Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to produce gender- disaggregated data and integrate the gender aspect in government policies and policy guidelines with a view to creating new employment opportunities for women in combating climate change;

2017/10/25
Committee: FEMM

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2

Directive 92/106/EEC
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)

By way of derogation, point (a) of this paragraph shall until [OJ please insert date 5 years after entry into force of the Directive] also cover non-cranable semi- trailers in unaccompanied combined transport that are not identified in accordance with the identification regime established pursuant to international standards ISO6346 and EN13044.

2018/05/18
Committee: TRAN

2017/0290(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 92/106/EEC
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point j a (new)

(ja) when the road leg distance limits are exceeded in accordance with Article 1, paragraph 3, subparagraph 3, a justification detailing the reasons for this.

2018/05/18
Committee: TRAN

2017/0128(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10

(10) Electronic tolling and co-operative ITS (C-ITS) applications use similar technologies and neighbouring frequency bands for short range vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. ~~In the future, the potential for merging electronic tolling with C-ITS in the 5.9 GHz band, currently used by C-ITS, should be explored, after~~As of now, the possibility of looking at potential synergies between the electronic tolling platform and C-ITS systems should be explored, including systems that are technologically more advanced and reliable, by means of a thorough assessment of the costs, benefits, technical barriers and possible solutions thereto.

2018/02/21
Committee: TRAN

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) Drivers engaged in long-distance international transport operations spend long periods away from their home. The current requirements on the regular weekly rest unnecessarily prolong those periods. It is thus desirable to adapt the provision on the regular weekly rest in such a way that it is easier for drivers to carry out transport operations in compliance with the rules and to reach their home for a regular weekly rest, and be fully compensated for all reduced weekly rest periods. It is also necessary to provide that operators organise the work of drivers in such a way that these periods away from home are not excessively long. When a driver chooses to spend this rest period at home, the transport undertaking should provide the driver with the means to return.

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/0122(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) For this purpose, certified locations with suitable facilities to ensure optimal rest for drivers, as well as the safety of their vehicles and freight, should be provided.

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/0122(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) To enhance cost-effectiveness of enforcement of the social rules the potential of the current and future tachograph systems should be fully exploited. Therefore the functionalities of the tachograph should be improved to allow for more precise positioning, in particular during international transport operations. A road transport GNSS portal should be set up providing officials carrying out roadside or remote checks with real-time access to all data transmitted by smart tachographs.

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

(6) Drivers engaged in long-distance international transport operations spend long periods away from their home. The current requirements on the regular weekly rest unnecessarily prolong those periods. It is thus desirable to adapt the provision on the regular weekly rest in such a way that it is easier for drivers to carry out transport operations in compliance with the rules and to reach their home for a regular weekly rest, and be fully compensated for all reduced weekly rest periods. It is also necessary to provide that operators organise the work of drivers in such a way that these periods away from home are not excessively long. When a driver chooses to spend this rest period at home, the transport undertaking should provide the driver with the means to return.

2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN

2017/0122(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point a

Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1

(a) in paragraph 6, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: “6. driver shall take at least: (a) or (b) at least 45 hours and two reduced weekly rest periods of at least 24 hours. For the purposes of point (b), the reduced weekly rest periods shall be compensated by an equivalent period of rest taken en bloc before the end of the third week following the week in question.deleted In any four consecutive weeks a four regular weekly rest periods, two regular weekly rest periods of

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

2017/0122(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) For this purpose, certified locations with suitable facilities to ensure optimal rest for drivers, as well as the safety of their vehicles and freight, should be provided.

2018/02/27
Committee: TRAN

2017/0122(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 – point c

Regulation (EC) No 561/2006
Article 8 – paragraph 8 a – introductory part

8a. The regular weekly rest periods and any weekly rest of more than 45 hours taken in compensation for previous reduced weekly rest shall not be taken in a vehicle. They shall be taken in a suitable accommodation, with adequate s~~leep~~anitary fittings and ~~sanitary facilities~~optimum sleeping facilities for the driver;

2018/02/02
Committee: EMPL

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3

Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 7 – paragraph 7

7. From [the date of entry into force of this Directive], Member States shall not introduce user charges for light duty vehicles. User charges introduced before that date shall be phased out by 31 December 20275.

2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN

2017/0114(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 - point a a (new)

Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 2

(aa) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: The Member States shall reinvest income from the collection of infrastructure charges in developing and maintaining the transport system as a whole, as well as streamlining the transport system and, more specifically, the road safety system. Member States shall reinvest income from the collection of external costs in measures that encourage the decarbonisation of the transport sector, the development of more sustainable transport infrastructure, and the promotion of means of transport with a reduced environmental impact.

2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN

2017/0114(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18

Directive 1999/62/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point h

(h) an evaluation, based on objective criteria, of the state of maintenance of the road infrastructure on the territory of the Member State, ~~and~~ its evolution since the last report, and the benefits of reinvesting infrastructure charges;

2018/02/23
Committee: TRAN

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)

(5a) Work-life balance policies should promote women’s participation in the labour market, closing the gender pay gap and reducing the poverty that increasingly affects women.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)

(9a) Member States should also provide protection for categories of workers such as those who practise a profession or are self-employed or entrepreneurs.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 13

(13) In order to encourage a more equal sharing of caring responsibilities between women and men, the right to paternity leave for fathers to be taken on the occasion of the birth or adoption of a child should be introduced. In order to take account of differences among Member States, the right to paternity leave should be irrespective of marital or family status as defined in national law.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 15

(15) In order to provide greater possibility for parents to use parental leave as their children grow up, the right to parental leave should be granted until the child is at least twelve years old. Member States should be able to specify the period of notice to be given by the worker to the employer when applying for parental leave and to decide whether the right to parental leave may be subject to a certain period of service, taking into particular account the requirements of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. In view of the growing diversity of contractual arrangements, the sum of successive fixed- term contracts with the same employer should be taken into account for the purpose of calculating the period of service. To balance the needs of workers with those of employers, Member States should also be able to decide whether they define if the employer may be allowed to postpone the granting of parental leave under certain circumstances. In such cases, the employer should provide justification for the postponement. Given that flexibility makes it more likely that second parents, in particular fathers, will take up their entitlement to such leave, workers should be able to request to take parental leave on a full-time or part-time basis or in other flexible forms. It should be up to the employer whether or not to accept such a request for parental leave in other flexible forms than full-time. Member States should also assess if the conditions and detailed arrangements of parental leave should be adapted to the specific needs of parents in particularly disadvantaged situations.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 a (new)

(18a) Member States should incentivise subsidised home care arrangements by supporting ‘independent living’ projects which enable persons requiring assistance to choose to contact qualified professional operators; both men and women would thus be able to combine their working lives more easily with the provision of assistance to elderly relatives, or those with disabilities and/or in need of support.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 21

(21) In order to encourage working parents and carers to remain in the work force, those workers should be able to adapt their working schedules to their personal needs and preferences. Working parents and carers should therefore be able to request flexible working arrangements, meaning the possibility for workers to adjust their working patterns, including through the use of remote working arrangements, flexible working schedules, or a reduction in working hours, for caring purposes. In order to address the needs of workers and employers, in particular of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, it should be possible for Member States to limit the duration of flexible working arrangements, including a reduction in working hours. While working part-time has been shown to be useful in allowing some women to remain in the labour market after having children, long periods of reduced working hours may lead to lower social security contributions translating into reduced or non-existing pension entitlements. The ultimate decision as to whether or not to accept a worker’s request for flexible working arrangements should lie with the employer, Specific circumstances underlying the need for flexible working arrangements can change. Workers should therefore not only have the right to return to their original working patterns at the end of a given agreed period, but should also be able to request to do so at any time where a change in the underlying circumstances so requires.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 21 a (new)

(21a) Member States should provide working parents with suitable childcare facilities and services that are of high quality and are affordable for all income groups.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Recital 30 a (new)

(30a) Member States should provide for tax relief and/or incentives to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises comply with the terms of this Directive.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1

This Directive applies to all workers, men and women, who have an employment contract or employment relationship as defined by law, collective agreement and/or practices in force in each Member State.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) “paternity leave"” means paid leave from work for fathers to be taken on the occasion of the birth or adoption of a child;

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) “parental leave” means paid leave from work on the grounds of the birth or adoption of a child to take care of that child;

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that fathers have the right to take paternity leave of at least ten working days on the occasion of the birth or adoption of a child.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that workers have an individual right to parental leave of at least four months to be taken before the child reaches a given age which shall be at least twelve. Member States shall ensure that protection measures are applied also to self-employed workers, professionals and entrepreneurs.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3

3. Member States shall establish the period of notice to be given by workers to employers when exercising the right to parental leave. In doing so, Member States shall take into account the needs of both employers, in particular micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, and workers. Member States shall ensure that the worker's request specifies the intended beginning and end of the period of leave.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 5

5. Member States ~~may~~shall define the circumstances in which an employer, following consultation in accordance with national law, collective agreements and/or practice, may be allowed to postpone the granting of parental leave by a reasonable period of time on the grounds that it would seriously disrupt the good functioning of the establishment. Employers shall justify any postponement of parental leave in writing.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Member States shall adopt economic measures and incentives to promote subsidised home care arrangements which provide for the use of qualified operators. The economic incentives must be calculated on the basis of the worker’s reference income.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1

In accordance with national circumstances, such as national law, collective agreements and/or practice, and taking into account the powers delegated to social partners, Member States shall ensure that workers exercising the rights to leave referred to in Article 4, 5 or 6 will receive a payment or an adequate allowance at least equivalent to what the worker concerned would receive in case of sick leave. With regard to self-employed workers, professionals and entrepreneurs, Member States shall determine adequate safeguards to provide a minimum level of support for the family unit for the period of leave.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Member States may adopt tax relief and/or incentives to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises comply with the terms of this Directive.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2

2. Employers shall consider and respond to requests for flexible working arrangements referred to in paragraph 1, taking into account the needs of both employers and workers. Employers shall justify in writing any refusal of such a request.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 a (new)

Article 9a Socio-educational facilities and services Member States shall ensure that public socio-educational facilities and services for early childhood are in place and are tailored to the needs of the population. Member States shall also encourage the provision of supplementary services, in addition to kindergartens, such as family nurseries (or ‘Tagesmutter’), local nurseries, play areas and child-parent centres. Member States shall ensure that workers who fall within the most disadvantaged income brackets also have access to those facilities and services.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 a (new)

Article 16a Non-regression clause The implementation of this Directive shall not be sufficient grounds for any regression in relation to the existing situation in the Member States and in relation to the general level of protection of workers in the areas to which it applies. Member States and/or the social partners may maintain or introduce more favourable provisions for workers than those set out in this Directive.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1

Member States shall ensure that the provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive, together with the relevant provisions already in force relating to the subject matter as set out in Article 1 of this Directive, are brought by all appropriate means to the attention of the persons concerned throughout their territory, also through the Single Digital Gateway.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2017/0085(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 2

2. On the basis of the information provided by Member States pursuant to paragraph 1, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council a report in which it reviews the application of this Directive, including gender-specific data on the take-up of the different types of leave set out in this Directive and their impact on micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal.

2018/04/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the transport sector still relies on the use of conventional propellants for more than 96 % of its energy needs, or about one third of total energy consumption;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas this dependence on fossil fuels is the cause of some 23 % of total CO2 emissions and whereas the target is to reduce such emissions by at least 60% by mid century with the aim to reach zero emission;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas electrified transport systems, either private or public, can ensure to tackle all the problems related to mobility in reducing CO2 emissions and eliminating pollutants and noise altogether;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas anti-particulate filters (DPF) aimed at reducing the amount of PMs in the air by burning the ones trapped into them are simply moving the problem toward smaller particle that results from combustion process;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the construction of new road infrastructures has a considerable impact on the landscape and the environment, and is likely to further stimulate the use of private vehicles as a consequence of increased road capacity;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas according to Special Eurobarometer 406, published in 2013, some 50 % of EU citizens use their private cars every day, while only 16 % use public transport and only 12 % use bicycles;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas bunker fuel used for maritime transport is among the most polluting one living the sector with ample margin for improving its emission by promoting and integrating alternative propelling systems;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas between 15 % and 40 % of the European population is exposed to levels of fine particulates (PM 2.5 and PM 10), tropospheric ozone and NO2 which are above EU quality standards, and whereas that percentage increases to 90 % when World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines are taken into account;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas over 100 million Europeans are exposed to noise levels above the EU threshold of 55 decibels (dB), some 32 million of whom are exposed to "very loud" levels in excess of 65 dB;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas according to WHO noise from road traffic alone is the second most harmful environmental stressor in Europe just behind air pollution and that at least 9 000 premature deaths per year can be attributed to heart disease caused by traffic noise;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the estimation of EU's health-related costs due to atmospheric pollution are in the range of between EUR 330 billion and EUR 940 billion, Euros amounting to between 3 % and 9 % of EU GDP;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas applying WHO guidelines on human exposure to PM 2.5 would increase citizens' average life expectancy by roughly 22 months, and would generate annual savings of some EUR 31 billion;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)

–1a. Calls on the Member States to promote public electric transport systems with a view to doubling its use by 2030, inter alia by applying IT solutions such as the remote purchasing of electronic tickets;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Subheading 1

~~Cars and Vans~~deleted

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to come forward with a 2025 CO2 ambitious targets for cars ~~(in the range of 68-78 gr CO2/km) and vans (in the range of 105-120 gr CO2/km) to be calculated based on the new Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedures (WLTP)~~and vans to be checked against real driving conditions measured by using PEMS;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcomes the introduction of the new WLTP; underlines the need, however, to develop~~Underlines the need to include CO2 a mo~~re transparent and realistic on-road test procedure to reflect real fuel consumption and CO2 emissions complemented by fuel consumption meters on vehicles~~ng parameters measured in real driving conditions by PEMS;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Notes that the Commission has launched a number of infringement procedures against Member States that breached Directive 2008/50/EC on air quality on the account of continuous exceedance of NO2 and PM10limit values; urges the Commission to exercise its powers of control to prevent the placing on market of polluting diesel-powered cars that contribute significantly to the release of NO2 and PM10 in the atmosphere and that do not comply with EU rules on the type-approval and emissions of passenger and light duty vehicles;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls on the Commission to adopt an ambitious mandate for the market uptake of electric vehicles and calls for a long-term European initiative on nextw, better performing generation of batteries ~~in this regard~~;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Member States to develop widespread charging facilities for electric vehicles looking into innovative systems allowing to optimize the existing electric infrastructures and to promote the installation of recharging facilities in private and public parking areas; urges the integration of renewables into recharging grid to further advance on the decarbonisation of the sector;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Invites the Commission and the Member States to prioritise the improvement of local sustainable transport, including logistic services, preferably by electric railways and to develop intermodal systems that answer to the real needs of citizens and enterprises; considers that UE financial support to the development of transport and infrastructures should be only devoted to the realization of non-controversial projects which bring a real added value for the citizens;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for a transparent labelling system, which would provide consumers with ~~comparable~~real driving data on the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of cars placed on the market;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States for supporting market introduction of HDV propelled by alternative less polluting fuels such as natural gas;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Calls ~~for~~on the ~~introduction of low- emissions and zero-emission city buses through mandatory green public procurement target~~Commission, the Member States and local and regional authorities to fully incorporate sustainability criteria when granting public procurement contracts for transport and logistics with the aim of promoting zero-emission city buses;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Urges the Member States to use part of their revenues from excise duties or road tax on private vehicles to reduce fares for urban public transport with the aim of making it free of charge to residents as well as to give preference to flat-rate systems;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the European Commission to propose a phase out of direct and indirect subsidies to fossil fuels by 2020 at latest;

2017/05/05
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Calls ~~for a mor~~the cCom~~prehensive and coordinated system of type-approval and market surveillance, involving EU oversight,~~mission to ensure an appropriate market surveillance of circulating LDVs and HDVs in order to address the failures identified in the aftermath of Dieselgate;

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Takes the view that digitisation can make transport more efficient and effective, reduce distances and facilitate forms of teleworking which can help reduce congestion in urban centres;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Regrets, in this regard, the adoption of high conformity factors for NOx emissions and urges the Commission to ~~review the conformity factors in~~bring it down to 1 by the end of 2017;

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8. Calls on the Commission to check the fitness of anti-particulate filters (DPF) in preserving urban air quality by quantifying the emission of ultrafine particles (i.e. =< 1 um) resulting from regeneration of DPF and to present a legislative proposal to address the problem whether appropriate;

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Stresses the need to provide incentives for car sharing, car pooling and shared transport in general, as well as alternative means of transport such as the bicycle;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 11

11. Expresses its disappointment ~~at the new Commission proposal to continue with the limited geographical scope of the EU ETS for aviation~~on the fact that, despite aviation has been partly integrated into the ETS, emissions form the sector are still raising showing the inadequacy of the market system to incentivize low emissions strategies;

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 13

13. Notes that the IMO fell short of delivering progress on the GHG emissions reduction target and measures ~~and therefore urges that, in the absence of a comparable system op~~; urges the Commission to set up the conditions to promote use of alternati~~ng under the IMO, CO2 emissions emitted at Union ports and during voyages to and from Union ports shall be subject to the EU ETS from 2023~~ve propellants like natural gas, LPG and hydrogen and to promote the integration of different modes (i.e. sails, batteries, solar panels, wind generators) in the maritime sector;

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 14

14. Calls for more stringent limits than those proposed in the recast of the Renewable Energy Directive in order to phase down first generation biofuels by 2030 and achieve long-term decarbonisation of the transport sectora fast phase out of first generation biofuels and any direct and indirect subsidy for fossil fuels by 2020;

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 15

~~15. Invites the Commission to favour biofuels with high GHG-efficiency, while taking into account indirect land use change and ensuring that existing investments are protec~~deleted;

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Reminds the Commission how urgent it is, with a view to taking tangible action geared to the sustainable energy transition of the whole of society, to transfer the financial incentives which fossil fuels continue to enjoy to alternative and sustainable forms of energy;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 16

16. Encourages ~~greater market penetration of those~~the use of advanced biofuels which comply with the principle of cascading use and waste hierarchy a~~nd which respect strong environmental and social sustainability criteria in order to avoid the same issues that occurred with first-generation biofuel~~s transition toward zero emissions transport modes;

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 17

17. Stresses that crop-based biofuels, including palm oil, should not count towards Member States’ climate targets under the Effort Sharing Regulation;

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 18

18. Underlines the role that natural gas, in particular bio-methane ~~and synthetic methane~~, could play in the transition towards the decarbonisation of the transport sector, especially with regard to shipping, aviation and HDVs. recalls on that regard the provisions laid down in Directive 2014/94/EU for the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure such as natural gas.

2017/06/08
Committee: ENVI

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Points out that in order to obtain appreciable results in terms of reducing pollutant emissions, a holistic approach needs to be taken to the issue, including measures relating also to urban and non- urban infrastructure, in addition to town planning itself, which needs to take into account new public transport implementation requirements and have the ability to effectively divert private vehicles from urban centres, by redesigning urban areas more carefully so that they are more people-friendly, to enable people to re-learn how to experience towns and cities outside their cars;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Encourages cities to include GHG targets into their Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) and calls for the Commission to link EU co-financing of urban projects to achieving such targets; stresses that the excessive use of private vehicles for road transport is responsible for the congestion of urban centres and the concentration in urban areas of the fine particulates that are the cause of very serious respiratory diseases, and that no strategy seeking to reduce pollutant emissions, in full compliance with the Paris agreements, can fail to aim at persuading people to use public vehicles rather than private ones;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Hopes that urban public transport, in particular that using sustainable fuels and/or electric motors, can be funded ever more extensively to enable it even to become free of charge, which would ensure that it would be used also by the less affluent classes, the numbers of which have been growing due to the economic crisis and which are increasingly concentrated in, and relegated to, the suburbs and outermost urban areas;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls for the Commission to introduce a minimum target for the share of electric vehicles for all manufacturers of at least 25 % for 2025; stresses that the growing demand for electric vehicles must be supported by the implementation of sustainable electricity generation and by a widespread distribution of supply networks; calls on the Commission to help Member States equip themselves with such networks;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Hopes that an increasing amount of funding will be allocated to technological research on the production, handling and disposal of the batteries of electric motors, to ensure they are increasingly eco-friendly;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Supports the transition from road transport to rail transport (shift2rail) by increasing the interoperability of the various transport modes;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2327(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Stresses the importance of providing incentives to use the best and shortest flight routes in order to save on fuel and reduce harmful emissions, as compared to longer routes chosen to avoid airspaces, which involve higher costs;

2017/05/23
Committee: TRAN

2016/2323(BUD)

Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. S~~trongly supports the furth~~upports a proper development and enhancement of inter- operability of European infrastructure networks; considers that the financing of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) ~~is vital to achieving these objectives, and~~must aim at objectives which ensure a real added-value for the Member States and should not be used to finance projects marked out by a controversial realization; calls on the Commission to ensure a~~n appropriate~~ focused level of funding in 2018;

2017/02/15
Committee: BUDG

2016/2305(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Agrees that deployment of 5G networks is a necessary condition for the development of existing and new business models in the transport sector; underlines that effective use of the potential of very high-capacity internet networks without interruption from one state to another is key to the process of digitisation of transport services, the deployment of integrated ticketing and the wide use of innovative means of transport for people and goods, such as increasingly connected and autonomous vehicles or drones;

2017/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2305(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Expresses concern that the EU is lagging behind North America and parts of the Asia-Pacific region when it comes to 5G uptake; voices its concern at the fact that, as evidenced by the data currently available, none of the 28 EU Member States have achieved the Digital Agenda target of 100% high- and ultra-high-speed coverage; points out that average next- generation-access coverage currently stands at below 25% in some EU Member States;

2017/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2305(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Criticises the fact that free wireless provision is currently rather patchy and not properly tailored to needs; points out, in particular, that there is no overall strategy for promoting wi-fi access throughout the EU, including in rural and sparsely populated areas; believes that concerted efforts need to be made to establish a Digital Union in which development of 5G is guaranteed throughout the EU, rather than continuing to invest in projects using 4G such as the Commission's Wifi4EU proposal;

2017/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2305(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Underlines that progress in the building of the European Gigabit Society can only be made with appropriate high levels of investment in network infrastructure in all the Member States; doubts whether financing models based only or primarily on investment funds will help fill existing gaps in the level of development of network infrastructure, and even out differences in the availability of high-capacity internet connections in border and outlying areas, as well as in non-urban areas; calls therefore for greater use to be made of cohesion policy funds to ensure greater uniformity in connections between EU regions; points out however that Member States are not bound by any measures on achieving connectivity and network development goals;

2017/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2305(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Encourages the Commission to pay more attention, in the development of the European Gigabit Society, to the issues of data privacy, cybersecurity and cybercrime; notes that any progress in this area cannot be made without giving adequate priority to the security of users of digitised transport systems and at the same time drawing up rules to manage these technologies so as to prevent disputes over competitiveness on the market;

2017/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2305(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Encourages the Commission to consider adjusting the provisions of Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, and on the basis of state-aid rules, in order to facilitate construction of high-speed internet networks;

2017/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2305(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that each Member State maps its network so as to be able to identify the digital exclusion zones, with a view to ensuring blanket 5G coverage;

2017/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2305(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Notes the benefits of combining projects and plans to build new network infrastructure in the 5G standard with the already planned construction and modernisation of road and rail routes within the EU; agrees that such rational combining of construction works will help to save resources, make these works more tenable and speed up the building of the necessary high-speed infrastructure;

2017/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2305(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Strongly supports efforts towards ensuring access to the 5G network in public transport facilities and vehicles, in transport hubs and on all major transport routes by 2025; notes the important role of internet technology and the so-called 'Internet of things' for the development of multimodal, user-friendly and safe infrastructure and transport services for people and goods;

2017/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2274(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point a

a. Achieving environmental and energy efficiency goals by creating a favourable environment for sustainable transport solutions, such as electric cars and alternative fuels, in a bid to reduce the direct and indirect impact of the transport sector on the environment;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2274(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point c

c. Bringing about a competitive Single European Transport Area by promoting the integration and interoperability of systems across all modes of transport, for example through the introduction of integrated tickets;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2274(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point d

d. Increasing the attractiveness and accessibility of transport and tourism for all passengers and consumers, in particular for disabled people and the elderly, who are less accustomed to using new digital platforms;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2274(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

da. Increasing support for small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups.

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2274(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that innovation in the transport sector provides enormous opportunities for EU businesses and insists on the need to develop new standards and uphold standardisation in order to ensure the proper implementation of EU initiatives in the field of digitalisation and prevent market fragmentation;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2274(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote, facilitate financing for and expedite the deployment of the necessary infrastructure for the market uptake of new standards (e.g. alternative fuels infrastructure) and the reconversion of old structures into more modern and sustainable plants;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2274(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Encourages the Commission to compile statistics with a view to better evaluating the impact of digitalisation and ICT on transport and tourism, with a particular focus on local communities, mountainous areas and the outermost regions.

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2271(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Welcomes the Commission Communication on Digitising European Industry, but regrets that, as its focus on the transport sector is limited to connected and automated driving, it does not address sufficiently all existing challenges; recalls that, although connected and automated driving is one of the most exciting digital transformations in the sector, there is potential for digitalisation in all modes of transport of both passengers and goods, and also throughout the value chain from manufacturers to passengers where results can be expected in the near future;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2271(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that the digitalisation process has not been beneficial to the same extent throughout the transport sector, which has created a detrimental fragmentation within the internal market both between different modes of transport and within the same mode; believes that developing a coordinated Industrial Digitalisation Strategy (IDS) for the EU could help to not only overcome this fragmentation; but also make the entire European market more competitive with third countries such as China.

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2271(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point f

(f) cut administrative burdens for the smallest transport operators and facilitate start-ups in financial and administrative terms;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2271(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point g

(g) continue safeguarding passenger rights, particularly regarding the protection of personal data privacy and accident insurance;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2271(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point h

(h) foster the attractiveness of the tourism sector, with due consideration for the differences between urban and rural areas;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2271(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – point h a (new)

(ha) regulate digital platforms such as on-line booking and Uber in both the tourism and transport sectors, so as to ensure their effectiveness and sustainability within the market;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2271(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Underlines the need to mobilise and attract investments in order to adequately finance the transition towards digital processes and support the development of associated infrastructure; believes that better use could be made of existing EU funds, in particular cohesion funding seeking to reduce the gap between the different regions of Europe, given that the European Fund for Strategic Investments, which has so far not delivered sufficiently on projects of a truly innovative nature;

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2271(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Strongly believes that, especially in the transport sector, open data remains an essential element in order to reap the full benefits of the Digital Single Market while ensuring transparency in this respect and regrets that initiatives to ease the flow of data remain fragmented; stresses that more legal certainty, mainly in terms of ownership ~~and~~, responsibility, and data protection is needed.

