very large online platforms for possible illegality of his or her activity under the applicable law, such dissemination or activities may constitute a significant systematic risk where access to such content may be amplified through advertising, recommender systems or through accounts with a particularly wide reach. A second category concerns the impact of the service on the exercise of fundamental rights, as protected by the Charter of Fundamental Rights, including the freedom of expression and information, the right to private life, the right to personal data protection, the right to non-discrimination and the rights of the child. Such risks may arise, for example, in relation to the design of the algorithmic systems used by the very large online platform, which might amplify discriminatory speech and content, or the misuse of their service through the submission of abusive notices or other methods for silencing speech or hampering competition. A third category of risks concerns the intentional and, oftentimes, coordinated manipulation of the platform’s service, with a foreseeable impact on health, civic discourse, electoral processes, public security and protection of minors, having regard to the need to safeguard public order, protect privacy and fight fraudulent and deceptive commercial practices. Such risks may arise, for example, through the creation of fake accounts, the use of bots, and other automated or partially automated behaviours, which may lead to the rapid and widespread dissemination of information that is illegal content or incompatible with an online platform’s terms and conditions.
Amendment 70 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 58
Recital 58
(58) Very large online platforms should deploy the necessary means to diligently cease, prevent and mitigate the systemic risks identified in the risk assessment. Very large online platforms should under such mitigating measures consider, for example, enhancing or otherwise adapting the design and functioning of their content moderation, algorithmic recommender systems and online interfaces, so that they discourage and limit the dissemination of illegal content, adapting their decision- making processes, or adapting their terms and conditions to cover aspects such as online gender-based violence. They may also include corrective measures, such as discontinuing advertising revenue for specific content, or other actions, such as improving the visibility of authoritative information sources. They may also consider providing training to their staff and specifically to content moderators so they can stay up to date on covert language used as a form of illegal hate speech and violence against certain groups such as women and minorities. Very large online platforms may reinforce their internal processes or supervision of any of their activities, in particular as regards the detection of systemic risks. They may also initiate or increase cooperation with trusted flaggers and civil society organizations that represent the interests of certain groups such as women’s rights organisations, organise training sessions and exchanges with trusted flaggerhese organisations, and cooperate with other service providers, including by initiating or joining existing codes of conduct or other self-regulatory measures. Any measures adopted should respect the due diligence requirements of this Regulation and be effective and appropriate for mitigating the specific risks identified, in the interest of safeguarding public order, protecting privacy and fighting fraudulent and deceptive commercial practices, and should be proportionate in light of the very large online platform’s economic capacity and the need to avoid unnecessary restrictions on the use of their service, taking due account of potential negative effects on the fundamental rights of the recipients of the service.
Amendment 75 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 59
Recital 59
(59) Very large online platforms should, where appropriate, conduct their risk assessments and design their risk mitigation measures with the involvement of representatives of the recipients of the service, representatives of groups potentially impacted by their services such as consumer’s and women’s rights organizations, independent experts and civil society organisations.
Amendment 79 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 64
Recital 64
(64) In order to appropriately supervise the compliance of very large online platforms with the obligations laid down by this Regulation, the Digital Services Coordinator of establishment or the Commission may require access to or reporting of specific data. Such a requirement may include, for example, the data necessary to assess the risks and possible harms brought about by the platform’s systems, data on the accuracy, functioning and testing of algorithmic systems for content moderation, recommender systems or advertising systems, or data on processes and outputs of content moderation or of internal complaint-handling systems within the meaning of this Regulation. Investigations by researchers on the evolution and severity of online systemic risks are particularly important for bridging information asymmetries and establishing a resilient system of risk mitigation, informing online platforms, Digital Services Coordinators, other competent authorities, the Commission and the public. This Regulation therefore provides a framework for compelling access to data from very large online platforms to vetted researchers. This data should be provided as disaggregated as possible in order to allow for meaningful conclusions to be drawn from it. For example, it is important that very large online platforms provided gender disaggregated data as much as possible in order for vetted researchers to have the possibility to explore whether and in what way certain online risks are experienced differently between men and women. All requirements for access to data under that framework should be proportionate and appropriately protect the rights and legitimate interests, including trade secrets and other confidential information, of the platform and any other parties concerned, including the recipients of the service.
Amendment 80 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 74
Recital 74
(74) The Digital Services Coordinator, as well as other competent authorities designated under this Regulation, play a crucial role in ensuring the effectiveness of the rights and obligations laid down in this Regulation and the achievement of its objectives. Accordingly, it is necessary to ensure that those authorities act in complete independence from private and public bodies, without the obligation or possibility to seek or receive instructions, including from the government, and without prejudice to the specific duties to cooperate with other competent authorities, the Digital Services Coordinators, the Board and the Commission. On the other hand, the independence of these authorities should not mean that they cannot be subject, in accordance with national constitutions and without endangering the achievement of the objectives of this Regulation, to national control or monitoring mechanisms regarding their financial expenditure or to judicial review, or that they should not have the possibility to consult other national authorities, including law enforcement authorities or crisis management authorities, where appropriate. Moreover, it is important to assure that the Digital Services Coordinator, as well as other competent authorities have the necessary knowledge to guarantee the rights and obligations of this Regulation. Therefore, they should promote education and training on fundamental rights and discrimination for their staff, including training in partnership with law enforcement authorities, crisis management authorities or civil society organisations that support victims of illegal online and offline activities such as harassment, gender- based violence and illegal hate speech.
Amendment 81 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 82
Recital 82
(82) Member States should ensure that Digital Services Coordinators can take measures that are effective in addressing and proportionate to certain particularly serious and persistent infringements. Especially where those measures can affect the rights and interests of third parties, as may be the case in particular where the access to online interfaces is restricted, it is appropriate to require that the measures be ordered by a competent judicial authority at the Digital Service Coordinators’ request and are subject to additional safeguards. In particular, third parties potentially affected should be afforded the opportunity to be heard and such orders should only be issued when powers to take such measures as provided by other acts of Union law or by national law, for instance to protect collective interests of consumers, to ensure the prompt removal of web pages containing or disseminating child pornography, content associated with the sexual exploitation and abuse of women and girls and revenge porn, or to disable access to services are being used by a third party to infringe an intellectual property right, are not reasonably available.
Amendment 85 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 91
Recital 91
(91) The Board should bring together the representatives of the Digital Services Coordinators and possible other competent authorities such as the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights under the chairmanship of the Commission, with a view to ensuring an assessment of matters submitted to it in a fully European dimension. In view of possible cross-cutting elements that may be of relevance for other regulatory frameworks at Union level, the Board should be allowed to cooperate with other Union bodies, offices, agencies and advisory groups with responsibilities in fields such as equality, including equality between women and men, and non- discrimination, data protection, electronic communications, audiovisual services, detection and investigation of frauds against the EU budget as regards custom duties, or consumer protection, as necessary for the performance of its tasks.
Amendment 94 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point q a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point q a (new)
Amendment 95 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Without prejudice to specific deadlines set out in Union law or in administrative or legal orders, providers of hosting services shall, upon obtaining actual knowledge or awareness, remove or disable access to illegal content as soon as possible and in any event: (a) within 24 hours where the illegal content can seriously harm public policy, public security or public health or seriously harm consumers’ health or safety; (b) within seven days where the illegal content cannot seriously harm public policy, public security, public health or consumers’ health or safety; Where the provider of hosting services cannot comply with the obligation in paragraph 1a on grounds of force majeure or for objectively justifiable technical or operational reasons, it shall, without undue delay, inform the competent authority that has issued an order pursuant to Article 8 or the recipient of the service that has submitted a notice pursuant to Article 14, of those grounds.
Amendment 99 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. Providers of intermediary services shall include information on any restrictions that they impose in relation to the use of their service in respect of information provided by the recipients of the service, in their terms and conditions. That information shall include information on any policies, procedures, measures and tools used for the purpose of content moderation, including algorithmic decision-making and human review. It shall be set out in clear and unambiguous language and shall be publicly available in an easily accessible format, in a searchable archive of all the previous versions with their date of application.
Amendment 108 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the number of notices submitted in accordance with Article 14, categorised by the type of alleged illegal content concerned, anonymised data on individual characteristics of those who submit these notices such as gender, age group and social background, any action taken pursuant to the notices by differentiating whether the action was taken on the basis of the law or the terms and conditions of the provider, and the average time needed for taking the action;.
Amendment 109 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) the number of complaints received through the internal complaint-handling system referred to in Article 17, anonymised data on individual characteristics of those who submit these complaints, such as gender, age group and social background, the basis for those complaints, decisions taken in respect of those complaints, the average time needed for taking those decisions and the number of instances where those decisions were reversed.
Amendment 113 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a Recipients' consent for advertising practices 1. Providers of intermediary services shall, by default, not make the recipients of their services subject to targeted, micro- targeted and behavioural advertisement unless the recipient of the service has expressed a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent. Providers of intermediary services shall ensure that recipients of services can easily make an informed choice when expressing their consent by providing them with meaningful information, including information about the value of giving access to and about the use of their data, including an explicit mention in cases where data are collected with resource to trackers and if these data are collected in websites from other providers. 2. When asking for the consent of recipients of their services considered as vulnerable consumers, providers of intermediary services shall implement all the necessary measures to ensure that such consumers have received sufficient and relevant information before they give their consent. 3. When processing data for targeted, micro-targeted and behavioural advertising, online intermediaries shall comply with relevant Union law and shall not engage in activities that can lead to pervasive tracking, such as disproportionate combination of data collected by platforms, or disproportionate processing of special categories of data that might be used to exploit vulnerabilities. 4. Providers of intermediary services shall organise their online interface in such a way that recipients of services, in particular those considered as vulnerable consumers, can easily and efficiently access and modify advertising parameters. Providers of intermediary services shall monitor the use of advertising parameters by recipients of services on a regular basis and make best efforts to improve their awareness about the possibility to modify those parameters.
Amendment 116 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(d a) the option for those submitting notices to outline some of their individual characteristics, such as gender, age group and social background; the providers shall make clear that this information shall not be part of the decision-making process with regard to the notice, shall be completely anonymised and used solely for reporting purposes.
Amendment 123 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(c a) decisions whether or not to restrict the ability to monetize content provided by the recipients.
Amendment 125 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Online platforms shall give the option for those submitting complaints to outline some of their individual characteristics, such as gender, age group and social background. Online platforms shall make clear that this information shall not be part of the decision-making process in regards to the complaint, shall be completely anonymised and used solely for reporting purposes.
Amendment 126 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 a (new)
Article 24 a (new)
Amendment 134 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) intentional manipulation of their service, including by means of inauthentic use or automated exploitation of the service, with an actual or foreseeable negative effect on online violence, the protection of public health, minors, civic discourse, or actual or foreseeable effects related to electoral processes and public security.
Amendment 137 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. When conducting risk assessments, very large online platforms shall take into account, in particular, how their content moderation systems, recommender systems and systems for selecting and displaying advertisement influence any of the systemic risks referred to in paragraph 1, including the potentially rapid and wide dissemination of illegal content or content associated with online violence and gender-based violence and of information that is incompatible with their terms and conditions.
Amendment 143 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 27 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Very large online platforms shall put in place reasonable, proportionate and effective mitigation measureeasures to cease, prevent and mitigate systemic risks, tailored to the specific systemic risks identified pursuant to Article 26. Such measures may include, where applicable:
Amendment 150 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 27 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) best practices for very large online platforms to cease, prevent and mitigate the systemic risks identified.
Amendment 152 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 29
Article 29
Amendment 153 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. Very large online platforms that display advertising on their online interfaces shall compile and make publicly available and searchable through easy to access, functionable and reliable tools through application programming interfaces a repository containing the information referred to in paragraph 2, until onfive years after the advertisement was displayed for the last time on their online interfaces. They shall ensure that the repository does not contain any personal data of the recipients of the service to whom the advertisement was or could have been displayed.
Amendment 154 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 2
2. Upon a reasoned request from the Digital Services Coordinator of establishment or the Commission, very large online platforms shall, within a reasonable period, as specified in the request, provide access to data to vetted researchers who meet the requirements in paragraphs 4 of this Article, for the sole purpose of conducting research that contributes to the identification and understanding of systemic risks as set out in Article 26(1) and to verify the effectiveness of the risk mitigation measures taken by the very large online platform in question under Article 27.
Amendment 155 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 31 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. The data provided to vetted researchers should be as disaggregated as possible, unless the researcher requests it otherwise.
Amendment 156 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 4
Article 31 – paragraph 4
4. In order to be vetted, researchers shall be affiliated with academic institutions, be independent from commercial interests or civil society organisations representing the public interest, be independent from commercial interests, disclose the funding financing the research, have proven records of expertise in the fields related to the risks investigated or related research methodologies, and shall commit and be in a capacity to preserve the specific data security and confidentiality requirements corresponding to each request.
Amendment 157 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 a (new)
Article 33 a (new)
Amendment 159 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2
Article 35 – paragraph 2
2. Where significant systemic risk within the meaning of Article 26(1) emerge and concern several very large online platforms, the Commission and the Board may invite the very large online platforms concerned, other very large online platforms, other online platforms and other providers of intermediary services, as appropriate, as well as civil society organisations, trusted flaggers and other interested parties, to participate in the drawing up of codes of conduct, including by setting out commitments to take specific risk mitigation measures, as well as a regular reporting framework on any measures taken and their outcomes. Trusted flaggers and vetted researchers may submit to the Commission and the Board requests for codes of conduct to be considered based on the systemic risk reports referred to in Article 13 and research evaluating the impact of the measures put in place by online platforms to address these.
Amendment 162 #
2020/0361(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 a (new)
Article 36 a (new)
Amendment 131 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Security of supply, as one main driver behind Regulation (EU) No 347/2013, has been significantly improved through projects of common interest. Moreover, the Commission’s climate target impact assessment27 expects the consumption of natural gas to be reduced significantly because its non-abated use is not compatible with carbon-neutrality. On the other hand, the consumption of biogas, renewable and low-carbon hydrogen and synthetic gaseous fuels will increase significantly towards 2050. Therefore, the natural gas infrastructureinfrastructure dedicated to natural gas only no longer needs support through the TEN-E policy. The planning of energy infrastructure should reflect this changing gas landscapeHowever, the repurposing of the natural gas infrastructure, where appropriate, to enable an increasing share of renewable and low-carbon gases and up to 100% of hydrogen should be pursued through the future TEN-E policy. _________________ 27 SWD(2020) 176 final
Amendment 163 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The Union should facilitate infrastructure projects linking the Union’s energy networks with third-country networks that are mutually beneficial and necessary for the energy transition and the achievement of the climate targets, and which also meet the specific criteria of the relevant infrastructure categories pursuant to this Regulation, in particular with neighbouring countries and with countries with which the Union has established specific energy cooperation. Therefore, this Regulation should include in its scope projects of mutual interest where they are sustainable and able to demonstrate significant net socio-economic benefits for at least twoone or more Member States and at least one third country. Such projects would be eligible for inclusion in the Union list upon conditions of regulatory approximation withpolicy consistency with the overall policy objective of the Union and upon demonstrating a contribution to the Union’s overall energy and climate objectives in terms of security of supply and decarbonisation. Such regulatorypolicy objectives' alignment or convergence should be presumed for the European Economic Area or Energy Community Contracting Parties as well as countries involved in the Renewed Partnership for the Southern Neighbourhood - New agenda for the Mediterranean, that are already operating and are aligned to EU requirements (Med-TSO members) or with third countries having signed bilateral agreements with the Union including relevant provisions on climate change mitigation and energy policy objectives. In addition, the third country with which the Union cooperates in the development of projects of mutual interest should facilitate a similar timeline for accelerated implementation and other policy support measures, as stipulated in this Regulation. Therefore, in this Regulation, projects of mutual interest should be considered in the same manner as projects of common interest with all provisions relative to projects of common interest applying also to projects of mutual interest, unless otherwise specified.
Amendment 215 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47
Recital 47
(47) Grants for works related to projects of mutual interest should be available only for the investments located on the territory of the Unionwhere they contribute to the overall climate and energy policy objectives of the Union, with the third country's decarbonisation objectives in line with the Paris Agreement and only in case where at least twoone or more Member States contribute financially in a significant manner to the investment costs of the project in view of its benefits.
Amendment 246 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) ‘project of mutual interest’ means a project promoted by the Union or at least one Member State in cooperation with third countries, pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement or other arrangements, within the energy infrastructure categories in Annex II, which contributes to the Union’s overall energy and climate objectives as referred in Article 1 (1), and which is part of the Union list of projects referred to in Article 3;
Amendment 253 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
(8) ‘smart electricity grid’ means an electricity network where the grid operator that can integrate in a cost efficient manner the behaviour and actions of all users connected to it, including generators, consumers and those that both generate and consume, in order to ensure an economically efficient and sustainable power system with low losses and high levels of quality, security of supply and safety; in a smart grid 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, consumers and/or prosumers, with a view to transmitting electricity in a sustainable, cost-efficient and secure way;
Amendment 270 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
(11) ‘works’ means the purchase, supply and deployment of components, systems and services including software, the carrying out of development, repurposing and construction and installation activities relating to a project, the acceptance of installations and the launching of a project;
Amendment 308 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 6
Article 3 – paragraph 6
6. Projects of common interest included on the Union list pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Article under the energy infrastructure categories set out in points (1)(a), (b), (c) and (e) of Annex II, shall become an integral part of the relevant regional investment plans under Article 34 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 and Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 and of the relevant national 10- year network development plans under Article 51 of Directive (EU) 2019/944 and Article 22 of Directive 2009/73/EC and other national infrastructure plans concerned, as appropriate. Those projects shall be conferred the highest possible priority within each of those plans. This paragraph shall not apply to projects of mutual interest.
Amendment 317 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii a (new)
(ii a) it has a replicability potential and/or expected synergies;
Amendment 323 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The Union should facilitate infrastructure projects linking the Union’s energy networks with third-country networks that are mutually beneficial and necessary for the energy transition and the achievement of the climate targets, and which also meet the specific criteria of the relevant infrastructure categories pursuant to this Regulation, in particular with neighbouring countries and with countries with which the Union has established specific energy cooperation. Therefore, this Regulation should include in its scope projects of mutual interest where they are sustainable and able to demonstrate significant net socio-economic benefits for at least twoone or more Member States and at least one third country. Such projects would be eligible for inclusion in the Union list upon conditions of regulatory approximation withpolicy consistency with the overall policy objective of the Union and upon demonstrating a contribution to the Union’s overall energy and climate objectives in terms of security of supply and decarbonisation. Such regulatorypolicy objectives' alignment or convergence should be presumed for the European Economic Area or Energy Community Contracting Parties as well as countries involved in the Renewed Partnership for the Southern Neighbourhood - New agenda for the Mediterranean, that are already operating and are aligned to EU requirements (Med-TSO members) or with third countries having signed bilateral agreements with the Union including relevant provisions on climate change mitigation and energy policy objectives . In addition, the third country with which the Union cooperates in the development of projects of mutual interest should facilitate a similar timeline for accelerated implementation and other policy support measures, as stipulated in this Regulation. Therefore, in this Regulation, projects of mutual interest should be considered in the same manner as projects of common interest with all provisions relative to projects of common interest applying also to projects of mutual interest, unless otherwise specified.
Amendment 325 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the project contributes significantly to the decarbonisation policies and objectives of the Union and those of the third country and to sustainability, including through the integration of renewable energy into the grid and the transmission of renewable generation to major consumption centres and storage sites, and;
Amendment 332 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point e – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point e – introductory part
(e) the third country or countries involved have a high level of policy or regulatory alignment or convergence tor contribute to the mitigation of climate change and to the EU transition towards climate neutrality, supporting the overall policy objectives of the Union, in particular to ensure:
Amendment 341 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) the third country or countries involved support the priority status of the project, as set out in Article 7, and commit to comply with a similar timeline for acceleratedof the project implementation and other policy and regulatory support measures as applicable toof the Member State involved. The general criteria laid down in point (e) of this paragraph may be reflected into an intergovernmental agreement or other arrangement between the Member State and the third country or countries involved in the projects of commonmutual interest in the Union.
Amendment 344 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point f a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point f a (new)
(f a) The general criteria laid down in point (e) of this Article may be reflected into an intergovernmental agreement or other arrangement between the Member State and the third country or countries involved in the project of mutual interest.
Amendment 354 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point b – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point b – introductory part
(b) for smart electricity grid projects falling under the energy infrastructure category set out in point (1)(d) of Annex II, the project is to contribute significantly to sustainability through the integration of renewable energy into the grid and/or electrification of transports and final uses, and at least twoone of the following specific criteria:
Amendment 381 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 47
Recital 47
(47) Grants for works related to projects of mutual interest should be available only for the investments located on the territory of the Unionwhere they contribute to the overall climate and energy policy objectives of the Union, with the third country's decarbonisation objectives in line with the Paris Agreement, and only in case where at least twoone or more Member States contribute financially in a significant manner to the investment costs of the project in view of its benefits.
