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13 Amendments of Sven SCHULZE related to 2014/0091(COD)

Amendment 291 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
(4) Action is needed to further develop complementary private retirement savings such as occupational pensions. This is important since social-security systems are coming under increasing pressure, which means that citizens will increasingly rely on occupational retirement pensions as a complement in the future. Occupational retirement pensions should be developed, without, however, calling into question the importance of social-security pension systems in terms of secure, durable and effective social protection, which should guarantee a decent standard of living in old age and should therefore be at the centre of the objective of strengthening the European social model. Regrettably, suggestions that Solvency II regimes (such as the holistic balance sheet model) might be applied to institutions for occupational retirement provision have created legal uncertainty and an unpredictable context for planning and therefore hampered the further development and expansion of those institutions. Priority must be assigned to creating legal certainty, reinforcing successful models of institutions for occupational retirement provision and protecting their continued existence.
2015/10/05
Committee: ECON
Amendment 336 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20
(20) Institutions for occupational retirement provision are not financial service providers whichbut provide collective social welfare benefits. Under social- partner management and supervision, they bear a heavy responsibility for the provision of occupational retirement benefits and therefore should meet certain minimum prudential standards with respect to their activities and conditions of operation, taking due account of national rules and traditions.
2015/10/05
Committee: ECON
Amendment 344 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 a (new)
(20a) Institutions for occupational retirement provision are often subject to joint management and monitoring by the social partners. This collective organisation makes them fundamentally different from financial service providers.
2015/10/05
Committee: ECON
Amendment 427 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 57
(57) In order to ensure the smooth functioning of the internal market for occupational retirement provision organised on a European scale, the Commission should, after consulting EIOPA, review and report on the application of this Directive and should submit that report to the European Parliament and to the Council foursix years after the entry into force of this Directive. That review should assess in particular the application of the rules regarding the calculation of the technical provisions, the funding of technical provisions, regulatory own funds, solvency margins, investment rules and any other aspect relating to the financial solvency situation of the institution.
2015/10/05
Committee: ECON
Amendment 431 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 59
(59) In order to specify the requirements set out in this Directive, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission in respect of clarifying the remuneration policy, the risk evaluation for pensions and the pension benefit statement. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level. The Commission, when preparing and drawing up delegated acts, should ensure a simultaneous, timely and appropriate transmission of relevant documents to the European Parliament and to the Council.deleted
2015/10/05
Committee: ECON
Amendment 446 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a – introductory part
(a) ‘institution for occupational retirement provision’, or ‘institution’, means an institution, irrespective of its legal form, operating on a funded basis, which is not a financial service provider and is established separately from any sponsoring undertaking or trade for the purpose of providing retirement benefits in the context of an occupational activity on the basis of an agreement or a contract agreed:
2015/10/20
Committee: ECON
Amendment 596 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall require, appropriately to their size, internal organisation and the nature, scope and complexity of their activities, institutions, as part of their risk- management system, to carry out their own risk assessment and to produce a risk evaluation for pensions in order to document that assessment. No quantitative capital requirements (for example Solvency II or holistic balance sheet models derived therefrom) may be imposed, as they could jeopardise the survival of successful collective occupational pension schemes by giving rise to high costs.
2015/10/20
Committee: ECON
Amendment 608 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 30
Delegated act for the risk evaluation for The Commission shall be empowered to adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 77 specifying: (a) the elements to be covered by paragraph 2 of Article 29; (b) the methods referred to in paragraph (3) of Article 29 taking into account the identification and the evaluation of the risks they are or could be exposed to in the short and in the long term; and (c) the frequency of the risk evaluation for pensions taking into account the requirements in paragraph 1 of Article 29. The delegated act shall not impose additional funding requirements beyond those foreseen in this Directive.Article 30 deleted pensions
2015/10/20
Committee: ECON
Amendment 611 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 30 – paragraph 1
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 77 specifying: (a) the elements to be covered by paragraph 2 of Article 29; (b) the methods referred to in paragraph (3) of Article 29 taking into account the identification and the evaluation of the risks they are or could be exposed to in the short and in the long term; and (c) the frequency of the risk evaluation for pensions taking into account the requirements in paragraph 1 of Article 29.
2015/10/20
Committee: ECON
Amendment 613 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 30 – paragraph 2
The delegated act shall not impose additional funding requirements beyond those foreseen in this Directive.
2015/10/20
Committee: ECON
Amendment 631 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 38 – paragraph 1
(1) Depending on the nature of the pension scheme established, and after careful consideration of the administrative burden involved and of the benefits to be secured, Member States shall ensure that every institution located in their territories provides prospective members, members and beneficiaries at least the information set out in Articles 39 to 53 and Articles 55 to 58.
2015/10/20
Committee: ECON
Amendment 646 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 42
The pension benefit statement shall use characters of easily readable size and shall not be longer than two pages of A4- sized paper when printed.deleted
2015/10/20
Committee: ECON
Amendment 725 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 75 – paragraph 1
FourSix years after the entry into force of this Directive, the Commission shall review this Directive and report on its implementation and effectiveness to the European Parliament and the Council.
2015/10/20
Committee: ECON