2017/03/07
Committee: TRAN

2016/2221(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas on the labour market most women, unlike men, are employed on precarious contracts; whereas precariousness does not make it possible to live in a dignified manner;

2017/01/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2221(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas very often single women with dependent children are compelled to accept atypical and precarious work in order to reconcile their private and working lives;

2017/01/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2221(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas the EU’s macro-economic and austerity policies have resulted in increasing levels of poverty and inequality, particularly affecting women, which has adverse repercussions on the conditions in which their families live, particularly their children;

2017/01/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2221(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas precarious employment is a contributory factor towards women’s poor mental and physical health, subjecting them to five times more stress, anxiety and depression than colleagues, both male and female, who are employed on indefinite contract;

2017/01/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2221(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Deplores the austerity policy pursued by the current Junker Commission, which is intended to overcome the economic crisis but in reality has contributed to an increase in precarious employment and hence poverty;

2017/01/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2221(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to monitor the labour market in order to protect women who are compelled to accept precarious and low- cost employment in order to survive;

2017/01/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2221(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on Member States to create childcare services infrastructure in order to promote the reconciliation of private and working life for the benefit of working women;

2017/01/12
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

– having regard to the World Health Organisation’s European Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020,

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)

– having regard to the 2005 European Declaration for Mental Health signed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Commission and the Council of Europe,

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the WHO defines mental health as a state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, meet the ordinary demands of everyday life, establish satisfactory and mature relationships with others, make a constructive contribution to social change and adapt to external conditions and internal conflicts;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas in a global context marked by an ongoing economic crisis and a sharp rise in unemployment, in particular among young people and women, the incidence of mental health problems such as depression, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety and dementia is steadily increasing;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas mental health problems (depression, anxiety, panic attacks, eating disorders) are more common among women than among men;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas lack of access to sexual and reproductive rights, including safe and legal abortion services, endangers the life and health of women and girls, increases maternal mortality and morbidity, and leads to the denial of life- saving care and to an increased number of clandestine aborwomen should be given better access to health-related services, so as to ensure swift response times and prompt treatment and thus avoid physical and psychological complications;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas restrictions and budgetary cuts made by national governments in the area of public health also make access to health services more onerous, in particular for large families and for single mothers;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas women suffering from cancer who have been subjected to surgery and invasive treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy and see their bodies undergo profound changes are in general more prone to depression and more likely to lose hope in the future;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)

La. whereas depression is the most common neuro-psychiatric disorder and is more likely to affect women than men; whereas it is also the most common illness among women in the 15 to 44 age group;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)

Lb. whereas depressive disorders account for 41.9% of all cases of disability resulting from neuro-psychiatric disorders among women, as compared to 29.3% among men;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital L c (new)

Lc. whereas the WHO has estimated that depression affects 350 million people and causes 850 000 deaths every year; whereas by 2020 this illness will be the second leading cause of inability to work;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)

Na. whereas eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are particularly common among adolescent and post- adolescent girls;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)

Nb. whereas, at work, women are more exposed to psychological and/or sexual harassment, which causes discomfort and psycho-physical problems among those subjected to it;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital N c (new)

Nc. whereas, according to a study conducted by the European Depression Association (EDA), one in 10 workers in the EU has taken time off work for depression, costing society an estimated EUR 92 billion, mainly as a result of lost productivity;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c

(c) to support civil society and women’s organisations that promote women’s rights, including ~~women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights~~the right to health, and to work to ensure that women have a voice in European and national health policy issues;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Considers that sexual and reproductive rights include universal open access to legal and safe abortion, reliable, safe and affordable contraception, and sexual education and information on sexual and reproductive health, free choice and conse right to health, including mental health, to be a fundamental right that should be guaranteed for all woment; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights, adequate gender-sensitive information and reliable, safe and affordable contraception, and to provide access to legal and safe abortion within and beyond the European Unionhealth care by ensuring easy access to services and the provision of adequate information tailored to women’s specific needs;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Considers it regrettable that ~~sexual and reproductive rights are severely limited and/or subject to certain conditions in several EU Member Stat~~women in many parts of Europe have difficulty in gaining access to public mental health services;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the Member States to promote the setting up of psychological support centre for cancer patients, staffed by qualified community health workers and female psychologists, to provide the patients with psychological support throughout the treatment and rehabilitation process;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Member States to ensure full access to ~~high-quality~~ care for all migrant women, irrespective of their legal status, and, in the longer term, to adequately prepare their national health systems;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Deplores the austerity policy implemented by the Commission, which, alongside the current economic crisis, is a major contributory factor in the rise in unemployment and the indiscriminate cutting of public health budgets by Member States;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to gather gender- disaggregated data on mental illness; calls also on the Commission to draw up recommendations and guidelines on preventing and treating such illnesses on the basis of a female-specific approach;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Member States to set up assistance and support contact points in schools, run by female psychologists, to provide psychological support to students, in particular adolescent girls, who are more prone to developing eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2096(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote information and prevention campaigns to raise public awareness of mental health problems;

2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas Communication 2014/C 99/03, concerning guidelines on State aid, defines the criteria and procedures for the granting of public financing to airports and airlines; whereas, however, there have constantly been infringements of the relevant rules by the regional authorities; whereas the Commission is therefore asked swiftly to prepare and implement an MEO (Market Economy Operator) test that is applicable to all Member States;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas, even though the Single European Sky provides for the establishment of functional airspace blocks (FABs), the implementation of those FABs has, to date, been considerably delayed; whereas, therefore, the Commission has estimated that some EUR 5 billion per year are being lost because of the lack of progress in this regard;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas the social and economic conditions of workers, and in particular of pilots, are directly correlated to flight safety issues;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Member States to complete the FABs without any further delay in order to complete the Single European Sky; calls on the Commission to implement in full Article 3 of Regulation 551/2004 and to implement European Free Routes within a rapid and certain time frame;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to regulate the participation of capital from third countries in the European aviation market in order to avoid market distortions and unfair competition between companies in the internal market, in accordance with existing state aid legislation;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Regrets that some airlines provide for bonuses for those who consume the least fuel and calls on the Commission to investigate this kind of behaviour;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Highlights the need to allocate specific financial resources for the support and growth of airports located in geographical areas that are excluded from the TEN-T networks, so as not to penalise the millions of citizens who live in those areas;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to financially support those regional airports which are having difficulty in balancing their books, in order to prevent financial support for this infrastructure from weighing almost exclusively on the coffers of local authorities;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Urges the Commission to ensure that recommendations issued by Member States for transposition of Commission guidelines regarding state aid comply with the Communication 2014/ C 99/03;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Believes that the aviation and non- aviation revenues should be merged for the purposes of airport financial management, so as to reduce airport fees in line with recital 25 of Directive 2014/23/EU on the award of concession contracts;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. welcomes ‘Just Culture’ practices and calls for a commitment by the Member States to continue to implement and improve them;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Urges the Commission and Member States to monitor strictly the new procedures in force from June 2016 to reduce noise and ultrafine particles in exhaust gas emissions from aircraft taking off from airports close to cities and populated hubs, so as to improve the quality of life and especially air quality;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Calls on the Commission to propose measures to discourage airlines from selecting flight plans with longer routes in a bid to save on route charges, since this has a major impact on CO2 emissions, in direct conflict with one of the fundamental objectives the Single European Sky;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2062(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Deplores the working conditions of many airline pilots who are forced to fly continuously for long periods without adequate breaks for rest and recuperation; notes that this is dangerous in terms of flight safety and may also detract from the general quality of service; urges that compliance with minimum social standards regarding working conditions be kept under constant review by the Commission and Member States;

2016/10/13
Committee: TRAN

2016/2061(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)

Ra. whereas the Barcelona targets can help create a better work-life balance for women, by enabling them to stay in the labour market for longer, without having to take career breaks or give up work altogether;

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2061(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital R b (new)

Rb. whereas maternity, paternity and parental leave are necessary and vital instruments in order to minimise women's career breaks;

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2061(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)

Sa. whereas in most cases, women are paid less than men for the same work and are forced to choose to work part-time in order to have a better work-life balance – all this to the detriment of their pensions;

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2061(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Member States immediately to disburse severance payments and end-of-service payments as soon as the period of pension entitlement begins, in order to prevent situations of economic difficulty, to reduce subsequent burdens regarding advance payments on loans and to reduce women's dependence on men;

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2061(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Member States to supervise their labour markets in order to curb the horizontal and vertical segregation of women and reduce the pay gap between men and women;

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2061(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Member States to provide incentives for men to use their parental and paternity leave, in order to make family life more balanced, so that both spouses bear responsibility for the care of children or other family members;

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2061(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on the Member States to uphold the rights of female workers who are increasingly turning to low-wage or part-time jobs and are the victims of discrimination, particularly when they become mothers and are forced to take career breaks to take care of their children;

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2061(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Urges the Commission to support the Member States, including through the provision of EU funding, in developing facilities that offer high-quality and affordable childcare services to the poorest members of society, with the aim of meeting the Barcelona targets as quickly as possible;

2016/10/25
Committee: FEMM

2016/2057(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Regards universal access to medicines as essential, all the more so because the economic crisis in Europe has made such access even more of a problem, in particular for the most vulnerable groups in society; urges, therefore, that these groups should be guaranteed access to medicines;

2016/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2057(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Urges that access to medicines should be guaranteed for people in all countries, not just in those with effective innovation policies; points out that innovation does not always serve to ensure that medicines are more readily available, and indeed may have the opposite effect;

2016/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2057(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Urges that universal access to medicines should not be contingent on price, which should reflect a fair balance between the cost of research, industry growth and the need for sustainable welfare systems; urges that a balance should be maintained at all times between research, development and sustainability, with a view to combating the pharmaceutical oligopolies which determine the price of medicines, even when the prices in question are unsustainable for many health systems, and in so doing create vast areas in which people are denied access to medicines;

2016/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2057(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Reiterates that part of the reason why businesses are becoming less competitive and why welfare spending is so high is that EU rules – including rules on drug pricing – are too burdensome.; points out that price of most medicines is out of proportion to the cost of manufacturing them; emphasises, in that connection, that firms' competitive position should have no bearing on the final price of medicines;

2016/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2057(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Points out that it is the pharmaceutical industry which is pressing for the enforcement of the rules on patents and thus preventing the use of generic drugs, which are cheaper and could thus be made more widely available; calls for information and awareness-raising campaigns to encourage the use of generic drugs;

2016/09/07
Committee: EMPL

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas among the various occupational categories, it is the self- employed and businesswomen who are having the greatest difficulty in achieving a work-life balance;

2016/06/14
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas not all Member States encourage fathers to make the most of paternity leave as a useful tool for making them feel responsible for looking after their own children and families; whereas, meanwhile, this is actually a valid tool for achieving genuine equality between women and men;

2016/06/14
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas the lack of sufficient infrastructure offering quality and accessible childcare services for all income levels is contributing to the abandonment of work by mothers, who have to look after their own children;

2016/06/14
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas job insecurity does not enable people to plan their personal lives and set up a family;

2016/06/14
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Recital F c (new)

Fc. whereas difficult working conditions may have a negative impact on family life;

2016/06/14
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put in place policies that acknowledge the increasing diversity of family relationships, civil partnerships and parenting arrangements, in particular to guarantee that a child is not discriminated against because of its parents’ marital status or ~~family constitution~~the composition of its family;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement economic policies and measures that support the weakest and most vulnerable types of families, particularly families with children, single mothers, fathers who are divorced and/or separated with children, and families in which one or more members have a disability;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Member States to uphold the rights of female workers who are increasingly turning to low-wage jobs and are the victims of discrimination, particularly when they become mothers and are therefore excluded from the world of work because they need to take care of their children;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement economic policies and measures that support families with children, divorced and/or separated mothers and fathers, and vulnerable family units in general, as these are the most fragile and vulnerable types of families;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Commission (and the Member States) to safeguard the rights of mothers and, therefore, the mother’s job, the progress she has made in her career and her pay;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Urges the Commission to support the Member States, including through the provision of EU funding, in developing facilities that offer high-quality and affordable childcare services to the poorest members of society;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Points out the high levels of working poor throughout Europe, with people having to work more and longer, even combining several jobs, in order to earn a decent income; calls on the Member States and social partners to develop measures ensuring adequate wages for all workers, ~~and~~ to close the gender pay gap and to introduce a minimum wage that guarantees dignified living conditions;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to introduce a minimum subsistence wage that will give women a basic income on which to live and take care of their loved ones and children;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Supports ‘smart working’ and working from home, but rejects a shift from a culture of presence to a culture of permanent availability; calls on the Member States, when developing smart working policies, to ensure these do not impose an additional burden on the worker; stresses the need to strengthen, in such cases, the concept of ‘working to targets’ to prevent abuse of these new forms of work;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2017(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Stresses that a proper work-life balance helps to make workers more productive;

2016/06/02
Committee: EMPL FEMM

2016/2010(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses how necessary and important it is to provide universal services to the entire population, in particular by guaranteeing an essential minimum range of services in every part of the EU;

2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2010(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States to extend the role and independence of NRAs through high professional qualification criteria, fixed terms of office and legal protection against dismissal without cause, so that they can fulfil their obligations arising from the Postal Services Directive; points out that postal service operators must be guaranteed fair and non- discriminatory access to in-service training;

2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2010(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Stresses the importance of improving ~~consumer confidence and trust in cross-border delivery~~the quality and efficiency of the service in order to restore an adequate level of consumer confidence; considers that greater transparency as regards delivery options, modalities and quality/performance (speed, geographical coverage, delays and the handling of damaged or lost items), as well as trust labels, could address the lack of confidence;

2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2010(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify best practice for the traceability of deliveries, whilst ensuring there is an option for delivery status information to be provided in real time, through digital systems, and providing contact information for the operators responsible;

2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2010(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls on the Member States to ensure decent working conditions for all employees in the postal services sector, ensuring equal access and treatment for men and women; recommends close monitoring of whether labour-market- related developments in the postal services sector comply with national law;

2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/2010(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Points out that in the postal services sector there are often cases of social dumping and calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt suitable measures to prevent such unfair practices which distort competition and harm small and medium-sized enterprises in particular;

2016/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2016/0287(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) Funding for the Connecting Europe Facility should be compatible with and complementary to indirect funding under Member States' national and regional operational programmes, generating synergies between free Internet connectivity and other potential projects in sectors such as sustainable mobility.

2017/03/16
Committee: TRAN

2016/0287(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)

(8a) Free local wireless connectivity is a key tool for enhancing accessibility and facilitating the implementation of free urban transport. The Commission and Member States should therefore develop a strategic framework for the adaptation of services and infrastructure in local communities.

2017/03/16
Committee: TRAN

2016/0287(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 b (new)

(8b) The provision of services on the basis of free local wireless connectivity should not, however, place at a disadvantage groups of people, such as the elderly, who are less familiar with digital tools. Additional means of tutoring and support should be considered for such groups of people.

2017/03/16
Committee: TRAN

2016/0287(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – introductory part

2. In Article 4(1), the following points (c) isand (ca) are added:

2017/03/16
Committee: TRAN

2016/0287(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)

(ca) promote the implementation of services and infrastructure that combine free local wireless connectivity with free and sustainable urban mobility;

2017/03/16
Committee: TRAN

2016/0287(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6

Regulation (EU) No 283/2014
Annex – Section 4 – subparagraph 2

Financial assistance shall be available to entities with a public mission such as local authorities and providers of public services undertaking to provide free local wireless connectivity through the installation of local wireless access points or in combination with the implementation of free urban public transport services.

2017/03/16
Committee: TRAN

1. The best interests of the child shall be athe primary consideration for Member States with respect to all procedures provided for in this Regulation.

2017/04/25
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

Each Member State where an unaccompanied minor is obliged to be present shall ensure that a ~~representative~~guardian represents and/or assists the unaccompanied minor with respect to the relevant procedures provided for in this Regulation. The ~~representative~~guardian shall have the qualifications ~~and~~, expertise and independence to ensure that the best interests of the minor are taken into consideration during the procedures carried out under this Regulation~~. Such representative~~, and the guardian must have received appropriate training in this area. Such a guardian shall have access to the content of the relevant documents in the applicant’s file including the specific leaflet for unaccompanied minors. Through implementing measures, the Commission shall lay down the requirements and procedures for the training of guardians.

2017/04/25
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1

1. The criteria for determining the Member State responsible shall be applied ~~only once,~~ in the order in which they are set out in this Chapter.

2017/04/04
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2

2. The Member State responsible shall be that where a family member of the unaccompanied minor is legally present, provided that it is in the best interests of the minor. Where the applicant is a married minor whose spouse is not legally present on the territory of the Member States, the Member State responsible shall be the Member State where the father, mother or other adult responsible for the minor, whether by law or by the practice of that Member State, or sibling is legally present.

2017/04/04
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5

5. In the absence of a family member or a relative as referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3, the Member State responsible shall be that where the unaccompanied minor ~~first has lodged his or her application for international protection~~is staying, unless it is demonstrated that this is not in the best interests of the minor.

2017/04/04
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15

Where it is established, on the basis of proof or circumstantial evidence as described in the two lists mentioned in Article 25(4) of this Regulation, including the data referred to in Regulation [Proposal for a Regulation recasting Regulation (EU) No 603/2013], that an applicant has irregularly crossed the border into a Member State by land, sea or air having come from a third country, the Member State thus entered shall be responsible for examining the application for international protection.Article 15 deleted Entry

2017/04/04
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

By way of derogation from Article 3(1) ~~and only as long as no Member State has been determined as responsible~~ , each Member State may decide to examine an application for international protection lodged with it by a third-country national or a stateless person ~~based on family grounds in relation to wider family not covered by Article 2(g)~~ , even if such examination is not its responsibility under the criteria laid down in this Regulation.

2017/04/04
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

The Member State which decides to examine an application for international protection pursuant to this paragraph shall become the Member State responsible and shall assume the obligations associated with that responsibility. ~~Where applicable, i~~It shall inform the Member State previously responsible, the Member State conducting a procedure for determining the Member State responsible or the Member State which has been requested to take charge of the applicant.

2017/04/04
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

The Member State in which an application for international protection is made and which is carrying out the process of determining the Member State responsible ~~may, at any time before a Member State responsible has been determined~~ , or the Member State responsible, may, at any time before a decision regarding the substance is taken, request another Member State to take charge of an applicant in order to bring together any family relations, on humanitarian grounds , even where that other Member State is not responsible under the criteria laid down in Articles 10 to 13 and 18. The persons concerned must express their consent in writing.

2017/04/04
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 a (new)

Article 19a Cessation of responsibilities 1. Where a Member State issues a residence document to the applicant, the obligations specified in Article 20(1) shall be transferred to that Member State. 2. The obligations specified in Article 20(1) shall cease where the Member State responsible can establish, when requested to take charge or take back an applicant or another person as referred to in Article 20(1)(c) or (d), that the person concerned has left the territory of the Member States for at least three months, unless the person concerned is in possession of a valid residence document issued by the Member State responsible. An application lodged after the period of absence referred to in the first subparagraph shall be regarded as a new application giving rise to a new procedure for determining the Member State responsible. 3. The obligations specified in Article 20 (1)(c) and (d) shall cease where the Member State responsible can establish, when requested to take back an applicant or another person as referred to in Article 20 (1)(c) or (d), that the person concerned has left the territory of the Member States in compliance with a return decision or removal order issued following the withdrawal or rejection of the application. An application lodged after an effective removal has taken place shall be regarded as a new application giving rise to a new procedure for determining the Member State responsible.

2017/04/04
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Chapter 7 – title

~~Corrective a~~Allocation mechanism

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 1

1. The allocation mechanism referred to in this Chapter shall be applied for the benefit of a Member State, where ~~that Member State is confronted with a disproportionate number of~~an applicant is present, in which he or she has submitted an applications for international protection ~~for which it is the Member State responsible under this Regulation~~and who has no family ties in any EU Member State.

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 2

2. Paragraph 1 applies where the automated system referred to in Article 44(1) indicates that the number of applications for international protection for which a Member State is responsible under the criteria in Chapter III, Articles 3(2) or (3), 18 and 19, in addition to the number of persons effectively resettled, is higher than 150% of the reference number for that Member State as determined by the keyautomatically on the basis of the automated system referred to in Article 3544(1).

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 4

4. The automated system shall inform Member States, the Commission and the European Union Agency for Asylum once per ~~week~~year of the Member States' respective shares ~~in applications for which they are the Member State responsible~~.

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 5

5. The automated system shall continuously monitor whether any of the Member States is above the threshold referred to in paragraph 2, and if so, notify the Member States and the Commission of this fact, indicating the number of applications above this threshold.deleted

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 – paragraph 6

~~6. Upon the notification referred to in paragraph 5, the allocation mechanism shall apply.~~deleted

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Dario TAMBURRANO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 34 a (new)

Article 34 a Family reunification procedure 1. Where the applicant states that he or she has family links in one of the Member States, the Member State which has received the application for international protection shall, within 30 days of the registration of the application for international protection, carry out a check on the information provided by the applicant, before applying the allocation mechanism referred to in Article 34(1). 2. If, on the basis of that check, the applicant’s statements prove to be well- founded, the relevant Member State shall transfer the applicant to the Member State in which he or she has declared he or she has family links. 3. If the Member State to which the applicant is transferred ascertains that the applicant has made false declarations, that Member State shall apply the allocation mechanism referred to in Article 34(1).

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 1

1. For the purpose of the ~~corrective~~allocation mechanism, the reference number for each Member State shall be determined by a key.

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) the size of the population (540 % weighting);

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) the total GDP (540% weighting);

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)

(ba) unemployment rate (20 %)

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 1

1. ~~Where the threshold referred to in Article 34(2) is reached, t~~The automated system referred to in Article 44(1) shall apply the reference key referred to in Article 35 to those Member States with a number of applications for which they are the Member States responsible below their share pursuant to Article 35(1) and notify the Member States thereof.

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 2

2. Applicants who lodged their application in the benefitting Member State ~~after notification of allocation referred to in Article 34(5)~~ shall be allocated to the Member States referred to in paragraph 1, and these Member States shall ~~determine the Member State responsible~~become responsible for examining the application for international protection.

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 – paragraph 3

3. Applications ~~declared inadmissible or~~ examined in accelerated procedure in accordance with Article 3(3) shall not be subject to allocation.

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 36 a (new)

Article 36 a Determination of the Member State of allocation 1. On the basis of the reference key referred to in Article 35, the automatic system referred to in Article 44(1) shall indicate the Member State of allocation responsible for examining the application for international protection, taking into account the following criteria: (a) Member States which have received the lowest number of applications for international protection; (b) Applicant’s skills, including spoken language skills; (c) Applicant’s cultural and social ties.

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – title

~~Financial solidarity~~Consequences of failure to comply with the allocation mechanism

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 1

1. A Member State may, at the end of the three-month period after the entry into force of this Regulation and at the end of each twelve-month period thereafter, enter in the automated system that it will temporarily not take part in the correctivThe allocation mechanism set out in Chapter VII of this Regulation ~~as a Member State~~shall apply ofn a~~llocation and notify th~~ mandatory basis to ~~the~~all Member States~~, the Commission and the European Union Agency for Asylum~~.

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 2

2. ~~The automated system referred to in Article 44(1) shall in that case apply the reference key during this twelve- month period to those Member States with a number of~~Failure to comply with the obligations arising from the application~~s for which~~ of they are the Member States responsible below their share pursuant to Article 35(1), with the exception of the Member State which entered the information, as well as the benefitting Member State. The automated system referred to in Article 44(1) shall count each application which would have otherwise been allocated to the Member State which entered the information pursuant to Article 36(4) for the sharellocation mechanism referred to in Chapter VII shall result in the suspension of commitments and payments in relation to the national and regional operating programmes of thate Member State involved.

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 3

3. At the end of the twelve-month period referred to in paragraph 2, the automated system shall communicate to the Member State not taking part in the corrective allocation mechanism the number of applicants for whom it would have otherwise been the Member State of allocation. That Member State shall thereafter make a solidarity contribution of EUR 250 000 per each applicant who would have otherwise been allocated to that Member State during the respective twelve-month period. The solidarity contribution shall be paid to the Member State determined as responsible for examining the respective applications.deleted

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 4

4. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, adopt a decision in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 56, lay down the modalities for the implementation of paragraph 3.deleted

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 37 – paragraph 5

~~5. The European Union Agency for Asylum shall monitor and report to the Commission on a yearly basis on the application of the financial solidarity mechanism.~~deleted

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0133(COD)

Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Rosa D'AMATO, David BORRELLI, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 43

The automated system shall notify the Member States and the Commission as soon as the number of applications in the benefitting Member State for which it is the Member State responsible under this Regulation is below 150 % of its share pursuant to Article 35(1). Upon the notification referred to in paragraph 2, the application of the corrective allocation shall cease for that Member State.Article 43 deleted Cessation of corrective allocation

2017/05/05
Committee: LIBE

2016/0062(NLE)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas most cases of assassinations of women are carried out by their husbands, ex-husbands, partner or ex-partners, who do not accept the end of a marriage or relationship;

2017/05/11
Committee: LIBE FEMM

2016/0062(NLE)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas the phenomenon of forced marriage, most importantly the one involving girl brides, is sharply increasing within the European Union due to the ongoing migration crisis that Europe is facing; and that this phenomenon represents a real danger for children and girls;

2017/05/11
Committee: LIBE FEMM

2016/0062(NLE)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas exposure to physical, sexual or psychological violence and abuse has a severe impact on victims, often profoundly and indelibly marking the victims invisibly, thus preventing them to live a healthy and happy life;

2017/05/11
Committee: LIBE FEMM

2016/0062(NLE)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Deplores the fact that women and girls are often exposed to domestic violence, sexual harassment~~, rape~~ and rape, both in public and private areas, forced marriage and other forms of violence, which constitute are a serious violation of the human rights and dignity of women and girls;

2017/05/11
Committee: LIBE FEMM

2016/0062(NLE)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b

(b) To ask the Member States to ratify and implement the Istanbul Convention with the aim of fighting and countering violence against women and girls and domestic violence;

2017/05/11
Committee: LIBE FEMM

2016/0062(NLE)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point g a (new)

(ga) invite Member States to guarantee an adequate training to all experts in the field in order to contribute to the prevention of any form of discrimination and violence against women and girls;

2017/05/11
Committee: LIBE FEMM

2016/0062(NLE)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point j a (new)

(ja) To actively promote modules of education for men and children in order to prevent any form of discrimination and violence against women and girls;

2017/05/11
Committee: LIBE FEMM

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8

(8) This Regulation should strengthen the current type-approval framework, in particular through the introduction of provisions on market surveillance. Market surveillance in the automotive sector should be introduced by specifying the obligations of the economic operators in the supply chain, the responsibilities of the enforcement authorities in the Member States, and the ~~measure~~sanctions to be ~~taken~~imposed when automotive products are encountered on the market that represent s~~erious safety or~~afety, health and environmental risks or that do not comply with the type-approval requirements.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9

(9) An effective implementation of the type-approval requirements should be ensured by enhancing the provisions on conformity of production by, inter alia, providing for mandatory periodic audits of the conformity control methods and the continued conformity of the products concerned and by reinforcing the requirements relating to the competence, obligations and performance of the technical services that carry out tests for whole-vehicle type-approval under the responsibility of type-approval authorities . The ~~proper functioning~~independence of the technical services of automobile firms is crucial for ensuring a high level of safety and environmental protection and citizens' confidence in the system. The criteria for designation of technical services provided by Directive 2007/46/EC should be laid down in greater detail in order to assure their consistent application. The assessment methods of technical services in the Member States have a tendency to progressively differ due to the increased complexity of their work. Therefore, it is necessary to ~~provide for procedural obligations that ensure an information exchange and monitoring of Member States' practic~~ensure the same procedures for the assessment, designation, notification and monitoring of their technical services by the Member States. Those procedural obligations should remove any existing discrepancies in the methods used and in the interpretation of the criteria for the designation of technical services.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) The ~~need for~~authorities designated to control and monitor~~ing of~~ the technical services ~~by the designating authorities has increased since technical progress has raised the risk that technical services do not~~shall have to guarantee that they possess the necessary competence, resources and infrastructure to test new technologies or devices emerging within their scope of designation. As technical progress shortens product cycles and as the intervals of surveillance on-site assessments and of the monitoring vary between designating authorities, minimum requirements with regard to the intervals of the surveillance and monitoring of the technical services should be established.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11

(11) DThe designation and monitoring of technical services by the Member States, in accordance with detailed and strict criteria, should ~~therefore~~ be subject to independent supervisory controls at Union level, in~~cluding independent audits as a condition for~~ order to examine the renewal of their notification after five years. The position of technical services vis-à-vis manufacturers should be strengthened, including their right and duty to carry out unannounced factory inspections and to conduct physical or laboratory tests on products covered by this Regulation, in order to ensure continuous compliance by manufacturers after they have obtained a type-approval for their product by ensuring the incompatibility of providing technical support to the national approval authorities and to the manufacturers.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12

(12) In order to increase transparency and mutual trust and to ~~further~~ align and develop ~~the criteria~~homogenous criteria in the EU for the assessment, designation, and notification of technical services, as well as extension and renewal procedures, Member States should cooperate with each other and with the Commission. They should consult each other and the Commission on questions with general relevance for the implementation of this Regulation ~~and inform each other and the Commission on their model assessment checklist~~.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) Where designation of a technical service is based on accreditation in the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council12, accreditation bodies and designating authorities should e~~xchange information relevant for the assessment of~~nsure the competence of technical services. __________________ 12 Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93 (OJ L 218, 13.8.2008, p. 30).

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15

(15) When, in spite of the measures taken to ensure a homogenous and coherent application and follow up of the requirements by the Member States, the competence of a technical service is in doubt, the Commission should have the possibility to investigate individual cases and propose solutions.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) The independence of technical services vis-à-vis manufacturers should be ensured, including by avoiding direct or indirect payments by the manufacturers for the type-approval inspections and tests they have carried out. Therefore the Member States should establish a type-approval fee structure that should cover the costs for carrying out all type-approval tests and inspections carried out by the technical services designated by the type-approval authority, as well as the administrative costs for issuing the type-approval ~~and the costs for carrying out ex-post compliance verification tests and inspections~~.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18

(18) A robust compliance enforcement mechanism is necessary in order to ensure that the requirements under this Regulation are met. Ensuring compliance with the type-approval and conformity of production requirements ofwith the legislation governing the automotive sector should remain the key responsibility of the approval authorities, as it is an obligation closely linked to the issuing of the type- approval and requires detailed knowledge of its content. It is therefore important that the performance of approval authorities is regularly verified by means of peer- reviews, to ensure that a uniform level of quality and stringency is applied by all approval authorities in enforcing the type- approval requirements. Moreover, it is important to provide for the verification by independent third parties of the correctness of the type approval itself.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

(19) Closer coordination between national authorities through information exchange and coordinated assessments under the direction of a coordinating authority is fundamental for ensuring a consistently high level of safety and health and envirA robust compliance enforcement mechanism is necessary in order to ensure that the requirements under this Regulation are met. Ensuring compliance with the type-approval and conformity of production requirements with the legislation governing the automotive sector should remain the key responsibility of the approval authorities, as it is an obligation closely linked to the issuing of the type-approval and requires detailed knowledge of its conmtental protection within the internal market. This should also lead to more efficient use of scarce resources at national level. For this purpose a Forum should be established for Member States and the Commission to exchange information on and to coordinate their activities related to the enforcement. It is therefore important that the performance of approval authorities is regularly verified by means of peer-reviews, to ensure that a uniform level of quality and stringency is applied by all approval authorities in enforcing the type-approval requirements. It is, moreover, important to provide for verification by an independent specialised control body in order to prove the compliance of the type- approval ~~legislation. The currently informal cooperation between Member States in this respect would benefit from a more formal framework~~and control requirements so as to ensure that this type-approval is fair. The outcome of these controls shall be disclosed in order to facilitate effective public participation.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) The rules on Union market surveillance and control of products entering the Union market provided for in Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 apply to motor vehicles and their trailers, and to systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles without preventing Member States from choosing the competent authorities to carry out those tasks. Market surveillance may be a competence shared between different national authorities to take account of the national market surveillance systems in the Member States established under Regulation (EC) No 765/2008. Effective coordination and monitoring at Union and nat. In order to ensure that market surveillance is homogenous, it must be centralised at Community level. Conferring powers of control on a centralised authority at Unional levels should ~~guarantee that approval and market surveillance authorities enforce~~ensure that the new type-approval and market surveillance framework is fully and properly implemented.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22

(22) In order to increase transparency in the approval process and facilitate the exchange of information and the independent verification by ~~market surveillance authorities,~~the approval authorities ~~and~~, the Commission and third parties, type approval documentation, including the methodology and results of the tests, should be provided in electronic format and be made publicly available, ~~subject to~~with the sole excemption~~s due to~~ of sensitive data for the protection of commercial interests and the protection of personal data.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23

(23) The obligations of ~~national authorities concerning~~the European market surveillance authority provided in this Regulation ~~are more specific than those laid down in Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 to~~shall take account of the specificities of the type- approval framework and the need to complement that framework with an effective market surveillance mechanism ensuring a robust ex-post verification of compliance of the products covered by this Regulation.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24

(24) Those more specific obligations for ~~national~~the European authorit~~ies~~y provided in this Regulation should include ex-post compliance verification testing and inspections of a sufficient number of vehicles placed on the market. The selection of the vehicles to be subject to this ex-post compliance verification should be based on an appropriate ~~risk~~ assessment of the market penetration of the product which takes account of the seriousness of the possible non-compliance ~~and the likelihood of its occurrence~~.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25

(25) In addition, the Commission should organise and carry out or require to carry out ex-post compliance verification tests and inspections, independent from those carried out by Member States under their national market surveillance obligations. When non-compliance is established by ~~those~~ tests and inspections, or where it is found that a type approval has been granted on the basis of incorrect data the Commission should be entitled to initiate Union-wide remedial actions to restore the conformity of the vehicles concerned and to investigate the reasons for the incorrectness of the type approval. Appropriate funding should be ensured ~~in the general budget of the Union~~ to enable the execution of such compliance verification testing and inspections. ~~In view of the budgetary constraints of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 the implementation of the legisla~~Those resources should come from the prepayment of the service at the tivme ~~proposal will have to be built on existing resources and to be designed in such a manner that they do not generate additional financial resources~~of sale of the type approved products at no more than 1 / 1000th of the sales cost of the asset. The Commission should be entitled to impose administrative fines where non-compliance is established.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27

(27) The objectives of this Regulation should not be affected by the fact that certain systems, components, separate technical units or parts and equipment can be fitted to or in a vehicle after that vehicle has been placed on the market, registered or entered into service. Appropriate measures should therefore be taken to ensure that the systems, components, separate technical units or parts and equipment that can be fitted to or in vehicles and that can significantly impair the functioning of systems that are essential for environmental protection or functional safety are controlled and authorised in advance by an approval authority before they are placed on the market, registered or entered into service. The authority which issues the authorisation for such ancillary components shall inform the Commission and other approval authorities and make available all the necessary documents and verify the prior control procedures.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29

(29) Conformity of production is one of the cornerstones of the EU type-approval system, and therefore the arrangements set up by the manufacturer to ensure such conformity should be approved by the competent authority or by a~~n appropriately qualified~~ technical service designated f~~or that purpose~~rom among those providing exclusive services to the approval authorities, and be subject to regular verification by means of independent periodic audits. In addition, approval authorities should ensure the verification of the continued conformity of the products concerned.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 31

(31) The assessment of ~~reported serious~~ risks to safety and of harm to public health and the environment should be conducted at national level, but coordination at Union level should be ensured where the ~~reported~~ risk or harm may exist beyond the territory of one Member State with the objective of sharing resources and ensuring consistency regarding the corrective action to be taken to ~~mitig~~eliminate the identified risk and harm.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32

(32) In order to ensure that all vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units placed on the market offer a high level of safety and environmental protection, the manufacturer or any other economic operator in the supply chain should take effective corrective measures, including the recall of vehicles, where a vehicle, system, component or separate technical unit presents a ~~serious~~ risk for users or the environment ~~as referred to in Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008~~. Approval authorities should be empowered to assess and verify whether those measures are sufficient. The authorities of other Member States' should have the right to take safeguard measures in case they would consider that the manufacturer's corrective measures are not sufficient.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34

(34) The Union is a contracting party to the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions (‘Revised 1958 Agreement’)13. The Union has accepted a significant number of regulations annexed to the Revised 1958 Agreement and has therefore the obligation to accept type-approvals issued in accordance with those regulations, as complying with the equivalent Union requirements. For the purpose of simplifying its type-approval framework and aligning it with the international framework of the UNECE, the Union in Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council14 repealed its specific type-approval Directives and replaced them with the obligatory application of the relevant UNECE regulations. To reduce the administrative burden of the type-approval process, without being less ambitious in terms of road safety and pollutant emissions, manufacturers of vehicles, systems, components and separate technical units should be allowed to seek type-approval in accordance with this Regulation, where appropriate, directly by means of obtaining approval under the relevant UNECE regulations referred to in the Annexes to this Regulation. __________________ 13 Council Decision 97/836/EC of 27 November 1997 with a view to accession by the European Community to the Agreement of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe concerning the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted to and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these prescriptions ('Revised 1958 Agreement') (OJ L 346, 17.12.1997, p. 81). 14 Regulation (EC) No 661/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning type-approval requirements for the general safety of motor vehicles, their trailers and systems, components and separate technical units intended therefor (OJ L 200, 31.7.2009, p. 1).