Amendment 402 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point f – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point f – introductory part
(f) for smart gas grid projects falling under the energy infrastructure category set out in point (2) of Annex II, the project is to contribute significantly to sustainability by enabling and facilitating the integration of renewable and low-carbon gases, such as biomethane, or renewable hydrogen, into the gas distribution and transmission networks, as well as storage systems, in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, the project is to contribute significantly to at least one of the following specific criteria:
Amendment 412 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 5
(5) ‘project of mutual interest’ means a project promoted by the Union or at least one Member State in cooperation with third countries, pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement or other arrangements, within the energy infrastructure categories in Annex II, which contributes to the Union’s overall energy and climate objectives as referred in Article 1 (1), and which is part of the Union list of projects referred to in Article 3;
Amendment 454 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Without prejudice to relevant requirements under national, international and Union law, the competent authority shall facilitate the issuing of the comprehensive decision, by promoting dialogue between the different parties involved in the authorisation process. The comprehensive decision shall be the final proof that the project of common interest has achieved ready-to- build status and there shall be no other requirements for any additional permits or authorisations in that respect. The comprehensive decision shall be issued within the time limit referred to in Article 10(1) and (2) and in accordance with one of the following schemes:
Amendment 458 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
The competent authority shall be empowered to ensure compliance with the time limits by issuing milestone plans. If the competent authority has not taken a decision on an application for approval within the established time limit, the approval shall be deemed to have been granted.
Amendment 472 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point a – introductory part
(a) the pre-application procedure, covering the period between the start of the permit granting process and the acceptance of the submitted application file by the competent authority, shall take place within an indicative period of two years.
Amendment 478 #
2020/0360(COD)
6. Projects of common interest included on the Union list pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Article under the energy infrastructure categories set out in points (1)(a), (b), (c) and (e) of Annex II, shall become an integral part of the relevant regional investment plans under Article 34 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 and Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 and of the relevant national 10- year network development plans under Article 51 of Directive (EU) 2019/944 and Article 22 of Directive 2009/73/EC and other national infrastructure plans concerned, as appropriate. Those projects shall be conferred the highest possible priority within each of those plans. This paragraph shall not apply to projects of mutual interest.
Amendment 479 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The competent authority shall ensure that the combined duration of the two procedures referred to in paragraph 1 does not exceed a period of three years and six months. However, where the competent authority considers that one or both of the two procedures of the permit granting process will not be completed within the time limits set out in paragraph 1, it may decide, before their expiry and on a case by case basis, to extend one or both of those time limits by a maximum of nine months for both procedures combined. The Commission should monitor the permitting process more closely and in case of any delay the European Commission shall be notified immediately by the competent authority, whereas the latter shall duly justify the delay.
Amendment 495 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the project contributes significantly to the decarbonisation policies and objectives of the Union and those of the third country and to sustainability, including through the integration of renewable energy into the grid and the transmission of renewable generation to major consumption centres and storage sites, and;
Amendment 502 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point e – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point e – introductory part
(e) the third country or countries involved have a high level of policy or regulatory alignment or convergence tor contribute to the mitigation of climate change and to the EU transition towards climate neutrality, supporting the overall policy objectives of the Union, in particular to ensure:
Amendment 510 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) the third country or countries involved support the priority status of the project, as set out in Article 7, and commit to comply with a similar timeline for acceleratedof the project implementation and other policy and regulatory support measures as applicable toof the Member State involved. The general criteria laid down in letter (e) of this paragraph may be reflected into an intergovernmental agreement or other arrangement between the Member State and the third country or countries involved in the projects of commonmutual interest in the Union. ..
Amendment 742 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 5
Article 18 – paragraph 5
5. Projects of mutual interest shall be assimilated with projects of common interest and be eligible for Union financial assistance. Only the investments located on the territory of the Union which are part of tThe projects of mutual interest, shall be eligible for Union financial assistance in the form of grants for works where they fulfil the criteria set out in paragraph 2, and where the cross-border cost allocation decision referred to in paragraph 2(b) allocates costs across borders for at least two Member States in a significant proportion in eachone or more Member States.
Amendment 848 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
(a) any of the following equipment or installation aiming at enabling and facilitating the integration of renewable and low-carbon gases (including biomethane, synthetic methane or hydrogen) into the network: digital systems and components integrating ICT, control systems and sensor technologies to enable the interactive and intelligent integration, monitoring, metering, quality control and management of gas production, transmission, distribution, storage and consumption within a gas network. Furthermore, such projects may also include equipment to enable reverse flows from the distribution to the transmission level and related necessary upgrades to the existing network.
Amendment 884 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 5
Article 18 – paragraph 5
5. Projects of mutual interest shall be assimilated with projects of common interest and be eligible for Union financial assistance. Only the investments located on the territory of the Union which are part of tThe projects of mutual interest, shall be eligible for Union financial assistance in the form of grants for works where they fulfil the criteria set out in paragraph 2, and where the cross-border cost allocation decision referred to in paragraph 2(b) allocates costs across borders for at least twoone or more Member States, in a significant proportion in each Member State if several are involved.
Amendment 886 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point d – paragraph 1
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 converted from natural gas dedicated toto be hydrogen-ready, or a combination of the two.
Amendment 897 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
Annex II – paragraph 1 – point 4 – point a
(a) electrolysers that: (i) have at least 1050 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. 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.
Amendment 920 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – Part 1 – point 1 – introductory part
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 ENTSO for Electricity or the ENTSO for Gas or the EU DSO entity, as relevant.
Amendment 956 #
2020/0360(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – point a
Annex IV – point 1 – point a
(a) for electricity transmission, the project increases the grid transfer capacity, or the capacity available for commercial flows, at the border of that Member State with one or several other Member States, having the effect of increasing the cross- border grid transfer capacity at the border of that Member State with one or several other Member States, by at least 5200 Megawatt compared to the situation without commissioning of the project;
Amendment 158 #
2020/0322(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) As serious cross-border threats to health are not limited to Union borders, joint procurement of medical countermeasures should be extended to include European Free Trade Association States and, Union candidate countries and those third Countries whose territories lie entirely within a Member State, in accordance with the applicable Union legislation. The Joint Procurement Agreement, determining the practical arrangements governing the joint procurement procedure established under Article 5 of Decision No 1082/2013/EU, should also be adapted to include an exclusivity clause regarding negotiation and procurement for participating countries in a joint procurement procedure, to allow for better coordination within the EU. The Commission should ensure coordination and information exchange between the entities organizing any action under different mechanisms established under this Regulation and other relevant Union structures related to procurement and stockpiling of medical countermeasures, such as the strategic rescEU reserve under Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council16 . _________________ 16Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 924).
Amendment 437 #
2020/0322(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(a a) by way of derogation from Article 165(2) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046, the Commission shall put in place all the necessary measures to extend the participation in the joint procurement procedure to those third Countries whose territories lie entirely within a Member State.
Amendment 445 #
2020/0322(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) Member States, EFTA States and Union candidate cCountries participating in a joint procurement shall procure the medical countermeasure in question through that procedure and not through other channels, and shall not run parallel negotiation processes for that product;
Amendment 4 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Covid-19 pandemic is a major shock to the global and Union economy. Due to the necessary containment measures, economic activity in the EU dropped significantly. The contraction in EU GDP in 2020 is expected to be around 7.5%, far deeper than during the financial crisis in 2009. The outbreak of the pandemic has shown the interconnectivity of global supply chains and exposed some vulnerabilities such as the over-reliance of strategic industries on non-diversified external supply sources. Such vulnerabilities need to be addressed, to improve the Union’s emergency response as well as the resilience of the entire economy, while maintaining its openness to competition and trade in line with its rules. Investment activity is expected to have dropped significantly. Even before the pandemic, while a recovery in investment-to-GDP ratios in the Union could be observed, it remained below what might be expected in a strong recovery and was insufficient to compensate for years of underinvestment following the 2009 crisis. More importantly, the current investment levels and forecasts do not cover the Union’s needs for structural investment to restart and sustain long-term growth in the face of technological change and global competitiveness, including for innovation, skills, infrastructure, small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) and the need to address key societal and environmental challenges such as sustainability, the impacts of climate change or population ageing. Consequently, in order to achieve the Union's policy objectives and to support a swift, just, inclusive, sustainable and healthy economic recovery, support is necessary to address market failures and sub-optimal investment situations and to reduce the investment gap in targeted sectors.
Amendment 8 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1 a) The disruptive economic and social effect of the COVID-19 crisis weakens public and private investment capacity thus limiting the financial resources essential for the transition to a climate neutral and resource efficient Union. In this regard, in the framework of Next Generation EU, InvestEU should contribute to reducing this gap.
Amendment 9 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In the last years, the Union has adopted ambitious strategies to complete the Single Market and to stimulate sustainable and inclusive growth and jobs, such as 'Europe 2020 - A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth' of 3 March 2010, 'Action Plan on Building a Capital Markets Union' of 30 September 2015, 'A new European Agenda for Culture' of 22 May 2018, 'Clean Energy for all Europeans' of 30 November 2016, 'Closing the loop - An EU action plan for the Circular Economy' of 2 December 2015, 'A European Strategy for Low- Emission Mobility' of 20 July 2016, ‘European Defence Action Plan’ of 30 November 2016, 'Launching the European Defence Fund' of 7 June 2017, 'Space Strategy for Europe' of 26 October 2016, the Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights of 13 December 2017, the ‘European Green Deal’ of 11 December 2019, the ‘European Green Deal Investment Plan’ of 14 January 2020, the ‘Strong Social Europe for Just Transitions’ of 14 January 2020, the ‘ Strategy for shaping Europe’s digital future’, the ‘Data Strategy’ and the ‘Artificial Intelligence Communication’ of 19 February 2020, ‘A New Industrial Strategy for Europe’ of 10 March 2020 and, ‘SME Strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe’ of 10 March 2020, 'A new Circular Economy Action Plan For a cleaner and more competitive Europe' of 11 March 2020, 'An EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030' of 20 May 2020 and 'A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system' of 20 May 2020. The InvestEU Fund should exploit and reinforce synergies between those mutually reinforcing strategies through providing support to investment and access to financing.
Amendment 24 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Reflecting the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union's commitments to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the SDGs, the InvestEU Programme will contribute to mainstream climate and environmental actions and to the achievement of an overall target of 25 % of the Union budget expenditures supporting climate objectives and an annual target of 30 % as soon as possible and at the latest by 2027. Actions under the InvestEU Programme are expected to contribute 3at least 40 % of the overall financial envelope of the InvestEU Programme to climate and environmental objectives. Relevant actions will be identified during the InvestEU Programme's preparation and implementation and reassessed in the context of the relevant evaluations and review processes.
Amendment 45 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Low infrastructure investment rates in the Union during the financial crisis and again during the Covid-19 crisis undermined the Union's ability to boost sustainable growth, job creations, competitiveness and convergence. It also creates risk of consolidating imbalances and impacts regions’ development long- term. Sizeable investments in Union infrastructure, in particular with regard to interconnection and energy efficiency and to creating a Single European Transport Area, are essential to meeting the Union's sustainability targets as defined in the European Green Deal, including the Union’s commitments towards the SDGs, and the Paris Agreement, the 2030 energy and climate targets and the Union commitment to a climate neutral economy by the 2050 at the latest. Accordingly, support from the InvestEU Fund should target investments into transport, energy, including energy efficiency and renewable energy sources and other safe and sustainable low- emission energy sources, environmental infrastructure, infrastructure related to climate actioncluding biodiversity conservation and restoration, natural-based solutions and green infrastructure, infrastructure related to climate mitigation and adaptation, waste prevention and circular economy infrastructure, maritime infrastructure and digital infrastructure. The InvestEU Programme should prioritise areas that are under-invested, and in which additional investment is required. To maximise the impact and added value of Union financing support, it is appropriate to promote a streamlined investment process that enables visibility of the project pipeline and maximises synergies across relevant Union programmes in areas such as transport, energy and digitisation. Bearing in mind threats to safety and security, investment projects receiving Union support should include measures for infrastructure resilience, including infrastructure maintenance and safety, and should take into account principles for the protection of citizens in public spaces. This should be complementary to the efforts made by other Union funds that provide support for security components of investments in public spaces, transport, energy and other critical infrastructure, such as the European Regional Development Fund.
Amendment 50 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15 a) The InvestEU Programme should contribute to the Union's climate objectives laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ("European Climate Law")] and should not finance projets that are inconsistent with the achievement of the Union's climate objectives.
Amendment 51 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Although the level of overall investment in the Union was increasing before the Covid-19 crisis, investment in higher-risk activities such as research and innovation was still inadequate and is now expected to have suffered a significant hit with the crisis. The resulting underinvestment in research and innovation is damaging to the industrial and economic competitiveness of the Union and the quality of life of its citizens. The InvestEU Fund should provide appropriate financial products to cover different stages of the innovation cycle and a wide range of stakeholders, in particular to allow the upscaling of and deployment of solutions at a commercial scale in the Union in order to make such solutions competitive on world markets and to promote Union excellence in sustainable, circular and low carbon technologies at a global level, in synergy with Horizon Europe, including the European Innovation Council. In that regard, the experience gained from the financial instruments, such as InnovFin – EU Finance for Innovators, deployed under Horizon 2020 to facilitate and accelerate access to finance for innovative businesses should serve as a strong basis to deliver this targeted support.
Amendment 54 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) In the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, market allocation of resources is not fully efficient and perceived risk impairs private investment flow significantly. Under such circumstances, the key feature of the InvestEU Fund of de-risking economically viable projects to crowd in private finance is particularly valuable and should be reinforced , inter alia in order to counteract the risk of an asymmetric recovery. The InvestEU Programme should be able to provide crucial support to companies in the recovery phase and at the same time ensure a strong focus of investors on the Union’s medium- and long-term policy priorities such as the European Green Deal, the European Green Deal Investment Plan, the Strategy on shaping Europe’s digital future and the Strong Social Europe for Just Transitions. These operations should support the creation or preservation of quality and sustainable jobs within the Union as well as contribute to the transition towards a climate neutral European economy and its digital transition. It should significantly increase the risk-taking capacity of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group and national promotional banks and institutions and other implementing partners in support of economic recovery.
Amendment 60 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) The primary focus of the strategic European investment window should be on support to those final recipients established in a Member State and operating in the Union whose activities are of strategic importance to the Union in particular in view of the green andtransition towards a climate neutral European economy and its digital transitions and of enhanced resilience in areas of (i) critical healthcare provision, manufacturing and stockpiling of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and, medical supplies and vaccines , strengthening of health crisis response capacity and of the civil protection system,the resilience of healthcare and health systems in preparation for future crisis response capacity and of the civil protection system, (ia) critical sustainable infrastructure to move to a de-carbonised, circular and environmentally sustainable sound European economy in line with the Union´s climate objective (ii) critical infrastructure, whether physical or virtual; (iii) provision of goods and services instrumental to the operation and maintenance of such infrastructure, (iv) key enabling, transformative, greesustainable, circular, low carbon and digital technologies and game-changing innovations where the investment is strategically important for the Union’s sustainable industrial future, including artificial intelligence, blockchain, software, robotics, semiconductors, microprocessors, edge cloud technologies, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, quantum technologies, photonics, industrial biotechnology, digital technologies for tracking, tracing and mapping of resources, renewable energy technologies, energy storage technologies including batteries, sustainable transport technologies, cleagreen hydrogen and fuel cell applications, decarbonisation technologies for industry, carbon capture and storage, waste prevention, circular economy and bioeconomy technologies, biomedicine, nanotechnologies, pharmaceuticals and renewable, circular and advanced materials; (v) manufacturing facilities for mass production of Information Communication and Technology components and devices in the EU; (vi) supply and stockpiling of critical inputs to public actors, businesses or consumers in the Union; (vii) critical technologies and inputs for the security of the Union and its Member States, such as defence and space sectors and cybersecurity, and dual use items as defined in point 1 of Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009. The final recipients should have their registered office in a Member State and they should be active in the Union in the sense that they have substantial activities in terms of staff, manufacturing, research and development or other business activities in the Union. Projects which contribute to diversification of strategic supply chains in the Single Market through operations in multiple locations across the EU should be able to benefit.
Amendment 64 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28 a (new)
Recital 28 a (new)
(28 a) The InvestEU Fund provided under the strategic European investment window should support infrastructure with a view to strengthening the resilience of healthcare and health systems in preparation for future pandemics, including the performance of stress tests of national and regional healthcare systems, improve the health status in societies, have healthier people therefore less susceptible to health threats and boost the creation of the European health Union.
Amendment 65 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28 b (new)
Recital 28 b (new)
(28 b) The European Council, in its Conclusions of 12 December 2019 , has agreed on the objective of achieving a climate-neutral Union by 2050, in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, while also recognising that it is necessary to put in place an enabling framework and that the transition will require significant public and private investment. The InvestEU fund provided under the strategic European investment window should support critical sustainable infrastructure in the sectors which has submitted a roadmap to the Commission setting out how and by which date the sector can reduce its emissions to close to zero, and identifying obstacles and opportunities as well as the technological solutions that would need to be developed and investments that would need to be made within the sector.
Amendment 67 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) The strategic European investment window should also target suppliers established and operating in the Union whose activities are of strategic importance to the Union and that would need long term investment or are covered by the Foreign Direct Investment Screening mechanism. In addition, important projects of common European interest should in particular be able to benefit from the strategic European investment window. However, financial support should not be provided when a project is inconsistent with the achievement of the European Green Deal, the Union's climate objectives and the Paris agreement objectives.
Amendment 70 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) The InvestEU should also provide support to financing to generate investment to the benefit of just transition regions, in line with the objectives identified in their just transition plans, and should be consistent with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) …/… (JTF Regulation).
Amendment 109 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – introductory part
(e) a strategic European investment policy window which comprises strategic investment to support final recipients that are established in a Member State and that operate in the Union, and whose activities are of strategic importance to the Union, in particular in view of the green andtransition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy and its digital transitions and of enhanced resilience , complying with the “do no significant harm” principle and the EU taxonomy established by Regulation (EU) 2020/852, in one of the following areas:
Amendment 113 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point i
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point i
i) critical healthcare provision, manufacturing and stockpiling of pharmaceuticals, medical devices and, medical supplies and vaccines , strengthening of health crisis response capacitythe resilience of healthcare and health systems in preparation for future crisis response capacity, including the performance of stress tests of national and regional healthcare systems, and of the civil protection system;
Amendment 117 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point i a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point i a (new)
i a) critical sustainable infrastructure to move to a de-carbonised, circular and environmentally sustainable European economy and society in line with the Union's climate objectives laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU)2018/1999 ("European Climate Law");
Amendment 119 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point ii
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point ii
ii) critical infrastructure, whether physical or virtual, including infrastructure elements identified as critical in the fields of energy, transport, environment, health, food safety, secure digital communication, 5G, internet of things, online service platforms, secure cloud computing, data processing or storage, payments and financial infrastructure, aerospace, defence, communications, media, education and training, electoral infrastructure and sensitive facilities, as well as land and real estate crucial for the use of such critical infrastructure;
Amendment 124 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv – introductory part
iv) key enabling, transformative, greesustainable, circular, low carbon and digital technologies and game- changing innovations where the investment is strategically important for the Union’s sustainable industrial future, including
Amendment 126 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv – point a
(a) artificial intelligence, blockchain, software, robotics, semiconductors, microprocessors, edge cloud technologies, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, quantum technologies, photonics, industrial biotechnology, digital technologies for tracking, tracing and mapping of resources,
Amendment 130 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv – point b
(b) renewable energy technologies, energy storage technologies including batteries, sustainable transport technologies, cleagreen hydrogen and fuel cell applications, decarbonisation technologies for industry, carbon capture and storage, circular waste prevention, circular economy and bioeconomy technologies,
Amendment 137 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point iv – point c
(c) biomedicine, nanotechnologies, pharmaceuticals and advanced, renewable and circular materials;
Amendment 139 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point v
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point v
v) manufacturing facilities for mass production of Information Communication and Technology components and devices in the EU having regard to resource efficiency, waste prevention and circularity in the value chains;
Amendment 142 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point vi
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point vi
vi) supply and stockpiling of critical inputs to public actors, businesses or consumers in the EU, including energy or raw materials or food security or pharmaceuticals, having regard to resource efficiency, waste prevention and circularity in strategic value chains;
Amendment 145 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point vii – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point e – point vii – paragraph 1 a (new)
Access to the finacing made available under the strategic European investment policy window shall be conditional on the endorsement and demonstration of Member States commitment to the Union objective of climate neutrality and individual Member States climate neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest, as well as on the adoption of a long-term strategy as referred to in Article 15 of Regulation(EU) 2018/1999.