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37

(37) Whereas technical progress introducing new methods or techniques for vehicle diagnostics and repair, such as remote access to vehicle information and software, should ~~not weak~~strengthen the objectives of this Regulation with respect to access to repair and maintenance information for independent operators.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40

(40) ~~Member States~~The European Union should lay down rules on penalties for the infringements of this Regulation and ensure that those rules are implemented. Those penalties should be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. ~~Member States shall report the imposed penalties to the Commission annually, to monitor the coherence of the implementation of these provisions.~~

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2

(2) ‘market surveillance’ means the activities carried out and measures taken by the market surveillance authorit~~ies~~y to ensure that vehicles, systems, components or separate technical units as well as parts and equipment made available on the market comply with the requirements set out in the relevant Union legislation and do not endanger health, safety, the environment or any other aspect of public interest protection;

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 13

(13) ‘market surveillance authority’ means the ~~national authority or authorities~~authority responsible for carrying out market surveillance on the territory of the ~~Member State~~EU;

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Member States shall establish or appoint the approval ~~authorities and the market surveillance~~ authorities. Member States shall notify the Commission of the establishment and appointment of such authorities.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2016/0014(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1

1. MThe Commission shall identify one of its own agencies as the most suitable one to perform the duties of European market surveillance authorit~~ies~~y. The latter shall perform regular checks to verify the compliance of vehicles in traffic and with different mileages, systems, components and separate technical units with the requirements set out in this Regulation as well as with the correctness of the type approvals. Those checks shall be performed on a~~n adequate scale~~ scale sufficient to verify the conformity of at last 30% of the models on the market, by means of documentary checks and real- drive and laboratory tests ~~on the basis of statistically relevant samples~~. When doing so, the market surveillance authorit~~ies~~y shall take account of established principles of risk assessment, complaints and other information.

2016/09/15
Committee: ENVI

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, David BORRELLI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Marco ZANNI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas Article 194 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union specifically upholds the right of a Member State to determine the conditions for exploiting its energy resources, whilst ~~also upholding regard for solidarity and environmental protection~~its Article 11 specifically establishes that environmental protection requirements must be integrated into the definition and development of the Union's policies and activities, and its Article 191 establishes as objectives of the environmental policy the protection of human health, and the prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources, among others;

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, David BORRELLI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas conventional indigenous sources of oil and gas ~~contribute significantly to Europe's curr~~represent ena vergy ~~needs and are crucial at present for our energy security and energy diversity~~small and continuously declining share of world oil and gas proved reserves which is better to carefully conserve underground;

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, David BORRELLI, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Marco ZANNI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the potential unconventional European sources of gas and oil, and especially gas and oil captured in shale formations, to be extracted by hydraulic fracturing, remain extremely uncertain –as the 2011-2015 experience in Poland has soundly demonstrated–, due to greater depths than expected, high clay contents, and geological barriers of significant complexity, and furthermore it is met by strong reserves, when not outright opposition, of many European citizens and Member states, due to environmental and other impacts and triggered earthquakes;

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, David BORRELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Marco ZANNI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas there is already an extensive body of international law and international conventions which govern the seas, including European waters, although they have a limited preventive capacity, as demonstrated by a decades-long record of environmental disasters linked to offshore spills caused worldwide by the extractive industry;

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, David BORRELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Marco ZANNI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underscores the fact that the Member States already have the world's best-performing offshore safety regimes and that ~~overregulation in this area would seriously harm the competitiveness of their~~the strict respect of existing regulation in this area is a constraint to be respected in any circumstance by their extractive industries;

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, David BORRELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Marco ZANNI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that, as regards 'liability for offshore accidents and their consequences, the Offshore Safety Directive (OSD) channels it unequivocally to offshore licensees, i.e. the individual or joint holders of authorizations for oil/gas prospection, exploration, and/or production operations issued in accordance with Directive 94/22/EC1 . It also makes the licensees strictly liable for any environmental damage resulting from their operations'; however, there are founded doubts about this condition being sufficient, since it has been stated unequivocally by the same Directive that no existing financial security instruments, including risk pooling arrangements, can accommodate all possible consequences of major accidents; moreover, although the OSD contains specific provisions for liability and compensation-related issues, it does not put in place a comprehensive EU framework for liability, since it neither deals with liability for civil damage (i.e. caused to natural or legal persons, including bodily injury, property damage and economic loss, both consequential and pure), nor addresses criminal liability for offshore accidents, arising out of committing a criminal act qualified as such by the law. _________________ 1 OJ L 164, 30.6.1994, p. 3.

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, David BORRELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Marco ZANNI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Underlines that the Commission itself has highlighted that liability for civil damage (i.e. third party damage, or 'traditional damage') from offshore oil and gas operations in the European Economic Area (EEA) is still poorly understood; at the same time, it highlights that the expectations of the public, civil society and some authorities are high, but there is no coherent perspective on the kinds of claims that would be permissible, nor how to manage such claims effectively in the case of major accidents – particularly accidents that cross boundaries;

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, David BORRELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Marco ZANNI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that there is a 'broad variety of financial security products available to hedge oil and gas companies’ operating risk. These range from self-insurance options, to third-party insurance, to mutual schemes such as the Offshore Pollution Liability Association Ltd (OPOL), to alternative risk transfer mechanisms and others'; this notwithstanding, none of them is able to fully protect the Member states from the combined consequences of the challenging insolvency and transboundary problems that can demonstrably arise from major offshore incidents;

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, David BORRELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Marco ZANNI, Piernicola PEDICINI

4a. Highlights that the consequence of such an incident is likely to be a socialization of the incident's costs to local communities, the State and other businesses dependent on the marine economy; such externalization can be further composed by the complexity of the existing international legal framework, which makes it difficult to advance successful transboundary damage claims;

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2352(INI)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Isabella ADINOLFI, David BORRELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura AGEA, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco VALLI, Marco ZULLO, Eleonora EVI, Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Ignazio CORRAO, Marco ZANNI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Concludes that ~~there is no need to give consideration to further legislation until the Commission has published its report on implementation of the OSD.~~, while respecting the deadlines established for the Commission to publish its report on implementation of the OSD, due for July 2019, it is of the utmost importance for the Union to pursue actively during this period the research about how a comprehensive EU's framework for liability should be put in place, as a necessary complement to the regulatory process, in order to better protect possible damaged parties, and to better reflect European societal values;

2016/06/08
Committee: ITRE

2015/2349(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Takes the view that, in order to respond to the increasing demand for mobility within the constraints of limited infrastructure, all transport undertakings are under pressure to provide sustainable solutions that are environmentally responsible while limiting congestion, but that it is harder for small business to meet these challenges, transport businesses face considerable challenges to provide sustainable solutions that are environmentally responsible and to reduce congestion on the current transport infrastructure;

2016/06/16
Committee: TRAN

2015/2349(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Deplores the anti-competitive practices resulting from inequality in the application of the rules, notably between residents and non-residents, in particular as regards pay and social security systems, which may lead to serious distortions such as social dumping;

2016/06/16
Committee: TRAN

2015/2349(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Notes that small transport firms need to invest not only to comply with the law but also to remain competitive; deplores the fact that, on one hand, their access to credit and funding on the money markets remains limited in spite of quantitative easing measures, while, on the other hand, aid from the public purse, particularly at European level, ~~is rarely forthc~~often remains the domain~~g, owing to overly complex and long-winded administrative procedur~~ of big companies that can afford to broach the long and complex administrative procedures which, on the other hand, disadvantage small transport businesses;

2016/06/16
Committee: TRAN

2015/2349(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Notes that, in a context of growing urbanisation, transport needs to be increasingly integrated and multi-modal in nature, and that urban nodes have an increasingly central role to play in the organisation of mobility; stresses the growing impact of travel planning apps and the importance for small businesses of being included on the list of available apps; highlights the fact that universal free internet access would encourage transport sharing and improved travel planning;

2016/06/16
Committee: TRAN

2015/2349(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Notes that ~~the development of~~ collaborative business models ~~permits the optimisation of~~can, through optimising vehicle and infrastructure use, ~~which while it contributes~~give a strong boost to meeting these objectives ~~is not~~, but not one that is a sufficient solution in itself; notes that the growing exploitation of user- generated data could eventually result in the added value created in the transport chain ending in the hands of digital operators, which could have an adverse effect both on the fair distribution of profits and on participation in infrastructure investment, which takes place in the real world;

2016/06/16
Committee: TRAN

2015/2349(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Takes the view that, in view of the lack of investment in infrastructure, all ~~transport operators should contribut~~incoming resources should be earmarked for use in the transport infrastructure sector and not channelled towards other categories of expenditure; stresses the importance, in road transport, of internalising negative externalities, but recognises that this poses specific problems for small businesses, which must be taken into account;

2016/06/16
Committee: TRAN

2015/2349(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Takes the view, in view of the development of collaborative business models, that the solution is neither sector- specific regulation nor regulation aimed solely at digital platforms, and that in future the mobility system needs to be addressed as a whole; calls for the establishment of a modernised regulatory framework that fosters innovation as well as the protection of consumers and their data, and ensures healthy competition, with the same rules being applied to all operators in a given sector;

2016/06/16
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Stresses the link between the TEN- T infrastructure network and the development of logistics, as well as the opportunities this can offer to improve performance in the field of logistics and multimodal transport, acknowledging also the economic, social and environmental risks that certain public or private projects aimed at improving the performance of logistics may entail, particularly if such projects are over-dimensioned;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Urges the Member States to ensure that any project aimed at improving the performance of logistics and any project involving the construction of new or the modernization of existing infrastructures linked to the TEN-T corridors is subjected to a life-cycle assessment with regard to its long-term economic and environmental performance, in the interest of avoiding investment failures;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Considers that prioritising the recovery, the modernisation and the strengthening of already existing interconnections, facilities and infrastructures should be the starting point of any action undertaken by the Member States and the Commission with the view to improve the performance of logistics in the context of TEN-T corridors;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Stress~~Observes that the transport sector in the EU accounts for about one-quarter of greenhouse gas emissions and that an 80% increase in freight transport activity is ~~expected~~foreseen by 2050; urges the Commission and the Member States to increase the efforts aimed at encouraging multi-modal transport, inter-operability and socially and environmentally sustainable projects aimed at favouring the shift from road to rail freight transport, in order to reduce the effects that the physical circulation of goods and services in the internal market has on climate change and on air quality;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Observes that the current prospects for the growth of the freight transport on the TEN-T Core Network Corridors (CNCs) are in some cases too optimistic while in some others are either outdated or showing contradictory results; therefore calls for a comprehensive review of the prospects for freight development in the EU, based on up-to-date information concerning goods and passengers flows for each relevant project;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Stresses that further measures are needed to make road transport more efficient and environmentally friendly in the logistic chain; to this aim, asks the Commission and the Member States adopt incentivising schemes for prompting a quick shift toward the reconversion of heavy commercial and heavy duty vehicles to a cleaner and alternative powertrain, at the same time ensuring the compliance with social and safety standards; insists that the core-networks corridors be provided at least with alternative filling stations and safe truck parking areas;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Note~~Considers that the main challenge for the EU and the Member States with regard to logistics ~~will~~should be to ~~reduc~~minimize the environmental impact of freight transport, especially road haulage, which accounts for two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions, by reducing air and noise pollution and increasing efficiency, in line with the ~~COP 21 agreement~~Paris Agreement, the ratification of which by the EU has recently triggered its entry into force;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Considers of utmost importance to guarantee that the development of logistics does not induce the worsening of life conditions, especially for people already exposed to high levels of pollution. Therefore asks the Member States to ensure that an health impact assessment is properly carried out in the context of authorization procedures for logistics-related projects and that health risks are duly considered by decision- makers;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Urges the Member States to guarantee that the development of logistics, multimodal transport and combined transport in the context TEN-T corridors does not affect the integrity of protected areas and sites, especially of those belonging to the Natura 2000 ecological network, in order not to frustrate all the efforts being made with the view to achieve conservation objectives for protected species and habitats and, more generally, to halt biodiversity loss across the EU;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Considers that projects on logistic infrastructures in the context of TEN-T corridors shall be authorized only if a full and comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is carried out and if the respect of any other relevant provision of EU law is guaranteed. In this regards, urges the Commission to monitor closely the transposition process of the new EIA Directive (i.e. Directive 2014/52/EU); urges the Member States to adopt adequate implementing measures; underlines that the EIA Directive, as amended, requires that EIA procedures shall identify, describe and assess the direct and indirect significant effects of projects, inter alia, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Stresses that public participation and public information in decision- making processes concerning the development of logistics and infrastructures in the UE are key areas where improvements need to be made. To this effect, urges the Member States to ensure the inclusion of local populations and of public interest advocacy groups in the context of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) procedures; invites the Commission to make sure that access to documents pursuant to Regulation (EC) n. 1049/2001 is made simple for any citizen and for any institution at any level, in order to guarantee the full transparency on the expenditure of EU financial resources; reminds the Commission and the Member States that when access is justified on the ground of serious health and/or environmental concerns, these should always override any reason for non-disclosure aimed at safeguarding competition or the privacy of commercial data;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3e. Stresses that the so-called "corridor forums" are falling short in ensuring the sound environmental assessment of projects as well as the proper involvement of local communities and interested stakeholders; therefore calls the Commission and the Member States to make sure that such "forums" deliver thorough environmental assessments and to guarantee that the concerns expressed by local communities and interested stakeholders are adequately reflected in project decisions;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the need to concentrate major efforts on the revitalization of railways and on the strengthening of inland waterways (IWW) as a priority for the EU's sustainable transport strategy; given that since the beginning of the economic crisis railways, in particular, have been constantly losing their market share, believes that the Member States and the Commission should propose new and non-discriminatory initiatives aimed at supporting the development of this sector across Europe; reminds the Commission and the Member States of the ambitious objectives established in the 2011 White Paper on Transport (COM(2011)0144), which include shifting 30% of road freight transported over 300 km to rail and IWW by 2030, and 50% by 2050;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Is concerned about the negative impact on the logistics sector of~~Condemns the closures of internal borders in connection with the ‘refugee crisis’~~; calls on the Member States and the Commission to take freight flows into account when adopting such measures~~ and the resulting negative impact on the logistics sector; calls on the Member States and the Commission to put an immediate end to this state of affairs with a view to guaranteeing the circulation, in accordance with the law, of freight and people;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO, Piernicola PEDICINI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Stresses the role that research and innovation can play in developing environmentally sustainable and digitised logistics and ensuring greater interoperability and interconnectivity of IT systems and services; therefore, urges the Commission to propose a framework for electronic information exchange and transport management in multimodal transport (e-freight) in order to facilitate a simplified, paperless, seamless and transparent information flow among businesses and authorities;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 1 a (new)

- taking into the account the zero kilometre approach and is designed to achieve the greatest possible reduction in goods movements in order to guarantee the best possible state of conservation of goods and the lowest possible environmental impact;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 4

- aimed at accelerating uptake of new technologies that will strengthen the sector’s performance, such as drones, provided that security and environmental protection legislation is complied with;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Calls on the Commission to make ~~available more resources and make more effectiv~~sure that EU funding is used in an effective, economically efficient and rational manner so as to guarantee, inter alia, that final costs of infrastructures fully respect their ex ante financial assessment; underlines the need to preserve the financial resources of the EU and of its Member States; invites the Commission and the Member States refrain from allocating resources to projects which jeopardize human health, the environment and the sus~~e of EU funding.~~tainable development of local communities;

2016/10/11
Committee: ENVI

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that the further implementation of the TEN-T network must serve to boost integrated multimodal freight transport in the EU, in particular ~~its core network corridors to be completed by 2030, and also~~ the national planning included in the comprehensive network;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Regrets that too often Member States’ national infrastructure plans are decided without reference to the TEN-T objectives; urges the Commission to increase coordination between the two levels of planning and suggests adding to the European Semester a chapter on supervising its coherence and real effectiveness with appropriate corrective measures; calls on the Commission not to prioritise Member State projects that are not in line with the TEN-T programming;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. At the same time, calls on the European Commission to redefine European priorities in the transport sector, prioritising projects with the greatest added European value, but also taking into account the development of national networks within the TEN-T corridors;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Calls on the European Commission to review the TEN-T network, not only taking into account the importance of the network in central Europe but also making provision for an extension of road and rail connections in strategic locations which have thus far been seriously neglected, such as in Italy along the southern Adriatic ridge;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers that an efficient EU logistics system requires further coordination beyond physical connectivity and an operational TEN-T network; calls on the Commission, in collaboration with Parliament, to appoint a TEN-T European logistics coordinator that could effectively complement, coordinate and give coherence to the ongoing work of the coordinators in the area of multimodality;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls, with a view to ensuring non- discriminatory treatment in the digital exchange of information, calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a system of investment to provide initial IT training and ongoing refresher training on the platforms used for data exchange;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Regards the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) as a successful European project for the promotion of freight in the rail sector, and welcomes the efforts to accelerate its deployment by establishing milestones per corridor; is aware of the constraints that affect funding of multinational, multi-level (ERTMS) projects; invites the Commission and the European Investment Advisory Hub to come forward with specific funding solutions to ease access to European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) funding for ERTMS deployment;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Welcomes the Commission’s first steps to introduce fuel standards for heavy commercial vehicles (HCVs) and CO2 limits; is of the opinion that increased size of HCVs would entail a deep revision of the infrastructure and operational standards of the TEN-T network and that alternatives such as reducing ‘empty returns’ could achieve greater efficiency gains with less impact on the infrastructure and the environment;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Considers that further measures are needed to make road transport more efficient and environmentally friendly in the logistics chain; calls for the possibility to be introduced in the core network corridors of allowing loaded HCVs running on clean alternative fuels compliant with the highest emissions, noise, safety and social standards to circulate without restrictions 365 days a year; insists that the ~~core-~~network corridors be provided at least with alternative filling stations and safe truck parking areas;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Stresses the importance of improving the provision of and access to information on EU multimodal and logistics services, in particular to SMEs that have limited access to this information; calls on the Commission and the Member States, in cooperation with network operators, to present a handbook on multimodal transport in the EU that includes current agreements, tools, conventions, legislation and best practices;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2348(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. In view of this, calls on the Commission and Member States to strengthen all measures and funding of the cohesion policy designed to guarantee the creation of more jobs and to decrease social and employment differences between the countries involved in the TEN-T networks;

2016/10/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2327(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that Erasmus+ iscould be one of the key drivers of growth, employment, competitiveness and social cohesion in that it contributes to improving European education and training systems and employability, and provides Europeans with an opportunity to acquire transversal and transferable sets of skills and competences via studies, training and work experience abroad;

2016/10/03
Committee: EMPL

2015/2327(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that~~, despite clear improvements~~ problems still persist in recognition and validation systems in education and VET~~, problems still persist~~; calls for specific targets such as the implementation of a fully operational credit transfer system and recognition, and for validation of competences acquired through non-formal and informal learning.;

2016/10/03
Committee: EMPL

2015/2327(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses the requirement to support, either financially or by means of tax incentives, SMEs that offer vocational training under the Erasmus+ programme;

2016/10/03
Committee: EMPL

2015/2327(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Stresses the need to increase awareness of the Erasmus+ instrument as a means of improving an individual’s own skills, giving them an added dimension which should ensure the right approach to this instrument for the purpose of guaranteeing its effectiveness, eliminating the risk of turning it merely into a life experience;

2016/10/03
Committee: EMPL

2015/2327(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Recommends that this instrument should not provide a smoother route to a brain drain, but rather create opportunities to develop and supplement one’s own skills with a view to subsequently deploying them at home; considers that mobility has added value if and only if it is pursued on a voluntary basis and not if it is dictated by a lack of opportunities in the home country;

2016/10/03
Committee: EMPL

2015/2327(INI)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Recalls that at a time of particular crisis of the fundamental values of the EU, the Erasmus+ instrument can provide a fundamental opportunity to promote integration, understanding and solidarity among young people; calls therefore for the integration of young people to be promoted by means of awareness of different cultures and traditions and their mutual and crucial respect;

2016/10/03
Committee: EMPL

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas between the start of 2015 and November of the same year, some 900 000 people crossed the Mediterranean to reach Europe’s coasts, and women and children accounted for around 38% of the total;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas too many people have already lost their lives during these journeys of hope and many of them have been women;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas many women travelling with children do not reach their intended destinations, thus leaving their own children alone and defenceless, with nobody to turn to for support;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas women who are subjected to violence and trafficking are more exposed to the risk of sexually transmitted diseases;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas very often, reception hubs do not contain any internal areas that are suitable for mothers housed there who have to support and look after their children; whereas, in addition, legal assistance facilities do not give adequate support in providing information and helping in the search for family members;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas, as part of its winter response activities, UNICEF has drawn up emergency plans to deal with the constantly growing requirements of children and women and the sudden changes in migration routes;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas girls and women are often obliged to enter into forced marriages for the purpose of securing easy, safe access for men who would otherwise not be entitled to such access and could not be regarded as refugees or asylum-seekers;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas women who migrate to different cultural and social environments than the one to which they belong often do not have the freedom to make informed choices in adopting a new lifestyle that suits their expectations and preferences;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

Ib. whereas women are often forced to accept undeclared work in degrading conditions so that they can stay in their country of arrival;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)

Ic. whereas women and girls are entitled to have their own independent status from a legal and paperwork standpoint;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas, for many women, even obtaining asylum does not mean true salvation and genuinely achieving a decent life, and women are often subjected to abuse;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Takes the view that the problem of women refugees and asylum seekers should be addressed at EU level, with responsibilities and costs to be shared by all 28 Member States and not just the countries of first arrival;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for targeted measures to ensure the full integration of women refugees and asylum seekers, by preventing all forms of exploitation, abuse, violence and trafficking;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the Member States to ensure, in any case, independent legal status as far as documents are concerned, thus enabling women to apply for and maintain the status of refugee or asylum seeker regardless of the situation of the other members of their families;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the Member States to guarantee and publicise the right of women seeking asylum to request a female interviewer and interpreter and to deliver comprehensive and mandatory training for interviewers and interpreters on sexual violence, trauma and memory;(Does not affect English version)

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Member States, in collaboration with the EU, to promote medical and psycho-social care projects for women who have suffered violence, with the direct involvement of qualified women who are specialists in the field;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Urges the Commission and the Member States to guarantee full access to ~~sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to safe abortion,~~health and to allocate ~~additional~~ resources to healthcare provision ~~as a matter of urgency~~, paying special attention to pregnant women or those with newborn children;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to equip reception hubs for refugees and asylum seekers with appropriate areas enabling them to support and look after their children;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Highlights the importance of equipping reception facilities with appropriate legal assistance for women in order to provide them with valuable support in terms of information and the search for family members;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take measures to prevent forced marriages being imposed on women and girls once they have obtained refugee status, with a view to securing safe access for men who would otherwise not be entitled to such access;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Member States to develop and implement specific measures to facilitate labour market participation of women refugees and asylum seekers, including literacy programmes, language classes, lifelong learning and basic training; stresses the importance of widening access to higher education for women refugees; calls for robust and transparent procedures for recognising qualifications obtained abroad;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses that true and full integration is the only possible way to ensure that women fleeing from war zones and violence have a decent life and all the efforts of the international community must be geared towards achieving that aim;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Points out that in order to achieve full and complete integration, women must be in a position freely to make informed choices about the way they want to be and the habits and customs they wish to adopt, without any external impositions or constraints that limit their freedom;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2325(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on the Member States to supervise the inclusion of women in the labour market, to prevent situations that might foster any undeclared employment of those women, also in view of their greater vulnerability once they have been granted asylum or refugee status;

2015/12/16
Committee: FEMM

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the Alps are the EU’s second largest biodiversity area, after the Mediterranean Sea, and form one of Europe’s foremost water catchment areas;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the Alpine countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland) and the EU have signed the Alpine Convention for the sustainable development and protection of the Alps;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas in order to give effect to the principles laid down in the Framework Convention and to the initiatives to be implemented at the practical level, a number of protocols have been adopted, setting out specific measures on a range of subjects including transport, tourism, soil conservation, spatial planning, sustainable development, and nature conservation and landscape protection;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the area’s historical and cultural heritage is one of its prime assets;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas the Alpine Region for the purposes of EUSALP has a population of roughly 72 million European citizens and encompasses vast lowland areas, but the Alpine Region as defined in the Alpine Convention, which has also been ratified by the EU, has a population of only 6 million, living mainly in mountain areas;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Davor ŠKRLEC, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas the specific geomorphology of the macro-region should not be considered ~~solely~~ an obstacle to connectivity, but rather an opportunity to ~~combine the transport system~~develop sustainable intermodal transport services, based on regional best practice model, combined with protection of the climate as well as natural and cultural heritage as well as climate change mitigation;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas intensive land use has an adverse impact on the environment, and whereas climate change, coupled with population decline in mountain areas, could further undermine the area’s hydrogeological stability;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas major infrastructure works which have a major impact on geological stability, underground water resources and biodiversity, such as the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail link and geological storage sites for natural gas, have already been completed or are in progress – some of them with EU funding – in the Alpine region;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)

Ae. whereas a number of research projects have identified significant concentrations of man-made persistent organic pollutants in high-lying snow and water catchment areas;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Maintains that the Alpine region constitutes a vast reserve of natural and landscape potential, given the exceptional variety of ecosystems to be found~~Believes it important to manage the Alpine region’s natural and landscape heritage sustainably and protect its biodiversity, not least with a view to increasing the supply of high-quality jobs in the area;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that in the Alpine region largely man-made urbanised environments coexist alongside areas of sparsely populated mountain country; takes the view that the strategy should ~~focus primarily on the latter because they have immense potential for the region as a whole~~comprise cohesive measures that apply throughout the area but take due account of the structural disparities to be found within it;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Davor ŠKRLEC, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas financial resources should mainly be invested in the development of local connectivity, improving existing rail connections, specifically cross-border transport, in promoting small town centres, facilitating the accessibility of sustainable tourist facilities and ensuring essential health services;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas financial resources should mainly be channelled towards, and invested in, the development of local connectivity, in promoting small town centres, facilitating the accessibility of tourist facilities ~~and~~, ensuring essential health services, and protecting the environment and natural resources, including water resources;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Believes that climate change poses serious risks from the point of view of hydrogeological instability and biodiversity and that the melting of glaciers ihas a ~~further cause of concern; points to the need, therefore, to promote production models based on the circular economy, with the emphasis on preference for local materials, reuse, and service sharing~~major impact on groundwater reserves; points, accordingly, to the need for a regional climate change adaptation policy;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the Commission action plan is intended to make for more sustainable transport connectivity, both within the EUSALP Alpine Region and with other parts of Europe, by promoting intermodality and interoperability in passenger and freight transport so as to achieve the aims of the TEN-T trans- European transport networks and shift traffic from road to rail;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region is seeking to enhance public transport and high-speed Internet connectivity, protect the environment and water in particular, raise the status of bottom-up local and cross-border governance models, and aid SMEs;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)

Cc. whereas the balance to be struck between transport infrastructure and regional conservation has for decades been marked out as the main challenge and a goal for the international community of states and regions belonging to the Alpine Region;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)

Cd. whereas in its communication on the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region points both to the need to reduce the impact of transport across the Alps, so as to preserve the Alpine environmental heritage, and to the importance of implementing a strategy to bring about better environmental conditions for the population;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)

Ce. whereas the new base tunnel on the Turin to Lyon Alpine route, though financed by European funds, does not comply with the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 (TEN-T) or Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 (CEF), given that there are no bottlenecks involved, and whereas the same route is already served by a newly modernised railway line that will be able to cope with the expected increase in freight and passenger transport demand;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas in its communication on the EU Strategy for the Alpine Region the Commission points both to the need to reduce the impact of transport across the Alps, so as to preserve the Alpine environmental heritage, and to the importance of implementing a strategy to deliver a healthier and better preserved living environment for local people;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Davor ŠKRLEC, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Takes note of the Commission's action plan aimed at improving the sustainability of transport connectivity within and to the region and promoting intermodality and interoperability in passenger and freight transport; this should be oriented towards the quality of intermodal transport and mobility systems and services as shown by the Swiss good practice model;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Davor ŠKRLEC, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Welcomes the opening of the Gotthard basis tunnel on 01st June 2016 and encourages the Commission and the respective Alpine Member States to first evaluate the change of traffic flows by the use of the Simplon-Loetschberg and Gotthard tunnels, before planning additional big and expensive basis tunnels through the Alps;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Urges the Commission to refrain from implementing and/or financing infrastructure projects that might prove harmful to the environment, natural resources, and public health, and points to the need to save the financial resources of the EU and Member States by making optimum use of existing infrastructure;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas, although EU funding was provided for the project, the new base tunnel on the Turin to Lyon Alpine route does not comply with the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 (TEN-T) and Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 (CEF), given that there are no bottlenecks involved, and whereas the same route is already served by a newly modernised railway line that will be able to cope with the expected increase in freight and passenger transport demand;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Davor ŠKRLEC, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Reminds the Commission of its 'Transport White Paper of 2011, Goal No. 3' to shift road freight onto other modes such as rail and invites the Commission in this regard to analyse the fall of the rail freight share through the Brenner during the last years and to undertake or support short term measures to stop this negative development;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Considers it a matter of priority to take action to reduce emissions of persistent organic pollutants in the region from both diffuse sources, such as transport, and point sources, such as industrial installations and incinerators;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to redefine transport planning and promote, as a matter of priority, a policy to develop transport infrastructure that is sustainable, inclusive and non-invasive for the region, preserving the latter and promoting it in terms of tourism, social cohesion and regional development, bearing in mind that, for planning purposes, priority should be given not to ensuring the shortest or fastest transport routes but to minimising the environmental impact thereof;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Considers that the new base tunnel on the Turin-Lyon alpine route is detrimental to health, the environment and the region itself, as well as being uneconomic; calls on the Commission and the Member States to bear in mind that the already existing railway line has recently been upgraded and is able to meet anticipated freight and passenger requirements;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Davor ŠKRLEC, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Emphasises that the Transport and Tourism Protocols within the Alpine Convention as ratified by the EU and the Alpine Member States, are a solid basis for the further sustainable development of cross-border transport and tourism policy in the macro-region;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. C~~onsiders it necessary to tap renewable and alternative energy source~~alls for priority to be given to developing renewable energy sources and to improving energy efficiency in all sectors, in addition to promoting the self- generation of energy and establishment of regional renewable energy distribution grids;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Davor ŠKRLEC, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that the connectivity and accessibility of the region should be improved and promoted by ensuring respect for the environment, the protection of water resources and the involvement of local populations, by fully engaging regional and local political actors as well as representative civil organisations and also by promoting referendums;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Member States forming part of the alpine region to cooperate in ensuring that transit fees are as uniform as possible and in line with European standards, especially for those countries that are compelled by their geographic location to cross others;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Insists on the involvement of Parliament in ~~the~~EUSALP govern~~ing bodies of the EUSALP~~ance and decision-making;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Maintains that further land use and occupation needs to be ~~regulated in order to ensure that land is used sustainably~~halted as a matter of urgency, also through policies aimed at urban renewal and sustainable forms of tourism such as the widespread provision of hotels;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points out that climate change is particularly significant for regions such as the Alps, whose morphology and natural habitats are particularly vulnerable; calls on the Commission and Member States accordingly to introduce sustainable transport policies in line with the Paris COP21 targets;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco VALLI, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls on the Commission to ensure easy and convenient access to documents both for European citizens and for the institutions, in order to ensure transparency regarding the use of public funds, and stresses that, in cases where access is being sought for reasons relating to health and the environment, this must always take priority over any considerations whatsoever relating to competition or commercial data privacy protection;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to invest in tourism infrastructure ~~and to facilitate sustainable access via public transport to tourist destinations such as ski resorts.~~, focusing on structures designed for passive energy efficiency coupled with low environmental impact and made using sustainable energy sources and local materials such as stone, as well as natural fibres (wood, hemp, etc.) for heat insulation, and to facilitate sustainable access via public transport to tourist destinations such as ski resorts, encouraging the use of transport powered by alternative energy sources with a view to preserving the environment and cutting pollutant emissions;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Commission to ensure easy and convenient access to documents both for European citizens and for the institutions, in order to ensure transparency regarding the use of public funds, and stresses that, in cases where access is being sought for reasons relating to health and the environment, this must always take priority over any considerations whatsoever relating to competition or commercial data privacy protection;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Davor ŠKRLEC, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to invest in tourism infrastructure and to facilitate sustainable access via public transport to tourist destinations such as ski resorts and cycling in combination with train travelling.

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Member States to repair and improve old disused trails for use by tourists, upgrading them and bringing them back into service, so as to prevent them from being abandoned and allowed to fall into disrepair and possibly hydrogeological destabilisation;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Davor ŠKRLEC, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines the importance of supporting networking and publishing of best practice examples of sustainable tourism initiatives, as it is for instance the case with the 'Alpine Pearls' network;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco ZULLO, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. ~~Maintains that~~Considers it important to apply the best environmental practice to protected areas ares a ~~testing-ground for best~~matter of priority, in order to acquire good practices that can be exported to all parts of the Alpine region and beyond;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on the Member States to promote interconnections and intermodal transport suited to the nature of the region concerned; calls on the to focus in particular on the TEN-T ports, stepping up their operations and their role in providing the alpine region with access to the Mediterranean;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the EIB, in cooperation with the Commission, to examine the possibility of setting up an investment platform for the Alpine region that would enable mobilisation of funding from public and private sources; calls for the creation of a pipeline project for the region which would attract investors;deleted

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco ZULLO, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Considers it necessary to develop land management plans that focus on light infrastructure for new sustainable transport modes, to implement policies for the sharing of goods and services and to promote connectivity in the less developed areas, also to promote the development of teleworking;

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls on the Member States and regions to ensure that less accessible areas can be also be reached and emergency assistance provided and that healthcare and first aid units are provided for areas where the transport situation is less favourable, taking into account their distance from major hospitals;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Calls on the Member States to step up cooperation and collaboration so as to improve exchanges of good practice;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Considers that innovation and new technologies, driven by smart specialisation strategies and financed by existing EU funding sources (e.g. the ERDF, the ESF, COSME, Horizon 2020 or Erasmus +), could help generate quality jobs and catalyse the establishment, upscaling and clustering of SMEs, which could, in turn, reverse the depopulation trend in Alpine areas; points, in particular, to the need to put forward examples of best practice in areas such as teleworking, e-commerce and the use of digital marketing channels that can help to diversify the macro-region's economy;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5e. Calls on the Member States and regional authorities to protect and preserve wildlife parks and reserves in the alpine region, devoting more attention to transport sustainability and imposing draconian and closely monitored air pollution limits;

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)

5f. Expresses its concern at the possibility of rail and road freight traffic stoppages being imposed by certain countries in a bid to contain the migration problem, which would have serious economic implications for the entire alpine region; calls on the Commission accordingly to monitor the situation with a view to ensuring the free movement of passengers and goods and preventing any possible harm to the transport sector.

2016/03/08
Committee: TRAN

2015/2324(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Marco ZULLO, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. ~~Believes that citizens and local businesses have to be involved in decision- making~~Stresses the need to ensure that strategic decisions concerning the area are taken only after widespread, proactive and transparent consultation of citizens and local businesses, also by direct online consultations.

2016/02/25
Committee: ENVI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Supports the diversification of tourism supply by such means as tourist theme parks and routes, food and wine tourism and sporting tourism, in order to prolong the tourist season, enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of tourist destinations, and promote new tourist activities that are better adapted to climate change and to the area's cultural and historical specificities;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Points to the urgent need to bring a halt to the intensification of land use, not least by implementing policies promoting urban renewal and sustainable tourism facilities, such as 'alberghi diffusi';

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the importance of improving transport and energy connectivity among the participating countries, including local, regional and cross-border transport and intermodal connections with the hinterland, also in order to attract new residents, assessing first and foremost, however, whether existing networks can be renovated and/or expanded;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Underlines the importance of connecting transport routes with other parts of Europe and the ~~relevance of interconnections with TEN-T corridor~~need to make optimum use of existing infrastructure and save the financial resources of the Union and the Member States; calls on the participating countries to focus their efforts on implementing projects that are ~~covered by the current TEN-T network~~not harmful to health, the environment and local development;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Maintains that the financing of new transport infrastructure should be conditional upon the modernisation and full exploitation of existing infrastructure, which is often under-utilised;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)

17b. Considers that the new base tunnel on the Turin-Lyon alpine route is particularly detrimental to health, the environment and the region itself, as well as being uneconomic; calls on the Commission and the Member States to bear in mind that the already existing railway line has recently been upgraded and is able to meet anticipated freight and passenger requirements;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Expresses its concern at the possibility of rail and road freight traffic stoppages being imposed by certain countries in a bid to contain the migration problem, which would have serious economic implications for the entire Alpine region; calls on the Commission accordingly to monitor the situation with a view to ensuring the free movement of passengers and goods and preventing any possible harm to the transport sector;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Stresses the importance of ensuring that measures are planned and implemented with a view to preventing hydrogeological risk and making the mountain areas of the macro-region safe, especially in those areas subject to frequent mudslides, landslides and flooding because of their specific geomorphology and/or indiscriminate human activity;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Takes the view that, because of its typical features and abundance of natural beauty, its history and landscape, the Alpine region could become a development model based on the concept of respect for the environment, its ecosystem and its cultural heritage, in which to experiment best practices, adopt indices to measure not only economic, but also social progress, and in which common goods, such as water, air, the forests and soil, are protected;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)

22c. Stresses the need to promote and support small and medium-sized mountain farms which, by using traditional techniques and production methods that exploit natural resources – such as pastures and different types of forage crops – in an integrated and sustainable way, produce products which have special quality characteristics, but which, on average, have higher costs and lower profits than intensive crops or farms;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 d (new)

22d. Points out that the Alps, after the Mediterranean Sea, are the second biodiversity hotspot in Europe and one of the major sources of water for the continent, and must be protected from their current extensive exploitation, from land use and pollution and from the consequences of climate change, by considerably increasing conservation activities;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Stresses the importance of identifying the sources and types of air pollution that are typical of the Alpine macro-region, such as industrial and diesel engine emissions in the Po Valley in northern Italy and woody biomass combustion, in order to take effective action by means of specific policies to drastically reduce them;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

23b. Considers it a matter of priority, in addition, to reduce emissions of persistent organic pollutants in the macro-region from both diffuse sources, such as transport, and point sources, such as industrial installations and incinerators, as well as those from the combustion of woody biomass for electricity production;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)

23c. Stresses the importance of healthy and stable mountain forests for the mountain ecosystem and for the vital protection they provide against avalanches, landslides and flooding;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Stresses the importance of supporting the development of the most efficient renewable energies in the region, ~~from hydro through solar and wind to the sustainable use of forest wood~~such as hydropower, solar and wind energy;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Recommends a sustainable use of forest timber which does not entail any reduction of the forest area or increase in atmospheric particulate matter;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Calls on the participating countries to continue their efforts to diversify energy supply sources and to develop the renewable sources available, such as solar and wind energy, within the energy production mix; underlines the sustainability and competitiveness of ~~hydropower plant~~small (mini, micro and pico) hydropower plants compared to large ones; calls on the participating countries to contribute to the ~~setting-up of well-function~~modernisation of existing electricity infrastructure networks in the macro- region;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Stresses that diversifying energy supply sources will not only improve the energy security of the macro-region, but will also bring more competition, with important benefits for the economic development of the region; calls for priority to be given, in the specific implementation of the macro-regional strategy, to developing renewable energy sources, promoting the self-generation of energy and improving energy efficiency in all sectors;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Stresses the importance of energy transport infrastructure being adequate for producing and consuming local energy, along the lines of smart grids;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Supports investment in energy infrastructure for both the production and the transport of electricity and gas, in line with the TEN-E network and in implementation of the concrete projects mentioned in the list of Projects of Energy Community Interest (PECIs);deleted

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2324(INI)

Marco ZULLO, Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Daniela AIUTO, Marco AFFRONTE, Tiziana BEGHIN, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Urges Member States to actively involve and consult all stakeholders in the decision-making procedures concerning the macro-region, particularly local communities, which must be able to exercise their right to protect their environment and health when these are endangered by economic activities and infrastructure projects that are even only potentially dangerous and polluting;

2016/04/27
Committee: REGI

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)

– whereas full transparency underpins citizens' trust in EU institutions, contributes to developing an understanding of the rights deriving from the legal system of the Union and awareness and knowledge of the EU decision-making process, including the correct implementation of administrative and legislative procedures,

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new)

– whereas the right of access to documents is a fundamental right, protected by the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Treaties and implemented by Regulation 1049/2001, with the aim, in particular, of ensuring that this right can be exercised as easily as possible and of promoting good administrative practices regarding access to documents by ensuring democratic scrutiny of the activities of the institutions and ensuring that they comply with the rules enshrined in the Treaties,

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Points out that the actions of the institutions and EU policies have to be based on participatory democracy~~, thus ensuring compliance with the principles of full transparency, sharing, and informing citizens accurately and in good time~~ and where possible on direct democracy, ensuring that decisions are taken as openly and as close to the citizens as possible, and thus in compliance with the principles of full transparency, sharing, and informing citizens accurately and in good time; when citizens’ participation in the decision-making process takes the form of public consultations, the institutions must take account of the outcome of those consultations;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Points out that it is the duty of the institutions to carry on a continuing open, transparent dialogue with citizens, associations representing them and civil society, so as to enable citizens themselves to bring scrutiny directly ~~to bear~~and effectively to bear on the legitimacy and effectiveness of governance, on measures taken and on the different stages of decision-taking –, and to allow~~ing~~ them to become more ~~active~~closely and directly involved in the decision- making process ~~– and on the legitimacy and effectiveness of governance and measures taken~~;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Points out that transparency and full access to documents held by the institutions have to be the rule, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, and that, as has already been laid down by the precedents consistently set by the EU Court of Justice, exceptions to that rule have to be properly interpreted, taking into account th~~at there is an~~e overriding public interest in disclosure and in the requirements of democracy, the closer involvement of citizens in the decision- making process, the legitimacy of governance, efficiency and accountability to citizens;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that in order to bring about a legitimate, accountable democratic political system complying with the rule of law, citizens must have the right to know about, and scrutinise,: – the actions of their representatives, once the latter have been elected or appointed to a public office; – the decision-making process, (including any documents circulated, individuals involved, votes cast, etc.); – the way in which public money is apportioned and spent, and the ensuing outcomes;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Deplores the fact that it is still difficult for citizens to gain access to information held by EU institutions, the reason being that there is no effective ~~citizen-oriented~~ interinstitutional policy geared to facilitating access to documents for citizens and based on complete and genuine transparency, communication, and direct democracy; urges the institutions to take a proactive attitude by disclosing as many of their documents as possible in as simple and accessible a way as possible for the public, having documents translated into all of the EU official languages, and establishing proper, simple and inexpensive information access arrangements, including digitally and electronically, allowing for the needs of people with disabilities;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Urges all the institutions, pending its desired revision, to apply Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 in the proper manner; calls in particular on the Council, in ~~particular~~cluding its preparatory bodies, to revise its rules, with a view to ensuring that all discussions, documents, and information are made public, and to produce transcripts of its public meetings; calls for Parliament to publish transcripts of, as well as the papers for and information on, meetings of its working groups, including coordinators’ meetings; calls also for meetings of the so-called Eurogroup to be placed on a formal footing so that transcripts of, as well as the papers for and all other information on, those meetings may be published in keeping with the public interest in transparency, which must take precedence over any exceptions intended to safeguard the decision-making process;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Points out that, as a result of the entry into force of the TEU and the TFEU, the right of access to documents covers all EU institutions, bodies, and agencies; believes, therefore, that ~~the substance of~~ Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 should be updated as a matter of urgency and its substance amended in the light of the Treaty provisions and the relevant case law of the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights; believes, in particular, that it is essential to broaden the regulation's scope to include all the European institutions it currently does not cover, such as the European Council, the European Central Bank, the Court of Justice and all the EU bodies and agencies;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Notes that the Treaty of Lisbon has done away with the reference to safeguarding the efficiency of legislative decision- taking; believes therefore that this exception, which still appears in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, is no longer admissible as it is incompatible with the new constitutional setup;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Welcomes the Ombudsman’s inquiry into the transparency of the legislative process, with a particular focus on ‘trilogues’, the established practice by which most EU legislation is adopted; urges the Ombudsman to make full use of her powers of investigation under the Treaties, with a view to enhancing the transparency of legislative and non- legislative work within the EU;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Points out that the use of trilogues is not consistent with the legislative procedure laid down in the Treaty and that conciliation committees may be used only at third reading as a last resort, in cases where Parliament and the Council are unable to reach agreement on a Commission legislative proposal;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the institutions involved to amend their own rules of procedure so as to ensure in future that negotiations will be transparent and, to that end, to allow meetings to be held in public and webstreamed and to arrange for agendas, minutes, and the main issues discussed to be published;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Welcomes the Commission’s intention of ~~proposing an interinstitutional agreement~~ establishing a mandatory ~~interinstitutional~~ register of interest group representatives operating within the institutions and calls for that matter to be given the highest priority; calls for that register to contain detailed information showing who is lobbying on behalf of whom, for what purpose and with what resources and funding; stresses that the register system should apply across the board and that the register should therefore be established and governed by a specific regulation, as an interinstitutional agreement is not the right legal instrument to use for this purpose;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Also calls on Parliament and the Council to follow the Commission practice, as established by the decision of 25 November 2014, by publishing information about contacts between lobbyists and Members of Parliament, their office staff, and their advisers, and between lobbyists and Member State representatives working at the Council; believes also that uniform, effective penalties should be laid down in order to deal with any abuses;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on all the institutions to publish information about the contacts of interest group representatives with their officials, including those of non-managerial level;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Points out that, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 and in order to guarantee full democratic and transparent parliamentary control, access should likewise be granted to documents produced when powers are delegated (delegated acts), since these make up a substantial portion of European legislation, for which reason adequate and transparent parliamentary and democratic control ought to be fully guaranteed; in this context, particularly deplores the lack of transparency of the European supervisory authorities (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA) because of the lack of involvement of the co-legislators; considers it disappointing that no single register of ~~delegated acts~~all second-level legislation has yet been established and calls on the Commission to set one up without delay;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Marco AFFRONTE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Notes that international agreements have binding force and an impact on EU legislation and points to the need for negotiations to be transparent throughout the entire process, implying that the institutions should be obliged to publish the negotiating brief conferred on the Commission simultaneously with its approval and before the negotiations begin; considers it regrettable that negotiations are secret and citizens have no access to information, but only to documents communicated to the press, thus giving rise to speculation and misconceptions about the negotiations; maintains that the public should be given access to all of the parties’ relevant negotiating documents, including documents on which the parties have already reached agreement, with the exception of those which are to be classified, with a clear justification on a case-by-case basis, in keeping with Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Points out to the Commission that it is required under Article 207 TFEU to inform Parliament fully and immediately at every stage while negotiations are taking place, and calls on the Council to consult Parliament before drafting the negotiating brief;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Calls for all documents relating to non-legislative procedures, such as binding measures, measures relating to internal organisation, administrative or budget documents or documents of a political nature (such as conclusions, recommendations or resolutions), to be rendered readily, and if possible directly, accessible in accordance with the principle of proper administration;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Deplores the lack of transparency regarding ~~infringement procedur~~letters of formal notice and infringement procedures against Member States; calls in particular for documents sent by the Commission to Member States in connection with such procedures, and the related replies, to be made accessible to the public; calls furthermore for information on the execution of judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union to be published proactively;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Believes that full data transparency and accessibility are essential to prevent and combat any abuse and fraud; in this context, calls on the Commission to make it compulsory to publish particulars of all recipients of money from the Structural Funds, including subcontractors;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – subparagraph 1 (new)

EU institutions and financial bodies

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – point 1 (new)

(1) Notes that in a change to its policy on transparency the ECB now publishes the minutes of meetings of the ECB Governing Council, but regrets that the ECB is still lagging far behind the world’s other central banks in this regard; awaits the implementation of further major measures to improve the transparency of its communication channels;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – point 2 (new)

(2) Believes that considerable progress can still be made through publication of the minutes of Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) meetings; hopes furthermore that in the future all documents concerning decisions taken in the Asset Quality Review process will be made public to guarantee a level playing field across the EU; hopes too that transparency requirements will also be applied to the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) due to start on 1 January 2016;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – point 3 (new)

(3) Is disappointed with the transparency policy applied by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); recalls that the ECB’s new transparency policy allows it to establish confidentiality procedures in order to keep secret internal investigations into irregularities such as corruption, infiltration by organised criminal groups or maladministration; calls for a prompt review of their transparency policies and asks in particular that the EIB make public information on its beneficiaries and on the subcontractors who benefit from its funding;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Laura AGEA, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 – point 4 (new)

(4) Is critical of the lack of transparency within some institutions that have taken crucial economic decisions affecting EU citizens, such as the Eurogroup and the Ecofin Council configuration; emphasises the urgency of making these meetings public and transparent, and calls for the relevant institutions to release the documents concerned; is critical of the mismanagement of the ‘Greek crisis’ and calls attention to the fact that the Troika operated outside the limits laid down in the Treaties; is critical too of the failure to publish documentation on decisions relating to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM); asks that the Troika’s modus operandi be assessed to clarify the responsibilities attributable to the institutions involved and ensure democratic legitimacy in the adoption and implementation of the rescue programmes;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Selection of staff for the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point 1 (new)

(1) Regrets that the procedures for selecting EU institution staff are not fully transparent and calls in particular for the Staff Regulations to be revised, particularly with reference to ‘Annex III - Competitions’;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point 2 (new)

(2) Considers that competitions for entry to the European civil service ought to be entirely based on criteria of openness and transparency in order to combat corruption and conflicts of interest;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point 3 (new)

(3) Considers it essential that the EU agencies apply a common policy on conflicts of interest; notes that in some cases the policy applied to date includes provisions concerning publication of the CVs and declarations of interests of the Director and of senior management; observes with concern however that the obligation to publish CVs and declarations of interest does not apply to experts; calls on the agencies to extend this obligation to experts;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2287(INI)

Laura FERRARA, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Ignazio CORRAO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Dario TAMBURRANO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI, Marco ZULLO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco AFFRONTE, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – point 4 (new)

(4) Is disappointed by the lack of transparency in the appointment of EFSI managers; calls for transparency in appointment procedures and for information on CVs and declarations of interests to be made public;

2015/12/02
Committee: LIBE

2015/2255(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas social dumping has a greater impact in social and cultural environments in which there is little knowledge of workers’ rights and in which women have greater difficulty in entering the labour market;

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas so many migrant women and girls arriving in Europe are forced to accept inadequate working conditions in economic and social conditions that vary from country to country and are often inappropriate for the work done;

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Member States to adopt specific measures with the aim of professionalising and qualifying, in a harmonised manner, work such as housekeeping, which today is often done illegally, also because of a cultural heritage that hinders change;

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Expresses concern about the impact that bilateral and multilateral agreements, such as TTIP and TiSA, might have on social standards in the labour market in Europe, particularly for women, and calls for specific safeguards to be provided in this regard against all forms of social dumping;

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States always to take into consideration, in their laws, the social impact of the harmonisation of existing rules and the implementation of new provisions, in order to eliminate all forms of social dumping, with specific reference to aspects relating to women;

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls on the Commission to carry out ex ante assessments of the impact that structural reforms have in Europe on social and labour conditions, with clear reference to aspects relating to women;

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2255(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make provision for equal minimum salaries throughout Europe, for various types of work, in order to prevent social dumping;

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point ii a (new)

(iia) to ensure that substantial protection is guaranteed for working and environmental standards, while combating all forms of social dumping;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Believes that the Commission should monitor and, three years after the entry into force of TiSA, evaluate the impact of the agreement on gender equality between men and women and on respect for fundamental human rights;

2015/10/21
Committee: FEMM

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Believes in any case that all Member States signatory to TiSA should commit themselves to ensuring respect for gender equality between men and women and respect for fundamental rights, with regards to the liberalisation and opening- up of national and local markets as well;

2015/10/21
Committee: FEMM

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Regrets that women are poorly represented within the European trade sector and in third country relations, and that scant attention is paid to ensuring that men and women have equal opportunities to access services;

2015/10/21
Committee: FEMM

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Regrets that the terminology used within the various trade agreements currently being negotiated by the EU (CETA, TTIP and TiSA) is not consistent;

2015/10/21
Committee: FEMM

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iii a (new)

(iiia) to exclude from the application of TiSA all services relating to public transport and postal services, where the latter are public;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls for TiSA to include a specific section on protecting the rights of women and promoting their greater and more successful participation in trade and service activities, with the inclusion of a list of gender-specific indicators;

2015/10/21
Committee: FEMM

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Calls for TiSA to include a review clause, in order that any decisions made concerning the liberalisation of services may be reconsidered, including in light of an evaluation having been carried out on respect for gender equality between men and women within trade agreements;

2015/10/21
Committee: FEMM

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point iv a (new)

(iva) to take into consideration Parliament’s concern regarding the adoption of TiSA, which could seriously undermine the EU’s expectations and the safeguard measures relating to the protection of its citizens’ data and their transfer to third countries;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Strongly recommends that the EU exercise its political will in order to fully exclude public services, and in particular all social services, be it at a European, national or regional level, both publicly and privately funded, from the scope of TiSA and to include a gold standard clause for these services within all trade agreements in order to safeguard their quality;

2015/10/21
Committee: FEMM

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v a (new)

(va) to ensure the right of governments to organise and regulate the supply of services in the transport sector, taking into account social and environmental criteria as well as the public interest;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v b (new)

(vb) to remember that in the transport sector it is of vital importance to respect those aspects relating to safety and social welfare that could be affected by the provision of services by operators from third countries who are unqualified and inadequate compared to EU standards;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v c (new)

(vc) to exclude completely from the agreement all public services, whether they be publicly or privately funded, and to include a protection clause (‘gold standard clause’) for these services in order to safeguard their quality;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point v d (new)

(vd) to ensure compliance with the principle of reciprocity between the markets of different countries, which should be based on protecting safety standards, the public interest, social welfare and labour;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vi

(vi) to seize this opportunity to embed current legislation and practices for maritime transport in a legally-binding international text that will prevent future protectionist rules being introduced by the parties;deleted

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point vii a (new)

(viia) to ensure, by means of a safeguard clause based on a clear and unambiguous definition of prudential measures, the full right of Member States to adopt restrictive measures which run counter to TiSA when there is a need to protect the public and consumer interest, financial stability, monitoring efficiency and the minimisation of social costs;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Regrets the lack of transparency which has hitherto been evident and the fact that Parliament did not have the opportunity to express its own position before the Council adopted its negotiating mandate;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls for all Members of the European Parliament to receive the documentation concerning the TiSA negotiation and calls for all negotiating texts to be made public;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2233(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Calls for withdrawal from the TiSA negotiations if Parliament’s recommendations are not respected;

2015/11/12
Committee: TRAN

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas in countries where capital punishment is practised, methods that are equivalent to torture (such as stoning to death) and involve bodily humiliation (such as public hanging) are used to execute women, in order to intimidate other women;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas many women and girls are denied access to high-quality education and many are forced to abandon their studies when they marry or have children;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Ba. whereas three-fifths of the billion people living below the poverty line are women1 a; __________________ 1a Source: http://www.aidos.it/files/1226588271Front es_Introduzione.pdf

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)

Bc. whereas women and girls account for two-thirds of the 960 million people around the world who are illiterate1 a; __________________ 1a Source: http://www.aidos.it/files/1226588271Front es_Introduzione.pdf

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas the surge in terrorism and armed conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has led to a significant increase in these forms of violence, with rape and enslavement of women and girls being used systematically as a weapon of war, and trafficking in human beings, especially women and children, as a source of financing terrorist activities; ~~whereas the participation of women in peacebuilding processes and democratic reform is critical to their success;~~

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the participation of women in peacebuilding processes and democratic reform is critical to the success of those processes;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas, according to UNICEF, more than 500 000 women die in childbirth each year around the world1 a; __________________ 1a Source: http://www.unicef.org/factoftheweek/inde x_52778.html

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas women continue to be trafficked for prostitution, in most cases under conditions tantamount to slavery, as their identity papers are taken away and they are told that, if they attempt to rebel, harsh reprisals will be taken against their families;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital E

E. whereas in s~~ome~~till too many countries around the world women ~~still~~ do not enjoy the same civil and political rights as men;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reiterates that religious, cultural and traditional differences can never justify ~~violence~~any form of violence, in particular against women and girls, such as female genital mutilation (FGM), early and forced marriages, domestic violence ~~and~~, honour killings and other forms of torture, such as those that occur when sentences to death by stoning are carried out;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Points out that, with a view to ensuring that women play a leading role in decision-making and peace efforts, they must be given free and proper access to higher education, on a par with men, and action must be taken to prevent them being forced to abandon their studies, as they often are when they get married and have children;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for the EU to ensure that fundamental human rights safeguards, in particular for women and girls, are written in to its economic and trade agreements with third countries, and to review such agreements in cases where those rights are not upheld;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Deplores the fact that in some third countries marriages between adults and minors are legal and in some cases involve brides under the age of nine (child brides);

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Regards under-age marriages as fundamental human rights violations that affect all aspects of the lives of the girls involved, jeopardising their education and thus limiting their prospects, endangering their health and increasing the risk of them suffering violence and abuse;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Draws attention to the need for women to be afforded proper health care, free of charge, during childbirth, in order to reduce the still extremely high number of mothers and babies who die in childbirth in many third countries as a result of inadequate or non-existent health care;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Deplores the fact that in some countries extreme and fundamentalist laws and social, cultural and religious ideologies are preventing women from taking up certain occupations, forcing them to dress in a way that is humiliating for them as women and as human beings and placing restrictions on them engaging in everyday activities and conduct that are open to men (for example, driving and cycling);

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for the EU to promote, in its relations with third countries, protection for women who decided to adopt customs and traditions other than those of the societies and families from which they come, so that they may become fully empowered and free to make their own choices;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Deplores the fact that in some third countries homosexuality is a crime, and one that is in some cases punishable by death;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Points out that even in the West women are no strangers to violence, much of it domestic violence at the hands of their partners, or to labour and pay discrimination;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2229(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Calls for the EU to pay proper attention to, and step up protection for, women migrants, and to give them the assistance they require and protect them against human trafficking and exploitation for prostitution by criminal organisations, which occur all too frequently;

2015/10/23
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the austerity policies implemented by both the Commission and the Member States, in addition to the economic crisis of the past few years, have affected women in particular, exacerbating their state of poverty and increasingly excluding them from the labour market;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas 123 million people are currently at risk of poverty in Europe and the number of women is permanently higher than that of men, with some 65.1 million women against 58.8 million men;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas poverty has a different impact on women and men; whereas, unemployment rates being equal, women are more likely to fall below the poverty line than men;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas, very often, women who intend to set up a business have difficulty in gaining access to credit because traditional financial intermediaries are reluctant to grant loans, as they consider women entrepreneurs to be more exposed to risk and less inclined to make their businesses grow and to make profitable investments;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas women often take the responsibility for the care of elderly or ill family members as well as for children, resulting in their lower participation in the labour market, also through long periods of inactivity, which consequently diminishes their overall income; whereas the establishment of high-quality childcare services and facilities at affordable prices reduces the risk of impoverishment; whereas few Member States have achieved or surpassed the Barcelona objectives;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the introduction of a minimum income would enable women living in poverty to have some basic support for their living expenses and to be able to look after their children and loved ones;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas behind female poverty there is often a lack of education and meritocracy as regards access to jobs, which means that women, despite being better educated than men, have greater difficulties in entering the labour market and finding tasks that are commensurate with their skills, thus remaining unemployed;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas investing in policies to support women not only reduces the poverty of the women themselves but also improves their families' living conditions, in particular those of their children;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Deeply deplores the austerity policies pursued by the European Union which, together with the economic crisis, are helping to increase the rate of poverty, particularly among women;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to develop and utilise the available financial instruments, including the Social Investment Package, to meet the Barcelona objectives; calls, in this context, for the Social Fund and the ERDF to be ~~improv~~optimised, for priority to be given, in the use of social investments and the EFSI regulation, to the establishment of public ~~and private childcar~~childcare and assistance facilities, and for the flexibility mechanism introduced in the context of the Stability and Growth Pact to be used for financing of childcare and assistance facilities; proposes th~~e creation of a specific line in the EU budget to fund~~at the Commission allocate specific resources, through a co- financing mechanism, to promote incentives for specific areas where there is a shortage of childcare and assistance facilities and where the female employment rate is extremely low;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote policies to facilitate access to credit, also through microcredit instruments, in order to support and develop female entrepreneurship;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Regrets that the proposal to revise the directive on maternity leave has been withdrawn and believes that specific measures need to be taken in all Member States to improve the work-life balance for women;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for there to be a move towards the in~~dividualisation of rights in social equity polic~~troduction of an income tax splitting system for families, which takes into account family sizes, in order to promote greater social equity;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Member States to monitor the rights of female workers, who increasingly work in low-paid jobs and are victims of discrimination;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Points out that there are new categories of women in poverty, consisting of young professional women, especially in certain Member States whose tax policies do not take into account the difficulties encountered by these categories, and which therefore condemn a large portion of young female graduates to a precarious working life and an income that rarely manages to rise above the poverty line (the 'new poor');

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses that in all Member States the risk of poverty and social exclusion among children is strongly linked to their parents’ level of education, and in particular to that of their mothers, and their parents’ situation in the labour market and their social conditions; stresses the need to ~~establish a f~~support, with targeted programme~~work of support for~~s, the ongoing education of teenage mothers, for whom leaving school early is a first step towards poverty;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on the Member States to promote policies to strengthen and improve education, especially university education, and to invest more in training, in lifelong learning programmes and information campaigns, ensuring that meritocracy prevails in the subsequent integration of women into the labour market;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Notes that the absence of a partner income is a major contributing factor to the poverty trap and to the social exclusion of women; notes the often precarious situation of divorced women ~~who are heads of household,~~to whom judges have granted custody of children and for whom an adequate level of maintenance should be defined;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Points out that the new technologies should be regarded as a fundamental tool for creating new jobs and as an opportunity to bring women out of poverty;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Points out that promoting free access to the Internet can remove all discrimination between those who have the economic means to access the Internet and those who do not, enabling women to obtain a better work-life balance, by teleworking, for example;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2228(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Encourages the Member States and the Commission to collect gender-segregated statistics in order to develop exchanges of best practice on legislative and budgetary instruments for combating poverty;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas many women and families live below the poverty line in that they do not have enough income to meet their basic needs, as a result of the worsening crisis and increasing household costs;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas a basic income would enable families to escape poverty and would help women in particular to bridge the economic and social divide between them and men;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)

Bc. whereas gender-related tax problems are widespread, and whereas the failure to introduce tax concessions and favourable tax conditions is worsening the situation of women in the family and in society;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)

Bd. whereas large families with dependent under-age children incur greater costs and burdens which could force them into poverty;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)

Be. whereas the children of poor families are often taken into care, resulting in increased spending on childcare facilities and emotional trauma for the children separated from their parents;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas levels of welfare support differ from one Member State to another, and whereas that support does not always guarantee an adequate level of assistance, in particular where the elderly, children and persons with a disability are concerned; whereas this state of affairs increases the costs and workload borne by women, who are forced to choose between caring for their loved ones and their own careers;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Expresses deep concern at the Commission’s assessment that the 2020 anti-poverty target ‘seems out of reach’ and insists on fresh political impetus for dprasctical, resolute and binding action to tackle poverty in the EU; calls on the Member States to ensure that national poverty strategies are gender mainstreamed and address gender inequality;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to issue guidelines to the Member States with a view to guaranteeing minimum welfare standards, gradually raising the level of those standards and offering better assistance to the elderly, children and persons with a disability;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Member States to safeguard families and the role of women within families by introducing a basic income which guarantees that they remain above the poverty line;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for tax relief for large and one- parent families, which statistics show are most likely to suffer poverty;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Emphasises the need for the banking system, which in recent years has received significant amounts of public money to safeguard its liquidity, to offer women, and in particular women with children, easier access to credit, in the form of favourable interest rates and streamlined procedures;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2223(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls on the Member States to introduce direct subsidies for poor families, so that the children in such families can be raised with dignity, rather than being taken into care;

2015/12/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union states that 'equality between women and men must be ensured in all areas, including employment, work and pay';

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas a balance between women and men in worker representation on boards can help to improve working life and private life, in particular for women workers;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes is a matter of justice and is therefore necessary in order better to reflect the composition of the workforce in companies;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas one of the objectives of the Beijing Platform is to ensure equal access and full participation of women in decision-making processes;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)

Ae. whereas true women's empowerment should be achieved exclusively by recognising women's merit and not by adopting mandatory quotas which require the presence of women regardless of their ability;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and on all the Members States to ~~introduc~~promote legislative measures ~~requiring quotas in order~~with a view to increaseing gender balance in worker representation at board level; calls for a monitoring system to be put in place ~~and any non-compliance with quota requirements to result in sanctions consistent with national company laws~~;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Takes the view that the problem of unequal representation of women and men in the workplace depends primarily on a cultural and social heritage that repeats old patterns and models that penalise women and that, therefore, action needs to be taken chiefly by taking measures to raise awareness among those involved in working processes;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Takes the view that the adoption of fixed quotas is not the optimal solution to the problem of women's representation in the workforce and that a system of rewards and incentives should, rather, be practised when giving more space to women, albeit without disregarding meritocracy;

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2222(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Asks the Commission and the Member States to step up their capacity for collecting gender-segregated statistics about worker board-level representatives, making use of the work of the EIGE and Eurostat, in order to monitor the number of women and men in key decision-making positions so as to ensure the promotion of gender equality at board level in Europe.