Amendment 221 #
2020/0108(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – point 8 – point 8.2 a (new)
Annex III – point 8 – point 8.2 a (new)
Amendment 3 #
2020/0104(COD)
(3) At Union level, the European Semester of economic policy coordination (‘European Semester’), including the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, is the framework to identify national reform priorities and monitor their implementation. In order to provide guidance to Member States on where structural reforms and investments to support the transition towards an European climate neutral economy are most needed, the European Semester requires to be progressively updated through the used of harmonised indicators, in order to include all the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the objectives of the European Green Deal in its evaluation. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support of those reforms. Those strategies should be presented alongside the yearly National Reform Programmes as a way to outline and coordinate priority investment projects to be supported by national and/or Union funding.
Amendment 12 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Past experiences have shown that investment is often drastically cut during crises. HoweverTherefore, it is essential to support investment in this particular situation to speed up the recovery and strengthen long- term sustainable growth potential. Investing in greensustainable, circular, climate- neutral and digital technologies, capacities and processes aimed at achieving the Union net-zero greenhouse gas emissions objectives by 2050 assisting clean energy transition, boosting energy efficiency in housing, the development of circular economy models and other key sectors of the economic are important to achieve sustainable growth and help create jobs. It will also help make the Union more resilient and less dependent by diversifying key supply chains.
Amendment 17 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6 a) Investing in strengthening the resilience of healthcare and health systems in preparation for future pandemics, including the performance of stress tests of national and regional healthcare systems, improve the health status in societies, have healthier people therefore less susceptible to health threats and boost the creation of the European health Union, are important to achieve sustainable growth and to promote an economic, social and territorial cohesion.
Amendment 21 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Currently, no instrument foresees direct financial support linked to the achievement of results and to implementation of reforms and public investments of the Member States lin response to challenges identified in the European Semesterked with the priorities and objectives of Union funds and programmes, and with a view to having a lasting impact on the productivity and resilience of the economy of the Member States.
Amendment 26 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Against this background, it is necessary to strengthen the current framework for the provision of support to Member States and provide direct financial support to Member States through an innovative tool. To that end, a Recovery and Resilience Facility (the ‘Facility’) should be established under this Regulation to provide effective financial and significant support to step up the implementation of reforms and related public investments in the Member Stateboost public strategic investment in the Member States and step up the implementation of relevant reforms. The Facility should be comprehensive and should also benefit from the experience gained by the Commission and the Member States from the use of the other instruments and programmes.
Amendment 29 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10 a) The disruptive economic and social effect of the COVID-19 crisis weakens public and private investment capacity thus limiting the financial resources essential for the transition to a climate neutral and resource efficient Union. In this regard, in the framework of Next Generation EU, the Recovery and Resilience Facility should contribute to reducing this gap as highlighted in the report of the “EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG)” entitled “5 high level principles for recovery and resilience” of 15 July 2020.
Amendment 35 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Reflecting the European Green Deal as Europe’s sustainable growth strategy and the translation of the Union's commitments to implement the Paris Agreement and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, the Facility established by this Regulation will contribute to mainstreaming climate actions and environmental sustainability and to the achievement of an overall target of 25 % of the EU budget expenditures supporting climate objectives and an annual target of 30% as soon as possible and at the latest by 2027. Actions under the Facility are expected to contribute at least 40% of the overall financial envelope of the Recovery and Resilience Facility to climate and environmental objectives.
Amendment 44 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) In order to implement these overall objectives, relevant actions will be identified during the Facility’s preparation and implementation, and reassessed in the context of the relevant evaluations and review processes. Also, due attention should be paid to the impact of the national plans submitted under this Regulation on fostering not only the green transition towards a sustainable and climate neutral economy, but also the digital transformation. They will both play a priority role in relaunching, decarbonising and modernising our economy.
Amendment 46 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
Amendment 56 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The Facility’s general objective should be the promotion of economic, social and territorial cohesion. For that purpose, it should contribute to improving the resilience and adjustment capacity of the Member States, mitigating the social and economic impact of the crisis, and supporting the green and digital transitions aimed at achieving a climate neutral Europe by 2050transition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest and its digital transition, thereby restoring the growth potential of the economies of the Union in the aftermath of the crisis, fostering employment creation and to promoting sustainable growth.
Amendment 61 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) To ensure its contribution to the objectives of the Facility, the recovery and resilience plan should comprise measures for the implementation of reforms and public investment projects through a coherent recovery and resilience plan. The recovery and resilience plan should be consistherent with the relevant country- specific challenges and priorities identified in the context of the European Semester, with the national reform programmes, the national energy and climate plans, the just transition plans, and the partnership agreements and operational programmes adopted under the Union funds. To boost actions that fall within the priorities of the European Green Deal and the Digital Agenda, the plan should also set out measures that are relevant for the green and digital transitions. The measures should enable a swift deliver of targets, objectives and contributions set out in national energy and climate plans and updates thereof. All supported activities should be pursued in full respect of the climate and environmental priorities of the UnionUnion priorities and support the transition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest and its digital transition. The recovery and resilience plans should design their investments in line with the European Green Deal (EGD) as the Union’s new growth strategy, the European Pillar of Social Rights, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and the Digital Agenda. The measures should enable a swift deliver of targets, objectives and contributions set out in national energy and climate plans and updates thereof. All supported activities should be pursued in full respect of the climate and environmental priorities of the Union and respect the “do not significant harm” principle referred to in Regulation 2020/852. The recovery and resilience plan should be consistent with the relevant country-specific challenges and priorities identified in the context of an updated European Semester, which should include the tracking of the objectives of the European Green Deal, the NECPs and the UNSDGs, with the national reform programmes, the national energy and climate plans, the just transition plans, and the partnership agreements and operational programmes adopted under the Union funds.
Amendment 71 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) To inform the preparation and the implementation of the recovery and resilience plans by Member States, the Council, in close cooperation with the European Parliament, should be able to discuss, within the European Semester, the state of recovery, resilience and adjustment capacity in the Union. To ensure appropriate evidence, this discussion should be based on the Commission’s strategic and analytical information available in the context of the European Semester and, if available, on the basis of the information on the implementation of the plans in the preceding years.
Amendment 81 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) In order to ensure the national ownership and a focus on relevant reforms and investments, Member States wishing to receive support should submit to the Commission a recovery and resilience plan that is duly reasoned and substantiated. The recovery and resilience plan should set out the detailed set of measures for its implementation, including targets and milestones, and the expected impact of the recovery and resilience plan on growth potential, job creation and economic and, social resilience; it should also include measures that are relevant for the green and the support to the transition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest and theits digital transitions; it should also include an explanation of the consistency of the proposed recovery and resilience plan with the relevant country-specific challenges and priorities identified in the context of the updated European Semester. Close cooperation between the Commission and the Member States should be sought and achieved throughout the process.
Amendment 86 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) The Commission should assess the recovery and resilience plan proposed by the Member States and should act in close cooperation with the Member State concerned. The Commission will fully respect the national ownership of the process and will therefore take into account the justification and elements provided by the Member State concerned and assess whether the recovery and resilience plan proposed by the Member State is expected to contribute to effectively address challenges identified in the relevant country-specific recommendation addressed to the Member State concerned or in other relevant documents officially adopted by the Commission in the European Semester; whether the pleffectively to strengthen the sustainable growth potential, job creation and economic and social resilience of the Member State, mitigate the economic and social impact of the crisis and contribute to enhancing economic, social and territorial cohesion and support the transition towards a sustainable and contains measures that effectively contribute to the greenlimate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest and theits digital transitions and, to addressing the challenges resulting from them; whether the plan is expected to have a lasting impact in the Member State concerned; whether the planrecovery and resilience plan proposed by the Member State is expected to effectively contribute to strengthen the growth potential, job creation and economic and social resilience of the Member State, mitigate the economic and social impact of the crisis and contribueffectively address challenges identified in the relevant country-specific recommendation addressed to the Member State concerned or in other relevant documents officially adopted by the Commission in the updated European Semester; whether the plan is expected to enhancing economic, social and territorial cohesionhave a lasting impact in the Member State concerned;; whether the justification provided by the Member State of the estimated total costs of the recovery and resilience plan submitted is reasonable and plausible and is commensurate to the expected impact on the economy and employment; whether the proposed recovery and resilience plan contains measures for the implementation of reforms and public investment projects that represent coherent actions; and whether the arrangement proposed by the Member State concerned are expected to ensure effective implementation of the recovery and resilience plan, including the proposed milestones and targets, and the related indicators.
Amendment 96 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) The request for a loan should be justified by the financial needs linked to additional reforms and investments included in the recovery and resilience plan, notably relevant for the green andtransition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest and its digital transitions, and by therefore, by a higher cost of the plan than the maximum financial contribution (to be) allocated via the non-repayable contribution. It should be possible to submit the request for a loan together with the submission of the plan. In case the request for loan is made at a different moment in time, it should be accompanied by a revised plan with additional milestones and targets. To ensure frontloading of resources, Member States should request a loan support at the latest by 31 August 2024. For the purposes of sound financial management, the total amount of all the loans granted under this Regulation should be capped. In addition, the maximum volume of the loan for each Member State should not exceed 4.7% of its Gross National Income. An increase of the capped amount should be possible in exceptional circumstances subject to available resources. For the same reasons of sound financial management, it should be possible to pay the loan in instalments against the fulfilment of results.
Amendment 107 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) It is opportune that the Commission provides an annual report to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the Facility set out in this Regulation. This report should include information on the progress made by Member States under the recovery and resilience plans approved; it should also include information on the volume of the proceeds assigned to the Facility under the European Union Recovery Instrument in the previous year, broken down by budget line, and the contribution of the amounts raised through the European Union Recovery Instrument to the achievements of the objectives of the Facility. It should also include the contribution of the Facility to meeting the Union climate and sustainability policy objectives, in particular the Union's climate objectives laid down in [Regulation (EU)2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 (“European Climate law)] and the priorities set out in the National Climate and Energy Plans.
Amendment 120 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The scope of application of the Recovery and Resilience Facility established by this Regulation shall refer to policy areas related to economic, social and territorial cohesion, the green andtransition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest and its digital transitions, health, competitiveness, resilience, productivity, education and skills, research and innovation, smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, jobs and investment, and the stability of the financial systems.
Amendment 132 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The general objective of the Recovery and Resilience Facility shall be to promote the Union’s economic, social and territorial cohesion by improving the resilience and adjustment capacity of the Member States, mitigating the social and economic impact of the crisis, and supporting the green andthe transition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest and its digital transitions, thereby contributing to restoring the growth potential of the economies of the Union, fostering employment creation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis, and promoting sustainable growth.
Amendment 137 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The Recovery and Resilience Facility shall ensure that at least 40% of its overall financial envelope contributes to objective of the transition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest . Member States shall identify and track climate and environment spending by using the EU taxonomy established by Regulation (EU) 2020/852.
Amendment 152 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9
Article 9
Amendment 174 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. The recovery and resilience plans shall be consistent with the general and specific objectives of the Facility as defined in Article 4 of this Regulation and in line with the relevant country-specific challenges and priorities identified in the context of the European Semester, in particular those relevant for or resulting from the green and digital transition. The recovery and resilience plans shall also be consistent with the information included by the Member States in the national reform programmes under the European Semester, in their national energy and climate plans and updates thereof under the Regulation (EU)2018/199921 , ,in the territorial just transition plans under the Just Transition Fund22 , ,and in the partnership agreements and operational programmes under the Union funds. _________________ 21Regulation (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. 22 […]The Recovery and resilience facility shall apply to investments respecting the “do not significant harm” principle referred to in Regulation (EU) 2020/852.
Amendment 182 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The recovery and resilience plans shall not include measures causing significant harm to any of the environmental objectives listed in Regulation (EU) 2020/852 in accordance with Article 17 of the same Regulation.
Amendment 190 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) an explanation of the way the relevant country-specific challenges and priorities identified in the context of the European Semester are expected to be addressed; letter (a) should be replaced with letter (c)
Amendment 193 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) an explanation of how the plan strengthens the growth potential, job creation and economic and social resilience of the Member State concerned, mitigates the economic and social impact of the crisis, promote sustainable growth and its contribution to enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion and convergence; Letter (b) should be replaced by letter (a)
Amendment 198 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) an explanation of how the measures in the plan are expected to contribute to the green and the digital transitions or to thetransition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest in particular their contribution to meeting the Union climate and sustainability policy objectives taking into account the objectives set out in the National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) and the Union's climate objectives laid down in[Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ("European Climate Law")] and their contribution in addressing social, economic or environmental challenges resultderiving from them; is transition.
Amendment 203 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
(c a) an explanation of how the measures in the plan are expected to contribute to strengthening the resilience of healthcare and health systems in preparation for future pandemics, improve the health status in societies, have healthier people therefore less susceptible to health threats;
Amendment 210 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point c b (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 3 – point c b (new)
(c b) an explanation of how the measures in the plan are expected to contribute to the digital transitions or and the challenges resulting from them;
Amendment 232 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. The Commission shall assess the importance and coherence of the recovery and resilience plan and its contribution to the green andtransition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest and its digital transitions, and for that purpose, shall take into account the following criteria:
Amendment 238 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) whether the recovery and resilience plan is expected to contribute to effectively address challenges identified in the relevant country-specific recommendations addressed to the Member State concerned or in other relevant documents officially adopted by the Commission in the European Semester; letter a is replaced with letter (d)
Amendment 242 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) whether the plan contains measures that effectively contribute to the green and the digital transitions or to addressing the challenges resulting from themtransition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest in particular their contribution to meeting the Union sustainability policy objectives taking into account the objectives set out in the National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) and the Union's climate objectives laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ("European Climate Law")] and their contribution in addressing social, economic or environmental challenges deriving from this transition;
Amendment 249 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
(b a) whether the plan contains measures that effectively contribute to strengthening the resilience of healthcare and health systems in preparation for future pandemics, improve the health status in societies, have healthier people therefore less susceptible to health threats;
Amendment 254 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point b b (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point b b (new)
(b b) whether the plan contains measures that effectively contribute to the digital transitions or to addressing the challenges resulting from them;
Amendment 255 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point d
Article 16 – paragraph 3 – point d
(d) whether the recovery and resilience plan is expected to effectively contribute to strengthen the growth potential, job creation, and economic and social resilience of the Member State, mitigate the economic and social impact of the crisis, promote sustainable growth and contribute to enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion; letter (d) should be replaced with letter (a)
Amendment 309 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
(b a) the contribution to meeting the Union climate and sustainability policy objectives, in particular the Union's climate objectives laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ("European Climate Law")] and the priorities set out in the National Climate and Energy Plans
Amendment 323 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
In accordance with Article 16(3), the Commission shall assess the importance and coherence of the recovery and resilience plans, and its contribution to the green andtransition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest and its digital transitions, and for that purpose, it shall take into account the following criteria:
Amendment 327 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) whether the recovery and resilience plan is expected to contribute to effectively address challenges identified in the relevant country-specific recommendations addressed to the Member State concerned or in other relevant documents officially adopted by the Commission in the European Semester; letter (a) is replaced with letter (d)
Amendment 329 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) whether the plan contains measures that effectively contribute to the green and the digital transitions or to addressing the challenges resulting from them; transition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest in particular their contribution to meeting the Union sustainability policy objectives taking into account the objectives set out in the National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) and the Union's climate objectives laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU)2018/1999 ("European Climate Law")] and their contribution in addressing social, economic or environmental challenges deriving from this transition.
Amendment 332 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) whether the plan contains measures that effectively contribute to strengthening the resilience of healthcare and health systems in preparation for future pandemics, improve the health status in societies, have healthier people therefore less susceptible to health threats;
Amendment 335 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
(b b) whether the plan contains measures that effectively contribute to the digital transitions or to addressing the challenges resulting from them;
Amendment 336 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point d
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) whether the recovery and resilience plan is expected to effectively contribute to strengthen the growth potential, job creation, and economic and social resilience of the Member State, mitigate the economic and social impact of the crisis, promote sustainable growth and contribute to enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion; letter (d) should be replaced with letter (a)
Amendment 345 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.1 – introductory part
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.1 – introductory part
2.1 The recovery and resilience plan is expected to contribute to effectively address challenges identified in the relevant country-specific recommendations addressed to the Member State concerned or in other relevant documents officially adopted by the Commission in the European Semester. 2.1 should be replaced with 2.4
Amendment 353 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – introductory part
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – introductory part
2.2 The plan contains measures that effectively contribute to the green and the digital transitionstransition towards a sustainable and climate neutral European economy by 2050 at the latest or to addressing the challenges resulting from them.
Amendment 357 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – indent 1
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – indent 1
— the implementation of the envisaged measures is expected to significantly contribute to establishmeeting the Union climate- and environmental-friendly systems and to the greening of economic or social sectors with a view to contribute to the overall objective of asustainability policy objectives taking into account the objectives set out in the National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) and the Union's climate objectives laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate- neutral Europe by 2050;ity and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ("European Climate Law")]
Amendment 362 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 368 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – introductory part
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – introductory part
Amendment 371 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – indent 1
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 – indent 1
— the implementation of the envisaged measures is expected to significantly contribute to address the challenges resulting from the green and/or digital transitionssocial, economic and environmental challenges resulting from the transition towards a sustainable climate neutral European economy
Amendment 376 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 a (new)
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.2 a (new)
2.2 a The plan contains measures that effectively contribute to the digital transitions or to addressing the challenges resulting from them. - the implementation of the envisaged measures is expected to significantly contribute to establish climate- and environmental-friendly systems and to the greening of economic or social sectors with a view to contribute to the overall objective of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 at the latest; or - the implementation of the envisaged measures is expected to significantly contribute to the digital transformation of economic or social sectors; or - the implementation of the envisaged measures is expected to significantly contribute to address the challenges resulting from the green and/or digital transitions and -the implementation of the envisaged measures is expected to have a lasting impact.
Amendment 377 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.4 – introductory part
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.4 – introductory part
2.4 The recovery and resilience plan is expected to effectively contribute to strengthen the growth potential, job creation, and economic and social resilience of the Member State, mitigate the economic and social impact of the crisis, promote sustainable growth and contribute to enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion; 2.4 should be preplaced with 2.1
Amendment 382 #
2020/0104(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – indent 1
Annex II – point 2 – paragraph 3 – point 2.4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – indent 1
— the recovery and resilience plan contains measures that aim at addressing weaknesses of the economy of the Member States and at boosting the growth potential of the economy of the Member State concerned, stimulating job creation and mitigating the adverse effects of the crisis, promote sustainable growth while avoiding adverse impacts of those measures on climate and environment.
Amendment 1 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Commission adopted a Communication on the European Green Deal on 11 December 20199 , drawing its roadmap towards a new sustainable growth policy for Europe and setting ambitious objectives to counter climate change and for environmental protection. In line with the objective tof achieveing the Union’s 2030 targets for climate and energy and climate neutrality in the Union by 2050 at the latest in an effective and fair manner, the European Green Deal announced a Just Transition Mechanism to provide means for facing the climate challengeas laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999("European Climate Law")], the European Green Deal announced a Just Transition Mechanism to provide means for facing the economic, social and environmental challenges of the transition to a climate neutral, environmentally sustainable, energy and resource efficient, circular economy, while leaving no one behind. The most vulnerable regions and people are the most exposed to the harmful effects of climate change and environmental degradation. At the same time, managing the transition requires significant structural changes, also in light of the COVID-19 crisis. _________________ 9 COM(2019) 640 final.
Amendment 7 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1 a) The financing and investment operations should be aligned with current policy priorities of the Union such as the European Green Deal and its commitment to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest, the Strategy on shaping Europe’s digital future and the European Pillar of Social Rights. These operations should support the creation or preservation of quality and sustainable jobs and cross-border activities within the Union as well as contribute to the green and digital transition of the European economy.
Amendment 9 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The Commission adopted a Communication on the European Green Deal Investment Plan10 on 14 January 2020, establishing the Just Transition Mechanism which focuses on the regions and sectors that are most affected by the transition given their dependence on fossil fuels, including coal, peat and oil shale or greenhouse gas-intensive industrial processes but have less capacity to finance the necessary investments towards climate neutrality. The Just Transition Mechanism consists of three pillars: a Just Transition Fund implemented under shared management, a dedicated just transition scheme under InvestEU, and a public sector loan facility to mobilise additional investments to the regions concerned. _________________ 10 COM(2020) 21 final.
Amendment 17 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) A public sector loan facility (the ‘Facility’) should be provided. It constitutes the third pillar of the Just Transition Mechanism, supporting public sector entities in their investments. Such investments should be consistent with Union policies, in line with the Paris Agreement and its commitment to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest, and meet the development needs resulting from the transition challenges described in the territorial just transition plans as adopted by the Commission. The activities envisaged for support should be consistent with and complement those supported under the other two pillars of the Just Transition Mechanism. The Facility shall not support activities excluded under Article [5] of [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the Just Transition Fund ("JTF Regulation")].