2016/02/25
Committee: FEMM

2015/2187(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Agency to explain why the number of meetings of experts and working groups was doubled from 13 in 2013 to 26 in 2014, while, over the same period, the number of studies undertaken fell from 14 to 8; calls account to be taken also of the relative increase in costs;

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2187(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Regrets the delays in the procurement of surveys and studies that resulted in large amounts being carried over in respect of Title III (operational expenditure), totalling EUR 1.8 million (54 %);

2015/12/17
Committee: FEMM

2015/2179(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. ~~Takes note of~~Criticises the increase of the carry- overs for Titles II (24,53%) and III (37,93%) compared with the previous year, in particular with the level of committed appropriations carried over for the operational Title III at EUR 2,2 million, due to delayed operational and IT projects; calls the Agency to improve the budget execution and reduce this level to the indicative ceilings established by the Court of Auditors (20% for Title II and 30% for Title III); calls the European Commission to address the specific common problems that Agencies face as regards carry-overs;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2179(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Criticises the fact that the Agency has two seats – in Lille and Valenciennes – and thus has higher running costs than it needs to; deplores the fact that, to date, no attempt has been made to address this issue and bring all of the Agency's activities under one roof;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2179(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Highlights the Agency’s role in ensuring the safety and interoperability of European rail system; notes furthermore that a review of the Agency’s role (e.g. one-stop- shop for vehicle authorisation and safety certification) and powers forms part of the Fourth Railway Package; stresses that as it receives greater responsibilities, the Agency will need to be given the necessary financial, material and human resources to perform its new and additional tasks comprehensively and efficiently;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2179(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 10

10. Acknowledges that the selection and engagement procedures carried out in 2014 led to 96% of the Establishment Plan being completed; asks the Agency to explain why the number of 'other staff' has risen from 15 to 19; welcomes the reduction of the previous high turnover in the operational staff and expects that the adoption of the new ERA Regulation will allow the Agency to have appropriate balance of short- and long-term staff, in particular in operational units, in order to ensure business continuity;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2175(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the Agency has further reduced the overall level of carry-overs of committed appropriations from EUR 7,2 million (8 %) in 2013 to EUR 5,9 million (6,2%) in 2014; invites the Agency to continue in its effort to reduce carry-overs in order to fully comply with the budgetary principle of annuality; ~~notes, however, that 38,1% of this carry-over is due to Title III (operational spending) and that this is justified by the multiannual nature of the Agency's operations~~deplores the fact that carry-overs of committed appropriations for Title III (operational spending) equalling EUR 2,0 million which is 38,1% are too high and contrary to the budgetary principle of annuality; recalls that the Court had already noted this state of affairs in the 2013 financial year; welcomes the fact that the Agency ~~remains~~continues to be committed to still further reducing the level of carry-overs;

2016/01/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2175(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Notes~~Deplores the fact that in 2014 three procedures regarding framework contracts were launched too late; ~~not~~deplores also that in order to ensure business continuity two contracts were extended, thereby affecting fair competition, and for one contract a negotiated procedure, not complying with the Financial Regulation, was launched; invites therefore the Agency to ~~improve~~shed light on the reasons for the errors in its procurement planning and to improve it, particularly in respect of framework contracts;

2016/01/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2174(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Regrets that the commitment execution in 2014 is below the 95% target of the Commission, resulting in the penalty applied by the Commission on the Draft Budget 2016; calls on the Agency to state the reasons for the failure to meet the 95% target; urges the Agency to improve the budget execution and reduce this level to the ceilings established by Commission;

2016/01/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2174(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Deplores the continuing failure to complete the corrective action required in the light of the Court’s comment in 2012 on accounting procedures and information relating to internally generated intangible assets; calls on the Agency to explain the reasons for this failure and take all appropriate steps to ensure the utmost transparency;

2016/01/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Regrets that no hearing of the Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, took place before the parliamentary Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT);

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Is concerned about the budget cuts in the transport sector that were subsequently made in order to establish the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and that there continues to be an unequal distribution of funding from a geographical point of view;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Regrets the continuing use of transport funds for major projects that have a significant and detrimental impact on the land that is not commensurate with real benefits for the population, health and the environment and does not take into account the will of the local people;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses that the EU’s economic situation still shows there to be many weaknesses as regards gender equality;

2016/01/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Points to the considerable difficulties women experience in accessing credit, which has serious repercussions in terms of their personal and business prospects;

2016/01/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Emphasises that difficulties in accessing credit adversely affect women and serve to widen the gap between their wages and pensions and those of men;

2016/01/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission to produce an assessment of the impact that EU financing has had on promoting gender equality;

2016/01/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Commission to make public all its ex ante assessments and to disclose social, health and environmental impacts;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on all the EU institutions to assess whether there is genuine parity as regards the distribution of posts within the institutions and bodies of the EU, providing gender-by-gender statistics on staff numbers and grades as part of the discharge procedure.

2016/01/14
Committee: FEMM

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission to make public all the documentation relating to the Lyon-Turin project and to consider submitting a proposal to make it compulsory for all accounting and planning documents concerning major infrastructure work to be published, including documentation on subcontractors;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Regrets that the Commission has so far denied access to documents relating to projects in the transport sector that have been financed by EU funds;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2154(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco VALLI, Marco ZANNI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Takes the view that the Commissioner should ensure total transparency in the management of funds, ensuring that the public interest is protected and always, in all circumstances, takes precedent over any private interest;

2016/01/20
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Notes that better access is needed for consumers and businesses to online goods and services and that this can be achieved only by improving the high-speed internet network so that it reaches all citizens in Europe;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Takes the view that urban public transport should provide citizens with easy and fast access to services on all local forms of public transport;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Welcomes the establishment of digital platforms to link supply and demand more closely in the transport and tourism sector, thereby encouraging the sharing economy;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Points out that the digitisation of transport services leads to savings in terms of costs to citizens as well as greater efficiency and speed;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Takes the view that the establishment of a digital single market in Europe is a significant driving force for the promotion of tourism through digital services which should be made available to all travellers at stations, ports, airports and other transport interchange platforms;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Calls on the Member States to promote the digitisation of transport services for users with disabilities, so that such services are a help and not a further hindrance;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Points out that digital applications relating to the transport sector should be easily comprehensible and available in all EU languages to ensure that they are as accessible and can be as widely used as possible, including by elderly or less educated population groups;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that confidence and solid data protection are prerequisites for creating the Digital Single Market; emphasises, in this context, the need to ensure high standards as regards data capacity, accessibility and security by providing a comprehensive, reliable and interoperable data infrastructure and by ensuring the security and credibility of data collection, processing, usage and storage; calls on the Commission to ensure maximum transparency as regards data protection, so that consumer data are not misused by the Big Data giants;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on Member States and local municipalities to make provision for and always to include the digital dimension of transport when drawing up urban mobility plans, ensuring that it is fully accessible and available to users;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Points out that the use of new applications for smartphones, tablets and computers can bring considerable added value to the development of European tourism and enhance the use of transport; in this regard, the Commission and the Member States should work together to identify common standards that would ensure fair competition and considerably reduce existing red tape;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Welcomes the introduction in the transport sector of applications to enable car-sharing, car-pooling, bike-sharing and other forms of shared transport;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Points out that greater digitisation of freight delivery systems in Europe would make parcel transport services more efficient and traceable across borders;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)

4e. Calls on the Commission to consider setting up European digital systems to implement medical and health care with improved transport accessibility in hard- to-reach areas;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2147(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission to review the establishment and optimise its management of EU tourism web portals, which have hitherto not given any added value to European tourism but have only been an ongoing cost to EU taxpayers;

2015/09/23
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Maintains that when funding is to be provided under the EU budget, the following principles have to be observed: – monitoring to ensure proper use of funds from the moment when they are first allocated until the works have been completed, with ex ante and ex post checks; guaranteeing transparency and legality so as to prevent criminal infiltration, and using funding in accordance with European regulations; – environmental impact assessment by means of independent studies, the object being to reduce the impact on the environment and the landscape to a minimum; – involving local people, for example through referendums, in order to assess how the areas concerned are being affected by the works financed.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Points out that Parliament has less than the other institutions in the way of a guarantee of access to official documents concerning the EU budget; calls, therefore, for the interinstitutional agreements to be revised with a view to providing the Members of Parliament, who represent European citizens, with proper access to documents, even when these contain ‘sensitive’ information.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Recommends that in its financial planning, the Commission give priority to funding for forms of sustainable mobility with a view to reducing pollutant emissions in keeping with the Europe 2020 targets and the transport White Paper.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Maintains that the Commission should emphasise the strategy of promoting public rather than private transport, and carriage by rail rather than by road; accordingly considers it necessary to provide funding and establish best practice, extending also to local authorities, so as to enable public transport to be made free of charge to residents.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls on the Commission to provide for budget items to finance innovative technology applications enabling the carriage of goods by road to be properly monitored and supervised so as to prevent any unlawful carriage and combat social dumping and illegal cabotage.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Points out that the financial transparency of agencies needs to be improved, not least as regards the actual tasks which they perform; considers that appointments should be made on the basis of merit and by public procedures, with published selection criteria and ceilings on salaries.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Points out that agency costs need to be reviewed in the light of the current economic crisis and the sacrifices that people are being asked to make; calls, in addition, for dual headquarters, where they still exist, to be merged into one.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Believes that the Commission should reassess the data on, and the feasibility of, works which over the years have proved, objectively speaking, to be useless and harmful, whether because of the poor economic returns, or because of criminal infiltration, or because of the serious impact on the environment and public health, one such case being the Turin- Lyon section of the TEN-T Mediterranean Corridor.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Deplores the fact that the Commission is still not allocating enough funding for the tourism sector, even though it could become a major asset to the European economic recovery.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2132(BUD)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Believes that the TEN-T networks, including the financial aspects, should be reviewed with a view to incorporating particularly important routes which have hitherto been excluded, for example the Italian Adriatic stretch on the Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor.

2015/08/06
Committee: TRAN

2015/2129(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas prostitution worldwide involves some 40-42 million people, 75% of whom are aged between 13 and 25; whereas research indicates that child sexual abuse mostly affects girls (prevalence rates are 13.4 % for girls and 5.7 % for boys) whereas the gender aspect must be included in the prevention of and protection against child sexual abuse;

2017/05/22
Committee: FEMM

2015/2129(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas sexual exploitation is closely linked to prostitution and trafficking in human beings; whereas prostitution-related earnings are estimated at around USD 186 000 billion and are used to fund criminal organisations;

2017/05/22
Committee: FEMM

2015/2129(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas victims of sexual abuse run serious physical and psychological risks that can affect their private and social lives;

2017/05/22
Committee: FEMM

2015/2129(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas statistics show that 12% of websites are pornographic websites in which pornographic videos involving children can sometimes also be hidden; whereas anyone, regardless of age, can have free access to these sites and download all the videos they want;

2017/05/22
Committee: FEMM

2015/2129(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Member States to properly monitor the internet in order to curb so-called ‘revenge porn’ promptly and effectively; calls on the Member States to introduce a range of legislative policies to prevent and, where necessary, punish, those who commit this kind of offence;

2017/05/22
Committee: FEMM

2015/2129(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls on the Member States, in cooperation with the judicial and police authorities, to improve parental control systems through the use of new technologies (especially apps for smartphones) in order to protect children more effectively;

2017/05/22
Committee: FEMM

2015/2129(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to fund awareness-raising and education campaigns in secondary schools, concerning the importance of respecting one’s own dignity and privacy and that of others (considering that many teenagers voluntarily publish sexually explicit images and/or videos because they are unable to assess the potential consequences of putting such material online, or underestimate those consequences);

2017/05/22
Committee: FEMM

2015/2129(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to legislate with a view to convicting and punishing all travellers who return from a holiday taken for sexual purposes and involving minors;

2017/05/22
Committee: FEMM

2015/2129(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to convict and punish all tour operators which promote sex tourism, in particular that involving minors;

2017/05/22
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas it is acknowledged that human trafficking is 'the slavery of our times' and a major source of funding for organised crime (around EUR 6 billion in 2015 alone, according to Europol estimates) and Islamic State terrorist groups, yielding high profits for low risks;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the main purpose of human trafficking is sexual exploitation, accounting for 53 % of victims, of which 97 % are women; whereas it may assume different forms, either visible (street prostitution) or invisible(in brothels, private homes or nightclubs);

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas, according to Eurostat data, human trafficking takes place largely within EU borders, 65 % of the victims being European citizens; whereas such activities are focused on a number of hotspots, including migrant registration centres in Germany, France and Belgium;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the women and girls 'recruited' for human trafficking are lured by promises of stable employment and better living conditions;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas Europol studies have shown that that criminal gangs are able to make use of new digital technologies to attract victims by means of false online vacancy advertisements;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas sexual exploitation, like any other activity, is fuelled by demand and if no-one were willing to pay for sexual services, prostitution and human trafficking could no longer exist;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Member States to make use of properly structured victim interview techniques to help achieve a precise reconstruction of events without at the same time placing psychological pressure on victims who are already frightened and confused;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Calls on the Member States to use properly trained female staff to interview victims in order to help them more effectively, both physically and psychologically, by putting them at ease in providing information;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on Member States to monitor websites more effectively, so as to ensure the prompt identification of those that lend themselves to links with criminal gangs, without restricting or criminalising the web, but using its enormous potential to disseminate good practices and raise awareness of human trafficking issues;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to work together to create gender-sensitive training programmes for persons coming in contact with victims of THB in an official capacity, including police officers, border officers, judges, magistrates, lawyers, front-line medical staff ~~and social worke~~, social workers and psychological counsellors; stresses that training should include detection of victims, the formal identification process and appropriate, gender-specific assistance for victims;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Calls on the Member States to adopt the ‘Nordic model' to combat sexual exploitation, particularly since studies have shown that, in countries such as Sweden and Norway where the purchase of sexual services is a criminal offence, prostitution and human trafficking are on the wane;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Calls on the Member States to provide legal and psychological assistance to all of those who either self-identify, or meet an adequate number of the criteria for identification, as victims of THB, to help them access their rights, compensations and/or legal redress; ;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. Asks that the Member States collect more detailed and up to date data by compiling reliable statistical information gathered from all main actors, by ensuring that the data is disaggregated by gender, age, type of exploitation (within the subsets of types of THB), country of origin and destination, and by including internally trafficked people, to better assess the gender dimension and recent trends in THB, as well as by collecting data on recovery and reflection periods, residence permits and victim compensation; calls on the Members States to ensure that national rapporteurs play a more significant role in the coordination of data collection initiatives, in close cooperation with relevant civil society organisations active in this field;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2118(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)

43a. Calls on the various EU agencies such as Eurojust, Europol, CEPOL, EASO, EIGE, FRA and Frontex to cooperate more effectively in combating human trafficking both inside and outside the Union;

2016/03/02
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas in many cases the problems encountered by women in entrepreneurship are due to diffuse cultural factors and prejudices which exist in various Member States;

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas the greater difficulty that women face in comparison with men in obtaining credit from financial institutions in order to launch their own businesses is often due to the fact that their reliability is called into question by prejudices regarding their training and their way of conducting business, because it has been statistically demonstrated that, in comparison with men in similar positions, women entrepreneurs have less propensity to take risks and are less concerned with business expansion and growth, which is seen as incompatible with the requirements of private life, which influence women enormously in their business decisions;

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

Kb. whereas very often women who request access to credit are ‘fronts’ and not the real owners of the undertaking, for the sole purpose of securing financial concessions and advantageous conditions from credit institutions and European, national and regional public administrations;

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)

Pa. whereas in most cases women entrepreneurs operate in sectors which are secondary from the point of view of economic returns and competitiveness on the market;

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q a (new)

Qa. whereas the need to reconcile working time with family needs is one of the needs most commonly felt by women entrepreneurs, to say nothing of the difficulties of access to continuing training and assistance services;

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the European Union to invest in the creation of support structures for women entrepreneurs to provide child care and care of elderly relatives and the family, improving and facilitating access to basic services (such as crèches) and various work opportunities (such as flexible working hours);

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Considers that European networks of women entrepreneurs should create a European and national network to facilitate and assist women in seeking financing and in advice services for ease of access;

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Considers that easier access to financing should be provided for women entrepreneurs in innovative and sustainable sectors, with special reference to those in ICT, construction and transport, where men are in the majority; calls in this respect for greater monitoring to avoid phenomena whereby women are used by men as ‘fronts’ in order to secure financing on easier terms;

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2111(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the European Union to invest in programmes to provide continuing training for women, both workers and entrepreneurs, constantly bringing their skills up to date and ensuring quality professional development, with particular reference to the commercial sector;

2015/10/26
Committee: FEMM

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. Whereas the development of robotics will bring ~~positive effects for~~benefits to the European Union economy ~~but~~and also ~~for~~to the daily life of individuals; whereas, however, at the same time it involves structural risks which it would be unwise to ignore; whereas all robotics ~~and~~, artificial intelligence technology and related innovative disciplines have to be developed, monitored and used with due regard for the law and fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights (CFR), in particular for the rights of human dignity, data and metadata protection, privacy, liberty and security;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Daniela AIUTO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Laura FERRARA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. takes view that the impact of automated vehicles on enhancing transport safety might potentially be a major one, since human errors are currently responsible for about 90% of road accidents; notes however that it will be impossible for automated vehicles to eliminate all accidents, which raises questions of responsibility for car accidents and generates, amongst other things, the need for new insurance models and new insurance funds;

2016/10/07
Committee: TRAN

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the identification of guiding ethical rules and principles for the design, engineering and use of robots ~~and~~, artificial intelligence a~~re needed~~nd related innovative disciplines is vital to complement the current European legal framework;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Laura FERRARA, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Believes that robotics ~~and~~, artificial intelligence and related innovative disciplines, especially those with built-in autonomy and the possibility of self- learning and even evolving self- modification, should be subjected to ~~the~~a structured body of primary robotics laws or principles, such as a principle that a robot may do not harm to a human being and must obey a human being; these principles should also be in compliance with the rights and principles enshrined in the CFR, in particular human dignity, the respect for private and family life, the protection of personal data, the freedom of expression and information, equality and non-discrimination, solidarity, and citizens’ rights and justice;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Daniela AIUTO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Laura FERRARA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. notes that automated vehicles can play an important role in developing sustainable transport (for example, through the potential for making savings in emissions) and calls on the Commission and Member States to pay attention to upcoming technical progress in the field of renewable technologies and to ease the diffusion of fast recharging automated stations fed from fully decarbonised and denuclearised electricity sources;

2016/10/07
Committee: TRAN

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas at the same time the development of robotics and AI may result in a large part of the work now done by humans, not only manual but also intellectual work, being taken over by robots, so raising concerns about the future of employment and the viability of social security systems if the current basis of taxation is maintained, creating the potential for increased inequality in the distribution of wealth and influence;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas robotics and AI that can perform similar tasks to those performed by humans should be used mainly to support and boost the abilities of man, as opposed to trying to replace the human element completely;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Daniela AIUTO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Laura FERRARA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. calls on the Commission and Member States to conduct further research to assess the safety and environmental implications of automated vehicles, and invites them to create a knowledge-sharing system to record the outcomes of tests and pilot schemes; since the act of driving itself will become a complex technical exercise, it is of the utmost importance that such a knowledge-sharing system is conceived to protect the privacy of data contributed by consumers using automated vehicles;

2016/10/07
Committee: TRAN

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission to ensure that any Union legislation on robotics ~~and~~, artificial intelligence and related innovative disciplines will include rules on privacy and data ~~protection~~and metadata protection, taking into account the rapid developments in this area, the requirement to follow principles of privacy by design and by default as well as principles of proportionality and necessity regarding the processing of data~~; calls~~ and metadata; calls, among other things, for the review of rules, principles and criteria regarding the use of cameras and sensors in robots ~~and~~, artificial intelligence and related innovative disciplines in accordance with the Union legal framework for data protection;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Daniela AIUTO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Laura FERRARA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. underlines that automated cars will require a high level of safe interaction with the transport infrastructure and that the high volume of data will need to be securely transferred in real time between automated vehicles and such infrastructure; such unprecedented volume of data raises significant questions about the value that can be created with it, and about how it must be shared between entrepreneurs, government, consumers contributing the data and society as a whole;

2016/10/07
Committee: TRAN

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Underlines that the free flow of data within the European Union is a basis for the digital economy and is essential for the development of robotics; highlights that high security of robotics and artificial intelligence systems and related innovative disciplines as a whole, including their internal data and metadata systems and data flows, is crucial for the adequate utilisation of robots ~~and~~, artificial intelligence and related innovative disciplines; stresses that a high level of safety, security and privacy of data used for the communication between people and robots and artificial intelligence and related innovative disciplines, together with high ~~quality of voice~~performance by recognition systems, has to be ensured; calls on the Commission and Member States to support and incentivise the development of the necessary technology, including security by design and channels of communication; urges, therefore, that appropriate monitoring technologies and procedures be included in any operating plan, accompanied, where necessary, by thorough ex-post audits carried out by independent ethics consultants or similar bodies;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the increasingly widespread use of social media and smartphones, which are constantly collecting and generating data, is causing the volume of data produced all over the world, so-called ‘Big Data’, to grow exponentially, and whereas 90% of the data in circulation today has been generated in the last two years;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Underlines that ~~when~~in the event that personal data or metadata are processed bythrough the use of RPAS, whether by public authorities for law enforcement purposes or by private or public entities for other purposes laid down by the law, the right to the protection of private life and the right to the protection of personal data as enshrined in Article 7 and 8 CFR and Article 16 TFEU apply and the Union legal framework for data protection must be fully complied with;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Daniela AIUTO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Laura FERRARA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. underlines that it is necessary to focus on ensuring and strengthening the security of IT regarding automated ~~car~~vehicles;

2016/10/07
Committee: TRAN

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Considers that appropriate legislation should be accompanied ~~by encouragement of a soft law framework,~~, in specific areas where relevant studies show that the development of regulation would be premature, by encouragement of a soft law framework, which may be made up, among other elements, of a code of conduct or public-private partnerships, in order to ensure the cooperation of the industry and robotic designers with public authorities and all the other stakeholders; believes that such instruments should focus on practical solutions to ensure ~~privacy and~~ human dignity, privacy and data and metadata protection, the security and ethics of the robotics industry, and the proper use of robots and artificial intelligence and other related innovative disciplines on a daily basis;.

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the Commission to develop and adopt a comprehensive plan for studies on the possible consequences which invasive technologies will have on civil liberties and fundamental rights;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Calls on the Commission to create an action plan to facilitate the democratisation of citizens’ access to robotics, artificial intelligence and other related innovative disciplines;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Calls on the Commission and Member States, in view of the possible structural risks that might arise in the decades ahead, to place greater emphasis on policies that are representative of social rights, such as the citizens’ income;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Calls on Member States and the Commission to increasingly promote digital teaching and training in policies relating to the right to study;

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Daniela AIUTO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Laura FERRARA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. calls on the Commission to develop European infrastructural standards to allow the diffusion of autonomous vehicles and a road map to implement them;

2016/10/07
Committee: TRAN

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura FERRARA, Ignazio CORRAO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)

7e. Calls on the Commission to carry out studies examining more deeply the possible correlation, in the years ahead, between automation and migration.

2016/10/11
Committee: LIBE

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Daniela AIUTO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Laura FERRARA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. invites the Commission to study the potential economic and social consequences of robotics and automation in the tourism sector and related industries;

2016/10/07
Committee: TRAN

2015/2103(INL)

Dario TAMBURRANO, Daniela AIUTO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, David BORRELLI, Laura FERRARA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6c. calls on the Commission to study the potential economic and social consequences of robotics and automation over the full life cycle of transport systems, including active and preventive maintenance, fleet management, temporary storage (e.g. parking systems for city vehicles), and dismantling and other operations guaranteeing a smooth flow of the corresponding materials into the circular economy;

2016/10/07
Committee: TRAN

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Considers that companies that manufacture robots should also record in this register the algorithms used to programme intelligent machines;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Considers it essential, in the development of robotics and AI, to guarantee that humans have control over intelligent machines at all times;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Considers that when developing new intelligent machines, designers should always include status indicators that provide the user with information in real time, insofar as this is compatible with the design brief;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Considers that in preservation of the fundamental principle of transparency, and to allow us to understand and be aware at all times of the decisions taken by intelligent machines, any robotic application capable of performing similar tasks to those performed by humans should be equipped with a ‘black box’ which records data on every transaction carried out by the machine, including the logic that contributed to its decisions;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Highlights that the algorithms used to programme intelligent machines should be put together in line with a clear and precise code of ethics, which also allows robots capable of learning to respect ethical principles in the tasks they perform;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Notes that to uphold these fundamental rights, ethics committees with special powers should be set up, perhaps as part of a European agency, and those committees should be able to take a holistic approach to the entire robotics research and development ecosystem;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Considers that the use of robotics and AI for the purposes of warfare should be strongly limited and regulated;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Considers that special care should be taken in preparing robots or AI to perform tasks in positions of authority, for example performing the functions of the police, prison wardens/guards or security guards, teachers or any other state or civil servant role;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Considers that special attention should be paid to the use or creation of anthropomorphised intelligent machines that can forge emotional bonds with man, causing an emotional attachment or deception;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 d (new)

7d. Considers that special attention should be paid to robots that represent a significant threat to confidentiality owing to their placement in traditionally protected and private spheres and because they are able to extract and send personal and sensitive data;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that, in the development of any EU policy on robotics, privacy and data protection, including metadata protection, guarantees are embedded in line with the principles of necessity and proportionality; calls, in this regard, on the Commission to foster the development of standards for the concepts of privacy by design and privacy by default, informed consent and encryption;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Calls on the Commission to develop an analysis of the employment challenges and structural opportunities inherent in constant technological growth, and to accompany such growth with a suitable legislative framework which is easy to keep up-to-date;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

23b. Highlights the importance of foreseeing changes to society following the new industrial revolution in robotics, and the need to start considering changing the working hours/income paradigm, creating new employment sustainability models, including through the introduction of a minimum citizens’ income;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Considers, in any case, that responsibility must always lie with a human and never a robot;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Considers that, as is the case with the insurance of motor vehicles, such an insurance system could be supplemented by a fund in order to ensure that reparation can be made for damage in cases where no insurance cover exists; this fund should be endowed by an annual fixed percentage to be paid by any private company that wishes to invest in the robotics sector; calls on the insurance industry to develop new products that are in line with the advances in robotics;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 – point a a (new)

aa) introducing a suitable instrument for consumers who wish to collectively claim compensation for damages deriving from the malfunction of intelligent machines from the manufacturing companies responsible;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2103(INL)

Laura FERRARA, Dario TAMBURRANO, Laura AGEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO, Tiziana BEGHIN, Ignazio CORRAO, Piernicola PEDICINI, David BORRELLI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 – point b

b) ensuring that a compensation fund, endowed by an annual fixed percentage paid by any private company that wishes to invest in the robotics sector, would not only serve the purpose of guaranteeing compensation if the damage caused by a robot was not covered by an insurance – which would in any case remain its primary goal – but also that of allowing various financial operations in the interests of the robot, such as investments, donations or payments made to smart autonomous robots for their services, which could be transferred to the fund;

2016/10/26
Committee: JURI

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas women asylum seekers and undocumented migrants are particularly vulnerable to all forms of violence, including sexual violence, at all stages of their journey and need special assistance as part of the reception process;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas women run the further risk of being trafficked and recruited as prostitutes by criminal organisations;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Strongly condemns the illegal activities carried on by people smugglers in the Mediterranean and calls on the European Union to take specific steps to identify the ringleaders of the networks that are profiting from the lives of so many innocent people;

2015/09/21
Committee: TRAN

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Stresses that a definitive solution needs to be found to the current humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean and that legal and regulated immigration channels need to be opened and responsibilities for these shared among the 28 Member States;

2015/09/21
Committee: TRAN

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas women are more vulnerable if they are undocumented, making it essential that they should be identified quickly and issued with identity documents;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas assistance arrangements must also include special care services for pregnant women and women with severe health problems;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Emphasises, therefore, that merchant vessels have a significant role in rescue operations both in terms of volume and activity; points out the fact that merchant vessels have not been equipped andppropriately and that their staff ~~have not~~should been trained to make them sufficiently prepared to ~~systematically take part~~take part, where necessary, in rescue operations;

2015/09/21
Committee: TRAN

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that merchant ships are increasingly becoming involved in rescue operations on a regular – rather than occasional – basis, and that this burdens them with additional duties and costs that need to be covered through the funding allocated for humanitarian operations;

2015/09/21
Committee: TRAN

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Emphasises that, regardless of legal status, decisions to detain should take account of past histories of trauma including experiences of sexual violence, and that the needs of pregnant women are more appropriately accommodated in tailored facilities with qualified staff trained to deal with such situations;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Is concerned that without ~~vessels and their crew being sufficiently prepared~~a clear commitment from the European Union, the situation will result in accidents in the Mediterranean Sea that might lead to loss of human lives and also entail environmental risks;

2015/09/21
Committee: TRAN

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Urges that UNHCR and Member State staff involved in dealing with the humanitarian emergency should have proper training in the provision of psychological support to women and girl migrants who have suffered either psychological or physical violence during their journey;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Points to the need for a joint commitment from all 28 EU Member States on providing the financial resources destined for search and rescue operations;

2015/09/21
Committee: TRAN

2015/2095(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. ~~Welcom~~Notes the Commission Communication entitled ‘A European agenda on migration’ (COM (2015)0240) and strongly calls for adequate and immediate measures to be taken at both Member States and EU level to prevent further human miseries in the Mediterranean Sea and to ensure that international and ethical obligations are fulfilled in accordance with the principles of solidarity and shared responsibility;

2015/09/21
Committee: TRAN

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Is deeply concerned about the ongoing migration crisis in the Mediterranean, in particular the humanitarian aspects but also its impact on maritime transport ~~in the Mediterranean Sea by passenger ships, cruise ships and container ships, the safety of the vessels and their crew, and general maritime safety~~;

2015/09/21
Committee: TRAN

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls for women, particularly pregnant women, and girls who are undocumented and unaccompanied children to be processed properly and as a matter of priority and identified immediately so that the authorities can keep track of them;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Emphasises that women and girls who are already in countries of arrival are often forced to enter into marriages in order to regularise the situation of new arrivals;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on the Member States to impose harsher penalties on and step up their monitoring of individuals who perpetrate acts of violence against women, who exploit them by forcing them to work on the shadow labour market and who take advantage of their vulnerability in the context of migration processes in the Mediterranean;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls on the Member States to make it easier for women migrants to be reunited with their children who have remained in their home country;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for strict checks to be conducted on the actual use to which funding for rescue operations and reception centres is put, so as to ensure that it is correctly used for these specific purposes and to prevent it from being illegally siphoned off;

2015/09/21
Committee: TRAN

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Calls on the Member States to guarantee international protection to women who are victims of persecution and to follow the Commission's guidelines concerning the application of Directive 2003/86/EC on the right to family reunification;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Calls on the Member States to issue separate residence permits immediately to family members who have entered their territory in the context of family reunification, in particular in cases involving domestic violence;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the EU to take greater responsibility for resolving the humanitarian emergency affecting migrant women and girls, on the basis of effective Commission measures and a proper system for allocating refugees among the Member States;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2095(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Deplores the fact that thus far the EU has confined itself to expressing sorrow at the many tragedies which have occurred, without taking any decisive action to resolve the problem;

2015/09/10
Committee: FEMM

2015/2094(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Member States to work together to lay down common rules on domestic work, in order to have the same occupational categories, pay and conditions throughout the EU;

2015/11/11
Committee: FEMM

2015/2094(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for proper effect to be given to maternity protection safeguards, with job and pay being guaranteed from the start of pregnancy until the infant reaches early childhood;

2015/11/11
Committee: FEMM

2015/2094(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on Member States strictly to enforce legislation to protect the health of domestic workers and carers, as well as rules on occupational injuries and disease;

2015/11/11
Committee: FEMM

2015/2094(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Urges the Member States to undertake the necessary efforts to step up inspections, and to find innovative inspection methods, in order to eliminate mistreatment, financial exploitation and acts of violence or sexual abuse against domestic workers;

2015/11/11
Committee: FEMM

2015/2094(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Points out that the role played by labour inspectorates in monitoring and improving labour relations is of benefit to both employers and workers and should not be viewed in a negative light by, or penalise, either;

2015/11/11
Committee: FEMM

2015/2094(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on Member States to require appropriate professional qualifications for some types of domestic work (care for the elderly, children and disabled persons) which call for specific skills;

2015/11/11
Committee: FEMM

2015/2094(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Believes that encouragement should be given for the development of subsidised home care arrangements that allow disabled people to live independently and to choose the qualified professionals who will care for them in their own homes, in particular in cases of severe disability;

2015/11/11
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas a recent study authorised by the European Commission has revealed that less than 30 % of the ICT sector workforce is female, and that only 3 % of female graduates have a degree in ICT, with respect to 10 % of male graduates1 a; __________________ 1ahttps://ec.europa.eu/digital- agenda/en/news/women-active-ict-sector

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

A b. whereas only 9 % of developers in Europe are women, only 19 % of bosses in the ICT and communications sectors are female (with respect to 45 % in other services sectors) and women represent just 19 % of entrepreneurs (with respect to 54 % in other services sectors)2 a ; __________________ 2ahttps://ec.europa.eu/digital- agenda/en/news/women-active-ict-sector

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

F a. whereas women face numerous difficulties in integrating in the ICT sector, causing them greater levels of stress and contributing increasingly to the so-called ‘leaky pipeline’ phenomenon in which they leave the sector mid-career;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

G a. whereas digitalisation favours the promotion of direct democracy via the web, thereby permitting women to be more involved in politics and improving their access to information;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

G b. whereas the partnership of digitalisation and direct democracy provides women with more opportunities to get involved directly, outside of traditional political schemes, and participate fully and in a comprehensive manner;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

H a. whereas 18 % of women in Europe have suffered some form of ill-treatment since adolescence as a result of knowledge made public on the internet, and there have been nine million victims of online violence in Europe;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make better use of the considerable potential that digitalisation has at all levels of political participation and the inclusion of women in decision- making processes; highlights the major opportunities that digitalisation holds with respect to access to information, decision-making processes, transparency and greater government accountability;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote digitalisation in politics in order to ensure proper direct democracy and the direct involvement of women and citizens, thereby overcoming out-dated schemes and obstacles that cause difficulties for women attempting to establish themselves in electoral and institutional environments;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Calls on Member States to adopt online voting methods for electoral consultations, in order to eliminate logistical barriers which remain even today, particularly for women, and to reduce the costs of building polling stations, thereby furthermore circumventing the need to use public facilities and interrupt the services provided therein, such as school activities;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7 a. Calls on Member States to consult their citizens directly on legislative decisions by means of digital solutions, thereby enabling women to promote the public’s interests with greater energy and in the process overcome the gap that exists between men and women in relation to public administration;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10 a. Considers that access to free broadband for all would grant increased possibilities for women to access the labour market, in addition to a series of further advantages with regards to environmental, economic and social matters, and would contribute to social inclusion for persons with low and very low income;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Calls on Member States to invest in digital working practices that would enable women to more readily and effectively reconcile their private life with their working life and more smartly manage their time, thanks to teleworking;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Emphasises the value of women being able to access online training courses to improve their personal qualifications, in light of logistical travel issues and/or economic difficulties in accessing more expensive classroom courses, with the same results being achieved;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to implement programmes targeted at parents in order to familiarise them with the ICT technologies used by their children, thereby improving adults’ awareness of the potential encounters and relationships that can occur online, and reducing the generational gap that exists with regards to the ICT sector;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Emphasises the fact that the rapid diffusion of smartphones and increasing internet access amongst children, girls and women represents, on the one hand, an optimum source of emancipation and knowledge, but on the other hand poses the risk that these tools will be used to expose girls to harmful sexist insults (that are, in some cases, difficult to erase) and blackmail, with so-called revenge porn being one outcome of this; highlights therefore the need to increase measures to protect women and girls from cyber abuse;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to promote free and anonymous support services with female staff that can be accessed via the internet and/or by telephone, available to women who become trapped in a web of online grooming and are blackmailed and forced to suffer violence and abuse, scarring them for the rest of their lives;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2007(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO, Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to tighten monitoring of internet grooming by terrorist groups which recruit young women and force them into marriage or prostitution in third countries;

2015/12/18
Committee: FEMM

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas transport is a sector where Europe is a world leader, in both manufacturing and transport operations, and it is crucial that European transport continues to develop and invest in sustainability to maintain its competitive position;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas it is essential to ensure the successful development of the Trans- European Transport Network (TEN-T), avoiding wasting money by overestimating the scale of construction, effectively link the transport networks of all EU regions and eliminate disparities between the levels of infrastructure development, while fully respecting the environment and citizens’ health;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas there are in fact innovative technologies which we should seek to promote and implement, which would allow us to make use of clean and eco- sustainable energy sources in the transport sector, in particular for road transport, such as for example hydrogen cars, electric cars and compressed air cars;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas the investment fund envisaged by the Juncker Plan could be seriously detrimental to the transport sector, depleting resources available from the Connecting Europe Facility programme;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas it is necessary to implement additional regulations relating to safety and passenger rights;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)

Jb. whereas the last report from the European Commission on ‘Road safety in the European Union’1 revealed that the number of road fatalities in Europe decreased by 1 % in 2014, a considerably lower figure than the 8 % drop recorded in 2012 and again in 2013; __________________ 1Source: Report ‘Road safety in the European Union’, by the European Commission, March 2015

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that a European sustainable mobility policy needs to build on a broad range of policy tools to shift towards the least polluting and most energy-efficient modes of transport; points out that shifting the balance between modes of transport ~~is not an end in itself, but is necessary to disconnect mobility from its~~aims to eliminate adverse effects such as congestion, air pollution, noise, accidents and climate change;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Emphasises that the completion of the Trans-European Transport Network remains one of the preconditions for a more sustainable and efficient transport system and a more balanced distribution of freight and passengers among transport modes; stresses that the selection of projects eligible for EU funding must focus on the completion of missing links, the upgrading of existing infrastructure and the development of multimodal terminals, putting greater emphasis on ~~European added value~~the real need for works that take account of actual traffic flows, environmental impact, citizens’ health, and the wishes of the local communities and authorities; considers that the Connecting Europe Facility instrument and other means of financing should stimulate investment in rail and inland waterways as a priority; emphasises that co-funded projects should reflect the need for infrastructure that minimises the impact on the environment, that is resilient to the possible impact of climate change and that improves the safety of users; stresses also the need for proper maintenance of the existing infrastructure;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Invites the Commission to conduct more thorough ex-ante and ex-post evaluations of projects allocated funding, to prevent numerous cases of fraud and to stop the Mafia influencing the awarding of contracts, which continues to be a problem when substantial amounts of European funding are allocated;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Asks the Commission to review the proposed TEN-T networks in order to assess areas that are currently not included, such as for example the stretch of the Adriatic coast between Ancona and Bari in Italy, and that require improved transport links, and to exclude works that have proved useless and extremely expensive, such as the route between Turin and Lyon;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Invites the Commission to consider successful examples of sustainable urban mobility, which can lead to improvement of public transport, traffic decongestion and abolishing of fares on public transport, as in the case of the city of Tallinn in Estonia;

2015/04/22
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Highlights the key role played by the transport sector in developing tourism, in particular in promoting those regions of the European Union which are more remote and currently very difficult to access;

2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 4 a (new)

- reinvestment of revenues from road charges pursuant to Directive 2011/76 in infrastructure projects focusing in particular on safety and environmental sustainability,

2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 6 a (new)

- adopting legislation which seeks to harmonise provisions relating to transport in the different Member States, taking into account that workers in this sector, more than in any other, often have to move from place to place. The legislation should aim to prevent problems such as social dumping and issues linked to cabotage, while at the same time ensuring fair competition between business from different States and protection of workers’ social and welfare rights, including and especially in terms of salary;

2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 – indent 4

– revitalisation of local and regional trans- border rail connections that have been dismantled or abandoned by finding a new function for disused networks, such as, for example, transporting freight to industrial areas or providing new services aimed at tourists,

2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN

2015/2005(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 – indent 1 a (new)

-encouraging compliance with structure and infrastructure standards across Europe, including by providing economic support and financial concessions, so as to guarantee the transparency, sustainability and efficiency of services offered;

2015/04/24
Committee: TRAN

2015/0313(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 2

Regulation (EC) No 1406/2002
Article 2 b – paragraph 3

3. The Commission may, after consulting Parliament, adopt, in the form of a recommendation, a practical handbook on European cooperation on coastguard functions, containing guidelines, recommendations and best practices for the exchange of information and cooperation at national, Union and international level.

2016/05/02
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14

(14) The European Border and Coast Guard Agency should organise the appropriate technical and operational assistance to Member States so as to reinforce their capacity to implement their obligations with regard to the control of the external borders, ~~and~~ to face challenges at the external border resulting from irregular immigration or cross-border crime and to bring to light the activities of the smugglers who are making money by playing with the lives of so many innocent people and determine who is responsible. In this respect, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency should, at the request of a Member State or on its own initiative, organise and coordinate joint operations for one or more Member States and deploy European Border and Coast Guard Teams as well as the necessary technical equipment, and it may deploy experts from its own staff.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)

(15a) The European Border and Coast Guard Agency should step up search and rescue operations in support of national authorities, and should provide assistance to merchant vessels engaged in rescue operations, many of which do not have the necessary equipment or crew members with the necessary training; this should reduce the burden on commercial vessels, as it will mean that they will not be obliged to take part in systematic rescue operations, which should not form part of their normal activities.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)

(21a) The establishment of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency should go hand in hand with the introduction of further measures to regulate migration flows, involving the opening of legal and regulated immigration channels, responsibility for which would be shared among the 28 Member States.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28

(28) The European Border and Coast Guard Agency should facilitate and encourage operational cooperation between Member States and third countries in the framework of the external relations policy of the Union and ensure that information is shared more effectively, including by coordinating operational cooperation between Member States and third countries in the field of management of external borders and by deploying liaison officers to third countries, as well as by cooperating with the authorities of third countries on return, including as regards the acquisition of travel documents. In their cooperation with third countries, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and Member States should comply with norms and standards at least equivalent to those set by Union legislation also when the cooperation with third countries takes place on the territory of those countries.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33 a (new)

(33a) The European Border and Coast Guard Agency should be subject to decision-making and scrutiny procedures which ensure that its activities and use of financial resources are transparent at all times. A European Parliament oversight body should be set up to that end.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)

(ha) maritime search and rescue operations;

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)

(hb) support for commercial vessels engaged in the rescue of vessels and migrants in difficulty at sea;

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Regulated distribution among all 28 Member States, on a shared responsibility basis, of migrants coming into the EU.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2

2. The European Border and Coast Guard Agency shall facilitate the application of Union measures relating to the management of external borders by reinforcing, assessing and coordinating the actions of Member States in the implementation of those measures, and in return. Member States shall ensure the management of their section of the external borders, in their interests and in interest of all Member States which have abolished internal border control, in full compliance with Union law and in accordance with the technical and operational strategy referred to in Article 3(2), and in close cooperation with the Agency, and shall supplement this Regulation with measures to set up legal and regulated migration channels shared fairly among the 28 Member States.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)

(ca) carry out maritime search and rescue operations;

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point i

(i) deploy the necessary equipment and staff for the rapid reserve pool for the practical execution of the measures needed to be taken in a situation requiring urgent action at the external borders, including operations in which merchant vessels take part in the rescue of other vessels;

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)

(ka) provide equipment and properly trained staff in all critical situations involving reception points, ports, commercial vessels and all other migration-related structures in the EU;

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

2. Member States ~~may continue~~shall cooperat~~ion~~e at an operational level with other Member States and/or third countries at external borders, including military operations on a law enforcement mission and in the field of return, where such cooperation is compatible with the action of the Agency. Member States ~~shall refrain from any activity which could jeopardise the functioning of the Agency or the attainment of its objectives~~' activities shall be compatible with those of the Agency.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

Member States shall ~~report to~~share with the Agency information on that operational cooperation with other Member States and/or third countries at the external borders and in the field of return. The Executive Director of the Agency (‘the Executive Director’) shall inform the Management Board of the Agency (‘the Management Board’) on those matters on a regular basis and at least once a year.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. The Agency's Management Board shall ensure cost transparency by breaking down the costs incurred for each individual task by expenditure item.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 2

2. In the performance of its tasks the European Border and Coast Guard shall ensure that no person is disembarked in, forced to enter, conducted to or otherwise handed over or returned to the authorities of a country in contravention of the principle of non-refoulement, or ~~from~~in which there is a risk of serious human rights violations or expulsion or return to another country in contravention of that principle.

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

(ba) providing staff and services for the purpose of coordinating reception operations at locations of crucial importance to the smooth flow of goods and passengers, such as ports and adjoining areas;

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0310(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 52 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

(da) deploying qualified staff and appropriate equipment in support of merchant vessels engaged in maritime rescue operations;

2016/04/13
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1

(1) A high and uniform level of civil aviation safety and ~~environmental protect~~of protection of the environment and the social dimension should be ensured at all times through the adoption of common safety rules and minimum social standards, and by measures ensuring that any goods, persons and organisations involved in civil aviation activity in the Union comply with such rules and with those adopted to protect the environment and the socioeconomic dimension.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)

(9a) there is a direct link between aviation safety and employees’ health, and with the socioeconomic conditions in which they work;

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34

(34) The Agency should provide the technical expertise to the Commission in the preparation of the necessary legislation and assist, where appropriate, the Member States and industry in its implementation, after consulting workers’ representatives, particularly in regard to safety and to protecting health and social conditions. It should be able to issue certification specifications and guidance material and to make technical findings and issue certificates or register declarations as required.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1

1. The principal objective of this Regulation is to establish and maintain a high uniform level of civil aviation safety in the Union, while ensuring a high uniform level of environmental protection and that workers’ social dimension is respected, through the adoption of minimum common safety and social standards.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

(da) promoting social sustainability, looking at the correlation between safety- related factors and socioeconomic ones;

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d

(d) take into account interdependencies between the different domains of aviation safety, and between aviation safety and other technical domains of aviation regulation, without prejudice to the different regulatory and operational roles;

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point g

(g) take ~~non-binding measures, including safety promotion actions, where possible~~measures to promote and improve safety standards;

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1

1. The Commission shall, after consulting the Agency and other stakeholders (unions), adopt, publish and update as required a document describing the functioning of the European aviation safety system, containing the rules, activities and processes which are used to manage the safety of civil aviation in the Union in accordance with this Regulation (the 'European Aviation Safety Programme').

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

(ca) protection of health and social standards for aviation safety at European level;

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1

Cabin crew involved in commercial air transport operations shall be subject to certification and shall be issued with a~~n attestation~~ licence by the competent authority.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2

Where the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 25 so provide, cabin crew involved in operations other than commercial air transport shall also be subject to certification and shall be issued with a~~n attestation~~ licence by the competent authority.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 3

Those ~~attestation~~licences shall be issued upon application, when the applicant has demonstrated that he or she complies with the rules established by delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 25 to ensure compliance with the essential requirements referred to in Article 19 on theoretical knowledge, practical skill and medical fitness.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 2

2. As regards pilots and cabin crew involved in the operation of aircraft referred to in Article 2(1)(b), as well as flight simulation training devices, persons and organisations involved in the training, testing, checking or medical assessment of those pilots and cabin crew, the Commission shall be empowered, by means of delegated acts adopted in accordance with Article 117, to amend or supplement Annex IV, where necessary for reasons of technical, operational or scientific developments or safety evidence related to aircrew, in order and to the extent required to achieve the objectives laid down in Article 1.deleted

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 2

2. As regards the operation of aircraft referred to in Article 2(1)(b), the Commission shall be empowered, by means of delegated acts adopted in accordance with Article 117, to amend or supplement Annex V and, if applicable, Annexes VII and VIII, where necessary for reasons of technical, operational or scientific developments or safety evidence related to air operations, in order and to the extent required to achieve the objectives laid down in Article 1.deleted

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3

Those certificates shall cover the aerodrome, its staff and its safety-related equipment and shall be an essential requirement for permission to operate in airports, including ground-handling services and apron management.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Organisations responsible for the operation of aerodromes and for ground-handling services shall be subject to certification and shall be issued with a certificate.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 45 – paragraph 1 a (new)

Examination by the Agency of the individual technological specifications that are most suitable and of the apparatus shall be based on the risks posed by the operations for which these have been designed in this Regulation, in order to help the operator conduct flights safely and in line with safety regulations.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 47 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(aa) the conditions and procedures shall contain provisions relating to lightweight unmanned aircraft;

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 51 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 5 – point b

(b) pilot and cabin crew training organisations that have been issued an approval in accordance with Article 22 and operators that have been issued a certificate in accordance with Article 27 shall be responsible for issuing the cabin crew ~~attestation~~licences referred to in Article 21.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 51 – paragraph 6

6. In order to facilitate the exercise of their tasks related to certification, oversight and enforcement, the Commission, the Agency ~~and~~, national competent authorities, and, where necessary, Eurocontrol shall exchange information, including on possible or identified infringements.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 65 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2

The Agency may grant exemptions to any legal or natural person to whom it has issued a certificate in the situations and subject to the conditions set out in Article 60(1). In such a case, the Agency shall immediately notify the Commission and the Member States, through the repository established under Article 63, of the exemptions granted, the reasons for granting them and, where applicable, the necessary mitigation measures applied. Where the duration of an exemption exceeds eight consecutive months or where the Agency has granted the same exemption repetitively and their total duration exceeds ~~eight~~two months, the Commission shall assess whether those conditions have been met, and where it considers that this is not the case, it shall adopt an implementing decision to that effect, which shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union and entered into the repository established under Article 63. The Agency shall immediately revoke the exemption upon the notification of that implementing decision.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 76 – paragraph 1

1. The Member States, the Commission and the Agency shall cooperate on security matters related to civil aviation, including the regulation of cyber security, with a view to ensuring that interdependencies between civil aviation safety and security are taken into account.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 77 – paragraph 3

3. The Agency shall assist Member States in respecting their obligations under international agreements relating to matters covered by this Regulation, in particular their obligations under the Chicago Convention, and, in agreement with the Commission, shall lay down clear criteria for its working relationship with Eurocontrol.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 77 – paragraph 4 – point b – paragraph 2 a (new)

The Member States, the Commission, the Agency, and other bodies shall cooperate, within their spheres of responsibility, on social and employment matters, ensuring that socio-economic factors are such as to allow proper compliance with safety standards and determining specific measures to mitigate risks.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 79 – paragraph 1

In order to promote best practices and uniformity in the implementation of this Regulation and the measures adopted on the basis thereof, the Agency may provide training, including through external providers, to national competent authorities, competent authorities of third countries, international organisations, the legal and natural persons subject to the provisions of this Regulation and other interested parties. The training shall include specific training on subjects related to aviation safety, including health at work and safety aspects, for instance the risk of fatigue and just culture systems. The Agency shall establish and publish in its official publication the conditions to be met by external training providers when used by the Agency for the purposes of this Article.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 83

~~The Protocol on the~~Article 83 deleted Privileges and Iimmunities ~~of the European Union shall apply to the Agency and its staff.~~

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 2

2. The Court of Justice of the European Union shall also have jurisdiction to give judgment pursuant to any arbitration clause contained in a contract concluded by the Agency.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 84 – paragraph 4

4. The Court of Justice of the European Union shall have jurisdiction including in disputes over compensation for damages referred to in paragraph 3.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 86 – paragraph 1

1. The Management Board shall be composed of representatives from Member States ~~and~~, from the Commission, and from the European Parliament, all with voting rights. Each Member State shall appoint one member of the Management Board and one alternate who will represent the member in his or her absence. The Commission shall appoint two representatives and their alternates. The European Parliament shall appoint two representatives and their alternates. The term of office for members and their alternates shall be four years. That term shall be extendable once only.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 90 – paragraph 4

4. The Executive Board shall be composed of the Chairperson of the Management Board, two representatives of the Commission, two representatives of the European Parliament, and six other members appointed by the Management Board from among its members with the right to vote. The Chairperson of the Management Board shall also be the Chairperson of the Executive Board. The Executive Director shall take part in the meetings of the Executive Board, but shall not have the right to vote. The Advisory Board may appoint one of its members as observer.

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0277(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 109 – paragraph 1 – point f

~~(f) charges paid in accordance with Regulation (EU) No (XXXX/XXX) on the implementation of the Single European Sky for relevant ATM/ANS authority tasks;~~deleted

2016/06/15
Committee: TRAN

2015/0263(COD)

Laura AGEA, Tiziana BEGHIN, Marco ZANNI, Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
–

The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs calls on the Committee on Regional Development, as the committee responsible, to propose rejection of the Commission proposal.

2016/09/09
Committee: EMPL

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29

(29) To partially finance the contribution from the Union budget, the available envelopes of the Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020, provided by Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council2 , and the Connecting Europe Facility, provided by Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council3 , should be reduced. Those programmes serve purposes that are not replicated by the EFSI. However, the reduction of both programmes to finance the guarantee fund is expected to ensure a greater investment in certain areas of their respective mandates than is possible through the existing programmes. The EFSI should be able to leverage the EU guarantee to multiply the financial effect within those areas of research, development and innovation and transport, telecommunications and energy infrastructure compared to if the resources had been spent via grants within the planned Horizon 2020 and Connecting Europe Facility programmes. It is, therefore, appropriate to redirect part of the funding presently envisaged for those programmes to the benefit of EFSI. __________________ 3Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 establishing the Connecting Europe Facility, amending Regulation (EU) No 913/2010 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 680/2007 and (EC) No 67/2010 (OJ L 348, 20.12.2013, p. 129).unallocated resources should be used, avoiding to affect programmes already planned with the purpose of investment; considering the current crisis, in any case programmes aiming at competitiveness for growth and employment should not be affected;

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29 a (new)

(29 a) Many existing programmes already provide the possibility to use innovative financial instruments and should therefore be maintained and not replaced by new instruments with a higher risk for the investment.

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32 a (new)

(32 a) Member States and the European Parliament, as Commission and EIB, should be active part of the strategic, political and operative body to manage and control EFSI;

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33

(33) Although the projects identified under the project pipeline may be used by the EIB in the identification and selection of EFSI supported projects, the project pipeline should have a broader scope of identifying projects across the Union. This scope may include projects that are capable of being fully financed by the private sector or with the assistance of other instruments provided at European or national level. The EFSI should be able to support financing and investment to projects identified by the project pipeline, but there should be no automaticity between inclusion on the list and access to EFSI support and the EFSI be conferred with discretion to select and support projects that are not included on the list. Priority should be given to high quality projects using innovative technologies, promoting sustainability particularly in transport, telecommunication and energy sectors, strengthening the connections between these sectors, with higher efficiency and lower impact on environment and on the health of the people. Social aspects should be taken into account as well.

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

For as long as the only contributors to the EFSI are the Union and the EIB, the number of members and votes within the Steering Board shall be allocated based on the respective size of contributions in the form of cash or guarantees. The number of members shall reflect the different sectors and each Member State should be represented by a member in the Steering Board, in order to guarantee both a geographical and sectoral repartition. The European Parliament should be represented as well.

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a

(a) development of transport infrastructure, in~~cluding in the areas of transport,~~ particular for the priorities as defined in Regulation (EU) 1316/2013 (CEF), and in particularly in ~~industrial centres; energy, in particular energy interconnections; and digital infrastructure~~frastructure with higher energy efficiency and environmental sustainable; transport investments should represent at least 33% of the total investments under EFSI;

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)

(a a) energy, in particular energy interconnections;

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b

(b) investment in education and training, health, research and development, information and communications technology and innovation, in particular to strengthen the connections between sustainable transport, telecommunication and energy;

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 a (new)

EIB shall publish also all the relevant information about the impact of the projects financed under EFSI, with particular regards to environment, health and social issues.

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2015/0009(COD)

Rosa D'AMATO, Peter LUNDGREN, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19

In Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘ 1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the CEF for the period 2014 to 2020 is set at EUR 29 942 259 000 (*) in current prices. That amount shall be distributed as follows: (a) transport sector: EUR 23 550 582 000, of which EUR 11 305 500 000 shall be transferred from the Cohesion Fund to be spent in line with this Regulation exclusively in Member States eligible for funding from the Cohesion Fund; (b) telecommunications sector: EUR 1 041 602 000; (c) energy sector: EUR 5 350 075 000. These amounts are without prejudice to the application of the flexibility mechanism provided for under Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013(*). (*) Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013 of 2 December 2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014-20 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 884). ’19 deleted Amendment to Regulation (EU) No 1316/2013

2015/03/19
Committee: TRAN

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas the violence suffered by women includes physical, sexual and psychological abuse, child abuse, perpetrated on defenceless girls, sexual harassment and stalking, also because of 1 Surah 4:34 of the Koran advocates the beating of women for a number of reasons. Given that Islam incites violence towards women, it is important that ideologically motivated abuse be included as a form of violence in this recital, especially since it also contains a reference to crimes of honour, a typically Islamic problem. the new technologies and the internet, and whereas in some cases this violence results in femicides and/or so-called crimes of honour;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas gender discrimination continues to this day, having serious repercussions on work and private life and whereas this frequently happens in the field of education, training and services; whereas there are often cases of multiple discrimination against women, with sexual discrimination being compounded by other forms of discrimination (on grounds such as disability or immigrant status or on religious, cultural or social grounds);

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas while punishments proportionate to the crimes committed do act as a deterrent against fundamental rights violations, the primary goal must remain to prevent crime (by means of education and cultural measures) rather than to take action after the event;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas the steady increase in migration is exposing women to multiple discrimination (on cultural or religious grounds or because of their lifestyles and family traditions) as well as to abuse and exploitation of all kinds, owing to the position of weakness and need in which they have been placed;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission to promote a strategy and action plan to combat all forms of violence against women and homophobia, improving prevention and providing protection and assistance to victims, paying special attention to the most vulnerable people, such as children, the elderly and victims of ~~multiple~~ discrimination;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Commission to suggest specific steps that Member States may take to combat multiple discrimination;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Is alarmed at the under-representation of women in decision-making processes, companies and the political spheres; at both national and international levels (large companies, national and European elections) and, in particular, at local level, where, in many cases, men remain in a dominant position in small and medium- sized businesses and during local elections;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Acknowledges the importance of the three-pronged approach of prevention, protection and punishment to combating discrimination and violence against women; takes the view, however, that priority should be given to prevention, primarily through emotional education promoting a balanced approach to life as a couple, as violence and femicide often stem from the lack of such an approach;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Calls on the Commission to raise awareness of the need to foster a culture of respect and tolerance with a view to putting an end to all forms of discrimination against women;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2c. Calls on Member States to make it possible for women to feel free to be themselves when making lifestyle choices between their own family customs and the Western way of life and, whichever they choose, to help them to integrate;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2d. Calls on the Commission to monitor the fundamental rights situation in the EU on the basis of gender-disaggregated data;

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2254(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Member States and the European institutions to cooperate with the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and the Agency for Fundamental Rights in order to work together to combat violence and gender discriminat(Does not affect English version.)