Amendment 21 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4 a) The disruptive economic and social effect of the COVID-19 crisis weakens public and private investment capacity thus limiting the financial resources essential for the transition to a climate neutral and resource efficient Union. In this regard, in the framework of Next Generation EU, the Facility should contribute to reducing this gap and enable Member States to undertake the necessary investments to foster the achievement of the Union's long-term sustainability priorities.
Amendment 24 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) In order to enhance the economic diversification of territories impacted by the transition, the Facility should cover a wide range of investments, on condition that they contribute to meet the development needs in the transition towards a climate neutral economy, as described in the territorial just transition plans. The investments supported may cover energy and transport infrastructure, district heating networks, green mobility, smart waste management, clean-neutral, environmentally sustainable, energy and resource efficient and circular economy of the Union by 2050 at the latest as described in the territorial just transition plans. The investments supported may cover technology to support the decarbonisation of the energy sector, district heating networks, sustainable mobility,waste prevention measures, clean and renewable energy and, energy efficiency measures including renovations and conversions of buildings, sustainable bioeconomy, support to transition to a circular economy, land and ecosystem restoration and decontamination, as well as up- and re-skilling, training and social infrastructure, including social housing. Infrastructure developments may also include solutions leading to their enhanced resilience to withstand disasters. Comprehensive investment approach , consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in line with the Paris Agreement goals,should be favoured in particular for territories with important transition needs. Investments in other sectors could also be supported if they are consistent with the Union’s 2030 targets for climate and energy and its commitment to a climate-neutral economy by 2050, with the “do not significant harm" principle referred to in Regulation (EU) 2020/852 and with the adopted territorial just transition plans. By supporting investments that do not generate sufficient revenues, the Facility aims at providing public sector entities with additional resources necessary to address the social, economic and environmental challenges resulting from the adjustment to climate transition. In order to help identify investments with a high positive environmental impact eligible under the Facility, the EU taxonomy on environmentally sustainable economic activities may be used.
Amendment 36 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Specific eligibility conditions and award criteria should be set out in the work programme and the call for proposals. Those eligibility conditions and award criteria should take into account the relevance of the project in the context of the development needs described in the territorial just transition plans, the overall objective of promoting regional and territorial convergence and the significance of the grant component for the viability of the project, the positive environmental impact of the project measured with the screening criteria as defined in the EU taxonomy established by Regulation (EU) 2020/852. Union Support established by this Regulation should thus only be made available to Member States with at least one territorial just transition plan adopted. The work programme and calls for proposals will also take into account the territorial just transition plans submitted by Member States to ensure that coherence and consistency across the different pillars of the mechanism is ensured.
Amendment 51 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
The Facility shall provide support benefittto people ing Union territories facing diverse serious social, environmental and economic challenges deriving from the transition process towards a climate- neutral, environmentally sustainable, energy and resource efficient and circular economy of the Union by 2050 at the latest .
Amendment 58 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The general objective of the Facility is to address diverse serious socio-al, environmental and economic challenges deriving from the transition process towards a climate-neutral economy, environmentally sustainable, energy and resource efficient and circular economy of the Union by 2050 at the latest as laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999("European Climate Law")], for the benefit of the Union territories identified in the territorial just transition plans prepared by the Member States in accordance with Article 7 of Regulation [JTF Regulation].
Amendment 64 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. The Facility shall have the specific objective of increasing public sector investments, which address the development needs of regions identified in the territorial just transition plans, by facilitating the financing of projects that are consistent with the Union policies, in line with the Paris Agreement and its commitment to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest , that do not generate a sufficient stream of own revenues and would not be financed without the element of grant support from the Union budget.
Amendment 74 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall adopt a decision by means of an implement delegated act ing actcordance with Article 17 setting out the respective shares for each Member State resulting from the application of the methodology set out in Annex I of Regulation [JTF Regulation] in the form of percentages of the total available resources.
Amendment 77 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Access to the the grants made available under the Facility shall be conditional on the endorsement and demonstration of Member States commitment to the Union objective of climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest in their territorial just transition plans, as well as on the adoption of a long term strategy as referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/19991a. _________________ 1a Regulation (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).
Amendment 79 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the projects achieve measurable impact in addressing serious social, economic or environmental challenges deriving from the transition process towards a a climate-neutral economy, environmentally sustainable, energy and resource efficient and circular economy of the Union by 2050 at the latest as laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999("European Climate Law")], and benefit territories identified in a territorial just transition plan, even if they are not located in those territories;
Amendment 96 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
The Facility shall be implemented by work programmes established in accordance with Article 110 of the Financial Regulation. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 17 in order to establish work programmes The work programmes shall specify the criteria and conditions for the selection and for the prioritisation of projects, taking into account the relevant screening criteria laid down by Regulation (EU) 2020/852, the project’s ability to meet the objectives and needs identified in the territorial just transition plans, the contribution to the transition towards a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable, energy and resource efficient and circular economy of the Union by 2050 at the latest, the overall objective of promoting regional and territorial convergence and the grant’s contribution to the viability of projects. The work programmes shall set out the national shares of resources, including any additional resources, for each Member State in accordance with Articles 4(1) and 6(2) of this Regulation.
Amendment 103 #
2020/0100(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The Commission shall report annually on the implementation of the Facility in accordance with Article 250 of the Financial Regulation. That report shall provide information on the results and impact of the Facility with respect to its objectives and performance indicators, in particular its contribution to addressing the transition needs and to the Union environmental objectives. For that purpose, finance partners and beneficiaries shall provide on an annual basis all the necessary information and data. The evaluation shall also analyse how the Union support provided under the Facility has contributed to meeting the Union sustainability policy objectives, in particular the Union's climate objectives laid down in [Regulation (EU) 2020/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999("European Climate Law")].
Amendment 75 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) A fixed long-term objective is crucial to contribute to economic and societal transformation, jobs, growth, and the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, as well as to movereach in a fair and cost-effective manner towards the temperature goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre- industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1, 5°C above pre-industrial levels, as set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change following the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the ‘Paris Agreement’).
Amendment 85 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) AIn achieving climate neutrality should require a contribution from all economic sectors. In light of the importance of energy production and consumption on greenhouse gas emissions, the transition to a sustainable, affordable and secure energy system relying on a well-functioning internal energy market is essential.it is crucial to achieve a comprehensive transition of the whole transport sector, including aviation and maritime transport, towards sustainable zero- emissions mobility while protecting the rights of workers and their social conditions and ensuring affordable mobility for all. The ‘polluter pays’ principle should be a key factor in this regard. In light of the importance of energy production and consumption on greenhouse gas emissions, the transition to a sustainable, affordable and secure energy system relying on a well-functioning internal energy market is essential. Whereas emissions have substantially decreased in the energy sector since 1990, greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector have increased. The challenges in the transport sector are not limited to road or rail, but include the inland water transport, maritime and aviation sectors as well The digital transformation, technological innovation, and research and development are also important drivers for achieving the climate- neutrality objective.
Amendment 108 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The European Parliament called forhas declared a climate and environment emergencyand repeatedly called on the Commission and Member States to increase climate action to facilitate the necessary transition to a climate-neutral society by 2050 at the latest and for this to be made into a European success story33 and has declared a climate and environment emergency34 . The European Council, in its Conclusions of 12 December 201935 , has agreed on the objective of achieving a climate-neutral Union by 2050, in line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, while also recognising that it is necessary to put in place an enabling framework and that the transition will require significant public and private investment. The European Council also invited the Commission to prepare a proposal for the Union’s long- term strategy as early as possible in 2020 with a view to its adoption by the Council and its submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. _________________ 33European Parliament resolution of 15 January 2020 on the European Green Deal (2019/2956(RSP)). 34European Parliament resolution of 28 November 2019 on the climate and environment emergency (2019/2930(RSP)). 35 Conclusions adopted by the European Council at its meeting on 12 December 2019, EUCO 29/19, CO EUR 31, CONCL 9.
Amendment 114 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The Union should aim to achieve a balance between anthropogenic economy- wide emissions and removals, through natural and technological solutions, of greenhouse gases domestically within the Union and at Member State level by 2050. The Union-wide 2050 climate-neutrality objective should be pursued by all Member States collectively, and the Member States,and they should, together with the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission should take the necessary measures to enable its achievement. Measures at Union level will constitute an important part of the measures needed to achieve the objective. also at Member State level. After 2050, the Union and all Member States should continue to reduce emissions so as to ensure that removals of greenhouse gases exceed emissions
Amendment 133 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In taking the relevant measures at Union and national level to achieve the climate-neutrality objective, Member States and the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission should take into account the contribution of the transition to climate neutrality to the well- being of citizens, the prosperity of society and the competitiveness of the economy; energy and food security and affordabilithe social, economic and environmental costs of inaction or insufficient action; energy and food security and affordability whilst particularly taking into account the need to combat energy poverty; fairness and solidarity across and within Member States considering their economic capability, national circumstances and the need for convergence over time; the need to make the transition just and socially fair so nobody is left behind in accordance with the 2015 International Labour Organization's guidelines for a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all; best available scientific evidence, in particular the findings reported by the IPCC; the need to integrate climate change related risks into investment and planning decisions; cost-effectiveness and technological neutrality in achieving greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals and increasing resilience; progression over time in environmental integrity and level of ambition.
Amendment 146 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The Commission, in its Communication ‘The European Green Deal’, announced its intention to assess and make proposals for increasing the Union’s greenhouse gas emission reduction target for 2030 to ensure its consistency with the climate-neutrality objective for 2050. In that Communication, the Commission underlined that all Union policies should contribute to the climate-neutrality objective and that all sectors should play their part. By September 2020, the Commission should, based on a comprehensive impact assessment and taking into account its analysis of the integrated national energy and climate plans submitted to the Commission in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council36 , review the Union’saise the 2030 target for climate and explore options for a new 2030 target of 50 to 55 % emission reductions compared with 1990 levels. Where it considers necessary to amend the Union’sto 65% emission reductions compared with 1990 and determine an appropriate 20340 target, it should make proposals to the European Parliament and to the Council to amend this Regulation as appropriate according to what is necessary to reach the climate neutrality target. In addition, the Commission should, by 30 June 2021, assess how the Union legislation implementing that target would need to be amended in order to achieve emission reductions of 650 to 55 % compared to 1990. _________________ 36Regulation (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).
Amendment 153 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) To ensure that the Union and all Member States remain on track to reach the climate-neutrality objective, and to ensure predictability and confidence for all economic actors, including businesses, workers and trade unions, investors and consumers, the Commission should explore options for setting a Union 2040 climate target and make legislative proposals to the European Parliament and to the Council as appropriate.
Amendment 159 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) To ensure the Union and theall Member States remain on track to achieve the climate-neutrality objective and progress on adaptation, the Commission should regularly assess progress. Should the collective progress made by Member States towards the achievement of the climate-neutrality objective or on adaptation be insufficient or Union measures inconsistent with the climate- neutrality objective or inadequate to enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience or reduce vulnerability, the Commission should take the necessary measures in accordance with the Treaties. The Commission should also regularly assess relevant national measures, and issue recommendations where it finds that a Member State’s measures are inconsistent with the climate-neutrality objective or inadequate to enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change. Where a Member State fails to implement the measures in response to the Commission’s recommendations, the Commission should take the necessary measures in accordance with the Treaties and should make these measures publicly available
Amendment 191 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 a (new)
Recital 23 a (new)
(23 a) To ensure a clear pathway towards zero-emission mobility as set out in the European Green Deal, the Commission should significantly reduce free allowances allocated to the aviation sector in the EU ETS and consider that any action, or lack of action, taken at global level should not hinder the EU’s ability to take more ambitious actions of its own;
Amendment 195 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 b (new)
Recital 23 b (new)
(23 b) Internationally, CO2 emissions from maritime transport are projected to increase by 50% to 250% in the period to 2050. CO2 emissions from maritime transport are also growing rapidly in the Union, increasing by 48% between 1990 and 2008. Without action to tackle emissions from maritime transport, such emissions are expected, by 2050, to increase by 86% above 1990 levels, which would undermine the climate efforts undertaken by other sectors, the Union's objective of becoming an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the latest, and the goal of the Paris Agreement. Currently, the maritime transport is the only sector not expressly addressed by a Union emission reduction objective or specific mitigation measures.
Amendment 200 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 c (new)
Recital 23 c (new)
(23 c) There is an urgent need for enhanced action to tackle maritime emissions and to include the maritime transport sector in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), in addition to the adoption of other measures, like the greening of ports, ensuring that the maritime transport sector contributes to the efforts of reaching the Union's 2050 economy-wide climate neutrality target as well as the 2030 and 2040 targets.
Amendment 201 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 d (new)
Recital 23 d (new)
(23 d) The Union should continue its efforts to strengthen the circular economy and further support renewable alternatives that can substitute fossil-fuel based products and materials. In this regard, the Union should encourage the use of sustainable alternative fuels especially in those sectors where the potential of cutting emissions is higher, such as the aviation and maritime ones. Fuel standards should add to a transition that cannot be driven exclusively by a market-based system.
Amendment 203 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 e (new)
Recital 23 e (new)
(23 e) In order to the achieve the objective of climate neutrality by 2050 as set out in the European Green Deal, the Commission should also strengthen the specific legislation on CO2 emissions performance standards for cars, vans and trucks, come up with specific measures to pave the way for the electrification of road transport, and take initiatives to ramp up the production and deployment of sustainable alternative fuels.
Amendment 204 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 f (new)
Recital 23 f (new)
(23 f) Ensure sufficient investments in developing appropriate infrastructure for zero-emission mobility, including intermodal platforms and reinforcing the role of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) in supporting the transition towards smart, sustainable and safe mobility in the EU, should also be considered;
Amendment 205 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 g (new)
Recital 23 g (new)
(23 g) The connectivity of the European railway network, in particular international connections, to make passenger transport by rail more attractive for medium and long distance travels and improvements to the capacity of railways and inland waterways for freight, should be at the core of the EU legislative action.
Amendment 206 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 h (new)
Recital 23 h (new)
(23 h) The TEN-T infrastructures have a strategic role in order to contribute to the achievements of the climate neutrality targets. It is of key importance to have such corridors finalised as soon as possible, also with the view of pushing for a further switch from road to railway transport particularly for commercial transportation of goods and for commercial purposes
Amendment 222 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. Union-wide emissions and removals of greenhouse gases regulated in Union law shall be balanced in the Union at the latest by 2050, thus reducing emissions to net zero by that date. Each Member State shall reach net zero emissions within its territory by 2050 at the latest.
Amendment 227 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. As from 1 January 2051, removals of greenhouse gases shall exceed emissions in the Union and all Member States.
Amendment 231 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
2. The relevant Union institutions and the Member States shall take the necessary measures at Union and national level respectively, to enable the collective achievement of the climate-neutrality objective set out in paragraph 1, taking into account the importance of promoting fairness and solidarity among Member States, economic actors and citizens, ensuring a just transition leaving no one behind.
Amendment 250 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 3
Article 2 – paragraph 3
3. By September 2020, the Commission shall review the Union’s 2030 target for climate referred to in Article 2(11) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 in light ofto achieve the climate-neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1), and explore options for a new 2030 target of 50 to 565% emission reductions compared to 1990. Where tThe Commission considers that it is necessary to amend that target, it shall make proposals to the European Parliament and to the Council as appropriateccordingly.
Amendment 258 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 4
Article 2 – paragraph 4
4. By 30 June 2021, the Commission shall assess how all of the Union legislation implerelevant for the fulfilmenting of the Union’s 2030 climate target would need to be amended in order to enable the achievement of 650 to 55 % emission reductions compared to 1990 and to achieve the climate-neutrality-objective set out in Article 2(1), and consider takingtake the necessary measures, including the adoption of legislative proposals, in accordance with the Treaties. The Commission shall in particular evaluate the options for aligning emissions from aviation and maritime transport with the 2030 target and the 2050 climate-neutrality objective in order to reduce these emissions to net zero by2050 at the latest and shall present legislative proposals as appropriate.
Amendment 272 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. By 30 September 2025, the Commission shall, in light of the climate- neutrality objective set out in Article 2(1) and following a detailed impact assessment, explore options for setting a Union 2040 target for climate and shall make proposals to the European Parliament and to the Council as appropriate.
Amendment 274 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 4 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. No later than 18 months after the adoption of the 2040 climate target, the Commission shall assess how all of the Union legislation relevant for the fulfilment of that target would need to be amended and shall consider taking the necessary measures, including the adoption of legislative proposals, in accordance with the Treaties.
Amendment 336 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point j a (new)
(j a) An encompassing cross-sectoral approach with adequate consideration of the indicators concerned with the climate performance of specific sectors, notably transport and mobility;
Amendment 345 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a Union carbon budget By 30 June 2021, the Commission shall establish a Union carbon budget and make legislative proposals to the European Parliament and the Council as appropriate.
Amendment 395 #
2020/0036(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Where a Member State fails to comply with the obligations under paragraph 3, or fails to implement the measures in response to the Commission's recommendation, the Commission shall take the necessary measures in accordance with the Treaties.
Amendment 48 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The regulatory framework governing the Union’s cohesion policy for the period from 2021 to 2027, in the context of the next multi-annual financial framework, contributes to the fulfilment of the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by concentrating Union funding on green objectives. This Regulation implements one of the priorities set out in the Communication on the European Green Deal (‘the European Green Deal’)11 and is part of the Sustainable Europe Investment Plan12 providing dedicated financing under the Just Transition Mechanism in the context of cohesion policy to address the economic and social costhallenges of the transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy by 2050 at the latest, where any remaining greenhouse gas emissions are compensated by equivalent absorptions. _________________ 11 COM(2019) 640 final, 11.12.2019. 12 COM(2020) 21, 14.1.2020.
Amendment 72 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) In order to be successful, the transition has to be fair, inclusive and socially acceptable for all, reduce inequalities and leave no one behind. Therefore, both the Union and the Member States must take into account its economic and social implications from the outset, and deploy all possible instruments to mitigate adverse consequences. The Union budget has an important role in that regard.
Amendment 92 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
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. In line with the JTF specific objective, actions supported by the JTF should directly contribute to facilitate and alleviate the impact of the transition by creating new sustainable employment opportunities, by mitigating the negative repercussions on employment and adverse social consequences and 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].
Amendment 99 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) The application of Union support and funding through the JTF shall ensure that all eligible projects in every Member State are consistent with all Member States’ obligation, set out in Regulation (EU)XX/XXX establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 [new European Climate Law], to achieve national climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest;
Amendment 106 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In view of the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement, the commitment regarding the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the increased ambition of the Union as proposed in the European Green Deal, the JTF should provide a key contribution to mainstream climate actions and accelerate the transition to a climate-neutral economy by 2050 at the latest. Resources from the JTF own envelope are additional and come on top of the investments needed to achieve the overall target of 25% of the Union budget expenditure contributing to climate objectives. Resources transferred from the ERDF and ESF+ will contribute fully to the achievement of this target.
Amendment 122 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The resources from the JTF should complement the resources available under cohesion policy as well as national and regional investments, private capital and should by no means replace such investments.
Amendment 146 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) With the aim for a fair and sustainable transition that ensures the achievement and effectiveness of the objectives set by this regulation, the allocation of the resources should also take into account the results achieved by Member States with regard to the 2020 targets for GHG emissions reductions, renewable energy and energy efficiency. In this way, the JTF should not penalize Member States that have already invested and are in line with reaching the established objectives.
Amendment 163 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
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, social and environmental priorities of the Union. The list of investments should include those that support local economies and are sustainable in the medium and long- term, taking into account all the objectives of the European Green Deal and the European Pillar of Social Rights. The projects financed should contribute to a transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy. 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, 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.
Amendment 233 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) In order to supplement and amend certain non-essential elements of this Regulation, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to set out the annual breakdown of available allocations per Member State in accordance with Annex I, as well as in respect of the amendment of the elements contained in Annex III of this Regulation regarding the common output and result indicators. 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-Making15 . In particular, 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; these experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. _________________ 15 OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p.13.
Amendment 234 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
Amendment 247 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes the Just Transition Fund (‘JTF’) to provide support to territories facing serious socio-economic challenges deriving from the transition process towards a climate-neutral economy of the Union by 2050, ensuring that all Member States achieve climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest.
Amendment 267 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
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 and people to address the social, economic and environmental impacts of the transition towards a climate- neutral economy’ by 2050 at the latest.
Amendment 270 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
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 and people to address the social, economic and environmental impacts of the transition towards a climate- neutral economy by 2050’.
Amendment 279 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The JTF shall support the Investment for jobs and growth goalsocial, socio-economic and environmental impact of the transition in affected regions in all Member States.
Amendment 283 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
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 7.5 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. The funding of the JTF shall not be to the detriment of resources allocated to the other MFF funds.
Amendment 294 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall adopt a decision by means of an implementing act settingis empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 10 to set out the annual breakdown of resources, including any additional resources referred to in paragraph 2, by Member State in accordance with the methodology set out in Annex I.
Amendment 305 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
In accordance with paragraph 1, the JTF shall exclusively support the following activities provided that they are eligible under Regulation on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment (EU) [new EU Taxonomy Regulation]:
Amendment 313 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) productive and sustainable investments in SMEs, including start-ups, leading to sustainable job creation, economic diversification and reconversion;
Amendment 339 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c
(c) investments in sustainable research and innovation activities and fostering the transfer of advanced sustainable zero- emission technologies;
Amendment 368 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) investments aimed at promoting modal shift in urban areas towards more sustainable mobility modes;
Amendment 369 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) targeted energy efficiency measures to address energy poverty;
Amendment 406 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point g
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point g
(g) investments in enhancing the non- toxic circular economy, including through waste prevention, reduction, resource efficiency, reuse, repair and recycling;
Amendment 423 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point h
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point h
(h) upskilling and reskilling of workers, including self-employed, regardless of the sector;
Amendment 520 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The Commission shall only approve a programme where the identification of the territories most negatively affected by the transition process, contained within the relevant territorial just transition plan, is duly justified and the relevant territorial just transition plan is consistent with the National Energy and Climate Plan and the Long Term Strategy of the Member State concerned.
Amendment 555 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) a description of the transition process at national level towards a climate- neutral economy by 2050, including a timeline for key transition steps which are consistent with the latest version of the National Energy and Climate Plan (‘NECP’) and the Long Term Strategy;
Amendment 570 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) an assessment of the transition challenges faced by the most negatively affected territories, including the social, economic, and environmental impact of the transition to a climate-neutral economy, identifying the potential number of affected jobs and job losses, number of enterprises disrupted and expected revenue losses, the development needs and objectives, to be reached by 2030 linked to the transformation or closure of greenhouse gas-intensive activities in those territories;
Amendment 659 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point b
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) the allocations resulting from the application of point (a) are adjusted to ensure that no Member State receives an amount exceeding EUR 2 billion. The amounts exceeding EUR 2 billion per Member State are redistributed proportionally to the allocations of all other Member States. The Member States shares are recalculated accordingly taking into account the achievements regarding the 2020 targets for energy efficiency and renewable energy sources, as referred respectively to in Article 1(1) of Directive 2012/27/EU and in Annex I of Directive 2009/28/EC;
Amendment 6 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Citation 8 a (new)
Amendment 35 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Considers that we are facing an ecological emergency, which requires significant actions in Europe and beyond; calls on the Commission to place nature protection and restoration as a top priority in the European Green Deal alongside climate change;
Amendment 39 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 2
2. Expresses its concern that the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets will not be met with the current trajectory of biodiversity loss, and reiterates its calls on all Parties to step up their efforts; regrets that the EU is not on track to achieve its headline target of halting biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation by 2020; urges the Commission and Member States to commit to immediate, substantial and additional efforts on biodiversity conservation and restoration so as to meet the EU targets;
Amendment 42 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that biodiversity and healthy ecosystems are key for achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and strengthen EU’s resilience capacities toward climate change; recalls the importance of preserving biodiversity and nature based solutions for climate change mitigation; asks therefore for more coherence between the CBD and UNFCCC; calls on the Commission to better integrate biodiversity into its climate policies and ensure that EU climate funding is also used to protect and restore natural ecosystems as a way of achieving climate mitigation and adaptation;
Amendment 49 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 60 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes, in this regard, the commitments, made by Ursula von der Leyen in the political guidelines for the next European Commission 2019-2024 and in the mission letter to the Commissioner for Environment and Oceans, to present a Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 as part of the European Green Deal, and her intention for the EU to lead the world at the 2020 Conference of the Parties to the CBD, as it did at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference;
Amendment 87 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the need to increase ambition and functioning for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework; calls on the Commission and Member States to strengthen the implementation mechanisms of the CBD, to actively pursue the development of clear performance indicators, tracking instruments and peer review/reporting mechanisms to improve the transparency and accountability for Parties and the overall effectiveness of the next Biodiversity Strategy Plan;
Amendment 92 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights that an international framework in the form of a legally binding agreement is needed to protect global biodiversity, to stop its current decline and to restore all aspects of biodiversity; believes that such a framework should have a clear goal and be based on specific, measurable including quantifiable, ambitious, realistic and time- bound targets and firm commitments, comprising of Nationally Determined Contributions for Biodiversity (NDCBs) and other appropriate instruments, financial commitments and improved capacity building assurances, as well as a 5-yearly monitoring and review mechanism, with an emphasis on an upward trajectory of ambition; highlights the need for regular reporting by the Parties and a harmonised collection and treatment of comparable and consistent data and indicators for a good monitoring process;
Amendment 113 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the necessity of appropriate financing for biodiversity; underlines that biodiversity proofing in the next Multiannual Financial Framework and mainstreaming biodiversity across policy areas will have a significant and positive effect on reaching the 2050 Vision; calls on the Commission and the Council to set up a clear target for biodiversity mainstreaming of minimum 10% in the MFF that is additional to the spending on climate mainstreaming; emphasises also the need to establish a more transparent, comprehensive and stringent methodology for the tracking of biodiversity and climate expenditure; reiterates its calls to at least double the current funding of LIFE Programme; calls also for the phase out of harmful subsidies;
Amendment 126 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote the establishment of new international financial mechanisms for biodiversity conservation linked to the CBD; callsnotes that economic activities can be important drivers of global biodiversity decline and loss of natural capital; calls therefore on businesses and financial organisations to make and share strong commitments and contributions to biodiversity, including by biodiversity-proofing their activities, and highlights the importance of leveraging private financing initiatives in this regard; regrets the inconsistency of data set on finance flows for biodiversity that come from domestic and international public and private sources, that puts at risk the tracking and reporting systems and negatively affects any potential reform;
Amendment 137 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Points out that international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the UN Environment Program and the OECD agree that environmental taxation is an essential tool in addressing environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss; welcomes initiatives such as the Green Fiscal Policy Network of the UN Environmental Programme and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to facilitate knowledge sharing and dialogue on green fiscal reform; draws attention to the Aichi target 3 and the need of positive incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as well as on SDG 15 and the need to mobilise and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems; highlights therefore the potential of fair environmental taxation that is in line with the polluter pays principle as a way to reduce damage to the environment and generate financial resources for nature protection; calls on the EU and its Member States to increase the use of environmental taxation;
Amendment 151 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 21
21. Notes however the negative impact of intensive agriculture and pesticide use on biodiversity; calls ontherefore on the Commission and the Parties to undertake strong commitments towards sustainable agriculture and forestry, including requirements for the sustainable use of plant protection products and their reduction as well as strategies to ensure the protection of soil and habitats; calls on the Commission to propose an ambitious EU-wide binding target for the reduction of pesticide use and on the Commission, Member States and regional governments to increase support to the agriculture and forestry sectors in the transition to sustainable practices;
Amendment 160 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Recalls that according to the Communication of the Commission on Stepping up EU Action to Protect and Restore the World's Forests, forests are indispensable for our Planet’s life-support systems, covering 30% of the Earth’s land area and hosting 80% of its biodiversity; stresses that deforestation is a major cause of biodiversity decline; expresses its concern on the impact of EU consumption on deforestation as the EU is the final consumer of 10% of the products associated with deforestation; calls on the Commission to propose a comprehensive set of measures to reduce the EU consumption footprint on land, including legislation that ensures deforestation-free supply chains;
Amendment 188 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Points out that conservation and protected areas are necessary to safeguard biodiversity, and the benefits that humans derive from nature as well as for combatting climate change; calls on the EU to push during the negotiations for an increased level of ambition with 30 percent of the planet to be protected by 2030 and potentially having half the planet protected by 2050, thereby going beyond the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of protecting 17 percent of terrestrial and inland water areas and 10 percent of coastal and marine areas by 2020;
Amendment 194 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 25
25. Recalls the importance of innovation, research and development in order to achieve the objectives of the 2050 Vision; calls on the Commission and the Council to increase the budget allocation for Horizon Europe to 120 billion in the next MFF, to benefit in particular the cluster on natural resources, and to launch a mission on protection and restoration of biodiversity within Horizon Europe; calls on the Parties to focus in particular on the links between biodiversity preservation and benefits to human health and economic well-being, and to coordinate data collection measures;
Amendment 202 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses the importance of education to raise awareness on biodiversity and the protection of the environment;
Amendment 205 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses that capacity building and awareness-raising are key for a successful implementation and to create greater understanding of the importance of biodiversity; therefore welcomes the COP14 decision which invites parties, other governments, and donors in a position to do so, to provide financial resources for capacity building, technical assistance, and technology transfer;
Amendment 210 #
2019/2824(RSP)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30 a. Considers that transformative changes in societies are needed to tackle climate change, degradation of the environment and loss of biodiversity; stresses the importance of following the principle of a just transition ensuring that the process is inclusive and equitable;
Amendment 76 #
2019/2816(RSP)
Subheading 1 a (new)
Ia. whereas any measure regarding the environmental impact of drugs shall consider as the prevailing principle the right of the patients to a swift access to drugs deemed safe and effective with respect to the current risk-benefit assessment criteria;
Amendment 159 #
2019/2816(RSP)
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that the environmental impacts of pharmaceuticals could be included into the benefit-risk assessment of human medicines, as is already the case for veterinary medicines, while making sure that no delay occurs in the marketing authorization procedure of drugs deemed suitable in accordance with the current criteria of the assessment itself, so as to guarantee prompt access to safe and effective pharmacological treatments for patients;
Amendment 1 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Citation 12
— having regard to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report entitled ‘Global Warming of 1.5°C’, its fifth assessment report (AR5) and its synthesis report, and the Global Commission on Adaptation’ report on Adaptation (GCA), the IPCC special report on Climate Change and Land, and the IPCC special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate;
Amendment 8 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Citation 15 a (new)
- having regard to the Solidarity and Just Transition Silesia Declaration, signed at the side lines of the COP24 climate conference,
Amendment 20 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) clearly defined the link between the environment, sustainable development and gender and asserted that women have an strategic role to play in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound consumption and production patterns, including the need for women to participate on an equal basis in making decisions about the environment at all levels;
Amendment 24 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas climate change disproportionately affects developing countries, despite developing countries emitting far less CO2 than developed countries;
Amendment 66 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that, according to the WHO, climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health - clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter - and that between 2030 and 2050, 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress, are expected, with extreme high air temperatures contributing directly to deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory disease, particularly among elderly people; poorer standards of hygiene, limited access to drinking water and impeded access to health services are jeopardising the health of women, especially during pregnancy;
Amendment 69 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the IPBES 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), the IPCC special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) and the Global Commission on Adaptation’ report on Adaptation (GCA) recognises climate change as one of the main direct drivers of biodiversity loss during the past 50 yearsand land degradation, and underlines that its negative effects on nature and biodiversity, eco-systems services, oceans and food security are projected to become increasingly important in the next decades;
Amendment 81 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on all Parties to contribute constructively to the process to be put in place towards 2020 when NDCs need to be updated so as to ensure their compatibility with the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement; acknowledges that current pledges are not yet sufficient to reach the goals of the Agreement; stresses, therefore, that global GHG emissions should peak as soon as possible and that all Parties, especially the EU and all G20 nations, should step up their efforts and update their NDCs by 2020; early 2020 as the Paris Agreement foresees;
Amendment 93 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the country holding the EU Presidency and the Commission to submit to the UNFCCC as soon as possible the Union’s long-term strategy to reach domestic net-zero emissions inas early as possible and the latest by 2050; stresses that in order to reach domestic net- zero GHG emissions in 2050 in the most cost- efficient manner, and in order to avoid relying on carbon removal technologies that would entail significant risks for ecosystems, biodiversity and food security, the 2030 ambition level will need to be raised; believes it to be of the utmost importanceregrets that the UN Climate Summit was a missed opportunity for the EUnion to send a clear message during the UN Climate Summit in September 2019 that it stands ready to enhance its contribution tot higher ambitions and show leadership for the achievement of the Paris Agreement.;
Amendment 103 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 11
11. Supports an update of the Union’s NDC; calls, therefore, on EU leaders to support an increase in the level of ambition of the Union’s NDC with an economy-wide target of 55 % domestic GHG emission reductions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels; calls, therefore, on EU leaders to support an increase in the level of ambition of the Union’s NDC; considers that this is to be done in combination with enshrining in EU law the target to reach carbon neutrality as soon as possible and at the latest by 2050; calls also on other global economies to update their NDCs to bring about global effects;
Amendment 108 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that in order to reach the Paris Agreement objectives, we need concrete implementing measures and enforcement at national and EU level;
Amendment 109 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Emphasises that all climate policies have to be pursued following the principle of a just transition, in close cooperation with civil society and social partners; believes, therefore, that strengthened social partnership and civil society engagement at national and EU level is a necessary condition to achieve carbon-neutrality of all sectors of society in a fair, inclusive and socially sustainable manner; is of the opinion that nature-based solutions, the restoration and conservation of ecosystems and biological diversity is vital as enabler of climate change mitigation and adaptation;
Amendment 121 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 13
13. Recognises the achievements of the COP24 in Katowice, which reinforced the momentum for climate action, and with the completion of the Paris Agreement Work Program (the Katowice Rulebook), delivered operational guidance for the Paris Agreement; notes however, that some unfinished business from Katowice must be completed at COP25, namely on Article 6 mechanisms; considers in addition that several implementation decisions will need to be taken at COP25, specifically in the areas of mitigation, adaptation, transparency and support; looks forward to a successful outcome of the Review of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage at COP25 as well as the outcomes on the negotiations on the Gender Action Plan at COP25; recognises that there will be further discussions to agree common timeframes at COP25;
Amendment 129 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to advocate for strict and robust international rules relating to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement to prevent loopholes in accounting or double counting of emission reductions; expresses concern at the potential use towards NDC targets of units issued under the Kyoto Protocol as this would seriously deteriorate the environmental integrity of the future mechanisms established under Article 6; supports a share of proceeds from the Article 6 mechanism(s) going towards supporting the underfunded Adaptation Fund;
Amendment 146 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 19
19. Reiterates that adaptation action is an inevitable necessity for all countries if they are to minimise negative effects of climate change and make full use of the opportunities for climate-resilient growth and sustainable development; stresses the need to develop systems and tools to keep track of progress and effectiveness of national adaptation plans and actions; calls on Member States to strengthen their national energy and climate plans and bring them in line with the Paris Agreement goals;
Amendment 148 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Recognises that climate change is not a localised challenge and that climatic impacts outside the EU have implications within the EU as well; for instance, hurricanes, droughts, floods and forest fires have the potential to impact EU food and water security, as well as the supply chains of services and goods; calls on the Commission and the Member States to prioritise scaling-up international climate finance for adaptation, to equal climate finance for mitigation, and also provide climate finance for loss and damage;
Amendment 160 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses the importance of the replenishment process of the Green Climate Fund and encourages Member States to at least double their contributions for the initial resource mobilisation in USD value;
Amendment 161 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Stresses the importance of operationalising the global goal on adaptation and of mobilising major new funds for adaptation in developing countries; calls for the EU and its Member States to commit to a significant increase in the adaptation finance they provide; recognises the need for progress also on the issue of loss and damage, for which additional resources should be raised through innovative sources of public finance using the Warsaw International Mechanism;
Amendment 165 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses that the EU’s budget should be coherent with its international commitments on sustainable development and with its mid- and long-term climate and energy targets and should not be counterproductive to these targets or hampering their implementation; calls therefore on the Commission to put forward, where applicable, harmonised and binding rules on climate and biodiversity proofing of EU investments; calls on the European Investment Bank to put a rapid end to lending to fossil fuel projects and asks the EU Member States to end all export credit guarantees to fossil fuel projects; calls for specific public guarantees in favour of green investments, labels and fiscal advantages for green investment funds and for issuing green bonds;
Amendment 182 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Reminds the parties of the need to allocate sufficient resources to move from commitments to actions and to implement the necessary measures to achieve the Paris Agreement objectives; supports the new momentum for introducing a carbon adjustment mechanism at the European borders for imports to the EU in order to create a level playing field of international trade and avoid carbon leakage; calls, therefore, on the European Commission and the Member States to introduce a fair and progressive carbon taxation as soon as possible;
Amendment 187 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Underlines that in the course of the sustainable energy transition, the problem of energy poverty needs to be tackled by strengthened energy consumers’ rights and information, enhanced energy efficiency measures in buildings, especially for low-income households, and through social policies;
Amendment 188 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Believes that democratisation of the energy system is crucial for the sustainable energy transition to be successful; calls, therefore, on improving citizens’ rights and abilities to participate in the production of safe and clean energy;
Amendment 192 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 24
24. Expresses its satisfaction with the growing global mobilisation of an ever- broader range of non-state actors committed to climate action with concrete and measurable deliverables; highlights the critical role of civil society, the private sector and sub-state governments in pressurising and driving public opinion and state action; and in sharing knowledge and best practices on the development and implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures; calls on the EU, the Member States and all Parties to stimulate, facilitate and engage with non-state actors, who increasingly become frontrunners in the fight against climate change;
Amendment 195 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Stresses in this light also the role of the private sector, including corporations and the financial markets, to contribute to sustainability goals: welcomes the efforts to introduce legislation on the sustainability of finance and urges the Commission to introduce transparency and accountability for investee companies, especially when it comes to undermining sustainability and human rights in developing countries;
Amendment 200 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines that 80% of people displaced by climate change are women, who are in general more impacted by climate change than men yet bear a greater burden while not being as involved in key decision-making on climate action; calls on the Commission to develop programmes for the transfer of modern technologies and know-how to regions at risk, focusing in particular on women, who make up as much as 70% of the agricultural workforce in these areas; stresses therefore that women’s empowerment, as well as their full and equal participation and leadership in international forums, such as the UNFCCC, and national, regional and local climate action, are vital for the success and effectiveness of such action; calls on the EU and the Member States to mainstream the gender perspective into climate policies, and to promote the participation of indigenous women and women’s rights defenders within the UNFCCC framework;
Amendment 204 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Emphasises that young people and future generations bear the disproportionate burden of climate consequences; demands, therefore, better inclusion in climate policy decision- making of young people at local, regional, national and EU level;
Amendment 221 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 28
28. Regrets that the transport sector, especially the aviation and maritime sectors, is the only sector in which emissions have grown since 1990; stresses that this is not compatible with long-term sustainable development, which instead requires reductions in emissions from all sectors of society at a great and faster rate; recalls that the transport sector will need to be fully decarbonised by 2050; notes that the Commission’s analysis shows that the current global targets and measures envisaged by the International Maritime Organisation and the International Civil Aviation Organisation respectively, even if fully implemented, fall short of the necessary emissions reductions, and that significant further action consistent with the economy-wide objective of net-zero emissions is needed; considers that in order to ensure the consistency of NDCs with the economy-wide commitments required by the Paris Agreement, Parties should be encouraged to include emissions from international shipping and aviation and to agree and implement measures at international, regional and national level to address emissions from these sectors;
Amendment 223 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 29
29. Expresses concern about the level of ambition of ICAO’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) given the ongoing work on the standards and recommended practices meant to implement the scheme from 2019; stresses that further dilution of the CORSIA scheme is unacceptable; calls upon the Commission and the Member States to do their utmost in strengthening CORSIA’s provisions and in supporting the adoption of a long-term goal to significantly reduce in-sector emissions of the aviation sector; in this vein also points to the necessity to address non-carbon GHG from aviation in any European or international scheme;
Amendment 239 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 32
32. Notes that approximately 60 % of the world’s methane is emitted by sources such as agriculture, landfills and wastewater, and the production and pipeline transport of fossil fuels; recalls that methane is a potent GHG with a 100- year global warming potential, 28 times more powerful than CO2 ; reminds the Commission of its legal obligation to explore as soon as possible policy options for rapidly addressing methane emissions as part of a Union strategic plan for methane, and to present legislative proposals to Parliament and the Council to that effect within the first half of their mandate;
Amendment 259 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 33
33. Strongly supports the continuation and further strengthening of the Union’s political outreach and climate diplomacy, which is essential for raising the profile of climate action in partner countries and global public opinion; encourages the Commission and the Member States to approach EU climate diplomacy in a holistic manner by incorporating the interlinkages between climate change and the following areas: sustainable development, agriculture, conflict resolution, migration and humanitarian concerns in order to facilitate the global transition towards net zero emissions, climate resilience, sustainable development and food and water security.