2015/04/09
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)

- having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art. 26);

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the concept of gender is a social construct linked to issues of social class, ethnicity, religion, culture, sexuality and age which lead to economic, cultural and educational injustices, and that social representations of gender are replicated at school;deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. considering the significant influence of family attitudes, of peers and teachers in the selection of students' study ~~areas and changing gender stereotypes,~~ and given that teachers as agents of social change, by their attitudes and teaching practices, are essential to the promotion of ~~gender equality~~mutual respect between boys and girls;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~a gender perspective and gender equality should be incorporated into all levels of education in order to~~gender equality must be promote,d among girls and boys, women and men, the values of justice and democratic citizenship, in order to ~~build a genuine partnership between the genders with regard to~~provide equal opportunities in public and private spheres;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas unskilled and poorly paid work is commonly attributed to women and they continue to be responsible for most of the care within the family, which limits access to paid full-time employment, and that gender equality cannot be reduced to providing women with the standard of success defined by men, but involves the recognition of all the work done by women ~~and the education of boys and men in the tasks from which they are traditionally excluded~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas European and national authorities should encourage gender equality in educational institutions by all means possible~~, and gender education should be a fundamental part of the curriculum and school programmes, and teaching materials may contain discriminatory content~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas, in order to fight gender inequality, constant pedagogical supervision of curricula, objectives, content, strategies, materials, evaluation, disciplinary programmes and lesson plans is essential, as well as monitoring and evaluation by educational research centres and specialists in gender equality;deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)

Ja. whereas education is one of the keys to improving the life of girls, their families and the community as a whole; whereas, according to expert studies, each additional year that a girl invests in secondary education increases her income by over 15 %;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)

Jb. whereas better educated girls are able to obtain better jobs, are likely to enjoy better health and are able progressively pass on these benefits to their children as they grow up;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J c (new)

Jc. whereas there is a strong link between guaranteed levels of education for girls in a country and its economic strength, while the fact that education gives more power to women is even more important 1a 1a http://www.unicef.it/doc/1197/lunicef- nella-giornata-della-donna-listruzione- femminile-base-dellemancipazione.htm ___

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J d (new)

Jd. whereas the education is a fundamental human right that is essential in order to exercise all other rights2a; __________________ 2ahttps://europa.eu/eyd2015/it/eu- european-parliament/posts/every-girl- and-woman-has-right-education

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J e (new)

Je. whereas 17% of adults worldwide, two-thirds (493 million) of them women, are unable to read or write;3a __________________ 3ahttps://europa.eu/eyd2015/it/eu- european-parliament/posts/every-girl- and-woman-has-right-education

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J f (new)

Jf. whereas giving more women an education helps to reduce poverty and promote economic development 4a ; __________________ 4ahttps://europa.eu/eyd2015/it/eu- european-parliament/posts/every-girl- and-woman-has-right-education

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J g (new)

Jg. whereas the EU foresees a decrease of 24 million workers by 2040 if the percentage of women in the labour force remains at the current level and, even today, a 40% increase in productivity per worker would be possible if all forms of discrimination between men and women were eliminated;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J h (new)

Jh. whereas, while women in the European Union are well educated and generally perform better than men in terms of attendance and academic results, an enormous disparity remains between their level of education and the professional opportunities available to them: 31.9 % of women work part time as opposed to 8.4% of men and they are still underrepresented in certain sectors and at managerial level5a __________________ 5ahttp://www.bloggirl.it/le-donne-e-la- loro-istruzione-la-situazione-nella-ue/

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement measures to apply ~~gender~~ equality between men and woman, girls and boys at all levels of the education system and in teacher training and the creation of mechanisms, t~~hroughout the education system, to facilitate the promotion, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of gender equality~~o uphold these principles in educational institutions;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses that the fundamental right to choose the kind of education to be given to boys and girls must be exercised by parents and family;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on educational policy makers to ensure that ~~gender~~ equality between the sexes goes beyond the level of political intentions and becomes a reality by substantially changing the efforts and resources invested in it;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Asks the Commission that this recommendation be taken to the political institutions responsible for implementing central, regional and local education policies~~, school management bodies and regional and local authorities~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the need to promote equal ~~gender~~ representation of men and women in terms of leadership, especially among school managers and heads;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for all EU countries to invest consistently in the production of information and motivational campaigns for girls and boys to choose non- stereotyped professions~~, as well as reflecting on the influence of gender identities and perceptions~~ and on girls' life plans, promoting discussion of educational and career choices in the classroom;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls for the promotion of a holistic approach to formal and informal education in schools, a sensitive approach to the inclusion of human rights, human dignity, ~~gender~~ equality between women and men and the development of self-esteem, encouraging informed decision-making for girls and women, both at a personal and professional level;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on European, national and local institutions to raise awareness on the part of women and girls of their rights and their potential by providing them with comprehensive training and information about courses of study and job opportunities on the basis of their aptitudes;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Calls on the institutions to ensure that girls learn to stand up for their own rights to life and health by providing them with proper education about all the instruments they can draw on to safeguard their own well-being;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Insists on giving special attention to the ~~gender dimension in all its forms, in curricula, content, school programmes~~place of and lres~~son plans, as well as the need to assess the place of~~pect for women in school curricula in various disciplines, highlighting their role in the content taught;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls for the promotion of ~~a gender perspective in~~ education on sexuality and the related emotions, in sport and leisure activities, where ~~stereotypes and expectations based on gender can affect the self-image,~~ there is greater scope for inequalities to emerge between men and women as regards health, acquisition of skills, intellectual development, and social integration ~~and identity construction of girls~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the authors and publishers of educational materials to be aware of the need to make ~~gender~~ equality between men and women a criterion for the production of these materials, ~~recommending the use of~~using teams of teachers and students in the creation of training materials ~~on gender equality~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines the need to prepare and disseminate guidelines for schools, teachers and those responsible for setting the curriculum in order to embrace a gender perspective and gender equality, and asks teachers to analyse and eliminate stereotypes and sexist distortions that the teaching materials may include in their content, language and illustrations, encouraging them also to combat this sexism in literature, film, music, games and other areas that contribute decisively to changing the attitudes, behaviour and identity of boys and girls;deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

~~17. Stresses the need to organise awareness-raising initiatives, training and integration of the gender perspective for all involved in education policy and also for parents and employers;~~deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Calls for every effort to be made to ensure that employment in the area of early childhood education, primary education and care is promoted as valid work for both women and men~~, reflecting on the relevance of using a system of quotas for men in these areas in the transitional arrangements~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Notes the need for monitoring and evaluation by independent bodies of progress made as a result of the adoption of gender equality policies in educational institutions, ongoing communication of information to the relevant authorities on all measures taken and progress made in this area, and the urgent need to convert the gender perspective into an internal and external evaluation element of educational institutions;deleted

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Reiterates the importance of conducting impact studies for educational policies on ~~gender~~the emancipation of women and girls, providing qualitative and quantitative instruments for the assessment of this impact~~, and using a budgetary strategy based on gender to promote both access and the right to educational resources~~;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Recognises it as fundamental to assess the impact of future education legislation on ~~gender equality~~the emancipation of women and girls and, where necessary, to revise existing laws in accordance with this principle;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Stresses that the monitoring procedures for implementing ~~gender equality program~~programmes on equality between men and womesn and respective assessment must be carried out by ~~educational research centres in close cooperation with experts in gender issues,~~the Member States in cooperation with the bodies set up by the EU and local authorities;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Suggests the creation of an Annual European Award for ~~Gender Equality~~the Emancipation of Women through Education for educational institutions and encourages Member States to do the same at national level;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Stresses the need to draw up plans of action and to allocate resources for the implementation of a ~~gender equality programme~~programme on the emancipation of women and girls through education, recommending the use of European instruments available for this purpose, namely the Investment Plan, the Horizon 2020 Programme and Community funds;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2250(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Emphasises the need for institutions to invest in suitable programmes, including financing programmes, which facilitate the integration of women into working life, on the basis of meritocratic principles and equality with men;

2015/05/21
Committee: FEMM

2014/2245(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas historically women have been more affected by unemployment than men, despite representing 59% of new graduates; whereas women’s unemployment stands at 10 % across the EU, with significant regional variation; whereas even for women who are employed, their professional qualifications and level of salary and pension contributions are not proportional to the degrees they have obtained;

2015/03/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2245(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas the employment rate for women is still low with respect to the objectives set out in the Europa 2020 strategy (11.5% below the target of 75%)1 a; __________________ 1aSource: Eurostat, Labour Force Survey (LFS), 2014 (second quarter)

2015/03/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2245(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

B b. whereas women are under-represented in managerial positions and only 30% of new start-ups in Europe are established by women1 a ; __________________ 1a Source: Entrepreneurship 2020 Action plan. Reigniting the entrepreneurial spirit in Europe (COM(2012) 795 final).

2015/03/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2245(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)

B c. whereas only 29% of women have a degree in ICT and only 4% are directly employed in the ICT sector1 a; __________________ 1a Source: European Commission report (2013), Women active in the ICT sector.

2015/03/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2245(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that women are more likely to be engaged in part-time work, which results in in-work poverty and a gender pension disparity; notes that employed women in Europe are still four times more likely to be working part-time than employed men1 a; is concerned about the variation in part- time work figures among the Member States; calls on the Commission to produce an updated, in-depth analysis of the different types of employment, including comparisons within and between Member States; __________________ 1aSource: Report on equality between women and men 2014, European Commission, Justice and Consumers

2015/03/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2245(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Member States to give priority to the digital economy agenda; stresses that full broadband access is a vital element in offering options to women and businesses in terms of flexible work arrangements and homeworking; calls on the Member States, the Commission and local and regional authorities to support investments for training women in the ICT sector.

2015/03/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2245(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and local and regional authorities to take account of policies for protecting women within their investment programmes and to ensure that funds are directed towards effective employment and professional growth and are not misused.

2015/03/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas some 73 % of Europe's population live in towns and cities, and whereas this figure is expected to reach 82 % by 2050;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco AFFRONTE, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas, according to the European Environment Agency, in 2011 atmospheric pollution in the form of fine particulates (PM 2.5) caused some 430 000 premature deaths in the 28 EU Member States, whilst every year a further 16 000 deaths can be attributed to high levels of tropospheric ozone;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas, if no appropriate measures are taken, by 2050 atmospheric pollution will become the main cause of death linked to the quality of the environment at global level;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas atmospheric pollution causes ten times as many deaths as road accidents;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)

Ae. whereas in 2010 alone the health- related costs generated by atmospheric pollution in the EU were put at between EUR 330 and 940 billion, or between 3 and 9 % of EU GDP;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)

Af. whereas reducing levels of fine particulates (PM 2.5) to those recommended by the WHO in 25 European cities would increase citizens’ average life expectancy by roughly 22 months and generate annual savings for the economy of some EUR 31 billion;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas ~~90 % of the inhabitants of European cities are exposed to levels of pollution which are above health safety limit~~a substantial proportion of European citizens - between 15 and 40 % - is exposed to levels of fine particulates (PM 2.5 and PM 10), tropospheric ozone and NO2 which are above EU quality standards;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas on the basis of the air quality guidelines issued by the World Health Organisation the proportion of European city dwellers exposed to dangerous levels of fine particulates (PM 2.5 and PM 10) and tropospheric ozone is roughly 90 %;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas noise pollution represents a serious risk to health, and whereas road traffic is the main cause of noise pollution;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Rosa D'AMATO, Eleonora EVI, Piernicola PEDICINI, Marco AFFRONTE, Peter LUNDGREN

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas some 73% of Europe's population live in towns and cities, and whereas this figure is expected to reach 82% by 2050;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)

Bc. whereas, according to the European Environment Agency, in 2011 at least 125 million European citizens were exposed to levels of noise pollution which were above the safety limit of 55 dB;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)

Bd. whereas in the European Union at least 9000 premature deaths each year from heart attacks or heart disease can be attributed to traffic noise, and whereas this figure may be a serious underestimate given the patchy nature of the data provided by many Member States;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. Whereas, according to the European Platform on Mobility Management (EPOMM), at least 25 % of journeys in metropolitan areas are work- or study- related, and whereas the average distance travelled by motorised means of transport is between 9 and 22 km;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas the sustainability of urban transport is one aspect of a broader policy of sustainable regional planning, and whereas urban green areas can help to offset in part the impact of the pollution attributable to road traffic;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas noise pollution poses a serious risk to health and whereas road traffic is the main cause of noise pollution, especially in urban areas with heavier congestion and traffic;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Peter LUNDGREN

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas improved sustainable mobility that is easily accessible and usable by all can be an important driving force for the promotion of tourism and the economic recovery of many places that are currently going through a crisis;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)

Cc. whereas according to Special Eurobarometer 406, published in 2013, some 50 % of European citizens use their private cars every day, whilst only 16 % use public transport and only 12 % bicycles;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas within urban areas ca. 70 % of emissions with adverse impact on climate are caused mainly by road transport;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C d (new)

Cd. whereas according to Special Eurobarometer 406, published in 2013, European citizens regard lower public transport fares (59 %), better public transport services (56 %) and better facilities for cyclists (33 %) as effective measures to improve urban mobility;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Peter LUNDGREN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas, according to the European Platform on Mobility Management (EPOMM), at least 25 % of journeys in metropolitan areas are work- or study- related, and whereas the average distance travelled by motorised means of transport is between 9 and 22 km;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C e (new)

Ce. whereas policies of concreting over the land and constructing new road infrastructure in urban and peri-urban areas do not solve the problem of traffic congestion, as demonstrated by the generation of additional motorised traffic as a result of road improvements;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on Member States to ~~facilitate teleworking so as to reduce the demand for transport~~promote programmes to reduce travel to and from the workplace by encouraging, inter alia, teleworking, ICT technologies and teleconferencing;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the sustainability of urban transport is one aspect of a broader policy of sustainable regional planning, and whereas urban green areas can help to offset in part the impact of the pollution attributable to road traffic;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas many victims of accidents in urban areas are vulnerable road users and pedestrians;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on Member States to ~~facilitate~~promote public transport, car sharing, car pooling, inter-modal transport systems and infomobility and establish areas ~~to which access is li~~where the only traffic permitted ~~exclusively to~~comprises public transport, electric orvehicles, car-sharing ~~vehicle~~or car-pooling cars and bicycles;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas according to Special Eurobarometer 406, published in 2013, some 50 % of European citizens use their private cars every day, whilst only 16 % use public transport and only 12 % bicycles;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Peter LUNDGREN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas proceeds from the sale of transport tickets cover only minimally the overall cost of transport systems and whereas the revenue is reinvested in sectors other than mobility;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Peter LUNDGREN

Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)

Ec. whereas free transport for residents in urban areas would have a countless number of other advantages in terms of incentivising sustainable urban mobility, in addition to indirect economic benefits and direct environmental and health benefits;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas according to Special Eurobarometer 406, published in 2013, European citizens regard lower public transport fares (59 %), better public transport services (56 %) and better facilities for cyclists (33 %) as effective measures to improve urban mobility;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)

Fb. whereas policies of concreting over the land and constructing new road infrastructure in urban and peri-urban areas do not solve the problem of traffic congestion, as demonstrated by the generation of additional motorised traffic as a result of road improvements;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls on Member States to develop and/or enhance electrified public surface transport, devoting to it part of the road area currently reserved for private transport;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls on Member States to make the construction of new road infrastructure conditional on the full and efficient implementation of public transport, particularly by rail, to link urban and peri-urban areas and respond effectively and sustainably to the phenomenon of commuting;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Calls on Member States to eliminate direct and indirect subsidies for the purchase and use of vehicles running on traditional fossil fuels;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)

3d. Calls on Member States to introduce tax incentives for electric vehicles such as reduced rates of VAT or exemption from road tax;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Underlines the importance of a bottom-up approach; therefore supports strongly e.g. the Convention of 6000 Mayors in Europe on reduction of GHG emissions and welcomes the appeal of Commissioner Canete on 13th October 2015 in Brussels to put a more ambitious Convention on the rails; supports the Commission to play a positive role as active catalyser with such initiatives;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)

3e. Calls on Member States to use part of the proceeds from taxation of fossil fuels or the circulation of private vehicles to finance part of the costs of urban public transport with the underlying aim of making it free of charge to residents;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to further promote the use of public transport in order to reduce congestion and pollutant air-borne emissions in urban areas;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 f (new)

3f. Calls on Member States to introduce direct and indirect subsidies and/or tax incentives for businesses that produce goods or services which promote sustainable urban mobility;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Supports the work of the Urban Mobility Observatory (Eltis) and believes that the communication around this initiative should be reinforced;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 g (new)

3g. Calls on Member States to introduce tax incentives or other economic incentives for businesses which grant fringe benefits in support of sustainable mobility, such as transport on foot, cycling, use of public and private collective transport and use of electric vehicles;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 h (new)

3h. Calls on Member States to promote sustainable tourism by granting tax incentives, economic incentives or relaxation of rules for hotels and similar businesses which offer customers sustainable urban transport solutions;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 i (new)

3i. Calls on Member States to provide incentives to scrap the most polluting vehicles, grading them so as to create the following order of preference: abandonment of a private vehicle in favour of collective public transport, electric vehicles, hydrogen-powered vehicles, including those using methane reformers, natural gas-driven vehicles, hybrid vehicles and LPG vehicles;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls on the Commission and Member States to propose an amendment to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic to ensure that, in urban areas, bicycles are always given right of way over motor vehicles;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Invites cities to define transport mode hierarchies based on the needs of pedestrians first and foremost, followed by cyclists, public transport, business and logistics, and private-car users, taking into account local condis convinced that that active mobility, such as walking, cycling, in combination with public and/or collective mobility are the future basis for a qualitative approach of healthy mobility options;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on Member States to draft and implement management plans to ensure the sustainability of logistics services such as goods distribution in urban areas;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Peter LUNDGREN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Considers it necessary to promote policies to reduce travel to and from the workplace by encouraging, inter alia, teleworking, ICT technologies and teleconferencing;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on Member States to promote active participation by citizens in drawing up urban mobility plans;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Underlines that inhabitants most vulnerable and sensitive to noise and air pollution, in particular particulate matters and ozone concentrations, are children, and that their interests - when developing urban mobility plans - must be higher on the agenda of the competent decision- makers at different levels;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Invites Urban Authorities and Member States to give better, anticipating and permanent informations to the citizens in adequate number of cities, in cooperation with metereologic services and by using e.g. displays in adequate numbers and also on the internet;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls on Member States to promote infomobility, and to facilitate the purchase of transport tickets through a widely distributed network of sales outlets and the exploitation of IT for the purchase of electronic tickets;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Calls on Member States to promote cycling by constructing physically separated cycle paths, interchange stations for transfer between bicycles and public transport and bicycle parks;

2015/05/21
Committee: ENVI

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the Member States and city councils to promote a gradual move away from fossil-fuel-powered means of public transport in favour of new vehicles that harness alternative and eco-sustainable sources of energy;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for the EU and national and local authorities to draw up electric mobility plans which give priority to trams, urban trains, sky ropes, electric bicycles and shared/pooled e-cars; stresses that the promotion of electric mobility must be based on a balanced approach and take into account the entire lifecycle of e- vehicles;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls for the EU and national and local authorities to draw up electric mobility plans which give priority to trams, urban trains, sky ropes, electric bicycles and shared/pooled e-cars, and to establish traffic zones tha can only be used by public means of transport and promote intermodal transport and infomobility;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Encourages private companies, administrations, as well as EU institutions to further improve mobility management services for their members, staff and visitors; considers that mobility measures, such as those coordinated by the European Platform on Mobility Management (EPOMM), bear a large potential for solving urban congestion and accessibility for all;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on Member States to promote cycling by constructing protected cycle paths, bicycle-public transport interchange points and bicycle parking facilities;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS, Lucy ANDERSON, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Henna VIRKKUNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Encourages Member States and local authorities to define requirements regarding environmental performance in public procurement procedures, particularly when purchasing vehicles for public transport or vehicles used by public authorities;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on Member States to develop and/or enhance electrified overground public transport, setting aside for this part of the road area currently reserved for private transport;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on city councils to establish the electric bicycle as being a means of public transport on a par with all other types of public transport;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Lucy ANDERSON, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Recalls that mobility is a right that should benefit all citizens;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Calls on Member States to make the construction of new road infrastructure conditional on full and efficient implementation of public transport, particularly by rail, to link urban and peri-urban areas and address effectively and sustainably the phenomenon of commuting;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)

12c. Calls on Member States to promote active public participation in the drawing-up of urban mobility plans;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)

12d. Calls on city councils to develop urban mobility plans that allow certain categories of light electric transport, including bicycles and single-wheelers, access to areas closed to traffic and to historic city centres, in parallel with pedestrian areas;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Calls on Member States and local authorities to promote a reinforcement and extension of alternative energy distribution networks for transport vehicles;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Lucy ANDERSON, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS, Henna VIRKKUNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Recalls that space use and mobility is a right that should benefit to all citizens; underlines the impact of demographic changes within the EU on citizens' mobility needs; stresses the need for targeted planning and investment in order to ensure win-win effects for elderly people, for persons with reduced mobility (PRMs) and disabled persons;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Demands the Commission, national and local authorities to promote, where possible, inland navigation as an integrated mobility solution for soft mobility in cities;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Henna VIRKKUNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)

15b. Encourages strongly European cities to re-design their parking policy (parking space supply, use of intelligent parking systems as well as pricing) and to simultaneously put more efforts in the development of functional intermodal hubs, providing varied transport services and enabling smooth combination of transport solutions, such as collective transport, shared transport, cycling and rental services;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)

15c. Invites Member States to analyse the needs and objectives for mobility infrastructure, addressing all modes and means of transport, favouring the interconnection of urban and peri-urban areas, taking into account competitiveness and better conditions of employment and to develop on this basis sustainable urban mobility plans;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Karima DELLI, Rolandas PAKSAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Asks cities to rethink their urban planning schemes and provide the installation of logistic platforms, fundamental to a sustainable urban freight transport;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Calls on Member States to draft and implement management plans to ensure the sustainability of logistics services such as goods distribution in urban areas;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Calls on cities to promote better provision of information on urban public transport to residents and tourists to ensure they have a clear view of all the forms of transport and options available;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Demands to pay attention to accident black spots zones in urban planning schemes;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Peter LUNDGREN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Points out that the safety of pedestrians and drivers must always be viewed as a key element of all urban sustainable transport planning;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Calls on Member States to eliminate direct and indirect subsidies for the purchase and use of vehicles running on traditional fossil fuels;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Peter LUNDGREN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Calls on Member States to introduce tax incentives for electric vehicles, such as reduced rates of VAT or exemption from road tax;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 b (new)

25b. Calls on Member States to use part of the proceeds from the taxation of fossil fuels or the circulation of private vehicles to finance part of the costs of urban public transport with the underlying aim of making it free of charge to residents;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 c (new)

25c. Calls on Member States to introduce direct and indirect subsidies and/or tax incentives for businesses that produce goods or services which promote sustainable urban mobility;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Peter LUNDGREN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 d (new)

25d. Calls on Member States to introduce tax incentives or other economic incentives for businesses which grant fringe benefits in support of sustainable mobility, such as travel by foot, cycling, use of public and private collective transport and use of electric vehicles;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 e (new)

25e. Calls on Member States to promote sustainable tourism by granting tax incentives, economic incentives or relaxation of rules for hotels and similar businesses which offer customers sustainable urban transport solutions;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 f (new)

25f. Calls on Member States to provide incentives for scrapping highly-polluting vehicles, grading them so as to create the following order of preference: abandonment of a private vehicle in favour of collective public transport, electric vehicles, hydrogen-powered vehicles, including those using methane reformers, natural gas-driven vehicles, hybrid vehicles and LPG vehicles;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Calls on the Commission to pinpoint new forms of sustainable funding for public transport which enable environmental sustainability, digitisation and accessibility, stimulate the economy of urban areas and create new jobs;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)

27c. Calls on city councils to encourage the provision of information propitious to the creation of tourist packages which include urban mobility and the various transport options available as part of the package;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Is convinced that additional efforts should be made to network and coordinate EU pilot projects, ~~and to integrate cities, when discussing the implementation of future mobility policie~~e.g. by Civitas, Polis, Eltis, and to integrate cities with their practical experience and know-how, when discussing the implementation of future mobility policies; to that end, urges the Commission to set up easily accessible overviews of EU co-funded urban mobility programmes; demands furthermore to make clear - in user-friendly manner - how to obtain EU co-funding for urban mobility projects;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Calls on the Commission to steer existing research programmes in the direction of pinpointing energy recovery potentials in means of transport (e.g. through braking systems) and in the field of mobility in general (pedestrian walkways and speed restrictors permitting energy recovery);

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS, Merja KYLLÖNEN, Henna VIRKKUNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Is of the opinion that the Commission should increase funds within Horizon 2020 dedicated to research and development of smart technologies to manage freight traffic and persons mobility as well as low-carbon technologies for urban mobility in urban areas;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Henna VIRKKUNEN, Rolandas PAKSAS, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)

29b. Recalls that by using intelligent transport solutions, transport and mobility services will be more efficient, safe, environmentally friendly and smooth; invites the Commission to take urban mobility into the focus of the Digital Agenda and encourages stakeholders to closely cooperate to develop interoperable services;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 c (new)

29c. Asks the EU to disseminate and export its know-how on smart cities and sustainable mobility systems as recommended in its Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities in order to contribute to the development of sustainable solutions in cities in other parts of the world; further believes that EU cities can also learn from best practice solutions in cities outside of the EU;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Karima DELLI, Daniela AIUTO, Rolandas PAKSAS, Henna VIRKKUNEN, Lucy ANDERSON, Merja KYLLÖNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 d (new)

29d. Notes that digitalisation provides many opportunities for transport services; asks the Commission to prioritise the development of new technologies enabling road users to take more proactive role as a developer and data producer in the transport system in order to contribute to platforms for mobility services, in line with the EU rules and data protection;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Calls on Member States to promote infomobility, and to facilitate the purchase of transport tickets through a widely distributed network of sales outlets and the use of information technologies for the purchase of electronic tickets;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2242(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI, Rosa D'AMATO, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30a. Calls on the Commission to develop models for efficient and sustainable smart cities based on multimodal transport, digitisation, better provision of information, the use of integrated ticketing, which could be taken up, for example, by city councils;

2015/06/08
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Emphasises the need to promote the cultural, natural, gastronomic and artistic heritage particular to those various sites spread throughout Europe that are, to date, not widely known or easily reachable, in order to achieve high standards of tourism throughout Europe;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls on the European Commission to identify, within its own financing programme, specific tools for promoting European cultural routes, in collaboration with the Council of Europe;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)

9b. Furthermore calls on the Commission to boost its cooperation with the Council of Europe, the European Travel Commission and the UN World Tourism Organisation, as well as other international partners, in order to strengthen efforts to develop new transnational and pan-European tourism products;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Calls on Member States to promote new tourism routes by regenerating disused areas, streets, railways, deserted paths and outdated routes;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on Member States to invest in high-quality training for tourist guides and encourage a multilingual approach in order to better promote sites of interest to foreign tourists; furthermore calls on the Commission and Member States to define European quality standards for tourist guides, by ensuring compliance with minimum training requirements;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Commission to boost collaboration between Member States in order to improve product quality by protecting the ‘made in’ brand;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to continue promoting sustainable tourism in cooperation with the ETC by establishing a European network, developing new specific products and setting up a Europe- wide web platform that brings together information on products ~~and destination~~, destinations, transportation means and tourism routes and guides in one database with access through the Visiteurope.com portal;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop networks of green routes incorporating rural and wooded areas and minor natural sites, by integrating existing transport infrastructure networks with new eco-sustainable solutions;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls for the development of sustainable tourism services in those regions which, despite having great cultural and tourism potential, have suffered damage to their image caused by a greater focus on and development of other sectors, including the industrial sector;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Supports the development of integrated multimodal transport forms for tourists through the creation of tickets enabling different transportation means to be used on the basis of differing requirements;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)

19b. Calls on Member States to offer subsidies for tourists in order to encourage the use of eco-sustainable transportation means;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2241(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)

32a. Calls on Member States and local authorities to ensure that all stations and arrival, departure and transfer platforms are equipped with information offices incorporating trained staff able to provide information on key destinations, transportation means, and tourism facilities, as well as multilingual digital information systems with free and unlimited access to wi-fi networks that are equally usable by persons with disabilities;

2015/06/25
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the negotiations have been conducted with a sad lack of transparency in regard to both stakeholder involvement and keeping EU citizens informed;

2015/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas implementation of ISDS (Investor-State Dispute Settlement) as part of the agreement on the TTIP represents a serious threat to national sovereign powers as it has the potential to favour multinationals and their economic interests to the detriment of EU states and the people of Europe;

2015/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Finds regrettable the fact that no transport-related issues were included in the Commission’s negotiating mandate for the TTIP, this being an essential sector for trade and of great interest to policies on infrastructure and technology investment;

2015/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Reiterates ~~the great importance of the transatlantic transport sector for trade as well as economic growth and jobs; reiterates~~ its call for the negotiations to address in a meaningful way and in the spirit of reciprocity all relevant issues, taking into account existing EU standards; with due regard for protection of consumers, workers, safety and the environment; calls for the European Unionʼs achievements in regard to privacy and the processing of passenger data to be honoured within the TTIP;

2015/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Calls for guarantees that national laws will have priority in security issues connected to the free trade agreement;

2015/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that US maritime cabotage laws are regulated by the Jones Act (Merchant Marine Act of 1920) and that under this act US vessels are: i) restricted from having repair and conversion services carried out outside the US; and (ii) subject to declaration, entry and payment of a 50 % import duty upon return to the US, if sent to a foreign shipyard for repair work or the installation of certain equipment; emphasises that no US-built requirements exist for any other modes of transportation in the US and that this results in the effective exclusion of the EU shipbuilding industry, including ship repair and maintenance, from selling vessels for use in American waters; notes that the EU does not exclude maritime manufacturers from the US or any other third countries; calls upon the Commission to ~~address in the TTIP this extreme protectionism by the US~~ensure the TTIP provides for the repeal of the Jones Act;

2015/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Notes that EU companies are hindered as regards market access for major transport infrastructure investments (such as railway projects) due to: i) regulatory and standardisation barriers; and (ii) ‘ʽBuy America’ʼ2 provisions2 and highlights the fact that in the field of aviation, for instance, in high-value technological and industrial projects such as SESAR for Europe and NextGen for the US, European industries do not benefit from the same guaranteed access to procurement notices as US industries do in Europe; emphasises that this puts EU goods and services at a serious disadvantage; calls upon the Commission to address in the TTIP this protectionism by the US by pushing for the creation of a level playing field and establishing a new level of transparency in procurement with open and predictable procedural requirements. __________________ 2Buy America Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Surface Transportation Assistance Act.