Amendment 262 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. Calls upon the Commission and the Member States to make use of all available instruments (e.g. international negotiations, trade and regional agreements, international partnerships) to help promote and foster cooperation in the global transition towards net zero emissions, climate resilience, sustainable development and food and water security;
Amendment 263 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 34
34. Emphasises the deepening implications of climate change for international security and regional stability stemming from environmental degradation, loss of livelihood, climate-induced displacement of people and associated forms of unrest where climate change can often be regarded as a threat multiplier; points out that women forced from their homes by environmentally unsustainable conditions frequently fall into the clutches of criminal organisations engaged in sexual or labour exploitation; urges the EU and the Member States therefore, to work with their partners around the world to better understand, integrate, anticipate and manage the destabilising effects of climate change;
Amendment 267 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Believes that displacement due to climate change-induced consequences should be recognised as a ground for asylum and international protection;
Amendment 271 #
2019/2712(RSP)
Paragraph 35
35. Stresses the need to mainstream climate ambition into all EU policies, including trade policy; calls on the Commission to ensure that all new trade and investment agreements signed by the EU are fully compatible with the Paris Agreement and that environmental and climate provisions are legally binding and enforceable; asks the Commission to carry out and publish a comprehensive assessment of the consistency of the existing and forthcoming agreements with the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 34 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that, although poverty rates among women vary considerably from one Member State to another, the risk of poverty in the risk groups to which older women, single women and women with children, single mothers, homosexual, bisexual and transgender women and women with disabilities belong is the same;
Amendment 48 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes with concern that poverty among women increases with age, with the gender pension gap remaining at around 39 % and underlines that this is caused by the wage loss of working women with children, called the "motherhood pay gap";
Amendment 66 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Is concerned that the COVID19 pandemic and the consequent economic downturn will disproportionately affect disadvantaged groups of women, including inter alia single mothers, migrant women and women with low- income, precarious and part-time and will put them at the risk of poverty, unemployment, social exclusion or homelessness;
Amendment 70 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Notes that 70% of the global health and social workforce like doctors, nurses and care workers are women; calls on the Commission and the Member States to target public investments to meet the needs of women health service providers such as protective gear including sanitary products and to level up significantly wages and working conditions in strongly female-dominated sectors;
Amendment 73 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Notes that shopkeepers, their employees and cleaners are in large majority women, often only paid the minimum wage and the COVID19pandemic has put them at even greater risk of poverty ; underlines the urgent need for extended rights to paid leave, teleworking, short time work and improved social protection for women in precarious employment or who have already lost their jobs and establishing socio-economic safety nets for women in precarious employment or with precarious contracts;
Amendment 75 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Underlines the need to ensure access to free childcare for all types of parents and family constellations working in essential services and increased support for vulnerable families including those caring for family members with disabilities;
Amendment 76 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6 e. Calls on the Commission for a European level response to extend support to small and medium-sized women-led businesses during and after the crisis;
Amendment 88 #
2019/2188(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to come forward as soon as possible with proposals to close the gender pay gap. and pension gap;
Amendment 12 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 17 April 2018 on gender equality in the media sector in the EU,
Amendment 15 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 26 February 2014 on sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality,
Amendment 19 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
— having regard to its resolution of 15 April 2020 on EU coordinated action to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences,
Amendment 31 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 29 a (new)
Citation 29 a (new)
— having regard to the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life,
Amendment 32 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the right to equal treatment is a defining fundamental right recognised in the European Union Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and essential for its further development;
Amendment 38 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas structures and stereotypes throughout the world perpetuate inequality, and whereas overcoming these structures and stereotypes will advance gender equality; whereas women face intersecting inequalities and discrimination, including those linked to their race, ethnic or social origin, sexual orientation, gender identities and expression, religion or belief and residence status; whereas advancing gender equality and investing in women and girls not only benefits the whole society but is a goal in itself; whereas a strong women’s rights movement is needed to uphold democratic values, fundamental rights and women’s rights in particular, and whereas threats to women’s rights also represent threats to democracy;
Amendment 49 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU has adopted important legislation and provided key impulses to achieving gender equality; whereas, however, these efforts have slowed down in recent years, while movements opposing gender equality policies and women’s rights have flourished; whereas these movements are attempting to influence national and European policie trying to re-establish traditional gender roles as the norm, questioning the status quo and blocking further progress; whereas these movements opposing gender equality policies, family diversity, same-sex marriage, sexual and reproductive health and rights as well as gender mainstreaming, try to influence national and European policy-making and whereas threats to women’s rights mean always also threats to democracy and social and economic progress;
Amendment 58 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas violence against women in all its forms is a violation of human rights and one of the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality; whereas a life free from violence is a prerequisite for equality; whereas gender-based violence in health like e.g. obstetric and gynaecological violence are forms of violence that only came to light in recent years and whereas violence against older women still remains largely under- recognized; whereas disinformation campaigns on gender equality also focus on the issue of violence against women, as has been seen in relation to the Istanbul Convention leading to public opposition and harmful political decisions in some Member States;
Amendment 66 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas trafficking in human beings is a growing part of organised crime and a human rights violation and concerns mostly women and children, especially for the purpose of sexual exploitation;
Amendment 73 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas traditional gender roles and stereotypes still influence the division of labour at home, in education, at the workplace and in society; whereas unpaid care work, mostly carried out by women, contributes to the gender pay and pension gap; whereas work-life balance measures, such as the Work-life Balance Directive, are important first steps, but need to be complemented by further measures in order to involve more men in unpaid work and to foster the equal earner – equal carer model; whereas traditional structures, unpaid care work and disincentives in national taxation systems contribute to push or keep women in second earner status which has negative consequences for women and their economic independence as well as for the society as a whole;
Amendment 94 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the participation of women in the labour market does not secure their equal participation in decision-making and therefore limits women’s potential to change economic, political, social and cultural structures; whereas gender quotas, zipper list systems and sanctions have proven to be efficient measures to secure parity and to work against unequal power relations;
Amendment 98 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the respect for fundamental freedoms and human rights, including gender equality, is a pre- requisite for the creation and distribution of diverse cultural and educational expressions as all cultural and creative sectors have a considerable influence on our beliefs, values and perception of gender issues;
Amendment 101 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas women and girls face a number of obstacles in the field of sports and are not only subject to violence, but also face pay, prize money and work condition discrimination and are widely underrepresented in boards of sport organisations and media;
Amendment 109 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the Covid-19 pandemic underlined once more persistent inequalities showing women are the most vulnerable and at the same time the most vital to maintaining public life, essential services and recovery; whereas women are affected the most, immediately and for the long-term; whereas specific measures to counterbalance this are needed; whereas recovery programs or transition funds should not be only directed towards male dominated economic sectors; whereas austerity policies have proven harmful for women, women’s rights and gender equality in the past;
Amendment 114 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the impact of climate change is experienced differently by women, as they are more vulnerable and face higher risks and burdens for various reasons ranging from unequal access to resources, education, job opportunities and land rights to social and cultural norms and their diverse intersectional experiences; whereas gender equality and the inclusion of women in decision-making is a prerequisite for sustainable development and the efficient management of climate challenges in order to achieve a fair and just transition that leaves no one behind; whereas all climate action must include a gender- and an intersectional perspective; whereas opportunities must be created to facilitate women playing stronger roles in the climate change discussions and decisions as leaders, professionals and technical agents for change;
Amendment 121 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas access to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, and to sexuality and relationship education, as well as access to sexual and reproductive healthcare, are essential to achieving gender equality and rights, including family planning, contraceptive methods and safe and legal abortion, are essential to achieving gender equality and eliminating gender-based violence; whereas girls’ and women’s autonomy and ability to free and independent decisions about their body’s and lives is a precondition for their economic independence and thus for gender equality and elimination of gender-based violence;
Amendment 147 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas gender-disaggregated data is essential to make inequalities visible and create targeted policies, but is still lacking in different areas of EU and Member States policies; whereas gender sensitive data is crucial in artificial intelligence and similar developments in order to create non-biased, non- discriminatory and ethically sound AI, algorithms etc.;
Amendment 158 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the adoption of the Commission communication entitled ‘A Union of Equality: Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025’, delivered on time within the first 100 days of the new Commission, as a strong sign for political engagement with European gender equality policies and as a decisive, clear and ambitious policy framework to counter attacks on women’s rights and gender equality; supports the Commission’s goal of an European Union without discrimination and structural inequalities for all people in all their diversity; underlines the importance of the chosen dual approach, consisting of targeted measures and the consistent application of gender mainstreaming and intersectionality as cross-cutting principles, and welcomes the strong link between the areas of work and the elimination of stereotypes, gender biases and discrimination and calls for strong monitoring mechanisms in order to regularly measure and evaluate the success of the strategy and its measures;
Amendment 175 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets that the strategy remains vague on the issue of timelines for several, highly welcomed, measures; calls, therefore, on the Commission to establish concrete timeframes and additional targeted actions, as well as guidelines on how to implement the intersectional approach effectively; calls in particular for clear timeframes with regards to the development of a new framework for the cooperation of internet platforms, the new EU strategy on the eradication of trafficking in human beings, the gender equality strategy in the audio-visual industry (as part of the MEDIA sub- programme) and the EU-wide communication campaign combatting gender stereotypes;
Amendment 203 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the Commission’s plan to continue pushing for the EU-wide ratification of the Istanbul Convention; underlines, in this context, the need for specific measures to address the existing disparities between Member Statesin laws, policies and services between Member States and the increase of violence during the Covid-19 pandemic; draws attention, however, to the fact that several attempts to convince reluctant Member States have already failed and Hungary’s government recently decided not to ratify the Convention at all; warmly welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s intention to propose measures in 2021 to achieve the objectives of the Istanbul Convention if the EU’s accession remains blocked; calls for starting preparatory actions fonow in order theo launch of additional legally binding measures to eliminate violence against women; very much welcomes the planned extension of definitions of areas of particularly serious crime under Article 83(1) of the TFEU, but calls for the inclusion of alland an EU-directive to prevent and combat gender-based violence, including cyber violence and online hate speech against women as soon as possible; welcomes the initiative extending the areas of crime to specific forms of gender-based violence, in order to take a proactive approach and lay the groundwork for an EU directive on this issueaccordance with Article 83(1) TFEU;
Amendment 210 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the plan to table an additional recommendation on the prevention of harmful practices, and to launch an EU network on the prevention of both gender-based and domestic violence; requests that the definitions and goals of the Istanbul Convention be applied and that women’s rights and civil society organisations be involved on a continuous basis; highlights the importance of the engagement of local and regional governments in this process; underlines the role of education, including boys’ and men’s, and calls for countering toxic masculinity in this regard;
Amendment 219 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the scope and impact of violence and harassment in the workplace; points out that informal carers, domestic workers and farm workers in particular lack protection and visibility and therefore calls on the Member States to adopt International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions 190 and 189, in order to strengthen the rights of workers, especially women, in the informal economy; and to ensure that complaint mechanisms are independent, confidential and accessible for all women without discrimination and specific measures are provided to protect complainants from employer retaliation and repeated victimisation; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to adopt, as employer, a new comprehensive legal framework with a set of preventive and reactive measures against harassment in the workplace;
Amendment 228 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. emphasises the need to recognise and combat all types of violence and harassment in the educational system, schools, universities, traineeships, programmes for professional development and all others, across the whole sector;
Amendment 231 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the proposed specific measures to tackle cyber violence often directed at women daring to speak out, like activists, women politicians and other public figures being used in order to silence women and shut them out of male dominated public life; calls for binding legislative measures to combat these forms of violence and to support Member States in the development of training tools for the police force, the justice system and the information and communication technology sector;
Amendment 237 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to present the long-awaited EU strategy on the eradication of trafficking in human beings and underlines the need for a clear gender focus, as women and girls are the most affected and are trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation; thus requests that the strategy looks closely at the situation of women in prostitution and the impact of cross-border prostitution; highlights the important role and work of the EU-Anti- Trafficking Coordinator and underlines the importance to continue this work in the future; insists on the importance of including measures and strategies to reduce demand like for example the so-called Nordic Model;
Amendment 242 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to present the long-awaited EU strategy on the eradication of trafficking in human beings and underlines the need for a clear gender focus, as women and girls are the most affected and are trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitationand reproductive exploitation; reiterate its call to put an end to the practice of surrogacy and reproductive tourism; insists on the importance of including measures and strategies to reduce demand;
Amendment 265 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Supports the revision of the Barcelona targets to ensure free, accessible and high- quality childcare; calls for financial support for and the sharing of best practices among Member States which have not yet achieved the targets; welcomes, furthermore, the development of guidance for Member States on tackling financial disincentives in relation to social, economic and taxation policies; underlines the goal of equal carers and equal earners which needs to be at the heart of these efforts and welcomes, in this context, as a first step the work-life-balance directive;
Amendment 271 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses the importance of accessible, affordable, quality and inclusive early childhood education and care in particular for young mothers in giving them the opportunity to work and/or to study; recalls in this respect the principle eleven of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 281 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to table binding measures on pay transparency by the end of 2020 which can be a useful tool to detect gaps and discrimination in the same sector; points out, however, that the issue of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value across different occupational sectors still needs to be addressed to cover differences in pay for work which may not seem comparable at first sight and is performed in sectors that are highly gendered, which often results in lower wages being attributed to sectors which mostly employ women, such as nursing, care, retail, sales and the education sector, compared to, e.g., the manufacturing sector or technical professions highly dominated by men; strongly recommends the inclusion of the principle of equal pay for work of equal value between women and men, which could be defined as follows: ‘Work shall be deemed of equal value if, based on a comparison of two groups of workers which have not been formed in an arbitrary manner, the work performed is comparable, taking into account factors such as the working conditions, the degree of responsibility conferred on the workers, and the physical or mental requirements of the work’; points out that gender-neutral job evaluation tools and classification criteria need to be developed for this purpose in close cooperation with the social partners;
Amendment 293 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Highlights that 70 % of the global health and social workforce are women, often only paid the minimum wage and in precarious working conditions, and calls for the levelling up of wages and working conditions in strongly female-dominated sectors like care, health and retail sales, as well as the eradication of the gender pay and pension gap and labour market segregation;
Amendment 300 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Stresses that gender pay gap in the media sector is high and female journalists are more likely than men to face harassment, violence, sexism, discrimination; recalls the second chapter of the European Pillar of Social Rights on fair working conditions; therefore calls on Member States to safeguard the right to fair and safe working conditions of all workers in media sector;
Amendment 302 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Amendment 320 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the support for gender parity in elected bodies such as the European Parliament and calls for the introduction of a binding quota and stresses that it must serve as a role model in this regard; welcomes furthermore the European Commission’s announcement to lead by example with regards to management positions and calls for strategies to guarantee a meaningful representation of women from diverse backgrounds in decision-making roles in the European Commission;
Amendment 323 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes that the film industry is one of the highest segments of cultural and creative sectors with considerable cultural, social and economic weight and that film is a powerful medium that both reflects and shapes society and culture; regrets that women are severely under- represented in key creative positions in the film industry across Europe, including directing, even though an almost equal number of women and men graduate from film schools; therefore recommends that Member States keep close attention to the processes producing inequalities within the whole sector and thus further contributing to the unequal position of women, girls and LGBTIQ persons and calls on Member States to develop and implement policies to eradicate persisting inequalities within the whole audio-visual sector in order to prevent a further decline of the opportunities for women and girls;
Amendment 328 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls upon the Member States to promote and develop policies within the performing arts sector which will respect the value of equal opportunities as well as gender equality in all activities with an emphasis of derogating the negative effects of the long lasting disparities and inequalities such as the gender divide across the music sector where it is roughly 70% male to 30% female across all regions and in Europe, women representing 20% or less of registered composers and songwriters, on average earn 30% less than men working within the sector, compose only 2.3% of classical works performed at concerts and own only 15% of record labels;
Amendment 329 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls upon the Member States to promote and develop policies within the sports sector to fight the especially high pay and prizemoney discrimination, violence against women and girls in sports and to also ensure that more women in sports (players, managers, etc.) are included in media representation and in deciding positions of sport organisations; calls on the European Commission to include the aspect of sports into the planned campaign against gender stereotypes;
Amendment 331 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Regrets the underrepresentation of women in the ICT sector, and points out the risk of this reinforcing and reproducing stereotypes and gender bias through the programming of AI and other programs; highlights the possible negative impacts of digitalisation on women and girls and calls for gender mainstreaming in all of Europe’s digital policies; calls for technologies and AI to be transformed into tools in the fight to eradicate gender stereotypes and to empower girls and women to enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and ICT fields of study and to stay on these career paths;
Amendment 337 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Underlines the importance of access and development of digital skills for older women, women in rural areas and women and girls in disadvantaged positions with limited access to new technologies in order to remain connected to the active life and to facilitate the keeping of contact with friends and relatives;
Amendment 345 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Reiterates the importance of gender mainstreaming as a systematic approach to achieving gender equality underlines therefore its importance to be part of any solution to any challenge the EU and its Member States are confronted with like the current COVID-19 pandemic and its impact; welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s newly established task force on equality; underlines the importance of transparency and the involvement of women’s rights and civil society organisations from diverse backgrounds; urges the Commission to incorporate provisions making the consideration of inputs from the task force compulsory for Directorates- General;
Amendment 352 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Highlights the important work of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) for the aim of achieving gender equality and underlines the need for its continuous and adequate funding;
Amendment 362 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges that gender mainstreaming be incorporated into EU environmental and climate policies, such as the Green Deal, that financial and institutional support, gender expertise and strong policy measures to encourage the equal participation of women in decision-making bodies and national- and local-level climate policy be guaranteedaction is vital for achieving long- term climate justice, and that recognition and support be given to women and girls as agents for change;
Amendment 372 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that tax policies have varying impacts on different types of households; stresses that individual taxation is instrumental in terms of achieving tax fairness for women; underlines the negative consequences of failing to incentivise women’s employment and their economic independence and draws attention to the high gender pension gap resulting from joint taxation; stresses that tax systems should no longer be based on the assumption that households pool and share their funds equally; underlines the impact of period poverty on many European women due to expensive menstrual hygiene products and high levels of taxation of these in many Member States and thus urges the European Commission and the Member States to take action against this indirective tax discrimination and period poverty;
Amendment 379 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for the EU’s recovery fund to be dedicated to women and their economic recovery, too; therefore calls the funding to be based on a measurable gender mainstreaming principle through which a fair, adequate and coherent distribution of funding can be guaranteed, in order to meet the actual needs of women and to contribute to gender equality; furthermore asks for a special women corona fund supporting the fight in main areas against persisting inequalities like violence against women, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and women in the labour market; stresses the need to advance on a gender sensitive budget in order to make sure women do not loose investment opportunities or funds;
Amendment 390 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Reiterates the need for a regular exchange between Member States and the Commission on gender aspects in health, including guidelines for comprehensive sex and relationship education, gender- sensitive responses to epidemics and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); calls on the Commission to include SRHR in its next EU Health Strategy, and to support Member States in providing high- quality and low-threshold access to healthcare services; calls on the Member States to effectively guarantee safe, timely and full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and the necessary healthcare services for all women and girls during the COVID-19 pandemic and possible other crisis situations in the future;
Amendment 396 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Highlights that the current Covid- 19 pandemic showed clear differences between women and men with regards to the mortality rate which underlines once more the importance of gender-specific medicine and research; calls on the Commission to support such research and share and promote its results;
Amendment 399 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on the Commission to support research on non-hormonal contraception for women, providing them with more alternatives as well as to support research on contraceptives for men, aiming to provide for equality in access to and use of contraceptives as well as shared responsibility;
Amendment 400 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in the establishment of university chairs in gender studies and feminist research and to develop education tools for gender sensitive education in order to tackle stereotypes from an early age on; calls on the Commission to help sharing best practices in the field of sexist advertisement;
Amendment 415 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for coherence between and the mutual reinforcement of the EU’s internal and external policies on the principles of gender mainstreaming and gender equality, countering gender stereotypes and norms, as well as harmful practices and discriminatory laws, through external relations; highlights in this regard in particular the EU’s trade policies, development cooperation and human rights policies;
Amendment 423 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Welcomes the renewed commitment to women’s and girls’ rights and the reference to the Sustainable Development Goals and in particular to SDG 5 as a key framework for the Gender Equality Strategy;
Amendment 428 #
2019/2169(INI)
21. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to ensuring the inclusion of a specific chapter on trade and gender equality in the modernised Association Agreement with Chile, and to promoting and supporting the inclusion of such chapters in all further EU trade and investment agreements building on existing international examples;
Amendment 432 #
2019/2169(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Reiterates its continuous support for the work of the Commission in this field;
Amendment 16 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the principle of equality between women and men is a core value of the EU, and gender mainstreaming should therefore be implemented and integrated into all EU activities and policies; whereas the EU should contribute to creating a world in which all people, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, race and ability can live peacefully, enjoying equal rights and the same opportunity to realise their potential;
Amendment 26 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas women and girls are particularly affected by physical, psychological and sexual violence, poverty, armed conflicts and the impact of the climate emergency; whereas there is a growing global trend towards authoritarianism and an increasing number of fundamentalist groups, both of which are clearly linked to a backlash against women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights; whereas any understanding of security that focuses on States rather than human beings is defective and will not lead to peace;
Amendment 31 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls, including harmful traditions such as child marriage and FGM; inadequate access to basic sectors and social services, for example health, education, clean water, sanitation, and nutrition; restricted access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services; unequal participation in public and private institutions, as well as in political decision-making and in peace processes are contributory factors leading to discrimination and marginalisation;
Amendment 34 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas gender analysis and a gender perspective constitute a foundation of effective and sustainable conflict prevention, stabilisation, peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction, governance and institution building; whereas the dominant narrative around women and girls is one of victimization that deprives women and girls of their agency and erases their capacity as agents of change; whereas, an increasing body of evidence illustrates that participation of women and girls in peace processes plays a significant role in determining its durability and success, since they put on the table issues such as political reform and its implementation, tackling social inequalities etc.;
Amendment 38 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas girls are disproportionately disadvantaged as a consequence of their gender and age; whereas refugee and migrant girls are particularly vulnerable; whereas girls protection from violence, discrimination and access to education, information and health services, including SRHR, are particularly important for girls’ full enjoyment of human rights;
Amendment 45 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas countries such as Sweden, France, Canada and Mexico have recently adopted and implemented frameworks to advance towards a feminist foreign policy; whereas a policy of this type questions the existing balance of power and aims to define its interactions with other States and movements in a manner that, firstly, gives priority to gender equality, protects and promotes the human rights of women and other traditionally marginalised groups; secondly, aims to guarantee their fair access to social, economic and political resources and their participation at all levels; thirdly, allocates significant resources to achieve that vision and seeks through its implementation to disrupt male- dominated power structures across all of its levels of influence; and finally, is informed by the voices of women human rights defenders and civil society; whereas any future EU foreign and security policy should aim to achieve these goals;
Amendment 74 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the Gender Equality strategy 2020-2024has set the objective to reach gender balance of 50% at all levels of the Commission’s management by the end of 2024;
Amendment 142 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the EEAS, the relevant Commission services, all the European agencies who are working outside European Union’s borders, and the Member States to systematically integrate gender mainstreaming and an intersectional perspective into the EU’s foreign and security and enlargement policy;
Amendment 162 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to organise ex-ante and ex-post gendered impact assessments of the different programmes financed by the EU, containing a variety of modalities including budget support and to report back to the European Parliament;
Amendment 173 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the European Commission and EU Member States to advocate for the inclusion of women’s rights organisations, as well as women led organisations and defenders of women’s human rights, in humanitarian coordination and decision-making structures; moreover calls on Commission to ensure that local funding mechanisms such as pooled funds are accessible to these women’s organisations; EU Delegations and Member States’ Embassies should especially engage local feminist activists and women’s rights organisations, as they are instrumental to creating ownership and ensuring impact in partner countries;
Amendment 175 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Recalls that greater inclusion of women in the labour market, better support for female entrepreneurship, safeguarding equal opportunities and equal pay for men and women and promoting work-life balance are key factors for achieving long-term sustainable and inclusive economic growth, combating inequalities, and encouraging women’s financial independence;
Amendment 176 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Recalls that the negotiation of trade agreements, and especially of Trade and Sustainable Development chapters which cover labour rights, represents an important tool for advancing gender equality and empowering women in third countries; therefore calls on DG TRADE to include, for all EU trade agreements, girls’ and women’s rights and gender equality as drivers of economic growth, and to respect the ILO core conventions on gender and labour rights, including on forced and child labour; recalls the need to monitor the impact of EU trade policies on women’s political and economic empowerment and gender equality;
Amendment 177 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Stresses that achieving gender equality is not possible without the inclusion of men and boys in the process to advancing gender equality, men and boys must be invited to participate and contribute actively in promoting healthier gender norms; recalls in particular the role and responsibility of men and boys in combating sexual and gender-based violence;
Amendment 215 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Regrets that the number of women working in CSDP missions and especially in military operations remains very low; recalls that gender diversity in CSDP is important for implementing many operational tasks and effective executing of the duties such as increasing situational awareness, reaching out to different groups in society, or further strengthening training and monitoring;
Amendment 217 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Urges the EEAS to promote the need for a binding political commitment to increase the number of women in the EU’s crisis management missions and operations; urges the Member States to look at ways to strengthen recruitment and retention policies and promote women’s participation in peacebuilding and peacekeeping missions and to present more women candidates to serve as Heads of Delegations, EUSRs and Heads of Missions and Operations;
Amendment 221 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Stresses the importance of applying a zero-tolerance policy regarding cases of sexual or gender-based harassment and of supporting institutional structures focused on preventing sexual or gender-based violence; Regrets that only a few EU CSDP missions provide training on sexual or gender-based harassment and calls on the EEAS and the Member States to support all efforts to combat sexual or gender-based violence in international peacekeeping operations and to ensure that whistle-blowers and victims are effectively protected;
Amendment 222 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 3
Subheading 3
Prioritising the protection and advancement of women’s and girls’ rights and women’stheir participation
Amendment 233 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the VP/HR, the EEAS and the Member States to ensure full implementation of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders, and to adopt an annex aiming to recognise and develop additional strategies and tools to respond better and more effectively to prevent the specific situation, threats and risk factors faced by defenders of women’s human rights, including girls and young women activists;
Amendment 242 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU Delegations to monitor the backlash against gender equality and SRHR and the tendency towards shrinking space for civil society, and to take specific steps to protect them; urges the Commission, the EEAS, the Member States and Heads of EU Delegations to ensure political and financial support to local CSOs, including women’s organisations and human rights defenders, and to make cooperation and consultation with them a standard element of their work; urges the Commission and Member States to support initiatives that aim to challenge and transform negative gender norms and stereotypes in all contexts that lead to discrimination and marginalisation such as FGM and child marriage;
Amendment 248 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Recognises the fact that humanitarian crises intensify the need for sexual and reproductive health and rights services (SRHR), as crises bring an increased risk for women and girls, including particularly vulnerable groups such as refugee and migrant girls, to be exposed to sexual and gender-based violence, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual exploitation and unwanted pregnancies; Calls therefore on the European Commission and Member States to give a high priority to the full spectrum of age sensitive, sexual and reproductive health services in their humanitarian aid response, and to ensure continuity of support for family planning services along the humanitarian-to- development continuum; Calls for a stronger action on SRHR as a precondition for gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, as well as the need for appropriate tools to measure progress with regard to ensuring universal access to SRHR, as agreed in accordance with the EU’s commitment to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences, as per SDG 5.6; Stresses the necessity of conducting and supporting efforts to preventing SGBV through gender awareness activities involving boys and men;
Amendment 254 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Stresses the need to pay more attention on the inclusion of women in climate change decision-making processes, as women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate change, notably due to persistent cultural and structural gender inequalities; urges that GAP III make clear links to the Paris Agreement and also commit to ensure access of women’s organisations to international climate funds;
Amendment 255 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Calls on the EU to promote the increased participation of women in peacekeeping and peacebuilding processes and EU military and civil crisis management missions; highlights the importance of women’s role in promoting dialogue and building trust, building coalitions for peace and bringing different perspectives on meanings of peace and security, in particular in post-conflict reconstruction, conflict prevention and resolution; notes that the promotion of women’s rights in crisis or conflict-ridden countries fosters stronger and more resilient communities;
Amendment 259 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15d. Calls on the Commission, the EEAS and the EU Delegations to recognize girls and young women as drivers of change, and to support their safe, meaningful and inclusive participation in civic and public life; stresses the positive impact girls, and women of all ages have in achieving sustainable peace and social cohesion, including through local girls and women- led initiatives in conflict prevention and peacebuilding;
Amendment 262 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 e (new)
Paragraph 15 e (new)
15e. Stresses that the new EU Gender Action Plan should explicitly cover protection, participation and advancing women’s rights in all contexts, regardless of GDP and including fragile states and conflict contexts;
Amendment 264 #
2019/2167(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 f (new)
Paragraph 15 f (new)
15f. Stresses that the new EU Gender Action Plan should cover the protection, participation and advancing of girls, including particularly vulnerable groups such as refugee and migrant girls, and to secure the protection from violence and discrimination of girls as well as their access to education, information and health services, including SRHR;
Amendment 23 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regards to its resolution of 21 January 2021 on the EU Strategy for Gender Equality (2019/2169(INI)),
Amendment 88 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. Whereas education plays a fundamental role in building children’s and young peoples’ skills to form healthy relationships, notably by addressing gender norms, gender equality, power dynamics in relationships, consent, respect for boundaries, and helps to combat gender-based violence; whereas according to the UNESCO International technical guidance on sexuality education, curriculum-based programmes on comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) enable children and young people to develop knowledge, attitudes and skills, including respect for human rights, gender equality, consent and diversity and it empowers children and young people;
Amendment 115 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. Whereas anonymous complaints and complaints later retired by victims may hamper further investigation by the authorities and present an obstacle to the prevention of further violence;
Amendment 155 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
P a. Whereas article 83(1) of the TFEU provides for the possibility to establish minimum rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions in the areas of particularly serious crime with a cross-border dimension resulting from the nature or impact of such offences or from a special need to combat them on a common basis; whereas on the basis of developments in crime, the Council may adopt a decision identifying other areas of crime that meet the criteria specified in the paragraph, after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament. Whereas article 83 (2) of the TFEU provides for the possibility to establish minimum rules with regard to the definition of criminal offences and sanctions, in order to ensure the effective implementation of a Union policy in an area which has been subject to harmonisation measures
Amendment 161 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Strongly condemnCondemns in the strongest possible terms all forms of violence against women and deplores the fact that women continue to be exposed to intimate partner violence which constitutes a serious violation of their human rights and dignity;
Amendment 164 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Points out that the Istanbul Convention is a pivotal instrument against gender-based violence; deplores the fact that the Convention has not been ratified by the European Union yet; regrets that to this date only 21 EU Member States have ratified it; notes with great concern that the effective implementation of the Convention is still patchy across Europe; calls therefore on the Member States that ratified the Convention to step up their efforts in ensuring its full implementation;condemns the attempts at setting back progresses made in the fight against gender-based violence, including domestic violence, that are going on in some Member states; supports the Commission’s plan to continue pushing for the EU-wide ratification of the Istanbul Convention; calls on remaining Member States to swiftly complete the ratification process; underlines, in this context, the need for specific measures to address the existing disparities in laws, policies and services between Member States and the increase in domestic and gender-based violence during the COVID- 19 pandemic; warmly welcomes, therefore, the Commission’s intention to propose a directive to tackle all forms of gender-based violence to complement and achieve the objectives of the Istanbul Convention, as the EU’s accession remains blocked; calls on the Council to add gender-based violence to the list of criminal offences in the EU;
Amendment 172 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Welcomes the EU Strategy on victims’ rights (2020-2025) which will address the specific needs of victims of gender-based violence, in particular a specific approach for psychological violence against women and the impact on their mental health on the long run; stresses the need to address the current gaps in the EU legislation and asks the Commission to put forward, without delay, a proposal for a review of the Victims’ Rights Directive with regard to international standards on violence against women, such as the Istanbul Convention, with a view to enhancing the legislation on victims’ rights and the protection and compensation of victims; stresses the need for all victims to have effective access to justice through the implementation of the Victims’ Rights Directive, which is still lacking in some Member States; asks for the continued promotion of victims’ rights also through existing instruments such as the European Protection Order;
Amendment 175 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Calls on the Commission to develop a European Union protocol on violence against women in times of crisis and emergency to prevent violence against women and to support victims of gender- based violence during emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic; highlights that this protocol should include essential protection services for victims; Calls on the Commission to coordinate the sharing of best practices between the Member States, to promote accurate and comparative data collection, to accurately measure the extent of such violence, to consider the possibility of producing forecasts, and to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the provision of key services to victims; stresses the need to urgently collect harmonised data on gender-based violence and calls on the Member States to collect and provide the relevant data when requested, including to Eurostat; welcomes the Commission’s commitment to carry out a new EU survey on gender-based violence with the results to be presented in 2023; underlines the urgency of completing such a survey due to the spike in gender-based violence, and especially domestic violence, during the COVID-19 pandemic;
Amendment 178 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Encourages the exchange between Member States of guidelines, good practices and protocols that have resulted to be effective in addressing intimate partner violence, especially during emergencies; stresses that arrest in flagrante delicto should be compulsory and that, if legal conditions for arrest are not met, the alleged abuser should nonetheless be immediately removed from the victim's house and kept away from the victim's workplace to prevent the risk of further violence;
Amendment 182 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Points out that education is pivotal to eradicate gender based violence, and intimate partner violence in particular; calls on Member States to include issues such as equality between women and men, non-stereotyped gender roles, mutual respect, non-violent conflict resolution in interpersonal relationships, gender-based violence against women and the right to personal integrity, age appropriate sexuality education, adapted to the evolving capacity of learners, in formal curricula and at all levels of education;
Amendment 183 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1 f. Urges the Member States to continue analysing data on and tendencies in the prevalence of and reporting on domestic violence, as well as the consequences for children; asks the Member States to establish safe and flexible emergency warning systems, offer new assistance services by phone, email and text message for direct police outreach and online services such as helplines, concealed apps, digital platforms, pharmacy networks, and provide emergency funding to support services, non-governmental organisations and civil society organisations (CSOs); calls on the Member States to ensure that support services take a coordinated approach to identifying women at risk, to ensure that all these measures are available and accessible to all women and girls within their jurisdiction; invites the Member States to share national innovations and best practices in addressing gender-based violence to better identify and promote efficient practices, and calls on the Commission to promote those practices;
Amendment 285 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 320 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Amendment 331 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11 b. Encourages good practices already existing in some Member States to prevent further violence, such as the recording of the victims' telephone numbers in special lists related to stalking and intimate partner violence, in order to give absolute priority to possible future calls during emergencies and facilitate effective law- enforcement interventions;
Amendment 333 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11 c. Emphasises that the certainty of punishment of abusers is essential to both deter further violence, and reinforce trust in public authorities especially by the victims; however, further points out that prison term by itself is not enough to prevent future violence and that specific rehabilitation and re-education programs are necessary; calls on the Member States to set up or support programmes aimed at teaching perpetrators of domestic violence to adopt non-violent behaviour in interpersonal relationships with a view to preventing further violence and changing violent behavioural patterns; highlights that the safety of, support for and the human rights of victims are of primary concern and that, where appropriate, these programmes should be set up and implemented in close coordination with specialist support services for victims
Amendment 362 #
2019/2166(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Points out that fair remuneration and economic independence are key factors for enabling women to leave abusive and violent relationships; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote and support such an independence, including through the support of women entrepreneurs and workers; welcomes the proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages and the proposal for binding pay transparency measures;
Amendment 9 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to the 2020 Women in Digital Scoreboard1a , _________________ 1a https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single- market/en/news/digital-economy- scoreboard-shows-women-europe-are- less-likely-work-or-be-skilled-ict
Amendment 25 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU is facing an unparalleled shortage of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers and education, particularly considering that women make up 52 % of the European population, yet only account for 2 out of 5 scientists and engineers6 ; whereas although there has been a positive trend in the involvement and interest of girls in STEM education, the percentages remain insufficient; whereas attitudes towards STEM do not differ between boys and girls through primary education, and in many cases girls often outperform boys in STEM and ICT-related tasks7 ; whereas, however, girls fear that they will be less successful than boys in STEM-related careers; whereas women are under- represented at all levels in the digital sector in Europe, from students (32% at Bachelor, Master or equivalent level) up to top academic positions (15%); whereas the gap is largest in ICT specialist skills and employment, where only 18% are women in the EU7a ; _________________ 6 Eurostat, Human resources in science and technology, annual average data 2016- 2020. 7 O’Dea, R.E., Lagisz, M., Jennions, M.D. et al., Gender differences in individual variation in academic grades fail to fit expected patterns for STEM, Nature Communications 9, 3777, 2018. 7a https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single- market/en/news/digital-economy- scoreboard-shows-women-europe-are- less-likely-work-or-be-skilled-ict
Amendment 37 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas gender stereotypes greatly influence subject choices; whereas very few teenage girls in EU Member States (less than 3 %) express an interest in working as an ICT professional at the age of 30 1a; whereas teachers and parents can deepen gender stereotypes by discouraging girls from pursuing a career in ICT; whereas eliminating gender- specific expectations about professions and fostering female role models in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and ICT can encourage girls to study ICT; _________________ 1a2018 International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS).
Amendment 44 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the low numbers of women who work in innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), can negatively affect the design, development and implementation of these technologies, causing the replication of existing discriminatory practices and stereotypes, and the development of ‘gender-biased algorithms’; whereas efforts to tackle gender bias and inequality in the digital sector are insufficient; whereas the gender gap persists across all digital technology domains and especially with regard to AI, thereby solidifying a male- biased trajectory for the digital sector in the foreseeable future;
Amendment 59 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas that 30% of entrepreneurs are women in Europa, but they only receive 2%of the non-bank financing available 1a; whereas this figure seems to has dropped to 1% with the pandemic; _________________ 1aFunding women entrepreneurs. How to empower growth. European Commission, 2018
Amendment 62 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas the COVID19 crisis is likely to result in permanent changes to life in Europe, in which digitalisation will have a major role; whereas COVID 19 is also widening the digital gender gap 1a, as women's digital literacy is lacking and majority of services are digitalized; _________________ 1ahttp://www.oecd.org/digital/bridging- the-digital-gender-divide.pdf
Amendment 65 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
E c. whereas the FRA’s survey on violence against women shows that 14 % of women have experienced cyber harassment since the age of 15; whereas high incidences of sexual harassment have been reported in STEM education sites, which further excludes women from the sector; whereas many women have been the victims of new forms of online sexual and psychological harassment during the COVID-19 period; whereas measures to address these new forms of sexual and psychological harassment are urgently needed; whereas the hyper- sexualisation and exploitation of women online, in particular via internet pornography, have a devastating effect on the construction of sexuality and on gender equality;
Amendment 98 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to combat gendered labour market segmentation in STEM careers by investing in formal, informal and non- formal education, lifelong learning and vocational training for women to ensure their access to high-quality employment and opportunities to re- and up-skill for future labour market demand and avoiding the present vicious circle of segregation of labour; calls, in particular, for greater promotion of entrepreneurship, STEM subjects and digital education for girls from an early age, in order to combat existing educational stereotypes and ensure more women enter developing and well- paid sectors;
Amendment 102 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Emphasizes that the COVID 19 is opening a new stage in the world of work, education, governance and everyday life. Therefore, digital literacy and capabilities are becoming very important, as well as new conditions on teleworking that have shown an important gender divide during the pandemic and lockdowns; highlights the urgency to promote gender balance in the digital sector due the way that people and companies use ICT and other digital technologies to work and interact for the new digital society;
Amendment 109 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 and its action to ‘Encourage women’s participation in STEM’, and hopes that it will help to develop more attractive and creative ways to encourage girls to pursue STEM studies, as well as to boost women’s self- confidence in their digital skills; stresses thar girls only represent 36% of STEM graduates 1a, despite the fact that girls outperform boys in digital literacy 1b; _________________ 1ahttps://op.europa.eu/en/publication- detail/-/publication/9540ffa1-4478-11e9- a8ed-01aa75ed71a1/language-en. 1b2018 International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS).