2015/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Notes that although the US has signed the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, 13 of its States are not subject to its provisions and another 37 States do not apply it equally; points out that this seriously hinders market access for EU companies and calls for solutions to be found in the TTIP to the restrictions brought about by the separation of state and federal powers;

2015/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2014/2228(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls for ISDS to be excluded from the TTIP.

2015/02/09
Committee: TRAN

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the existing taxation systems in some Member States are predicated on a narrow view of the family to the extent that they are biased towards ~~families in which only one of the two parents is working~~single-income families inasmuch as, in many cases, they deter women from going out to work and fail to provide sufficient support to single- parent families;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas the female employment rate is 63%, whereas the gender pay gap stands at 16.4%, whereas 73% of the members serving in national parliaments and 63% of Members of the European Parliament are men, and whereas women make up 17.8% of the membership of large company boards and every week spend three times as long as men on household chores;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas many women work in companies free of charge, or as figureheads, which seriously harms their career opportunities and has an adverse effect on their pension entitlements;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)

Eb. whereas women are often forced to work in administrative positions in which they have no career development prospects and there is frequently a glass ceiling;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas if the present trends continue, the target of 75% of women in employment will not be reached until 2038 and equal pay will not become a reality before 2084; whereas equal representation in national parliaments, in the EU institutions and on European company boards could be achieved by 2034, but whereas it would take until 2054 before housework was shared equally;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the sharing of family and domestic responsibilities between men and women, to be brought about not least through a greater uptake of ~~parental leave~~maternity and paternity leave, is essential in order to achieve gender equality; whereas a quarter of Member States do not offer paternity leave;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas one woman in three in the EU has been physically and/or sexually assaulted and half of all women in the EU (53%) avoid certain situations or places, at least occasionally, for fear of being physically or sexually assaulted; whereas, on the contrary, surveys into victimisation and fear of crime show that far fewer men restrict their movements for that reason26 ; __________________ 26 Violence against women: an EU-wide survey, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, March 2014.

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

~~M. whereas sexual and reproductive rights are fundamental human rights and should be taken into account in the EU’s action programme in the field of health;~~deleted

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to mainstream ~~gender~~equality between men and women~~’s rights~~ into their policy- making and budget procedures, especially in connection with stimulus packages~~, by carrying out gender impact analyses in every case~~;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to allow for changes in the family unit when drawing up their taxation and compensation policies, in particular by providing support to large families, one- parent families and older people in the form of tax credits or health care assistance;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
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;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to establish paid paternity leave of at least ten working days and to encourage measures, legislative and otherwise, enabling men, and fathers in particular, to exercise their right to achieve work-life balance, one example being to promote parental leave~~, to be taken either by the father or by the mother, but without swapping between them, until their child has reached a given age~~;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for the adoption of policies to safeguard and guarantee a suitable period of maternity leave, including for mothers who work as freelancers or are self- employed and who are not classified as waged workers;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Deplores the deadlock in the Council regarding the Maternity Leave Directive; urges the Member States to resume the negotiations; ~~and~~ reiterates its willingness to cooperate; and suggests that the Directive may be re-examined, while keeping its most important point which is minimum maternity leave, on the basis of the standards established by the International Labour Organisation (ILO)1 a; __________________ 1aInternational Labour Organisation, Maternity Protection Recommendation, 2000 (No. 191), Recommendation concerning the revision of the Maternity Protection Recommendation, 1952

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Recalls in this respect that longer maternity leave is seen as a way to encourage women to breastfeed their babies, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO)2 a; __________________ 2aWHO Statement, Exclusive breastfeeding for six months best for babies everywhere, 15 January 2011

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Calls on the Council to state its position on the directive on ~~gender~~the balance between men and women among non-executive directors of listed companies so as to enable the legislative process to be continued as soon as possible;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2217(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Maintains that women must have control over their sexual and reproductive rights, not least by having ready access to contraception and abortion; accordingly supports measures and actions to improve women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and inform them more fully about their rights and the services available; calls on the Member States and the Commission to implement measures and actions to make men aware of their responsibilities for sexual and reproductive mattersaccess to high quality maternal healthcare;

2014/12/12
Committee: FEMM

2014/2216(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses the need to ensure that women in Europe and the rest of the world have the right to be able freely to make their own individual choices, on a par with men, without any ideological, political or religious impositions;

2014/12/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2216(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Stresses the need to ensure that women who arrive in Europe are able to change their habits and lifestyles without fearing repercussions or vendettas from family members or third persons;

2014/12/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2216(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Condemns the serious subjugation of women in third countries and the violence to which they are subjected, including and especially by men in a family setting; asserts the right of women to have equal social rights and rights to life and freedom;

2014/12/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Encourages the Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the participating countries to fully exploit the possibilities available under the newly established European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) to finance projects in the region which would create value at the macro-regional level;deleted

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses the need to align the national and regional operational programmes of EU Member States with the goals of the strategy;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Considers it imperative that, in the implementation phase of the strategy, its general principles, and in particular matters relating to environmental protection and the enhancement of natural resources, should be taken into due consideration in all four pillars, also in order to take a holistic approach to the complex and varied challenges of the macro-region;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)

7b. Urges Member States to actively involve all stakeholders in the decision- making procedures concerning the macro-region, particularly local communities, which must be able to exercise their right to protect their environment and health when these are put in danger by polluting and dangerous economic activities;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Emphasises that the region faces serious migration problems in the Mediterranean; ~~stresses that controlling these problems is essential for the further development of the southern part of the region~~regrets the insufficient cooperation among EU Member States with regard to migratory challenges; considers it imperative that a holistic approach be taken to migration flows, taking into consideration not only the security aspects, but also the humanitarian aspect and the possible integration of migrants;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes with concern the rate of fish stock depletion in the Adriatic and Ionian Seas as a result of overfishing and the significant risks to all marine life posed by oil and gas prospecting techniques, such as air guns; stresses that fisheries are one of the key components in the economies of the coastal areas and islands; deems it necessary, therefore, to consider the protection and preservation of fish stocks to be a paramount objective of the strategy, to take decisive action in the form of data sharing, joint monitoring platforms and fishery management plans, and to further develop the aquaculture sector;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Stresses the importance of improving transport and energy connectivity among the participating countries as well as between them and their other neighbours, including maritime transport, intermodal connections to the hinterland and energy networks; underlines the lack of connection between the two coasts on the Adriatic and the infrastructure gap which exists in the Adriatic/Ionian region;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses the need to develop combined transport of goods and passengers by road and sea as a way of attaining greater social cohesion between the States participating in the Strategy and reducing road congestion and thus CO2 emissions;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Underlines the importance of connecting maritime transport routes and ports with other parts of Europe and the relevance of interconnections with TEN-T corridors; calls on the participating countries to focus their efforts on implementing projects that are covered by the current TEN-T network and i~~ts proposed indicative~~mplementing other measures for its proposed extension which can overcome the existing disparity in infrastructure in the Adriatic/Ionian area, with particular reference to completing the Baltic- Adriatic corridor, the North-South extension tof the ~~Western Balkans, using existing instrum~~Scandinavian- Mediterranean corridor to the Ancona- Pescara-Bari section and the entire Adriatic coast of Italy, the building of a branch to link the Iberian peninsula to central Italy and the Balkans more effectively so as to develop the motorways of the sea, and improving port infrastructure so as to link the two coasts of the Adriatic more efficientsly;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Underlines the need to incorporate in the TEN-T networks the high-speed railway line from Ancona to Apulia, in order to eliminate the bottleneck at the Ancona hub;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls on the participating countries to improve their maritime, rail and air transport infrastructure, ~~and~~ to develop motorways of the sea in the macro-region, combining intermodal transport means, especially for connecting the hinterland, and to improve transport logistics, putting the most advanced technologies to the best possible use and always ensuring a high level of safety and environmental sustainability;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Stresses the persistent and deplorable lack of regular rail services and the lack of road links between the Tyrrhenian coast and the Adriatic/Ionian coast, which seriously damages the prospects for tourism and productive activities in the areas concerned;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Expresses its deep concern regarding the numerous concessions made to various multinational oil companies for the purposes of marine hydrocarbon prospecting, which, moreover, in blatant contradiction with the Union’s climate and renewable energy objectives, will entail a large number of boreholes in semi-enclosed seas such as the Adriatic and Ionian, exposing the macro-region to the risk of disasters with very serious consequences for the environment, economy and public health;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Considers that growth potential in the macro-region depends chiefly on attracting tourists and on economic activities relating to its particular environment and ecosystem, rather than on industrial development; expresses its deep concern at renewed oil and gas prospecting initiatives on land and at sea, using methods that are particularly dangerous for the ecosystem and fish stocks, such as air-gun exploration techniques in areas in which the environment has already been severely affected;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)

28a. Considers that, even from the point of view of diversifying energy supply sources, the economic and strategic benefits of projects such as the Trans- Adriatic pipeline emerging on the coast of Puglia will, in view of the reduction in demand for gas, be negligible compared with the major onshore and offshore environmental impact thereof, seriously undermining delicate ecosystems where the pipeline emerges on land, affecting in particular Posidonia sea grass beds, Caretta caretta turtle colonies and ancient olive groves in the area concerned;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Stresses the need to encourage the use of existing airports in the macro- region in order to avoid the excessive concentration of passengers in a few airport hubs and promote sustainable and more balanced tourist flows in various locations;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Recognises the rich cultural and natural heritage of the region as a strong asset, which the tourism sector builds upon; points out the large number of protected UNESCO sites in all participating countries; considers that, despite the significant contribution of this sector to the economy, the tourism potential is not being fully exploited, in particular owing to high seasonality and lacks in the areas of innovation, sustainability, transport infrastructure, the quality of the tourism offer, the skills of participating stakeholders and responsible tourism management; calls, in this connection, for the eight governments adhering to the strategy to adopt policies ensuring adequate connections and tourist facilities both during and outside the summer season so as to diversify tourist flows and ensure a constant tourist presence in every season;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2214(INI)

Rosa D'AMATO, Isabella ADINOLFI, Marco ZULLO, Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)

32 a. Stresses the need for genuine transport intermodality using an integrated network of services and intersections with a view to developing quality eco-tourism;

2015/07/08
Committee: REGI

2014/2210(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas little information is, however, available concerning women employed in family businesses, given that the actual concept of the family business is still relatively undocumented;

2015/01/29
Committee: FEMM

2014/2210(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas in many countries the problem resides in the fact that society is permeated by a culture of male dominance in all walks of life and not only at the workplace;

2015/01/29
Committee: FEMM

2014/2210(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas, in many European countries, women are frequently required to act as figureheads, either for tax reasons or because of legal obstacles preventing a male entrepreneur from holding any position within the business or placing it in his own name;

2015/01/29
Committee: FEMM

2014/2210(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital E

E. whereas women have difficulty in taking over family businesses as successors, given that preference is given to sons and daughters are nearly always excluded, save under exceptional circumstances dictated by the absence of a male heir or a crisis affecting the company;

2015/01/29
Committee: FEMM

2014/2210(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas women seeking to combine their roles as mothers and business operators frequently find themselves forced to sideline the former or even abandon the notion of motherhood in order to run the business;

2015/01/29
Committee: FEMM

2014/2210(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for measures to protect women to be applied and implemented more effectively, with a view to avoiding horizontal and vertical segregation, wage and job discrimination (invisibility and ‘figurehead’ treatment), providing both genders with equal opportunities, social rights and access to health, as well as ensuring fair remuneration, contribution payments, pensions and benefits;

2015/01/29
Committee: FEMM

2014/2210(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls for the adoption of an unambiguous definition of family businesses for all the Member States, providing a solid career base for both genders;

2015/01/29
Committee: FEMM

2014/2210(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for all possible measures to be adopted to prevent and penalise acts of abuse or coercion, situations conducive to blackmail and/or subjugation, or violence against women at the workplace, pointing out that, in addition to acts of physical violence, seclusion and discrimination are also forms of mental cruelty or psychological aggression;

2015/01/29
Committee: FEMM

2014/2210(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b Welcomes the Commission's intention to encourage the study and statistical analysis of the presence of women in family businesses in Europe;

2015/01/29
Committee: FEMM

2014/2204(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas Ebola frequently causes pregnant women to miscarry, since when an expectant mother falls ill, it is rare that she is able to continue with the pregnancy.

2015/02/06
Committee: FEMM

2014/2204(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas there is a high risk that breast-feeding mothers will transmit the disease to their children, and whereas in such cases unwell mothers should be helped to make the transition to bottle feeding;

2015/02/06
Committee: FEMM

2014/2204(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)

Bc. whereas obtaining treatment is problematic for pregnant women, owing to the invasive nature of that treatment,

2015/02/06
Committee: FEMM

2014/2204(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas for safety reasons it is recommended that women do not have sexual relations for around a year after infection, even once they have recovered, but sometimes find themselves forced to do so due to the culture and traditions of many communities, in particular in many developing countries;

2015/02/06
Committee: FEMM

2014/2204(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the international community to promote information and education campaigns to make women aware of unsafe practices which should be avoided, and to spread accurate information which limits the risk of infection but at the same time does not interfere with local customs;

2015/02/06
Committee: FEMM

2014/2204(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Supports the promotion of prophylactic treatments to prevent infection, with a particular focus on women;

2015/02/06
Committee: FEMM

2014/2204(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Calls on the international community to allocate funding specifically for the reinforcement of local facilities and resources put in place expressly to help women;

2015/02/06
Committee: FEMM

2014/2160(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas many women work in companies free of charge, or as figureheads, or in undeclared employment, which seriously harms their career opportunities and has an adverse effect on their pension entitlements;

2015/04/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2160(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas women are often forced to work in administrative positions in which they have no career development prospects and there is frequently a glass ceiling;

2015/04/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2160(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas women are paid less than their male counterparts even when they do the same work or work at the same level or grade;

2015/04/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2160(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)

Ma. whereas equality between men and women and the need to bridge the pay gap are vital issues for employment growth, competitiveness and economic revival;

2015/04/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2160(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Takes the view that the Commission and the Member States should adopt shared measures on maternity and paternity leave which enable women to have children without any negative repercussions on their professional status whilst at the same time ensuring that employers do not suffer damage to their businesses;

2015/04/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2160(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt all possible measures to prevent and penalise acts of abuse or coercion, situations conducive to blackmail and/or subjugation, or violence against women at the workplace, pointing out that, in addition to acts of physical violence, segregation and discrimination are also forms of mental cruelty or psychological aggression;

2015/04/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2160(INI)

Daniela AIUTO, Marco ZULLO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the Commission to introduce in the new directive ~~sanctions at EU level that would exclude companies found guilty of infringing the equality principle from the public procurement of~~measures to monitor compliance with the principle of equal treatment and equal opportunities by companies which are awarded public contracts for goods and services financed from the EU budget;

2015/04/15
Committee: FEMM

2014/2143(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the fertility rate in the EU-28 (1.58 live births per woman) has been much lower in recent decades than this replacement level (2.1);

2014/10/30
Committee: FEMM

2014/2143(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas women and in particular mothers are often victims of discriminations in their access to work, according to the type of employment; whereas that creates a strong prejudice for their carriers;

2014/10/30
Committee: FEMM

2014/2143(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital D c (new)

Dc. whereas the right to be mother and to have children should be guaranteed to all the women;

2014/10/30
Committee: FEMM

2014/2143(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital D d (new)

Dd. whereas migration is increasing in Europe and all over the world, and many women are victim of discrimination and violence if they want to change their culture, religion, lifestyle;

2014/10/30
Committee: FEMM

2014/2143(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Recital D e (new)

De. whereas in many countries, national laws do not guarantee the same rights to men and women;

2014/10/30
Committee: FEMM

2014/2143(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for a clear strategy and a strong support for women in order to increase the fertility rate, creating the conditions for women to have children in a context of economic and occupational stability.

2014/10/30
Committee: FEMM

2014/2143(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls for a clear strategy that lets women and mothers have access to work without discrimination, safeguarding the right to maternity and work at the same time.

2014/10/30
Committee: FEMM

2014/2143(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Urges the United Nations to emphasise in MDGs the importance of the right of women to migrate and integrate themselves in a new culture changing their lifestyle without incurring violence and abuses.

2014/10/30
Committee: FEMM

2014/2130(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Proposes that Parliament should not grant the Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking discharge in respect of the implementation of its budget for the financial year 2013.

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2119(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Draws attention with satisfaction to the comment of the Court of Auditors about the reduction in the carryover of committed appropriations from 32 % in 2012 to 29 % in 2013; notes the comment from the Court of Auditors that these carryovers mainly concern procurement procedures concluded late in the year due to reasons mostly beyond the Institute's control and calls on the Institute to continue its efforts to progressively reduce them; and to deliver improved budget efficiency;c

2014/12/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2111(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Highlights the constant problems in the monitoring of calls for tender and operating activities; stresses that ex-ante checks should be tightened up and ex-post checks introduced, as a means of verifying performances;

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2111(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Laments the fact there are still two separate seats of the ERA (in Lille and Valenciennes) and the unnecessary additional budgetary costs this creates;

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2111(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls for a single seat for the ERA to be established in a location easily accessible using public transport, as already requested by the European Parliament in its Decision 2013/2228(DEC);

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2111(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Laments the lack of transparency in the recruitment procedure; stresses that a transparent public selection procedure should be adopted for recruiting external experts;

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2111(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 7

7. Proposes that Parliament should not grant the Executive Director of the European Railway Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency's budget for the financial year 2013.

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2106(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Draws attention to the constant problems in monitoring calls for tender and operating activities; calls for ex ante controls to be improved and ex post controls introduced for the purpose of verifying performance;

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2106(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Deplores the fact that there is no transparency in recruitment procedures; calls for the adoption of a transparency protocol setting out a public procedure for the selection of external experts;

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2106(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Notes that the EASA too will have to cut its staff by 2018;

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2106(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8

8. Proposes that Parliament should not grant the Executive Director of the European Aviation Safety Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2013.

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2105(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Draws attention to the constant problems in monitoring calls for tender and operating activities; calls for ex ante controls to be improved and ex post controls introduced for the purpose of verifying performance;

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2105(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Deplores the fact that there is no transparency in recruitment procedures; calls for the adoption of a transparency protocol setting out a public procedure for the selection of external experts;

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2105(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Notes that the EMSA too will have to cut its staff by 2018;

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2105(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. Proposes that Parliament should not grant the Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency discharge in respect of the implementation of the Agency’s budget for the financial year 2013.

2015/01/28
Committee: TRAN

2014/2075(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the fact that the residual error rate in 2013 is below 2 % for the TEN-T programme, the Marco Polo programme managed by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI) and the Joint Undertakings for which DG MOVE is responsible (SESAR and Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH)); regrets, however,Highlights the constant problems in the monitoring of calls for tender and operating activities; regrets that the residual error rate for FP7 for research in the transport sector remains above 2 % in 2013 (2,82 %); notes that ~~the main reasons for~~although errors under research programmes are often the result of the complexity of the eligibility rules in the basic acts ~~and the lack of capacity for full ex ante control over the claims of all beneficiaries, numbering in the thousands~~, ex ante checks are not sufficiently effective; stresses that ex post controls should be introduced as a means of verifying performance; expects that the radical simplifications which have been proposed in Horizon 2020 will contribute to significant decrease in errors;

2015/01/27
Committee: TRAN

2014/2075(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Deplores the illegal practice of awarding contracts directly without conducting a public procedure, as highlighted by the Court of Auditors in connection with a TEN-T project in Germany in which contracts for additional construction works for an airport passenger terminal were declared for cofinancing (similar cases have arisen in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, Italy and Sweden);

2015/01/27
Committee: TRAN

2014/2075(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Deplores the use of illegal award criteria, which results in contracts being awarded in an irregular manner, and the making of changes contracts’ scope following the completion of tender procedures, as highlighted by the Court of Auditors in connection with ERDF projects in Spain;

2015/01/27
Committee: TRAN

2014/2075(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Takes due note of the Court of Auditors' annual report on the implementation of the budget, in particular with regard to employment and social affairs, but regrets limited references to ~~gender~~ equality between men and women in this field as well as an insufficient focus on employment, social solidarity and ~~gender~~ equality between men and women in this year's special reports of the Court of Auditors;

2014/12/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2075(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Deplores the serious failures to comply with public procurement rules highlighted by the Court of Auditors and involving the direct award of additional works in the absence of unforeseen circumstances, the use of illegal award procedures and the making of changes to contracts’ scope following the completion of tender procedures;

2015/01/27
Committee: TRAN

2014/2075(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Reiterates its demand to further develop gender-specific indicators and data, with particular reference to types of post and grading of staff in the different institutions, to allow assessments of the general budget of the Union from a gender perspective and to monitor efforts on gender budgeting;

2014/12/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/2075(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Points out that the errors detected are not confined to procedural flaws but include the unlawful use of funds by firms at the centre of arrests and investigations into links with organised crime, as occurred in connection with the Mestre bypass in Italy;

2015/01/27
Committee: TRAN

2014/2075(DEC)

Daniela AIUTO, Peter LUNDGREN

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Proposes that in relation to the sectors for which the Committee on Transport and Tourism is responsible, Parliament should not grants the Commission discharge in respect of the implementation of the Union general budget for the financial year 2013, as soon as the whole budget receives a Positive Statement of Assurance from the Court of Auditors.

2015/01/27
Committee: TRAN

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the economic crisis and austerity measures have disproportionately affected women, particularly young women and women ~~suffering from multiple discrimination~~by exacerbating poverty and excluding them increasingly from the labour market;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas the Barcelona objectives are an excellent tool for achieving real gender equality, and all Member States must set out to reach them as soon as possible;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas as a result of a lack of high-quality childcare facilities and services at affordable prices, mothers are increasingly forced to choose between working part-time and giving up their jobs to take care of their children, with repercussions on the family income and pension savings;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas more than half of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner, relative or family member15; whereas 33 % of women in the EU have experienced physical and or sexual violence and 55 % have been sexually harassed, both in public and in the workplace; __________________ 15 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/crime/data base.

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)

Na. whereas the phenomenon of femicide is sharply rising in some Member States, such as Italy, with an increasing number of cases being recorded;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital R a (new)

Ra. whereas one of the main aims of human trafficking is sexual exploitation, and the women who fall victim to it are forced to live a life of imprisonment and tyranny through everyday violence, both physical and psychological;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas ~~sexual and reproductive health an~~health and the associated rights are fundamental rights and an essential element of gender equality and self-determination; ~~and whereas they should be included, as basic human rights, in the EU Health Strategy in order to ensure coherence between the EU’s internal and external fundamental rights policies;~~

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Strongly deplores the austerity policies driven forward by the European Union, which, together with the economic crisis, are drastically slowing down the process of achieving gender equality, and subsequently marginalising women in society and the workplace;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor the rights of female workers, who increasingly work in low-paid jobs and are victims of discrimination;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Congratulates the Member States which have achieved both Barcelona objectives; encourages Portugal, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Finland, Italy, Malta and Estonia to achieve the other target, and calls on Poland, Croatia and Romania, where both targets remain far from being achieved, to step up their efforts in providing formal child care to contribute to striking a better balance between the private and professional lives of female workers;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Calls on the Member States to prevent and combat forms of domestic violence, which, in the majority of cases, leads to the death of the victims, mostly women; an increasingly common phenomenon in which the victims are reluctant to report violence because it is inflicted by husbands, boyfriends or members of their own family;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Strongly reiterates that gender- based forms of violence and discrimination, such as: rape and sexual violence, sexual harassment, female genital mutilation, arranged marriages, and domestic violence grossly impair human dignity, and therefore calls on the Member States to adopt more effective measures aimed at effectively preventing and repressing these phenomena;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Repeats its calls on the Member States to put an immediate end to the detention of children, pregnant and nursing women and survivors of rape, sexual violence and trafficking, and for appropriate psychological and health support to be made available, provided by professional figures such as female psychologists, social workers, nurses and doctors who have been suitably trained for such emergencies; recalls that timely support for refugee victims of gender- based violence should be provided at all stages of the migration process;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Calls on the Commission to both financially and logistically support Member States that combat human trafficking, in particular Italy and Greece, which, in the wake of the current migrant crisis, have found themselves on the front line in tackling this emergency;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/2015(INI)

Daniela AIUTO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. ~~Reiterates that women must have control over their sexual and reproductive rights; supports, accordingly,~~Calls for the adoption of measures and actions to improve women’s access to ~~sexual and reproductive~~ health services and to inform them fully about their rights and the services available;

2016/10/19
Committee: FEMM

2014/0124(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a decision
Recital 5 a (new)

(5a) Women are a category that has been greatly discriminated against and penalised in the workplace, as they are often forced to work free of charge, or as figureheads, thus greatly increasing the amount of undeclared work.

2014/12/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/0124(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a decision
Recital 6 a (new)

(6a) A distinction should be made between those who resort to undeclared work in order to avoid taxes and obtain other benefits and those who are forced to work in such conditions, which has a serious impact on their rights. The Platform should help to shed light on the two separate cases and safeguard the less protected categories. Equality should be ensured between men and women in the fight against undeclared work.

2014/12/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/0124(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a decision
Recital 6 b (new)

(6b) Undeclared work has negative repercussions also on those who do it, for example with regard to their pensions, as well as on families, in particular single- income families with elderly women and single mothers.

2014/12/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/0124(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a decision
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) The high burden of taxation to which citizens are subject is one of the main causes of undeclared work, since those who provide a service are objectively unable to deal with the high tax levels. Until the tax burden becomes lighter and there are true equal rights between men and women, undeclared work is destined to grow, to distort the rest of the market and to have repercussions on families. The Platform should look in greater detail at the correlation between the tax burden and undeclared work, by analysing updated statistics.

2014/12/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/0124(COD)

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a decision
Recital 8

(8) A wide range of policy approaches and measures to tackle undeclared work have been introduced across the Member States. Member States have also concluded bilateral agreements and carried out multilateral projects on certain aspects of undeclared work. The Platform will not prevent the application of bilateral agreements or arrangements concerning administrative cooperation. Member States should, however, adopt measures with a view to establishing fairer and more sustainable working conditions, by reducing the tax burden for workers in order also to combat undeclared work and to protect women, in particular, as a highly disadvantaged category.

2014/12/11
Committee: FEMM

2014/0012(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) In order to achieve EU air quality objectives and to ensure a continuous effort to reduce vehicle emissions, the power to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFUE) should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the detailed rules on the application of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 to vehicles of categories M1, M2, N1 and N2 with a reference mass exceeding 2 610 kg but with a maximum ~~vehicle~~technically permissible laden mass not exceeding ~~5 0~~7 500 kg, the specific procedures, tests and requirements for type approval, the requirements for the implementation of the prohibition on the use of defeat devices that reduce the effectiveness of emission control systems, the measures necessary for the implementation of the obligation of a manufacturer to provide unrestricted and standardised access to vehicle repair and maintenance information, the replacement of the information on the mass of CO2 emissions in the certificate of conformity with information on total mass of CO2 emissions equivalents, the increase or removal of the limit value of total hydrocarbons emissions for positive ignition vehicles, the amendment of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 for the purposes of recalibrating the particulate mass based limit values and introducing particle number based limit values that would correlate broadly with the petrol and diesel mass limit values, the adoption of a revised measurement procedure for particulates and a particle number limit value, a limit value for emissions of NO2 and limits for tailpipe emissions at cold temperatures for vehicles approved as complying with the Euro 6 emission limit and the adoption of a revised measurement procedure for particulates. 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.

2015/05/12
Committee: TRAN

2014/0012(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) If the objective of reducing the impact on the environment of pollutant emissions from road transport is to be achieved, fuels with a high carbon content should gradually be replaced by alternatives with a lower carbon content, such as methane, although in the longer term making road transport genuinely environmentally sustainable calls for the development of new technologies which have a low impact on the environment, such as vehicles powered by electricity, hydrogen or compressed air.

2015/05/12
Committee: TRAN

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) In order to achieve EU air quality objectives and to ensure a continuous effort to reduce vehicle emissions, the power to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFUE) should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the detailed rules on the application of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 to vehicles of categories M1, M2, N1 and N2 with a reference mass exceeding 2 610 kg but with a maximum ~~vehicle~~technically permissible laden mass not exceeding ~~5 0~~7 500 kg, the specific procedures, tests and requirements for type approval, the requirements for the implementation of the prohibition on the use of defeat devices that reduce the effectiveness of emission control systems, the measures necessary for the implementation of the obligation of a manufacturer to provide unrestricted and standardised access to vehicle repair and maintenance information, the replacement of the information on the mass of CO2 emissions in the certificate of conformity with information on total mass of CO2 emissions equivalents, the increase or removal of the limit value of total hydrocarbons emissions for positive ignition vehicles, the amendment of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 for the purposes of recalibrating the particulate mass based limit values and introducing particle number based limit values that would correlate broadly with the petrol and diesel mass limit values, the adoption of a revised measurement procedure for particulates and a particle number limit value, a limit value for emissions of NO2 and limits for tailpipe emissions at cold temperatures for vehicles approved as complying with the Euro 6 emission limits. and the adoption of a revised measurement procedure for particulates; 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.

2015/05/27
Committee: ENVI

2014/0012(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 5 – point a

Regulation (EC) No 715/2007
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

2. After the completion of the UN/ECE Particulate Measurement Programme, conducted under the auspices of the World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations, and at the latest upon entry into force of Euro 6, the Commission shall ~~be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 14a~~submit a proposal to the European Parliament and the Council under the ordinary legislative procedure amending this Regulation in order to adopt the following measures, without lowering the level of environmental protection within the Union:

2015/05/12
Committee: TRAN

2014/0012(COD)

Daniela AIUTO, Eleonora EVI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – point 5 – point b

Regulation (EC) No 715/2007
Article 14 – paragraph 4

The Commission shall ~~be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 14a~~submit a proposal to the European Parliament and the Council under the ordinary legislative procedure amending this Regulation to set out, in addition to the existing limit value for emissions of total NOx, a limit value for emissions of NO2 for vehicles approved as complying with the Euro 6 emission limits set out in table 2 of Annex I~~. T~~ (the limit for emissions of NO2 shall be set on the basis of an impact assessment, shall take into consideration the technical feasibility and shall reflect the air quality objectives set out in Directive (EC) No 2008/50 of the European Parliament and of the Council*) and to alter the limits for total hydrocarbon (THC) emissions from vehicles powered by a positive-ignition engine.

2015/05/12
Committee: TRAN

2014/0012(COD)

Eleonora EVI, Marco AFFRONTE, Piernicola PEDICINI, Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) In order to achieve the objectives of reducing the environmental impact of road transport, high-carbon fossil fuels need to be phased out and exchanged for less polluting fuels, such as methane, which can accompany the transition towards the full implementation of technologies with near-zero emissions, such as vehicles powered by electricity, hydrogen or compressed air;

2015/05/27
Committee: ENVI

Daniela AIUTO

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3

3. In order to contribute to an efficient infrastructure charging system, the structure and the level of port infrastructure charges shall be defined ~~in an autonomous way by the managing body of the port~~ according to ~~its own~~the commercial strategyies and investment plan ~~reflecting~~s of individual ports and/or national port strategies, without infringing the competitive conditions of the relevant market ~~and in accordance with~~or State aid rules.

2015/07/02
Committee: TRAN

Activities of Daniela AIUTO

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