Amendment 113 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Highlights that participation of girls and women in the field of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) must be actively promoted through concrete policy action to foster their full participation and inclusion in the digital economy;
Amendment 119 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recognises the role of school and teachers in eliminating the gender gap in STEM education, and highlights the role of education in promoting the presence of girls in STEM-related courses and in establishing benchmarks to monitor female recruitment and retention; highlights that education systems and the overall learning environment play a pivotal role in determining girls’ interests in STEAM -including Arts- subjects and in providing equal opportunities to access high quality STEAM education;
Amendment 136 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Emphasises the need for investment in education and training and gender-sensitive recruitment and selection processes across private and public sectors, and particularly in future- oriented sectors such as STEM and the digital sector where women are underrepresented; highlights in that regard that discrimination on grounds of gender damages not only the individual but also society as a whole;
Amendment 176 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Stresses that is paramount to fight cultural and social stereotypes against women's abilities and roles in the STEM sector. Therefore, targeted measure to promote gender equality, such as gender mainstreaming legislation or policies such as financial incentives or other, can increase girls' participation in STEM education and careers;
Amendment 201 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Highlights that one of AI’s most critical weaknesses relates to certain types of biases such as gender, race or sexual orientation as a result of humans’ inherent biases; encourages the relevant actors to take action and promote a greater role for women in the design, development and implementation of machine learning, natural language processing and AI; underlines that AI must not reinforce gender inequalities and stereotypes by transforming analogue biases and prejudices into digital ones through algorithms;
Amendment 203 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Stresses the need for social dialogue as regards the implementation of AI in general and ahead of any AI deployment at company level in particular; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure trade union access to workplaces, albeit in digital form, in order to promote collective bargaining and guarantee a human- centred approach to AI at work;
Amendment 205 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recognises that AI, if it is free of underlying biases, can be a powerful tool to overcome gender inequalities and stereotypes through the development of unbiased algorithms that contribute to overall fairness and well-being; stresses the importance of a common European approach with regard to the ethical aspects of AI; underlines that any regulatory framework for AI in the European Union must ensure that consumer and workers’ rights are fully respected in the digital economy, and contribute to better working and employment conditions, including a better work-life balance ; stresses, in addition, that the European AI framework must respect European values, Union rules and the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 213 #
2019/2164(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States’ competent authorities to pay special attention to new forms of violence against women and girls such as cyber harassment, and cyberstalking 1a and to carry out ongoing evaluations and address them more effectively; _________________ 1aViolence against women: an EU-wide survey. Main results - report by FRA, p. 87
Amendment 4 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
Citation 11
— having regard to the draft feasibility study on options to step up EU action against deforestation, commissioned by the Commission’s Directorate General for Environment (20178),
Amendment 28 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 15 January 2020 on the European Green Deal
Amendment 31 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas the year 2020 is the deadline for a number of forest-related international commitments, such as target 15.2 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aims to halt deforestation by 2020, and the Aichi biodiversity target 5, adopted in 2010under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which states that “by 2020 the rate of loss of all natural habitats, including forests, is at least halved and where feasible brought close to zero, and degradation and fragmentation is significantly reduced”; whereas these commitments are still far from being met;
Amendment 44 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas forests are essential to preserve the world’s biodiversity and climate, and to directly sustain millions of people’s livelihoods; however whereas, despite all efforts so far, conservation, preservation and sustainable use of the world’s forests as well as the protection of indigenous peoples and local communities cannot be adequately ensured by current policies;
Amendment 59 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas newly planted forests cannot replace primary forests; whereas stepping up action to protect existing forests and actively and sustainably restore the integrity of forest ecosystems before createing new forest coverage has to play a crucial role in the EU’s sustainability policies;
Amendment 72 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU is also indirectly involved in the deforestation and degradation of world forests, including through the consumption of products related to deforestation; whereas EU consumption represents around 10% of the global share of deforestation embodied in total final consumption of commodities such as palm oil, beef, soy, cocoa, maize, timber, including fuelwood for energy, and rubber;
Amendment 84 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas a recent Global Witness investigation revealed that, between 2013 and 2019, EU-based financial institutions were the main international source of funds and backed six agribusiness companies linked to forest destruction in the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Papua New Guinea to the tune of €7 billion1a; _________________ 1a https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaig ns/forests/why-eu-action-tackle- deforestation-should-not-let-finance- hook/
Amendment 93 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas action at all levels, including regulatory measures, as well as substantial investment, will be needed to protect the world's forests more effectively;
Amendment 97 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas indigenous peoples and local communities are increasingly under threat and facing human rights violations for their efforts to protect their forests, land, and environment;
Amendment 100 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas increased protection of forests and other natural ecosystems, protects the cultures and livelihoods of indigenous peoples and local communities and provides opportunities for economic development, particularly at the level of local communities;
Amendment 113 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 118 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the amount of EU funding provided to support the protection and restoration of forests and sustainable forest management in partner countries is insufficient given the scale of the problem; whereas the protection, restoration and sustainable management of natural ecosystems, as well as their related co- benefits and human rights aspects, need to be better integrated into EU funding mechanisms;
Amendment 125 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 143 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Agrees with the priorities for stepping up EU action presented in COM(2019)352; notes, however, that the EU should be more ambitious; the communication; underlines that the five priorities laid out in the communication are equally important and should be implemented simultaneously; notes, however, that the EU should be more ambitious in its actions and policy measures in order to adequately address the urgency of deforestation and forest degradation worldwide; is of the opinion that EU action against deforestation should tackle its main drivers, including palm oil, soy, beef, maize, rubber, cocoa, and fuelwood for energy;
Amendment 152 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 166 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the EU has the powers, responsibility and funds available to also protect European forests as part of the world’s forests; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that measures aimed at protecting and restoring the world’s foreststhe highest standards of environmental protection are consistently applied to European forests;
Amendment 170 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to recognise that the protection of native forests provides an outstanding climate mitigation benefit, deriving from the size and longevity of their ecosystem carbon stocks, which are greater in primary forests than in production forests even at harvest maturity;
Amendment 184 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the crucial role and rights of iIndigenous pPeoples and local communities in the protection of the world’s forests and calls on the Commission to take this role into account in the design, adoption, implementation and enforcement of forest protection measures, both at EU level, in partner countries, in dialogue with other consumer countries and in key international forums;
Amendment 202 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the role of civil society, Indigenous People and Communities in environmental protection and sustainable consumption and calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure transparency and public participation in forest-related measures in order to promote forest protection and human rights;
Amendment 207 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes the view that a single definition of the concept of non- deforestation- free supply chain is central to addressing the problem of commodities contributing to deforestation, and calls on the Commission to propose such a definition; considers that this definition should be as ambitious as possible, and aim at including forest degradation as well as deforestation and degradation and conversion of natural ecosystems that do not qualify as forests, as well as related human rights violations;
Amendment 217 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to ensure that studies on certification schemes for non-deforestation commodities are carried out without delay and to submit these studies, together with a proposal for follow-up actions, to the European Parliament for further consideration with a view to developing a single certification scheme;
Amendment 225 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recommends that the Commission pay particular attention to the possibilities of regulating access to the Union market iEmphasises that robust regulatory measures on the basis of due diligence are needed to ensure that there are no products entering the EU market that contribute to deforestation, forest degradation and conversion or der to promote non-deforestation products, including the possibility of introducing due diligence regulation for forest-risk commoditiesgradation of natural ecosystems, biodiversity loss or violations of human rights, including the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, in any phase of the supply chain; calls therefore on the Commission to present without delay a proposal for an effective European legal framework based on due diligence to guarantee deforestation-free supply chains for all products placed on the EU market;
Amendment 235 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Amendment 248 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the private sector to be more involved in the fight against deforestation and human rights violations embodied in their supply chains and investments, fulfilling without further delay their zero deforestation commitments; calls, at the same time, on the Commission to step up cooperation with the private sector and to develop appropriate instruments to incentivise volunteers based on the principle of shared responsibilityfrontrunners, as well as encourage companies to transition to global sustainable supply chains;
Amendment 272 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that the methods used to achieve the objectives set out in the Clean Energy for all Europeans package must not lead to deforestation and forest degradation in other parts of the world; calls, therefore, on the Commission to review by 2021 the relevant aspects of the report annexed to Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/807 and, if necessary, to revise this Regulation without undue delay, and in any case before 2023, in order to phase out as soon as possible high ILUC-risk biofuels used in Europe; on the basis of scientific knowledge and in accordance with the precautionary principle;
Amendment 274 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Emphasises the importance of reducing negative impacts of the EU food system on forests and other ecosystems; calls therefore for EU action that creates new incentives to promote sustainable food systems and diets, including reducing waste and pressure on the global food system stemming from EU consumption;
Amendment 284 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the Commission's plan to ensure that the topic of deforestation is part of country-level political dialogues and recommends that the Commission includeformalises partnership agreements, which include the protection of forests and ecosystems, the promotion of human rights, in particular the rights of iIndigenous pPeoples and local communities, as well as support for the effective participation of civil society organisations and environmentalists in these dialogues;
Amendment 289 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the Commission's plan to help partner countries develop and implement national frameworks for forests and their sustainable management, but considers that such assistance should produce measurable results demonstrating its cost-effectiveness and recommends that the Commission include this aspect in its reflections and actionsensuring the recognition of land tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and incorporating substantial direct support to civil society in partner countries to ensure a balanced and equitable political dialogue; points out that such frameworks should reflect not only domestic needs but also global commitments such as the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 329 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the Commission's plan to strengthen cooperation on policies and measures to protect the world’s forests in key international forums, and calls on the Commission to endeavour to cooperate with these forums with a view, inter alia, to harmonising the terminology and concepts in use (e.g. sustainable forest management or deforestation and human rights violation-free supply chains) and to ensuring the coherence of the policies and measures adopted;
Amendment 332 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Welcomes the Commission's intention of promoting sustainable supply chains in order to increase the benefits of the circular economy domestically and globally; underlines that this can only be done through mandatory due diligence obligations in line with OECD guidelines which fully respect environmental, social and safety standards as well as fully implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; expects the Commission to present a legislative initiative on due diligence, which includes the introduction of a transparent and functioning mandatory ‘social and environmental traceability’ along the entire supply chain;
Amendment 340 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to ensure that all newly adopted tradeand future trade and investment agreements, both comprehensive and relevant sub- agreements, are fully compatible with the Paris Agreement and the SDGs, that environmental and climate provisions are legally binding and enforceable and that they contain provisions relating to forests andincluding safeguards to prevent them from being implemented in a manner that could lead to deforestation and forest degradation;
Amendment 355 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recommends that the Commission assess the possibility of including forest protection provisionbinding and legally enforceable provisions relating to forests, ecosystems and human rights in existing trade agreements which do not yet contain such provisions or in which such provisions are not binding and legally enforceable in practice;
Amendment 361 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Underlines the need to ensure the consistency of EU trade policy with the objectives of deforestation-free policies by guaranteeing the protection and restoration of forests and other natural ecosystems in trading partner countries whilst defending human rights, ensuring good land governance, supporting local livelihoods and maintaining the cultural integrity of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and smallholders;
Amendment 366 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the impact of trade agreements on the state of forests, natural ecosystems and human rights is systematically evaluated in the framework of sustainability impact assessments and other relevant assessment methods, and that the conclusions of these assessments are subsequently taken into account when deciding whether to conclude such agreements;
Amendment 386 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers it necessary to redirect financial flows, both private and public, in the relevant industrial sectors towards activities that do not cause deforestation; underlines the need to introduce mandatory due diligence on deforestation risk for the finance sector to ensure it is not enabling or contributing to deforestation, forest degradation, ecosystem conversion and degradation, or human rights violations.
Amendment 401 #
2019/2156(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission to integrate forest and human rights-related elements systematically into development policies and all investment and support programmes aimed at producer countries, and to consider making investments and support conditional on compliance with these elements;
Amendment 178 #
2016/0062R(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Strongly condemns all forms of gender-based violence, including the denial of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, against women and girls and against LGBTIQ+ persons; deplores the fact that women and girls are often exposed to domestic violence, sexual harassment, psychological and physical violence, stalking, sexual violence, rape, forced marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM), forced abortion, forced sterilisation, sexual exploitation and human trafficking and other forms of violence, which constitute a serious violation of their human rights and dignity; stresses that the Istanbul Convention lays down that culture, custom, religion, tradition or so-called ‘honour’ cannot be a justification of any acts of violence against women; denounces the fact that women and girls are victims of gender-based violence on the internet and on social media; calls on the Member States to adopt concrete measures to address these new forms of crime, including sex-extortion, grooming, voyeurism and revenge pornography, and to protect the victims, who can experience serious trauma leading sometimes even to suicide;
Amendment 213 #
2016/0062R(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Takes note of the CJEU Opinion of 6 October 2021, following up on Parliament’s request, which allowStrongly demands the Council to proceed with the ratification of the Istanbul Convention by the European Union without a prior common agreement, as declared by the CJEU Opinion of 6 October 2021 following up on Parliament’s request;
Amendment 234 #
2016/0062R(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that while all Member States have already signed the Istanbul Convention, six have not ratified it yet; underlines that the EU’s accession to the Istanbul Convention does not exempt Member States from national ratification and thus strongly encourages the remaining Member States that have not already done so to ratify the Convention without delay and strongly condemns any attempt of Member States to withdraw from the ratification itself;
Amendment 256 #
2016/0062R(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, which will be the first EU act comprehensively to address gender-based violence, thus helping to harmonise Member States’ differing approaches towards violence against women and domestic violence and to lay down common minimum standards for the protection of victims and survivors of gender-based violence and for improving their access to justice; stresses that this legislative act does not substitute the Convention, as it only covers some part of it and thus the Convention remains an essential tool for the EU strategy against gender-based violence;
Amendment 278 #
2016/0062R(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Calls on Member States to continue and strengthen the protection of children who are victims of or witness episodes of domestic and intimate partner violence; in particular condemns the use, assertion and acceptance of non-scientific theories and concepts in custody cases which punish mothers who attempt to report cases of child abuse or gender- based violence by preventing them from obtaining custody or by restricting their parental rights, such as the so-called parental alienation syndrome;
Amendment 288 #
2016/0062R(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Urges the Council to step up procedures in order to ensure the EU’s swift ratification of the Istanbul Convention and to ensure a broad EU accession to the Convention without any limitations;
Amendment 290 #
2016/0062R(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Calls the Member States to enforce the Istanbul Convention and allocate adequate financial and human resources to preventing and combating violence against women and gender-based violence, including domestic and intimate violence, empowering women and girls, and protecting victims and enabling them to be compensated, especially in the case of those living in areas where protection services for victims do not exist or are very limited;
Amendment 292 #
2016/0062R(NLE)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17 b. Calls the Commission to draw up a holistic EU strategy on combating violence against women and gender-based violence that includes a comprehensive plan to combat all forms of gender inequalities, integrating all EU efforts to eradicate gender based violence;
Amendment 26 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the fiscal consolidation policies being pursued by Member States are primarily affecting the public sector, in which women are represented more strongly and of which they are the main beneficiaries, and are thus hurting in two ways, and whereas these policies are making employment more insecure, not least because of the increase in part-time working and temporary contracts, not to mention wage reductions;
Amendment 61 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas only seven judges out of 28 in the Court of Justice of the European Union are women;
Amendment 66 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the failure to promotelack of policies makrelating forto work-life balance in general and the lack ofinsufficient childcare facilities, in particular workplace day-nurseries that are affordable to families, pose a major obstacle to women’s economic independence and their rise to positions of responsibility;
Amendment 174 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Congratulates Sweden, Belgium, France, Slovenia, Denmark, and the United Kingdom on achieving the Barcelona objectives and calls on the other Member States to continue their efforts; calls on the Member States to go beyond the Barcelona objectives by adopting a more systematic and integrated approach, to be implemented jointly by national and local authorities, to education and preschool care services, in particular for very young children under 3; calls on the Commission to provide continuing financial support to Member States so that they can offer childcare systems that parents can afford; , in particular crèches, that parents can afford, including through the establishment of these facilities in the workplace;
Amendment 192 #
2014/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Council to state its position on the directive on gender balance among non-executive directors of listed companies so as to enable the legislative process to be continued as soon as possible, given too that there is now a growing consensus within the European Union concerning the need to promote gender equality and, therefore, the presence of women in economic decision-making;
Amendment 21 #
2014/2216(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance for authorities to engage withundertake to develop educational campaigns targeted at men, and boys in efforts toin particular at the new generations, with the aim of preventing and gradually eliminateing all types of gender- based violence; emphasises the need to ensure that health professionals, police officers, prosecutors and judges, both within the European Union and in third countries, are adequately trained to assist and support victims of violence;
Amendment 2 #
2014/2170(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that these redundancies will further aggravate the unemployment situation in the province of Trento, where the unemployment rate has doubled since the beginning of the crisis, raising from 2,9 % in 2007 to 6,1 % in 2013; underlines that the decline in employment has affected both the construction (-10,3%) and the industry (-2,4%) sectors and that in Trentino the number of unemployed, surveyed by ISTAT in the first quarter of 2014, is approximately 18 700, while the number of those registered in the employment offices of the Province is about 41 800;
Amendment 4 #
2014/2170(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes that the Italian authorities have indicated that the coordinated package of personalised services has been drawn up in consultation with the workers and the social partners; welcomes also the fact that the planned measures , their content and relevant aspects of their implementation (including the timeline) were presented and discussed with the former workers of the Whirpool plant of Spini di Gargarolo during several meetings (15 in total) held between February and March 2014 and that, of the total number of workers participating in these meetings, 393 have registered as participants of these measures;
Amendment 10 #
2014/2170(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Recalls the negative effects caused by the lack of funds for promotion and communication of the EGF instrument, especially in light of the growing number of eligible persons and in light of the recognition of the role of the EU in social affairs;
Amendment 9 #
2014/2119(DEC)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the importance of taking into consideration in the Institute's annual work programme the activities foreseen in the cooperation plan with the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and to regularly present the results and findings of the research before the relevant committees of Parliament; calls for better interaction between legislative and non- legislative priorities of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Institute's research; supports the importance of the role performed by the Institute's role in collecting comprehensivreliable comparative data, especially disaggregated by sex and fundamental to the development of national and EU policies on gender -based violence;
Amendment 22 #
2013/0402(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Open innovation is an important lever for the creation of new knowledge and underpins the emergence of new and innovative business models based on the use of co-created knowledge. Trade secrets have an important role in protecting the exchange of knowledge between businesses within and across the borders of the internal market in the context of research and development and innovation. Collaborative research, including cross- border cooperation, is particularly important to increase the levels of business research and development within the internal market. Open innovation is a catalyst for new ideas to find their way to the market meeting the needs of consumers and tackling societal challenges. In an internal market where barriers to such cross-border collaboration are minimised and where cooperation is not distorted, intellectual creation and innovation should encourage investment in innovative processes, services and products. Such an environment conducive to intellectual creation and innovation is also important for employment growth and improving competitiveness of the Union economy. Trade secrets are amongst the most used form of protection of intellectual creation and innovative know-how by businesses, yet they are at the same time the least protected by the existing Union legal framework against their unlawful acquisition, use or disclosure by third parties. The dissemination of knowledge and information must be considered essential to ensuring dynamic, positive and equal business development opportunities, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Amendment 42 #
2013/0402(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The smooth functioning of the internal market would be undermined if the measures and remedies provided for were used to pursue illegitimate intents incompatible with the objectives of this Directive. Therefore, it is important to ensure that judicial authorities are empowered to sanction abusive behaviour by claimants who act in bad faith and submit manifestly unfounded applications. It is also important that measures and remedies provided for should not restrict the freedom of expression and information (which encompasses media freedom and pluralism as reflected in Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union) or whistleblowing activity. Therefore the protection of trade secrets should not extend to cases in which disclosure of a trade secret serves the public interest in so far as relevant misconduct or wrongdoing is revealed. Lawful use of freedom of expression and information must be interpreted with particular regard for the specific context and the nature of the information disclosed.
Amendment 69 #
2013/0402(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Directive lays down rules on the protection against the unlawful acquisition, disclosure and use of trade secrets. The acquisition, use and exploitation of trade secrets shall be considered lawful where so provided under national or EU legislation or by public authorities in the exercise their remit, since the protection of trade secrets must not undermine the general public interest. In such cases, therefore, such information shall not fall within the scope of this Directive.
Amendment 92 #
2013/0402(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The acquisition of a trade secret without the consent of the trade secret holder shall be considered unlawful whenever carried out with intentionally or with gross negligence by:
Amendment 104 #
2013/0402(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
(3) The use or disclosure of a trade secret shall be considered unlawful whenever carried out, without the consent of the trade secret holder, with intentionally or with gross negligence, by a person who is found to meet any of the following conditions:
Amendment 110 #
2013/0402(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(3a) The conditions set out in paragraph 3 shall not limit the use by employees of the knowledge and skills honestly acquired in the exercise of their duties.
Amendment 112 #
2013/0402(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 5
Article 3 – paragraph 5
5. The conscious and deliberate production, offering or placing on the market of infringing goods, or import, export or storage of infringing goods for those purposes, shall be considered an unlawful use of a trade secret in cases where the person engaging in this activity was, or depending on the circumstances, should have been, aware of the fact that unlawful use had been made of the trade secret.
Amendment 122 #
2013/0402(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) through the knowledge and skills honestly acquired by employees in the exercise of their duties.
Amendment 204 #
2013/0402(COD)
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shall provide that, at the request of the person liable to be subject toarties involved in case of application of the measures provided for in Article 11, the competent judicial authority may order pecuniary compensation to be paid to the injured party instead of applying those measures if all the following conditions are met: